How /b/ got killed

It is my opinion that 4chan /b/ was the victim of a systematically orchestrated destruction. Within 2 weeks the following things happened:

- 420chan was DDoS'd into submission
- not4chan was closed down (scared?)
- /b/'s user numbers tripled and tons of stupid users started flooding the boards, with all the smart people leaving (presumably because it was advertised on one of the many idiot boards of the internet)

I think this happened over a FAR longer time period.

the last time I can remember /b/ being but ongoing trolling was 2004.
All the dumbasses who contribute nothing and just tell people to "gtfo" have no opposition from mods (I haven't seen a banning for anything but cp in the last year) and moot doesn't give a shit because he's getting traffic.

I don't see 4chan running very long at all before succumbing to privatised comercialisation by some roaming company.
Fucking serves him right.

Oh and that janitor shit he pulled was just pathetic.

>>2
Pathetic? How do you mean? I think it's cool to have janitors. What else could there be done?

As was said, /b/'s user numbers have increased alot and this new /b/ cannot hold all the trolls in - they leak to the other boards, and that's why you need janitors.

I agree that /b/ is not as fun as it used to be but I have to disagree on the "gtfo"-people; I don't like new people, I like to tell those 15yo weeaboos to get out, although they probably stay whatever we tell them.

>>2
I arrived in 2004 and when I got here I read the rules and they basically amounted to "don't post trolls outside of /b/". Yes, VERY early on /b/ was all there was of 4chan; but after a very short while it became the dumping ground for trolls so that other boards wouldn't have to deal with the shit.

Funny thing about dedicating a board to trolls.
It fills up. With trolls.
Weird, but true...

>>4
I never thought of it that way, but that's only partly true.
I know that some people, like myself, come to 4chan and only post on /b/ without ever even looking at the other boards.
Now that I've been on 4chan for a while I've grown out of /b/ a little bit and found my way to the text boards and the other image boards.

>>5
I got banned for ever for trolling on /a/ once. I've been browsing /b/ since zero hour. Luckily I can proxy, and will continue to troll the faggots on /a/

So.. GTFO

>>6
i love trolling on the text boards and i barely visit /b anymore, my most recent oneas are the FUCK YOU WEEABOO,ALL HAIL KING BOOKER.etc, this shit stay all day and i feel good about it ;')

You guys need to stop this "it was better back in my day" bullshit. Because it wasn't. Though I agree that /b/ has grown tremendously and that this CAN cause problems, it hasn't reached the point where the growth will cause a severe decline in quality. But when that does eventually happen, we can do exactly what 2chan did = make a second /b/.

>>8
Where would I go if they made a new /b/?
Would I stay on the old one with the hope that it would go back to the way it was?
Where would all the newbs go; the new /b/ or the old one?

>You guys need to stop this "it was better back in my day" bullshit. Because it wasn't.

Actually, it was.

Before, you had intelligent people being stupid; but the intelligence came through (great example; Okk's FMY). Now days, since the gaia tards and YTMND fags have joined, /b/tards are as stupid as they act (because -unlike the old days- it's NOT an act).

>>10
Just shut the fuck up. It is your own personal opinion. 4chan was just as popular earlier this year as it was before. Yes, there has been an influx of retards. But not enough to lower quality to record lows. In awhile, we WILL need a second /b/. /b/ is growing to be bigger than 2chan's biggest /b/.

Also, not this : it's the middle of the fucking summer. All of the bored middle school and high school kids are all off of school and are filling the boards with shit. I'm not joking, last year I was one of those high school fags browsing /b/ in the summer. Come September, school's open, membership and the number of retards will drop on /b/. All they will have time for is their MySpaces, no time for /b/. Also, the adults in this community are also extremely fucking bored by summer. Besides a couple wars and shitstorms over foreign policy, NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING has happened this summer. There's no good material to parody. As soon as all the shit we can make fun of like entertainment industries shift into top gear, we can make more funny material. The dog days of summer mean no memes based off of shit on TV, anime, books, news, games, or anything else because the summer is SO FUCKING slow. So wipe away your tears, little bosnian, everything'll get better. After all the little kids go to school and don't have time to raid shockwave games, internet TV shows, MySpaces, or any other sites, you'll get back your premium 4chan. Right now though, it sucks just as badly, maybe a little worse because of the popularity, as it did LAST summer. But not as bad as the summer before that, when we couldn't even stay alive. So stop bitching until you've been to 4chan long enough to know the trends in quality.

