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>I really want to see this /c/ get a bunch of posters, and I want to do my best to spread it.
As do I! /c/ was one of my favorite boards on 4chan.
>Is /c/'s time just not come yet, or can we do our best to save it?
We can save it, definitely. The problem again is that there aren't enough posters. Like you said, people would rather make a /c/, /e/, /u/, etc thread on /a/ than they would put the content on it's respective boards.
I didn't mean to give anyone the impression that I'm going to neglect /c/, but as you can see, we're in a drought of posters.
>>>>/cute/ is shit because it endorses 3D, as the owner made an exception for his favorite 3D woman, and that indicates lack of moral fiber in the board owner (making exceptions for himself).
I held a thread on /u/ showing my opinions on board moderation and board culture as a whole, and how moderators work best when they work for the community, not when they're oblivious of how the community works or wish to make the community fit their needs. You can view it here, I think I summarized my feelings on the matter, and I believe I outlined how I want the community of /c/, /u/, and even /e/ to be.
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Not to start any beef with any board owners or users, but you're correct. The board owner should make no exceptions for anyone, and certainly not himself. Boards are made to be communities, not a dictatorship where the mod rules all. 3D has never been /c/ culture and it never will be, so for him to make any exception for his waifu shows his blatant disregard for the /c/ community.
I'd like to think I take a lax stance on moderating and advertising my boards. "If they like it, they will come." is something I've always thought about the communities I've run. (I've been in multiple admin and moderator positions on several websites before, and have been in these positions for 10+ years now) However the problem with 8chan consists on 3 major things that are crippling boards that were small to begin with.
1. There is no way to find out about other boards besides the 'board of the week' function or the >>>/boards/ board. However, even with this, the traffic is minimal, or nonexistent at best. >>>/e/ is a featured board at the moment, and yet I've only gotten 3 new posts on the board.
2. Apathy of the user base. Let's be honest - 95% of this website comes from /v/ and /pol/ and only wishes to go on those boards. Again, not trying to start anything between the /a/ moderators, but it is painfully obvious that they are not /a/ posters (or have not been going on /a/ for long) as you can see that it is essentially '/v/'s /a/'. With this apathy is either not caring for other boards, so small communities like /e/ and /c/ are dead in the water, and boards like /u/ and /d/ are barely hanging on life support, or claiming board names for themselves and going against the community at large. I disagree with Copypaste in his saying that this a essentially a 'board free market'. How are users from 4chan's /c/ supposed to find their community on 8ch if /cute/, /c/ and all other names that could possibly represent them manage to misrepresent them? If the board has to be /truecute193/ before it is actually the posters of /c/ posting on it, doesn't this serve to fragment the community even more? It's going to hurt the longevity of any board that isn't constantly in the top 25 where you can see them because of this.
3. The poor reputation that board owners are giving to boards.
I don't go on 4chan anymore, but I do know that a lot of them do not like 8ch, and honestly, who can blame them? The job of moderation is not an easy one, and I am not championing the 4chan moderators, because they were shit at it too, but the mods here can be on an entirely different level. When someone from /a/, or /jp/ comes here because they're pissed at the censorship on 4chan and sees stupid threads on their boards like "stupid fucking statement >constanza.jpg", of course they're going to think this is just /v/chan. And honestly, is it not? A majority of these boards are just /v/ playing 4chan, pretending they can remake the communities on 8ch and have them be the way they were. The communities could be remade, sure, but /v/ does not know what the communities are like. This is the same thing that happened to you and the /cute/ board. The owner has a blatant disregard for /c/ulture and imposes his own ideals onto the board and it's community. If these problems aren't fixed, I'm not sure 8ch's smaller boards such as this one have a future.
However, I'm not a defeatest, nor am I one who goes down without a fight. I'm going to keep fighting for those posters that made our boards good to come on here and populate them again, and I'm going to continue to make board culture and post quality of my highest importance. A good, slow board is better than a fast shit one, no matter how much the new users tell you otherwise.
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