>- Please avoid making threads in “general” or “template”

>>161379744
>Remember Spinzaku or days when Gurren would air? The board would explode with Light swimming
That still happens. When Re:Zero ended 40/50 threads were about it.

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>>161379744
>tfw i'm a newfag who came after moot died and went to hell

>>161379744
>complains about the board
>makes meta thread
Kill yourself, faggot.

>>161379744
>Remember Spinzaku or days when Gurren would air?
You mean the constant generals and spamming? the old times really were differen- oh wait.

>complains about lack of creativity
>makes another another meta thread
Fuck off

>>161379744
>Remember Spinzaku
You mean CODEGEASSCODEGEASSCODEGEASSCODEGEASSCODEGEASSCODEGEASSCODEGEASSCODEGEASSCODEGEASSCODEGEASSCODEGEASSCODEGEASS sundays?
Not that i minded it since its still ebtter than this reddit generals.

You know what, just make /ag/ already so you can let the people who can't stop whining have what they want. Good luck trying to distinguish a "general" from a "normal" thread, by the way, especially for currently airing shows.
At least after /a/ is completely dead I can finally be free.

>>161381599
I don't see the problem with how it currently is, if they backlink old threads and talk about what happens on their discord or something then they get pruned, if it's just normal discussion about the show then it's okay. Can't be that hard to do that.

>>161379744
>making threads
Note that this only refers to OPs that follow the general format, i.e. a fuckton of information on the OP, links to the past threads, pastebins, "edition" and so on. Not only did that post not say anything about how so-called generals are forbidden, but it also both acknowledged the existence of generals that have not exhausted all fresh discussion, and made it clear that mods know there's a difference between commonly recurring threads and generals.
tl;dr: stop whining and lurk the fuck more. Spinzaku and everything TTGL had those receptions from the board because both shows were extremely popular, and if either show was airing right now the board would still be going apeshit about them even though most people have learned the advantages of condensing their threads. Calling things you dislike leddit is not a valid argument.

>>161379744
Tha place only exists in your memory, it did not exist back then, it will not return now.

And anyway, look at board, generals are suffering very little. The whole thing was made to give free reign to take down particular series at the mod's will. And as always, there are the useful idiots to enable such things.

Generals on denial are cancer.
>hurr durr keep everything in a containment thread, totally not generals
There was a time about 3 or 4 months ago some janny kept deleting more than 1 thread and even temp banned people for calling this out

>>161383242
Indeed, we should do just like the DBS people. They're surely examples of how /a/ should be!
But then again, each of their threads also became a general. We should instead make a new thread for each of our opinions, and remove the reply function as well just for safety. Can't let any thread accidentally become a general after all.

>>161381009
To be honest, I think folks forget how annoying it was at the time.

I mean, it's great to reminisce about and shit but I wouldn't bring it back.

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Add to the spam filter facebook filenames and IMG_XXX, thanks.

>>161383333
It's funny how those people only remember the board-wide phenomenons like CG and TTGL while thinking that there weren't any "containment" (using their words) threads for other shows whenever their subs came out. My guess is that they didn't watch enough anime back then.

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>Threads which are /a/ related but have no clear alternative forms (such as buyfag/drawfag) are allowed as long as they follow these guidelines.
Does that mean we can have DJT back?

How the fuck the sticky is already there=

It only took them 7 years, but better late than never.

Generals will persist as long as the mindset is still present and the way the board works isn't changed.
Popularity based pruning was a mistake, with aged based pruning there was less incentive to mash everything into a single thread.
The system is still available. It's active in /f/ and could be brought back to other boards.

>>161379744
If you were there back then, then in all likelihood you are now a full grown adult who still uses "lulz" unironically. Feel some fucking shame

>>161379744
>Remember Spinzaku or days when Gurren would air?
You mean days when the entire board would exclusively have threads dedicated to one or two anime?

The """""general""""" system was fine, and allowed threads about smaller seasonal anime to survive.

>B-BUT MUH SPINZAKU
>MUH GURREN LAGAN
Shut up. You're sour because there hasn't been a hype anime ever since. Also, you can be pretty damned sure that if Spinzaku was thought up today you'd call it a forced meme.

>What would [moot] think of [/a/] now?
Who the fuck cares? Moot sold 4chan out, he betrayed "muh free speech" for money.

>>161383793
I've always thought that bringing back that system would be a good way to tackle this matter. Give all threads about 2 days to live as that should be more than enough time to discuss the newest episode of a show even for late people (without removing the ability to bump unpopular threads off obviously), then after they get marked for deletion (old) and die force a cooldown of one day or so on their subject. I don't think that this forceful attempt to stop continued discussion would be a good thing though, as it wouldn't be difficult for shitposters to abuse it in order to get threads they dislike to live less and people would be fucked in case something really big happened during that cooldown.
In the end the best thing to do is leaving everything as it currently is without trying too hard to change how people chose to become for the sake of convenience, then telling the whiners to shut the fuck up. All generals die naturally at some point, it's just a matter of patience. Forcing things will only make everything worse.

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>mfw got warned because politely said thanks

>>161384160
Thanks.

>>161380520
I don't think you know what a general is. Pro tip: It isn't a thread for a popular series you don't like.

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>>161379744

I see no problem with this. Following these guidelines would actually improve the board. Every other chan with an anime board follows these kind of guidelines, and though they are much less popular, the quality of threads is generally a lot better. Good stuff.

>>161380371
40/50 of samefagging

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>>161379744
The mod's are blocking isp too. How am I post to get people into Trash, Four-Eyes, and Lit Chick (Fake) if my isp is block. Volume 1 come out next month and need be supportive.

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>>161384160
tfw warned for using 4chan

>>161385980
Mods think before you start Blocking people isp. the only thing you're doing here is hurting this manga.

>>161384067
>All generals die naturally at some point
Not in a useful timeframe.

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>>161379744
>- 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.
So that means we can discuss hentai on /a/ again without our threads being deleted, right? /h/ was always just for image sharing and never for discussion.

>>161385980
>>161386122
You're placing blame on the wrong person.
Flame the fuck out of the retard that's abusing dynamic IP addresses and ban evading.
Go to every thread he's in, and start shit with him.
Make his existence unbearable.

>>161386208
I'm not blaming op.

