/a/ - Animu & Mango

People started abandoning the board.

Why? Because that's what the brazilian samefagger does to boards, he kills them.

I did notice a slowdown over the last couple of weeks, but most of the threads I watch are already ghost towns where random poster flux can kill everything, so I assumed it was that.

>>831048

I thought it was the maintenance as well, I haven't noticed much of a drop off.

>>831051

I thought most anons would be reluctant to go back with Hiroyuki Nishimura running things on halfchan.

I thought maybe I was just imagining the slowdown but it may also be because there's not a lot of good shows this season and little to discuss compared to the last few seasons.

>>831062

Also we're nearing the end of the season, when lots of people have dropped shows they were formerly watching and discussing, or just lost track of them. I've noticed we tend to get a lot more activity at the start of a new season and it slows down, as shows that once seemed promising and discussion worthy turn to shit or mediocrity, and so anons wait for the new season to begin the cycle over again.

>>831056

Never been back myself.

Maybe they were all banned because what is or isn't a shitpost hasn't been explained

I just don't really post much because I talk about anime with real people.

I mainly just swing in to get a gauge on /a/non's opinion of things I'm reading/watching because other than the occasional comment what usually urges me to post is to argue but then I realize there's no point.

>>831075

I've been back a couple of times to check up on it, it's really degraded badly these past few years. At this point it's nigh indistinguishable from /v/ in places.

>>831078

Jesus. Far as I'm concerned they deserve it.

I just drop to read and contribute to the manga thread, as there's usually some good suggestions in there.

>>831056

95% of people would rather insert a probe up their anus than post somewhere with less people.

It's been stated many times before, but there's a big opportunity cost between spending a lot of time posting on this board and consuming weeb media. That's likely the main reason why this board is so slow in the first place, and also the reason why I don't post all that much. However, this is one of the few boards on this site where we can still have decent discussion about series Which, as an ex-/pol/ack, I am ashamed to admit is due to the power of strong moderation and as such while many anons lie dormant, they will keep coming back.

To be honest, I'm mostly in agreement with >>831082 and >>831077

It's a pretty shit season, only seasonal I'm still watching is Hinamatsuri, and I'm three episodes behind on it.

>>831086

Normally I disagree when someone says this but this time it really is a pretty lame season. I'm not watching much at all, normally I'd watch a good ~15 but this time I'm sitting here at barely 6.

>>831076

Here's an in-depth guide:

Lurk more.

>>831078

8/v/ or half/v/? I'd say it's worse than 8/v/ because at least there you occasionally get some actual discussion of videogames or at least why they died only lightly peppered with shitposting, while half/a/ is entirely shitposting. I do wish we had the IMAGINE meme though.

I think there's a conflux of things contributing to /a/ being slow. Considering /a/'s alternatives consist of 80% to 99% shitposting, which we don't get on /a/ thanks to the meidos, that kills a good chunk of the perceived userbase right off the bat, though they're not missed. There's also the slow season and the recent downtime 8ch's had.

I think /a/nons are sadly part of a dying breed, the old guard of the internet. Most people on the internet these days are raised on web 2.0 or 3.0 and they're in such a majority that the inmates are now running the asylum. To have a big population requires either lowering the standards until even the dumbest retard feels at home or very slowly attracting users and educating them to do as the Romans do, which is something that offends most people in the age of being taught that you're a special snowflake.

>>831089

>8/v/ or half/v/?

Half/v/. Our /v/ is still a /v/, but it's much better than their /v/ by far. 4/a/ is worse than 8/v/, though it's not quite as bad as 4/v/ (yet, it's getting there).

>>831056

I checked it about a year ago and there were 3 unironic Naruto threads on the front page.

Why someone would want to post there just for a higher user count is beyond me.

>>831042

Is PPH averaged over a day or two? Maintenance and no Franxx this week have sent the shitters away temporarily. No idea why they came to post about that show to begin with. Check the PPH and UIDs again in a week.

I could have sworn there was a website that measured the PPH and UID of 8chan boards day-to-day, but I can't find it in my history. Anyway, I stopped posting as much because I don't really care for this season.

>>831097

You're thinking of http://stats.4ch.net/8chan/displaytable.php?file=a

By the way, how come meta threads are almost always the most active? Suddenly everyone comes out of the woodwork.

There was no FRANXX today but I did pop in the cinema thread for Godzilla vs Hedorah, holy shit that was awesome, i have to see the king kong vs godzilla movie or at least the debut of mechagodzilla.

The moderators of this board are cancer, I warned this place would move at a snails pace but nobody listened. Doesn't help that the quality of this later decades anime is dropping off hard, hasn't been this bad since 2010.

Thanks to uni for the past 3 months the only anime I had the energy to watch were the seasonals, and even with those I was falling behind. I tend to post more during breaks, I imagine it's the same for other unifags. And as others have said, it's not that good a season anyway.

>>831117

Fall was pretty decent and winter was good even, last summer was about as bad as this spring.

