Haven't been on Veeky Forums in about 6~8 months

>Haven't been on Veeky Forums in about 6~8 months.
>Stop by Veeky Forums to see how all my ol' grognards are doing.
>It's overrun with threads about e-celebs and meme argumentative "bait" threads that are even more spurious than in the past

WHAT THE FUCK HAS HAPPENED? And don't give me that, "It's always been like this" shit, because yes, Veeky Forums has always been shit. But posts move a hell of a lot faster and only about a third of them have to do with tabletop gaming (And those are the fuckin' /general/ threads).

>>It's overrun with threads about e-celebs and meme argumentative "bait" threads that are even more spurious than in the past
What board are you looking at user? As someone who fucking despises that shit, I am right on board with you!... except none of that is happening. Not even after a brief overview of the catalog.

Veeky Forums is exactly the same as it was 6-8 months ago

Nobit fucking isn't, this shit at least had a resemblance to an on topic board once, even wierder, the ones derailing are the ones bitching about off topic content

Basically when a guy who hated quest threads got in as a mod, the resulting banning of quest threads on Veeky Forums soured a lot of the old-guard content creators on the board (who had already been burned by Nazimod a few years prior) so they stopped posting new content.

At the same time, the US election funneled a huge amount of newfags onto Veeky Forums, many of whom are more concerned with regurgitating the "epic" screencaps they've seen from Veeky Forums or just trying their hardest to spread /pol/shit over the whole site.

>the resulting banning of quest threads on Veeky Forums soured a lot of the old-guard content creators on the board

t. quest fag

Turns out the majority of users on Veeky Forums were fine with quests on Veeky Forums.

Then why was every thread flooded with complaints about them? the voice of the people was heard

Trump was elected 8 months ago, and /qst/ is 15 months old now.

Basically Veeky Forums has been on a downhill slope since the days of nazimod. (Or possibly since the days of Veeky Forums conception, though I'm not ere long enough to know for certain.)
When you witness the decline on daily / weekly basis, you don't even notice it because the degradation is gradual. When you come back after couple months, it has to be a shocker. Especially when you run right into the middle of summer.

This. user is talking trash about something irrelevant, something different is going on

You mean how a lot of quests would get a burst of shitposting the same day, and then no shitposting for three days, then another burst of shitposting the same day across multiple quest threads, followed by another three days of no shitposting?

Really gets the melon swellin'.

I can really see the decline, though.

I can tell most of the posts are currently being made by underaged faggots and a significant portion of the posts are being made by people that know absolutely nothing about tabletop gaming.

I get that it's summer, but why are they HERE of all places? I wouldn't even mind the heightened traffic if they were contributing something.

I'm starting to think it's like 3 trolls trolling each other.

Or maybe one of our prolific trolls who shall not be named just started shitposting 24/7.

So what are you all going to do about it then? Clap your hands together and hope things magically get better with no effort on your part?

Be the kind of poster you want to see on Veeky Forums.

Because people want that beard credit, and are stealing it by acting like what they think old grognards acted like, thinking it will make them cool here when the whole point is to be uncool in comfort

Trumplets started pouring onto Veeky Forums once the trump subreddit started directing them here in 2015.

Fucking reddit....

All of these anons with these assnine theories involving quest threads and other nonsense

The answer is simple.

Look at your fucking calendar. What month is it?

Honestly, I just hope things get bad enough that I can convince myself to bail this place and finally be free.

>but why are they HERE of all places?
To shitpost about fantasy stuff.
>"I watched the hobbit, what's the best place to rage about elves?"

Don't forget you're here forever

It's summer.

SUMMER
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Veeky Forums actually seems to be getting a lot better again after five or six years of uniformly mediocre quality.

Seems like a depressing mentality. Why not try something productive?

>Seems like a depressing mentality.
Where the fuck do you think you are?

>Be the kind of poster you want to see on Veeky Forums.

Listen, I've been trying to do this shit for a decade now. It doesn't work. It's like pouring a glass of water in the ocean. You can try to make as much of an effort as you can muster, but it won't do anything in the end. Morale among the people I want to post is so low that they won't do anything about it.

"Post the kind of content you want to see." has always been the go-to statement for meta threads. I have never seen a different solution.

So, what do we do when posting the type of content I want to see on Veeky Forums doesn't work? I can make threads or posts about the stuff that I want to, but nobody is even going to see them when the board is flooded by waifu-shit and "humorous" posts.

You can say I'm just complaining, but what I'm saying does have some merit.

Thanks for writing all this.

I'm so fucking embarrassed by it now.

>majority
Got some some proof there, mister man?

Does it seem that way?
I'd call it a partial abandoning, a half-way state before you let something go completely. Like that one friend you didn't call in forever but have not deleted their number yet.
As for your question - because it's not worth it, effort of individual will make no difference. Why erect a fine statue when you can already see the wave of mud, shit and mediocrity that will wash it away?
On more personal level - I do productive things, it's just that directing them towards Veeky Forums is a wasted effort. Veeky Forums doesn't give back. It used to, but not anymore.

>what do you think this is going to accomplish?
Easy with the caps-lock, kid. Didn't mean to trigger anyone. I honestly didn't think that it would accomplish anything.
I just wanted to know if there was some huge change in the time that I was gone. Yeah,
it's summer, or whatever. But I've been here for years and I've never seen it ramped up this bad. The whole "Postmodern" ""humor""
"""nerd""" """"culture"""" thing is probably right.

FUCK MY ASSHOLE DUDE

Dang, I missed it.

Fair, but then why are you complaining?
Ah, you can't fix the whole thing, but you can pick a few threads and post in those (even the largest threads have

I'm not triggered, just wasted. Gonna lay down nowwwww.

>Or quit.
See you guys next year!

>effort of individual will make no difference.
Why not? The busiest threads have

>I'm not triggered, just wasted
The old "I-I'm drunk on Veeky Forums, guys! Really" story.
Go to bed, man.

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I feel like all of Veeky Forums has gone to shit since the election. The reddit immigrant hypothesis is a compelling explanation.

I'd say most of it comes down to /pol/ and shitposting about D&D either getting deleted or just getting rarer. That in particular isn't likely to be permanent, since there's bound to be a new thing to shitpost about eventually, but there's something else I've noticed: people actually contributing OC, homebrew, or just general neat ideas. Even the thread about RaHoWa a while back had some actual constructive discussion and fun instead of endless complaints about /pol/ and tumblr (although there was some of that, too).

Hopefully it keeps up, because it's a nice change.

>Dang, I missed it
>he doesn't use one of the many offsite Veeky Forums archives to look at deleted porn and shitposting

Veeky Forums did not have noteworthy deleted porn since that on 40k general