There are two major problems with this board:

1. The "buy an ad" posters

2. The "slop" posters

There's likely nothing that can be done about 1 since they are probably a robot made by the site itself to drive up ad sales.

But last time a word, like s o y, got spammed nonstop in every thread, it got word filtered to onions. It should happen to slop too. What word should auto replace it this time?

What word should replac

>>716041979 (OP)
It's so bizarre that this board is stuck in a groundhog day where they only discuss the latest AAA game, and only to spit vitriol about it and each other.

>>716042491
Yeah and the videogame industry has been near a crash for over a decade now

>>716041979 (OP)
>What word should auto replace it this time?
Peak

>>716042526
Only AAA games and similar drivel is jumping the cliff. This place is Reddit incarnate with the majority only playing what's popular.

>>716041979 (OP)
>two major problems
>general newfaggotry
It's newfaggotry all the way down. "slop" (buzzword-spammers) and "buy an ad" (stop talking about video games on the video game board) are phrases uttered and commonly used by NEWFAGS.

>>716042491
Majority of posters on this board only come here for gossip and shitflinging, they aren't interested in actually talking about games they play, assuming they play anything at all.

just delete every single thread that is not STRICTLY video games.
Oh wait they don't care, /v/ is here to generate traffic, not to be about video games

>>716041979 (OP)
threadslop

>>716041979 (OP)
the major problem with this board is you, fuck off

>>716043131
t. nu-fag.

a new wordfilter for slop would completely mindrape newfags.
I remember when wordfilters on /b/ would change almost monthly and staff still was active and having fun with the community.
Unironically miss moot.

>>716041979 (OP)
ok, is April Grove even designed for anyone?
The trailer makes it seem like all you do is chop down trees, talk to npcs, and upgrade your chopping ability to chop down better trees.
That looks like the whole game. Guess that might be why it's only 3 dollars.

It seems like a really weird project that I didn't even know the developer was making until it released.
like, development overlapped with the three other games?
Veritus, which came out and was kinda weak compared to Prodigal/Curse Crackers.
Claire a la Mode, which looks "ok" but not the direction I was expecting from a sequel to Curse Crackers.
and then Howling Crown, which doesn't even have a Steam page and I suspect is in dev hell because it's too big because they've never made an RPG before.

>>716043518
Moot always was a CANDYASS ROODYPOO

>>716043687
but at least he was there. and so was the other staff. but then again, 4chan felt more like a small village back then and had an actual sense of community. us vs the world compared to me vs everyone else.

>>716043824

>>716043934
Don't deny it.
raiding other sites and polls together, making OC, having a united enemy in SA, reddit and 9gag over having our memes stolen.
anons were a collective. sure there always was banter between users but against outsiders we stood as a group.
That's not a thing anymore. Hasn't been for a while.

>>716041979 (OP)
>add thread IDs but only as an optional thing that OP may toggle on when they make a thread
>add an icon to each post that tells everyone if the post came from a computer or a phone
>lift the moderator embargo that prevents them from chatting with users and stop the "hands-off low-effort mysterious overlords" shtick instead of basically acting like background jannies with ban powers, and generally be more transparent about processes such as posting the rule for why a thread was deleted
>merge /v/ and /vg/ back together BUT exile certain genres (gacha mainly, MMO and MOBA) to their own board which at this point are more than half of /vg/'s posts per minute, not just because it'd make /vg/'s reintegration into /v/ easier but also because those genres suck and are not real videogames
>small vidya boards for more genres so that generals that feel alienated by /v/'s speeds still have an alternative if they REALLY don't want to be revitalized by new anons in their threads
I think it'd be a slight improvement at least.

>>716044313
>>merge /v/ and /vg/ back together BUT exile certain genres (gacha mainly, MMO and MOBA) to their own board which at this point are more than half of /vg/'s posts per minute, not just because it'd make /vg/'s reintegration into /v/ easier but also because those genres suck and are not real videogames
what an awful fucking suggestion

