>>9246I came to /meta/ to complain about this. The same thing has ruined other imageboards too, and every time I bring it up I just get shit hurled at me. /feels/ has a dedicated vent thread, yet still a majority of posters feel the need to make a thread venting about some moid shit in their lives. Usually these unnecessary, personal threads get around 10 replies because, who would've guessed, your hyper-specific problem isn't really relevant to the rest of us.
Newfags need to lurk more; this isn't facebook and you shouldn't just make a new post because you have something you want to say. Go to the catalogue and read the posts that are there to see if your particular issue is already being discussed. Read through the replies, and
then add your contribution. I don't always read through
everything in a thread, but I do my bit to read at least a dozen replies and respond to them before adding what I want to talk about. I haven't made a post here, but once I was going to so I hit "ctrl+F" and realised someone had already started discussing something similar, so I bumped that thread instead of drowning it under yet another duplicate. By lurking, you get a feel for what distinguishes "I'M SELFISH LOOK AT ME, ME ME ME" from "Here is a genuine, general topic that I would like to discuss that you may like to discuss too". I'm probably wasting my time saying this here, maybe someone who doesn't know this will read it and apply it.
