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)

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.