/a/ - Animu & Mango

Anything in general or specifically you're looking for in a potential meido other than spending a lot of time on /a/?

Can previous meidos reapply?

>>789283

Not particularly, the main requirements are a genuine love for the board, and a basic ability to work as part of a team and follow directions.

>>789285

Those in that bucket have already passed the application process before and should ping me directly on Rizon instead.

>>789289

>Not particularly, the main requirements are a genuine love for the board, and a basic ability to work as part of a team and follow directions.

I think I should be able to manage that. Here goes nothing.

Here goes nothing. Good luck to the other girls.

>>789284

I agree, the new meido should be someone that can take it easy and not someone who goes around stalking users and trying to curate every single post. Someone like that would only bring stagnation to /a/.

>>789282

Beware of evil intentioned people and the masks they put.

Don't forget that brazilian spammer who destroyed /tv/ also targets /a/, and giving him this spot means the death of this board.

>>789393

>/tg/ have one dedicated containment thread.

/tg/ is much more lenient about political stuff in general.

But yeah, on a chan without a centralized rulership it doesn't appear sensible to have rules point to particular boards.

So I suppose anyone who's application got "put on file" last time around and who didn't get contacted isn't eligible for the position?

>>789393

/animu/ is moderately active and serve as a containment for /pol/, /v/ and dubs posters. /animeshon/ is completely dead, it's better to have /loli/ shilled in its place.

>>789398

/tg/ enacted the containment thread so there wouldn't be a dozen "look what this asshole said on twitter" threads floating around the board. Since most of the topics come down to "time to stop supporting this company" it makes sense to have it in one thread.

On /a/, outside of the occasional article where some moronic journo accuses anime fans of being shitlords, there's not as much to talk about, besides bad translations and companies like funimation and crunchyroll poisoning things. Even then, what's there to say? Outside of telling people not to support those groups and companies, it's just a shared bitching thread where everyone posts their angry faces and rants about how sick of that shit they are. Nothing wrong with venting, but it makes for a shitty board if all we ever do is focus on the negative (even if humans are wired to do that)

>>789400

>/animu/ is moderately active and serve as a containment for /pol/, /v/ and dubs posters. /animeshon/ is completely dead, it's better to have /loli/ shilled in its place.

/animu/ is just another shitposting hub, just like /tv/, /b/ and /am/ before.

It doesn't have anything to do with other boards. The IP-hopping shitposter floods that place and makes it seem more active than it really is.

>>789406

I was not complaining.

>>789408

They don't like being called a shitposting hub. They prefer to just be called an anime board with more lax moderation. They actually do still have serious discussions there, the BO is more lenient. The board is friendlier to /v/ and /pol/ cross posters, which works because /weebpol/ is completely dead.

>>789406

I could see the need for news/political discussion arise if it was absolutely and directly related to Nipland/otaku culture and in that case it should technically fall under rule 7. It's hard to say because we all know those threads tend to attract the crossboarder shitters. But at the same time there are /a/nons who may genuinely wish to discuss some nip happening or what have you.

>>789415

So would you prefer if the responsibility of the course of the discussion lay with the anons and the mods would just delete the thread if it became too /pol/ (even if it was just a handful of dedicated shitposters ruining the thread for everybody) or having a mod babysit the thread?

Would it be possible to limit the usage of the meido ability to edit their post for any post that doesn't require their capcode? I feel like there are some that use it to correct themselves too much instead of just delete the post and repost it correctly or assume responsibility for not properly correcting themselves.

>>789422

That's because it's not a shitposting board. Low effort shitposting and baiting gets banned on /animu/. The major difference between the boards is that /animu/ is more lenient on things such as grammar, /rec/ and /pol/.

>>789413

>>789415

A small question: From where do you think new users come if not from other boards?

This "crossboarder" nonsense will only destroy /a/ in the long run, and just because of a couple of faggots who want their 2-person echochamber hugbox, where no one ever has different opinions from them or is from a different background.

Usually (I'm not saying that is because I don't know you) this is because you're project your own suffered bullying onto others - the same you are rejected, you start rejecting others when the tables flip, and this all out of resentment and bitterness.

>>789425

A crossboarder is not somebody who uses multiple boards.

A crossboarder is somebody who uses board a but behaves as if he were on board b.

>>789425

>you should let every shitposting newfag run amok on /a/ because muh dead board

Take your false dilemma and fuck off to halfchan with it if you want a big board. /a/ is about quality over quantity and I wouldn't want it any other way.

>>789418

I think I'm leaning towards the former but the answer probably lies somewhere in the middle.

>>789425

I think you're overthinking it anon. The whole thing refers to newfaggots who come here from other places, bringing with them some bad habits, and expecting that shit to fly here just like it did back there.

Shitting on "crossboarders" is an organic defense mechanism that lets newfaggots know that they should lurk more, and assimilate to the customs of the board, instead of jumping in to let everyone know what cocks they've sucked on /????/

It's as if your normalfaggot facebook friend stumbles upon /pol/ one day and starts saying things like "Wow, racist much you guys?"

>>789426

>A crossboarder is not somebody who uses multiple boards

Is it not?

>>789431

Most people use multiple boards. So long as you keep the memes and contents separated there is no problem and no one will call you out for it.

>>789429

Yeah, you're retarded if that's what you thought of what I said. Complete misunderstanding.

>>789426

This might be your dictionary-like take on that, but it's not what is practiced here.

>>789436

>we'd prioritise the one with a history on /a/,

As somebody who's fresh off the boat himself, I find that very sensible.

The only thing I don't understand is that I don't see you asking any volunteers to pose in maid costumes. How else can you measure their eligibility for the job?

>>789294

Doing that would be counter-productive as it would tell shitposters/spammers what times to post at. I know it sounds stupid anon, but you can't reveal your weakness when surrounded by enemies.

>>789444

Do you really think that habitual shitposters wouldn't notice patterns in how quickly the maids respond to their activity?

>>789446

Believe it or not, when I vol on /hgg/ they tend to already think like this, so I log in occasionally at odd intervals/lay down the hammer and they then think there's a vol there when there's not. It's pretty easy to trick autistic shitposters so long as you don't announce when you're cleaning up publicly.

>>789450

How many boards do you vol?

