I notice /tg/ has a really high proportion of anons who will immediately reply to threads with things like:
>you should have asked this in [other thread]
>justify why you made this thread on the board
>not related to [game] so not related to /tg/
>post this in the general
It feels like there's a substantial number of users of the board who, rather than contribute anything, only act to try and control /tg/ to exactly what they want to see. What causes this? Does the fact we have autistic hobbies lead to us being autistic on imageboards too?

Traditional games involve a lot of games that require a degree of investment in order to play them and while there's a plenty of people who are interested in these hobbies, a lot of these people are unable or unwilling to go through the effort actually required to play these games.
Warhammer fans who haven't assembled or painted armies that they play with at local GW stores, who just talk about the rules and the lore online.
D&D fans who don't have groups that they play campaigns with, who just talk about the rules and the lore online.
MtG fans who don't have actual physical decks of cards that they play games with, who just talk about the rules and the lore online, and maybe play Arena.
So on and so forth.
They're called secondaries and they can be a problem, as they often try to influence and have a say in the hobby despite not actually participating in it, typically focusing on things like the art and the politics and the lore of a game. For this reason, people have grown more sceptical of other posters and doubtful that other posters actually play games.
However, this has led to over-correction, with a lot of people objecting to general discussions of fantasy and science fiction that have historically had a place on /tg/, because it's not directly tied to playing games. The topics are popular with secondaries, so people who dislike secondaries want to shut down such discussions and make /tg/ a place for actual gamers, who actually play games and talk about their actual games.

>>96046714 (OP)
You should have seen how bad they were when moot allowed quest threads on /tg/.

>>96046714 (OP)
Children act out because negative attention is better than no attention. /tg/ is full of rejects. 4chan is full of rejects. Why are there a handful of anons who infinitely shitpost about board culture? Any attention is better than no attention.

>>96046859
Thanks for the well considered reply. I hadn't considered some of the backlash to general discussion might be from an anti-secondary perspective.

>>96046714 (OP)
/tg/ has a lot of autistic trolls who treat the place as a dumping ground to monologue about their pet topics and complaints, OP. Usually you'll see it when they post a vague question, but they either never respond to inquiries regarding clarification, or they spend the entire thread basically insulting everyone who didn't answer it how they wanted. Eventually, you just want to cut to the chase on that shit, even if you don't know the OP is being genuinely interested in discussing something. It's unfortunate, but it's just ow it is now since the mods and jannies can't care less.

>>96046934
It's basically virtue-signalling at this point.
>Look at me, I hate secondaries so much, you're a secondary, and you're a secondary, you can see how much I'm not a secondary from how much I hate secondaries. Now talk about your games and prove you're not secondaries. No, I'm not going to talk about my games, don't try and make this about me.