>>161385980
Why does mangaupdates not keep track of this series? Thanks to your reminder, I see that I'm about 50 behind.

Sure has worked, at least 80% of threads are generals, just make /ag/ or something

>>161379744
Does this mean Imouto threads are dead?

>>161385980
Can you guys do a thread about Trash, Four-Eyes, and Lit Chick (Fake) sometime in the future most people in /a/ like this manga.

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>>161349172
>tfw buyfag thread just got BTFO'ed
today is a good day

>>161384067
>>161386158
Generals don't die naturally. The very meaning of a general's existence is that they don't actually die.

The thread they exist in is killed, only to spawn minutes later. And people tolerate its existence, because they would make things much worse for everyone otherwise. Like fucking Orochimaru.

On /a/, generals are much more short lived than on other boards...only to be replaced by more generals. In other words, /a/ has an extremely fast general turnover rate.

The problem with generals isn't about their individual qualities--it's about their qualities as a whole, what they become, and their sheer numbers.
I don't want a whole thread where a small group of people treat it as if their chatroom, much less dozens of them.
This means there is less room for threads with real, more ephemeral content. I prefer threads about upcoming shows and films, recently translated episodes and chapters, and original humor.

Anyways, suggesting to change the very foundation of 4chan just to get rid of generals is fucking stupid.

>>161379744
Generals didn't kill the board. Allowing people who make stupid posts like
>What did he mean by this
all the time to stay here killed the board.
A massive influx of normalfags watching series like Madoka or SAO or Jojo or One Punch Man killed the board.
The increasing popularity of online anime reviewers and their fans coming from other boards to /a/ is now further killing the board.

Basically making yet another shit thread isn't going to fix /a/ kill yourself if you think otherwise

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>>161379744
TFW mods remember generals are banned.

>>161386345
>Anyways, suggesting to change the very foundation of 4chan just to get rid of generals is fucking stupid.
Time based pruning was how it used to work and how Futaba worked.
moot only switched to popularity based pruning in I believe 2008 for the worksafe boards and even later for the NSFW board.

>>161386368
Uncreative faggots aren't a problem unique to /a/.
Normalfags will always flock here whenever something big happens.
Shitty eceleb threads are and have always been killed on sight. Furthermore, newfags are always going to be newfags. You can only reject them with fire and fury to make sure they learn how things work around here.

>>161386345
No faggot generals were never accepted on /a/ until reddit mods took over. There was literally a general threads war back when /a/ was fun and people hated your kind.

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>>161379744
Just a reminder that generals became a thing because the board started hating the hottest new anime.

>>161386315
/a/ completely ignored daily threads about that manga. Try to search 'daily dose' in the desuarchive.

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>>161386414
Learn to read you fucking moron.
Eat shit and die.

>>161386424
/a/ was so shit back then. With no catalog it was impossible to browse the board with these KyoAnus lickers (remember when posting this phrase would get you banned?) constantly spamming stupid shit.
Not that them making generals helped, they would imagedump in every general then make a new one once it hit the image cap.

>>161386326
If only they would do the same to drawthreads. Discord talk and still chaining threads (just not in the OP)
>These are the exception
My fucking ass.

>>161386424
I miss visible saging

>>161386461
Yeah, this is definitely it.
Catalog was the feature that saved 4chan.

>>161386479
I don't. They were basically just reddit downvotes.

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>>161386326
Holy shit based, Now if mod BTFO Drawtard which even worse.

>>161386483
nah /a/ was more fun without the catalog. You actually had to make an interesting thread for it to get attention and live. now you just make shit.
People also congregated into the threads on the first page instead of looking for a thread (general) they care about. /a/ felt a lot more like a community then. You faggot were like my brothers then. Now youre just faggots.

>>161386496
They're still downvotes, and people still announce it.

It's just less common because nobody ever used the feature (compared to 80% usage on /jp/), because they either never use it, or they're newfags.

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>>161386518
Drawfag is bad now? Some quality stuff has come out of there.

>>161386483
This so much.

>>161386531
>>161386496
Sage should be default.

>>161386520
I said it yesterday but generalized catalogs mean people don't browse the "board" anymore, they just go to a thread that interests them and stay there. This naturally gears topics towards fewer and fewer threads (usually 1) and isolates threads from each other. That's what marks a general I'd say, the feeling that it's a self-closed community devoid of board interaction. Long and constant threads about the same topic can exist without reaching that state, see NGE threads.

>>161386536
It nothing but a tons of the same shitty requests every fucking thread.

>>161386536
Drawthread is pretty bad, it reeks of /r/.

>>161386536
It's mostly requests, reposts and spoonfeeding.
And it serves as a precedent for other shitty threads if it stays.

>>161386520
Personally I sort the catalog by bump order and don't have any filters unless Jojonarutards are going crazy with their cancer. It's basically the same thing as having pages, only you have everything on one screen.
Things like auto refreshing, hover over image, saving your place in a thread, and so on also make /a/ much more fun.

we need you, snacks

>>161386483
Wrong, Catalog make lazy newfags can easily search their general.

>>161386553
>>161386557
>>161386559
Haven't been in one in years. I guess they went downhill.

>>161386562
If you don't see the last replies in a thread it isn't the same.

>>161386566
If they're going to be here regardless I'd rather them go straight to their Dragonball Super thread instead of stumbling upon my Jigoku Shoujo thread and smearing shit on the walls.

if /ag/ became a thing, would /a/ die?

>>161386562
thats just the default. Having the catalog negates the purpose of being on the front page. Or page order all together. Youd usually stick to a thread on the early pages because thats where everyone is.

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>>161386518
>>161386536
Here's some fresh """"""""""drawfag"""""""""" content from one of the drawthreads this weekend.

>>161386520
This guy gets it. Catalog enables the general culture to thrive. I hate the isolation that this has brought on. Generals are developing their own culture within themselves. I miss everyone interacting with /a/ at large, instead of hiding in specific threads and not even glancing at other things.
If you want to just talk to the same 20 faggots in your DBS thread, that has the same 500 posts every fucking thread, you should actually go to another site. Not even memeing at this point. Reddit would serve you better

>>161386551
>>161386520
That's definitely true, and something I noticed on /g/ back when catalog wasn't around, and desktop threads littered every board.

