>>9701 >First, if you go with either option I'd limit it to one month before revisiting I chose two months because just one doesn't leave enough time for userbase rotation to take effect, the main visible result at first will be some posters going inactive or leaving. It's pretty much guaranteed that with too short test period, neither option will have the time to bear fruit. Option 1 assumes that the regulars group will put in extra effort to compensate for temporary loss of activity, as time goes more of the casual posters left will get invested and among the newcomers there will be those who were looking just for something like that. Option 2 assumes that there will be an understanding among anons to use separate threads if you don't feel like talking and just want to post specific images you found, while prompts for discussions will (usually) go to the general thread. I don't like thinking of either group as "losing" or "winning", what I'm trying to do is to instill some feeling of community and an incentive to work for the common good, but a cooperation is required for that so I need to see which option will meet less resistance. >Separately, how would people feel about adding in some older stuff? A combined thread for interesting historical stuff from other places would go well with the intended role of being a crossroads/neutral ground of this board, someone already made such thread for memes and I guess another could be made for more serious content. The monster girl fandom produced tons of unique content that gets lost over time and preserving it would be a value on its own already.

>>9707 You're assuming a big hit is unavoidable and I don't think that's true, and the thrust of my ideas in >>9701 is to minimize it. You have the stats and I don't, but I would guess that the more active posters are overrepresented here, while casuals, especially refugees from other chans, will barely skim the rules to start. I certainly lurked, other boards getting worse gave that final push. If that assumption holds, it makes sense to unlock, pleasing imageposters and newbies, but trying to have something extra for people active in the general and probably reading here is a nice way to thank everyone and help make up for people who split off. Even if it's a gimmick in the first month a more active general with something cool helps hook newcomers to solve the chicken and egg problem. Aside from that I think some unlocking some threads is better than the "for fetish X" threads you mentioned, a lot's intrinsic to certain girls (spider thread for bondage and more consistent femdom than lamias, cow thread for big anime tiddies). On the other hand I have no idea why dog girls are separate from wolves. Hellhound being a thing breaks the "because doggos are more submissive" right out the gate, and other than Kagerou there's no strong "wolfposting" schtick on par with foxes.

Also if non-BO posters have things they'd personally want to see but are unsure it seems a good time to throw it out here. If you're dead set then yeah just make the thread.

>>9709 Your suggestion regarding compensating for change via OC events won't work in case of the merger stays option, as the group leaving because of it is not interested in such activities to begin with. And in the other scenario, that would lead to fragmentation to inevitably repeat, because casual posters will go back to cultivating their "slow and comfy" threads again, while regulars will quickly get tired of talking to the same 3 people and then we're back to how things were before the change. Not that I'm saying having such events alongside regardless of everything would be bad, but I'm not seeing how this is better than the activity threshold incentives I came up with so far. In general we need systemic long-term solutions since, well, this is a fundamental systemic issue we're dealing with. >Aside from that I think some unlocking some threads is better I don't like this, at all. Me locking the species threads was already criticized for being arbitrary, but deciding which girls deserve their own threads based on anything other than hard activity metrics is going to be orders of magnitudes even more arbitrary and controversial.

>>9701 >maybe something like the next greentext prompt favors them. As the one who's posting the prompts, I do like this idea. FYI though, it's just Writing Prompts, greentext is an option for a medium, prose, poetry, or a similar creative expression is also encouraged. To add to that, is everyone still interested in my plan of posting a weekly prompt with a two week "soft deadline"? Once again, the soft deadline is merely just a suggestion for writers to follow, not an absolute. Anyway, I want to have at least two prompts overlapping at one time, so that if anon gets writers block, the new prompt might be the idea he needs. With that also in mind, I was thinking of a schedule framework. Week 1 right now has a scenario, but Week 2 could be the "featured Monster Girl" idea, Week 3 could be a piece of music, and Week 4 could maybe be artwork. Then it would loop from there.

>>9717 I still think we're look at the solution differently so I'll try one more time and be done. To me fragmentation being bad is downstream from activity. Lose 20 posts/week to comfy threads but gain 20 in the general by event stuff spurring discussion and I personally am okay with that. And some comfyposters or newbies might do both if the general has something cooler than "same as my thread but with girls I don't care about", which was the hide post anon's complaint. On 4/tg/ that's what turned CYOAs into a self-sustaining general. Here, if we could support an art request thread (big if) you can bet we'd have crossover there. My long term was exactly that: more OC of some form, stories and events to start, attracts more talk and related OC in a virtuous circle that makes whatever off-board outreach we do get more people to stick around. To this end I really like prompt anon's >>9724 suggestion of music, maybe not a specific piece but like a "monstergirl tour 2024" theme, anons tend have interesting taste in music.I'd write for that just to see the response. Probably best if I stick to the generals in the short term no matter what you decide.

