I mostly made threads about the different games I would be running, sometimes complaining about and sometimes praising my GM/players, but I was also interested in the culture that was starting to form.

On /tg/, things had really settled into themselves. The sup/tg/ archive started to accept threads for archival at the end of Oct 2007, and some of my threads ended up getting archived. Most didn't, because the vast majority of all threads weren't archived, and I never really made any threads that were really worthwhile, even the ones that were archived.

Here's a few from that time. I was a fair bit younger then, and I can't say I'm too proud of them.

>Players will be players
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/1490328/

>10 tips
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/2811761/

>Playing Longer Lived Races
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3005220/

After all this came a bit of a lull period, where I spent little posting on /tg/, as I was more focused on the games themselves. I tried a lot of different games during this period, and also tried a lot of different experiments within those games. I also went to several LARPs, where I learned a fair bit. However, boredom would always bring me back to /tg/.

Around the time of Rubyquest, /tg/ changed dramatically. The speed of posting increased, as more and more people arrived, and the number of archived threads also rose. Following Rubyquest was a number of others, each of them expanding the definition of a quest.

I kept making threads. some were based on my own experiences, a few were told to me by friends, and there was some fabrication as well. All the threads I made were purely to alleviate my boredom. Here's a few examples.


>Better Learning through Cooperative Story Crafting I and II
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3392221/
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3426987/

>A Kill 'em All Game
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3317370/

>Photoshopping Ugly D&D Group
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/4418034/
This was particularly interesting, because I tried my hand at making up a story on the spot, which wasn't very easy for me at first. I started with the opening post, and then made several alternate conclusions, and a few people also ended up joining in on the brain-jamming.

>Doobie Discussion Thread
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3893215/
This was a pure and simple reaction to the odd Sergal fad that was being spammed during this time, which continued for months afterwards but eventually died out.

>Big Sword Enthusiast Monthly
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/4607536/

Everything eventually lead to this thread
>The adventures of the Fatguy outcast
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/4788447/
Which was my first attempt at really writefagging. It was hasty and sloppy, and basically best forgotten.

>Back then, it was a brand new board
/tg/'s far older than 3 years, bro.

When 4e came out, D&D changed for me, even though I had mostly been playing my homebrew game. /tg/ also changed, since D&D became a battleground topic, with every discussion becoming an argument over the editions.

It was around this time that I also started drawfagging. I'm not particularly skilled, but I did have a tablet and some time, so I went ahead and started making threads. It was odd, because unlike writing (which can be done anonymously), drawing can't really be done without people figuring out who you are.

Most of my drawthreads are gone from the archives, since it's sup/tg/'s policy to not keep drawthreads, but that's all well and good, because I could maybe do 5-6 drawings for each thread, which isn't a whole lot.

At some point, I decided to draw an elf girl.

That's really it. I drew the elf girl, and I made her hair have these two little strands that curled upwards. When I finished the doodle, instead of stopping, I just kept going. From there, I ended up making a comic, for probably no reason then I felt like it at the moment. I then made more and more comics featuring this elf girl, and I ended up not only recieving the moniker "Ribbonfag" but I started to get banned as well.

For some reason, Ribbon pissed some people off. Yes, they were bad comics. Really, really bad. It was mostly me just fiddling around with my tablet out of boredom, and I must have rubbed one of the moderators the wrong way because I got banned when I tried to post a new comic. After the ban expired I tried again, and boom, another ban.

This became predictable, but I didn't see anything wrong with what I was doing, and whatever grudge the person might have against me I felt that ignoring the moderator would be probably the best line of action. Sadly, they didn't feel like they could just ignore me.

In any case, Ribbon is cute and harmless.

I also tried my hand at a few pseudo-quests around this time. They were simple and stupid, but I enjoyed them, because something about a little girl troll that eats sage and grows up if you give her more sage appeals to me for reasons I will never understand.

Time continued to pass. Magic started to become more popular on /tg/, and I found myself replying to more and more of them. 40k had a fixation on "characters" with Cultist-chan leading an increasing number of other -chans. There were now hundreds of quests, with 20-30 being run each week, with some continuing for months.

I decided to try something. I started writing a story, one I expected to be about 5-6 posts, but it didn't stop. I just kept writing, and I realized that I had made an error.

>Insanely slow and long horror story
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/8108689/

By the time I had finished, the thread had gotten to over 500 posts, and continued to over 600, which was rather impressive when you realize that the thread limit hadn't been expanded, and was still a measely 100 posts before autosage began.

I also tried the same story, but proceeding from a different direction.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/8195085/
It was mostly ignored.

I kept trying, thinking that a 600 post thread was a success, and that all others were failures. Of course, this was juvenile thinking, but I guess I still am rather juvenile. In any case, there were a lot of failures.

>D&D taught me something
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/8269156/

>Crazy 8
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/8506074/

>I received from a giant a sword that was forged
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/9283100/
In truth, I really enjoyed this thread, though I can't take credit for more than the original post and a few others.

>Insane Grandfather's Tests
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/9887349/
This was a return to just writing without foreseeing the end, and the major spin was that it had absolutely nothing to do with /tg/ beyond the loosest definition of a game. I realized that it still somehow managed to fit the audience, though I can't really call it a success.

Then, I managed to strike post gold once again.
>Being a Loser, How to
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/10853966/
This is a story I really regret that I hadn't stopped to work up a proper finish before I began it. Even so, it really managed to amaze me, because it managed to reach 850+ posts. This is in part because the post cap was increased to 250 before it started to autosage, though 600 posts after autosage is still pretty amazing.

Overall though, I was rather disappointed with myself. In an attempt to do better, I began to tell a story based on my experiences at a LARP. While writing it, my harddrive ended up failing, and I lost everything. The only things that survived were what were archived, which means I lost most of the stories I had written and a fair amount of the art I had drawfagged for people. This wasn't that bad of a loss, except for the LARP story which I had not yet finished.

Thankfully, the first part had been archived, allowing me to finish it. With my computer broken (and having nothing else to do), I borrowed my uncle's laptop and wrote for an entire day, sun up to sun down.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/11295346/

I felt like it was a complete story, and was satisfied. I was glad that people enjoyed it, and I saw it rise in the sup/tg/ rankings. Slowly at first, until it went high enough for me to decide it warranted a sequel.

>Unofficial Sequel
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/11513921/

Unlike it's predecessor, I didn't base the Unofficial Sequel on my actual LARP experiences, and instead just went wild and crazy. I thought it was enjoyable as a farce, but it was clear that the people who were expecting a proper sequel were disappointed.

>>14434910

reported for metathread.


Nah I'm just fucking with you.

>>14434936
oh my GOD YOU WROTE THE SAGA OF NEPHEM

Times had gotten rough for /tg/. Spam was everywhere, and the same troll threads would be made every day. Thankfully, captcha came and cut down the spam, and some new policy on moderation cut out the troll threads.

I started to get banned again.

Experimental threads are experimental, but they also tend to be controversial. Anyone who started a thread that could possibly offend people that got easily offended would be attacked by sagefags, and the moderators would typically solve the problem by banning the person who started the thread and deleting it. This meant that I got banned a lot for pissing people off, which I seem to have a natural knack for. But, my struggles with getting banned for posting Ribbon seemed to have paid off, since I didn't let these bannings dampen my spirits.

When I wanted to test /tg/'s perceptions of fantasy races, I made a thread of 8 portraits. When those 8 became 16, I made another thread, and got banned. So, I kept going, all the way to 100, because I had questions to ask and information to gather, and getting temporarily banned was only for a few days at most, and even if the thread got deleted it would be preserved on easymodo.

I made a few threads, but I spent more time replying to threads, bumping up the ones that interested me, in order to stay "beneath the radar." Even so, as the mods have a way of checking the IP address of any post, a few bans still ended up being slapped upon me, partly, I believe, because one of the moderators still has a grudge against me and still finds the time to ban me on the now rare occasions that I drawfag.

One thread in particular interested me. Someone had screencapped my LARP story, in 7 enormous pictures. Another person read the story in the morning, and was excited to find out that there was a sequel. He posted that he had waited all day to read the continuation in the evening, and then was severely disappointed to find out it had very little to do with the original, either in style or subject matter.

I felt bad. I felt like I had ruined that person's whole day. So, I did what I felt I had to do.

I started writing.

