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Here's my suggestions:

>1. Have the range of threads be the same as on every other board.
/a/ is the only board where every single thread has to be about a specific anime/manga or character that you can name. Threads about the anime/manga industry, anime or manga in general, genres, tropes, how we watch anime or read manga, board culture, tangentially related irl topics (encounters with /a/nons irl), original content creation threads, anime/manga laws and so forth. A similar range of topics is allowed on other topical boards I've lurked, such as /k/, /ck/, /out/, /v/ and /g/, to name a few. Why is /a/ the only board where no fun is allowed? IMO, it has really killed the board in the last several years.

>2. Ban the moralizing complainers.
People can derail an entire thread if someone posts a sadfrog meme - or for any reason. It doesn't matter that sadfrog started on /a/. Because the news says that it's a white supremacist meme now, people associate it with /pol/ only, and will totally shit up a thread, whereas the person posting the sadfrog would have otherwise posted that and fucked off normally. It's the people complaining about a thread topic that are seriously shitting up this board these days. All these people shit up threads without contributing a single thing. They are just upset and trying to shit up the thread in their anger. That shouldn't be allowed.

The problem is made worse when these people become janitors and about a minute after they start threatening the "off-topic" poster with a ban, the "offending" post gets deleted. That can't happen unless the jani is already posting in the thread - and that shouldn't be allowed either.

Hire mods.

/manga/

>>161358718
>Why is /a/ the only board where no fun is allowed?
Because you're a newfag.

This shitpost thread got deleted for a reason. Fuck off.

Repeating digits.

>>161358685
here's my suggestion:

OP kills himself

>>161358685
Is this the Hirohito approved shitposting thread?
Because we have /jp2/ as a meta board already

>>161358718
>/a/ is the only board where every single thread has to be about a specific anime/manga or character that you can name.
Stopped reading there, lurk more.

>>161358764
No, it wasn't. These threads are allowed.

>>161358803
Where's Tapris?

>>161358814
Then why did the one just a few minutes ago get deleted?

Get fucked you spamming shitposter.

>>161358803
Get over gabdrop already

>>161358685
Hiro died from AIDS.

Ban dragon ball threads

>>161358718
>/v/ posters complain about not being able to shitpost

Color me surprised. Kill yourself

Ban all shounenshit threads.

>>161358855
>>161358764
My guess is that you are a jani who tried to spam the last one to make it seem like no one on /a/ wanted the thread, then you deleted it.

>>161358685
just delete the sticky and return /a/ to the way its been for atleast 3 years now

>>161358790
/qa/ is one guy complaining about /pol/, /bant/ posting pepe to piss people off and /ota/ flunkies who can only communicate in canned, belittling phrases, it's really rare that actual meta discussion happens and some anons actively spam it to deletion there.

>>161358753
Not gonna happen, because /co/mbr would want a spit too.

Make a cookie that is required to post on /a/ (e.g. if you don't have this cookie/cookie is too new, you cannot post on /a/) that tracks board posts. If a poster has posted on a board outside of /diy/ or /a/ in the last, say, hour, make the system automatically and silently ban them. This will allow one to lurk other boards, but not post on them if they wish to post on /a/, and thus improve quality of /a/ since many will not be able to adhere. This will ban the likes of OP, since he's likely posting on other boards right now, and if he clears the cookie, he would be marked as "new" and unable to post on /a/ for a while.

>>161358908
https://boards.fireden.net/a/search/image/bZhXEZ4SEXLqTi54gQB-_g/

Nice.
Try.
Cockmongler.

>>161358764
Faggots like you are the ones shitposting, faggot.

/ag/-animation general would be sweet.

>>161358985
Go back.

We on autosage already? Good.

Savor the placebo while it lasts.

>>161358925
It desperately needs one, craptoons are killing the board

The sticky seems fine.
It all depends on how active and how smart the mods works, ultimately.