Not the BO, but I'm just going to point out that general thread 2 was made in January 19th of this year and hit bump limit on April 1st. General 3 was made the same day, and is about 120 posts away from bump limit. Today is April 27th. That at least means that anons are interacting with each other more.

>>9731 I was a little(extremely) sloshed out when I wrote that that stuff but I was thinking that prompts and other things can be a tad aggressive for anons, especially on account of them being nervous wrecks at the best of times. While the general thread has too I can't say it's quite gained a theme yet, for whatever reason. There was also the digimon, towergirls, and SU thread that were all flash in the pan stuff. It's just interesting to see thread culture happen, or not happen. I didn't particularly favor the fragmented threads over the general thread but it's interesting to see the things that do happen. Which as an anon pointed out way earlier is that most anons are probably non-participants here for images and there is a big push for anons not to move from wherever they already are unless they have to. Also > virtuous circle that makes whatever off-board outreach we do get more people to stick around Is a real thing and people do come here, see it doesn't have much activity, and then leave again. Even guys I talked to have said this is a thing when they see the place. It's mostly an observation from what I've seen than any real suggestion. When it comes to anons everything is pretty much a catch-22 until something stands out to make this the place to go for something. Which oddly enough wasn't the games thread despite being the only place I know at this point to actually get games. Anons really do like their MGQ, though!

>>9661 I'm trying to start some discussions with MonMusu, but fuck me, it so often goes nowhere and dies. Also MGE fandom is too zealot like, often shitting on other series for being "too degenerate" and that's pretty annoying. Also the only other fandom that practically exists is MGQ. Everything else doesn't have enough people/content (or both) to warrant continuous discussion.

>>9818 >I'm trying to start some discussions with MonMusu, but fuck me, it so often goes nowhere and dies. To be fair, I don't think it's only here. The series in general just kind of fell off, what's with the long wait between chapters for the longest time (probably because of Crabman's depression at the time), the plot or the main harem never really moving the story forward, no season 2 while hype was high. Usually discussion nowadays just boils down to this almost nostalgic feeling over the main cast.

>>9818 Agreed, and I'm who >>9820 is talking about on MonMusu, where it went so long with no updates that I don't remember where I stopped and can't be arsed to find it. I do think a big part of the problem is only MGE and MGQ do much lore, which is a good spark for discussion. Like Seaport Princess is dominating the general right now but where does it go from there, sticking your dick in her 90mm AA cannons? A prompt just for lore stuff instead of stories is one idea. I may have another but want to talk to a few friends first. >>9745 In terms of outreach, how far afield are we willing to go? Like the story thread is seeing enough action now that maybe up to AO3 with a link back here would pay off, or same for the quest thread with Questionable Questing though I'm less enthusiastic about them. But those are a lot different than just pulling from other chans so I'm in no rush if people here have reservations.

>>9826 >Like Seaport Princess is dominating the general right now but where does it go from there, sticking your dick in her 90mm AA cannons? I stick it in her construction site, so she ends up building a Hoppo or two. Yeah, i think KC barely has any lore aside of hinting strongly or even confirming that Abyssal girls are just sunk shipgirls corrupted in the dark cold sea's depth.

>>9818 We simply don't have enough active userbase to warrant constant discussions about specific series (aside from MGQ because of this board's roots and old anons from MGQ days following and even then it's not that constant), now you hopefully understand why growing the board is so important and why we can't just settle on being the slow and comfy place for a handful of people to visit once every few days. Besides, in the doujin/manga thread monmusu got quite a bit of discussion so I don't know what are you on about, the amount of attention it gets is more or less in line with what I'd expect based on overall activity levels. You want more monmusu fans on this board? Bring them here and/or talk about monmusu in more general threads often enough that anons pick it up. Remember that there's a lot o people lurking, so you have the potential, if you put in the work. >Also MGE fandom is too zealot like, often shitting on other series for being "too degenerate" and that's pretty annoying. That's irrelevant on this board, unless mere existence of MGE references upset you. Then it's a (You) problem.

