>>3639223>>3639217i wrote a big-assed essay about this back in november, but i lost it. Someone screencapped it and may have it laying around. I guess I didn't do that? Oh well.
Here's the long and short of it: attached is the catalog from /p/ around Thanksgiving time last year, so not that long ago. Green boxes are photo threads. Blue boxes are meta/discussion threads. Red threads are gear threads, black threads are shitposts and troll threads. By concentrating the bulk of the original content on this board into a single thread, you allow for shitposts and gearthreads, which are almost never contained in a single thread, to take over. 4chan sorts by the most recent bump, and shitposts attract bumps like flies to shit. Gearthreads attract a lot of posts too, because it allows the user to be a content editor (e.g. express an opinion on something, which is easy) rather than a content creator. What the RPT does is decrease the signal to noise ratio on this board. Sure, the RPT bumps frequently, but it only displaces one thread at a time.You see that in the attached photo, where in the top TWENTY threads, only four of them are photo threads. The rest are gear threads and shitposts. You only start to see photo threads really in the bottom 75 or so threads, or past page 5. They've been displaced and pushed down by rapidly bumping gear threads and shitposts.
So my solution is pretty simple. Stop posting in the RPT and start making your own threads. Increase the signal to noise ratio. They don't have to be centered around a theme, they can literally be your own most recent photos. Some of you will get ignored, some of you will get board famous because you have a chance to stand on your own. This is literally how the board worked for a very long time. There were no RPT's for the first six or seven years of /p/'s existence. Everyone just made their own damn threads, and it was great.
