>>20123237i disagree. i don't think anyone "has no business being on this board" if they want to be, provided that they are not intentionally spamming or other such things. "getting in anon's grill" isn't exactly an uncommon thing in 4chan policy.
this place is honestly rather toxic, though. i mainly pop in to give stuff away on /gtsg/ on anonymous and to help breed things for my friend. trivial stuff, i have to take care of my sibling, work, etc, so i don't personally have much time for 4chan politics. i otherwise do think a lot of 4chan culture is "literally cancer," but i think there're good people on this board in particular, who i [try] to gravitate to.
but yeah, this place is quite the hive mind. i don't usually do much more than lurk here, but the bandwagoning here is pretty bad. i'd say a lot of people like that, though. they enjoy following the mindset of their "clique" even if such mindsets are detrimental and toxic. 4chan's hardly an exception, though i'd say the anonymous culture, while helping people to express their opinions more readily, also allows people to be truly awful humans due to many having little to no inhibitions when they know they won't be punished. i'm personally torn on the subject.
that said, while there's bandwagoning, there's a lot of groups here, as you can tell. the battlers, the traders, the genners, the soup kitchen [/gtsg/], the cutemongers, the furries, the people who fap to pokegirls, people in the "other" category... there's a lot of different "cliques" here, and many who phase between them.
i've been told that i am "too nice for 4chan," but i'd say i just haven't been absorbed into the gelatinous mass than anything. you haven't either, it seems. it's good to see. even though it doesn't make you intrinsically better than anyone, it's totally okay to have an opinion on things that deviates from the norm, no matter what 4chan - or society in general - tells you. i'd just hope your opinion isn't a violent/hateful one.
