Thread 5176

Let's chat about /cgl/

Right now we seem to have a proliferation of "feels" and green text threads, and they've been spiraling into constant off-topic posting. Most /cgl/ users tend not to report these things, so we have to go looking for them. As of today we have a "Feels" thread and a "Confession" thread which have been around for at least the past year and show no sign of changing (to stay on topic) without some form of consistent moderation; however, there have been quite a few more types of these threads as well. Sometimes, the cringe threads tend to also branch into offtopic shitposting.

Thoughts?

I agree that those threads are definitely a problem. From what I've seen, more often than not these threads devolve into trolling, people posting things that belong more on /adv/ than /cgl/, people using /cgl/ like their personal blog, and/or general shitposting. I think that the problem lies in when there is more than one of this type of thread on the board at once. I really don't think it's necessary to have a feels thread, a vent thread, a confession thread, etc. all on the board at the same time. The same basic type of content is posted in all of those threads- you could post about things that upset you or confess something you've done (related to cosplay/lolita) in a feels thread with no issue, so I don't think it's necessary to have more than one of these threads on the board at once.

Other than limiting the number of these types of threads that can be on the board at a given time, I'm not sure what else we can do. I don't think that banning these types of threads would necessarily be the answer, despite how hard they can be to handle without constant moderation. I guess the other option would be to be extremely stringent about deleting off-topic posts as soon as they pop up on these kinds of threads, which could also work as well if we all organized our janitoring enough. Either way, unfortunately I'm not sure that I have any good and practical suggestions about what to do with these threads, although I agree that they are a problem.

>>5176 (OP)
>>5195
The same thing happens on almost every other board that has a specific topic.
They want to talk about stuff on their board because "my friends are here".
Rather than actually go somewhere where its on topic, they want to blog and talk about other things with people who specifically share their general interest even though its not about that general interest. /v/ gets this pretty bad.

>>5195
>I don't think it's necessary to have more than one of these threads on the board at once.
This is probably true, but actually implementing this might result in people complaining "why was this thread deleted but not that thread," or possibly spawning an permanent and incredibly shitty fixture that people end up feeling entitled to have around all the time. I'd be careful about that.

I'm not a big fan of canning threads that move between on and off-topic unless they become spawning grounds for stupidity but it often ends up that way. Something that people used to do in some boards (I actually don't know very much about /cgl/) is tacitly permit these kinds of threads until they start showing up too often, in which case people complain that "we had this shitty thread yesterday fuck off" and the thread mysteriously poofs out of existence.

>>5199
cgl is fairly slow, and the lolita + cosplay community is surprisingly closeknit, so most anons feel like cgl is their community, like >>5197 said, "my friends are here".

Anyhow, the threads have been nonstop for what I can remember, at least three years now, and they've always been riding the lines of 50/50 off and on topic, What I personally do is go through the thread and delete/BR the posts; however, I'm only online at specific periods of the day and it's difficult to keep an eye on them. I don't think they should be removed either, but I'm not sure what options we have, right now what I can think of is:
A) More vigilant moderation of the threads
B) Amending the sticky to include something more specific in regards to these threads (but then I worry if people would even notice it)

>>5195
/cgl/ here. I'm all for deleting feels threads because they tend to have tons of bait and go off-topic a lot. I feel (ha) that posts in those threads could be posted to an existing, on-topic one. Otherwise, they tend to derail into posters getting upset at the trolls that post about having sugar daddys or whatever heated argument they have that goes on for 200 posts.