I'm having a hard time identifying with other boards

I was just visiting the Overchan, looking through boards.

As I browse through the massive list of shitty chans it has become apparent to me that I have a hard time posting on sites that aren't 99.

I guess our beloved 99 has too much of a forum feel, too civilized to compare to other chans.  I don't think I clicked on one chan that didn't have some dumbass board like /lolcats/ or /cancer/.  I find that silly.  I don't think I've even had the urge to make a stupid post since I left sites like that behind.  Sites like those typically don't have very large userbases though, so its hard to compare them to bigger sites like 4chan (which has a whole different set of problems).  4chan is actually better than most of these smaller chans due to the fact that they receive many bad posts since people are just trying to get them started, however they don't realize that shitty posts don't really help. 

Nevermind, this is a wall of text.  

I might as well be a mod, they take orders from me anyways

Wait, what website was I at again?

I hate seeing this thread, and I always forget about the hide thread button. I don't understand why no one locked this thread. This topic does have potential for discussion, but the way it was delivered is what gets my goat.

ZZZZZZ

This is a bit off subject, and a wall of text.  Lately I haven't been going on any chan a whole lot.  Maybe I'm just bored with them.  Oh man, House is on and its the episode with the kid that has penis AND vagina, they've had promos on for that all week.  Anyways, 99chan's 500 boards seem to be getting shittier, or maybe its just me.  I started writing a article or whatever you would call it on 'Imageboards in Western Nations', or something like that, but I haven't touched it in about a week.  Anhh, I have a lot of stuff to do in the next 8 or so months, graduating highschool and the transitions included in that (into college) are a fucking ride.  That could be part of the reason I've grown so disenfranchised with the chan community in the past few weeks.  If this is choppy it's because I've been watching House.  

tl;dr

Put it at the begining of your ramble, if not in the subject line.  That way I won't have to read to the end of a post to realize there is a description.

Underage B&

Well, at least it isn't on 99chan anyways.  I know it is on 4chan sometimes, I know of someone who was banned from there /b/ board for it (and consequently fashion, which was the main board they posted on).  Other than that I don't know of anyone who's ever been banned for it.  I can't stand when someone posts, even if they're 16 or 17, and then some moron out of the blue goes HEHEHHGHHURRRRR UNDERAGE B&!

A good percentage of posters are probably underaged anyways.  Maybe that's part of why people like to call them out on it.  Is it fun to try and identify underage posters?

In the end it doesn't really matter if they're underage or not, as long as the contribution to the conversation isn't something fucking retarded.  I guess part of the fear that people might have is that if the userbase becomes younger the conversation might start to loose quality.  People who fit into this category seem to range from 14 or younger up to 17.

We can see this on websites like Rotteneggs.com, posts become mostly about angsty things like anarchy, bomb making, or things you could set on fire.

Where did underage b& ever come from anyways?  Must have been the shown age requirement on some of the 4chan boards.

A new board briefly appears

And that board was /incognito/.  It's still there, but its hidden now (I think).

A sticky reads as follows:

1. All posts on this board are Anonymous. 
2. No ip addresses are logged (meaning you can't be banned). 
3. There are no rules apart from nothing illegal (CP etc) 
4. This is not /b/. 
5. This board has nothing to do with 'Anonymous'. 
6. Don't abuse this board.

This board is a mix of crappy 4chan /b/ style posts and OK posts.  This is basically where people from 4chan end up talking about 4chan.

One poster described it as a /r9k/ of 99chan.  Now I have been to Robot9000, but only to see what it was.  I left 4chan a few months before the board was created.  It seems to be a bunch of posts mostly on religion and relationships and misc content.  /incognito/ is only like /r9k/ in that its a second board created which was intended to be popular (I say this becuase for a night /incognito/ had its own subcatagory in the page directory at the top).  Also it helps that /r9k/ has that rule where if something was posted that you try to post you're banned from posting for longer and longer periods.

This is an important thread:

After a brief browse of the content here I now see the true purpose of this board and the end result of such a social experiment. I'm sure most of you can now appreciate the 'kill with fire' approach the Mods have taken to weak/cancerous content on all other boards. Without any objective purpose to the board it did indeed become /b/. This fact combined with the lack of Moderation has lead to an emulation effect of 4chan /b/. Proving once again the general populous (99chan user base) cannot exist in a state of control without some authoritarian presence; and the impending fear of persecution. 

