>moot said /a/ is the best board >/jp/ still is his favorite

>>120270564
He said it is one of the best, not the best.

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>>120270564

Best girl can never win.

>the first board
>best but didn't win
>tsundere

We are the childhood friend.

>>120270564
Stop being salty, anon.

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>>120270564

>>120270698
>We are the childhood friend
It hurts hearing this.Because it's true.

He said /jp/ makes him laugh the most, but /a/ is the closest in style to old 4chan and is one of the best boards when compared to its size.

>>120271090
/a/ family confirmed for superior.

We should really consider making our own chan for when this site goes under

>>120271146
We can deal with that on ghost /a/ when the time comes.

>>120271146
That would be really hard to pull off moderation for and also getting everyone to migrate. I think even if you got the majority of /a/ to go there, unless it was exactly like /a/ (which is unlikely) you'd have people leaving over time until you're left with a handful of users.

>>120271265
When 4chan goes under, the /a/ community is pretty separated from the rest of 4chan, so we would probably make a separate site.

I wish we had that already to be honest.

>>120271322
The organization is what's impossible. Everyone will always disagree on where to go.

>>120271351
meh, i'll just follow quantity and the few good tripshits, and build from there, as most /a/nons

Because /jp/ is the only board that actually knows how to properly post. Remember that moot started off in the Japanese boards.

>>120271351
I see nothing wrong with wakaba or bunbunmaru,

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>>120271146
>Implying it ever will get taken down

>>120271351
Naturally. How could ever I listen to someone who's taste is worse than mine?

>>120271407
I'll make sure to go wherever you don't.

>>120271444
Wakaba is badly outdated. Most popular boards out there are either on a completely different script or heavily updated and edited wakaba for a reason.

/a/ is the model other board should seek to emulate. It doesn't have half the problems I see on other boards

/a/ is a horrible board. There's way too many cowtit lovers here.

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Even though a lot of you have shit taste, you are all my friends and I love you.

>>120271659
Get lost, nobody likes you.

>>120271659
It's not friends if they can be replaced by random strangers without your noticing.

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>>120271656
Even thoguh I prefer DFC, but still, pic related.

>>120271659
Y-you too.

>>120271757
Think about all the anons you've talked with that are now dead ;_;

>>120271780

;_;7

>>120271780
Think about all the anons who trolled you to impotent rage while you were unknowingly praising their tastes in the neighboring threads.

>>120271864
But i hate you all, i love /a/'s collective mind.

Everything i dislike is the fault of outsiders.

>>120271864
Sometimes I wonder if someone that I told had good taste actually spends most of their time on /a/ in the Naruto/SnK/Fate threads.

>>120271935
>I wonder if someone that I told had good taste actually spends most of their time on /a/ in the Naruto/SnK/Fate threads
This scares me too. I want to move away from them.

>>120271932
>But i hate you all, i love /a/'s collective mind.
That's exactly my point.
/a/ is not a gathering of friends, /a/ is a singular, schizophrenic hivemind friend.

/a/ is literally the only board I visit.

>>120272099
Could you be me?

>>120272099
>praise me for doing what's right

>>120271935
The obvious solution is to never tell anybody that they have good tastes.

>>120272099
Hi5, anon if we're talking about 4chan only

>>120271935
>>120272070
It's not impossible. /a/nons are not all in two categories. There are narutards who don't shitpost, and there are oldfags who have been here since 2003 that spend their time shitposting. There are people who have great taste and you share the same favorite anime but think /a/ is a shithole and worse than /v/.

It's not black and white.

>>120272079
>/a/ is not a gathering of friends, /a/ is a singular, schizophrenic hivemind friend.
But it's not.

>>120272099
If I could talk about video games here I'd do that too.

>>120270564
So did he actually say anything interesting or did he keep mumbling?

>>120272079
/a/ doesn't have a hivemind though.

>>120270564
He said, /a/ is one of the best board quality wise.

>>120272208
That's why I added the term schizophrenic.
I don't know how else to describe it.

>>120272208
I can more or less guess /a/'s opínion on an anime on a 95% success rate.

>>120272099
I browse /a/ 95% of the time but occasionally visit /tv/ for orcposting or tolkien threads, take a peek at /v/ to see if there's any big news, and /g/ on occasion.

