Can someone explain why /v/, /pol/, and /r9k/ are more popular than Veeky Forums...

Veeky Forums is /soc/ 2.0, with all these uni threads
Also /pol/ 2.0, for some reason

Because talking about how soon until AI non stop isnt very entertaining.

Because many people don't enjoy or need Science & Math and so have nothing to discuss.

/v/ and /pol/ is procrastination fed with happenings and news.

The /r9k/ thing is just sad - I guess people want to belong and ease their pain.

Veeky Forums was a good bit slower just a couple years ago. The quality's definitely gone down, and the post rate has definitely gone up.

As someone who never visits /r9k/ what is it exactly?

Guys in their early twenties waning themselves in self-pitty and rationalizing their lonely situation by exploring the ideology that success with women is not only determined purely by genetics and looks are a necessity for everything, but also that "20% of men fuck 80% of women". They also fetishize the good looking guys at the same time. Basically, they need justification not to improve, they are the dual side to the "pick-up artists mentality" where you need to go out and try to fuck as many girls as possible.

/pol/ and /r9k/ have that inicial shock value that makes you curious, but then take you deep within the board and find all kinds of people you never knew could be possible. And banter
Veeky Forums has its banter but it is what it appears to be on your first visit

">tfw no gf"

The board is shit. Literally every day the following threads are on the top:
>Race is a social construct :^)
>Flat earth
>Lol (field) is brainlet
>(9th grade math HW)
>Dick sucking
>Stupid unanswerable question
>Stupid unanswerable question
>Stupid unanswerable question

>on Veeky Forums the less posts per minute a board gets the higher quality the posts are.
You make it sound as if this board wasn't trash.

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This. Bot/autism posting has been crazy lately. As states.

That's hilarious. I'm glad I've never been to /r9k/.

/v/ is for unemployable virgin neckbears who like videogames and there are lots of them
/pol/ is for people who are passionate about their radical political views and god help us there are tons of them
/r9k/ isn't popular

Bitching and ranting are easy.

Thinking and trying not to be an idiot are hard.

>Thinking and trying not to be an idiot
Is that really what we do here?

>Can anyone explain why lowest common denominator themed boards are more popular?
Frog off

On a really good day.

For about five minutes.

?
Who mentioned videogames and politics??

shit you're right, /v/ and /pol/ isn't for either

I'd say a few weeks ago it was a lot slower.

There are a lot more average people flooding into /r9k/ as of late as well as an influx of trap threads on par with /b/. The quality of all boards as of late has been decreasing.

Off topic, but would it be possible to have a board where the OP would moderate. OP would be like an editor who OK the posts. (Would not be published before this OK), regular moderation for the entire thread after publication.
The benefit would be that an OP could control what gets said in a thread and keep the off topic discussion and clear insults and other insipid oxen excrement away. This would make reading the thread for everyone more enjoyable.

try 2^3chan

It's called reddit and it's awful.

yes, let's censor one of the last remaining bastions of free speech online so you don't have to read some off topic or offensive comments
People should create thought-provoking or interesting posts if they want meaningful responses. You can go to literally any other forum site or reddit if you want the things you dislike filtered out...
The main problem with your proposal being applied to Veeky Forums is ego. People would deny posts proving them wrong, pointing out flaws in their logic etc. Since OPs are usually asking questions or looking to engage in conversation, giving the OP complete control of the thread just seems silly.

>People would deny posts proving them wrong,
Good point. The risk of this happening and the harm it causes would far exceed the benefits I had envisioned. I hadn't realized that I assumed people to be rational and fair.

Older boards and they have a more popular topic.

sci is a huge waste of time because unless you already are a advanced scientist/mathmatician you can't be certain that the person giving you advice is not a brainlet like you are. And not that many people are advanced.

Tow big reasons, I think.

1. People often use these sites to unwind, so interest in hobbies dominates over work.

2. Most people and university level education has specialized enough that they don't really become involved in subjects outside their own. A math major, for example, is unlikely to find the musings and problems an electrical engineer would have and post, with the opposite also true. Myself personally, as a medfag, that I come here every now and then and look for a medicine related topic, only to usually end up seeing nothing on the catalog.

If Veeky Forums would stop getting mentioned in the news and if people remembered or even knew of the 1st and 2nd rule of Veeky Forums, this wouldn't be happening. But noooooo, Veeky Forums just had to supply pornography to internet pedophiles and get mentioned by a politician or two. Couldn't just keep it's fucking head down and enjoy what it had.

>/pol/ is for people who are passionate about their radical political views and god help us there are tons of them
Not really. It's filled with meme edgelords who simply adopt radical views for a false sense of enlightenment.

>/r9k/ isn't popular
False

>tfw discussions on /gif/

I swear the funniest laughs and most interesting thoughts I've seen in 10 years on Veeky Forums all come from that board.

Porn and gore is an amazing filter for shitheads and a great uniter for discourse.

Because being a science doesn't work in the twenty first century, heck even the twentieth century.
Being a science used to mean being revered and respectable, it was a higher social class where academia was prized and held up to a higher standard.
Being a science used to be a recreational activity on par to practicing sports or refining skills in the fine arts, only for the very noble.
Nowadays when you think of a science you think autist climate change teet suckers and liberal cucks, shit just the other day my organic chem prof apologized for colouring male sex hormones as fucking blue and female as pink.

This is what our science has become boi.

Because only so many people get the urge to LARP as scientists at one time, and half of them go to Veeky Forums

>Can someone explain why /v/, /pol/, and /r9k/ are more popular than Veeky Forums?

Endless threads about flat earth, religion vs atheism, anti-evolution, race theory and global warming.

>/v/
Redditors and company
>/pol/
Veeky Forums has always attracted edgelords
>/r9k/
Veeky Forums has always attracted the basement trolls. It's also kind of fun to role play and watch spergs sperg out.

Legitimate scientists don't really browse this board that much, or show their specialise. This board is mostly undegrads and people that brag about being dumb.

Because of this, the board ends up being a shittier version of /x/ and /pol/ , with constant threads like "does PARANORMAL THING exist?" "What if flat earth?" "My science is better than yours!"

spbp

Because /v/ is about vidya, and /pol/ and /r9k/ are about being a kissless virgin autist.

Veeky Forums is about science, and since most people actually in stem don't generally spend that much time playing vidya and most certainly aren't shut in autists blaming the jews for their lack of success, it stands to reason that it would have less posters

Any retard can have a political opinion or be lonely. Understanding science takes some degree of brain activity.

yeah it seems like it. /pol/ has infected every board on this site. It's only a matter of time before it all gets overrun by redditors and people who just need to lurk moar.