I don't know about you guys but it feels like the quality of posts has been slightly improving across 4chan recently. I don't know if it's the new mods/janitors but there's definetly some improvement. Any other ideas as to what's caused this?
Also: this is a general cancer discussion thread.
discuss~
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Anonymous2011-02-04 11:51
Some would say the creation of /soc/ which I'm sure has drawn off some of the crap, but now that /r9k/ is gone those guys/gals are bleeding into other areas too.
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Anonymous2011-02-04 12:19
worse.
/b/ is filled with /r9k/ autism and the cancer feels entitled to create threads on /b/ relevant its interests.
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Anonymous2011-02-04 13:16
Things seem to have improved on a few boards, but the 'Western' boards (/tv/, /x/, etc.) are still pretty bad.
Yeah, /x/ seriously needs some mods to clean up all the bullcrap irrelevant to the board topic, but I have a feeling that's never going to happen.
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Anonymous2011-02-04 21:28
>>3
Yes, I notice that way too many people flood /b/ with threads that 4chan already has boards for. Although I haven't noticed as much /r9k/ autism besides the static BAWWWWWW threads refusing to go to >>>/adv/. >>6
Yeah, but 4chan just had open janitor applications, so when they go through that haystack I'm sure they'll find a fine janitor for /mu/.
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Anonymous2011-02-04 21:32
">they'll find a fine janitor for /mu/"
WHOOPS! I meant /x/.
>>7 Yeah, but 4chan just had open janitor applications, so when they go through that haystack
When they last had open janitor applications, in March 2008, it was over 2,000 and took them forever to even go through a tenth of it all. This time around it's over 10,000. Don't count on it.
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Anonymous2011-02-06 18:53
>>10
But whenever they finish that, and they'll most likely not look through even a tenth of them, they'll have fresh new janitors for most boards. Hopefully improving quality noticeably.
If it were up to me I would merge /b/ /s/ and /soc/ into /sex/ and delete /x/ and create /rnd/
This will create a year of hell but salvation afterwards
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Anonymous2011-02-08 20:47
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But after /soc/ was removed, the stupid rate-me threads would spill over into the rest of 4chan, and merging /b/ with anything pretty much guarantees that it'll just stay /b/ with a few minor traces of former boards.
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Anonymous2011-02-09 5:16
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Yeah it probably wouldn't work. The idea was to merge change the (good) part of /b/ into /rnd/ which supposed to random only (whatever that is.. but certainly not porn and copypasta)
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Anonymous2011-02-09 10:21
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I actually think the idea of /rnd/ is good, seeing how it could potentially seperate the good part of /b/ from the bad. But that's what /r9k/ attempted, and failed.
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Anonymous2011-02-12 13:35
So then, back to the discussion on cancer, how do define cancer, and how to deal w/ it.
There's no cure for "cancer", which is just a euphemism for "Eternal September". Every community that has an Eternal September moment has its overall quality deteriorated and the huge noise/signal ratio inflated beyond help; permanently rendered incurable. I have yet to hear or see of an online community where such a situation were reversed even with the most major of restructuring. It happened with Slashdot, Something Awful, Digg, Reddit, and now, 4chan (and to a lesser extent, world4ch).
None of the suggestions in this thread will be effective enough; the imageboards couldn't even operate CAPTCHA-free after a point in time.
Also, don't think the shitty Kusaba-run sites are any better, they're far worse, and are of dubious stability and security.