Generals would actually have their own subcommunity, complete with their own shitty memes and in-jokes. Occasionally, it would spill over to other threads and nobody would understand what the fuck they were saying.
There used to be a script back then that allowed anons to uniquely identify each other using a third-party database.

Shit was ridiculous. Literally trying to turn 4chan into something it's objectively not.

>>161386601
How is that different from having a front page? Nobody is going to reply to that greentext Naruto thread on page 10 because of the catalog. It will die as it would've back in the day, unless of course somebody decides to bump it because they see this post.

>>161386389
Kill yourself

>>161386605
>all fatefaggots
color me surprised.

>>161386589
Man seeing those last 5 is how you know if a thread is lit or not.

>>161386595
No, they should make it instead of driving away users

>>161386616
>There used to be a script back then that allowed anons to uniquely identify
This was always a meme

>>161386648
>he fell for that 'it was just a meme' meme

>>161386616
You mean that script that allowed you to pick an OS icon to show what OS you were using? Like how on /int/ some people use that script that can show you peoples state flags and what not?

>>161386622
Theres no difference between page 10 and page 1 now.

>>161386424
Holy shit, this is terrible.

2chan's software provides options for time based threads where threads expire based on time no matter how much someone tries to bump it.

/a/ should have this. That way, it stop cancerous generaltards from trying to necrobump their dead thread no matter what.

>>161386648
A really well crafted meme, since they had a website, and a publically visible database and everything

>>161386660
Similar in concept, but exactly identical in operation.

>>161386634
>driving away users who only post in generals
>bad

>>161386657
>implying it wasnt a meme
I think 4chanx had it for like 3 months tops

>>161386609
>I miss everyone interacting with /a/ at large,
In order for this to occur while staying on the topic of anime, there has to be anime that unites all of /a/ so we're all on the same page. People pining over TTGL and CG are pining over a time when the entire board was either watching it or discussing it in some form or fashion. The last time this happened with /a/ was either Attack on Titan or Kill la Kill.

>>161386609
Not everyone wants to discuss shitty moe anime or seasonal crap. I come for just 9-10 series and don't give a shit about the rest.

>>161386622
But people would bump a dying thread about a topic they like, and it could live for 8 more hours with around 15 posts max leaving time for everyone to cycle again and reenter the same thread. That's how the general works (usually less extreme since /a/ is pretty fast nowadays).

Pre-catalog days the board masses would inhabit the frontpage, first 2-3 at most and there was little way to form your own self-contained subculture based around a general.

why tf is there a IP range/ISP/country ban suddenly?

>>161386626
I was banned 3 times during the general war. You know how many
>General Generals
thread I made. And this is when being banned meant you could browse the board so shit hurt. I bled for generals to be banned. About fucking time mods remembered 2011.

>>161386696
>tf
Fuck off

>>161386122
>>161386208
Mods should do more ISP blocking in my opinion.

More blocking in South America and Southeast Asia.

It would get rid of more cancer from /a/.

>>161386686
Theres was airing shows that kept the hype. now its kinda like you just join a thread about what you are watching. But without the catalog, you watched shows everyone else was watching.

>>161386696
To keep Nagi away

>>161386686
You're exaggerating with SnK. It was a manga adaption. No surprises.

Anime originals are different.

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>>161386669
/a/ used to have it, all of 4chan did. Now only /f/ is left because /f/ is a relic in itself.

>>161386669
That would just make them create new threads faster, the root cause of the generals and the biggest issues with them would remain unchanged.

>>161386694
remember the good days when you could bump your own thread.

>>161386694
Back before the catalog when threads could last days if not weeks before being pushed off the board the same exact thing happened. I really don't think the catalog changed anything at all honestly.

>>161386609
>i miss when /a/ would hugbox together *sniff*
>dbs/jojo/naruto/wanpissu fag comes into your thread
>posts a reaction image from their anine/manga
>fuck off nobody likes you fags you watch "normieanime" reeee mooooods ban him hes from reddit!


you literal children just want to have your cake and eat it to, and as >>161386686 that type of uniting anime has to exist first anyway. banning generals and getting rid of the catalog in hopes to force whatever garbage show you watch to be that anime would never work

>>161386730
It removes the incentive to flock to a single thread.

Why can't we just ban anyone with cookies from Reddit, Tumblr, animesuki or /u/? That would fix the board instantly.

>>161386669
It's not going to help since 2chan has already accepted general culture for years already despite time based pruning, they also discourage and delete duplicate threads you would know this if you browsed it daily.

>>161386740
exactly. Left OP has a fucking topic to talk about. Right is just a general.

>>161386696
/pol/

it must have happened to you for the first time? because it has happened alot before

>>161386764
mods are from reddit.

>>161386764
Good idea, except make it /v/, /pol/, /fit/,/sp/ ,/r9k/, /b/, /soc/, /int/, /bant/, /tv/ or any other board full of meme spamming retards instead of /u/.

>>161386759
>>161386686
If a Geass or TTGL aired today it wouldn't "unite" shit because the board culture and dynamic doesn't allow for it. These shows became like that because people went to /a/ to decide what to watch and see what people were talking about, and eventually the shows that were most lit and remained on the frontpage more than others would end up amassing more users

>>161386740
The difference between "Fruit Thread" and "/fg/ - Fruit General" is the frequency between threads and the culture within it.

Back when Jag still translated Kaguya, kaguya threads had some regularity--being posted every Thursday--but nobody in their right mind would call a Kaguya thread a general.

The real identifying trait of a general is its culture. A regular thread, like Kaguya, is highly more likely to contain actual high level discussion, while a general thread will have more waifufagging, more complaining about its residents, more referencing other communities.

>>161386697
>being banned meant you couldn't browse the board

Honestly this needs to be brought back, along with visible bans.

>>161386764
What's wrong with /u/?

>>161386701
>South America, all of Asia except Japan, and Canada all range banned
A perfect world.

>>161386690
Well, I found tons of shit to watch when I was a newfag by simply lurking lots of threads that looked mildly interesting. Sure I could have found them from MAL or some other database, but seeing the conversations about a series was a better sales pitch than a shitty synopsis.
How things have been recently, it's been happening less and less. I get less contrary opinions on shows (save the "I'm gonna shit on this show without explaining myself for my /a/ cred"). More and more threads are becoming hugboxes since we aren't getting this dynamic.
Perhaps I simply have my nostalgia goggles on too tight, and it's always been shitty. I might have just been unable to tell since I was so new, and seen so little.