>>120272274
>/a/'s opinion

You're a retard. There is no "/a/'s opinion".

/a/ is very divided. Yes, of course you can guess that if you make a thread about an anime someone will say its shit, because there are always people who dislike things. But there will also always be people that like it too.

>>120272443
I could see the whole death parade happening after the NTR part for example.

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This is why. A fake will never be the original.

>>120272545
"The fake carries a greater value, because in its great efforts to become real, it became more real than the real thing. "

>dating 4channers

Jesus what a mistake.

I'm gonna hang out in bars in manhattan until I get to hang out with moot.

>>120272707
Only a minority of /a/ puts an effort into their posts.
Most people completely stopped using sage when it became invisible. Emoticons have almost become acceptable too.
"Funposting" is not the part we admire about /jp/.

>>120272922
>Only a minority of /a/ puts an effort into their posts.

I disagree, I see quality posts pretty often.

>>120272731
Who are you quoting?
>>120272922
>Emoticons have almost become acceptable too.
No
>Only a minority of /a/ puts an effort into their posts.
What threads do you even lurk?

>>120272922
>Only a minority of /a/ puts an effort into their posts.

It depends on the thread.

If the OP is just "ASUKA A SHIT" or something along those lines then all the replies will be similarly shit, but if you try and start a legit discussion on something you're likely to get some good replies.

>>120272958
You see thousands of posts per day.
"Quite often" sounds like 1% at the most. This post is not one of them.

>>120272922
>Most people completely stopped using sage when it became invisible.

And before it was invisible, most people used it for shitposting. So, good.

>Emoticons have almost become acceptable too.

Not even close. The only thing you see posted even relatively often is ;_;

>"Funposting" is not the part we admire about /jp/.

Good thing /a/ doesn't have rampant funposting then.

>>120272958

How do you personally define a "quality post"?

>>120273022
Are you even listening to the stream?

>>120273033
Sounds like you've been browsing the wrong threads.

>>120273022
moot

>>120272922
This, I'm a newfag who came to 4chan and /a/ specifically almost 2 years ago and posting emoticons back when I started you'll get way more reprimand than you get now, and the faggots who posted them didn't talk back.

Sure emoticons haven't become accepted but nowadays people mostly ignore them and if you call them out on their fagotry they'll go "lel oldfag"and such.

>>120273059
>The only thing you see posted even relatively often is ;_;
Even then, it's mostly only accepted for the good night sweet prince/princess, Yomi or you will never sad frog.

>>120273022
>No
>>120273059
>The only thing you see posted even relatively often is ;_;
You are telling me you didn't notice the influx of colon-caret-closing parenthesis?
Barely anybody's saying anything when it happens.

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>>120270940
Kek'd

>>120271322
>the /a/ community is pretty separated from the rest of 4chan
Pretty sure a lot of people here are crossposters

>>120273223
I don't know what to tell you, I see them get told to fuck off pretty much every time they're posted.

>>120273223
/a/ doesn't fight back anymore. I've noticed this happening a lot more frequently.

>>120272922
>saging
Why even bother? It's pointless

>>120273307
When I tell them offf they just respond with more emoticons and I have to drop it.

Good thing I'm both /a/ and /jp/. Really I assumed that most people were both, honestly. It just feels like a weaponized /a/.

>>120273346
That's precisely the point. You don't want to bump.

People go into shit threads to tell OP to fuck off, but keep the thread on page one for half an hour, with the thread quickly growing to hundreds of replies.

>>120273264
https://archive.moe/a/search/text/emoticons/

Majority of posts are people being told to fuck off for using them.

Mods also ban for posting them most of the time.

>>120273335
Yeah, it's a shame it doesn't happen more often, but it does still happen, which still keeps it the best board.

>>120273430
Which is pretty meaningless because of catalogs

>>120273223
The only acceptable emoticons on /a/ are (:3) and (;___;) along with Japanese emoticons because we're all weebs at heart.

>>120273435
>https://archive.moe/a/search/text/emoticons/
Half of those posts are from me.
>Majority of posts are people being told to fuck off for using them.
So, since half of them are from me, and I can't lurk every single thread on /a/, we can assume that lots go unnoticed.