>>789443

To be honest though, spoonfeeding still falls under those unwritten rules that are up to the meido's discretion. Like 0. Lurk more. It's kind of hard to demand consistency from an unwritten rule.

I agree with you however.

>>789443

Actually fuck it, I worry enough about this board to not want to see some scumbag ruin it. I'll go ahead and apply so long as I can respond to other meidos using the private vol messaging/emails instead of IRC. Email still related.

>>789456

I lurk the first two pages to see the most recent posts at least a few times a day, anon. You can sometimes find interesting discussion even if you're not watching a shit anime.

>>789452

Officially just /hgg/. I've got a few tiny/dead boards I've either created and no longer own like /sen/ or previously vol'd for, but we're talking a few posts per month so at most it's B&Ding the occasional shitposter.

>>789462

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Has anyone here received their application yet?

>>789472

It has not even been a day yet. Give it some time.

>>789406

>besides bad translations and companies like funimation and crunchyroll poisoning things

This our fault for don't know Japanese. We had similar problem with fan-subs in past (but without political bullshit.)

Polite sage for be off-topic.

>>789443

Never let /leftypol/ shit out, right?

>>789459

I would apply, but my idea of moderation is closer to /animu/'s than to /a/'s. So, I would let many things pass, although I would ban spergs and shitposters on spot.

Also, I browse here since late 2014, but I don't use a fixed IP, so this would be a problem of sorts to you.

Just don't let people like this guy here >>789443 apply.

>>789500

>I would apply, but my idea of moderation is closer to /animu/'s than to /a/'s. So, I would let many things pass, although I would ban spergs and shitposters on spot.

Then apply to /animu/'s if they're still open.

>>789503

But I don't like it there, I like /a/.

>>789504

>Not liking both

>>789510

I let sage on auto due to posting in other threads, I don't feel like bumping them. Only thereafter I realised that.

And my problem with you is a literal banfest and no fun allowed /a/.

>>789511

I don't even go there, and why should I when this place here exists? It's not like they'll recommend better manga or better anime or anything, I'm an oldfag to the core and don't need that sort of thing anymore (I said I browse here since 2014, but I watch anime for about 15 years now).

I'm on /a/ to talk to people, and /animu/ has different peoples - it's like changing your set of friends for another, it doesn't compel me.

>>789514

I browse both because both boards have different things to offer despite being both anime boards. It's like the futaba channel having two boards for the same subject, the normal board and the flipside board. I see /animu/ as the flipside version of /a/.

Something else I forgot to mention: I'd appreciate if instead of randomly deleting posts you'd leave them up just with one or two sentences explaining the problem, especially if you ban the poster. It's quite annoying when you see random replies to deleted posts scattered around.

>>789523

You could solve that by just not replying to shitposters.

>>789523

I don't think that's a good idea. It fails to cut the discussion off. People will continue to reply to whatever that guy said.

It's a different matter if the offensive post in question is the OP, and you can lock the entire thread.

>>789524

Heated discussions of all kinds happen sometimes, it's not only rogue shitposters. This is not mathematics.

>>789525

But I have to agree specially because of what this guy said.

In any case, I wouldn't mind that at all because it brings life, in the form of emotions, to the board.

>>789523

I think this should only apply if the poster gets banned for bad writing by that I don't mean some obvious crossboarder that can't capitalize and punctuate his posts. But again, my English is kinda precarious and I have never been banned for bad writing, so I don't know if that is usually overlooked if it's an /a/non.

>>789520

Wouldn't we be the flipside, though? I never went there, but /animu/ sounds like the more casual board to me.

>>789539

There are some good anons there but there a lot of /pol/ and /v/ fags there as well. It was good /animu/ reborning from the ashes, now there will be an option for people who want to shitpost that complain about /a/'s rules now that /a/ is not the only anime board.

>>789539

The flipside is the more lax version of a normal board.

>>789541

Best part is that /animu/ is as active if not more active than /a/, which keeps these posters satisfied enough to stay there and not complain and mess with /a/.

>>789534

>Well, I really love this board. People complain about getting banned a lot here, but I only remember getting banned when I knew I was doing something the meido might not like. It's the closest to perfection we can have nowadays seeing how the other places in the internet are.

This. I see us as the last true hobby board on the internet, the spiritual successor to internet 1.0.

I love the meidos and they are always just from what I've noticed. The only thing is Hoihoi can be a little too strict because she doesn't see context, but in the end, she's right, too.

>>789543

But in futaba, the flipside is where the hikki neets like us post.

>>789534

You don't need to apply either, you have no idea of what's happening.

>>789541

It's mostly one guy samefagging there. It might create the impression of being crowded with people, but it's not.

Look at /tv/, do you know that 90% of the posts there are by one guy? It's the same guy on /animu/

>>789551

I've been to /animu/, it doesn't look to be the same guy posting, considering different posting styles. It looks to be too much work and effort as well as their spot in the top 25.

>>789555

>I've been to /animu/, it doesn't look to be the same guy posting, considering different posting styles.

He varies his posting style. Here on /a/ he's known as the Kirinofag sperg, or that guy who ruined the first Darling in the FranXX thread.

>It looks to be too much work and effort as well as their spot in the top 25.

He, alone, put /tv/ where it is today.

>>789554

You seem to have gotten lost on your way to /jp/, sweet child.

>>789534

>Well, I really love this board. People complain about getting banned a lot here, but I only remember getting banned when I knew I was doing something the meido might not like.

Not gonna lie, it's fun the break the rules intentionally and get banned occasionally. It wouldn't be fun if everyone followed them 100% of the time.

>>789548

Hoihoi is a goddess half the time, and a bitch the other half of the time. Anons were peacefully discussing different weapons systems autistically when she's shown her ugly mug in scifi/gun/apocalypse-style threads in the past.

>>789560

/jp/ is /a/.

Who are you quoting is a time-honored meme, faggot.

>>789559

An explanation is that /animu/ was shilled on /v/ and the /v/ anons that never liked /a/'s moderation went there and have an anime board of their own. There is no samefag like with /tv/.

>>789556

>Or do you think that there are threads linking to /a/, telling people to fight the good fight here?

