Can we talk about this? I love /a/ now!!! >>>/a/161301962

/a/ has been a full general board for years, none of its current users know what quality posts look like

>>1532719
It's going to fall flat on its face.

>>1532719
Literally the mods telling people "don't do what /jp/ does"

I thought they already ``saved /a/'' last November.

>>1532719

Can the mods not actually delete threads when the actual episode comes out? Thanks

>>1532719
>general thread like the drawgthread or the buyfag thread are ok as long you don't link to the previous thread
>both drawthread got closed because of that
This is retarded, the archive sucks and clearly they are unaware of the concept of timezone.

Are generals on /a/ finally dead?

>>1532728
>the archive sucks
Use fireden now and desuarchive when the search and import of older threads gets fixed.

wtf i hate generals now

teens are completely and totally stumped by the idea of talking about things without creating a dedicated chatroom inside an image board

Didn't they try this back in January? I remember someone getting banned for making a "Megumin Monday" thread.

people still use boards like /a/ and /v/? How embarrassing

If they want to succeed with that, they would need to do more than just telling people with a sticky how things need to be. A sticky might be helpful but some people will just ignore it and shitpost regardless, and only strict moderation and bans can deal with these people.

>>1532719

>thread was titled "new episode is out"
>gets deleted

You guys are not even trying at this point.

>>1532728
>>1532739
WAYQ

>>1532728
I guess you will have to wait until find.4chan.org gets refined enough for that

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I hope [spoiler]It's time[/spoiler] threads are safe.
I don't want to spill my faggotry outside of it and it's the only place I can discuss BL manga.

>GUYS WE'RE FIXING /a/ WE SWEAR NO MORE GENERALS
How many times have the mods made this exact statement, only to give up about a month later? This isn't even a misguided mod with their heart in the right place, this is someone who has made this exact post multiple times in the past to no real effect. At this point Kinomod is just trying to boost his ego by posting the sticky equivalent of oscar bait.

>try to make /a/ better
>it's even more shit
sasuga mods

>>1532749
>>1532750
WAYQ

>>1532728
>>1532739
>>1532749
>>1532750
Who are you greening?

>>1532752
Just because it's green, doesn't mean someone actually said it.

Green can mean hyperbolic conceptualisation of something.

>>1532756
wow and i thought green was a color

>>1532758
Green is not a creative color.

>>1532758
hahahahha

>>1532756
only redditors use big words
go back there

>>1532762
I'd suggest you to fuck off together with him since you know so much about it

>>1532765
I suggest you suck my dick and balls.

Good meta thread, /ota/.

>>1532767
exsqueeze me, but meta is short for meta key, and I know you don't have any of those lying around.

nobody will know that I'm actually gnfos

>>1532766
That's gay

>>1532749
Have they made a capcode post about this before? Because I don't think pub bans count as a definitive statement.

Is the fish finally endangered? Do the mods finally like it?

>>1532719
Based Kinomod is back

>>1532777
fish general should be banned, if this was a serious attempted at "fixing" the board. but it won't be obviously because it's not serious, and don't' misunderstand I don't have any problem with the thread of course, but these are the small yet very assertive decisions that would have to be made if you were serious about again "fixing" the board, which is a joke anyways because you can't just decided to change any community of people, it'll keep evolving on its own like 4chan always has, always will, it's the people who are always going to decide what things are like, the only time moderation effects anything is with a new board. Like /lgbt/ and how it brought in all the queers to 4chan. But that's still just people, it's always about people, what a joke, makes me cackle. but what do I care, do you care? who cares? stop using /a/, really it was never any good.

>>1532784
> stop using /a/, really it was never any good.
so what?

>>1532750
There's no saving /a/. Only a small fraction actually want genuine anime discussion. Most just want to shitpost under the guise of anime discussion.

>>1532789
so nothing, that's all that needs to be said, you have something you want to say? No of course you don't, you all never have anything to say you're all idiots

>>1532793
Then ban everyone until that small fraction of the population remains.

>>1532794
why would the badness of /a/ be a reason to stop visiting it?

>>1532797
again no reason, please feel free to, I'm making a suggestion, why listen to me? who am I, I'm not special, keep doing whatever you're doing.

