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>go to Sup Forums 1st page
>10 generals
>4 actual threads
>instead of getting /intg/ we get /bant/ ruining Sup Forums even more

btfo

The only people complaining about generals are monolinguals, which are usually americans. You need to learn how to use generals instead of expecting that the world changes to acomodate you. If you are learning a language or have a doubt or want to learn something about a specific culture, you just go and ask at the respective general board and you'll get your answer quicker than starting a thread.

this.
proto-dubs-confirm

>Learning Spanish
>Go into lat
>Ask question
>Retarded replies
>not real spanish
>Chi
>Bart Simpson posting


Yeah nah you're retarded

>implying most generals won't ignore you if you're not from whichever cunts the generals are about

They have always answered me. Try being polite

I am

Who the fuck looks at boards page by page instead of looking at the catalogue lmao

Sup Forums ON SUICIDE WATCH

Generals are fucking cancer that need to be purged, they are usually 90% animeposting and don't have any quality discussion.

Just create containment board for them so they could stop ruining Sup Forums.

>go to Sup Forums for international discussion
>everyone segregates into retarded chatrooms
>people don't even discuss their own cunts in them

Why are you so butthurt about generals. I don't even post in /lat/ but I have no problem with them having their thread.

Because they have literally no value, are just circlejerk blogposting and shit up 70% of board?

this board is INTERnational not INTRAnational
generals belong elsewhere

PRAISE MACRON :DD

When you enter a normal board, you expect all threads to be fresh. You browse and look around. You can have it always open for new stuff. You can participate in most threads in some way.

When you enter a board of generals, you find exactly what you want and stick to it. You don't really browse it continuously. You participate in a small section of threads.

So when you have generals on a regular board, it's just dead weight that constantly steals position from other threads that will almost always be more interesting to you than a general that you already determined to not interest you.

This wouldn't be a problem if boards were infinite, you could just put a filter on each general you see. But due to page limitation, boards are a zero sum game. There is competition.

BTW, this is how Sup Forums got destroyed. Low effort porn dumps stole positions from more effort intensive, slower but interesting threads. After a while interesting and quality thread simply got 404'd before they could do anything significant so more people stopped to put any effort.

This is life or death. If you see a thread type that you don't want increasing in number, you need to fight for it or you can kiss the board goodbye.

Will it ever be that bad on Sup Forums? Maybe not, but still...

>Will it ever be that bad on Sup Forums? Maybe not, but still...
It might with all the newer generals popping up like /dixie/ or /fug/, if that trend continues then the whole board will be swamped even if we're at about 60 generals now.

This is not true

>Learning Spanish
>he goes to /lat/ instead of /esp/ or, occasionally, /ibe/

You asked for it.

No nigger, we should not bend over backwards and accommodate your cancerous little fucking tribes trying to damn up the flowing river that a board on Sup Forums.
If you want a central little hub to hide away in, make a discord and fuck off. 99% of the time it's the same handle of faggots in a general anyway, and they are always antagonistic to normal anons not part of their circlejerk.

Fucking neck yourself.

This is the most stupid post that has been posted in this board under that flag.

It takes a minute to filter them you retards

>If I sweep the shit under the rug it will go away
It becomes a problem when over a third of the board is filtered, which leaves less threads that aren't generals, and with newer ones popping up that will increase.

This board is not that fast moving. Non-issue

It is an issue when you reduce the overall number of non general threads to the scale Sup Forums is at now, and because so many people are in the generals now other threads don't get as much attention and die quicker, the non general threads can die after an hour.

>and because so many people are in the generals now other threads don't get as much attention and die quicker

A ton of people are only on this board because of the generals. This board would be even slower without them

>the non general threads can die after an hour.

not really. It takes hours usually

You are obviously a newfag

>they are always antagonistic to normal anons not part of their circlejerk
This.
Circlejerking is EXACTLY against the spirit of this site.

>A ton of people are only on this board because of the generals. This board would be even slower without them
The board badly needs to be split now anyway, when a third of the catalog is generals which don't want to interact with the rest of the board and the same for the board with regards to the generals, when you have that sort of community here which don't mesh at all it's time for a split like Sup Forums and /vg/. This board isn't even that slow, it's about the 5th or 6th fastest on the site right now, splitting it would put the two at around the fifteenth fastest at worst.
>not really. It takes hours usually
maybe after a few people start something and a bump later but all the non generals get choked out as they're bumped far more frequently.

Shitheads like you are exactly why this board is dying.

How many threads do we have right now that hit the bump limit that are not generals?

Almost none.

Generals get instantly bumped to page 1, killing the normal threads before they can even be discovered.

