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 No.26160

I used to lurk and post here at least every other day…

Oh well.

I'll just give Akari Mizunashi a birthday greeting.

 No.26161

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I still lurk here every day, and post now and then. I think we can bring it back to life if we all work together!


 No.26162

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Please post more often, I'm running out of cute girls.


 No.26164

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The problem is that people rarely make threads here. Whether it's shitposting or serious discussion a board needs some form of content to keep things running.


 No.26167

After the Next fiasco I noticed that this place got a little bit more livelier. This board has always been slow so it's nothing out of the ordinary.


 No.26168

8chan as a whole is dying, save the few larger boards.


 No.26169

>>26167

There are degrees to slowness. This isn't ordinary, not at all.


 No.26172

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>>26164

We could brainstorm about the kinds of threads that would keep /kind/ going.

The most successful thread strains seem to be

-Psychological mindfulness threads discussing one's feelings

-Threads in which we encourage one another

-Threads that allow discussion of off-topic topics. Usually hobbies, such as video games

-Self improvement

Any ideas? Just now, I thought maybe a creepy pasta thread would be fun. But intentionally scaring each other isn't very kind.


 No.26173

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>>26172

The main difference between this board and others is that people here will be less likely to call other people a retard for discussing something they personally don't like or disagree with, what with it being a board about kindness and all. I really don't see why most things can't be discussed here.


 No.26175

>>26173

Well, I'll make a thread then


 No.26180

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>>26172

Well, there was talk of an ASMR thread, but I don't know much about the topic other than it just being girls whispering in mics.


 No.26186

>>26164

>The problem is that people rarely make threads here.

All the threads I made I thought you guys would be interested in have 404'd, since everything I try to contribute here and everywhere else is routinely ignored no.matter how hard I try to work at making it quality OC. Even when I e.g. post 3 gigs of old 2spoop pics and creepypasta to /x/ the thread 404's with zero replies. I feel I suffer an Internet Invisibility Curse, and the only "cure" I can come up with is go full Elliot Hulse / Markiplier / The Oatmeal and whore myself and "make friends/connections/network" and attend marketroid seminars just so just ONE of the things I've spent DAYS on gets more than 3-5 hits, or more than 100 views in two years.

Going through all the trouble of being a "Content Creator" only to be roundly ignored is like sex or masturbation without orgasm. I can't just ignore it or I'll eventually be hopping on one foot, but then I have fun going through the motions but at the end there's a big ol' nothing to show for it but blue balls. Been like this my whole life.

A less pervy analogy would be being a corporation selling goods: to make a profit one must make more money off their product than it cost for them to acquire and/or manufacture it and to advertise it and to store it and to build a shop or whatever and to pay workers their minimum wage etc. So I'm the corporation with zero net profit on any of my goods; i can't even break even. It takes like hours and hours for some things to be made and dreamt up and posted, all that time one needs enough people to spend like 3-5 seconds (or at most 1 which is more likely) for one person to Ooh and Ahh before scrolling down to the next shiny object in the thread. So one really needs thousands of hits to really have made it all worthwhile. And I rarely can even get TWO DIGITS of clicks for no apparent explanation!

Maybe my stuff just sucks and I don't know it? But how am I supposed to know if no one will give feedback? If no one gives me constructive criticism?


 No.26187

>>26180

Make a thread asking about it!


 No.26188

>>26186

>all that time one needs enough people to spend like 3-5 seconds (or at most 1 which is more likely) for one person to Ooh and Ahh before scrolling down to the next shiny object in the thread.

…enough people to spend those precious seconds to at least equal the time I sunk into creating whatever they're Oohing and Ahhing in order to make the time I've sunk worth the effort…


 No.26189

>>26164

Half the threads are people talking about their feelings and I don't really like that sort of thing so I'm a bit stuck for threads I can post in a lot of the time.

>>26172

I remember this one time an old man put out notices announcing that if anyone would like to come to his birthday party they're allowed to come. It was clear he didn't really have anyone to come to his party with him. 4/b/ then decided to use the address to send him hundreds and hundreds of birthday cards so I'd imagine that made him very happy.

A couple people even went to his birthday party too. This is the sort of thing this place should be full of in my opinion.