The duty of the community is to report posts that they believe to be breaking the rules. Don't be too impatient if a thread with content that isn't fit for /a/ still hasn't been deleted after 20 minutes.
And the community really needs to be more relaxed, but also mature enough to not reply to obvious bait.

Don't take everything too serious, but don't be too lax either. Don't be afraid to report something you believe just doesn't belong here.

name one legit bad thing about generals

hardmode: no strawmans

>>161358944
Fuck you
Sincerely /dbt/

>>161358985
Because it works so well for /vg/.

>>161358965
>having the /a/ catalog up since last night, see a thread I wanted to post in, but missed out on, so repost it
>using the same OP to make at thread easily recognized after the thread was accidentally deleted 2 minutes earlier

I can't figure out what you're trying to say or what you are trying to contribute to the thread.

How about the mods allow fucking LN and VN discussion on /a/ instead of sending it over to /jp/ to die

>>161358944
>stop culturally appropriating other boards!
You get the award for most bizarre suggestion.

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>>161359053

>>161359053
You

>>161359070
It does. It keeps all the actual autists contained.

>>161359053
The people who frequent them turn the general threads into online social hubs where they talk about their own personal feelings and e-drama instead of being on-topic about the show.

>>161359022
It seems so.

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>>161358944
How about it allows crossposting to these boards? /diy/ seems like an odd choice.
>>161359053
They often run out of things to say and devolve into roleplaying and yurifaggot colonies, and become odd microcommunities that would be better off as IRC channels, especially if namefagging begins.
>>161359123
Ironically /vg/ actually talks about games

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>>161359057
Your days are numbered. Soon you'll be stuck on /v/ and /co/, undoubtedly where you came from, and /a/ will be left for us. Actually, anyone who plays video games should be banned from /a/ - such anti-art activities are contrary and harmful to anime as a medium.

>>161359157
Generals killed /int/

>>161359205
how about VN's?

Thread is on auto-sage.

>>161359279
Great, isn't it?

>ごきげんよう /a/, the moderation team has come up with a few guidelines to improve your experience on /a/ and encourage people to lurk moar, etc. Mods will be more proactive in moving or removing threads when deemed necessary. This will only be stickied temporarily.

All that bullshit but generals stay anyway? Fuck you

>>161359113
0/10

>>161359116
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>>161359157
whats so hard about banning e celeb name fags ftom posting on /a/ in general then if the underlying issue is them? removing backlinking style threads doesnt address this at all

>>161359252
lack of mods killed /int/

>>161359305
Stop writing like cancer

>>161359043
>It all depends on how active and how smart the mods works, ultimately.
So the site will just keep getting worse, only the type of suckage will change.

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Is it time for retarded non-solutions already?

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>>161359313
The lack of moderation was always the fun part, but people stopped talking about wacky articles and cultural exchange and a lighter, more normal /pol/ into just shitfling and why do americans do this thing or how is france ever going to recover ad nausem.

>>161359294
I hope the jani who did it understands that he will be reported to the actual moderation team.

>>161358902
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>>161359398
Mods don't care about the site anymore

>>161359380
Go back.

Ban all LN adaptation threads

>>161359304
Do you not have working eyes? The very next line is about not making generals.

>>161359398
Pffffft.

>>161358902
Fuck off waifufag moetard

I am still of the opinion that all threads ought to be put on autosage mode, and that one has to put age in the options field to make a post visibly bump a thread.

can i make redditgahara threads????

>>161359436
Keep telling yourself that. I know there was a jani hiring spree very recently. You think they aren't keeping an eye on the new janis to see if they'll do what they've seen thousands of other newbie janis doin years past?

ごきげんよう /a/, the moderation team has come up with a few guidelines to improve your experience on /a/ and encourage people to lurk moar, etc. Mods will be more proactive in moving or removing threads when deemed necessary. This will only be stickied temporarily.