>>120273346

It's an etiquette that new users wouldn't really understand, just like how they'll never understand the negative aspects of catalog's existence in regards to the dynamics of an image board.

>>120273335

We got old. The older generation of users are too tired now.

We just watch the newer generation of users make the board worse and worse with a frown.

>>120273362
That's when you report them. Newfags will almost always be spiteful babies like that, which is why you just have to have enough people yelling at them until they fuck off or go back to lurking. You don't get that often enough, but there's usually at least one or two people saying it. I mean, the meta threads we've had the past few days have consisted of tons of people telling /v/ crossboarders to fuck off. They're vastly outnumbered.

It could be better, and there's no denying /a/ is on the decline, but it could definitely be way, way worse. /a/ hasn't lost most of it's value yet. Don't let the quality decline make you lose hope, just keep encouraging what should be done and we can keep up the quality as much as possible.

>>120273549
You assume the majority of /a/ uses the catalog.
The loss of thumbnails a few weeks back showed very plainly that most people have no idea the catalog exists.

>>120273593
>We just watch the newer generation of users make the board worse and worse with a frown.
A big part of it comes from mods and moot enabling newer people with what is and what isn't welcomed here and since people aren't setting a standard new people run rampant thinking they own the place and that board culture is just a fat neckbeard myth

>>120273390
/jp/ talks about a bunch of shit I don't care about.

From this thread I learnt about the catalog function and that sage is no longer visible here.
Oh, wow.

>>120273656
What's also funny is people that use the in built catalog, and not the off-site one. Or people that don't use 4chan x. Or people that use the default Yotsuba B theme.

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>>120273551
>:3

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I think he's just trying to make up with jaypee.

>>120273722
Nothing wrong with Yotsuba B. It's between that and Tomorrow.

>>120273696
Yeah, the decline could be curbed or controlled if we had mods like Kino helping out. I seriously think newfag janitors and inactive mods are the biggest reason /a/ is falling right now.

>>120273722
Hey, Yotsuba B is nice. I use it from time to time.

>>120273629

Ugh, I've observed countless threads where oldfags would complain about how awful the board has become, and the newfags would just tell them "deal with it, we're here now and these are our norms."

It would be lovely if they just shut the fuck up and lurked before posting, but that's not really a thing anymore.

Oh well.

>>120273759
>>120273777
It's blinding. When you browse /a/ for 8-10 hours a day, Tomorrow or any dark theme is so much easier on the eyes.

So is it time to finally tear down this wall? I wouldn't mind seeing the old standard back in place.

>>120273773
There is the one janitor or mod that takes care of naruto threads but it's pretty inconsistent.
I'm not sure what to do. I guess we could all take moot's advice and ignore what we don't like, but that doesn't fix board quality.

>>120273722
I can't get used to dark catalog for some reason even though I have dark theme on normal pages.

>>120273823
Turn on the light in your room. Don't have your monitor at an obscene brightness level.

>>120272490

>/a/ is so deprived of a winning best girl that they clung to Naruto when it won

>>120273861
Yeah. Ignoring what you don't like works for things like: a series you hate, a fanbase that annoys you, a certain archetype that people like. It works well as the antithesis of stop liking what I don't like, but for moderation it doesn't apply at all.

>>120273823
Yotsuba B is cute. That's why I use it.

>>120273390
>weaponized /a/

What does that even mean?

>>120273967
For me it's just traditional.

>>120273967
>cute

What the fuck what does that even mean

>>120273390

I've been to /jp/ a few times, and while it seems their board culture hasn't received much outside influence like /co/ which turned into tumblr 2.0 half of the threads there don't interest me like >>120273703 , regardless of that like I said, I feel a lot more respect for /jp/ than for some other boards which have completely fell to moralfag-normalfag-SJW influence

>>120273390
Nobody cares for /jp/.

>>120274028
Have you heard of dictionaries?

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>>120274028
I-it's just cute, anon.

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>crossposting in 4 different meta threads at once including /qa/
>keep getting them confused, so many tabs open that I can't tell which is which

>>120274031

It's the last remaining save-haven for older generation of users. Even then, it's suffered its share of degrading board quality.