>>831119

This isn't a new occurrence.. /a/ used to be a top board 2 years ago, what other reason would explain why half the users left? people became sick of the reddit filter and browbeating for what is and isn't quality posting. Maybe if meido laid off the powertripping faggotry people would come back, this place is one step from becoming 4/a/ tier in unneeded moderation.

>>831125

I want her sleevejob :3

I'm here. It's just that I'm too depressed to watch any new anime, meaning that I don't have much to talk about.

This is like the sixth time I've watched all of Evangelion.

>>831128

I never watch currently airing anime so I never go to those threads. I'm only here for Mousou Telepathy threads.

>site down during s/a/turday night radio

>no Franxx episode this week

We missed our two most active threads this week, so that's part of the reason. Still, I did notice a sudden drop even before that, we just suddenly lost like 50 active ISPs overnight.

>>831140

Don't bully, some anons just don't re-watch things as often as other anons.

[spoiler]Don't go outside, this man is lying to you. Just watch more anime. Hell, pick up a VN while you're at it. Depression is a meme but you'll only be able to see that by descending so deep into the darkness that you emerge on the other side. There, when you turn around to look back, you will see the roots of all things,

and there you will see how small and easy to cut the root of depression is. My recommendation is a full dose hikkineet regimen.[/spoiler]

>>831145

>spoiler tags don't work and you can't delete posts

Oh for fuck's sake codemonkey.

>>831145

>>831146

Jims son hasn't been feeding the pigs running the server treadmills, everything is broke.

>>831145

>>831146

Spoiler tags work on one line.

>>831132

>>831125

Wasn't that stated to be a dude? Or is that the joke and you're just being aggressively gay?

>>831146

>>831149

Also, why not just asterix asterisks?

>>831150

>Wasn't that stated to be a dude? Or is that the joke and you're just being aggressively gay?

Yes, anybody who likes Ougi is a flaming homosexual. But it's still a girl although basically an in-universe kind of rule 63 of the MC.

>>831042

This season is kinda bad in my opinion and the shows I do want to talk about, no one is watching. I'll see you more in a month or so, maybe. Hopefully some of the Franxx crossboarders jumped ship to /animu/.

I'd post more often if i didn't get banned at least once a week for misspelling a word. Seriously the moderation here is draconian.

>>831161

>Rule 2 making everyone perpetually tense while posting

>Rule 8 also making everyone perpetually nervous

Making you tense and nervous. I can't say as I've ever thought to myself before posting about whether it falls afoul of Rule 2.

Rule 11 has never been a problem for me because I don't make a habit of famspeak or poor grammar. I miss the occasional period or capitalization, accidentally hit ; instead of ' in a contraction, or sometimes even partially revise a sentence and leave it with a missing word or redundant clause, but that kind of error never gets me banned. In all my time here I've gotten two Rule 11 bans, one of which was within a few days of starting to post here and was actually justified, and one of which was an accident (I think meant for the post above mine) that was soon lifted.

It's telling that the vast majority of people complaining about Rule 11 bans on /ameta/ fail to properly read their own ban message, and don't even realize it was the automaid rather than manual deletion.

>my sarcastic post about EVA was deleted

THAT is why your board is dying, you humongous sperg. You're getting real close to us begging for codemonkey to dethrone your ass, smarten up.

>>831177

Ironic shitposting is still shitposting. Besides, your lacking orthography, your retarded use of the boldening and general use of language (also playing internet tought guy) make you sound like a plebbitor.

>>831161

I never even thought about 2 and 11 and it took months for them to bite me. I must have just been unconsciously following the tone and style of the board, like you're supposed to.

>>831168

>>831165

This is a disgusting bootlicker mentality. You don't see a problem because you haven't been affected by it yourself. The perfect example of how stupidly draconian the mods here are is the fact that the shortened form of "if I recall correctly" is now on the fucking auto list. An acronym that has been standard internet usage absolutely everywhere for decades is now considered nigger speak? Or are you going to tell me that all acronyms are low effort posting now? In that case, kindly explain to me why the fuck the very post containing the board rules has both "2D/3D" and "IM". Perhaps you're going to use some mental gymnastics to explain why an acronym that has been used for decades is now a normalfag thing, while also pretending that the previously mentioned acronyms aren't commonly used by that group.

There is no rhyme or reason to some of these rules, which makes people realize that anything they say can be deleted just because the mods, or vols or meidos or whichever you prefer, feel like it. That makes people inclined to just not post at all, and that's why the board is losing activity. Yeah, you're going to reply with "just go to halfchan if you want more speed", but not even you can be so stupid as to fail to realize that you need a balance between quality and activity; if a board is a ghost town it it's not going to stay alive for long anyway.

Not to mention that the rule about keeping meta stuff on another board really just exists in order to silence anyone upset with the draconian rules, making them post on another board where they can promptly be ignored. Of course, pointing this out is also considered meta, giving a convenient excuse to delete anyone criticizing it. Now, it is true that some people are just shit stirrers and that telling them to go away will improve the board, but when it comes to /a/, it's almost only people complaining about how draconian and arbitrary the rules are.