Not necessarily, can't speak for /v/ since I don't use shit boards, but /sudo/ has shown extreme disdain for the existence that is /a/ in the past since we don't let them shitpost, and a lot of /sudo/ is made up of a mix of /tech/ and /v/.

>>789563

That can't be right because if /jp/ was /a/ then /a/ would be a festering circlejerk avatarfag shithole.

>>789564

I really don't believe that, that samefag has a massive hatred for /a/ Meidos not letting him shit this whole board and would probably boost a competitor board.

It got to the point when he tried to discuss anime on /tv/, but everyone just ignored him, and the threads were filled with him talking to himself with multiple personalities.

We're talking about a real psychopath here.

>>789567

Is he who I'm thinking he is? Is it that brazilian?

>>789565

You can't possibly take /sudo/ seriously, it's just a big shithole with people complaining about anything and everything.

>>789570

Yes.

>>789572

You mean like /ameta/?

>>789567

Check out their threads, many of them were from /v/, /pol/ and /monster/. The shilling happened at /v/ where many jumped in. Also the Head Meido here is a vol there.

>>789576

I'm in disbelief, that guy slowed down for now and I might know why, but the sheer cancer he spread in the last months were dire.

>>789580

Believe it. Remember that there are many on /v/ that want an anime board but hate the moderation here. You should know the times when obvious /v/ crossposters were banned and then they complained that it's stricter than /v/. /v/ Weebs got their own board now, pure and simple.

>>789585

>No one keep making profiles out of anybody, only some sick moderators. It's pretty obvious who I am when I get angry, only. Besides that, no one knows.

>Well, if you're an 8/a/ user, it's better to get smart, vagabond. Soon soon I'll become a moderator there and then I'll persecute losers who keep posting cuckchan's garbage.

It might be him.

>>789592

I've never posted on 4chan because I used forums before, but I knew the site. Again, I'm a very oldfag regarding anime.

>Are you preparing yourself for the ban you are most likely going to receive for derailing the meido drive thread with politics?

Seriously, you really shouldn't become a Meido or this board will surely die out completely.

>>789597

>It might be him.

Well the best thing to do is not allow Brazilians to become meidos.

>>789282

Damn, time to become a maid and ban every thread I don't like.

>>789637

That's the spirit

>>789635

Just please don't use the ban all 'posts by IP on this thread' option, I've contributed in a good manner.

>>789635

Sorry. But those peoples kinda get on my nerves.

They want everything easy.

Also, about that brazilian, this here is important: >>789585

He'll try to get moderation and might deceive you, beware.

>>789657

This is unironically actually good, although my Japanese is not the slightest advanced.

>>789657

This is a wonderful idea, anon.

>>789660

It relies on the assumption that people who speak Japanese are somehow better anons than other people.

If they learned Japanese for the sake of reading/watching raws, there may be a little merit to the claim (not much). But I think most people who speak Japanese learned it for completely different reasons and it means exactly jackshit about their posting habits.

>>789665

>>789668

I'll shut up now.

>>789657

Just have them say what "itadakimasu" means.

>>789673

Rub a dub dub, thanks for the grub?

>>789663

That's funny because I have indeed always assumed that any anon who speaks Nip is, in fact, a better person than me.

I look up to them as heroes. The brave souls who had the will to brake free of the shackles of fansubs. Deciphering their smug moonrunes with my firefox add-ons is what keeps me going in hopes that one day I, too, shall be up there among the hanabi.

>>789673

Wouldn't it be easier to just have them translate a page from a manga?

>>789675

No time like the present to start, Anon.

>>789670

All you had to do was to learn Japanese.

>>789677

I know my kana, and more. But I mean actually speak Nip. Enough to read manga and whatnot.

I hope your recruitment drive goes well.

>>789436

>they will need to apply here again

>>789713

>yesteryear

I have learnt a new word.

>>789713

You should definitely not forget to include /leftypol/ in that list of yours. They've certainly been responsible for throwing some of the worst shitposters our way.

You know, just so you don't look like a biased commie to anyone looking at your "hobby" email.

>>789727

I have never seen /leftypol/ come here to shit on our threads forcing their ideology upon our throats.

>>789729

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>>789729

It's happened plenty of times, believe you me.

/pol/'s got the numbers, so that's why they come up much more often. But when it comes to shitting up another board, /leftypol/ focuses on quality over quantity, boy do they ever.

>>789737

Well, the recent shittings have all been made by /pol/. Does /leftypol/ even still exist? I thought they had fell apart after that tranny BO blowjob thing.

>>789727

>>789729

>duuahhh 'my' sect of /pol/ is totally different from /pol/

You're all the same monster and you all make the same terrible posts. I can't talk about video games anywhere because of all of your collective garbage, and I'm not going to let you fags do it to anime. Keep it out of /a/ because you have taken this trash to EVERY CORNER OF THE INTERNET so you have all the places in the world to talk about it, this isn't hard.

>>789748

Imagine being this fucking neurotic about an internet boogeyman. Holy shit, calm yourself.

>>789750

He's right. Retards forcing politics into everything is the reason we can't have nice things.

>>789750

Yeah, paranoid people like that shouldn't be the ones moderating.

>>789753

I doubt anything but response time will change after the meido drive. If a meido fucks up, he's done. There will always be meido demand to a big board like /a/; anyone can substitute you.

If the BO picks any /leftypol/ faggot as a meido then this board deserves all the crossboarders it will get.

>>789657

There are so many trash translators like Commiesubs that I'm convinced that would have a reverse effect.

>>789433

>This might be your dictionary-like take on that, but it's not what is practiced here.

I'm not aware of anyone having ever been banned for using another board. What does happen is that people try to impose the culture of other boards on /a/, for example by posting /pol/ memes, and then get banned. If you can act like you belong on /a/, you shouldn't get banned for crossboarding.

>>789773

No, really, it's just one or two /leftypol/ faggots who get turbo triggered by anything.

Look at this thread, there's a guy, pretending to be neutral while lashing against /pol/ /v/ and /b/ and then his email is "gr8stalin"

>Hello, my fellow /a/nons! These filthy non-/leftypol/ crossboarders eh? Time to kill them right? They're so infuriating, right?

>>789788

Are you implying there is literally nothing wrong with these three boards?

>>789793

He obviously isn't.

