I started browsing /tg/ again after a pretty long break, and noticed there's a lot of non-general threads in the catalog that are about random worldbuilding related topics ("how does your setting deal with XYZ", etc.) that are days and days old, despite there being very little activity in those threads. In some of them, someone would angrily respond to some random inane reply with "frick yourself bumpstrag". At first I thought bumpstrag was being used as a general term for someone bumping a thread, but after seeing it used quite a lot, it became apparent that there's a board boogeyman individual referred to as "bumpstrag" infamous for keeping threads alive for days and days by bumping them with inane replies.
Having nothing better to do, I decided to do some extensive research on the topic (and by that I mean I looked up "bumpstrag" on google and 4plebs).
Turns out there's multiple PDF files on this guy:
https://i.4pcdn.org/tg/1579640139044.pdf
https://i.4pcdn.org/tg/1633336990007.pdf
Another thing I noticed lurking on /tg/ is that apparently, recently the mods implemented a change to how autosaging works on /tg/. I was curious to what exactly they did, and looking through archives, I found the answer:
https://archived.moe/tg/thread/89336498/#89417677
If true, it means this person is singularly responsible for mods first making all threads on /tg/ autosage after 14 days, and then going even further and making all threads on /tg/ autosage after 7 days. Which sounds hilarious to me, that a single neurodivergent could have such a massive effect on an entire board, and that the original solution they made was to autosage threads that are 14 days old, which implies that he must have kept threads alive for much longer before that. I wonder what's the longest he kept a thread up alive?
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/v/ has alf, who really hates Half-Life and will pretend that everyone else thinks it ruined shooter games. Theres also the artifact 2 guy who shows up in every Valve related thread (though I suspect it's multiple people posting copypasta.) There's also the Vidya Butts poster who makes the same porn thread every hour. There'salso some Final Fantasy lolcow that I don't know much about. /qa/ (rip) had Lee Goldson and various Lee baiters, though I am pretty sure he quit at some point and some groomercord users were pretending to be him. /tv/ has uncleposter (who I think might be more than one person.)
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Barry? The FFXV/Forspoken fan that hates FFXIV/FFXVI? I don't doubt that he exists, but FFXIV fans on /v/ are particularly neurodivergent and they call everyone who doesn't worship Naoki Yoshida (director of FFXIV/FFXVI) Barry. They also have a massive persecution complex and believe there's one janny with a grudge against them that keeps deleting their threads because he's a WoW fan. I don't know what happens in FFXVI threads, I'm avoiding those because I'm waiting for the game to come out on PC to play it.
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Barry 100% exists (his writing style is unmistakeable once you know it and he’s had all his posts wiped on a ban multiple times) but there are multiple schizos on each side of the FFXIV war (e.g. Pablo), which muddies the water. Plus XIVstrags have a long tradition of disguising their pseudo-generals as anti-XIV threads to hide from the wowbuck mod.
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/v/ also had the Jas sperg
who ruins every Stardew Valley thread with lolishit.
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Good.
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animaterr man
furry rights are human rights
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Stand alone complex type shit
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furry rights are human rights! We be helpin' ye, right enough - we'll ne'er let ye post or comment anythin' that doesn't be expressin' yer love an' acceptance o' minorities! Heave to an' resubmit yer comment withfurry rights are human rightsincluded, or it'll be the deep six for ye, savvy? This be an automated message; if ye need help, ye can message us 'ere. Arrr!Jump in the discussion.
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furry rights are human rights! We be helpin' ye, right enough - we'll ne'er let ye post or comment anythin' that doesn't be expressin' yer love an' acceptance o' minorities! Heave to an' resubmit yer comment withfurry rights are human rightsincluded, or it'll be the deep six for ye, savvy? This be an automated message; if ye need help, ye can message us 'ere. Arrr!Jump in the discussion.
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