There's an excellent example of someone not integrating smoothly into an imageboard community going on right now on Gurochan. If you can tolerate the images, take a look here:
http://img.gurochan.net/f/wakaba.html
and here:
http://img.gurochan.net/f/wakaba.html
The user named Cindy posted, I can only assume, without reading the rules or lurking to get a feel for the community. Now she and her lack of familiarity have become the target of malicious, but arguably well-intentioned teasing -- things like the classic "DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS" routine run on people who don't have a tripcode, which she completely didn't get, and people impersonating her, both with and without tripcodes.
What do you think of this?
Shit, I messed up the link. The second link should have gone to /g/, which is here:
Uh, I think it goes without saying, but these sites are NSFW. I neglected to mention this in my first post, and I apologize for that.
I always figured this type of behavior was limited to /b/ and similarly anon-centered boards. We shouldn't be harassing people that post content just because they're new!
I think it's hilarious.
>>4
But you have to understand -- Cindy is not the kind of person that gurochan really wants to have around.
Is it bad to try and encourage people to follow the rules by being rude and mean to them when they act out of line? Cindy acted out of line by posting in a way that labeled her as a social abnormalitiy in the Gurochan community, even though Gurochan has its own namefags and tripfags, just like any other imageboard.
I personally feel like people who try to be "an interesting individual" on anonymous message boards are annoying. I'm not sure why.
>>6
Having read her posting, she's not being harassed because she's violating the ideas/philosophy of BBS anonymity, but rather because she refuses to lurk moar, asks stupid questions, and doubleposts constantly.
What they should be responding with is GOOGLE, MOTHERFUCKER. DO YOU SPEAK IT?
In the end, she seems to have chosen to conform, or at least make it look like she's trying to conform.
>>9
Just takes time. Even the toughest Hungarian hymens can be broken.
This same thing happened on Gurochan two years ago, it's in the DQN archives. It ended with the admin stepping in and telling people to stop be all uppity about their names
Brief glance, but couldn't see any evidence of her posting.
Though wouldn't you think that a girl twisted enough to firstly find gurochan, and then want to integrate into the "exclusive" community would know a bit better?
You'd think, but somehow these rotten people slip into imageboard culture.
They try to be unique. They use smileys. Sometimes they even post useful things, which makes it even more difficult to retain the nice imageboard culture that we, or at least I, know and love. I can't quite pinpoint why their nonuniformity bothers me so much, but you can just tell that they stick out, and it's unpleasant on some level.
Am I the only one who feels like that?
>>13 Sometimes they even post useful things, which makes it even more difficult to retain the nice imageboard culture that we, or at least I, know and love.
And by that I didn't mean to imply that a good imageboard is one without useful posts; I meant that the fact that these people occasionally do something right makes it even more difficult to categorically label them as foul and wrong.
>>13
I was thinking she was either a troll or extremely dense (who somehow was savvy enough to find gurochan?).
I know how you feel though. They don't have the sense to lurk more before posting. They should just stay in their avatar forums and enjoy their ego-stroking.
I thought she had actually settled down, but apparently she flipped the fuck out and decided to "get back" at Gurochan by deleting her posts.
What a failure.
I don't mind conformity so long as it's not conforming in opinions or interests
Why shouldn't people use names/tripcodes?
Anonymity != quality, identity != trash posting
Just because you can be Anonymous, doesn't mean you should
> gurochan
> these rotten people
what
And this is why everyone hates small communities.
It creates a toxic, cult-like atmosphere where non-conformity is punished. You're smothering people and crushing out their joy.