How does Sup Forums feel about the rampant generals?

How does Sup Forums feel about the rampant generals?
Will this force jap moot to make /gg/ (technology general) or will we live with this cancer forever?

I hide them

Cancer forever

This board needs to be split into Linux/programming and consumer/other

Fucking absolutely this
Get on it, Hiroshima

honestly stallman is the original cancer of Sup Forums
should ban his fat face from this board

Indifferent.

What's so special about Linux?

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>hacker culture.
Fuck off. If that were a thing then it would be /diy/

Easy
sticky a consumer advice general as well as a stupid questions general so that faggots who keep making random threads get their shit deleted

oh wait there's another board that already does that

You ain't getting a /gg/ before co gets a /cog/. The cancer there is several times stronger.

>get their shit deleted
Sup Forums doesn't have a janitor

they're better than most of the other threads actually. keeps people who actually want to discuss something together. Half of the non-general threads are Pajeets shilling or just bait.

They actually work. You just hide generals that you don't like and post in ones that you do like.
As for regular threads, you check it out and if it's a shill thread, you ignore it, and if it's interesting, you read it.

If there were no generals, everyone would shitpost everywhere, I guess. might be a good idea instead of generals, though.

>They actually work. You just hide generals that you don't like and post in ones that you do like.
Why not just merge Sup Forums and Sup Forums and have people who don't like gaming hide the gaming threads?

Let's test it. Just reported
which violate Sup Forums rule 2.
>Tech support threads should be posted on /wsr/.
Surely the janitor will take care of them any second now.

those are actually disguised shill threads

Is there some way it can be split into Linux/programming/technology news/developments and consumer/tech support/gadgets/other instead?

I don't care what they are called. Request/recommendation/leech threads are a cancer on all boards (except /wsr/) because they only take away from other users but don't give back any interesting content. But somehow Sup Forums is the only board that deletes them on sight.

yeah yeah i agree with you, i'm just saying that those are actually shill threads which is even worse
but yeah stay seated waiting for the jani to come any moment now....

Should have a separate board for Operating Systems. Let the faggots whip their dicks out there and fight over which OS is superior

Generals are a site-wide problem. I don't really see a way of fixing it without doing something absolutely radical and stupid like creating a site-wide "generals" board(s).

You newfag /qa/ncers sure do love whining about splitting boards and creating new ones.

In a board based on programming or hacking, this thing could maybe even regulate itself. Then flame wars could exist mainly in hypothetical cancerous threads such as "/ide/ - IDE general" or "Justify you usage of X text editor" or ">mfw he doesn't use visual basic."

OS flame wars are started by shills baiting regular users. Where there's nothing to buy, you don't have shills to push their shit and nobody is provoked into acting hostile. All this consumerist garbage and therefore normie presence is where the problem lies.

Maybe we should just bring back /prog/ as an image board.

We had one? What happened?

It was a text board and since the text boards were all practically dead moot decided to delete them.

A /prog/ image-board would be great. Might fix the faggotry-filled cancer that is /dpt and /wdg

>you mena haskell
>enterprise quality
>vipper

Yeah, quality stuff.

Generals are a natural evolution of image boards. When /trash/ was created, I observed its evolution. Initially there were a wanton explosion of random threads but eventually through natural selection, mainly pony porn threads remain. Same with /qst/ where lol randumb one off quests are now being supplanted by episodic long running quests. People like to talk about things that interest them. The natural result is a general.

Sure, you'd get retarded shit like that. But i think you'd also filter out the shills & incompetent retards of Sup Forums who know nothing about code

lo and behold, we actually have a janitor