>>161386761
The only incentive that really counts for people to congregate around single threads is comfort.

>>161386720
And don't think that we're not grateful that none but the pure of heart go there.

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>there are people who think multiple threads about the same anime is a bad thing and against the boards natural purpose

>>161379744
>- Avoid redirecting all discussion of a series to a single thread.
>Repetitive threads and spamming threads are A-OK now

Chaotic. But I bet they didn't think these rules through.

Generals were mod's fault to begin with. They were the ones banning more than one thread per show.

>>161386809
Apparently on some other board they use /u/ as a scapegoat for their problems like how /a/ has traditionally used /v/.

>>161386690
>I come for just 9-10 series
Fuck you. Youre the reason why its so hard to make threads about non airing non general shows now. Before without a catalog every thread was given the chance. You looked at every thread on the front page and considered dropping a comment. There was no bookmark or notifier for (yous) then so you stayed in a thread hoping for a response.

I'm just glad to see mods are willing to crack down on requestfags and spoonfeeders.
It's the same formula every time.
>faggot makes request
>faggot is told to fuck off
>faggot is spoonfed by an even bigger faggot
>thread is abandoned

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>tfw mods finally killed SnK cancer

>>161386720
It'll be even more of a relic past 2020.

>>161386759
Nice strawman, I don't even give a shit when a fag posts spongebob pics. When you post your shitty wojack gohan edits and keep spouting chad and cuck, you have ousted yourself as an /r9k/er or /pol/tard.

What really pisses me off is that mods don't crack down harder.

>>161386799
>>161386809
Fuck off, dumb y/u/rifags. Yurifags ruin any thread they're in and always try to turn it into a general. Symphogear and PriPri threads are horrible, and the worst posters this board has ever seen came from Madoka generals.

>>161386690
We also need to get rid of faggots like this who watch less than 4 shows a season and think they belong here.

>>161386518
I went into one of those to see if there was an active artist community there. Nope, just a wall of requests.

>>161386804
>the frequency between threads and the culture within it.
that's a very serious generalization fallacy though
there can perfectly be (and there are) generals that are not regular, with better culture than a non-general thread
I'm not an oldfag in this board, but at least in /mu/, there are a lot of non regular generals that always get good content due to their nature
same goes for /fa/ and /wg/

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>>161386809
/u/fags honestly kill a lot of threads now, especially generals
>>161386764
Just have it allow cookies from pic related and porn boards only, they all kind of have a similar culture unrelated to the rest of the site.
>>161386895
How would they check that? Upload your MAL?

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>/a/ is killing circlejerks and generals
>Buyfag and drawfag threads are okay
>mfw drawfag threads is one of the biggest waifufag circlejerks residing on /a/
I'm looking at this thread now and already someone is looking for some namefag that goes there, not to mention the >>>/r/

>>161386853
I'm the reason? I never had any power. It's the mods who created the catalog and yous and banned multiple threads in a series and never did anything for years. Of course people adapted.

>>161386800
>implying people dont still come to /a/ to do that


just say what anime you think should be that great uniter anon. you're complaining about an "if" as if that anime exists right now and the current board culture is snuffing it out.

heres a thought. remember when umaru became that anime? remember when nug posting was considered cancerous? remember when it got so popular it got its own banner and every board had nug reaction images? did or did not generals exist in that time frame...just to be clear

>>161386917
Isn't buyfag /jp/ content?

>>161386873
We need more visible moderation. Just deleting threads isn't enough and nobody checks /bans/ anyway.
Sticky recent deleted threads with red warning/ban text so everyone sees that they are not okay.

>>161386908
I limited the generalization to /a/, that's why it's so general.

Supposing I were to talk about 4chan as a whole, you would be forced to talk about /g/'s /dpt/, which is a stellar general that always has new content.

>>161386883
>the worst posters this board has ever seen came from Madoka generals.
Madoka threads did become pretty fucking terrible, but some pretty infamously horrible tripfags originated elsewhere like in the K-On threads or 3x3 threads.

Not to mention all the Narutards on the board today.

I haven't been here for a long time. When did /a/ turn into /e/ light?
>post picture of an ass
>why is ____ so lewd?
>thread is just an image dump of ass pictures

>>161386913
When people openly say "I don't watch anime except a few shows" then ban them. That simple.

>>161386930
They are.

>>161386930
It was one of the reasons /jp/ was made in the first place.

>>161386935
Imagedump threads have been a problem on /a/ for over a decade

You know lads, just because you're a yuri patrician and not heteroshit plebeian doesn't mean you visit /u/. Scapegoating boards is truly just a shitpost

>>161386935
If /a/ didn't have sex related posts, it would make /out/ seem like an active board. Majority of its content doesn't belong here.

>>161386895
>>161386948
For what purpose?

>>161386935
It has always been that way. People are afraid to use other boards so they lump everything on their favorite.

>>161386948
I unironically don't watch anime except for a few shows, what are you gonna do about it?

>>161386932
We're already overmoderrated as it is, I'm sure mods = gods culture wouldn't make it better, but it sure as hell has helped. /m/ is what the board would look like that without heavy moderation
>>161386974
>heteroshit
Yeah that's why everyone doesn't like you, you ever notice that fujos dont get half the hate they do?

>>161386974
Heteroshit is not a word dumb yuritard

>>161386978
To keep casuals out. Somebody without anime/manga knowledge isn't going to provide worthwhile contributions.

>>161386927
It's not a binary thing. Besides, the only thing that became a thing was the shitty reaction face, it's completely different from the collective watching and discussing of a show by the board at large. I was there for those and I don't know shit about Umaru other than its use as a shitposting tool. Re:zero is a much better recent example of a show that got a more sizeable part of the board to talk about it outside of single dedicated threads.

>>161386872
thats not a strawman anon, youre in denial now

>>161386948
>watching all the shit-tier seasonal anime just to brag about it
You should be banned for idiocy instead.