I'm not 10 but oh well...

>>11
Previous years the amount of users was way lower, and yes I am taking holidays into account. Have you looked at the numbers from the otakon panel vid? This year there are more than twice as many posts as last year.

Unfortuantely it seems that the majority of those are true-bred retards so the quality HAVE dropped to record lows. I take a peek into /b/ once in a while but I just cringe.

Now, if you think the "good old days" are three months ago then you should stfu as well and go back to myspace or whatever.


>>All
Only you can save /b/! Stop posting!

How could you know if they were retards if you weren't even there at the panel? Many of the people there probably are relatively smart people who just started meme-shouting to have a break from the rest of the convention, because they are, in fact, at a 4CHAN PANEL held in the middle of convention which usually doesn't allow such chaos at their panels. They were just as fucking retarded as the faggots in last year's vids. However, this is irrelevant as they are no benchmark for the quality of /b/, and never will be. But, to follow the flawed logic you used, the levels of faggotry and retardedness were much worse last year, during a held in the summer, which, like I said is a lull in /b/'s quality, and the sheer retardness of the 2005 audience's questions would show that the summer of 2005 was even worse for 4chan than the summer of 2006. But that doesn't even matter, because it IS summer, summers have ALWAYS been the worst, the most retarded 13-year-old raiders and posters come on during that period as they have no school to occupy their tiny little brains. Also, /b/ is just as worse as it was last summer, and I'll keep saying that as I have said it before, and it may even be better this year. As I remember, the entire summer of 2005 was complete dogshit. However, this year, /b/ seemed to have it's lull shortened to only the one-month period between 10m and 11mget, and the number of good-quality threads with good-quality replies started rising slowly, but steadily after 11mget.

It's not worse this year, but next year, we probably will face a DIFFERENT problem during the summer : as /b/ grows to much larger levels, the influx of underaged retards may be a death knell to its quality and will push it to record and persistent lows until such time as the crowding of /b/ is relieved. If we don't create another /b/, this is how I see Summer 2007 happening : for the past 2 or 3 months before June, quality may be steadily declining as a result of the crowd of people on the board, with good threads and bad threads alike getting pushed to the bottom page much, much too fast and reaching the 300-post capacity much faster now, resulting in a permasage which will arrive much more quickly. Then, as June rolls around and school ends, not only will the material that we can parody, which is a huge source of our day-to-day material, though it does not prove as the origin as a source of many of our established memes, drop dramatically due to the traditional summer entertainment lull, but we will still then recieve the traditional influx of underaged retards from ALL over the internet. Without a second /b/ to alleviate the first problem of crowding, the quality will become quite fucking terrible, though, as you implied, many posters, both established and new, will leave in droves as it gets that bad. I have mixed feelings about the loss of those posters, as we will lose our foundation of established, older, more learned 4chan members but also lost the stories upon stories of new faggots who do not contribute or understand 4chan in the least.

And by the way, I'm not a retard from MySpace or Newgrounds who just showed up in the last 3 months, and you would have known that by reading my last post. I've been here since October of 2004, and I've noticed the trends of /b/'s quality being repeated year after year. But anyway, why am I even replying to someone who doesn't even visit /b/ enough to notice its true quality consistently. This is not the height of /b/'s quality, it certainly isn't the best /b/ has to offer, but the quality of 4chan has been rather consistent over the last two years I have been here. There were, in fact, never any good old days, though there were certain spikes of win.

