How come Jow Forums is the only board on Jow Forums that doesn't pretend to be about the subject it's named for?

>How come Jow Forums is the only board on Jow Forums that doesn't pretend to be about the subject it's named for?
>Is advice the only thing people can't joke about
>Does this board stand as an example that "board culture" is a farce
Looking for advice on how Jow Forums controls itself and not how the control lets messages go forth(that's obviously forced memes)

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>>How come Jow Forums is the only board on Jow Forums that doesn't pretend to be about the subject it's named for?
Are you saying that Jow Forums is not about providing advice or that all other boards are just pretending and only Jow Forums serves its stated purpose? Sorry but your sentence is unclear to me.

The second, how 80% of all boards (except the dead ones that are actually designed around a hobby)just pretend to be about it's subject and create these forced personas for people to adopt and use restrictively upon each assigned area

is also legit

Hmmm, interesting question. I can theorize:
Many posters on those boards are prolific posters so they have an outsize influence on the "state of the board." Now combine that with the idea that many (most?) of those same people are not currently there with discussing a specific facet of the boards topic in mind. Instead, they go there to just kill time and socialize (shooting the shit around the water cooler, if you will). So, to those such posters, the board's toic just becomes a backdrop or set dressing for their conversations instead of the primary focus.

Meanwhile, when people come to Jow Forums its because they generally have a specific question (or at least problem) in mind and are lloking to tackle it straight on. Then they leave after. For example: No ones comes here to just talk about the concept of depression and how that affects the human condition, they come to discuss THEIR depression or that of their loved one.

Does that ring true at all?

Sort of, I understand the sociability and use of an area as a hangout; what throws me off is the "all freshmen have to act like this or we don't respond" aspect of it. Take Jow Forums for example; there's no subject of the board and being a "robot" isn't even a term from that board. The comment filter program in place that stops repetitive comments is supposed to be the only "robot" in place, yet it turns into an obscure, backwards joke about sexless needs and then that joke becomes the new filter standard for "what to respond to". Instead of a water cooler, it's more like trees filled with birds, trying to match the same chirp for no other reason than sameness that can't be used outside of that chorus. It would be odd if people got together and sang the same exact song, over and over, day after day in the same location. Religions don't even do this; there are multiple hymns in the Catholic faith. What's with the forced "same song and dance" groupthink?

>Take Jow Forums for example
I'd rather not. Can you provide another example? I've been here since '05 or '06 but I've never really visited Jow Forums much,

Sure; try Jow Forums, /tv/, /qa/, or /co/. They all suffer from the same symptoms and it kind of gives a little credit to that whole "if it's popular, it's Reddit" crap that still goes on

Please walk me through what your perceptions of /co/ or /tv/ are, like what you tried to do with Jow Forums.

Victims of the "nerd is cool" generations we're in. Both have become bastions for people who want to make sure only their currently board approved topics stay afloat and it leaves a whole ocean of good content from ever being looked at or discussed because it doesn't have enough image macros to support bumping

Oh well, that's kinda different. First off, not having enough image macros isn't really a concern, they are just a byproduct.

Anyways, as far as I see, all of that has to do with an obstacle society as a whole is trying to deal with currently, and not just Jow Forums boards. Our "world" is both larger than ever and smaller than ever before. More people by the second and every minute we find a new way to further negate the distances between them. As a super reductive example: There was a time long ago that you would be known as the guy with the fancy hat. You could live in your town and everyone would know you or at least know ABOUT you. Maybe you travel to the next town over and even some of those people would have heard stories about your fancy hat and the man who wore it. Nowadays, I can go type "man with fancy hat" into a search bar and get profiles of dozens of guys around me who have fancy hats (some even fancier than mine).

Give me a second here to sort out my thoughts for part 2.

So if it wasn't clear from my ramblings, what I am pointing at here is "identity," or more specifically the dilution of it in modern times.

So, what does that have to do with people's behaviors on an ANONYMOUS imageboard is the obvious question. Well, I'm sure you're smart enough to know that identity isn't just about where other people seeing you fitting in but where you yourself see "you" fitting into the grand scheme of things. That's even more apparent when you are anonymous and that's the only thing you can base your identity on. This at a time when people find it harder and harder to define themselves, is it any wonder they cling to any sense of culture or "belonging" that a board can offer?

In short, its just people horribly insecure with themselves (who would have thought people on Jow Forums would have socialization or confidence issues, huh?) and desperate for validation - insert thirsty man in desert analogy here.

So, looping it back around. People are fixated on elevating their chosen "currently board approved topics" to the top because it elevates THEM to the top (in their psyche). If legitimate discussion gets buried and ignored, so be it: emotions before reason.