>>161386913
But boards like /g/, /k/, /o/, /fit/, and /out/ are fine if they don't drag their shit in here and flaunt a low powerlevel. Boards like /u/ and /y/ are for more likely to flood in, set up a general and shit up the board.

>>161386934
Naruto used to get user moderated out, and 3x3 threads are horrible general circlejerks that should die.

They should get rid of mecha threads as well since they have their own board to discuss shit on.

>>161386933
so, there are 0 generals with good content or/and acceptable pacing in /a/?
you could allow drawfags only on weekends
"what are you looking forward to this season" is also a regular thread that could be labeled as a general. it has great content
kimi no na wa generals got some nice discussion with quality content
I don't watch too much seasonals so I can't talk about seasonal shows generals though

>>161387003
I kind of agree with this person, /co/ content and /v/ culture is what happens when you don't make it hard for casuals to get into a hobby.

>>161386997
>fujos don't get half the hate they do
Unless it's a Shingeki no Kyojin thread.
fujos and /u/ are the same breed. One is just smaller.

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Can the sticky be taken down yet.

>>161386997
>We're already overmoderrated as it is,
No. There's still too much shit on the board.

>>161387025
I don't watch more than a few shows a season because I have very low energy.

>>161386978
>>161386993
>>161387016
Stupid casuals. Kill yourselves.

>>161386948
Like most anons who've been around a while, I've moved over almost entirely to manga. That's just how it goes, kid.

>>161387042
I haven't even watched anime this season, fag. Suck my cock dude.

Allowing the big shonenshits like Naruto and Bleach in was the biggest mistake, it brought in so many crossboarders at once that weren't assimilated. Accelspammer chased them out for a while but it didn't last.

>>161387025
Not certain that /co/ is a good example. It is markedly better than /tv/, after all.

>>161387055
Put your dick away.

>>161387039
That's a shitty excuse. Anime doesn't take energy to watch, you can relax and rest while doing it.
Consider posting less instead.

>>161387042
>casual
casuals actually watch all seasonal anime. Oldfags have watched so much anime that they realize 90% of seasonals are absolute trash.

>>161387023
Because the defining feature of the general is not about frequency or sameness of topics but the self-contained community that emerges around it.

Threads that are mostly about content-producing like the programming thread on /g/ are a different beast. We do still get long, regular, 'general' threads whenever there's an ongoing translation or some such (Made in Abyss comes to mind most recently)

>>161387031
When its guidelines begin to be violently and constantly enforced, the sticky may be removed.

>>161387065
No, I'm talking about the actual quality and fanbases of comics and craptoons, plus most anons there haven't picked up an independent book in their life.

>>161387076
there are no oldfags

>>161386997
>We're already overmoderrated as it is
We're undermoderrated. /m/ has a spammer who constantly makes spams threads about series he dislikes and samefags them all day every day.

>Yeah that's why everyone doesn't like you
Ever notice that nobody gave a shit about yurifags until relatively recently? When did you start coming here?

>>161386980
It's not that people are afraid, it's that people want to get a near instant reply or have someone see their post in less than an hour or two on the more popular board related to the subject.

>>161387076
Just give up on newfags trying to fit in

>>161387076
I've been starting all shows in a season for 10 years now.

>>161387067
>Anime doesn't take energy to watch, you can relax and rest while doing it.
Maybe you can. Doing anything besides eating chips feels like a chore to me, unless I'm in the right mood and doing it for just an hour. After 2 or 3 episodes I'm full for the day, time to rest.

>>161387076
All the oldfags left bruh. We're all newfags here.
I'm from 2010.

>>161387076
Kid just because you got an achievement for watching 100 anime on MAL doesn't mean you know what you're an anime expert.

>>161387108
2016 here

>>161382955
Actually it's just the usual new jannie ritual to troll the board.

>>161387093
They should stick to /b/.
A board doesn't exist for them they exist for the boards.

>>161387007
i dont and have no plans on ever watching re zero because its primary just image dumps maid girls everwhere, not because they discuss the show, because i never see that outside of their general that i dont go into. as far as im concerned thats just as shitpost worthy as umaru was

>>161387080
So, the solution is banning generals instead of moderating said community? Is this so hard to do? See >>161387090

Interesting rules mod but the Aikatsu thread is still up. Board looks almost identicle before the sticky honestly.

>>161387086
>most anons there haven't picked up an independent book in their life
I'm not so sure about that, given the discussions that I have seen, but it seems that you spend more time there than I do, so I have no real grounds on which to speak.

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>>161387126
>A board doesn't exist for them they exist for the boards.

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>>161387031
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgHNtzxO0y8

>>161387023
>"what are you looking forward to this season"
Not generals usually but they are pretty trash unimaginative topics. The OP may want to show interest in shows by giving discussion topics and doing some research instead.

>>161387086
>plus most anons there haven't picked up an independent book in their life
I almost exclusively read books and watch anime. I don't watch any /tv/ except Doctor Who.

>>161387108
2015 here

>>161387130
Of course, nobody outside the general cares about Re:zero now, it only happened while it was airing and to a much more limited degree when compared with a Geass, TTGL or what have you. I think the only show with that kind of staying power is NGE and its threads are a good proof that just having a lot of big threads all the time doesn't mean it's a general

>>161387130
He's also just a delusional re:zero fan. It wasn't some special show that united /a/, it was just another shitty isekai show with isekai fans.

>>161387108
I'm from sometime before 2006. Back when there was a trains board, the URL was .com or .net, and when /b/ was Anime/Random

>>161387144
Give up, Ledouche is better with it so I can block his terrible takes and opinions.

>>161379744
It's the same shit, generals have a purpose and yes people over use them but at least there aren't 5 threads talking about the same anime, also if you want your old /a/ you should be asking mods to get rid of Naruto threads.

>>161387172
>at least there aren't 5 threads talking about the same anime
That's what I want though.

>>161387131
It's impossible to enforce a rule to "ban generals" because the very nature of the browsing experience tendentially turns threads about a hot topic into generals. You'll end up in a slippery slope scenario all the time.

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>>161387076
most oldfags are in the mid 30s and probably lead normal lives now
>>161387090
the zeta spammer IS a jannie, and just because people are finally getting sick of it because yurifags have gotten unpleasant and then scream false flag doesn't mean they're not disliked

>>161387131
Exceptional exceptions require exceptional moderation.
Banning a general is faster and easier than banning the sexually repressed samefags espousing the virtues of their waifus.

