Poll: Opinion on /b/?

[yuval152]

It's a very good thing that it's here, It filters the retards.

 

[oppp7]

Lost intrest in it, went to /vg/, /fit/, /pol/, /a/ and so on for about a year.
>Came back to see what happend to the board
>disgonbgud.gif

I was pretty dissipointed of what /b/ had became. It was basicly filled with so many cancerous threads the eye could see.

I've heard this said shitloads of times but I still don't know what exactly happened. Is there a place that explains everything? Preferably without just being all vague and "nowadays its all samey memes." I want specific examples of what it used to be and what it is.

 

[generals3]

My stance is firm: purge it!

 

[Evil Smurf]

as a 9GAGGER I think I am contractually obliged to hate it.

 

[bat32391]

Who the hell is /b/?

 

[Overusedname]

I didn't think anyone would stand up for it, really. Kinda surprised.

I guess people can have there fun, but it's not the kinda thing anyone could be reasonably 'proud of'.

 

[General Twinkletoes]

Absolute shit, and I lose some respect whenever I hear people browse there. How can they find that crap funny? I don't even mean the offensive stuff that they post because they want to be edgy, I mean just the terrible, terrible jokes on there. It's the asshole of the internet.

I wouldn't delete it though, because there needs to be a place where people can act like idiots with no moderation besides deleting child porn. Otherwise every other forum would become similar to 4chan. It's better for it to be concentrated there. I do hate how it made the term "******" something that's widely used, it's such a dumb term. Although it does help when you're arguing with someone, if they use that word you can generally assume that they're fucking stupid.

snips

Unrelated quote to say that I approve of your avatar change 10000%. I could watch it all day.

 

[Pinkamena]

as a 9GAGGER I think I am contractually obliged to hate it.

As an Imgurian, I am obliged to hate you.

 

[David_G]

I find it very... meh. I still frequent it, but I don't find it as attractive as I did a year ago. I don't know if I've changed, or it's changed.

 

[bat32391]

Who the hell is /b/?

A place where extreme right wing sexists, anti-semites, white supremacists, woman haters, and the occasional child molestor feel at home.

Well they sound like a great group of people don't they?

 

[IamQ]

I don't like it very much any more. It used to be better. Now it's just porn and rolls. It doesn't help either that most of the people who did fun things there have moved to sites like 9gag and Reddit, that I can't stand.

as a 9GAGGER I think I am contractually obliged to hate it.

I am not here to quarrel with you...but:

Spoiler

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

Ah, this thread. How I've missed you.
Here goes
Back in the day, /b/ used to be great. There was much more OC coming from anon and they actually did meaningful things. Then something happened, I don't really know what it was but all the older, more useful anons stopped showing up (I'd rather not post what they're called for fear of mod punishment). The OC started to disappear, and the threads started getting shittier. I was still on it trying my best to avoid the gore, CP, and threads of the like when I stumbled upon an gif of a person beating his German Shepard with a golf club. I decided that was the last time I would ever visit /b/ and that was it.
Nowadays, /b/ is a shadow of it's former "glory." I use that term loosely because there never really was a glorious period for /b/. I see them now as children using the mask of anonymity to say and do whatever they feel like, mostly being racist. They use this mask to say and do what they're to afraid to in real life and live vicariously through the 5 or 6 anons that actually succeed. Most of them are the type of immature people you saw beating "the cake is a lie!" into any and every person that so much as mentions the word cake.
My opinion of /b/? I don't see them as the asshole of the internet, I see them as the appendix. Something that was useful at one point or another, but somewhere along the line it became useless and is now just there.

 

[Westaway]

Rule 1
Rule 2

Rules one and two, ************.


I have no idea what to say here other than what I am saying to stave off the banhammer via a short post. Ignore this.

1) Those rules only apply to raids
2) The rules of the internet are a forced meme that aren't meant to be taken seriously

 

[The Funslinger]

There's some amusing content on there, but the vast majority of its residents seem to be socially maladjusted teenagers, trying to make up for real world failures by throwing out some gritty act.

Really, I've never seen the whole 'I'm so alpha. lol @ betas' bullshit act used even fractionally as much as I've seen it used there. You can just tell that in reality, the residents of that board are absolutely nothing.

So while there can be the occasional amusing thing to read, like a greentext story, if I had to describe /b/ in one word, that word would be 'pathetic'.

Ah, this thread. How I've missed you.
Here goes
Back in the day, /b/ used to be great. There was much more OC coming from anon and they actually did meaningful things. Then something happened, I don't really know what it was but all the older, more useful anons stopped showing up (I'd rather not post what they're called for fear of mod punishment). The OC started to disappear, and the threads started getting shittier. I was still on it trying my best to avoid the gore, CP, and threads of the like when I stumbled upon an gif of a person beating his German Shepard with a golf club. I decided that was the last time I would ever visit /b/ and that was it.
Nowadays, /b/ is a shadow of it's former "glory." I use that term loosely because there never really was a glorious period for /b/. I see them now as children using the mask of anonymity to say and do whatever they feel like, mostly being racist. They use this mask to say and do what they're to afraid to in real life and live vicariously through the 5 or 6 anons that actually succeed. Most of them are the type of immature people you saw beating "the cake is a lie!" into any and every person that so much as mentions the word cake.
My opinion of /b/? I don't see them as the asshole of the internet, I see them as the appendix. Something that was useful at one point or another, but somewhere along the line it became useless and is now just there.

This works, too.

 

[Arkham]

Back in the day, /b/ used to be great. There was much more OC coming from anon and they actually did meaningful things. Then something happened, I don't really know what it was but all the older, more useful anons stopped showing up (I'd rather not post what they're called for fear of mod punishment). The OC started to disappear, and the threads started getting shittier.

I want to say "/b/ was never good" but at least there was a time when it was tolerable. I believe things started going downhill (or more quickly) around the time of the 2008 Scientology raids.

 

[PatrickXD]

I often find myself scanning the front page a couple of times to see if there's a thread that interests me. I found some awesome music, videogames and movies through /b/. So I guess I like it for what it's worth.
/b/ is the most fun when you're sending f'd up images to friends in Skype conversations.