>>57004>no but the thing is sometime people like to talk about different stuff with the people who share the same interested/hobby with.This still isn't a justification for off topic discussion. There is a time and place for everything. The place for discussions are in their appropriate boards. Some of them are hurting for traffic and would actually improve if people moved their irrelevant (in their "home" boards) discussions to the relevant boards. Furthermore, there are many more places than 4chan. I commonly hear how people here think any site that isn't 4chan is inferior to us, but that's really masked fear of having to adjust to a new culture (and quite frankly, the cultures across sites are really not that different). There's always a new community, too, so just because the first was crap does not mean the rest are.
>There is only so much to talk when you stay on topic.What a terrible justification. It's even worse than the last. No hobby and no subject here is so shallow you can can run out of things to discuss. And if there is, 4chan is not the only site out there, as I said. Those boards you gave as examples are perfect examples of why on topic discussion are preferable to off topic. Do you remember when /v/ became another /b/? So many see it with rose tinted goggles but I remember actual video game discussion getting shitposted to death, while the same old fucking shit, the same Ito manga, the same Deep Sea images and Wikipedia articles, the same YouTube links, etc, all because people were too comfortable there and refused to even participate in the subject on hand. /v/ stagnated the hardest and still has not fully recovered from the era of offtopic shitposting "/v/ culture".
