/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

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I'm not entirely opposed to containment generals. /trv/ for example, one of the slowest boards, has a perpetual Japan General because of the extremely disproportionate amount of lazy weeaboos asking questions that can be answered with a 5 second google or a quick glance over the sticky. Over and over again. It's fine as a last measure to just dump them all in a single thread and spare everyone the eyesore when mods are too lazy to bother. What isn't ok though is making 20 different perpetual generals for every thing from alternative art to animation. That's just being overzealous. The board can hold 165 threads, it's really perfectly enough to handle someone asking a question in a separate one. If you segregate people into their little self-contained chatrooms, you end up turning the board into pic related. With a sea of a 100 shitposts in between that nobody sane will ever bother to wade through. Something has to fill the void after all when you have a dedicated Questions and Answers General just in case someone actually wants to post something serious.
>Honestly I find the hate for generals extremely irrational too, especially on more populated board like /v/ where if a new game comes out everyone wants to talk about it
A big problem with generals, especially on big boards, is that they refuse to die. People develop tiny communities they grow attached too and will try everything to keep them alive. Generals dedicated to a specific work inevitably end up filled with blogposts, waifuposts, shitposts and endless bumps, just to make sure they don't 404. Look at the stuff still going strong on /vg/. Katawa Shoujo. Undertale. FNAF. Mass Effect. Dragon's Dogma. Artificial Academy. The Witcher. All single player games which haven't had a new release in months, if not years. What is there left to talk about every single hour of every single day? Nothing. The general exists for its own sake, nobody even cares about the topic anymore. People just can't let go.