At some point, I realized I had made a mistake. I write everything in notepad (it's what I'm writing in right now), which means I can't really judge length too well. It wasn't until I pasted what I had written so far into Word and discovered it was 40 pages that I realized it was too long, much too long for something that could be posted on /tg/. But the story was not finished, and I knew just how disappointing that was. So, I kept going, and going, until it went over 80 pages, nearly triple the length of the original story.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/13752895/

Having finished, I felt like it was time for more exploration and experimentation. And, of course, more bannings. Finally, it seems that the moderator has grown tired of dealing with my tongue-in-cheek threads and lack of "proper" conduct, so I received a nice, permanent ban.

Thinking that it was a good time to hang up my hat, I decided that a final thread wouldn't be too bad, since even a prisoner gets a last phone call. So, here's my story of my adventures within /tg/, and I hope that you can find the time to share YOUR story.

>>14434972
>Anyone who started a thread that could possibly offend people that got easily offended would be attacked by sagefags, and the moderators would typically solve the problem by banning the person who started the thread and deleting it.

So basically, you're in the same boat as Touhoufag.

Why does this one mod have such an enormous grudge against young girls drawn in anime style?

I pyo you ribbonfag <3

>>14434972
>When I wanted to test /tg/'s perceptions of fantasy races, I made a thread of 8 portraits. When those 8 became 16, I made another thread, and got banned. So, I kept going, all the way to 100, because I had questions to ask and information to gather, and getting temporarily banned was only for a few days at most, and even if the thread got deleted it would be preserved on easymodo.
Dude, that ban was fucking justifying. Those things were being spammed, day in, day out.

Dude, if you didn't start posting here till 08 , you have no idea what /tg/ was like as a new board.
you're actually part of the cancer, and don't even know it. poor simple minded fool.

>>14434999
No, they weren't. There would be one active thread that would last a few days. Then *POMF* there'd be a new pic with more portraits.

Popular threads on the front page != Spam

>>14435016
And Elf Slave Wat Do is just a popular thread, not spam.

And "elves = blacks/asian/whatever women" are popular threads, not spam.

So wait. You're saying you started Noh, the Crazy 8 thing, and that fucking awesome LARP story? Damn, Ribbonfag, you're cooler than I thought you were.

>>14434977
You sir are possibly one the great treasures on /TG/
no on 4chan, regardless of the perma ban please keep dodging it and coming back to post, we need you!

>>14435027
The difference has been explained in posts you responded to. Stop being intentionally retarded.

>>14435027
Your two examples are thinly veiled porn dump threads intended to rile up the counter trolls and/or get porn dumped. Not hte same.

>>14434900
I was counting from several months into 2007 (Early 2011-late 2007= 3 years+change was my math), except that math is very, very wrong, now that I look at it.

I'm bad at math.

Is this a suicide note?
Don't do it ribbonfag!

>>14435100
looks more like a one last hurrah before never coming back here due to the bullshit permaban.

>>14434868
I would love to belive you ribbonfag unfortunetly that's just rubbing my skeptism the wrong way
eitherway if you're telling the truth you are a gem of /tg/ if you aren't...well then your proably just an attention whoring faggot.
also MAKE SOME MORE FUCKING COMICS i don't give a shit if you're banned

>>Implying permabans mean Jackshit
Fuck that, if you know anything no mod can stop you

>>14435127
Fucking THIS

>>14435142
>Wicked Star getting his entire range banned for porn then commiting suicide with drugs.
>Janitor trolling the asspie Touhoufag into making the same thread 32 times to get his range banned as well.

>>14435161
Well, he didn't make the thread 32 times.

Touhoufag posted a thread about D&D.
It got deleted because "NYYYEEEEEGGGGGHHHH I HATE TOUHOU!"
He reposted, because it's a thread about D&D, goddamn.
It got deleted.
He reposted, because it's a thread about D&D, goddamn, why is it being deleted?

Janitor whines to the mod, mod (who doesn't know anything about /tg/ or D&D) comes in and sees everything out of context, mod bans Touhoufag.

>>14435192
Official word from the mods was over 400 times

Touhou said himself 3 times total, with anon redoing it 3 or 4 times in his stead.

I took a shot in the dark to find a medium that favors neitehr side.

>>14435224
>Touhou said himself 3 times total

Really?

When was this?

If you're telling the truth, that's quite a tale. I'm trying to decide what do - if this is true, then the mod's probably gone too far. But it's just as likely to be pure bullshit, probably as a manipulative attempt to get us to email moot.

Decisions, decisions.

Oh, what has this thread done to me.
It touched me in a way.
I don't even have a reaction image suitable.

A sad day if you're actually leaving us, Ribbonfag, you've been big part of this board since, whenever it's been.
But I guess all things come to an end.

So was there ever any truth to that 8 of hate thing or was that just bullshit?

I've always leaned torward the latter but an official confirmation would be nice.

If indeed you are the real Ribbonfag, and if you truly did all these things you said you have done. I will mourn your passing and pray that defiance fills your shell with vengeance and you will return to us.

We could always use some PROMOTIONS on the way out, it'd be a fitting way to go to at least deserve the ban.

>>14435387
Or he could maybe get it appealed. I plan to email moot - if this actually is ribbonfag (and he's done any of the other shit he claims to), he didn't deserve a ban.

>Thinking that it was a good time to hang up my hat

nothing of value was lost

I'm almost certain /tg/ has been here longer than 3 years, which I'm fairly certain I was a part of for at least that long -and when I started frequenting this place Iron Shrine Maiden was becoming more and more distant.

Anyway, sorry to see you go and thanks for the contributions you've made to the board. Maybe one of these days you'll come back, and maybe you just need a break. Whatever the case, good luck to you.

>>14435356
It's 93% bullshit.

If your claims to be Ribbonfag and the LARPwriter are both indeed true, you would be certainly be missed by this one.

However, I'm sure you understand the great skepticism of everyone here in regards to your tale.

Even if this is Ribbonfag, I do commend them for writing this up.

>>14435541
*isn't

Yeah, this is pretty damn impossible to trust. I mean, if one is a hell of a teller of tales, it's pretty easy to assume this is...yet another one, and may not be anywhere near the truth.

It actually gets me thinking about my OWN contributions to /tg/, though. Mostly, it is very little. I lurk, i post sometimes, I rarely make threads that get anywhere. Oddly, the only thread of mine in the archives is the "let's start a magical girl game" one that got me started with a group over IRC and began my adventures as a crappy GM who never ran anything before.

I'm okay at telling stories, in a bit of a rambling sort of way that gives lots of fun detail and tends to eat my posts because they're too long. Don't have any stories to tell ,beyond my old CTech game, because that shit was somehow memorable as all hell.

I'm almost tempted to start a thread and regale the board with tales of my current campaign, which, true to form, is a spiritual successor to the one which started it all, and thus magical girls and assorted stupidity.

>>14435294
>>14435416
Overall, it's not too big of a deal, and its timing seemed to coincide with my feelings of it being a time to move on.

I had a great experience with this board, but nothing lasts forever. And, I'm much more interested in hearing about other people's "journeys" through /tg/.

>>14435518
>However, I'm sure you understand the great skepticism of everyone here in regards to your tale.
I actually don't understand the skepticism.

>>14435590
Lurking is an important part of /tg/. Most people overlook that, and those people are really the ones who ought to lurk moar.

Also, if you're tempted to start a thread, start one. What's the worst that could happen?

>>14435679
Just because someone claims something does not mean it is true. Particularly on 4chan.

>>14435726
But on /tg/?
With this much effort put into it?

>>14435726
This is reasonable.

> I actually don't understand the skepticism.
> on an Anonymous posting board.
... right...

As for me, I've only 2 real "accomplishments" of note; first, I started The thread that birthed Grendel. Just a recounting of how my D&D players murdered a future big-bad in a less-than-pretty way, asking for other /tg/ stories. The second involved an attempt to make a druid who could blizzard himself to the moon. I added a few feats and many, many calculations that put us over the highest modern skyscraper in 1 day.

Good times.

>>14435746
I would not be surprised if fully half of the posts in here were one person. Not at all.

>>14434868
The Hater 8 thing was one guy who was certain he had identified 8 unique anons he decided to hate for perceived sleights against him. /tg/ took the paranoid's flakey concept and turned it into something cool, a nice moral tale about the different troll types and their attempts to wreck any social forum.

>>14435746
Particularly on /tg/. We enjoy stories. We have storytelling experience. I'd be even less inclined to take things posted here as fact.

As for the effort, it's more than your average troll thread would get, no doubt about that, but the writer's dedication proves nothing.