Apparently /x/ is one as well, but I rarely visit that place.

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>>120274028
Something like this.

>>120274065
Remember that we frown upon spoonfeeding, /a/non.

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I love you, /a/.

I'd rather not say anything else other than this or else I'll be sending my deathflags flying all over the place.

>>120273867
Worst thing about Tomorrow is the transparency.

The current state of /a/ is fine.
/jp/ is also good.
If you like anime and the community stick with /a/ because /jp/ feels a lot different.

We've always known that /a/ is the best board. I've been saying it for years as well so what if moot likes /jp/ the best? Imagine how would you feel if he'd say /s4s/ is his favorite.

Besides, don't forget /a/ and /jp/ are 2 sides of the same coin, we are the same.

>>120274137
There's always /m/.

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>>120274117
and fun things are fun, right faggot?

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>>120274028
Kawaii

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>>120274199
Y-yeah

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>>120274199

>>120274165

Y-You too.

>>120274191

You know, given all the mecha series I've seen, I never once stepped into /m/ for some reason.

>>120274168
Is it just me or are there a lot more amateurish transparencies being made and posted nowadays than a few years ago?

It seems like every second image was made with some autoselect tool.

>>120274031
Isn't it kind of inevitable that /jp/ keeps out normalfags?

I mean it's called Otaku Culture. Any normalfag or even someone with a low powerlevel wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.

>>120274028
かわいい

>>120274137
My friend who showed me this place back in like mid-2004 kept telling me to check out /jp/ and /x/ and I never listened to him. I bet he still lurks, despite him saying he doesn't.

>>120274306
>You know, given all the mecha series I've seen, I never once stepped into /m/ for some reason.
Which is precisely the reason why it's good. Not you in particular. But people (and newfags) who like anime go to /a/, not /m/.

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>>120274186
>The current state of /a/ is fine.
>/jp/ is also good.
fifty keks

>>120273799
>Smoked Cheese
After you burned all the bridges around here, you should just sit still and not mention anything about board quality.

>>120273884
This

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>>120274247
>>120274287
If fun things are fun t-then girls can love girls right? right?

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>>120274433

I burned bridges?

>>120274410

Anon, /jp/ didn't exist in 2004.

>>120270564
>one of the
You missed that part.

>>120274412
Ironic shitposting is still shitposting.

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>>120274485
Yes, yes they can.

>>120274510
That friend was a visionary.

>>120274510
>reading comprehension
Not IN 2004. That's when he showed me this place. He stopped lurking before I did but made some comebacks, when he did those, he gave me that advice.

>>120274510
Shitposting on full force with miku mondays.

>>120273884
I do usually have the light on in my room. I think my monitor is at 30% brightness level too. Tomorrow is just much more relaxing on my eyes, I guess. It's perfectly normal for a large amount of light colored backgrounds on screen for an extended period of time just gets tiring after 10 hours of staring at them.

>>120270564
moot loves 2hu . he tsundere

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>>120274364
Well funny enough /jp/ is like the real japan, being forever isolated from the rest of the outside world and developing a weird and unique culture because of that isolation while always mistrusting outsiders and scaring them out

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I really do, even though you all have shit taste and can't even talk about a show without going full autism.

>>120274631
That's more or less all the /a/boards.

Some like /m/ are isolated because no one cares about them, some seek it.

>>120274575

Your writing skills are poor, not my reading comprehension. You never modified the time frame after introducing it in your post and never made any other clarifications, the readers are inclinded to believe that everything took place mid-2004. You literally had to clarify in that post yo just made.

Why the fuck would you accuse illiteracy when it's your own goddamn fault?

>>120274586

I didn't really participate in Miku Monday threads, though...

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>>120274680
"all" is probably a bit of an overstatement.

I love some of you guys

>>120274715
>I didn't really participate in Miku Monday threads, though...
You don't have to try pull that.

I would like to thank all the mods and janitors that did it FOR FREE for all those years.

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>>120274680

>>120274755

I have literally 0 interest in vocaloids.

If I did participate and somehow forgot about it, I have aboslutely 0 idea what I would even do in them.

