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Of course I think that maybe some of the problem stems from the fact that a lot of the people that at least have some pseudo-interest in textboards have spent most of their time - in regards to forums - using registration and the like. I think that the fact that the people posting are so used to having their name attached to the post they get worried about a possible backlash if their post isn't very good.
Of course, another issue is that maybe most of these people are the type of people that essentially have /b/ the way it is - the people that just lurk. Most of the image boards have a lot of people that lurk and not as many people that actually come out and post some good stuff. I don't know why that is. Personally, I never post on the image boards because I don't have much to contribute. I have much more to contribute in an arena like this (the text board) because text is something that is generated by the user, as opposed to most of the time being something that is found and uploaded.
>And yeah, it does require more activity from each user when the userbase is small.
Basically a perfect way to put it. I probably should try to contribute more to the textboards, because it would be nice to see them actually succeed as opposed to being about 1000 pages of "LOL COCKS" and spam like that. Maybe if more people posted the moderators might pay some more attention.