>>14435718
Lurking is fun. And hell, why post if you've got nothing to say, right? ...actually, on that note, i kind of regret some of my active trolling against Lace/Edward, but man, fuck that guy. On the plus side, he was amusingly quick to drop names (including my own) on anonymous posters, most of whom were not me. I never did figure that one out.

And yeah, might as well make a thread. Madoka means magical girls are a popular thing on here, again.

>>14435679
>I actually don't understand the skepticism.

No? Well, I guess I can try to explain it then.

On a board where providing yourself a name is totally optional for every post, including the security of your name, it is easy to be Anonymous and say whatever you like(regardless of truth or lie) without risk of ridicule. A place where everyone wears the same mask, it's easy to say you're that certain Anon under your mask, and just as easy to take credit for actions of an Anon.

If you had a title you could truly call your own and were consistent with it, it would be easier to associate your tale to be nonfictional.

There are advantages and disadvantages between Anonymity and Identity in a place like this, and consistency in facts is not one of Anonymity's strong-points.

>>14435749
YOu know that the guy that wrote that is also the guy behind Golem Quest, right?

>>14435820
What ever happen to that guy? Edward/Lace I mean. He just sorta... vanished sometime. Can't even put my finger on when...

>>14435779
The "Eight people I hate" thread was inspired because I got the notion that I was absolutely certain that there was an anonymous poster who wouldn't leave me alone. Every time I made a thread at a particular time of day, I'd get almost the exact same sage post within seconds of the thread being made.

When I realized how crazy it was for me to even bother to try and figure out whether it's the same person, I thought it would be interesting if someone DID manage to find out, and not just one person, but eight people.

Thankfully, /tg/ took it and ran with it.

>>14435839
No, I didn't actually. I don't participate in quests, myself, but I don't mind them being on the board.

>>14435880
You it was you, and you were faking that meta-thread? I am glad something good came of it, but at the time I had no respect for the original poster since I thought it was sincere.

>I am the op

>I invented all the memes on 4chan

>My face

>>14435880
I wonder how hard it would be to write a script that would refresh the front page every [interval], search for keywords, and then alert the user upon a successful search.

Could you please post your IAM/MSN/YIM or email? Even a throwaway one? I'd LOVE to contact you.

>>14435904
Yeah, but didn't Touhoufag basically prove him correct, in a sense? That same sagefaggotry, the repetitive, predictable posting style and argument cycle, ALWAYS posting immediately, and if Touhoufag posted at an odd time, nothing until his usual late-night time, and suddenly the thread exploding to sages? It was... uncanny.

>>14435970
That thing about guys who spend every available moment on 4chan, immediately flying into a rage at seeing something they don't like, and trolling or sagebombing it? Those people actually exist. They always have. That's not a surprise, right?

>>14435465
It was...04-06? I can't remember exactly. I just remember seeing the Warhammer/Battletech threads disappearing from /m/ and /k/ one day...and then seeing we have a /tg/ board.

But yeah, touhou/excessive drawfagging was the first cancer on /tg/

>>14435934
I wonder who would be sad and pathetic enough to take even that minimal effort, but then dedicate hours upon hours of using it to harrass someone(s) on /tg/.

>>14436004
Touhoufag was a scholar and a gentleman, while the drawfags are/were a key component of the /tg/ biome. /tg/ got shit done and the drawfags immortalized it in digital ink.

Also they drew us smut, which was fine too.

>>14435957
People on /tg/ occasionally contacted me through my deviantart.
http://redlife.deviantart.com/

>>14435828
>>14435749
I understand that everything I've ever done is anonymous, but it's not like there's a line of people who'd want to be associated with what I've done.

If people are doubting that I've done all I've said in this thread, then they should probably read a few of them and discover that most people would be ashamed to take credit for this stuff.

If you're being truthful, OP, then kudos to you. And thanks for sharing; you're one of the people who've made /tg/ great. Loved that story back when I first read it, and it's still good.

>>14436008
An asshole, obviously.

Not to derail the thread or anything, but it seems like this thread would have good people to answer my question.

What's been going on in /tg/ lately? I haven't been here much in the past 1-3 months, and I'd like to know if there have been any good stories/ideas/project/etc that I probably missed.

I don't get the skepticism. This is a pretty reasonable claim.

Anyway. I do hope you won't leave us permanently Ribbonfag. If you do choose to abandon /tg/ due to faggy moderation, tgchan could well be to your tastes, it's also very oriented towards storytelling and you'd fit in well.
But I'd like it if your contributions to /tg/ continued.

>my tale of nobody-gives-a-fuck

if you want recognition or people to believe you then you ought to have done all this on a blog. Nobody gives half of two shits WHERE these things came from, and there is no proof they came from you in the first place. Go nurse your wounded ego elsewhere.

>>14436065
Nothing hugely exciting. Over-moderation tends to quash creativity.

You gotta love April 1st...

>>14436089
It's march 31 for a fair while still here.

>>14436089
It was March 31 when this thread started...
..but yeah, terrible timing on my part.

Or is that excellent timing? I don't even know anymore.

>>14436065
I think it's been getting better, although I think the overall quality went down since all I see are quest threads being archived.

Shame you don't have an instant messengar or skype. Maybe you should get on suptg.

But you could stick around. Just avoid shit that'd get you banned (lots of drawfagging, 'specially smut)

>>14436126
If Greenmarine can avoid being banned 24/7/365, then so can you!

>>14435866
Honestly? I have NO fucking clue. Maybe he finally decided to post anonymously again. maybe he left 4chan behind. Maybe he died. I'd kind of like to know whatever happened to the guy myself. Because as much as I dislike him, it's weird to not know what happened to someone one used to know.

>>14436065
Nothing great. Catfight Tactics and Car Lesbians have been kind of big lately.

>>14435779
>>14435880
I remember that thread! Why didn't /tg/ expand on it? A setting run by the Crazy Eight sounds like it has potential.

Boomer, how's the Zelda coming? Love what's been put up so far...

>>14436131
Greenmarine follows all rules. He probably gets bans anyway from mods that just dislike him for whatever reason, but that shouldn't be enough to keep him off all the time.

>Ribbonfag is LARPfag
>Horee sheet

So, wait... does this mean the "real" sequel to Nephem's tale never really happened?
>pic related

>>14436089

Is possible.

>>14436131
No ribbon fag, but other former drawfag here. After getting banned umpteen times, I gotta wonder, why do I even bother trying to contribute to /tg/ when I could do a webcomic and at least enjoy listening to the people who hate me for being a talentless hack without having to worry about whether the administration's manginas are bleeding this week or not.

>>14436136
If he's gone Anon, he isn't making nearly as many transexual paranormal deviants, as I haven't seen any lately. 'course, Janitor/Mod hate Touhoufag, Edward hated Touhoufag... maybe I'm thinking too much.

Anon is anon. And that is that.

>>14436136
I think he posts anon. He posted a few months back when provoked. He goes on another IRC channel since him and his friends got harassed off the suptg IRC.

Hey OP what was your permaban message?

I started reading this thread and was like "pffft" but then when I realized it was Ribbonfag there was something of an immediate reversal and so continued reading the story, enraptured.

Regardless, I'm currently conducting a formal research project on /tg/, and on the topic of users, Ribbonfag is high on the list. This thread if true, serves as evidence to solidify it.

Regardless, I'm on a tangent. I don't know if OP is still around to see all this, but I should like to hope he's not serious in leaving. It's be a shame to add Ribbonfag to the section of honorable mention rather than usual suspects.

>>14436166
Because you love us? You're part of what makes /tg/ awesome?

>>14436184
>harassed off the suptg IRC

How the fuck did he pull that off? It usually seems civil enough, even to the assholes who're more or less universally disliked.

>>14436205
>I started reading this thread and was like "pffft" but then when I realized it was Ribbonfag there was something of an immediate reversal and so continued reading the story, enraptured.
Heh, I did something similar.

>>14436212
Piss off Purple (surprisingly easy to do).

>>14434927
>Crazy 8
>Insanely slow and long horror story
>Ribbon

I loved that shit, OP. I dunno if you're really responsible for it or not, but if you are, you're awesome

>>14436237

I am of course aware of potential skepticism, hence why I'll be studying this thread for a bit before concluding anything.

This is simply my initial analysis, prone to alteration.

>>14436162
The order and timing was different and a few scenes were added for pacing and closure, and a lot of the boring stuff was omitted. The sequel didn't even all happen in one event, and it went nowhere nearly as smoothly as the story describes.