I don't think that much will change and if it ever will it will be pretty short-termed, but it's nice to see that mods still aren't completely out of touch and haven't given up on the board completely, which is probably the only thing I would take away from the post.

>>1532796
The board would be slower than /qa/. Mods can impose whatever rule they want: shitposting will always be the norm on /a/; now and forever.

>>1532782
was hoping he put in chink shit is now allowed for the ensure lols

>>1532796
you know this will just encourage me to shitpost harder

>urwaifuisshit.jpg
what did he mean by this?

>>1532719
Literally nothing new was said. The only thing this post does is remind shitposters that they can complain about any thread they dislike by calling it a general. Thank you once again, moderation.
It would be nice if the fact that one of you (just because you posted Kino I'm not convinced of who you are especially after the fiasco from last year) went full retard and made a sticky means you've acquired some sort of ability to distinguish what really is a "general" and what's just a recurring thread, but hope is something I don't have at all anymore.

>>1532807
>The board would be slower than /qa/
Did you have a point?
>>1532810
If you use /a/ to only shitpost you need to fuck off.

ESTABLISHED

>>1532815
you need to suck my cock

t. intellectual discussioner

>>1532749
The problem is that they don't really know what's a general (in fact nobody seems to fully understand) but since they're still globally hated they want to stroke their egos by "getting rid" of them. However, since determining whether a thread is a general or not requires a lot of continued effort, they do this half-assed job of randomly deleting a few threads and them pat themselves on the back for it.
>>1532776
Yes, the most famous ones were from last November and one from 2014, I think

>>1532752
The pope. Are you going to deny the pope?

Anime was a mistake.

I for one will take this opportunity to shit on any thread I dislike by calling it a general with or without cause. You can't imagine how many (You)'s I'm going to get even if it's just because I'm pretending to be retarded.

>>1532858
>pretending

>>1532864
Thanks for the (You). It's already working.

>>1532866

Here's another, don't spend it all in one place

>>1532869
thanks

>>1532735
Good.

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>>1532819
A general on /a/ is "A popular thread that I don't like".
Forget having "general" in the the title, or a link to the previous thread, everyone who isn't retarded has learned by now to avoid those red flags.
I remember a while ago someone posted a "Read or Die General" (or some other old anime, I forgot) as a joke and it got deleted. Such is neo-/a/.

>>1533015
Problem is mods are doing half measures. The offenders are obvious cross-boarders and people who don't belong on /a/, people who obviously have not watched a lot of anime and only come to the board for one show. The solution /a/ used to have for such people posting was to shitpost or spam their threads until they left. And eventually they just stopped posting on the board. But mods decided that behavior was "unacceptable" and now /a/ is infested by /v/ermin and other trash who come to talk about boruto and db super and one piece and nothing else.

>>1532719
Some good ideas but it'll never really work

You need more pages to really get rid of generals. Nobody ever wants to admit that some of 4chan's problems are directly caused by some functionality (or lack thereof) of the site itself.
It's always just ban this ban that.

Perhaps it'll appear to be working for a few weeks, maybe even months, and this mod will get all kinds of praise for it. But come back 3-4 months from now and I absolutely guarantee you /a/ will still be exactly the same with the same amount of generals.

>>1533016
I'll have you know that I only go there to talk about Boku No Hero Academia!

Though I may fall back to whatever threads I can find for it on Spacebattles...or start a Thread on /tg/ for making a RPG system based on it.

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/a/ is in full riot mode now, I love it.
Maybe it will dawn on some of those tantrum-throwing ban-everything-I-don't-like rulesfags that other people may have other opinions worth considering. Or not.
Either way, it's get-the-popcorn time.

>>1533047
Mostly just people going into any thread they don`t like and screaming it is a general breaking the rules and this is like every thread now, even ones for shows that are airing.
So stupid and I know this would happen.

usually stopping generals on a board means that you need to make a board general of that topic t o actually expidate changes neatly.

bring back the word filter

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Faggot mod just deleted my Dragon Ball thread..

Typical meta dumb shit.
One guy spams the same things repeatedly because he knows he has the potential to cause chaos today.
Most people realize what's going on but a few overly emotional people get roped in leading to others joining in for fun(trolls trolling trolls).

Meta discussions are cancer when you've got underaged people on your board.