If you faggots love circlejerking with other faggots so much, go to r/yourcountry or whatever normie forum out there and stop shitting up this board.

If your thread is interesting enough, you'll get posters on it, simple as that.

hi where are the serious discussion? :DDDDDDDD

>people caring about fucking Sup Forums so much

jesus fuck get a hobby, this board is shit and will be shit no matter what

It's hard to get anyone here to notice threads if a lot of people who come here just Ctrl + F whatever general they want and have no interest in the rest of the board, go to /fr/ and ask them how many of them even like the rest of Sup Forums? I guarantee you at least half of them only go to /fr/. As people post in those generals they bump threads which can make the interesting threads more difficult to find as they fall behind a load of generals after a few minutes. If we have a significant portion of people who only want country generals make /intg/ or /cunts/ for them and Sup Forums for people who want Sup Forums.

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>People complaining in this thread that generals are nothing but anime and shitposting
>Go to /bant/
>It's literally nothing but anime and shitposting

Wew

>go to /esp/
>dead
>tfw no gf
>tfw no job
>boy do I sure hate our neighboring countries
>reee give back Guantanamo

Disgusting neets

CHI

>go outside of your general
>get bullied by some stormfag for being a "slav potatonigger alcoholic russian" or get insulted and threatened by actual russians
I think I'll stay in /balt/, thank you.

Ses
lat is crazy

>go into local general
>everyone ignores you

>go into foreign general
>can't read or fucking understand anything

generals ruined Sup Forums and they are almost done ruining Sup Forums.

>bitching about generals when half the non-generals are pepe and golden keks
This board would be trash without generals, especially given the stagnant memes from pol. Instead of removing generals, post your pepes and shite memes on bant, as is intended.

That's another thing that actually happens.
People seem to take "banter" as an excuse to be blatantly rude. It doesn't help that this new boards reinforces that notion.

kc tier

>especially given the stagnant memes from pol
Fucking newfag, Sup Forums steals memes from Sup Forums and Sup Forums in turn steals most of the memes here from other Sup Forumss like KC or Ylilauta. Sup Forums should be what it was intended for as a place for people from different countries to actually mix and not hide in their own generals, and make /intg/ or /cunts/ for the generals here.

>This board would be trash without generals
Discussion in generals is /trash/ tier.

ANY thread even remotely connected to international issues is better than circlejerk shitfest that generals are.

There is literally zero substance in generals for fucks sake.

>tfqnogf
>cara
>having a wank lads

Just die already.

>monolingual
>implying I don't just use google translate for all your meme languages

Also the problem with generals is they have no real topic

Some generals will not even last an hour before the bump limit, swamping the board with multiple versions of themselves

If half the generals have two or three "dead" versions still around it takes up a lot of space

This is only because they are low effort and the only types of threads that can push ahead of generals because of it

>Discussion in generals is /trash/ tier.

Absolutely this.

99% of posts are dumb shit
>just took a shit
>tfw no shit
>just had a wank
>mfw wagecucks
>UNA VELA
>you're a turk! no UR a turk!

Literally the only general where anything good happens is the Japanese general (god only knows why). The rest is a colossal waste of time.

I shudder to use the word Reddit seriously, but here goes:
Generals are literally a way of making this site something resembling Reddit. It's the same. exact. thing. every goddam thread, day in day out. Like an online version of the movie Groundhog Day.
The beauty of Sup Forums was that it was unpredictable. You never know what you're going to find, just by pressing F5. Every day it was something new and strange. Often it was shit, but just as often it was hilarious or at least intriguing. The only limit was the vague topic for each board. Unlike most subreddits, the moderation was loose and the focus erratic.
The bottom line is, generals put people on the site (and therefore more ad $$$) but they do so at the cost of what made this site fun. Believe it or not, Sup Forums wasn't always a NEET hikikomori circlejerk. Now its just Reddit with pictures and a better layout, and that kind of sucks.

>t. 2006 oldfag

Mátate

At the moment the old general threads with topics and content are /djt/, /cp/ and /extraflags/. They have created something both relevant to Sup Forums and that which isn't limited by the board in terms of content discussion.
In terms of substance unfortunately they're the exception to Sup Forums generals.

Fucking /brit/, man. They reproduce like bacteria.

You make me sad, Seamus

>proto-dubs-confirm
Not a thing you fucking newfag

>board is Sup Forums - International
>everyone goes to threads for their own country

Boggles my fucking mind. Just fucking go outside if you want to talk with your countrymen. What a colossal waste of time. When I first came here there were actually informative threads that taught me things about other countries. Today, I can go weeks without seeing a single one.