>>161387166
Wasn't 2006 when /n/ became news?
I came in 2007 and I remember how in early 2008 /n/ became transportation and all sorts of three letter boards were created.

>>161387076
>Most anime is trash
>Trust me, I've seen all 50 series worth watching so I know
Kill yourself.

>>161387193
You can lead a normal life and still watch anime desu. I'll probably still watch this shit when I'm 80

>>161387031
When you start respecting 4chan culture yourself, maybe

>>161387193
>most oldfags are in the mid 30s and probably lead normal lives now
No, they've just moved on to more secluded sites and more secluded lives or killed themselves.

>>161387049
No, this is what idiots who want to pretend they're smart tell themselves. I watch and read more than you do, and I do it untranslated. Any "my medium is best" fags need to go.

How they choose moderator? Did they get paid?

>>161387172
>at least there aren't 5 threads talking about the same anime
there is objectively nothing wrong with this.
Competition is healthy.
/a/ would be better if it were ruled by the free market.

>>161387003
Quite frankly I'd put more value on the opinion of some 40 year old who was drawn to watching anime for the very first time than the one of your average 20 something year old anime expert whose life mostly consists on watching anime, probably because the former had a reason to watch it other than entertainment or escapism and can offer a unique perspective based on life experiences and field of expertise. Having a board consist of "hardcore" fanboys is not necessarily synonymous with quality of posts or even interesting discussion, you yourself might the proof.

>>161387243
>shitpost libertarian

>>161386740
Nah the one on the left is a stealth general. It shouldn't have a subject and if you didn't post it all the time you wouldn't have people scrambling for first

>>161387241
>How they choose moderator? Did they get paid?
People provide their CV and their personal details. You only become a mod if you want to risk being arrested for the possession of child pornography.

>>161387231
You are literally competing with strangers as to who is "doing it right" and "my way is best". You're no different from what you claim to hate.

>>161387090
>/u/ becomes Tumblr and starts leaking into /a/ and making generals
>All the mentally ill faggots from the Madoka generals start shitting up other threads
>People tell the stupid fucking yurifags to fuck off
It used to end with "take your goggles off and stop pretending they're all gay". Now it's "fucking hetshit! males shouldn't exist!" You're pure cancer.

>>161387280
I'm not going to read your greentext cancer. Fuck off and never reply to me again.

>>161387188
We don't want to ban the phenomenon that allows threads to slide into generals.

We want to ban the isolated subculture that spawns around generals. Frankly, beyond even the crowding of /a/ and limited space for ephemeral threads, trying to create your own little community on 4chan is antithetical to the website's core principles.

>>161387094
Says the newfag from MAL.

>>161387241
Bred and selected by a Mongolian communist dictator. Commies don't like getting paid.

I fucking hate /u/ and /y/ they should stick to their own boards.

>>161387285
You don't tell me what to do. This is America, if you don't like FREEDOM OF SPEECH
fuck off back to mexico

>>161387294
You'd be playing infinite whack-a-mole game against the board itself. I guess that could be a fair compromise. Or just take the plunge and make /ag/

>>161387275
>I-It's all subjective anyways!
Just fuck off, you stupid casual retard.

>>161387213
That's implying that the olympics don't kill anime.
>>161387280
Madoka threads were fucking horrible
>>161387285
lol
>>161387322
What's this /ag/ meme? Are we gonna make /ar/ for anime and manga from before the 2000s too?

>>161387322
They will learn.
People eventually learned how to use the panda.
They will eventually learn to not try to make their own tiny community if they don't want to get banned.
We run a tight monopoly here.

>>161387322
Appeasement never works. It didn't help /v/ and it won't help /a/.

>>161387316
Nice falseflag SEAfag
If you were actually an American you would understand websites have the freedom to deny your speech as per their ToS

>>161387108
2009 is when i regularly when /b/ was semi-good, 2007 i sort of browsed and raided Habbo

>>161387340
That greentext bears no relationship to anything I said. I think you just might be a fucking retard.

>generals still up right now

Uhh, what changed exactly? Seems like the mods just posturing which they tend to do from time to time. Remember when they removed /djt/ and people applauded them and thought it was magically suppose to fix /a/?

What's with the sudden acceptance of recommendation threads? Some of them can't even be called 'thinly veiled' and they stay up for days.

>>161387371
I don't think /b/ was ever good, but it just got so bad people think so in general

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>>161379744
So make an original thread then dumbass.
Saged.

>>161386731
You still can after an hour or so.

>>161387377
Retards get baited by tsundere OPs and throw shit at him. Such is life.

>>161387294
This is somewhat the truth. People who like the place for what it is and how people act want to have their cake and eat it too by creating communities when it's the lack of solid identity which creates the environment.
Weird shit. In theory /ag/ does that. They can double dip. Create their community out of people who would otherwise post here but I wonder if that's not an awful option. Unlike video games you don't NEED to know anything about an anime over just watching it. At least with /vg/ they have mechanics, strats and patch notes to keep others updated with around the clock. There's no activity based around animated media. Generals would be horrific if not directed towards some secondary project like drawing/buying/writing/ripping and so on.

>>161387388
>Saged.

>>161387388
visible saging is against the rules
>>161387377
I haven't really seen any recently but there's a wiki that should probably be put in the sticky to stop those threads

>>161387371
Every normalfag I've ever spoken these conversations only happened online of course to says when they lurked /b/ it was when it was good, and now it's bad.

>>161387370
>implying 4chan isn't owned by NSA
If this wasnt honeypot website to catch pedos we would be purged from cloudfire and others, just like stormfront was recently

>>161387424
Holy shit was that meme about moot giving the CIA a backdoor to the site real

>>161387258
>I think we need more casuals because they provide better discussion!
No, this is a stupid post. Lack of familiarity with the medium isn't a desirable trait.

>>161387388
>tumblr gif
>Saged.
>this is your average kyoanus faggot

>>161387424
>>161387441
Go back to >>>/x/ you crazy crossboarders.

Besides, the NSA surely doesn't need anyone to GIVE them access

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"kys" posting, "reddit spacing" posting and other hot degenerated memes killed this board. New rules is good thing

>>161387372
>I don't know what subjective means!
>I'm retarded AND casual!
Just kill yourself.