>>8814 Followup announcement: After considering feedback and current state of the board, I've decided to give the freedum option one more chance. The experiment was actually a success and managed to bring life into the board. At the same time this was done using not just the general thread, so it makes me think it's possible to have what's needed without forcibly herding traffic into the general thread. But with freedom comes responsibility, so I will also be carefully monitoring state of the board for the next 1-3 months and will rollback one last time, back to the merged model if I notice the community side of the board (general thread, original content threads) deflate again with no positive trend. I'm reminding everyone that this is supposed to be a community that everyone needs to participate in for it to work and if you wait for others to step up to the plate and generate content for you, then so will everyone else and nobody will actually do things. So while there are no rules about how threads are to be used or made, I HIGHLY recommend using the specialized monster girl kind threads if you are just looking to dump images in a segregated manner and use the general thread for actual discussion, because that way there will be a much higher chance of someone joining in on the talk as evidenced by general thread in the last month. It's also important to support original content creation and this is something you'll hear on any self-respecting altchan. Compliment newly posted works in the OC thread, participate in the currently running writing prompt thread, join the running quest thread or even drop them a friendly comment if you can't be arsed to come up with anything, because we'll have a hard time getting anyone to spend effort contributing anything if they get barely any acknowledgement.

YEAAAH! FREEDOM! FREEDOM! FREEDOM! That'll show those commie bastards trying to steal our red-blooded American Anubises!

>>9829 >Then it's a (You) problem. Imagine if the game came out and it actually got enough anons into it to talk about it. >can't share it >can't post images of it >just a load of anons discussing it and telling you to pay up It will never come out but it would actually be really fucking funny to se this happen.

>>9829 >We simply don't have enough active userbase to... You misunderstood, or I wasn't clear enough, but I was talking in general. Other places on the alt chans also seem to not give much of a shit. And I don't like 4chan's /a/ turbo fast board, I want to revisit those threads, see what people discussed, not hop on, have intense discussion and shitposting for like a day or 2 and then the thread goes to the shadow realm. >>9829 >That's irrelevant on this board, unless mere existence of MGE references upset you. Nah, I really like this series too, I even think KC using the broken copyright system to become an anti-NTR dictator is pretty cool, but there's limits to everything. >>9820 >The series in general just kind of fell off, what's with the long wait between chapters for the longest time (probably because of Crabman's depression at the time), the plot or the main harem never really moving the story forward, no season 2 while hype was high. Usually discussion nowadays just boils down to this almost nostalgic feeling over the main cast. I was there when it was dying, and you're right, but I think it recovered a fair bit in the last year or so. English speaking fans didn't seem to come back tho >>9826 >Agreed, and I'm who >>9820 is talking about on MonMusu, where it went so long with no updates that I don't remember where I stopped and can't be arsed to find it. Read some recent chapters, its good.

>>9829 >You want more monmusu fans on this board? Bring them here and/or talk about monmusu in more general threads often enough that anons pick it up. Remember that there's a lot o people lurking, so you have the potential, if you put in the work. I get it you're the BO and you kind of have to shill working for your own board, but this was a little much.

>>9861 Well, what kind of response did you expect? This isn't a wordpress blog where owner is responsible for providing you with content, I already put in tons of hours just being there every day and helping keep up daily activity, I don't have the time to marathon monmusu to add more in-depth lore discussions.

>>9870 I'm talking about the attitude, and this reply is even worse. Just because you're correct doesn't mean the approach is. And for the record, in case you somehow miss this, this isn't about you providing content.

>>9893 Not the BO here, but he's not wrong. You want more people to talk about monmusu. How else do you wanna go about getting that going? Cause other than posting regularly and getting other folk here to do just that, there's not many other options to get a community going. This place is found by word of mouth right now, we don't exactly have banner ads up at other sites pointing here. He's frustrated at having to reiterate that, and you're tone policing. On an imageboard. I get your issue, but compared to other MG communities, he's not being abrasive. Some thicker skin won't hurt you. Bear in mind, this is not a unique issue. Having floated around the different MG community hubs for a while, you tend to notice that language barriers and autism leads to a lot of miscommunication.

NTR shit and slutposting is /amg/ material right? why is this post still allowed on the main board? >> 7969

>>9913 Because it wasn't NTR. Some anon just joked about making a counter VN where femdom is switched for maledom. If he talked about making a VN where someone steals her from someone (or the reader) then yeah I'd delete the post. It was also implied that she wasn't in any relationship yet, so that's another reason to believe NTR wasn't the intent. When in doubt I prefer to assume the positive scenario, rather than the worst.

