Veeky Forums should be a flag board

oh fuck no
i don't want to get every one of my posts responded with memes about my country, i'd like to be judged on the actual worth of what i post instead for once thank you

Do flags really make people that autistic?

No. This is a board for serious discussion.

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I'm one of those anti-communist Easterners, I can take a pic of my Slovakia passport if you want.

As if Veeky Forumsthreads aren't similar enough to /int/ faggotry already

Only if mook ads the option to filter by flag.

Bad opinion

No it wasn't. And don't try to argue with me, sonny, I fought in the Great War of '15, when we fended off a proxy war between Veeky Forums and /pol/ and guaranteed our independence.

I know you're not serious, but
desuarchive.org/his/thread/1/

That couldn't have lasted more than a couple days, I latched onto this board as soon as I saw the announcement.

I remember the /pol/-Veeky Forums fiasco, /b/ spamming tranny porn for a day or two, people shitting over Sherman on the board sticky, the inability to so much as mention Africa without getting a flood of WE's..

I don't understand this mentality. Why try to make Veeky Forums more like /int/ and /pol/?

You realize you can still have history discussion in /int/ and /pol/, right? No need to just homogenize the boards.

Absolutely not. Flags do basically nothing but provoke shitposting and "it's none of your business you're not from around here."

It should have ID codes on a thread by thread basis though.

I don't think we're quite bad enough to necessitate IDs. This isn't pol or /b/.

>that phase where Veeky Forums tried to make a board mascot.

Those were the days.

You weren't even there on the first day you stolen valour piece of shit

You're lucky I don't know who you are

I just don't see why you wouldn't have it. It doesn't remove your anonymity, people can't track you between threads, it just ensures people within a thread know who is saying what and helps ensure people don't samefag shitpost.

It just ended up being a caricature of Herodotus anyways, then was abandoned

>that faction of guys desperate for a qt girl tan

I don't think samefag shitposting is that much of a problem. And IDs bring their own problems like people crying 'omg, only one post by that ID, it's FORUM SLIDING!'

>it'd a dumb phoneposter thread
Phoneposting should be a bannable offense tbqh

Hell no

Go to /pol/ and tell me what you see.

I agree.

What's wrong with phoneposters, Satan?
I lurk at work or on public transportation sometimes and I'm still providing what I would consider a high level of discourse.

What does adding flags add to the culture and discussion contained in this board?

I only see negatives.

>what I would consider

Why would you want a board that shit enough as it is to be even worse?
Go back to fucking /sp/ or /int/ if you want that shit.

This

Everything said here applies to every country I think

>Americans of every kind would be mocked by Europeans
>Europeans mock each other and by Americans.
>China and Russia simply called commies and disregarded
>no end to the name calling for middle easterners and Africans

I hate the "back to /pol/" meme, however accurate it may be at times, but it really would turn into that

>sage in all fields

Kudos are given rarely on this site, but I can say with confidence that I have had a number of people reply to me with "this."

I also make a point of giving a reason when I tell people they're wrong and admitting when I'm uncertain about a claim I'm making. When possible, I give sources or recommend reading.

Give me you recommended reading and sources for your this replies on your phoneposting that wasn't you samefagging.

Are we all in agreement that OP is a butthurt faggot whose country got insulted on Veeky Forums and he feels frustrated because he couldn't reply with a cheap ad hominem based on a flag?

What the fuck are you even trying to say here?
Not but youre a faggot. Phone is literally just another computer.

Off the top of my head, I've recommended people (in particular a guy who was clearly a Romeaboo but had little actual knowledge beyond a liking for lorica segmentata) read Caesar's writings, other basic stuff like Polybius for someone wanting to know about early Rome, Ron Chernow's biographies and Dan Boorstin's The Americans: the Colonial Experience for someone curious about early US history, Exquemelin for someone curious about Caribbean piracy, and the Landmark Herodotus for someone wondering about what edition to get, that one given due to the fantastic maps and annotations accompanying the text. I frequently promote O'Brian's writings as well, though that's just well-researched historical fiction.

I can't recall many "This's" beyond a vague recollection of explaining that most historical events and decisions come down to the economics of the time.

no that's fucking stupid
/int/ has been shit with flags
/pol/ has become significantly worse with flags
/sp/ sucks because of flags.

they are unnecessary and ad nothing.

This board is about history. Simply being from a country doesn't make you knowledgeable about anything.

Yes

that's basic Veeky Forums quality posting mate

don't think you're hot shit 'cause ya can recommend a wee few books

Never said I was hot shit my main man, just that I often post from a phone and don't shitpost 24/7 like you seem to think.

But then again we're both in this dumbass thread so neither of us are really in a position to talk shit.

I think he was asking you to cite you not being a faggot.

Yeah but theres always a person who says that they lived under communism and say that it's either crap or the best thing ever. Just look at the Pinochet thread with some faggot saying he's from Chile and using it to deflect argument without anything to prove he is from Chile.

Really OP?

I honestly don't give enough of a shit at this point. Odds are good he'd just handwave it all away anyhow.

>phoneposter wants Veeky Forums to be another /int/ or /pol/
gee wiz

>guaranteed our independence
nah Veeky Forums lost hard

it shuold have been a cute ghost

Who won, then?

It would be funny as hell, but it would ruin the board.
I'm tempted to say Yes to this just to watch Veeky Forums burn, but it's to much already.
So NO.

/pol/ Veeky Forums and /leftypol/ continue to inhabit this board and will continue to do so until the end of time

That's not a win for anyone, just a diversity of opinions.

they derail threads and create nearly all of the bait threads

Only flags from the past.

Yeah, it works in theory, but flags just amplify shitposting.

Does Veeky Forums even have it's own "culture" yet?

maybe if you just learned to poo in the loo then people wouldn't shitpost

Veeky Forums is a Post-Colonial entity (historyfags and poltards from others boards) currently undergoing third-world tier post-independence civil strife.

That's where you say, "Pics or it didn't happen" like in the good old days. Fuck, remember demotivationals?

I'm a burger.

There will always be thread derails and bait threads, remember where you are. This board actually has some quality crunched in between all that, which is pretty rare for Veeky Forums.

>currently undergoing third-world tier post-independence civil strife.

the fight has been over for months. The only survivors are the dedicated autists, a small number of quality shitposters, and /pol/ squad.

What remains is largely meme based, /pol/ cross-boarders account for at least a plurality with a smattering of /k/, Veeky Forums, /v/ for whatever reason, and Veeky Forums.

I'm sure there's at least one person to whom this is homeboard.

only if we can choose which flag we want

No

flags encourage nation-related shitposting, this board has too much shit already

This is a history board and you don't even understand nationalism?

the quality will be lost over time, and eventually we may hit /tv/ levels of shitposting

a huge NO

i'm tired of having every post I make reduced to HAHAHA A FUCKING LEAF LOOK MOM I DID IT AGAIN

Leaf spotted

Kek

I am pro flag. Brings the good bants

Flags destroy everything they touch.
Flags take our innocence away.
No flags on Veeky Forums!

>phone poster
>has a shit opinion

There's no need to have flags on Veeky Forums. Maybe if you could choose between historical flags, but that would be a fair but if effort I would assume.

Definitely not.

I loved the duo idea

>good bants
>Veeky Forums

KYS

This is my homeboard.

This.
>post literally anything
>>american education lel

Yes, if we had flags and IDs there would be a lot less shit troll threads.