>>5660
>The site had a strange system of meta post over having a forum. Discussion took place within the comments of the site. So you would have these text only or mostly text picture post, charts and meme posing questions to the userbase of the website or starting a dissuasion topic.
>the actual meta posts were and the ones I downloaded plus some of the self referential memes do give a pretty good idea on what ponibooru's culture was like along with some early fandom dynamics
as if the adventures in the comments around Derpi for controversial pictures weren´t already a mess with several off topics throughout the entire section...it seems that ponyfying everything for any random topic with memes could perfectly drive at...

>>5661
>The whole meta post system was an issue on the site with some thinking that it was better to have a forum. Additionally some questioned the practice hosting fan fiction in the same style of text only posts, another practice of the site. I actually do remember the practice of fanfiction
being stored in image format sometimes wonder it arose from there or just was something that arose from a huge blooming fandom that wasn't always well integrated into the other fandom infrastructure and hadn't fully developed its own yet?
this direction. One could certainly understand that the hype was really strong and ponies would take all the prominence for every single thing which is fine. However, the old school of bringing up discussion has become a standard for a reason and this would serve as a lesson why a forum palliates and avoids problems of this kind. You have explained why there were so many memes in the gallery, it´s no wonder that they were created for meta purposes.
What always works is by introducing everything properly and then the memes, not in reverse.

Seeing this state of the fandom in its prime years makes you realize how much it has evolved since then and how on Derpibooru, you can post little stories or background explanations for the picture itself. I have always admired the fanbase for being organized even in the chans but this proves that improvements didn´t come overnight.