- Please avoid making threads in “general” or “template” formats. Avoid chaining threads, copy-pasting OPs, backlinks, and the like.
- Avoid redirecting all discussion of a series to a single thread. Users are free to discuss similar content in separate threads as long as threads are not being spammed.
- As commonly recurring threads tend to suffer from degradation of quality over time, posts inside such threads may be held to higher standards in terms of rules 6 (Quality of Posts) and 10 (Spamming/Excessive Reposting).
- Threads in /a/ should be primarily based on anime/manga discussion. Consider using either >>>/e/, >>>/y/, >>>/c/, >>>/h/ or >>>/cm/ for image sharing threads, and >>>/bant/ or >>>/trash/ for generals which have long since exhausted all fresh discussion.
- Discussion should be centered on series and characters, not the posters or communities that discuss said series and characters.
- Aim for original discussion or content, both when creating OPs and posting inside threads, and allow threads to die naturally.
- Request threads belong on >>>/r/ or >>>/wsr/, and “spoonfeeding” is not encouraged as that degrades the point/validity of using those other boards. Lurk and learn, rather than demand chores from the board.
- Threads which are /a/ related but have no clear alternative forms (such as buyfag/drawfag) are allowed as long as they follow these guidelines.

Thanks!

>>161359205
/dbt/ isn't on those shitty boards.
Shows how much you know about this place.

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>>161359465

>>161359202
if the actual problem with generals is not the threads themselves but the e-celebs crossboarders, just ban them. whats so hard about that?

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Would you fuck this rabbit?

>>161359561
Ban evasion.

>>161359279
They'll be another made, I'm sure. The mods' cowardice really does drive me toward supporting the people bitching instead of the mods.

>>161359500
Not really no, /m/ is woefully undermodded and the zeta spammer apparently IS a jannie

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>>161359606
>and the zeta spammer apparently IS a jannie
This does not surprise me at all. Can you link some of his posts here? I'll include him on the report form.

In regards to /a/ shunning "generalfags" over any sort of negative assumptions with generals, I have to say this is completely false.

/a/ culture as a whole respects threads with community and structure, and as such any general will look far more favorable than that of of a weak, unorganized thread struggling with even the basics of community and post frequency. Especially when given the choice between a catalog of generals, or a catalog full of threads that nobody recognizes and cares about.

Once word gets out that the majority of /a/ actually favors generals, /a/ as a whole will undoubtedly prefer generals to the alternative. In fact, the "generalfag" is respected and renowned throughout imageboard culture so much that various generals and topics are viewed favorably and respected despite being generals. For example, unlike the average thread that dies at 100 posts, /dbg/ is actually treated with respect and viewed as an honorary sticky by the mods and janitors. It's commonly referred to as "くそったれ", which directly translates to "One With Us", "Us" referring to /a/ and its culture.

Those are the facts. Too bad, I suppose, but anti-general posters had a good run.

>>161359606
People become janitors just to delete what they don't like

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>>161359500
It takes several months to train new janitors, supposedly.

>>161359561
>>161359589
A month or two of forced anonymous would help clean this place up.

>>161359561
For starters, a community that doesn't use the report function.
The other problem is that the community that still inhabits the general threads that became problematic doesn't want to get rid of the e-drama, because then the thread would have no meaning anymore.

So, to make mods aware that a thread is shit and needs to be cleaned up, people need to report it. But the shitty threads are only visited by the problematic users in the first place, which means that nobody's reporting anything.

>>161359654
I think I'll be using this as pasta now.

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>>161359683
Is it bad that I spend almost as much time reporting retarded shit I see on the front page as I do posting in threads?

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>>161359589
Maybe

>>161359742
Yes. That's a problem on your side. I have literally twenty threads open right now and I'm only giving a minute or two of my time to report a few bad apple threads that pop up now and then. Much like this one actually.

>>161359654
If people used the thread to talk about the topic, then it's fine.
But when people just want to talk about their feelings and their life while using images to emote, and everybody's just being constantly off-topic for several days or even weeks, then it's just a sign to put the thread out of its misery.