Exactly. It used to be a gentler kind of ribbing
Like pay debnts or Polandball

Then autistic children found that they could spam a meme enough people would actually start parroting it like a sort of retard chain reaction. That's half the reason for generals: people don't bother posting anything productive when they're just going to get spammed POO IN LOO. And I don't blame them. I blame the mods for allowing this board to go to shit.

>Fucking /brit/, man. They reproduce like bacteria.
Somehow manages to be the second worst general of them all, after HILO LATINO AYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.

>/djt/, /cp/ and /extraflags/
I actually don't mind this kind of generals, as they at least have some form of substance.

However, as you said - they are exceptions.

Generals segregate people into their own circlejerks and eventually general users just ctrl+f to their general. They then flood the top of the catalog because they get bumped constantly and actual Sup Forums threads go unnoticed.

I think the one that pisses me off the most is /dixie/ It's for a region in a country, not even a country, just a single region.

>I think the one that pisses me off the most is /dixie/ It's for a region in a country, not even a country, just a single region.
Worst thing is that one only popped up over the last couple of weeks, in the future we'll probably see more splits like /neweng/ or /northbrit/ if /dixie/ is allowed as the mods haven't killed, which will make the general problem even worse.
The one that pisses me off the most is /fug/, which is France, UK and Germany in one thread, if you want that just use fucking Sup Forums, I don't see why you only want those three countries in a thread.

/sag/, /mena/, /slav/, /afr/, /lat/, and /asean/ are all international at least

Filters are shit tho. You're hiding unrelated threads as well.

Generals are fucking cancer.
Las generales son un puto cancer.

i see you are always complaining about /fug/, but i fully agree with you. the britshit who had created the thread selfbumped his shitty general until it established itself. shortly after few other useless generals like dixie etc. were created.
at least /fug/ doesn't exist anymore
In general I am not against generals, but they have to be kept to a minimum

>/asean/
p-please visit us more and NO CONQUERING.
we're not hostile unless the foreigners coming there blatantly calling us ladybois and sea jungle monkeys. of course I don't like flip and indogs but please be nice to them as well.

Sup Forums has always been shit and it has always been getting shittier. No way to save it.

Lads

>In general I am not against generals, but they have to be kept to a minimum
I honestly think they do have a place here too, the ones people mentioned earlier like /cp/, /djt/ and /extraflags/ are fine here. There is some sort of a market for people who want to talk to others from their own country though, but it doesn't belong on the same board where people want to do the opposite, it's the same problem Sup Forums had before the split with /vg/ where people who circlejerked over waifus in Katawa Shouju and assfaggots and wanted nothing to do with the rest of the board, and that stuff was always on the front pages as the country generals are now, we can't really stop these country generals now though, it's best just to give them their own new board.
I've also sperged out about /fug/ a lot too, I've probably become a bit noticeable with that, it's just that thread made no sense, if you want something like that just use Sup Forums.

I tried to do the same with another /qa/ thread earlier too, it's almost dead now though. If enough of them are there it might go somewhere hopefully.

>/qa/
Thought /qa/ was frozen after being spammed to death. They actually did some moderation on the board? wew

They unfroze it a week or two ago after most of the /mlpol/ shitposting went away.

>that one disgusting fag shilling for generals
Quick, copypaste as much anti-general posts from tt as possible before Hiro notices.

Sounds like they should apply the same principle to Sup Forums.

>If you are learning a language or have a doubt or want to learn something about a specific culture, you just go and ask at the respective general board and you'll get your answer quicker than starting a thread.
Those are a small percentage of the posts, the rest is complete garbage

>people thinking that generals are killing Sup Forums
If generals were removed, the board would just be plagued by more shit threads. If you hide every single general on the catalog, the remaining threads are still fucking terrible. The issue is that certain real-life events have caused an influx of newcomers from places like Reddit and the site's quality, let alone the board's quality, has gone down as a result. It's not generals that is stifling discussion, it's the fact that these newcomers only post in shitposting threads. No-one here cares about international culture anymore.

I prefer the shitposting to the butthurt Sup Forumsacks

The butthurt Sup Forumsacks are the ones responsible for making Sup Forums shit. Before, there used to actually be international discussion. Then the whole gamergate/Donald Trump thing happened and they completely ruined the board.

Shitposty threads like golden lels are the only ones which can generate enough replies to keep up with the pace of the board sadly as they're an easy hook.

Still not an argument for generals.

By removing generals, we'll make a step in right direction to improve the board.