Another key factor I have established from the evidence available on this board is the definite requirement for some degree of self-governance. This should be a pre-requisite before any project on this scale will succeed. Some basic understanding by the 'old-er' more experienced users that they control the content is required; 'new-er' users should look for guidance from the said people. 

A future hypothesis I propose to the Mods is maybe the prospect of removing moderation from one of the more intellectual boards (albeit temporarily), in order to test the effects of authoritarian rule over a more intellectual cohort. 

Final proposition - if self-governance on a board could be established; why not create a board with a user based voting ban/delete system? (minus ToS/illegal content which the Mods would have to undoubtedly remove) 

Pic related; they're my sentiments on the issue at hand.
Expand all images>> Anonymous 09/01/29(Thu)05:23 No. 683 
>>679 

Finnaly some intelligence on this board, you have some interesting ideas.I don't agree with the removal of Mods from intellectual boards. Only because they are my safe-haven from mass faggotry, but still... it makes sense. I remember another user in a thread sometimes ago was explaining similar things. 

Anon
>> Anonymous 09/01/29(Thu)06:40 No. 693 
>>679 
>it did indeed become /b/ 
Says you. Maybe your feeble mind simply hasn't wrapped around the fact that results are still inconclusive and you have no idea what /incognito/ is or what it will become. 

>blah blah blah 99chan user base 
The 99chan user base is dynamic, so even if what you said about the current user base were true, your point wouldn't be worth much in a week. 

>requirement for some degree of self-governance 
Agreed. 

In conclusion, this thread is already an example of a difference between /b/ and /incognito/ because you can post an intelligent criticism of the workings of the moderators without fear of being arbitrarily banned. I don't think /tttm/ even has that.
>> Anonymous 09/01/29(Thu)07:19 No. 696 
are you for or against moderation, I can't even tell. 

votebans I think would go particularly badly on this chan because much of the userbase has adapted to the overmoderation here (you can't deny it, otherwise this board would not exist) by calling for bans due to the slightest infraction against their taste. 

Also emulating 4chan /b/ is not necessarily a bad thing. It would likely work much better here because, well, we aren't fags. The self governance you talk about was a key factor in what made old 4chan 'good', subjective though the term certainly is. 

>>683 
>finnaly some intelligence 

a post signature on a chan, but specifically on this board, and especially the one used is the height of redundancy. I don't think I could actually come up with a better example of the word.
>> Anonymous 09/01/29(Thu)07:20 No. 697 
if you are against a board with no moderation, dont post here. its really that simple.
>> Anonymous 09/01/29(Thu)07:23 No. 699 
Shut up Orochimaru. Go feel up on your Kayuga's and Uchihas
>> Anonymous 09/01/29(Thu)09:29 No. 739 
>>699 
"You wanna play with my trouser snake?"
>> Anonymous 09/01/29(Thu)09:33 No. 741 
>>693 
Trolls will most definitely turn this board into 4chan, just to piss the rest of the userbase off.
>> Anonymous 09/01/29(Thu)09:54 No. 755 
>>739 

"My special swirling, red, and irritated eyes allows me to SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE."
>> Anonymous 09/01/29(Thu)09:59 No. 759 
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>>741 

Yeah, but then we won't have to deal with it elsewhere. if /incognito/ turns into some 4chan shitfest, so be it. 

You don't have to visit this particular board when it does.
>> Anonymous 09/01/29(Thu)10:46 No. 778 
This is a worthwhile experiment. The mods run this place like it's North Korea. Nice to be able to get away from mod Nazis on this board. 

As for it becoming like 4chan's /b/, well it might, but even then it will be superior because at least threads will last longer than 5 minutes.
>> Anonymous 09/01/29(Thu)10:57 No. 789 
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OP here, 

After reading through some of the responses it seems several of you seem to have had some difficulty in distinguishing whether or not I support Moderation. The reason why you cannot sense the bias is because I have attempted to write the article in a scientifically unbiased manner. 

I only wished to present an objective discussion of what I have seen thus far and propose some addition experimental ideas. I concede as this Anon stated so eloquently >>693, my conclusions are rather premature; this is not the end point of the social experiment (after all the board is only 2 days old). However, in my defense I did not originally state my findings as absolute; they are only relative to the current state of affairs. 

Ergo, I extend a question to those who wish to participate in further discussion: 

"Ideally, where would you personally wish to see the direction of this board go? i.e. content, relevance in relation to the rest of 99chan, wider *chan scope etc." 

Pic unrelated.