In fact, there's probably enough material for a third part to the story, but it would probably need some pretty liberal changes to make it a solid story.

>>14436269
> surprisingly

Not to anyone who knows Purple. The man's a wee bit bitter.

Maybe we should appeal to Mighty Moot?

Or maybe this is a bad april fools joke?
Shame on you OP.

I'm not going to sage you just on the off chance that you are sincere.

Lace goes on rizon, if that's any indication.

>>14436166
It kinda depends on your interests/priorities as an artist, but judging from those who I've talked to a good amount of drawfags come here because they love to draw but aren't so great at coming up with ideas on their own to draw. It's different than taking requests on a standard forum or dA in that Anon does not have to worry about ruining their reputation for trying to request something the artist might enjoy drawing but don't have to deal with others think that their request was shit and have that on their reputation. Another thing is that /tg/ tends to have a considerably wide demographic when it comes to requests, and people seem to be more thankful here too than compared to some other forum or art-site.

Granted, I may be over-analyzing the whole thing, so take it as you will.

>>14436269
-I'm guessing this is someone else who goes by "Purple."

>>14436371
What rule does he think you broke? Any idea?

I'm fairly new to /tg/, lurking for maybe a year at most. And even though this is probably an april fool's joke I'd just like I'll be sad to see you go Ribbonfag, you were part of what made this place great to me when I first started coming here, pouring through 1d4chan and suptg, reading about Noh and Ribbon and old memes got me interested in tapletop games in the first place. I can't pretend to have been a part of the board back in the day but I'm still sad to see how it's changing.

I haven't the slightest if you're still online, Ribbonfag.

One day, I'll make a long-winded thread about several of my actions on /tg/, from jumpstarting Battletech's presence with the first Battletech memes, to my old Battletech Battle Reports, to making the two /tg/ surveys, to creating record sheets for using Imperial Guard in Battletech...

But tonight is not that night.

That said, I've always appreciated your Ribbon/Cestree Comics, and hope that you don't let the mods break your spirit in your making those. I still read them on DA, when they become available.

>>14436371

>>14436382
PurpleXVI, probably.

But really. Just don't shitpost/troll or try to offend anyone. No LOL WHAT IF ELF WANTED SEX. Keep down on drawfagging/smut. It's simple.

Ribbonfag leaving?

And so we witness the passing of another of /tg/'s old guard, laid to rest by changing times and new rules.

*sigh* someone get out the list, another name needs adding.

Man, this is bullshit. Let's all email moot on this one.

>>14436442

I'm for this.

Ribbonfag, where are you going? Will you go to tgchan? Or are you just swearing off this sort of thing altogether?

>>14436442
moot doesn't give half a rat's ass about anything on 4chan anymore. It would just get thrown out as quick as everything else.

>>14436432
>>Just don't shitpost/troll or try to offend anyone

Hate to break it to you hoss, but all but the most basic of posts can be construed as shitposting, trolling, or offensive, and probably will. Nascent drawfag is just gonna have to decides if posting stuff is gonna be worth the ban-fandango he's gonna have to dance regardless of how hard he tries to stay in the rules

I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED BUT THE MORE OF YOU THAT ARE GONE THE BETTER THINGS WILL BE

>>14436442
He didn't give a fuck when we publicly lost the last good guy, he won't care about the next. He probably only helped with James PositiveEarnings because he hates Naruto or some shit.

>>14436442
Maybe we should get some proof that it is him? If it is, I'm all for yelling at moot about it, but it could be durr april fools.

>>14436477
The hell of it is, that post includes you as well.

>>14436473
>>14436469
Emailing him wouldn't hurt.

>>14436482
Shit, that is full well possible.
I guess posting anything on or the day before April 1st is like the boy who cried wolf.

>>14436482
You can't fake
>>14436371

>>14436485
THE DAY EVERYONE STOPS POSTING ON /tg/ IS THE DAY WE FUCKING WIN

I WILL STORM OUT OF MY HOUSE, FIND MY DAD, AND TELL HIM "I DID IT, DAD. I WON"

>>14436417

wat

>>14436517

>>14436517
And then every last person is on tgchan doing the same faggotry but even more so.

>>14436527
You ain't seen that? It's from fucking years ago, man.

>>14436475
I guess you don't like the new mod?

I think it's pretty clear what's not allowed. Alot of old /tg/ cancer (FUCKING TOUHOU, LOL WHAT IF YOU HAD AN ELF TO RAPE, MULTIPLE SCRIBBLE-SMUT DRAWFAGS ON THE FRONT PAGE) isn't allowed.

>>14436539

Nah, I don't look at every thread. I might have seen it once but it's not something I'd bother to remember. Call it selective memory but I guess it's a chance to relive the magic if I did see it before.

>>14436200
>>14436515
>>14436417
>>14436392

Whoops, forgot to black out my IP.

>>14436555
Old /tg/ was cancerous
New /tg/ is sterile

>>14436517

I'd just sit down on the floor next to my computer with an empty /tg/ on the screen, and my roomates would come in and be like "Anon? Anon are you alright?"

And I'd just turn my head a bit to look at them and be like "I'm finished..."

>>14436573
On the whole, cancerous is preferable. Just not the recent strain: give me elf slave wat do, not /v/ cross-pollination.

>>14436573
Too sterile, if you ask me.

>>14436533
I'll take my cancer, thank you very much.

I don't get why you guys pop such a rhetorical stiffy for this same endless banal quest mattwardbloohoohoo holyshutisuckatmtg as if it were better than what came before. "We chased all the damn dirty perverts out, we win!"

>>14436573
Old /tg/ wasn't even that cancerous. People overstate it. Even in summer, it wasn't that bad.
But if I wanted sterility, I could always go to fucking GiantITP.

I wish Russ, Rage or some other mellow oldfag would make a /tg/chan that wasn't a shithole.

>>14436555
>FUCKING TOUHOU

I always love this revisionist history.

The one where Touhou pictures were spammed on /tg/ for no reason, instead of the actual history where Touhou pictures were used by one helpful (if terribly pedantic and wordy) poster to help people make their D&D characters.

We've got some impostors nowadays too.

>>14436404
You did the /tg/ census? You're awesome.

It's too bad that only 3% of people play battletech, but at least we know that number.

I don't get why Ribbon elicited such rage from people. Sure it was stupid and all, but then again so is HS40k.

Well damn, it's always a shame to see one of the people who contribute a lot to /tg/ leave, still I wish you luck in your future endeavors.

>>14436573
Indeed.
Every mutation carries a chance of being advantageous, unfortunately we were getting a lot of harmful mutations up towards the end of last year.
Give it some time, the good mutations will return and it will be a good pain.

>>14436601
>make a /tg/chan that wasn't a shithole.
Not possible. Any /tg/chan would by nature have to be comprised of stuff that doesn't work well on /tg/. And a lot of that is perceived as shit by a lot of people. Hence why there's a lot on the existing tgchan that a lot of folks don't care for.

>>14436555
It would seem that also disallowed is anything that the mod has any dislike for. And it's not like we don't get any garbage clogging things up with him here. Furthermore, neither proper drawfag threads nor proper touhou threads were ever cancer, especially not in the old days when they usually were proper, and elf sex slave threads were not something from old /tg/.

>>14436604
We have always been at war with /v/.

On cancer: the whole point of 4chan is that it's less ordered and restrictive than other forums. People call it the "asshole of the internet" for that very reason, but that's what made /tg/ great: with so many ideas being posted without fear of restriction, there were bound to be gems. With a large userbase, the gems get noticed. It's missing the point to censor it in more than the most superficial way.

>>14436601
>>14436621

I guess everyone's got their own idea of what perfection is like, unless it's all mind control.

>>14436604
A bit revisionist yourself, as there were quite a few Touhou hijacks.

What people REALLY don't recall is that the Touhou hate only started AFTER Touhoufag switched to 4e. Remember, before that he was a 3.5 player/gamebreaker. The whole "FUCKING TOUHOU" mentality really comes from edition-wars-by-proxy. Can't fight 4e, attack one of the guys making 4e good.

>>14436631
I think it's more like /v/ has always been at war with everything including itself, and we just happen to bump into it sometimes.

>>14436555
I disagree that it's clear.

I got a ban once for trying to start a thread about female space marines. It wasn't necessarily about 40k just the subject in general. I used this pic for the OP and got banned.

I wasn't trolling, just looking for a discussion on scifi power-armored women, and then blam! ban.