It takes just under 3 hours for a thread to go without a reply before it gets pushed off the catalog. That's still a fair amount of time for a non-shitpost thread to get any attention. Compare that to boards like Sup Forums and Sup Forums, which can only last for about 20/25 minutes without getting a reply. It's not like good threads are dying because they're getting overwhelmed by the shitposting threads, they're dying because people simply don't care about them.

Oh my sweet summer child. Loving every (you)

The board used to be good and generals still existed back then. Generals have remained pretty much the same throughout these years, it's the quality of the rest of the board that has deteriorated. Removing generals would just give more room to shit threads. I'm not sure about you but I'd much rather see 50 generals on the catalog than 50 BLACKED threads, and I don't even use generals.

>It's not like good threads are dying because they're getting overwhelmed by the shitposting threads, they're dying because people simply don't care about them.
Generals are part of the problem though as too many people come here just to Ctrl + F their general and have no interest in the rest of the board. People are less inclined to make good threads then, what's the point if nobody will see it, so the threads that are made in turn are shitposty threads which can generate a lot of replies easily, if the generals were on their own board a thread might last a day before it dies which allows more time to find a thread, as you'd only have people here who care about Sup Forums and not their general.
>than 50 BLACKED threads
I've barely ever seen BLACKED threads here, this isn't Sup Forums or Sup Forums where they are spammed often.

>generals still existed back then
Generals were always cancer, even when Sup Forums was "good".

Fuck off, Nigel.

The point is that they're not "ruining" Sup Forums like people are claiming. If anything, they act as a lightning rod for terrible posts. Most generals consist almost entirely of anime posters. Imagine if they didn't have a place to circlejerk here.

>Imagine if they didn't have a place to circlejerk here.
They wouldn't be here then

Those who come out of the generals often do that only to shitpost. I've seen this happen many times, at least from /ita/ and /lat/ posters. The Easter Australian probably comes from /balt/ so he's another example of that

You make it sound like people will suddenly start caring about threads outside their general if they got moved to another board or removed entirely. They'd simply move to the other board or just leave. They're not going to start posting in other threads all of a sudden.

>I've barely ever seen BLACKED threads here
I guarantee that, if generals got removed, you'd see a lot more of them. Most threads here outside of generals just devolve into people (usually americans) calling others cucks or muslims already.

Still, /r/reddit/ should be gassed.

It's shitty but there's nothing we can do about it at this point, unless mods started banning them

They're simply too populated and too powerful. Tbqh I've just learned to ignore them, I recommend you do the same or else you're gonna have a bad time on Sup Forums

>You need to learn how to use generals
No you dumb cunts need to learn how to use this board

If generals were removed this cancerous brit would not be posting here.

>You make it sound like people will suddenly start caring about threads outside their general if they got moved to another board or removed entirely. They'd simply move to the other board or just leave. They're not going to start posting in other threads all of a sudden.
I don't give a shit if they fuck off to the new board for good, as long as Sup Forums has people who come here for Sup Forums and not just a general that will make the board better, if it's slower but better I'll take that easily. The same thing could be said about merging /n/ and /o/, in theory they work together as a board but the content on /n/ would get swamped with /o/ content as cars are far more popular, we have a similar situation here with generals and the rest of Sup Forums.

The problem is that you're shit at regex. Try this /(\/fr\/)/i

>we have a similar situation here with generals and the rest of Sup Forums.
They're not similar at all. Generals take up relatively little space on the board due to their nature, many posts are put into one thread and only take up one space on the catalog per general. Compare that to a hypothetical merge between /o/ and /n/, where /o/ would make multiple car threads and leave no space for /n/ threads.

Can anybody explain me what exactly a /bant/ is?
NSFW Sup Forums?

Because Sup Forums is already random and uber shit, being the few language learning threads here and there the only juice you can take out of this cesspool.

Country generals are fucking retarded and already mini-Sup Forumss in other languages. If you go to /luso/ expecting to learn Portuguese, I must inform you you are shooting yourself in the foot, only niggers frequent those threads and they write like chimps with no fingers.

There's nothing useful to be learned from underachieving subhumans who segregate themselves on an INTERNATIONAL board.

it's Sup Forums shitposting basically

>They're not similar at all. Generals take up relatively little space on the board
They shit up 50% of it if not more.

We don't need them.

You can't find literally one good argument for them to exist.

>They're not similar at all. Generals take up relatively little space on the board due to their nature
I wouldn't call 40-60 threads "relatively little space", that's a third of the board. You also always have at least one /brit/ thread autosaging around page 9 and a couple of other at the same time too.

I don't mind generals but I think it needs to be separated by language, not country. All the generals speaking Spanish in one, all English speaking generals in one, ect. It would let people speak their native tongue on the chan, but condense the amount of generals considerably.