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>>120274797
Das lewd anon

>>120274715
"who showed me this place in mid-2004" was a qualitative clause for "my friend," though I guess I should have marked it off with commas or parentheses, since you thought I meant it as a time frame for the whole sentence.

>>120274799
You mostly provided images.
After that more imagespam threads started.

>>120274906

Probably...

I'm very sleepy and sleep deprived, I'm sorry I said mean words. ;_;

>>120274948

I never saved any Miku images.

I think you may be confusing me with someone else.

>>120274994
How many Smoked Cheese tripfags are there?

Once again, /a/ demonstrates that they can't tell who is who in a thread and just tack on a name to anyone that they don't like so they can hate them with more passion.

>>120275061
The only name I've memorized is Anonymous and I'm not sure who that is anymore.

>>120275061
It's not something specific to /a/ though.

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>>120273335
But we should enforce our elitism, though. It's the only way to prevent /a/ of becoming /v/.

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>>120274747

Tee hee, I made that image.

>>120275038

Just me, but I think you might be remembering things wrong.

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>>120275061
What?

>>120275127
"We" aren't the majority anymore.

I have to keep telling myself that it isn't Nagi/Siztra so I don't flip my shit at him.

>>120275202
>Just me
Indeed, so fuck you!

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>>120275127
Should we enforce it through a well trained contingent of loli police officers?

>>120275215
We never were, we just need new people to believe we are silly.

>>120275240
Thats a really good idea.

>>120275127

It wouldn't be the same elitism.

It would be elitism perpetuated by the userbase that's already been infiltrated by reddit users and gaiafags.

I'm not sure if you want the newfags to impose their brand of elitism...

>>120275202
>I made that image.

I'm deleting it.

>>120275127
There isn't enough of us anymore. And if there is, these people aren't willing to take charge and make a difference.
It's sad

>>120275116
That may be true, but I'm not anywhere else right now. We should be the example for other boards and be better.

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>>120275319

>>120275235
Now you've got me curious what he allegedly did. I hate Vocalshit, so I wouldn't go to Miku Monday threads either.

>>120275362
>he

>>120275362
>this new
Smocchi is a christmas cake

>>120275497

No I'm not, I'm still 24.

I still have time, h-haha.

>>120275331
You're right, we should roll over and die, and let /v/ invade with open arms.

Fuck you. We'll keep fighting as hard as we possibly can. It may not always work, but I'm sure as fuck not going to stop caring about /a/'s quality.

>>120275289
Then just like some medieval realms who brought foreigners to rule over them because they couldn't find good leaders among themselves should we bring in some /jp/ bros to teach us their brand of elitism?

>>120275569

Unfortunately, /jp/ has suffered the same fate.

The battle is already lost, anon.

Of all the people complaining about the deterioration of /a/'s quality here, I'm not sure if we'd be able to get even 2 to agree on what exactly has gotten worse (as opposed to better).
If we managed to focus on 2 or three key points worth enforcing while simultaneously dismissing others as acceptable we might have more of a chance to get somewhere.

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>>120275289
>>120275127
Perhaps we should spend our time being even better posters than everyone else. Lead by example kind of thing. What if that worked?

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>>120275645

I've been repenting for my sins I've commited as a tripfag by doing that ever since I dropped my trip in 2013.

>>120275568
This is the motivation we need

>>120275497
>>120275422
I just assume everyone on the internet is male. I don't follow tripfag personal details, because I'm not some kind of creepy stalker.

>>120275645
Leading by example only works if newfags lurk, which they don't so newfags follow newfag's lead and it's just a problem.

>>120275362
Cheese used to contribue.
Somewhere early 2011 it just became literally imagespam circlejerking. It wasn't show what to talk about, just images all over again. Deleted thread before autosage just to make sure that thread stay on front page.

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>>120275527
>5+ years later
>Smochi still tripping for attention
>Anons still feeding into his shit.

Onee-Chan please grow up

>>120275569
Which makes me wonder, I guess a good part of /a/ likes or at least respects /jp/ but what do THEY think of us?

>>120275627

/a/ has become less elitist so more normalfags have wandered in and infested us with its /v/ shit.

>>120275645
Pretty much this.

>>120275778

Okay, now I am 100% sure you have me confused with someone else.