>>789793

/pol/, /v/, /b/, /leftypol/ - doesn't matter. These boards literally doesn't matter, we're talking about /a/ and the behaviour of people on /a/.

While he may be right that there are spergs now and then, he himself don't seem to realise that he's also a sperg, a very noticeable and biased one.

Always claiming more mdoeration in the name on /a/, when in fact he just want his views to be unimpeded here.

It's just a triggered fagoot using cheap sophism to convince people to purge everyone he doesn't want to, with false consensus and manufactured outrage, while he himself, the very "crossboarder sperg" he describes, remaining.

Again, he may try to defend himself saying that he doesn't sperg or that he doesn't bring his views to /a/, but this is wrong - by impeding others and nuking them, he's bringing his views alright to this board.

His correct attitude would be to shut the fuck up and deal with it, tolerate it and accept it, while the MEIDOS judge or ban the person who might or might not be breaking /a/'s rules.

>>789788

I've made three posts total with this one

Consider that there might be more than one person who's simply tired of the bullshit

>>789796

Forgive me if I've misunderstood your post, but you seem to be more upset that he wants to ban people from /pol/ than you are that he didn't include /leftypol/.

They should all be fucking banned. If it were up to me there would be zero tolerance for political shitposting of any kind.

>>789796

You are right. I don't think anyone is trying to convince anyone here - in the end, it's the head meido who decides things.

>>789800

>Forgive me if I've misunderstood your post, but you seem to be more upset that he wants to ban people from /pol/ than you are that he didn't include /leftypol/.

No, it's about his hypocrisy and personal interests. To me, it's either leniency for all or ban for all.

It's pretty sure he picks sides in this while posing as innocent.

>>789803

It's not like he's wrong anyways. So why are you mad? We should include anything political related to be hammered, it just happens that /pol/ usually bothers us more than /leftypol/. In the end both should be banned if they happen to come here again.

>>789803

I don't see a single post in the thread advocating leniency for /leftypol/ crossboarders.

>>789810

No, of course, but there's an underline that it is always omitted as well, specially by those who criticize the most.

I wasn't the only one to spot that ingenuity.

>>789807

All I'm asking is a fair game.

>>789828

So every time /pol/ is mentioned in any discussion about crossboarders, we must also mention /leftypol/ just so we don't upset anyone's feelings?

Would it make you feel better if we called it /*pol/, or do we have to list every politics board every time?

>>789828

Do you also complain about a lack of criticism against /pol/ when somebody complains about /leftypol/ stinking the place up again?

>>789834

>>789836

I don't complain about either, to be honest. My position about them is quite neutral and I don't care.

I'm criticizing those who care, and those who are hypocrite to only point out one of the culprits in a generalized sense, not in a specific sense.

Now, as was discussed here, the critics (who come from a board with low shilling) aren't even familiar with the concept and often haven't experienced it.

What /a/ suffered in the recent past was active shilling, not genuine shitposting by rogue elements - it was a person, who admittedly spammed the board, posing as /pol/, posing as /v/, you name it.

But well, really, explaining it over and over is quite tiring.

>>789393

I agree. /a/ should promote good non-dead boards.

>>789436

Oh hey there's another Australian on here.

>>789444

This board really doesn't get shit on a lot, not compared to something like 4/jp/ used to. Besides, admitting there's not enough meidos does the same thing.

>>789440

>The only thing I don't understand is that I don't see you asking any volunteers to pose in maid costumes.

I mean, I'm all for little girls dressed as meidos, but I think that's kinda pushing the envelope, anon.

Not interested in applying; I don't spend the time here or have the dedication to qualify. For those that do, and for those medios we do have here every day, thank you for caring so much and cleaning up after all our shit.

>How are you all feeling about /a/?

It's pretty good. I honestly haven't spent much time here lately though. This is the first season in a while where I've been posting in many of the threads for the shows I've been watching, and it's not even that remarkable a season.

>What do you think is going right?

From what I can tell, the culture of the board is being pretty well preserved. Not a lot of spoonfeeding, not a lot of shitposting, not a lot of bad threads - the relatively low traffic keeps this stuff from happening most of the time, and a meido usually takes care of it in a reasonably quick timeframe.

>What do you think should be different (if anything)?

Gosh, I don't know. Better left to someone who spends more time here, I think.

>>>/pol/11227610

Is this /a/ or /jp/?

>>789937

It's /pol/.

>>789942

Will you send people to /pol/ if Japan enacts some new censorship laws that are targeting anime?

>>789949

I don't think it's fair to blame all that on /pol/, my intuition says that was more /v/.

>>789937

Belongs on /pol/. I say this as the anon that made that thread.

>>789951

For the netorare stuff? No idea. I just listed it for falling into the same category as /pol/ stuff in that it frequently derails threads for no reason. I'd have no issue with it if it was able to stick to its own thread.

>>789892

I knew something was fishy about /animu/ when the shills started spreading lies about /a/ to get more posters on his fart board.

>>789892

You know I was on the toilet earlier thinking about how much the internet sucks now but this is a fun end to an old story; I forgot all about those fart jokes. Internet still sucks but I'm a little less bothered by it.

>>789551

>It's mostly one guy samefagging there. It might create the impression of being crowded with people, but it's not.

>Look at /tv/, do you know that 90% of the posts there are by one guy? It's the same guy on /animu/

I doubt that this is true of /animu/.

>>789942

No, it's /a/, /pol/ and /jp/.

But it's on /pol/, not on /a/ because people like you would like to see this board emptied.

People will flock elsewhere then, hence /animu/.

If /animu/ succeeds, there's a thing called niche competition in nature, that dictates that two competing species cannot have the same niche, one of them will become extinct.

>>790005

Yeah, it has been a time now so I'll lay my theory about how he appeared and how he faded into irrelevancy:

He just used Opera as a browser, and it had a native VPN function. Now, after the update sometime ago, the function was overhauled and lost many proxies (before, it used "infinite", so the guy was impossible to ban) having 3 fixed and limited proxies now, which, funnily enough, are all already banned.

So, he got power, he lost it.

>>790037

You misunderstand the rules.

There are inclusive topics, and there are exclusive ones.

