all memes aside

it's a worse cartoon board than /co/ and /co/ is awful

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i went , jsut now, to /a/ and brought bak this! lole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! isnt' it lolvely

dumb animeposter central
rude board

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A lost cause. The plague of generals have left nothing but a kawaii corpse of a board, doomed to endlessly repeat itself.

Delete /a/

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>>4872223
u would delet this? LOLE

>>4872228
Yes

>>4872205
Honestly, I really hate /a/. Everyone there is rude, pretentious, and literally autistic for no reason. /a/ contains the worst users on 4chan, who give true meaning to the word "faggot". I have never met worse people anywhere on Earth. /a/ is also one of the most elitist hiveminds on 4chan. For whatever reason, there is a specific way you need to be to be accepted on /a/. If I made a thread about streaming anime, I would be met with "bait", "go back to MAL", "check these dubs", ">not using nyaa", "fuck off underage", and other garbage. Another thing that bothers me about /a/ is their attitude towards """spoonfeefing""". I can find most things on my own, but google removed the ability to image search for porn, so some things are literally unsourcable. Instead of giving me source when I have no way to find it, I get fucking banned. /r/ is unhelpful as shit by the way. Also, /a/ is plagued by reposts of the exact same shit every day, and they defend it as "board culture". At least [s4s] is creative and funny with its forced maymays.
One of the main reasons I use [s4s] is that the people here are actually respectable, helpful, creative, and nice. I really wish I could say the same about /a/

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tbh I never used that board
I found this, lol

/a/ is a horrible place

Most threads are about
>discussing current yet mediocre shows (KLK, Log)
>discussing shitty harem shows (Date A-live)
>discussing current yet shitty harem shows (SAO)
>discussing waifus (why is she so perfect?/Post [..] anime girls)
>discussing body parts of waifus (ass/tits/healthy)
>monster girl threads
>shota (It's time.)
>hentai/doujins (sadpanta)

Discussion of good yet popular entry-level anime (cowboy bebop, TTGL, clannad AS) is saged in attempt to prevent newfriends to anime from posting, even if they are ready to contribute constructive posts about said anime. In attempt to look well-versed in quality anime, posters tend to disagree and dislike rather than like shows. Any funposting or threads that fall outside of a certain schematic can even get you banned. I just want a friendlier place to discuss all sorts of anime, and not just moemoe garbage and how much I hate things. [s4s] is better for that.

/a/ has it rough. They've historically tried to walk an extremely tight line between being flooded by highschool anime clubs and becoming a stagnant pit of rehashing the same old debates over whether they should tune the rose-colored glasses to thirty or forty years ago. The (initially unintentional) strategy of unabashedly being the dregs of society worked pretty well for a while, but eventually it collapsed into a culture of simply being rude and only talking about currently-airing shows. Even that hasn't stopped the influx of uninteresting, juvenile posters.

At this point, I don't really see any reason to go to /a/. If I want to watch anime, I watch anime. The dregs of society - the posters that made /a/ interesting - are outnumbered by people who are just pretending to be rude, are relatively new to the hobby, and just have the same arguments over and over again. The barriers to entry that /a/ initially put up have served only to instil a sense of shamelessness once someone manages to get past them. "Well, I'm posting on /a/ now, so I must be in the big leagues. I don't need to contribute anything except my witty comments!"

I think this is exacerbated by 4chan's design. When a board has interesting posters, it becomes popular. When it becomes popular, the signal to noise ratio decreases. When that happens, the interesting stuff eventually disappears. This isn't a problem unique to 4chan, but 4chan is distinct (among the *chans I visit, anyway) in pretending that sage doesn't exist, and it clearly suffers from it. (Also, the post delay prevents dumping content, but doesn't prevent IRC-like conversation like it was supposed to.)

/a/'s always had problems, but these days the problems far outweigh any potential benefit of going there.