 No.26196

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>>26186

>Maybe my stuff just sucks and I don't know it?

It's possible. Which of your threads were ignored?

>>26189

>people talking about their feelings

I feel you, friend. It can get pretty bad, especially when things start to get depressing. I think there's room for that kind of stuff, but not when it goes over board, starts smothering other forms of content, and changes the lighthearted atmosphere of /kind/.


 No.26200

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I post sometimes, it's nice to see a small community here.


 No.26201

>the front page works properly again

It was really discouraging to see it frozen all the time. I'm glad Josh's reign of terror has ended, and things can start going back to normal.


 No.26202

Wait it does? I can stop going straight to catalog on all boards?


 No.26203

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>>26202

Yes. Lets just hope HW doesnt make anything dumb in the next weeks.


 No.26207

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 No.26212

>>26189

>This is the sort of thing this place should be full of in my opinion.

I'm not sure how many people have the will / energy to regularly participate in what is essentially KindOps. Sending the people I actually know postcards is already too much work for me. But you could give it a shot, see if you can find someone who needs kindness and make a KindOps thread about it.


 No.26255

Isn't there anything we can do to make this board livelier? Some way to encourage more, and better quality posts?


 No.26258

>>26255

Well as I've discovered over the years, being the only one talking and talking and talking in an empty room means I'm just talking in an empty room (as far as I can tell; maybe there are others in the shadows watching me, silent) and I walk out, and the room becomes truly empty and silent.


 No.26263

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>>26255

Shilling is always an option (preferably on boards that have a nice/quality community). Someone could try buying another ad, though that made this board pretty hectic last time so that might not be for the best.

>Some way to encourage more, and better quality posts?

You can encourage other posters, and even lurkers to make quality posts by making quality posts yourself.


 No.26264

Seems like it picked up more activity now the front page is fixed, relax Friend.


 No.26266

>>26264

What? I'd say this thread has helped.


 No.26267

>>26263

>You can encourage other posters, and even lurkers to make quality posts by making quality posts yourself.

See

>>26258


 No.26268

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>>26267

What about it? /kind/ isn't even analogous to a silent, empty room. And I know from first-hand experience that posting can encourage others to post. Seeing that great (or terrible) post that you just can't help but reply to was the reason why I made my first post after two months of lurking. Wouldn't be surprised if most had a similar experience to mine.

Maybe try being less vague if you're trying to make a point or something, dude.


 No.26272

>>26267

>>26266

Yeah, this thread seems to have helped for sure.


 No.26276

>>26268

>And I know from first-hand experience that posting can encourage others to post.

Usually isn't the case with me… can't tell you how many times I've tried to do just that and then be ignored.

But at least starting this thread with all my whining and crying throughout seems to for once have done something constructive!


 No.26277

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>>26268

I didn't really have a point, just me being exasperated from almost two decades trying to scratch my creative itch in one way or another (even if that "creativity" is just trying to start or join in online conversations) and having almost nothing to show for it.


 No.26290

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>>26277

That sucks, but I don't understand how that could happen. There's no way the universe is just against you like that.

What sort of things have you posted / attempted / whatever, that have been ignored? Perhaps /kind/ will get a kick out of it.

Nice dubs. Very nice.

>>26200

Checked


 No.26299

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I lurk here every once in a while, but usually I'm too shy to post or don't have anything of value to add.


 No.26301

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>>26299

>don't have anything of value to add

I hear this a lot actually. I'd just say that we're often our own worst judge, and you never know what could be useful to someone else.

Also, posting should be about having fun. Looking at it from a "what do I offer?" point of view would make posting seem like work, and definitely not something I would want to do either.


 No.26305

This thread is now an OC potluck!

Share your shit even if you think it's almost literal shit!


 No.26308

>>26305

I like the thread how it is now, but okay.

I used to make garbage-tier EDM AMVs. The username is terrible too. Don't know what I was thinking. It makes me cringe a bit these days.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYHM31yLCrzcYKwWylT6ohA


 No.26319

>>26308

I have an idea for an "AMV" of MMD doing stuff to heavy western metal, but after giving MMD a go I decided it'd take way too long to learn how to do anything that complex and even if I learned it'd still take way too long to actually put it together.




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