>>9894 >spelling out the obvious again >mentions autism yeah, that checks out >you're tone policing. no shit sherlock. I didn't like the tone, which is why I complained.

weird question to site owner: do you keep activity stats? like, save the daily/weekly posts or visits somewhere? I was wondering how activity looks depending on the day of the week, or time of the month and alike.

>>10189 I make my own charts using python, I measure activity levels in posts per week. If you are interested I can send you the charts if you mail me. I prefer not to publish exact numbers because from my experience with small imageboards, it usually doesn't lead to anything good.

hey, can you chill a bit with deleting posts? I think its second or third time I had some benign stuff deleted, its annoying.

>>10525 What did you lose.

>>10526 NTA, but I think a post in the fox thread got deleted

>>10525 >>10526 >>10531 I deleted a post that was basically >I don't like this, I don't want to see it here Which was made in response to >>10498 It also contained irrelevant reference to IRL women. Being negative and even mean is to be expected on imageboards so the second reply stayed, but I cannot allow backseat modding and attempts at pushing away any kind of activity from the board just because someone doesn't like it. That's even right in the board rules (updated after the experiment with threads): >5. Don't backseat mod. If you don't like something, use the built-in filter function, hide the thread/post or discuss that matter in board meta thread. btw this was the first post I deleted since May 2nd, before anyone thinks I'm going ham with the janny powers.

>>10532 >"I don't like this, I don't want to see it here" >backseat modding Are you serious? At this point any and all negative posts would be "backseat modding" by this standard.

why are there only 4 pages allowed?

>>10593 Not the BO, but it could be a display error that's cropped up. Same thing happened to the write thread a couple months back.

>>10593 >>10594 That's because of thread limit. I've set it somewhat low to keep the database from swelling too fast and generally conserve server resources. For archival purposes web archive can be used, otherwise you only need to post once every 3 months to keep a thread from sliding off the board.

Did posting speed drop off a cliff or is it just my imagination.

>>10770 Not just you, but for me it feels like posting speed became slower in general in a few other places too. I'm definitely not posting much (or anything) because of irl stuff. Maybe its the season, coincidence or smth else

>>10882 indeed seems to be a combination of circumstances, I'm going through hell IRL for the past few weeks and went from posting every day to mainly lurking though I'm slowly returning to normal.

I'm going from interview to interview trying to be not a jobbless loser neet. Though current two jobs that seems to be possible get is either move to another country or 16 hours of office work, because items randomly come in between 6 am and 11pm lmao

>>10948 What country do you live in? Im any case I'd recommend looking into mail delivery. Post Office work gets a bad rap usually (normies can't handle repetition) , but it's perfect for autists. You either sort mail all day or deliver it, if you're lucky you don't need to talk to a single soul all day.

Stupid question. But do hazbin /helluva deems count in as /mg/ content Yes I know fujobait show. But some, SOME (one) is usable

>>11012 I meant one girl is usable

>>11012 >hazbin Should be fine >helluva Isn't this one mainly furry? If majority of girls have beaks, snouts and button noses then no >Yes I know fujobait show. But some, SOME (one) is usable All the meta shit baggage does not matter on this board and I'm even fine with people posting fucking humanized ponies, at worst you won't get any responses. I recommend either wrapping up all the western cartoon stuff (like hazbin, SU, tower girls) into one thread or using the general one to gauge interest, but you are free to do as you wish.

>>11018 You know a general western monstergirl could work. I'm not sure why I didn't think of it.

>>11018 What about non-humanized ponies? Can they be posted anywhere on the site?

>>11022 That's what /amg/ is for

>>11018 >Isn't this one mainly furry? It's mainly about the homosexual relationship between an owl who really likes getting buttfucked and an imp. Loona was just the foot in the door to trick us all into caring. That said it still gets enough content to actually be worth talking about compared to 90% of monster girl stuff, which has mostly devolved into never ever patreon scams.

https://desuchannel.site come funpost and such

>>13063 What the hell is this link.

>>13072 Someone is spamshilling a new altchan. I'm letting it stay up because they linked back to us in their thread and why the fuck not, might as well use the meta thread since last post here was like half a year ago.

>>13063 living dolls are an underrated monstergirl