>>120275866
Smoked Cheese is one of the few tripfags that stay blacklisted and there is always reason to blacklist.

>>120275794
They think we are immature fustilarians mostly.

>>120275705
You're using a trip right now you giga-cockgobbler. Why not just drop it and be an anon like everyone else.

>>120275795
At the same time, /a/ has begun to shrink. /a/'s population peaked in 2013.
I'm not sure we actually suddenly saw such a huge old-fag emigration that it offset the newfag immigration.

I don't think the elitism died so much as it split the community. Some are holding onto it more than ever, others have begun to see it as the problem and begun "ironically" shitposting to fight it.

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>>120275977
They think we are the low-life no good little brother?

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>>120276002

I dunno, I think I put it on earlier to add credibility to a post I was making since I've been here longer than most people, and then I forgot to take it off.

I'll remove it eventually.

Speaking of tripfags, is that Taiga airport adventure story true?

>>120276110
The worst reason to use a trip.
The precise reason why people post anonymously on 4chan.

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>>120275627
I think the biggest step forward is getting the mods on our side. This means reporting shitposting newfags, always. If we have enough people reporting emoticons, sauce requests, rec threads, /v/ behavior, then they'll be forced to start helping us moderate. Other than that, tell people to lurk more, sage bad threads, encourage high quality posting and perpetrate the mentality that /a/ is a good place for anime discussion (it is) to counter the "shitposting is funposting" mentality that many crossboarders have. The biggest idea to get across is that /a/ is not like the rest of the site, which is why they're supposed to lurk in order to figure that out.

The most satisfying thing is when a /v/tard comes in and says /a/ is for shitposting, nobody watches anime here and it's a terrible board, then immediately gets shat on by 15 anons telling him that /v/ is not all of 4chan.

But really, moderation is the biggest step forward we could take. We need them helping us keep the quality up. A sctrictly anime related recommendation thread is more detrimental than a blatantly off topic thread, and we need to get that across to them. The priority needs to be keeping /a/'s quality from getting worse, not enforcing rules senselessly. I'd take a rule breaking post over a /v/-quality post any day.

>>120270564
/a/ is the childhood friend that didn't win the mootbowl

>>120276193
>sage bad threads

I phrased that poorly. "Remember to use sage when posting in a bad thread" would be better.

>>120276193
I just want all the shonenshit to stop.

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>>120275776
But elitism doesn't work either. We've done that for years and it's left us with the people who don't give a fuck about your elitist ideals and will just push on belligerently along their ideas.

Meanwhile, that elitist anon and belligerent anon generate a pointless shitstorm since both of them desire for the last word and an entire thread gets derailed for an hour because of something as unimportant as a :( rather than a ;_; So while Elitist sits there getting bothered about your board's quality and Belligerent starts busting out his /sp/ memes and nothing productive happens. After about 15 minutes of arguing with someone who doesn't agree with what you feel should be allowed on the board, you end up looking indistinguishable from the person you started arguing with. The thread dies and no one learns anything.

Make productive threads. Create good replies. Reply to good posters. Don't let dumb shit spiral out of control. I want /a/ to be good, but it refuses to learn from the things that obviously has not been working for the past few years.

>>120276157

It was a joke but people took it seriously.

>>120276181

Y-You too.

>>120276253
The shonen"shit" has been with /a/ since the beginning.

>>120276193
Sounds like some reasonable ideas. (I do that anyway)

>>120276193
>sauce requests

Any specifics to that? Because it seems needlessly harsh to punish someone who has tried iqbd, tineye, google, etc but get's nothing?

I agree that people who are too lazy to do even that deserve to be banned though.

>>120276253
Entry level anime/series you don't like is pretty far down on the list of /a/'s problems, anon.

>>120276076

I'm fine with /a/'s population decreasing. The more popular 4chan has become, the shittier its become as a result.

There was a time when everything on 4chan wasn't "LOL LE HAPPY JEW BEHIND EVERYTHING"

>>120276283
>The shonen"shit" has been with /a/ since the beginning
You're absolutely right, but I remember it quite differently from now some odd number of years ago.

>>120276193

Losing modcat was probably one of the worst things to ever happen to this board.

