>>4291454>is there room for both? i like the communal feeling of group threadsYou would think, but people tend to just hide their stuff in general threads. We actually had a MORE communal feeling when there weren't general threads. We had traveling cameras, print trades, memes about each other, board-wide challenges, and a bunch of other fun things that made this place more collaborative.
Generals become islands unto themselves. You have the bird general, the fuji general, the night shots general, the film general, the m4/3 general, the phone photography general, the cosplay general, the wildlife general (different from the bird general somehow lmfao), the macro general, the pet photography general, the canon general, and four or five different recent photo toilets. There's no crossposting between any of them, and it makes people from other generals less likely to look at your photos. I shoot Fuji, why would I step foot in the m4/3 or canon general? I shoot nightshots, why would I look at the wildlife thread? It fragments the board into two dozen microcommunities when really, it's all just fucking photography.
That fragmentation is also why I think individual photo threads now languish in obscurity. I've straight-up seen board nannies tell people who post their own photo threads to repost the photos in the "street photo general". The average /p/ nu-zoomer can't comprehend a board without generals, and the idea of the individual frightens them beyond all reason.
The solution to this is simple, but a little scorched earth: ban all generals. Get rid of the shitty-ass sticky that's been up there way too long. Force people into new posting patterns and reinforce the positive aspect of making your own thread.