/pol/ is one of those exclusive topics. If what you want to discuss is political, then that's basically it. It's almost irrelevant whether it's also anime related. That's why the rules thread specifically says that "Tangentially related /pol/ content/images should be posted on >>>/weebpol/ or >>>/a4pol/."

>>790044

>Two dead boards

>Like everything else japan-related

>Only /jp/ /a/ and /animu/ are somehow relevant, /u/ /loli/ and else all died due to being too specific

>>790047

>>Two dead boards

This thread has touched upon that point.

As for your other greentext, I am not entirely sure what you are trying to say or whom you are quoting.

>>790047

>Only /jp/ /a/ and /animu/ are somehow relevant

There is also /2hu/, a board I have a soft spot for.

>>790047

>/u/ /loli/ and else all died due to being too specific

/u/ and /loli/ are more active than /jp/.

>>790156

We already have a place where anons "vent and fuck around in a healthy manner." It's called s/a/turday smug r/a/dio.

>>790156

I agree, a designated space for anons are actually allowed to create new content would be great for the board, I'm sure /a/ is strong enough to make it into something good for itself.

>>790167

Keeping the board so closed to new ideas only leads to stagnation, read the thread, a lot of the time people don't try to do something new is out of fear to be banned, but having a designated space where anon can let loose would be something good for the board.

>>790172

Stagnation isn't an issue because we're a board about an interest which is constantly evolving and changing. Unless you mean in terms of "board culture", in which case I can only think you're some kind of newfag looking for the "latest epic meme" to screencap and post to some "crazy shit 4chan [sic]" tumblr or reddit. Things develop over time at their own pace proportional to the size of the community.

Let people be banned if they try new things if they didn't put enough thought into them. Throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks is not a good way to find good ideas, only new ideas. And the biggest fucking issue is that you're inviting every shitposter and his cat by giving them a venue to act like spastics in a place that would otherwise not tolerate it. Once enough of them gather they'll start crawling out of the woodwork and take over the place, because there's a whole hell of a lot more of them than there are us, and preventing such an outcome would be hell for the meidos who would have no choice but to become even stricter, invariably punishing some innocents in the pursuit of stomping out the shitposters.

If this doesn't sound familiar you haven't been around long enough.

>>790172

>shitposting

>crossboarder magnet

I don't know what kind of crazy faggot you have to be to imagine that those two conditions would be ideal grounds for new ideas to flourish on /a/.

I think you guys are also implying that it somehow takes effort to post on /a/ and abide by our rules and that's why you think anons "need" a shitposting break. You'd be wrong of course.

And then people wonder why this site hate /a/. In other boards, /a/ is the glue that makes imageboard culture.

Here on 8chan, we got a bunch of low self-esteem faggots ruining the fun of everybody.

>>790172

>I agree, a designated space for anons are actually allowed to create new content would be great for the board

There's so many things fundamentally wrong with this statement. You can't just make a designated space for new content, since generating new content doesn't work that way. Memes and board culture don't spring out of designated meme and culture threads, they spring up naturally unless they're forced and cancerous.

Not only that, but new content doesn't doesn't mean good content. Good content may come from new content, but planning to generate more and more shit content in a shitposting thread isn't conducive to good content.

>having a designated space where anon can let loose would be something good for the board

That already exists in many forms, and you seriously need to lurk the fuck more. There's simply no other response to your idiot posts. Lurk more.

>>790158

I agree, if anything, this thread showed how much power fantasy faggots we have among us, and how they want to censor everybody.

Head Meido, if you're reading the stuff here, please don't allow people with such attitudes to become Meidos. This isn't even about the content of their message, which I even agree mostly, but about their lack of love for their fellows.

>>790184

>>790178

>>790177

>>790169

>>790167

>>790192

>lack of love for their fellows.

Someone who doesn't lurk is no fellow of mine.

>>790195

They're against imageboard culture, that's pretty obvious.

We only have this problem, out of every board, 8chan or not, here on 8/a/.

This people don't even realise that /a/ is the core board of an imageboard, but they make it so that it was to be their exclusionist faggot club. The result is that, out of the many /a/ out there, 8/a/ has the most pathetic position compared to its site's other boards.

These people are the real cancer.

>>790179

>And then people wonder why this site hate /a/

Who the hell wonders this?

>>790201

Anon, I'm pretty sure that was a 2015 april fools joke if you're referring to the swastika.

>>790206

I thought Vince Canfield was stuck in Romania with a search warrant from the German police regarding CP being shared over cockmail.

>>790210

We've had new memes develop here, granted, at a much slower pace.

>>789282

Applying!

>>790210

Those were simpler and more innocent times, back when imageboards weren't part of the brainless internet mainstream.

Nowadays we're more like a bunker sealed off from the post-nuclear apocalypse. We can open the door and let the radiation and the raider gangs in, or we can take our chances in the bunker and hope the outside world gets better before we all die of old age.

I'm thinking the latter is a better choice.

>>790203

/a/ and /jp/ are damn near the only boards left from this "great imageboard experiment" that kept their identity as opposed to being subsumed by phoneposting normalfags turning every board on this site into a branch-office of /pol/, due to the legalistic culture here and the unique posting on /jp/. /a/ used to be the core of an imageboard, but the imageboard around us has become rotten with Facebook users and "epic trolls" sent from an iPhone 7 at a club on Saturday night. You should never wish to be the core of that.

>>790179

>In other boards, /a/ is the glue that makes imageboard culture.

This hasn't been true for years. Thanks to the popularization of imageboards and the total lack of care by the people moderating them imageboards have been overran with people who don't like anime, don't know how imageboards started, don't know dick about anything, but still act like they own the place.

I'm going to go on a tangent that's slightly related to that here: one of the problems that makes /v/ close to unusable nowadays are video game threads that are met with retards using sage as a downvote. Talking about a lot of games is close to impossible, especially new ones, since there's a really high chance you'll be accused of shilling, regardless of how you make your OP. Another type of thread that will invariably get a lot of people sageing as a downvote are threads about games that are really heavy in their usage of "anime", and I'm gonna use the term anime very loosely here, because goons love to screech weeaboo at any japanese thing they don't like. Also a huge problems with console exclusives, mostly Nintendo games, but also seen in playstation exclusives fairly regularly.

