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?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
/tg/ could have been a good board if their jannies were so fricking r-slurred in trimming bullshit and it just comes a "my setting" anything goes no game bullshit.
Like why isn't there a worldbuilding board at this point for most of these unimaginative fricks?
And then you have the other thread of character art where a redditstrag keeps posting his loli characters. Those threads requesting art suck too like just go to Pinterest then you morons.
The content is more recycled than any subreddit, its nuts.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Is that the guy who had a Cyberpunk character
who was a high schooler who killed 
herself? That guy has never 
played a game in his life.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
that and some vampire loli he ALWAYS reposts in every thread. So many pics get reposted that most character threads are like 50% the same as the old one.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
It's the same guy? Truly a negative
quality 
contributor.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
It's still not as bad as before the >>/qst/ split.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context