/newspaper/ - 8chan Newspaper Bunbunmaru

I think it's funny that people have nostalgia over September on 8chan, because it was one of the worst times to be on /v/ to actually talk about video games. Before the "no meta stuff" rule was implemented, about 75% of the catalog back then was "I got banned from 4chan and now I'm here" and 20% the kind of "shitposting" that people complain about to this day, all at around 1500 posts per hour. The volunteers were all sharing the same owner account since Fredrick had yet to implement volunteer accounts, so there was no accountability, and niko and another were fucking around with the CSS and wordfilters every day (both were removed later on). The atmosphere of the board was closer to /b/ than /v/, which is fine, but not for any kind of talk about video games. Late september to mid october was mostly chaos. I remember it well because I volunteer for /v/.

As for /svidya/, I hope it does well and becomes it's own thing. /v/ is a bit cursed in that aspect, since it will never escape the unattainable ideal of what "old /v/" was like (usually imagined by people who weren't around for it.) Right now, it doesn't seem to be the kind of place I would post in since I'm strongly against any form of "cornering". That practice is what makes places like reddit or /baphomet/ so thin skinned and uninteresting. Just the threat of potentially being "super downvoted" for your opinion is enough to make me not want to post.