>>14436621
Nothing works well with /tg/ anymore, you never know what is "shit posting", really, there is no point to post here anymore. It is as restrictive as any forum except with more limited functionality.

>>14436604
Bullshit. Touhou was spammed, sometimes just the plain series would be discussed and there was atleast 3 or 4 avatarfags.

I don't think matt ward bitching is much better, mind you.

I wish /tg/ had it's own OPchan, abeit one where all demographics could be accommodated properly.

A homebrew board, a RPG board, videogames board, anime/touhou board, CCG board, wargames board and quest board would work out well. Oh, and drawfag board.

>>14436646
Yep. I personally thing tgchan is pretty good, because pretty much everything is allowed.
On the other hand, some folks dislike it because there are furries there.

People have their own priorities, I guess. I'm okay with tolerating furfaggotry if it means freedom. Not that tgchan furries are anything like bad, as furries go.

>>14436654
Before that he played WoD. And it was glorious.
I've heard he's currently learning L5R, and that will probably be glorious too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaVwhG5ygss

>>14436666
The new moderation does jump the gun, and new /tg/ isn't as good it was six months or even a year ago, but it's certainly an improvement on the post Wakfu spam-fests.

Thing is, I think we can go back to pre Wakufu levels of moderation now. That would probably help quality a bit, even if the effects would take a few weeks or months to show.

>>14436670
> sometimes just the plain series would be discussed
Yeah, often being discussed AS A SETTING FOR A PNP GAME, which is as valid as, say, Evangelion as a campaign setting. AdEva, much?

>>14436689
>Wakfu
What does that have to do with anything? Wakfu had hardly any impact.
/tg/ was bad during summer (which is presumably what inspired the heavy moderation) and then summer ended. And the moderation's still here.

>>14436689
New moderation = old janitor.

You know this to be true.

We should archive this thread, as a memorial to a good poster, and as a testament to the shit stain that is our janitor/mod

>>14436654
You know, the old touhou hijacks were really not any more of a problem than the desire some people have to insert 40K in to everything. At some point, a few people started just spamming mediocre touhou pictures at random for no reason, and as much as I like touhou, I'll agree that that was bad. But there was good discussion of the setting in the old days, and that's what a lot of the best parts of /tg/ are, simple discussion of ideas and settings without any need to relate it to particular games.

Honestly, I think the key thing is that it doesn't get mentioned here, very often.

sup/tg/, tgchan, 1d4chan, tgbooru... you never really hear much of anything about these sites. It would be better if they got more press, 'cause when 4chan inevitably goes down, you'd get all that traffic moving there.

That's why I come to 4chan to discuss /tg/ related things in the first place - Activity. These other sites don't have it. You're lucky to see a post an hour, where an hour on /tg/ will see your thread pushed 10 pages back if it goes without reply.

>>14436715
And I am pretty sure janitor was the old repetitive sagefag.

He really hated wakfu, drawfags and touhou.

>>14436666
Dem quads.

>>14436689
I agree that some moderation has been good. The edition war wankfest is mostly gone, the elf slave threads never really contributed anything new to discussions, but the initial tyranny of almost arbitrary bans has never really worn off, and the creative power of the board has suffered as a result.

>>14436673
At the base level people hate tgchan because it's a brakeaway site. It's only natural. Just look at literally any of the English *chans besides 4chan. They're hated viciously by 4channers for reasons they don't really have any basis for yet they do anyway.

That and tgchan is like a super-sized version of old /tg/. It has all of it's good qualities along with several of it's bad ones. By that I mean furrys, namefags/avatarfags/tripfags, porn and other wierd things. That and tgchan seems to accept and appreciate those things where /tg/ hates it.

That and the site moves so damn slow, but that could be solved by more users.

I mostly just lurk around here, so i had no idea of how much bans were going on

But come on some of this stuff is just too much like>>14436666 here
I actually did like ribbons threads and chose your party
they were fairly entertaining
If possible i would really like if he could stay.

>>14436727
Well of those, only tgchan is an imageboard. The others aren't designed or suited for discussion, so tgchan is where folks will go. The others are useful in their own capacities, of course, but they're not imageboards.

>>14435839
Wait, wait, what?

>>14436654
>A bit revisionist yourself, as there were quite a few Touhou hijacks.

There were?

That's strange, all I ever saw were Touhoufag's D&D posts.

>>14436755
>furrys,
Not gonna argue there. But it's at least not shoved into folks' faces. Except in a very few quests that nobody likes even on tgchan. Mostly, there can be characters with fur or whatever, but that's largely immaterial to actual content.
>namefags/avatarfags/tripfags,
There's a fair few because everybody knows who everybody else is anyway, with the IDs (instituted to prevent ballot-stuffing in quests) and IRC. I namefag there myself, because it actually allows greater anonymity, as nobody will bother to know my ID when I use a name, so I can drop it for greater anonymity.
>porn and other wierd things
What's wrong with that?

>>14436782
There were, for a while. They disappeared almost entirely long before the moderation turned up.

If there was one boon I could wish for /tg/, I'd be for people to be able to tell the difference between something posted that offends them, and something that was posted TO offend them.

Touhoufag's posts were solid gold as far as being related to /tg/, it was just that they some people felt that his choice of images was meant to intentionally offend and enrage. ...Actually, the second thing I'd wish for would be for people to learn to not give a single fuck about things that don't interest them or that they don't like, and maybe be a bit more accepting or tolerant of diversity in the community.

As for me, I mostly lurked my way though the last past four years. I started no major projects, although I did toss out ideas or helpful advice wherever I saw the chance. I never wore a nametag, so no one really knows me. I don't come here much anymore. After I graduated from college /tg/ was a way to keep my interest in traditional roleplay alive while I was groupless, but sense it looks like my gaming hiatus is getting more and more extended I've started to move on to other interests. I keep telling myself that I'll come back and finish up that dragon riding game I was working n, but I honestly don't know if that'll ever happen, and I don't know if I even feel all that bad about it. Now I occasionally brows /tg/, instead of obsessively lurking.

/tg/ used to be something I needed, but now it's not. Still, thanks for all the great memories. It's been a blast.

>>14436782

I remember there was at least one thread where Arkham Horror characters were made using Tohou characters.

Right. Sometimes...
Fuck.
Here's to you, Ribbonfag. I'll have to make sure to look ya up on dA.

>>14436666
>>female space marines
>>starcraft ghost female

Pretty obviously was shitposting.

>>14436790
I never said anything was wrong with any of those things. I go there my self occasionally and have been brainstorming a few quests off and on. I was recruited there by their dastardly recruiting tool TGMUD.

Oh TGMUD how I love thee, the mods can be a bit power-hungry at times and there is almost NEVER any meta-plot advancement but it can be a fun place to role play. Mostly because of the odd yet interesting races and the wide range of characters.

>>14436805
Why does that count as a Touhou hijack?

That's about as /tg/ related as making an RPG for someone's favorite anime/TV show/movie/book setting.

>>14436666
Should've said something different like future space female warriors or some shit. /tg/ is all 40k all the time.

>>14436805

A Touhou hijack is when someone takes a good tread and turns it into a kawaii teaparty/image dump you numpnuts

How the fuck has this thread lasted... over 3 hours now? Mod must be sleeping. I know moot says mods are universal, but we've had pretty focused, unusually... *canny* moderation ever since the new round of janitors were brought on, and the old janitors promoted. Add in the sticky and it's pretty obvious what's happened.

Fuck it, see you all tomorrow morning. Or not, since once the mod wakes up we're all quite likely to be banned for meta. There's ice in his soul, that one.

>>14436707
I don't recall that. I remember people talking about characters and shit. And ALOT of fucking touhou. WAAAY too much touhou for something that isn't anything to do with /tg/.

If people began posting tons of Evangelion shit with MAYBE a footnote saying "oh, adeva", it wouldnt fly.

>>14436727
OPchan is actually very successful. Probably as big as 7chan, maybe. We just need something like that.

>>14436841

I didn't say it was a jack...
I was replying to this part:

>That's strange, all I ever saw were Touhoufag's D&D posts.

Sorry for the confusion...

A friend of mine got banned from /tg/ a week and a half ago for posting a Nobilis thread.

The reason? He posted a Touhou pic. You know... despite the fact that the Touhou pic was alongside art from Nobilis 3e to showcase how it was traced.

No, seriously. Good job, mods.

Then there was this guy, who got banned for posting about vampires in D&D with a pic of Remilia:
http://archive.easymodo.net/tg/thread/14238676

Why do our mods have to so zealously ban people for using pictures that don't break the rules, just because they don't like the pictures?