But you can't base your identity on being anonymous; that's counterdefinitive to the word Anonymous. It is a wonder because "they aren't clinging". If you ask them, they swear they aren't at the same time that they proceed to act, and it doesn't make any sense. In the case of making yourself or a product(the board, in this case) known, it's beaten back by the same ingrained rules of "no one can claim this, nothing is attributed".
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It's something completely beyond validation; nothing you do here can honestly be fully pinned to you, which defeats validation. No one can be elevated if there's a constant understanding of "there's no one to elevate".
So much echoing of mainstream brainwash and that's it; it's more of a revenue for free advertising. The site as a whole used to be home for everything discussed under the table and now that understuff is cool, everyone who used this place honestly is gone and everyone else is just trying to mine whatever content pops up to possibly sell it or throw it in their YouTube video and act like it didn't come from here
>If identity was the cause, Jow Forums would have mandatory login usernames and passwords, even for freeposting

Jow Forums is good at night in north america

>But you can't base your identity on being anonymous; that's counterdefinitive to the word Anonymous.
I'm sorry I wasn't more clear about this. My mind runs faster than my fingers.
You're right that you can't base your outward-facing identity (what others think of you) on it, but you can within yourself associate with concepts or ideas (favorite colors, holidays, and sports teams are common and easy examples). So, in our example the people on these boards are participating in these "meme events" (for lack of a better phrase) because they can associate with it and thus have an identity.
>It is a wonder because "they aren't clinging". If you ask them, they swear they aren't at the same time that they proceed to act, and it doesn't make any sense.
In this case, I would disagree with their assessment. That might seem presumptive on my part, but its my working hypothesis.
>In the case of making yourself or a product(the board, in this case) known, it's beaten back by the same ingrained rules of "no one can claim this, nothing is attributed".
>It's something completely beyond validation; nothing you do here can honestly be fully pinned to you, which defeats validation. No one can be elevated if there's a constant understanding of "there's no one to elevate".
Once more, Identity has two parts: What others can pin to you and what you can pin to yourself. We are dealing with the latter in this case.

Jow Forums is a gud bord. If only people didn't get treated like the next possible serial killer for liking them

I understand completely what you're saying about taking in attributes from the outside to create an inner personality; what does that growing identity have to do with an area where growth of identity isn't allowed? It's like seeing people go into an airless room to "choke and hangout". The joke about baiting fish is backwards because all of those people, who are abandoning the growth of their identity by posting in a restrictive manner, are basically caught fish, talking to other dumb, caught fish in a bucket.
>I may have gotten caught, but uh..
Are you getting what I'm talking about? How can you, or anyone, pin something from here or to themselves if they can't continue in life with it? You remove it every time you go into public? That's just a mask, not a trait.

In the case of someone like Hulk Hogan, playing a character who isn't him; that makes sense. The character is defined. He's not allowed to break character, aka the 4th wall. When you're playing a lack of character(s), you can't say "oh, all of the none of not us are going to pretend to not pretend at being someone nobodies". Thats baby logic and babble

Dunno, all other boards are cancer
The game

I lost for the first time in over 5 years, thanks

>/a/ discusses anime
>/co/ discusses comics
>/tg/ discusses tabletops

Board culture comes from the relevancy of these topics

/tv/ has alot of board culture because there's plenty of elitists, trolls and idiots that often find things in tv related things to make fun of and then it gets morphed into baneposting and shit, its still techincally discussing television and movies.

>/tg/ discusses tabletops
I wish, /tg has been nose diving since the election with no signs of recovering

I think because a lot of those boards really discourage anyone new from posting, which is understandable when on boards like mu, we really don't need some one posting the same album we have seen a million times with attached "SO WHAT DOES MU THINK???", because we've had the discussion a billion times before. People should be directed to archives more for that type of thing. Instead they get bitter and promote a culture of "like x or you have shit taste" or "i like x so it's objectively good."
When they aren't saying anything new or interesting. So old posters are tired of talking the same things to death, and new posters have no idea on how to say anything interesting. I wish people would lurk more before posting instead of posting about something they are just starting to get into and then getting offended when people are telling them that their info is entry level and would have been posted by some other newfag if they quietly browsed for a week.

I lost the game. It's been a while. Every time this happens it also reminds of how I'm now in manual control of my breathing and blinking. Fuck.

It's like if some one went onto a star trek board and was spouting about how great the new movies are, when they haven't even seen the old shit, and haven't even read about how the old shit is worth checking out. It's just like "Jesus Christ dude. You do realize this is the exact same post everyone who is just starting to get into star trek makes"