>>1533040
>I'll have you know that I only go there to talk about Boku No Hero Academia!
You are part of the problem. Or more accurately, people like you are not a problem so long as the majority of the board is comprised of regulars with a broad interest in the board's topic. The problem arises when a large enough chunk of the board's activity comes from cross boarders with no real interest in the board's topic outside one thing they're interested in. It causes stagnation because threads turn into sub-communities that don't interact with the rest of the board, the posters there are ignorant and unable to draw connections to the rest of the board's topic and so they have no real ability to hold a discussion outside their thread.

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>>1533061
Fuck off. Rulefags and tsukkomifags are literally the worst. 4chan is not for serious discussion that's always on topic and not every post is well thought-out or original. You belong to Reddit. Dumb normlord. Fucking immolate yourself.

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>>1533076
>>>/pol/brit
go back there

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>>1533076
Rulefags...
kk, enjoy

>>1533076
People who say this are invariably not from 4chan, they are tourists who come here for "ebin shitpost culture XD". Basically the main reason /tv/ is terrible is because of people like you.

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>>1533079
fuck off

>>1533080
normalord

>>1533082
No, you dumb newshit. You cannot put order in something build on disorder. You are too fresh to realise this and you should lurk the fuck more before posting, lest you embarrass yourself even further. Fucking faglord.

what's with the image dump

>>1533118
Oh lmao. Go back to your hidden cult board on the asshole of 8gag.

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>>1533124
Fuck off rulecuck.
I'm allowed to do whatever the fuck I want.

>>1533128
>uses lmao
>while trying to make people believe he's experienced with 4chan
Oh wow.

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>>1533134
Are you trying to police my language and create a sense of order over what kind of language we use.

Fuck off rulecuck. I've had enough with your order. Fuck the norm.

>>1533133
Not anymore, fagboy. Enjoy your bans.

serious discussion and staying on topic are 2 different things

>>1533136
But they are not banning anyone, just deleting threads. I can either wait 5 minutes and post another thread or simply reset my router if I am in a hurry.

>>1533133
Shut the fuck up.

>>1532721
With the removal of visible sage, there's absolutely zero way for newfags to distinguish between quality posts and shitposts. That one change singlehandedly destroyed post quality because they are one and the same for someone new.

>>1533378
Sage wasn't intended to be a "downvote".
And for one glorious moment sometime before m00t died, most of /a/ was using it correctly - as in "this post is not important enough to bump the thread". I was so proud I actually thought we were witnessing the dawn of a Platinum Age.
And then, just as quickly as it came, it was gone. Sage was made invisible and we went back to competitive thread bumping.
But yeah, bring back visible sage if only for instructional value.

>>1532745
They get auto deleted, it's sad

>>1533068
I'll have you know that the /ai/ general was 10x better than the fucking board, you get shitpost in any thread you start and barely any discussion besides people saying how their waifu is best girl, that is even if there are people who know the anime you want to discuss.
Are there garbage generals? Sure. Is the solution to ban ALL generals? Obviously not. They, again, choose the easiest way to do things because they are lazy fuck, and for this same reason, they will give up on this after a month, like every single time they tried this. But apparently banning shitposter is too much of a hassle better delete the thread. Reporting a post won't get it deleted 90% of the time unless it is obviously breaking the rules, like nude.

>>1533577
>>>/int/

>>1533411
>wasn't intended
Why does that matter?

>>1533135
rulecucks
BTFO!

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>>1533580
Does /int/ even get moderation? There are CP there regularly. Besides, in my experience, which is limited, generals on /int/ are like country boots in some international expo, you can go and ask stuff about the countries and you would actually get answers. What else would you use /int/?

>>1532719
>post doesn't say anything about generals being forbidden, all it does is tell people to not make their threads look like generals
>in fact, it even acknowledges how generals that haven't run out of discussion are perfectly fine, and how recurring threads and generals are not the same thing
>but shitposters don't care about any of that and instead just keep reposting how generalsfags got btfo and how generals are banned now
Is it autism?

>>1532719
Hello newfag.

I'm honestly shocked to see the staff show any indication of giving two shits about anything that goes on here. Now if only they opened some communications channels too so people could say things to them, but I'm sure that's going too far.

>>1533804
that would require payment

All they have to do is make sage visible again. I understand it's not intended to be a down vote, but it would still help a lot more.