>>161387409
https://boards.fireden.net/a/thread/161174472
>>161328390

>>161387456
/x/ is just /b/ with ghosts now and weirdo newagers, it hasn't been spooky in a long ass time

>>161387348
>Are we gonna make /ar/ for anime and manga from before the 2000s too?
So people can discuss the same 100 titles over and over?

>>161387441
Website owners can get subpoenaed for any data they have. Obviously, 4chan ties IP addresses to post (otherwise you couldn't ban people). Once the FBI subpoenas the IP address for a particular post for ``evidence'', Hiroshima has to hand it over.
There's no need for a backdoor.

>>161387418
2010 lurker here; It was certainly better than it is now. I wouldn't call it good, but it was a bit more random and fun with far less r8, blog and rollan threads.
Admittingly; I haven't poked my head in there in almost a year.

>>161387424
>4chan is stormer tier
Not really, mate. Content creators openly admit to coming here and I don't think anyone would be happy to public admit to any connection to the stormfront. You're over inflating things

>>161387285
>Stupid yurifag who blew in from Tumblr all of 5 years ago thinks their opinion matters
Kill yourself, you worthless subhuman.

>>161387468
You seem to be have a conversation with some imaginary person in your head who's talking about subjectivity. Good luck with that. We'll get back to our actual conversation and leave you to it, you fucking freak.

>>161387348
>lol
nu-/a/, everyone

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>>161387456
Whatever you say Agent Smith

>>161387486
As someone who has only looked at /b/ from time to time over the years it seems like the only time its ever changed was when it stopped being an anime board.

>>161387461
the reddit spacing thing was funny because of how angry it made people, and does kys have a special meaning? I thought it was just an acronym for a common phrase.

>>161387482
Remember how moot had to testify in court and explain rick rolling and white knights?
Must have been 2009.

>>161387285
/u/ has been cancer since 2013. The board is nearly all generals. It's like a toxic waste dump that spreads it's carcinogenic pollution to other boards.

>>161387508
>WINRAR SIMPLY EPIC
old-/a/, everyone

>>161387518
>>>/v/

I haven't been here for a while but what happens with Sadpanda threads?

>>161387508
man you're really angry

>>161387461
>less problematic
>problematic
We know mods are from reddit, pal. Their involvement is a double edged sword

>>161387487
certain boards here alone are worse than stormfront. Since big players like cloudfire are giving into public pressure I wouldn't be surprised they'd try this shit on us too.

>>161387547
fucked off to /h/ finally.

>>161387547
They got thrown into /h/ where everyone is dead.
Now even the thread is dead.

>>161387547
Blatant rec thread. Haven't seen it around in a while. It's on /h/ more often.
People are free to talk about individual doujins though.

>>161387499
Idiot, do you actually not understand what that word means? Read up the definition then read the first stupid post you made on the subject and see if you can spot the correlation.

>>161387560
I'm not saying anything about that mod one way or another, but the word problematic has been used for a long time before Reddit. You surely know this. Stop pretending to be retarded.

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>>161387547
Jewcob wanted it gone to monopolize /a/. He paid his way to get it.

>>161387560
>"problematic" is reddit word now
Internet subculture wars became more retarded with new generation

>>161387597
>leftists drink water
wtf i hate water now and love /pol/

Gas yourself back to your containment.

>>161387600
Problematic has nothing to do with reddit. That was another point entirely, idiot.

>>161387577
and yet few hentai rec thread still managed to slip through so easily.
I'm sure "OPT" hentai shitters can explain this

>>161387597
fuck off

>>161387567
>>161387568
Ah, OK. Well, obviously Sadpanda threads will die miserably if they are only allowed on /h/. I feel I lost one of the best sources for fapping. X-links doesn't make sense now. Fuck change.

>>161387623
It'll mellow out and go back to being how it was once the underages go to college and the climate in the US cools off, and the next board will go to being the side-wide boogeyman.

>>161387600
>>161387605
Not that fag, but words and context change over time. I mean, the word fag means something entirely different than the way a majority of 4chan uses it.

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>>161387518
>>161379744
Reminder:
/h/ is for hentai dumping. /a/ is for hentai discussion. It has always been this way, and moot personally approved of it. Hentai threads on /a/ getting deleted is a 2016 thing and needs to stop immediately.

>>161387605
see:
>>161387613
My taking issue with their wording was a separate issue to their being reddit. That was in response to the poster saying new rules are a good thing.
Rules are only as good as the enforcers.

>>161387631
>Fuck change
this

>>161387622
Reminds me of a story of a neighborhood who had a pothole on their road for 18 years. Never got fixed, but the residents always complained about it. One day, someone decided to draw a dick around it so that the city would finally notice it. It was filled in not three days later.
When the city was asked about this pothole, they said that it was never reported until the dick was drawn around it.

Really makes you think, doesn't it?

>>161379744
It's not that bad. You should look at /jp/

>>161387631
I blame that one mod that kept marketing /h/. /h/ is a dead board. Moot should have nuked it years ago. Hiro should do so to save bandwidth. One less red board to moderate too.

>>161387613
Your point is you believe /a/ is /b/ and that any sort of retarded shit should be allowed to be spammed and that the only problem is your shitty forced memes getting "censored" by "SJW mods". Am I right? You can go back to pol/8ch now.

>>161387659
/jp/ is almost like a social club for a certain group
>>161387661
>le go back there
you too. Really need to chill out with those boogeymen

>>161387660
If he wanted to save bandwidth he should remove /gif/.

>>161386520
I still browse all threads. The only thing that's changed is that it takes less time. I even still use page form for page 0 (is it still called that?)

>>161387660
>/h/ is a dead board.
Maybe to ADD suffering twitchy teens that can't get their 5-posts-per-second threads.

>>161387681
/jp/ for Touhou is fine. Nice, even. But holy shit, the generals

>>161387690
/gif/ seems kind of active, and there's something extremely erotic about porn webms and I don't know what it is

>>161387659
Jesus what happened? I thought /jp/ was going to be 2hu and perving over idolshit until the end of time.