;_;7

>>120275645
I've noticed that posting Satori has changed from "P-please respond" and autism, to being some sort of enforcer or something. I don't know, Satori posters just got more intense.

>>120276336
Modcat didn't do a shit.

>>120276314
Before you tell people off for asking for sauce, try for yourself if you can find the source without too much trouble.
If it's literally one click away, tell him what he's doing wrong or just to fuck off, whichever one you find more appropriate.
If you can't find it, helping is not a bad thing.

>>120276314
Discretion. And that's part of getting a good mod with discretion. I see no problem with giving sauce to a crop of an obscure manga from 20 years ago, or an anime that's very rarely posted on /a/. But if someone posts a fucking Nichijou webm and then someone cries for the source, they should be one day banned or at least warned.

Mods should also put "lurk more" in their ban explanations. Word of God helps a lot with convincing people to lurk.

>>120276193
As a newfag I've never understood the bad blood between /a/ and /v/, you'd think they'd be like good brothers since normalfags and otakus watch anime and play videogames (albeit very different kinds of, but still)

>>120271432
>Because /jp/ is the only board that actually knows how to properly post.

LOL

>>120276380

He didn't tag (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) every time he moderated, you're aware of this, right?

Like moot mentioned in the Q&A, mods don't even have main boards anymore. Modcat, however, was very fond of /a/ and this board was his main board. Losing a mod whose main board was /a/ hurt us a lot in the long run.

>>120276438
/a/ and /v/ used to be tsundere but /v/ has really turned to dogshit lately

>>120276330
I agree. The HxH threads are especially horrible to tread into. But the Berserk threads are quite bad too.

No, Berserk is not shonen, but shonenshit is just another word for action manga/anime.

sage should be default.

Only bump if you really want to bump.

>>120276193
So what can I do to help improve things?

>>120276438
That's mostly because of what happened to /v/. They changed for the worst.

/a/ used to have the best /v/ threads and vice versa.

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>>120276463
>LOL

>>120276438
/v/ is very low quality. Naturally, the people who post there regularly have accepted the low quality of the board, and do nothing to help it. They believe, since it's all they know about 4chan or all they have experience with, that 4chan is for shitposting. It's an endless cycle that causes infectious shitposting to flood onto other boards. If /v/ was all you ever knew about 4chan you'd naturally assume that the whole site is just as bad.

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>>120276348
I just pick random images from this folder. It's mainly Koishi though.

My point still stands. Please get better /a/. I know you can do it. Let the shitposters think you're all boring instead. No one wants to shitpost at boring people.

>>120276513
That's a request we could make of the new leadership if they ever give a Q&A.

>>120276528
Isn't that what the post explained though?

If you're asking because you're new, your first priority is to lurk for a while and increase your power level by watcihng anime/reading manga. You can't really help if you don't understand the problem in the first place.

>>120276534

To understand how shitty /v/ is, imagine if every other topic was studio wars, except everyone takes it seriously and legitimately worships and/or hates giant corporations.

Console wars are the shittiest thing on /v/ by a mile.

>>120272180
If I could talk about video games on 4chan I'd do that. But unfortunately /v/ is filled with /v/.

>>120276665

There is literally no reason to go to /v/ when /vr/ and /vg/ exist, unless you're really in the mood to shitpost about whatever Sony or Nintendo is doing.

>>120276257
>But elitism doesn't work either. We've done that for years

/a/ being the best board says otherwise.

>not even this meta thread gets saged
And you people expect to change /a/?

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>>120276513
That would be interesting

/jp/ is shit now because the Legitimate autists took over. Look how the traffic in that board has suffered, it's probably like the same 15 people posting there.

Gone are the happy days where ZUN!bar, Arcueid and Sion frolicking with anonymous.

>>120276478
He spend less than hour on board and move to the next. Instead of bannin user, he just trashed entire thread instantly.
Only times when he actually said something was "Hello, friends"

>>120276665
Why don't go to /vg/?, I've only visited the total war generals there and nothing else, so I don't really know the average quality of that board but so far I've liked the total war general threads there

>>120276713
Play /a/ related games and discuss it on /c/. Like Nekopara, which is GOTY

>>120270564
test

>>120276665
/vg/ is decent depending on the game. I could at least talk about MH, FE, RF, and Smash when I went there to talk about them, although /feg/ is probably as bad as /v/ by now.

