>>5126
I made mine because
-I consider IDs to be cancer
-I believe the influx of newfags who refuse to lurk is what killed /v/ fastest (along with other, more minor factors)
-I recognize that while everyone should be allowed to try to talk about vidya subjects, it doesn't mean the community should bear with threads about crap games - yet it is not my place to decide what the community should discuss in specific.
IDs is the real kicker for me. /v/ has shown that they can be used very effectively to destroy discussion and as an effective excuse to not consider the argument made, but rather the poster himself.
Striking a balance of visibility and subtleness is hard, I decided to try making my board hidden but now it's dead. I think making the board visible and hiding it as soon as the community is starting to become bad is the right way to go about it.
Forbidding self-moderation is a grievous mistake in my opinion. It is important in order to enforce high quality discussion. The moderation team must judge the quality of the posts and whether or not the attempt at self-moderation is legitimate or not, but the community has to help prevent spoonfeeding and denying people who don't lurk the feeling of acceptance that is today so present everywhere. It's up to the community to setup their own unofficial rules within the framework of the board to ensure quality. If mods make decision based on their own taste, it just turns into power abuse real fast.
All I really want is a board with good quality discussion where mods aren't doing it for free all day erryday and where there are no IDs. I don't actually care if I'm the board owner or not. Instead of merely talking about it, I tried to make the board I wanted. I might not have succeeded, but at least I tried. I think the same can be said of most of the other /v/ alternative board owners.