>>161387631
So just make a thread about a doujin work.
Or better yet, fucking browse panda.
Sadpanda threads were born only to spoonfeed.
World's a better place now that it's gone.

If you want your recommendations, make a thread about a doujin that you liked and people will start recommending things by themselves.

ERP and blogposting everywhere

>>161387710
Yeah but /jp/ was specifically made for threads like buyfag/drawfag but it's mostly just cuteposting and elitism over almost nothing, doesn't help that it's almost dead and they're mostly on /qa/ now

>>161387445
It is not the most important trait, nobody is born knowing, being familiar with something only requires time. Someone who read a thousand novels (familiarity with the medium) doesn't bring more to the discussion than someone who read just one if, for example, it is an historical novel and the latter happens to be an historian (familiarity with the content) that became interested on the medium as a result of other personal interests. Same goes for anime, seeing so many people here like slice-of-lifey series one could presume someone with more diverse life experiences than just watching anime can make discussion at least more diverse.

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Can we just get this out the way, Single threads aren't fucking generals.

>>161387714
That's the problem. /gif/ hogs resources and it contributes next to nothing. The other pornboards don't come close in the amount of traffic they cause.

"Who is redditor" are my favorite type of threads in /a/.
>u reddit no u for 200 posts
Even gaia shit was less cancerous

>>161387733
ban satania posters, they almost rp as her for attention

>>161387722
>>161387659
>>161387710
There are generals and template threads, but /jp/ also has a higher concentration of people who actually try to create original threads, which have actual discussion.

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>>161387690
Hiro should just honor moot's final wish then when he sold the site to Hiro: nuke all the boards that isn't about Japanese culture.

>>161387745
No. Newfags have a lack of familiarity with the medium and are less likely to be invested in it. They also won't understand things from references to inspiration and homage to cliche. They are bad posters and don't belong here.

>>161387743
It was made as a wastebasket for stuff that got posted on /a/ that wasn't anime or manga.

>>161387652
couldn't you discuss hentai on /h/?

>>161387768
>they almost rp as her for attention
those fags are everywhere. Even in /vg/ and /ic/

This ban on generals aren't working shit. I saw four generals of Boku no Hero just yesterday, and one still is going today.

>>161387771
If only there was a way to split the site.

>>161387776
>have an opinion that isn't poitical at all
>get called /pol/
What are you trying to say, cunt?

>>161387724
>So just make a thread about a doujin work.
It will still get deleted, some have already tried over the last few months, mods currently have a zero tolerance policy for them.

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As long as the catalog and archives exist, generals will never go away. Get rid of them and /a/ is saved.

>>161387751
Anybody with a brain agrees. When we get a chain of single threads about a single show over the course of many months that extend past relevant airing dates though, it's a fucking general.
Even if you don't link the old thread, and don't post a pastebin. It's a general if you never let it rest.

>>161387811
Because they're posting tits and ass.
There are emergence threads all the time that never get deleted.

>>161387816
And lower the bump limit.

>>161387816
How do we save /a/ from tripfags?

>>161387816
Catalogs and archives do not enable generals. Generals have existed without either.

>>161387833
That too, yeah. Also, if possible, figure out a way to disable crossthread linking.

>>161387816
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgHNtzxO0y8
>>161387833
Then you'll just see more generals trying to replace the dead ones that haven't fallen off. Enjoy your redundancy.

>>161387816
You're genius!

https://boards.fireden.net/a/search/deleted/deleted/type/op/

>>161379744
/a/ is so fat that everyone but the most popular shows is forced a single thread about a show's new episode. If you don't do this, the threads will fall of the board before accumulating 10 posts. You literally can't use /a/ without creating or posting in generals.

>>161387816
Bring back noko. It confused all the newfags and the ones who were too dumb/impatient to figure out a solution fucked off.

>>161387844
I suspect the only people who think these dumbass ideas are good never used 4chan before things like catalogs were around.

>>161387863
>fat
I meant fast. But it's like a fat person walking too.

>>161387840
moot catalog? Sure. But that catalog was only created years after everyone started using the neet one.

What exactly is the problem with making every board have /r9k/ filtering?

>>161386208
>become ACK
Dude.

>>161387862
Well, at least we know that nothing was deleted that didn't deserve to be deleted.

Lower bump limit, return to time-based pruning. Ultimately the main issue is the userbase though, not the platform. That's not easily fixable, if at all.

>>161387816
This wouldn't change anything as people would just create external catalogs and archives. They already exist and if they didn't someone else would just recreate them. Sadly at this point in time people are fighting against an ideology which will probably never go away.

>>161387930
Split it to multiple boards.

>>161387798
This, how is this even possible? Ban that shit already.

just add flags and id.

>>161387899
I meant any catalogs in general, not just 3rd party ones. It's not hard to create a new thread and flood into it after the previous general died, especially back when /a/ was slower.

>>161387862
Shonenshit is a mistake

>>161387798
Sunday.

>>161387930
This anon gets it.

>>161387960
That's just another thing for cancer to post about instead of anime. Like dubs.

>>161387930
>lower bump limit
This solves nothing. You would just have two or three copies of the same general, two of which have reached the bump limit and haven't fallen off yet.
>time-based pruning
according to 2chan, this doesn't work.

>>161387937
You can just keep deleting threads that have the qualities of generals we don't like, and ban the OP.

They will learn eventually.

>>161387967
General fags are retarded. On /n/ they create a new thread when the old one hits 300 posts even though it will be around for another week.

>>161387941
What are crossboarders

>>161386483
Catalog made me reuse 4chan after a 3 year hiatus.

>>161387990
This is common behavior on other boards. They all create new threads when the bump limit is reached, even though the thread will live at least another hour. Sometimes you can see these retards on /a/. If you see them, please point at them and laugh, and boycott the new thread.

>>161388012
what a horrible way to treat your life, you sad man

>>161387990
>General fags are retarded
True, but /a/ had generals before the catalog.

>>161379744
what does it mean to allow threads to die naturally? im new here

Just create /ag/.
If you just went and delete generals you'll chase away good click and ads money for nipmoot.

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>>161387862
>Sakurafish deleted

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>>161388028
Don't post in a thread merely to bump it back to the first page. Post some kind of meaningful content.

>>161387960
Id is okay to stop samefaggotry
Fflag is nope it will only derail the threads