Imagine if this shit happened on /a/. If you got called a shill for starting a thread about a Trigger anime, if discussing Kyoani stuff became impossible because the threads were filled with ">kyoani watcher" posts, if talking about anything done by bones became impossible because the threads would talk about how they sold out to netflix instead of about the anime that's trying to be discussed.

The only way /a/ could be more lax with moderation would be if all these "eternal 2007" type of people became extinct, and that's not happening any time soon.

>>790211

We've had new memes develope slowly inside the confines of their relevant anime generals, like the Nanachi Wojak memes. While I occasionally see them posted elsewhere, they're still pretty confined compared to what could be. I dunno, anon. I feel like controlling newfags is easier than banning fun, but at the same time I recognize the special circumstances of /a/.

>>790214

Nuclear fallout is only a real threat in most areas for about a week tops. After that what kills everyone is the nuclear winter and mutations/miscarriages long after. I want to live, anon, not die a dog's death with my dwindling friends and family.

>>790210

But board culture has shifted and developed in the last several years. It does go much slower than it did in the older days of /a/ on 4chan, but that's mostly because this /a/ is more focused on topic rather than on shitposting. This also means that the cultural movements and shifts that do occur are significantly less cancerous. It's classic quality over quantity.

In any case, there's nothing really wrong with old memes unless you're insecure about not keeping up with the "cool" kids, especially when the "sick new meems" we're competing against are retarded and forced. As long as the board remains active and vibrant, there's no need to feel anxious about cultural stagnation. It will change as it changes, and those changes will be good so long as we keep the quality of posting to high standards.

>>790228

If anything, the Head Meido herself feels unease in that attitude of yours having a negative impact on the board.

This thread pretty much shows that the board is divided between chill out people against control freaks.

>>790232

Okay but who do you think you are fooling?

>>790211

>>790221

We had new things because we were allowed to have them. Things like Sakura fish or the Rabbits threads exist only because they were allowed to keep going, but the paranoid anons in this thread would pretty much delete and ban things like that before they even catch on. I don't want a new moderation that will only promote the stagnation of /a/.

>>790236

>>790235

>>790234

>>790233

>>790228

Samefag. Actually, even if it's not, this herd mentality is pretty retarded.

>>790203

Fuck off, nobody gives a god damn about the board's "position" compared to the other boards. What the fuck even is this mentality? You think this is some kind of competition? You think this is some kind of game?

>>790238

You were just saying that /a/nons are cancer because they don't want /a/ to become a vaguely anime-themed shit-tier /b/. You're in no position to call anyone retarded.

Will y'all chill the fuck out? The question was never meant to get people riled up between different factions that's why I deleted it before this shitstorm happened. It was just an idea that came to mind while making breakfast. The strict rules are what make /a/ into /a/, I just don't want to see comfy comradery hindered by fear so I was brainstorming a compromise that might be fun and still manageable if it gets out of hand.

Deleted and reposted because of phone being stupid + big fingers.

>>790245

You can just leave the thread if all you can be is a dumb guy with big fingers.

>>790249

I guess if you're pleading ignorance I believe you, but just so you know "y'all" is pretty common parlance amongst the more ravenous tumblrites.

>>790254

He shows up telling people how the board should be based on his perception of things and then gets mad when people laugh at him for being a fucking retard. Between this and the fact he's advocating for more shitposting and less moderation I wouldn't be surprised at all if he were some /intl/ retard (if those people even still exist), and even if he isn't, he's behaving like they did, so don't feel bad for bullying him.

>>790203

> but they make it so that it was to be their exclusionist faggot club

This don't make sense. They promote "sisters" boards to everyone do like the rules of /a/. This isn't like the 4chan where have a exclusive board for discuss about anime and manga.

Now, regarding you, Brazilian shitposter, don't delude yourself thinking you're going to become a moderator.

I'll make sure to get that position and ban you forever, no matter how many times.

You're a cancer that's destroying not only this board but 8chan as a whole.

If only Head Meido was online, and not some sorry excuse of that.

>>790167

>>790169

>>790172

A problem with the moderation here is that posts such as >>790156 get deleted after replies to them are made. What are the benefits of doing that? All it does is make a discussion more difficult to follow after the fact.

>Just don't reply to shitposters!

Won't solve it, as this is the sort of thing that has a chilling effect.

>>790287

Thanks for cleaning up that whole mess, meido-san. Keeps other anons from jumping in and further derailing the thread.

>>790294

I know the strategy well, but I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt that he's just crazy and not a slimy shit stirrer on a warpath throwing a tantrum in a fucking anime imageboard.

Isn't one of the argument these people have that boards should self moderate and idiots should be laughed at and bullied until they learn or leave? This is exactly what's happening here but of course they don't want to think this applies to themselves, just to other people.

>>790303

>A problem with the moderation here is that posts such as >>790156 get deleted after replies to them are made.

I made that post. I deleted it upon subsequently realizing it was going to start a shitstorm. See >>790245

>>790310

He's right, you know, the guy admitted that in an Emma Watson thread on /tv/ long time ago.

>>790310

I think that one anon is getting his wish for a dedicated shitposting thread.

>>790308

Ah, thanks for clarifying.

It happened to one of my posts once, where in the same post I made a comparison between KonoSuba and DanMachi, and also said Megumin would be better with bigger tits. People responded to the former, post was deleted because of the latter, and after the deletion it looked like people were responding to a deleted post about comparing KonoSuba and DanMachi

>>790313

>>790301

This shit reminds me of that ACK disaster on 4/a/.

>>790316

That brazilian is a high grade psychopath, I wouldn't doubt him being ACK himself (although unlikely) specially after seeing his posts and female paranoia on /tv/.

But well, who cares.

>>790325

I didn't get banned for it. I think it was just a

<leaving this post up will attract shitposting

decision.

>>790325

Only on Reddit, where most of western konosuba fanbase is located.

>>790337

How many times do you have to be told this /v/-tier mentality isn't welcome here? Why would I care or even know what reddit watches?

>>790339

I don't know, but these "jokes" about "bullying" and "lewding" are very tiring and also very Reddit/cuckchan's /a/ tier.

>>790341

I don't think you understood the point of his post at all.

>>790341

You're really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Try to accept that people like things you don't.