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>>161359674
I could live with that.

>>161359649
>>>/m/15795896
Not sure if this him but it was really bad a while ago.

>>161358685
Fuck off with your shitty meta thread.

>>161359683
anon, ive been reported and warned/banned over the most petty shit ever many times over the years. i sincerly doubt ecelebs that go out of their way to to start drama dont get reported. i know ive reported them in the old bleach generals

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>>161359742
Yes, it is

>>161359674
The downside I see to that is avatarfagging skyrocketing.

>>161359938
The problem is that many start giving up, and thus less people report.
Don't ever fail in vigilance.
Never think that it's another people's problem.

Keep reporting. Period.
Don't give up. Don't ever stop giving a shit, or else the thread turns to shit.

>>161359638
Get a life, autist.

>>161360036
But that is bannable, unlike name- or trip- fagging.

>>161358718
>People can derail an entire thread if someone posts a sadfrog meme
Because more often than not whoever posts that shit are the following; newfags, shitposters or wanna-be shitposters.

No one cares if it's associated with /pol/ because of recent developments, more anons associate it with /r9k/ still.

KILL YOURSELF.

>>161360101
No, the problem is that moderation is work, unpaid work, so jans and mods inevitably take the easy way out by throwing the thread out with the shit posters.

>>161360268
>newfags
Only because if you've been on /a/ since 2007, then you've most likely been banned several times already for posting sadfrog memes and you don't want to get another 3 day, unappealable ban from a janitor who has been on /a/ since 2015.

EZ.ban all yurishit and yaoishit and declare this is straight board

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Any last words before we're off the board?

>>161360388
Jannies don't give bans you fuck.

>>161360561
Look for the new thread when this one 404s.

>>161360341
Yeah, collateral damages sometimes unfortunately happen.
Report the problematic posts as early as possible to allow whatever mod or janitor is hopefully around can delete only the rules-breaking posts instead of having to nuke the entire thread.

>>161360561
Hopefully the next threads all get autosage'd.

>>161360388
>Since 2007
>Doesnt know that Janitor cant ban
>Post your shit tier /b/ reaction face

Kill yourself

>>161360566
Janis can get you temporarily blocked while a mod reviews the block and makes it permanent.

>>161360561
You're waifu a shit

>>161360561
Traps aren't gay as long as their penis is feminine.

>>161358685
Why are those threads always saged and not deleted on sight.

>>161358685
I'm seriously ok and happy with the new rules, but the fact that not even a day passed before a 200+ replies/12hours of life general ended naturally makes me kinda mad.

>>161360808
By being saged, it actually keeps shitposters away who try to stealth-bump the threads through reaction image-posting and dumping loli-pics for attention whoring.

>>161360808
To act as placebo for the shitposters that keep on metaposting here.

>>161360808
It gives a vehicle for bitching, that never gets seen by the majority of people, who apparently never bother to look past page 2, based on comments in other threads.

>>161360808
Because deleted threads are reviewed by other mods, and since the threads are not against the rules, the people who made the thread auto-sage would be penalized for abusing their power, if found out.

Thank for your work, mod / jani

Doing god's work

>>161360992
Bootlicker.

>>161361016
Cumguzzler.

>>161361016
>Bootlicker
So you're a shitposter?
Eat shit and die.

Honestly, I think mods are still far too soft on generals.
Threads of airing shows should only be allowed 1 day before airing and up to 2 days after airing.
This should be kept up until all the /v/ermin and newfags leave.

>>161361207
Nope, just not a fan of cowards in positions of authority, nor of their fans.

>>161361218
>Only those with no life should use /a/.

>>161361260
Fuck shitposter.

>>161361218
you say you want the /v/ermin to leave yet you want /a/ mods get as strict as /v/ mods

pick one

>inb4 no board has specific mods

them no board has specific posters

pick one again