>>14436852
You mean to say "when someone does a shitty troll thread the favor of putting it away with touhou"?

Incidentially, touhou hijack lol.

>>14436860
Just make sure this is arechived on suptg

>>14436823
> implying ghosts aren't "space marines"

The idea was inspired from a Samus Aran == primarch thread that was floating around at the same time. I was hoping to generate some NEW discussion.

I wonder how much fanboy rage it would inspire if I tried to field a Nova-styled mini as a psyker spacemarine...

>>14436797
Are you me? Because I could swear that you are me.

>>14436881
It's archived on easymodo.

Some people are dicks. Loud asshole minorities get more attention then silent majorities on 4chan, just as they do in the real world. It's a sad fact, and you can accept it and move on, or do something about it and get fucked up. I've done the former, myself.

>>14436866
The mod we have at the moment got butthurt over the attention a board user who posted a lot of decent stuff accompanied by touhou images was getting. Now that that user's gone, they're moving on to other subjects, such as Wakfu, and any other random subjects that might garner attention to his flaccid e-peen.

>>14436890
You sure? I can't find it.

>>14436900
http://archive.easymodo.net/tg/thread/14434868

Everything gets archived on easymodo though.

>>14436862
We already have tgChan, we don't need another one. If we have 2 seperate /tg/ related *chans only bad things will come. We just need people to swallow their stupid.

So...do you all remember TauQuest?
We don't have DroneQuest anymore because the author keeps getting banned. At least one mod doesn't like his quest threads.

>>14436898
Now this is going to be a controversial post.
Honestly, I've never understood why Wakfu took off on /tg/.
The show is alright, but /tg/'s attention was always firmly on that, the conversion to PnP game was never the main focus.
So, I never saw why people posted about it so much, I mean I remember reading several threads about people complaining about the lack of subtitles for the episodes as they came out.
So I never saw the appeal or how it was related at all.

jesus fuck, this might just clinch it. I am moving on to /tg/chan. I've been avoiding /tg/chan since it fucking started, KNOWING that people whose works I loved had moved there, but i'm finally migrating. I guess I'll check in on dragon quest, and i'd love to run a quest for you guys with actual drawings once I'm less busy, but i'm off to /tg/chan now.

I never though ribbonfag leaving was what would do it.

>>14434868

Now I lurk more than anything here, but Ribbonfag, your stuff was great to me, it always made me smile/laugh/cry. It's a real shame to see you go, as I've really only started to lurk in /tg/ a lot for the past few months. But, I guess that's the way things work, times change, and people come and go, and at least know, that with this one anon, you have done something that will be remembered.

Anyways, since you are leaving, I guess I'll say goodbye. So, c-ya, and keep reaching for those stars. Also publish some of these stories, you are a pretty good writefag.

This is a terrible thread. I liked Ribbonfag's drawings, but the attention-starved approach to /tg/ is grating to say the least. I am very disappoint.

Ribbonfag, you remind me a lot of Weaver: a man with many more faces than people realized, most of them famous to some degree, controversial but always good-hearted. You don't deserve the ban, and I do hope you stay despite it.

>>14436936
I love how tgChan was created as a more focused and moderated version of /tg/ and now those are the main reasons for people leaving to go there.

>>14436934
It was mostly because it had a good setting and writing.
A lot of people, for better or worse, post things with really great setting and/or characterization on /tg/. Setting and characterization are /tg/-related as role-playing requires both, of course. And since this means that many fa/tg/uys are well-versed and very interested in such things, this is often a good place for such discussions.

>my tale of /tg/

Uh let's see

I've always either made Eldar alt. history threads, or threads where I make up a scenario in a dnd campaign in post in /tg/, but not the "woman in group shit happens what do" sort of stuff

I also made, like, half the starcraft vs warhammer 40k threads back in /tg/'s early days. once a week, at least.

>Insane Grandfather's Tests
>Being a Loser, How to

I was in both of those threads, and they were fucking awful.

Also you don't mention Wasteland Warrior, STORYTIEM, or Son of Kromgol even once, but you do manage to have an impressive litany of some of the worst threads ever to pop up on this board.

We can't just let this slide. We need to email Moot and hope that he at least takes a look at what his mods are doing. Cancerous /tg/ was bad, but sterile prison camp /tg/ is even worse.

>>14436934
I never paid much attention to it, but I don't see any reason why it should be disallowed. I care not one bit about it itself. I care about us being able to discuss things without the mod arbitrarily deciding what is and isn't allowed. Just because it isn't directly connected to a game doesn't mean /tg/ can't benefit from it. I doubt anyone with their head screwed on straight would claim that discussion of J.R.R. Tolkien's works don't belong here, even if not connected directly to a game. Lesser works that we can also benefit from discussing should be judged by the same standard.
Honestly, I don't know what the quality of Wakfu or the discussion thereof was, but I do know that it is harmful to have an arbitrary and draconian mod.

>>14436973
tgchan was mostly made to avoid faggots killing things. In the old days, that meant shitspammers and sagefags making a thread impossible to live in. Now it means mods deleting and banning. The intent is the same.

First thread in tgchan is about trolling /tg/ by sergalfagging. Fuck that noise. I, for one, support our new moderators. I swear, the bitching on /tg/ reminds me of the bitching when /k/ had mods that gave a shit after it became /b/-lite

>>14437023
Yeah about that...
>>14436886
I think you're onto something.

Well I wish you luck on your journeys Ribbonfag. While I never cared for your comics, those 600+ threads were a great read.

As for my own contributions, I had a decently large threads about a monstergirl template (complete with horrible anthropomorphic aboleth girls I should have saved for prosperity's sake), a thread about robots, and a nice thread a friend's crazy bitch playing an EDH deck with custom cards and the shitstorm that followed which then turned into /tg/ helping me ask out our vampire deck player.

>>14437023
I want /tg/ of six months back, not tgchan. Current /tg/ is nice, an improvement over recent states, but not back up yet.

We just had an unironic pedophilia thread earlier.

/tg/ deserves everything bad that happens to it.

>>14437023
For the record, that's just some random dude who made that, and it was pretty recent.
I was going to say check /meep/, but I noticed that the top thread there was of similar origin.

>>14437048
The fact that a thread deals with an unpopular topic does not inherently make it bad.

The thread in question happened to be bad, but a thread involving pedophilia could theoretically be good.

>>14436977
I admit that I did enjoy the show a little, but I only watched two maybe three episodes out of order so I suppose I didn't get a good view of the characters and setting/
That's fair enough then, I get why people liked it.

>>14436995
Never said that it should be disallowed, just that I never understood why it appealed to so many people until >>14436977 explained.

My apathy for it seems to be my own fault, but I don't mind it being here.

>>14437048
There are shit threads on new /tg/, Rape factory, anyone?

On the other hand, we have serious game setting threads, homebrew, fluff talk for various settings, and honestly uselful/fun advice threads. That's a step in the right direction.

>>14436934
Yeah, it's not like conversations were related to /tg/.

I don't mind wakfu being gone, and I don't mind moderation in general. But there's a clear line being crossed when contributing members are being banned. If this is true, it's clearly a pattern of behavior rather than just touhoufag.

>>14437048
Because one shitty thread in a blue moon justifies a 24/7 torrent of piss on the board, right?

>>14437048
That shit is new.

>>14437075
>one shitty thread in a blue moon

>>14437063
>implying Rape Factory wasn't the funniest damn thread on the board in days

>>14437086
Allow me to rephrase: one dumbass makes a bad thread and you say "BAN EVERYONE". Where's the logic in this?

>>14437097
>one dumbass
SORRY I AM AT MAXIMUM LAUGHTER CAPACITY

Wakfu only ended up here in the first place because the old /co/ mod sent it here by banning it on /co/ and didn't ban it here even though it was well known they all moved here from /co/.

Tales of /tg/ thread at this point?

Hmm I came around here when VIRAL MARKETING of cthulhu tech came around. I lurked like a scared rabbit afraid of posting anything and slowly just started to be helpeful, and troll.

After a while I wanted to get into 40k and picked Dark eldars and did some scribblefaging as I wasn't good enough to be a drawfag, even took scribblefag as a name and ran with it. Drew some loli dark eldar and even touhou 40k to try and pull a reaction with. After that tried to make a 40k dating sim and failed. From there I actaully got into the irc group where I am today. Trolled some more, watch and help the second 40k dating sim go up and fail too.