>>790343

I do accept, I'm not autistically screeching. Though I still have the right to show my disdain because I believe it's typical to cuckchan and reddit. It doesn't matter though, it's not like he will stop doing that because I don't like.

>>790336

Whatever, I just commented about my experience with him on /tv/.

>>790341

I think bullying and lewding "jokes" are very male-tier instead. Don't you feel like bullying and lewding a girl into worshiping the cock? You might as well be gay, low test or just a boring person.

>>790345

>Though I still have the right to show my disdain because I believe it's typical to cuckchan and reddit.

And likewise why would I care about whether or not reddit and cuckchan talk about bullying and lewding. Those are good discussions here.

>>790352

I do, but I don't have the need to share this on an anonymous imageboard for no reason at all. This 'joke' of yours is very, very repeating and tiresome. There is always a thread with someone forcing this unfunny trash; like anybody asked. It's something the typical ironic weeb from cuckchan or tumblr would screech to his discord friends, attempting to be funny. I would like the less of you there were. It's not funny, it's not cool.

>/tv/

Why do you even go to that shithole? You get what you ask for.

>>790354

Are you seriously saying those are good discussions? This is pure shitposting, the difference is that it's meido approved. It's always the same fucking sentences. Are you sure they didn't replace your brain for a peanut when you were born, to find this kind of thing funny or entertaining? You know, I always filter these threads. You are bringing this to the meta thread, you bastard.

>>790352

>>790359

I suspect age may be a factor. /a/ is a board that attracts 18 year olds (and younger people), but it also has lots of experienced veterans many times older.

Common sense tells me that 30 year olds with over 10 years experience of image boards would look for different topics (and styles of holding a conversation) than youngsters.

Of course, I have no evidence at all. Even my own memory fails me.

>>790360

It's not only because of cuckchan that I don't like konosuba, but also because Konosuba posters are huge shitposters! Take a glance at a Konosuba thread and all you will find are horny teenagers talking about tits or ass and doing their epic "bully" and "lewd" jokes. How old are you, mare?

>>790359

>I do, but I don't have the need to share this on an anonymous imageboard for no reason at all.

But there are people who do.

>This 'joke' of yours

I don't do that myself, bear in mind. I'm in the boring category, I just don't complain about it like you.

>is very, very repeating and tiresome. There is always a thread with someone forcing this unfunny trash; like anybody asked.

But this board is not only about you, there might be people who want these threads.

>It's something the typical ironic weeb from cuckchan or tumblr would screech to his discord friends, attempting to be funny.

I don't disagree. But aren't you "disliking the band because of the fans" now? It might not be, but this is playing a factor for you. And I agree with your remark, bear in mind.

>I would like the less of you there were.

I don't do that, stop with the aggro.

>It's not funny, it's not cool.

It may be to someone, this board is not only about what you want.

>/tv/

>Why do you even go to that shithole? You get what you ask for.

I used to go there before for movie recs, but that basically doesn't exist there anymore. It's out of habit I guess, but I'm stopping going there, yes.

This is why meta is usually kept to a separate board. Anons that would be posting together are trying to rip each other's faces off.

>>790365

Konosuba itself is a shitposting medium. That's what makes the LN so good.

>>790366

I see. I have never thought of this kind of thing funny but I realise I have been complaining too much lately.

>>790365

Dissing things because they're not mature enough is a teenager's nature friendo.

>>790398

I would accept it being childish if it were at least funny.

>people honestly arguing over /pol/ and /leftypol/.

Both can fuck off, it's not hard. I'm /pol/ and what makes /a/ special is that it's a haven from the dumpster fire of modern politics. The right wing is unhappy with society, the left is, and the centre is. I think regardless of differences we somewhere to relax, that's what makes /a/ comfy. I don't want to think of my politics, and I don't want to think of other people's. It should be neutral, and politics should be absent unless it's a theme in a show, and never linked to reality. Keep /a/ comfy, ban those who can't follow this simple rule, whatever their politics.

>>790405

You are absolutely right, anon.

Oh and as they are probably going to read this thread, thanks for all you work meidos. I couldn't handle moderation, so I appreciate you guys doing what you do.

>>790365

Imagine hating fun this much.

>>790405

Why are you bringing this dead discussion up again? To create more shitpost?

>>790413

It's a meta thread, nothing wrong with adding your opinion to it. And nothing he said was wrong.

>>790413

Just a genuine disdain for the fact it was even a discussion. I really don't want to lose /a/.

>>790201

The email address that I provided yesterday has apparently gone tits-up, so you can use this one if it's not too late.

>>790325

I would still love her.

>>790098

That is one cute Cirno.

>>790674

Please do not ingest the fairies.

>>790674

Fairies are for lewding, no for eating.

Is cuteposting deemed as shitposting?

>>790746

Why would it be?

Here's the email, for your consideration head meido.

>>791106

I haven't received either. They are probably keeping an eye on who has applied.

>>791112

We could at least receive something on the lines of

>We received your email address and may contact you soon with a form or with a message of dismissal.

>Thank you,

>Head Meido

>>791123

I think it took him a week to send me mine back when I applied. Almost three years ago. Just take it easy and watch some anime.

>>791123

But they haven't even sent the email containing the instructions to apply yet. Just take it easy, as the poster above you has said.

>>791159

>above me

>>790924

Can we get some banners added?

We've been sending off all applications within a day of the email address being posted. If you haven't received it within roughly that timeframe let us know. Some anons didn't actually post their emails, so if you haven't received an application form check you're not in that bucket.

>>791303

Added.

>>791317

I haven't received yet.

For how m time do you plan on receiving applications? I received the email this morning and as

I'm working I don't have the spare time to give you proper answers and I want to make sure they are well thought out.

>>791428

I will send the application to you today at least, but Australia has a total different timezone so I vant tell ezactly.

>>791441

Why?

>>791447

This is a competition between anons for a limited amount of positions of power. Be wary of other anons telling you not to bother.

>/animu/ having a drama day with one of their volunteer

>>791545

Go back there

>>791545

Anyways, what matter is that it served its purposed of containing /pol/ and /v/ retards. The only mistake of the vol was trying to civilizate the monkeys.

>>791541

Not like we didn't have this before here on /a/.

>>791542

What am I looking at? Nothing?

>>791543

This.