>>1533411
>competitive thread bumping
What the fuck is that?

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>go on /a/
>general threads are back in full

Well, that didn't last long LMFAO

>>1532722
but it's a sticky this time, they wouldn't just give up after two weeks like the other five times they did this, would they?

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I'm telling you faggots.
You need more pages to get rid of generals. It's the only way. But of course they won't do that, they'll go full nazi modo before they'll even consider adding more pages.

Buncha clowns running this site I swear.

>>1533076
fuck off newfag

>>1533085
>>1533089
>>1533090
>>1533112
>>1533116
is this garbage finally banned?

>>1533560
too sad, what the fuck

>>1533936
Monogatari is art.

>>1533819
wat Im doin rite nao LOL xD

(shitposting for the sake of keeping shit threads alive)

Fun fact: what this mod is trying to remove aren't generals, it's just low-content OPs or OPs that look like generals. The staff is probably just skimming through the catalog and seeing if there are any OPs that don't form complete sentences or start discussion topics (just like they did last time they tried to "regulate" "generals" last December) in order to make people think they're working.

>>1534089
>make people think they're working
They can't possibly be this retarded.

>>1532719
reddit tier garbage

next thing you know, your posts wil be deleted for off topic if they dont contain the word anime or mang at least once

>people are talking about currently airing anime in their own threads. I can't stand for this please delete them GENERALS LEAVE AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
This is hilarious. I guess the sticky was ultimately a good thing, look how many real shitposters and people who want to kill /a/ for good came out of the woodwork.
>b-but generals are bad we must kill all generals if you like generals you're reddit

>Generals are banned

Thank you mods, now on to /int/.

>>1532726
That was America.

It's a battle between newfags who are happy with what they have turned 4chan into versus oldfags who aren't happy. The former outnumber the latter so much it's not even funny. It's time to forget the past, nothing is going to change.

>>1533935
Dead generals encourage bad behavior. That's why they need to get lost when people have nothing legitimate to say.

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>>1532719
Once again people overreacting whenever a mod does mod stuff, it's not like this happens every once in a while anyway right? The post is for the most part just reiterating things we already know, more proactive moderation is always welcome on /a/ though. Still they'll moderate seriously for a week or two and then everyone will have forgotten about it by that point anyway.

Shitposter BTFO for a bit I guess.

>>1534715
>Shitposter BTFO for a bit I guess
This is more like an invitation for shitposters to screech "this is a general, mods! Come delete this thread pls" into whatever threads they want and potentially get them deleted, so not really.

>>1534727
>This is more like an invitation for shitposters to screech "this is a general, mods! Come delete this thread pls" into whatever threads they want and potentially get them deleted, so not really.
And then they get banned and told to use the report button in the future.

>>1534689
Do you honestly not see that generals become the natural course of things when the ratio of pages to new threads is too high?

Imagine removing pages then. What do you think would happen when there's 5 pages? 4? 3?
Isn't it obvious that either people accept 2min threads or the community picks a few good threads and bumps them like mad to keep them from dying.

There is absolutely a relation. I'm not saying it's going to get rid of generals, but it is necessary to stop the natural tendency of a board to form generals, and /a/ definitely has that tendency.
At that point it would make more sense to then start deleting generals, but right now /a/ can't do without them until the page count is increased.

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You can't save /a/ without time traveling to the past.

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This bull shit I was about do more thread about Trash, Four-Eyes, and Lit Chick (Fake) to get more people into this manga.

>>1534715
Stupid frogposter.

>>1535053
I was range banned for one (1) day too for some reason.

>>1535326
I was off of /a/ for a week and I come back and see this. Hiroyuki can you check the background of that person before turning them into a mod.

>>1532794
Fuck off zentoku.

It took less than a day for all the general cancer to come back. I've reported every single dragonball general, yet nothing happens.

Great now mods are deleting actual manga/anime threads and letting the cancer live.
Luckily they're lazy as fuck so their efforts to destroy the board are only half-assed.
They must have incredibly small penises.

>>1537020
>shitposting is so deeply ingrained into /a/'s "board culture" that the board can't without shitposting threads

>>1537040
Seriously who are you quoting?

>>1537041
Dead meme

>>1537048
Let him have his fun. He thinks he's clever.