/txt/ - The Textboard

Aw, you mentioned my board :')

>>>/lang/ has unfortunately started to dwindle in activity...I always wanted a /lang/ board with images and video

similarly >>>/spanish/ isn't doing so well at the moment, could be a good resource for people learning Spanish who want to be able to switch into English within the same board

Debating on the internet is a horrible idea. Whoever was dumb enough to create /debate/ shouldn't be trusted with moderating it.

>>>/imgbc/ - Imageboard culture

>>512
>Debating on the internet is a horrible idea
Why?

Off the top of my head... On the internet there's no time limit, which means that a debate can keep going virtually forever, until at least one of the participants gives up. The fact that you can't look the other person in the eyes and have to rely on text to communicate means that you're simultaneously more inclined to use harsh words and to misinterpret his words as harsher than he meant them to be (the same is true for your opponent).

Unlike a debate in real life, which happens in real time, a debate on the internet doesn't necessarily keep a fixed pace; there will be times where your opponent will reply to your posts almost immediately, and others where you have to wait days. All of this makes the activity of debating even more psychologically and emotionally stressful than it already is.

Add to that the fact that the participants seldom happen to be experts on the subject matter; rather, they know just enough about something to have an opinion on it and they lack a proper understanding of their opponent's position; increasingly driven by anger and a general disregard for truth, they'll twist facts to support their arguments and resort to every sophism under the sun to undermind their opponent's.

The result is often a clusterfuck of epic proportions that leaves everyone feeling frustrated and less human than they were at the beginning.

*undermine

>>>/rent/
It's a board for people renting apartments can talk about dealing with landlords, roommates, neighbors, etc.

>>607
That's pretty cool. I made a couple of threads. I hope it picks up.

>help poor people deal with being poor.

Isn't that the government's job?

>>623
...no? Are you a euro or Californian/NYer?

>>624
I consider myself a citizen of the world.

>>625
I consider you a retard, then.

>>645
All those legs

I don't know if I can take it

>>>/32/ has a moderator that tries a bit too hard to be good, but so far it has quality. Mostly speculation, though.

>>>/poverty/ here, thanks for believing in me OP. We have 30 users now :3

>>>/webm/
Good but not too much new content.

>>>/linux/ seems like maybe it has potential.

>>>/tmblr/
Board for exposing, mocking or otherwise making fun of Tumblr idiots, SJWs that sort of thing.

That's all I can think of offhand. I'll think of more later, I'm sure.

>>659
Those are all horrible ideas for boards.

>>>/webm/
Too specific, doomed to obscurity.

>>>/linux/
Redundant, there's already >>>/tech/.

>>>/tmblr/
Same as above, the whole of 8chan already makes fun of tumblr, and >>>/cow/ also exists.

>>661
>Redundant, there's already >>>/tech/.
But on tech there is winbabbies to laugh at, a board called /linux/ implies they wouldn't be allowed. Still a horrible idea for a board, everyone knows it would be /gnupluslinux/

>>661
this is why we need the ability to combine boards for the user interface. I should be able to browse /linux/ and /tech/ at the same time.

>>676
how would that even work

>>677
I could imagine he wants it to work like a tag-based system, where you can search for and display multiple tabs at once

Think Twitter, with its hashtags

>>677
Think multireddits.

>>680
I've never browsed leddit

>>509
I just became the new owner of /lang/, wish me luck

>>694
good luck!

>>694
I was searching for that board a couple of days ago. Add a 'language' tag to it.

>>696
Thanks!

>>703
Added. The current tags are "international, language, hobby, culture, learning."

>>509
>similarly >>>/spanish/ isn't doing so well at the moment, could be a good resource for people learning Spanish who want to be able to switch into English within the same board
There is >>>/spanishclass/ and it seems reasonably populated. Not saying /spanish/ shouldn't exist but Spanish learners are covered.

>>>/jrpg/

Too varied for a /vg/ thread but too dead for an entire board. Plus it's easy to talk about the topic on /v/ anyway.

Plus >>>/vg/ isn't too busy but that's because a lot of series went and got their own board then die.

>>531
I agree. Debates are really hard online, especially with Google and easily conflicting sources.

>>733
Hey, I like my >>>/videogames/. It's fun.

>>769
Yeah, that's actually a really good board. It can't replace /v/, but it's a nice addition.