>>791546

I wasn't even aware that board existed until 20 minutes ago.

>>791550

The ISPs have been around 200 for something like two weeks so it's kinda impressing.

>>791549

It has been saved almost everyone's historic before the vol tried to nuke it, including the BO. So it's nothing really, but it shows the average poster is a /pol/tard and the BO is a retarded nigger who can't even capitalize his posts.

>>791542

At least this will keep the board alive for another few days. I'd hate to have to deal with these shitters trying to sneak back in here.

>>791561

Don't forget that every board experiences drama wars. Not even /a/ escaped from that.

>>791564

That was with Claud though.

>>791565

Still, people gave attention to autism. If you see a poo then don't touch the fucking poo!

>>791564

The former BO fucking left us because he couldn't handle being one and gave the account to a vol who then gave it to his discord buddy. The discord buddy is now /animu/'s BO. Honestly, fuck this shit. All I wanted was a board with lax moderation that we could do lots of funposting and post /jp/ tier content, but it became another containment board for /pol/tards that would spam politics and off-topic trash. People mistake lax moderation for some kind of rave where they can do whatever the fuck they want. It's full of /v/ermin there.

>>79156

I tried to make the board a bit better but with only two bans and one bunplock it was already enough for the kids to start crying to the BO, it was when I saw there was no hope for the board at all and it had already been infested. The only shame is that regardless of everything being a vol is pretty nice and I've always enjoyed it.

Sorry for the off-topic posting, by the way. I'll stop now.

>>791568

The internet has been politically charged. (8chan more than many other websites)

Having lax moderation and expecting no politics is somewhat delusional. I wish it were possible. I fondly think back to the times where the odd racist joke was accepted by left- and rightwingers because everybody had left their morals at the door and used the image board for a completely different experience that didn't need any morals.

We will not get these times back. As soon as we accept that, we can set out to find a set of rules that can hold the real world affiliations at bay while still allowing us to breathe and have fun.

I find /a/ is on the right track, but only for a very narrow set of topics.

>>791577

/a/ takes it too far, /animu/ not far enough.

Also this is the same kind of retards that started shit with /a/, and with every other board that tries to ban them

Protip, it's all /intl/ or /leftypol/ or whatever you wanna call it. Filthy fags that need the rope

>>791594

How does /a/ take it too far?

>>791594

Why do the fags want so much to talk about politics on an anime board?

>>791594

It's the brazilian.

>>791598

>>791596

Well, an example I'd give is instead of deleting certain threads, you bumplock them instead.

>>791608

No, then the board looks like shit and retards will feel at home.

>>791609

They can't feel at home if you call them faggots.

>>791608

I bumplocked and the /pol/tards went apeshit because of it. Good fucking lord, they're so entitled. I want to smash the heads of these baboons who think they can go other boards and behave like they're in their shithole where you only get banned for shittalking about the mods.

>>791619

It's the brazilian. Go to /tv/ and see what he did to it.

>>791620

I don't give a fuck about /tv/. Go back tthere.

>>791624

Yeah, you're retarded. Doesn't even realise that the guy shitting on /tv/ is the same one shitting on /animu/.

Actually, you're behaving so dramatically that I'm questioning your very self, maybe you should fuck yourself, yes.

>>791619

It's not /pol/, it's just faggots being faggots. Goons gotta goon.

>>791627

Obsessed. I know exactly who were shitting the board and they were just your average 18 years old mentally retarded /pol/tards.

>>791629

Right right, go cry there then, not here.

>>791568

Wow, it's like you finally figured out what we knew all along! You fucking retard. You're here forever.

>>791629

>Obsessed

Yeah, I knew it was you all along. Are you samefagging again? Oh yes you are.

>>791561

>I don't know why anyone expected anything different.

Kicking myself for doing just that.

Guys will you just make kirino a mod on /a/ so he has a source to channel his autism instead of shitting up not two but three boards like the brazlian monkey he is?

>>791799

Why don't you go back to your containment board and leave /a/ alone? Seethe & obsessed, I see.

Calm down and listen to some music.

I hope this past madness here is proof enough for every meido and /a/ user that there's a brazilian samefagger whose life mission is to shitpost.

Do not take this lightly, if you see a thread being derailed full of shitposting (like that Oreimo thread he created here recently), learn how to identify him:

>1. He jumps IPs

>2. He argues against himself (as you can see him here replying to himself)

>3. Has multiple "personalities" and alters his post patterns

>4. Create fake outrages, false consensus and pit people to fight against one another

>>791608

Bumplocking is useless, on slow days for even the biggest board expect a bumplocked thread to still be on page 1 and with 300 replies.

>>791961

drunk bitch

>>791965

Just wait anon. Gonna sing a differnet tune once I get my shitty fake imaginary internet powers.

>>791961

I support you.

>>791967

>>791961

Seems legit. I hope they at least send the questionnaire.

>>791961

Why did you type your e-mail in subject field?

>>792044

Because he's not only unfunny but a faggot too.

>>791961

>a board getting taken down will ruin my life

>I wuz a mod on 4chin

>I am such an oldfag u guise

I was actually wondering how much longer it would take for the junkie native to show up along with his whore waifu.

It really is a shame that being such a massive faggot doesn't cause instant heart failure .

>>792134

And on another note, if you have fun posting on both /a/ and /animu/ in different ways, just use both. This isn't /v/, and this isn't a console war. Literally who gives a fucking shit? Nobody's gonna tell you're doing it unless you either announce it yourself or you suck at OPSEC.

>>792093

The fact this post was made is amazing.

>>791961

Hey faggots, you sent me an aplication, not credentials.

>>791961

I am sorry I must break character here. I am so exceptionally proud of this shitpost. It is the distilled essence of eighteen years of HikkiNEET lifestyle. I want to thank you all for being here to witness the pinnical of my life where everything I worked for was realized. I love you my brothers.

>>792174

My game has been off lately. I don't get it. /tv/ has been so fucking easy to fuck up that I think it is starting to affect the way I view boards. I don't know man. I am sorry. I am going to try and pick my shit back up so we can get back to that classic 2015 shitposting.

>>792174

When do you figure you'll send the replies?

>>792294

Most likely a couple of days from now, we've been sidetracked a bit with something irrelevant but we'll get through them as soon as possible.