>>716044313
>add thread IDs but only as an optional thing that OP may toggle on when they make a thread
Good idea on paper but IDs didn't save /pol/ either
>add an icon to each post that tells everyone if the post came from a computer or a phone
The results would be way too depressing for us PC fags.
>lift the moderator embargo that prevents them from chatting with users and stop the "hands-off low-effort mysterious overlords" shtick instead of basically acting like background jannies with ban powers, and generally be more transparent about processes such as posting the rule for why a thread was deleted
yes
>merge /v/ and /vg/ back together BUT exile certain genres (gacha mainly, MMO and MOBA) to their own board which at this point are more than half of /vg/'s posts per minute, not just because it'd make /vg/'s reintegration into /v/ easier but also because those genres suck and are not real videogames
>>merge /v/ and /vg/ back together
absolutely horrible take. literally kill yourself.
Generals always have been a bad idea since their inception. IB software is not made for persistent threads. Just go to reddit or a forum if you want to circle jerk.
>small vidya boards for more genres so that generals that feel alienated by /v/'s speeds still have an alternative if they REALLY don't want to be revitalized by new anons in their threads
eh.

>>716044313
>merge /v/ and /vg/ back together
Fuck no, /vg/ is probably one of the two boards on this website that is somehow worse than /v/, the other being /lgbt/. There are maybe 2 threads that are not full of faggots constantly erping with eachother.

>>716044587
Generals are videogames. /v/'s videogame-shaped hole was filled by shitposting after the videogames were moved to another board, so by now both boards are worse off for it.
>>716044612
>Good idea on paper but IDs didn't save /pol/ either
That says more about /pol/'s board "quality". It would work better on /v/ as long as it's optional, and you could also tell apart shitposting and bait threads more easily because shitposting OPs wouldn't want to be seen posting bait opinions against OP.
>The results would be way too depressing for us PC fags.
The leaks showed 1/3 posts are made via phone.
>Generals always have been a bad idea since their inception
Generals are a normal phenomenon, I don't like the autism drama that happens in them but the generals exist nonetheless because people participate and make them. No wonder there's no board culture anymore when only a few threads at any given time are different from the same trite transient trash that tarnishes the board, when about a third of it is bait, another percentage is porn and the rest archive without much communication because the posters are drawn between all the different threads. Do the newfags that visit /v/ see ancient recurring threads of videogames that sound interesting, with their own tiny communities? No, those generally happen on a weekly basis now and there's few of them, so they're very easy to overlook. They just see the flood of shit and think this is how the romans do, so they might as well do it too.
>eh.
They're good boards (even with the lack of posters), and at least some generals migrated to them because /vg/ was too fast for them.
>>716044734
But that's because the lack of new posters makes them autistic.

Nectar

>>716045720
Wait, no, gold! Gold is better.

Rape.
Just call slop rape.

>Calls slop and buy an ad ""problematic"" but complitely omits the issue of shills

Fuck off, Shlomo. Stop using this board to peddle your trash

>>716041979 (OP)
>It should happen to slop too.
censorship is for faggots

>>716044313
Just geo block India, south America etc and the problem solves itself it's not that deep.

>>716047998
> Not blocking China as well.
Hmmm.

>>716048052
No need for that as chinese are already being prevented from coming here with their great firewall

>>716045640
>because people participate and make them
99% of posts in a general are literally bump bots.
the remaining 1% is an equal split between drama circrle jerk namefaggotry and actual game discussion.

>>716046371
>the issue of shills
Because it's greatly exaggerated. aside from a few indie devs shilling their own game here (which I think is totally fine btw) there only has been one "documented" shill campaign that also could've just been a few autists.
If you label every even slightly positive posts about a new game shilling then you don't get to talk about video ga-

oh wait, nevermind.

>>716046371
Natural shills will keep the paid shills in check.

>>716041979 (OP)
The schizos who camp out for 18+ hours a day to make discussion of various games impossible are a bigger problem than the latest memeword for "bad".

>>716043540
>The trailer makes it seem like all you do is chop down trees, talk to npcs, and upgrade your chopping ability to chop down better trees.

Maybe Murrlogic?

>>716048164
> what are state agents.
lol.

>>716042491
Visit the other videogame boards if you want to talk about videogames. /v/ is for current events and ecelebs

>>716048193
You mean the generals that barely have any new users on a surprisingly fast board because the shitty genre games are pushing the other threads out. Old /v/ didn't know how good it had it with /v/ generals that were still visited by /v/'s board surfers.

censoring a word doesnt work if we just instantly invent a new one. the mods should know that shit doesnt work by now.

>>716043540
>The trailer makes it seem like all you do is chop down trees, talk to npcs, and upgrade your chopping ability to chop down better trees.
Yeah, pretty much. It's like an idle game that you can't automate.