>>120276773
/vg/ isn't even a real board.

Its a collection of multiple mini boards/generals and each of them has a different identity.

>>120276766

He lurked /a/ way more than that.

I know you'd like some sort of a proof but the only thing I can tell you is that Kyle and I are friends, so you'll just have to take my word for it.

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>>120276723
It keeps the low priorities out. Now how are you going to deal with the ones that are simply out to detract threads from quality posts with the same zealous fervor?

>>120276773
I got to /d2g/ in tournaments sometimes, but not more than that.

>>120276825

Which is fine. I'd bet to you that the culture of a say, High School DxD related topic is going to have different culture from say, a Mushishi topic.

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>>120276257
>But elitism doesn't work either.
You keep telling yourself that, numbnuts.

Unpopular opinion

/a/ is the best board to discuss anime but the worst to discuss manga

I want a split

>>120276899
It has but not /vg/ level of difference.

>>120276844
Post more komeijis.

>>120276735
holy shit yes. and hide it in some corner in the faq so threads with newfags never get seen

>>120276785
They discuss nekopara on /c/? good to know. any special archived threads I should check out? cinnamon a best

>>120276257
You're right that people take the elitism too far, especially with minor things like artificial distinctions between grammar and emoticons, etc, but having the right dose of it does wonders. I've seen newfags accept that they should lurk after they're told to. They're not all spiteful shitposters. The ones that are just need to be banned or told to lurk by a lot of people until they listen. They'll either leave because of how often they get yelled at, or they'll eventually learn. Things like rec threads and shitty posts should still be discouraged.

>>120276844
I think you just have to keep having conversations like the one we're having right now, where we establish that elitism is good but flying off the handle because someone posts a smiley face is not. There was a sticky about this in 2012 I think, about taking the elitism in moderation and not going overboard.

And as I said earlier, having the mods on our side will help a huge amount.

>>120276899
Mushishi doesn't get real threads.

But the difference is that on /a/ a reasonably experienced anon can go into any thread he wants without making himself look like a complete retard (except for the generals and mini communities that persist on /a/ too).

>>120276922
That's just a painful sign of how many casualfags have gotten into /a/'s culture

>>120276257
I don't like the elitism either.
We really need to pull the stick out of our asses and lighten the fuck up.

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>>120276922
>>>/ck/

>>120276320
Yeah, I for one love the speed of /a/. It's probably at the perfect sweet spot between fast and slow.

>>120276922
It's not a bad thread to discuss manga, and manga are certainly better off together with anime than without anime.
If you split, be prepared for a perpetually dead board with Big3 generals and a 98% WSJ community.

>>120276992

and a reasonably experienced anon can go on any general on /vg/ and get a feel for the 'culture' of that general in two if not one thread.

>>120276959
No idea. It was just a suggestion because I'd get lynched for suggesting /a/ and a nekopara thread would probably get pruned anyway.

>>120277051
Damn, now I want a split.

>>120276952
end your life

>>120276665
/v/'s only useful purpose is looking over the catalog to see if any big news has happened. But even that is deteriorating because it's always ess-jay-dubbayew news.

>>120277075
While a VN is not a manga or anime, It is pretty close to them.
nekopara anime when?

>>120276728
Meta threads are good in moderation.

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>>120276103

>>120277069
>It's not a bad thread
*it's not a bad board

>>120276257
It does work. The newfag is deterred by the overall elitist quality that /a/ possesses. It may be a slow and hard process, but that one newfag will hopefully never return. Those that care enough to lurk and learn will enjoy their stay all the more.

>>120274031
>/co/
>tumblr 2.0
They probably hate tumblr more than /a/

>>120270564
I used to be a resident of /jp/ for a few years before I got bored and moved on to /a/

There is a limit to how much you can tlak about your favorite touhou or your NEET lifestyle

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>>120276486
>>120276330
>>120276253
So all /a/ should talk about is moeshit, harems, and slice of life bullshit?
Tippty Toppity Kek

>>120277224
This.