Not much happened there quest threads came and went and then mods came and /tg/ while being nearly porn free seems to not have much life left to it beyond endless bitching at the mods. I'd take endless edition wars at this point, it was /tg/ doing something besides be meta like this thread with a side of 'this happened, tell similar stories' which generates little talk that isn't quickly forgot, but I'm not even going to sage this so just part of that cancer.

Right now trying to help with adeva and work on my own few projects, on of which being a retool of DH for some mecha musume blasting. If I wanted anything more here would actually try and discuss game mechanics more and that there were a few people with nearly professional talent would take some time to draw up our insane ideas.

>>14437102
And minimum intelligent conversation capacity, apparently. Glad to have been of service!

>>14437097
Dude, forget about it. Half of the worst shit is more than likely posted by the proponents of heavy moderation trying to make the board appear as in-need of a crackdown as possible to keep it that way. As long as asspies frequent this board, it's just going to keep happening.

>>14437086
Certainly fewer than there were earlier, and approaching pre-Wakfu levels. That's good, and an improvement.

Now, the loss of creativity/products...

>>14437110
>And minimum intelligent conversation capacity, apparently.
Was that meant to be a retort? Wasn't punchy enough.

Personally, I've never had a thread banned that I really gave a fuck about, so I'm all in favor of a mod that supports my own biases.

>>14437102
Oh okay. So instead it should be "lots of people enjoy threads that you don't and you say "BAN EVERYONE"."
Either way you're retarded.

>>14437108
I also forgot the drawfagotry I did of cthulhutech game plot.

I should risk bans and draw more for here or something. It was something I liked doing even if I didn't do the "drawfag time" stuff.

>>14437129
>So instead it should be "lots of people enjoy threads that you don't and you say "BAN EVERYONE"."
Wouldn't any moderation, by requirement, be subjective?

>>14437023
tgchan's /tg/ board isn't a major focus of the site. People have random discussions on /meep/, and IRC, run quests on /quest/ and talk about them on /questdis/ and IRC.

>>14437138
No, mods should only be banning threads that specifically break the board/global rules, or threads that are wildly and obviously unrelated to the board. Subjectivity should only come into play when a thread toes the line of one rule or another and a precedent has to be set. That's why our mod and his pet janitor are bad site staff.

How has the mod not killed this?

I completely agree with the mod=janitor sentiment. I've had a few bans, one for fuck all, one for complaining about the mod, within minutes of it getting posted.

>>14437117
>Half of the worst shit is more than likely posted by the proponents of heavy moderation trying to make the board appear as in-need of a crackdown as possible to keep it that way
I hope you don't actually believe that. That is some conspiracy theory level bullshit. Like, suggesting that Kennedy was killed by aliens and lizardpeople level conspiracy theory.

>>14437108

Oh man, that reminded me of when the Maid RPG guys came around here to test the game out and whatnot. I wish I knew what happened to those guys. I check Evan's blog occasionally, but I'm still sad Meikyuu Kingdom being released in English. Fuck, I went to Gencon 2008 mainly because I wanted to pick up a copy of the original Maid book.

>>14437174

Considering the sorts of neckbeards we have here, it's plausible.

Seriously, how many threads do you remember about a minority topic that ended up with some asshole suddenly posting porn dumps? Heaps.

>>14437180
One of them is making an RPG based off of Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/14374990/

>>14437174
It's not true in general, but it happened a lot for a little while after we got that sticky with the list of rules. The waves of shit-threads after and during moderation discussion pretty obviously are exactly that.

>>14437152
>specifically break the board/global rules
the rules set by the moderation staff
>obviously unrelated to the board
like video games

>>14437174
You've already forgotten how the deletion of touhou images started by the mod/janitor-given reason of "because they attract trolling"?

>>14437188
I remember people posting that shit to try and piss off the mods. I also remember the person that posts a girl shitting to every instance of someone having shit in their post.

I've been lurking /tg/ in and out for a couple of years now. Never really did anything interesting besides occasionally giving a good idea.

Sad to see you go, Ribbon.

>>14437174
Wasn't that the stated goal of one of the sergal fags? To use negative attention on bad threads to attract moderation?

>>14437198
>the rules set by the moderation staff
They're set by moot, and are listed.

>like video games
"Some vidya" is allowed according to mods. Since moot has made no rule about this, the mods are free to decide whether some video games can be considered "traditional".

The only time I remembered shitty touhou threads was last summer, about a half a year or so before that I had just learned what touhou was, so before that I couldn't really identify anything.

Also /tg/chan isn't ANYTHING like /tg/, it's mostly, no ALL Furries and quests. Actual game disscussion is non-existent. And that's fine, because that's what it was made for. I was actually banned a couple of days ago for 'trolling' a single post in some kamen rider thread here on /tg/ saying 'NOT /m/ RELATED' Obvious joke/jab, no further posts in that thread.

>>14436987
Because the OP didn't make those

Jeez you are fucking dense.

>>14437174
Are you saying that there wasn't a Komodo Dragon on the grassy knoll?

>>14437161
The mod is only human; he does have some problems, but we're ultimately better for his actions. (Mostly. Exhibit A: Wakfu Farce...)

>>14437210
I know there is a current janitor that goes around deleting anything that looks like it may cause fighting. Sage the Humanity fuck yeah thread in any way and the post was deleted.

>>14437226
>The only time I remembered shitty touhou threads was last summer, about a half a year or so before that I had just learned what touhou was, so before that I couldn't really identify anything.
>Crix
Half of the Touhou-spamming was you. Get the fuck out of here.

>ALL Furries and quests.
It's not all furries, though there's a fair few that went there from here.
>Actual game disscussion is non-existent.
No it's not. Actual game discussion is slow, but it exists.

>>14437207
>mod/janitor-given reason of "because they attract trolling"

Which is a load of bullshit, plenty of threads with touhou images don't get trolled. Why not just ban the actual trolls?

>>14437198
>the rules set by the moderation staff
No, the rules here:
http://www.4chan.org/rules
Mods aren't supposed to make their own rules based on personal prejudice, like "Touhou in any form is banned".
>like video games
Addendum: Some subjects like Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft have been adopted by /tg/ due to their incredible depth and replayability, and eventually became board-related topics.

>>14437215
That's like urinating on the floor of a public bathroom to try and get people to replace the loo roll. Typical troll logic.

>>14437198
In moderation (no pun intended), some video game threads are good for /tg/. It becoming /v/ 2.0 isn't.

>>14437256
>Minecraft
>incredible depth and replayability
Um.
No.

/tg/, at its most basic, has the same problem that /jp/ has: people incapable of ignoring threads they don't like, except in this case this problem extends to the moderation staff as well. Sagefags are and were the single biggest obstacle to a good /tg/ in all of its existence, followed by sergal spammers (regardless of intention), "ELF WAT DO" thread makers, and Jim Profit.

>>14437249
>Crix
>Half of the Touhou-spamming was you. Get the fuck out of here.

Find a single thread I made

you can't because I haven't, sure I posted a bunch of pictures in the summer, is that AWFUL FOR YOU?

>No it's not. Actual game discussion is slow, but it exists.
About as slow as tectonic plates moving since on page fucking 2 there's a thread that has been there since the board creation.

>>14437297

Jim's been dead for years, though. What was the deal with him anyway?

More recently, people who DON'T sage troll threads are more problematic than sagefags. By bumping them, they added to the issue.

>>14437174

Oh horseshit. It's classic trolling tactics and you know it.

>>14437315
An avatarfag troll who was legendary in his persistence. When moot personally banned him, many cheered.

He's lowest on the list because he was only a single person.

>>14437315
He came back to life recently.

>>14437297
I think sagefags are all attention whores at heart. A sage, like a name or a trip, adds an attention catching aspect to your post even though the post itself neither contains nor contributes anything of value.

>>14437315

Jim posted a troll thread (and a very successful one at that) the week before last.

rolled 75, 42 = 117

>>14437342
DID SOMEONE CALL FOR A NAMEFAG STAND IN?

>>14437342
>A sage, like a name or a trip, adds an attention catching aspect to your post
Holy shit do you have ADD?
I just can't even fathom this thinking
>even though the post itself neither contains nor contributes anything of value.
>sage
>post of no/little value

WOAH HOLD ON THERE IT'S LIKE YOU JUST DISCOVERED THE USAGE OF SAGE

CONGRATULATIONS

>>14437339
...God damnit. We lose Ribbonfag and get Jim Profit back. I'd laugh if I didn't feel like crying.