To disect the last sentence of your 3rd paragraph :
>>I take a peek into /b/ once in a while but I just cringe.
So, basically, you don't even see /b/ much anymore, and perhaps this has been a trend throughout your entire stay at 4chan, though my second statement is merely speculation. This is evidenced by "once in a while". Also, you only "peek into /b/". You have to notice that due to the change in the way they sage and delete threads, the best and largest threads are not always bumped to the front page every time you refresh. Threads are not in danger of getting deleted as quickly, and the PAGEMAX variable is not all that low, so they don't reach the bottom to be deleted very quickly. As such, you actually have to stay around /b/ for more than 10 minutes to see at least half of the good threads /b/ had to offer. Before, you merely had to stick around for about 2 or 3.

And in reply to your last paragraph, we shouldn't stagnate /b/'s growth, and we should instead give it more room, as in another /b/, just like 2chan. To use an analogy, any good rancher knows that if his herd is growing, he should give it more room, and it will get fatter, and produce more meat of higher quality when it gets sent off to the slaughterhouse. However, that land comes at a price. With /b/, any good moot should know that if his number of posters keeps growing, he should give them more boards, and they will happier, and produce more content of higher quality on a day-to-day basis. However, those new boards, because of the extra bandwidth they need, come with a price.

>>13
TOO
LONG
DID
READ

>>13
truth if I ever saw it

>>13

Thank you good sir.  (2004 also, but I started in /c/ (don't ask))

Nested parennthases mean I am cool.

>>16
Stand by for punctuation nazi. :P

When you nest parentheses, you are supposed to use square brackets for the second tier.  Also, parnetheses really shouldn't enclose whole sentences.

I'm not as tenured as some, but not one of the newest either (2005 here, but I started in /l/ [top that!]).

Fuck you all i started in /gif/ and thats where I stay

>>1
People like you killed /b/ and it happened already over year ago.

CHRISTIANS

I feel like stating man's achievements from 1 AD but I believe I speak for everyone here when I explain 4chan in that way

-Old Rules are enforced and all Men (Known as /b/tards) are at peace. (no women on the internet)
-/b/ gets better with legendary threads appearing more often, along with one being stickied before being ruined, until this day that thread has stayed stickied.
-/b/ starts to lose a battle with a disease known as Nyoro~n
-an anonymous /b/tard (only kind, die tripfags) posts the Nyoro~n making program making it so easy a 12 year old can use it.
-/b/ is attacked by an onslaught of Nyoro~n, Yet they ignore them.
-The thread with the title "DEAR /B/,
ANTI-NYORO~N FLOOD GO!!!
NYORO~N" is Forced into infinity by Nyoro~n and all of /b/ goes into Turmoil.

History continues.

/b/ sucks now with rules. /b/ is supposed to be "rules? ZOMG, NONE!!1" not the 'policy enforcement' craphole it is now.

>>22
There are no rules now that didn't *always* exist, with the sole exception of not replying to CP.  No illegal content and no "invasion" threads was *always* a site-wide rule. 

People always remember "rules? ZOMG, NONE!!1," but seem to forget that it applies to the mods as well.  If you want /b/ to exist at all, you're going to have to live with that concession.

I for one think that /b/ has improved without every other thread being an invasion or JB.  If you don't like it, go to 7chan; but be forewarned that 7chan won't be able to last forever with their approach - legal trouble *will* find them, and they will have the choice to either change or die.

>>22
hey faggot the rules have always been the same, other than the new replying one.

I've been on /b/ since zero hour as well, all i have to say is it's always sucked. It sucked diffrent 2-3 years ago though. I personally feel the real issue with "nu/b/" is the influx of gaia fags. Their boards are what? A million strong, something like that. They've got the numbers to just fag up /b/ simply by doing what they think is 'contributing'.

It wasn't till 666k get that the first gaia fags showed up, shit went down hill from there. The loss of W.T snacks also fucked shit up though. Camwhores (other than cracky) were the old scourge of /b/ - that and tripfags (Eat shit and die), the new scurge is one that's a lot harder to kill though - Underage weeaboo faggots.

