>>87023074I am actually the person you need for this, since the anya cabal is behind most generals.
A good op can make it so you general succeeds or dies.
Now, the secret behind making an OP template is three fold: First, it must include words that will pop up when people search their own generals so people know they exist:
this is the reasoning behind great "global" garden project, to include in someway the word global so people from hlgg would find their way into it by accident doesnt work anymore since they have long since adapted to it, but it worked back in the day Include vtubers or topics you want to discuss in the tittle so people searching in the archives will see them poping out, this is also why the segment "friends of the thread" also exist.
this is an even earlier trick than the global garden, and it has its origin in other boards News follows this principle in theory by including the news directly in the op. It is however not the first thread to do this, there are other threads in the chans who also have small summaries or news in their op, and they most likely inspired the existence of this one
The second purpose of the op is to generate discussion, so when people have nothing to talk during dead hours they can refer to what is up there.
/lig/ has the number rankings and the ducks. This during its early days provided much needed conversation topics. /big/, /mig/ and its other splits failed to understand the purpose of these little things and by not keeping the reason behind the traditions they have deliberate made things harder for themselves. These also serve to give the thread a much needed identity: why would anyone leave their home threads to come to yours? Only if they need to check it everyday for some reason.
News, again, executes this to perfection by pulling in all sort of tourists who feel the need to reply when they read the op: come for the outrage, stay for the pictures of spider women.
And the last purpose is to have some sort of filter: there are people you definitively not want around. A single bad vtuber can ruin a thread, for example, but certain topics also attract shitters.
Every good successful thread excludes certain people somehow: most corpo threads do not have this problem for they are exclusive by nature but in order to not make the same mistakes of /wvt/, /lig/ imposed the numbers filter.
Generals who failed to do the same find themselves filled by some of the worst agents in this board, many of them vtubers themselves very willing to take part in the discussion.
sadly for lig, sociopaths can also make it and then shitpost your thread, like in the MSM debacle, the lesson also is no filter is perfect News has no filter to speak of, by its very nature it was expected to be a fucking shitstorm, but fortunately someone came up the the rrat anchor which at least separates schizo babble from serious discussion. Instead of filtering the schizos they chose to absorb them instead.
So, that is it. My advice to follow these three principles, then copy /lig/ format, understand why the person who wrote the op put the things he put in there, and adapt into your own creation.