Even if Jim's alive again, it's easy to just slap "Jim Profit" on your filter (which you should have) and go about your day, making him essentially a non-issue. On the other hand, you could filter "sage", if you wanted, but the moderation staff would still see those posts and go about their inane work of deleting "controversial" content because some aspies are too asspained to let threads they don't like go unignored.

>>14437314
>Find a single thread I made
Why? Threads don't matter, that's self-contained.
>I posted a bunch of pictures in the summer, is that AWFUL FOR YOU?
Spamming touhou in unrelated threads, thus killing them? Yes. That's everything bad about touhou on /tg/.

>About as slow as tectonic plates moving since on page fucking 2 there's a thread that has been there since the board creation.
You mean the Unified Setting thread? Yeah, work on that went there because it got trolled off the board here.
Things don't 404 on tgchan, so it's stayed towards the front pages of the board. That thread's an anomaly.
The front page contains more recently started stuff.

>>14437370
He doesn't trip or name fag as I'm damn sure there is auto ban script on it. He does however post the same damn naruto character and some other animu one.

>>14437360
He's not wrong. Being a dick about it doesn't make him wrong.

>>14437377
>Spamming touhou in unrelated threads, thus killing them? Yes. That's everything bad about touhou on /tg/.

Nope, haven't done it, feel free to trawl through the archives if you want to prove me wrong.
>You mean the Unified Setting thread?
No, fuck off back to tgchan already

Touhoufag was an unfortunate casualty of the group of legitimately bad posters who actually did spam Touhou images in threads. He became a victim by association, even though he was always constructive and helpful. I don't know why he didn't just change his posting gimmick to avoid the witch hunt.

>>14437396
>>You mean the Unified Setting thread?
>No, fuck off back to tgchan already
Which one do you mean then? I see no other that fits that description.

>>14437385
You can just use the 4chan firefox addon to hide his threads, and put JimProfit in your image filter (which will probably take out 90% of his posts even if he doesn't use a name or tripcode).

I arrived during bloodquest, on the whole the janitors just keep disappointing me.
I don't bother starting threads anymore because anything that doesn't get deleted out of hand has already been discussed to death.

>>14437470
This.

Janitor doesn't even like cycles. Just a couple dozen threads that are /tg/ threads and anything else he'll delete if it looks like it might cause "trolling".

He's deleted stuff in the past that makes no sense. Witness the Tauquest writer.

>>14437256

I started a thread about converting X-Com (which has traditionally been seen as one of "/tg's computer games) into a tabletop game.
That went poorly - possibly because I questioned the janitors deleting a pony pic.
I don't like the "ponymania" but for fucks sake the ponys in question *WERE* in X-com uniforms.
maybe I'll get banned for saying "fuck" on a worksafe board next.

>>14437360
>>14437360

>Holy shit do you have ADD?
>I just can't even fathom this thinking

Obviously and attention whoring name/tripfag like yourself would have had to learn to ignore sage posts. But for normal people the shot of dark blue with an underline amidst the expected green does catch the eye.

>>14437498
Banning shas for fetish was total bullshit. Tau/drone quest has never contained fetish in the quest itself, the pics are all done by drawfags and have nothing to do with the quest except for using a character. The porn is as related to the actual quest in the same manner that krystal porn is related to the actual starfox games.

Meanwhile both Dragon quest and Commander quest have fucking harems and waifu wars but they never get in any trouble.

You're probably asleep by now, but have you ever considered frequenting sup/tg/'s IRC, Ribbonfag?

>>14437589

Don't forget Maid Quest, even after it was utterly SFWed.

I have to say it. I am on tg for about two years now.

one year ans something of more regular browsing and lurking. And If there is something i observed is that shit is needed for awesome!

You want AWESOME! you have to swim trough a lot of SHIT!
Ergo in my opinion janitors and mods should fuck off tg , and come in only on request regarding a overly pesky problem, if such a request came from multiple different user IP's preferably that do not repeat themselves at any previous offence?

Why? because if some say three people get offended than they should not browse it. There are others who browse it and they would not rate it some stupid shit or write to mods about it, because they lack the motivation.

Ergo something lower than about t say 20 or a dozen users IP should be disregarded as a non issue.
Moreover if the Same IP's state multiple problems over a low amount of time ( say two months five problem same 12 or 20 IPs) they get disregarded for ever and ever from the report function because they clearly are either over-sensitive psychos or have a agenda...

since said system is most likely unimplementable due to mod fiat and complacency of typical board related administrative function

I can only say one thing :

FUCK OFF WITH MODS AND JANITORS OF TG! I "D RATHER DEAL WITH TROLLS AND DERAILERS MYSELF BY DISREGARDING THEM. ID EVEN DEAL WITH SCAT, A THING THAT NEARLY INDUCES REGURGITATION FOR ME, THAN HAVE THREADS I READ AND FOLLOW DELEATED AND 404-ED OUT OF EXISTANCE!

I LIKED OLD /TG/. I DID NOT HAVE TO GO TO /D/ , NOR TO /b/ NOR TO /V/ , NOR to /CO/ AND NOT EVEN TO /LIT/.
I HAD MY FILL OF CLASSY AND TASTEFUL FILMS, GAMES, WHETHER PC OR TRADITIONAL< FANTASY RELATED EROTICA AND EVEN THE ODD NEWS. AND I LIKED NOT HAVING TO BROWSE TROUGH ALL THAT SHIT OTHER BOARDS HAVE CONSIDERING THAT I SEE NO AWESOME IN THEM AT ALL EVER!

>>14437845
You're not helping your case.

We should note what time period this thread has occurred in.
Because there seem to be no mods or janitors on.

>>14437881
Either that, or they have gone clever on us and allowed this thread as a designated venting zone.

>>14437881
Their schedule seems fairly irregular. I've seen them delete good threads around this time of day/night some days as well as stuff that they hate going untouched others.

He was strong in life, /tg/. His spirit will find its way to the halls of his predecessors.

>>14437845
itis a untenable and impossible outcome and no amount of Anon work will ever yiel a perfect solution.

Nor will janitors and mods go away as they are obviously busy ! they are deleting and swinging the banhammer at a prodigious rate, to explain and sustain their existance.

So I can CAPSLOCK write my grievances and hope that I touched a sensible cord in the other anons and some degree of hurt and discomfort will come to our oppressors at our hands...

>>14438007
And it never will, because for all the collectivism 4chan embodies, anonymous posts are like individual grains of sand.

>>14437845
Stop trying to turn /tg/ into /b/, faggot.

Hey OP

Just got done reading every one of those

good work man

AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO IS CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT OP DESCRIBES HIMSELF AS A MALE IN THE LARP TALER, WHILE REDLIFE IS A WOMAN?

As I'm relatively new to this board, I can't say I've "done" much since I rarely post.

I was around for some of those threads. It's stupid how happy this makes me.

Thank you, ribbonfag

This thread makes me feel disappointed in myself because I want to be creative but I've let my neuroses hold me back so much, and meanwhile Ribbonfag has produced shit-tons of content.

Tomorrow (today) I have to get something written before I head off to work, no matter how weird or shitty it might be.

I can't believe this thread is still around. The rise of new mods/janitors is due to the rampant shit all over 4chan.
Still, /tg/ has gotten very sterile in the past few months.

>>14438314

Oh, they'll get to it.
They just had to get rid of this one first:
http://archive.easymodo.net/tg/thread/14435578

>>14438335
Well that makes sense. Warhammer 40k obviously doesn't belong on /tg/.

>>14438340

That thread was completely full of trolling.
Well, either trolling or people GENUINELY getting upset over:
--some people believing that 40k works best as a parody
--other people believing that 40k has changed focus away from parody since it's birth
--orangutans

Either way, it deserved to be put out of its misery.

>mfw nobody realizes this thread is a really bad April's Fools joke

Woah, this thread is still alive. I remembered the Giant Gave Something threads, and the Pick Your Party threads. I've now come to think of /tg/ mainly as the place where creative thought pooled, albeit the obvious drawbacks (40k all day erry day). But yeah, I agree that the mods are a wee bit too tyrannical on some stuff. Stuff what generated creative unique content are sometimes stifled. But the positive side is all that extremely NSFW threads get nerfed big time.

I also want to use this rare opportunity of posting in a metathread to apologize to whoever ever got offended by my posts, even if only slightly.

As for Ribbon, dude, you will be missed. Let it be known that most of the competent, content-making posters of /tg/ would probably put you as a role model, or at least a good guy in their books. Keep on truckin' man.