Normal Weeaboos are fine, so long as their mature about it and don't start going on about their kawaii bento with 2 kotaba.

nobody gives a shit or even remembers this "W.T. snacks" faggot.

jesus, get off that dick already

>>25
I love you, bix nood.

Yes Ive see a lot of subtile advertising to 7chan

Snacks wasn't anything special and when he was mod /b/ was already in deep downhill. Infact the downhill began somewhere little before snacks showed up and that time by any means can't be called old /b/. Old /b/ was when there were memes like "Thrust Vectoring" and "Happy Negro" was new thing.

can someone explain the second /b/ thing like 2chan has?

EXPLAIn TO ME WITHOUT TELLING ME TO LURK MOAR EVERYTHING EVER ABOUT EVERYTHING 4CHAN AND /b/(random I know) PLEASE TELL ME ILL SEND U GUYZ CUTE PIX OF U ADD UR EMAIL ;)

jenn

i on phone,4chan got fucked!

When did 420chan get nuked, and is it ever going to be revived?

>>32
420chan got killed when owner died of cannabis overdose.

>>33

good.

>>33
No he has no no money to bring back 420chan because he spends all on drugs. However the pedos of 420chan started 12chan [ yes I know yet another chan]. Pedos and people who want jb only go there.

>>1

"/b/'s user numbers tripled and tons of stupid users started flooding the boards, with all the smart people leaving"

Smart people??

it is true that though many "/b/tards" act completely moronic 99% of the time, they are in fact some of the smartest human beings on the interbutt.

>>37
yes it's truue, /b/ is a place where smart people can act dumb rather than acting dumb IRL

=D

>>39

get the fuck out of here

What the fuck happened to the /b/? Do it still exist?

RIP

>>1
oh yes /b/ was filled with smart people, what a fucking loser

>>43
It actually was circa 2004-2006. It's been a huge bandwidth sucking shithole ever since.

>>13
riveting tale old chap

>>43
gtfo

>>45 Mmmm quite.

holy fuck, did you guys seriously bump something this ancient?
side note: this thread... nostalgia...

I ain't even mad.

can we still discuss this ?

i like reading this old shit. it's interesting how the faggots used to talk on 4chan. i'm glad there are less whiny little pussy nerd bitch boys

i like CP, but now 4chan is down SO I CAN'T GET MY MOTHERFUCKIN PLEASURE ... MOOT FIX YOUR GOD DAMN MOTHERFUCKIN COCKSUCKIN SITE OR ELSE ILL PUT A MUTHAPHUKKIN CAP IN YO ASS NIGGA

>>51
2005- 4chan has pretty much always been the same, with a few new memes. Don't let anyone else fool you.

4chan never changed.

>>53
then why all i hear is oldfags complaining

>>55
this, I asked a friend over two years ago why he stopped going..said it's full of 'newfags'

AND IT'S DOWN AGAIN

>>56
Only newfags say newfag.

>>55
>>58
>>56
beings a newfag there mustve been alot of us lately to bring this much attention to 4chan because it hasnt done many DDoS's to anyone else lately.

"I have a dream... that /b/s main topic of discussions were something other than faggots bitching about who is new and who is old...."

-Martin Nigger King

http://www.thewebcomiclist.com/o/8538

Wow
Even back then, faggots were complainig about /b/'s shity quality

If you honestly think that /b/ hasn't taken a dramatic turn for the worse since the summer of 2006, you either weren't there, are senile, or are in denial. It was never a "good" site, as they say, but at least it was entertaining and not overcrowded with genuine idiots.

>>62
If you visit any non-4chan anime/image board website (e.g. /soc/ (not that /soc/)), the general consensus is that 4chan `died' around 2005. And frankly I agree.

It's still a good place to find porn though.

>>64
Ironic how the guys at /b/ say that the "golden age of /b/" was 2007-2009.
/b/ is full of the guys the OP and first responers of this thread hate
Shit, I only been here since last year
We're cancer, but brothers

>>65
Well said, but fuck off you faggot.