Oh, and /animu/ obviously didn't help the activity on this board. It got started specifically as a response to the bad moderation here, and has stayed alive relatively well (replacement board attempts very rarely stay alive because people are inclined to stay on the original board regardless of quality). The average thread there is largely no different in quality compared to here except maybe an occasional post without capitalization or punctuation. The rest of the posts are just activity that this board lost, and don't bother trying to pretend that all of them are lower quality than any post here, because that would only prove that you're completely delusional. It does have some shitposting, but in their attempt to get rid of shitposting the /a/ mods chased off completely normal users.

I keep seeing this shit:

>Person A gets their post deleted for a typo or whatever

>Person A makes new post or thread complaining about excessive moderation

>Person B and C show up to be smug cunts and claim that person A is just a shitposter and that they "should put more effort into posting"

>Person A either leaves because they don't want to be on a board full of smug bootlickers when 90% of their posts are seem as perfectly average or quality content. Alternatively they start shitposting more

And absolutely no one benefits.

Seriously, drop the whole "you just aren't good enough, unlike ME who hasn't been screwed by the draconian rules (that much)" act. It's revolting to see, like the small part of a population insistently defending a dictator by talking shit about others.

>>831181

Knowing how to use capital letters, commas or periods doesn't make you an English major, you moron.

Oh, something came to me as I was posting that. People keep going on about "putting effort into your posting", often implying that few word posts are bad. Presumably this implies that my post is the best in the thread so far since it seems to be the longest one, but that's not my point here. My point is the saying "brevity is the soul of wit". Expressing something in more words is not necessarily better, and excessive prose is almost always considered poor writing. Single word posts can sometimes be some of the wittiest and funniest ones. Would those also be "low effort posting"?

>>831181

>>831182

>gee I wonder how could I have gotten banned

>>831185

But it's true, look at this nigger above, no surprise he's gotten banned for his shittery. I've probably made over a thousand posts on this board and the only ban I ever got was for engaging in shitposting and checking dubs in a shit thread. I agree about "IIRC", that one shouldn't be on the list, and I think I've complained on meta as well, but the vast majority of the autoban words make sense.

>>831190

"Putting effort into your posting" does not mean that few word posts are bad, it means that you should re-read your post and maybe fix it or rewrite it if necessary. Sometimes after typing some shit up I notice that I didn't write or explain something well, then I go back and rewrite it. I check the automatic spellchecker underlines. Then I post.

Additionally it can mean that you should actually think about what you are posting, if you are posting stupid shit.

>>831185

/animu/ is just shitposting. I don't see why anyone would want to go there.

>>831177

You could just fuck off to /animu/, you don't seem to like this board or the people on it all that great a deal, so why are you so hellbent on interacting with us? Is it really that difficult for your tiny nigger brain to understand that different people have different preferences, and that it might at times be best to segregate?

>>831185

>You don't see a problem because you haven't been affected by it yourself.

I don't see a problem because the only people I DO see who claim to be affected by it go on to prove bans entirely justified, as evidenced by this thread.

>>831185

You and your several other anons need to calm your tits.

Firstly, /ameta/ is not ignored and meidos regularly check it. It's just that most people who get banned are banned for justified reasons and no further actions or reflection is required, and they just go there to autistically screech about a 12 hour ban, which is barely anything considering the speed of the board. And if if rule 8 wasn't in place I don't doubt that 25% of threads and posts would be from whiny faggots complaining about us having actual enforced rules in an environment where shitposting has become the accepted norm.

Secondly, standards of quality do not equate to being "draconian". Nothing in the rules is going to chase off "normal people", unless if by "normal" you mean the kind of newfags who don't know better than to read the local rules and obey them.

Thirdly, unlike you and your several other anons who agree with you, the fact that persons B and C come to be smug and make fun of stupid shitposters is proof that the majority of people are fine with the enforcement and agree that person A should've either known better or just not been here in the first place.

This place just isn't otacool enough to hold my interest.

What's the point of having lots of post if most of them are boring?

I prefer other, much slower boards where sometimes my posts will be the only ones there for days. But at least I know that once I get a reply it will be a meaningful one.

This board simply doesn't provide much entertaining insight.

I've been banned for a ton of dumb shit here, I browse /animu/ almost exclusively. Was looking for something new to watch so I noticed this thread. Since when did we need fucking grammar police on an imageboard?

>>831220

>was looking for something new to watch so I noticed this thread

And this compelled you to write a meaningless post about shit that doesn't concern you, why?

Fuck off.

I'm surprised no-one's thrown around the word elitist yet. That's the usual go-to word for normalfags when they're indignant about being told to put some effort into something.

>>831231

Did you leave in the last 2 weeks though? The thread was about how there was a sudden drop to about 40-50% of our usual number of posts.

>>831185

>This is a disgusting bootlicker mentality.

I laughed. This is such a dumb thing to say, holy shit. There's a world of difference between saying "I don't get tense and nervous while posting because I dont post like a nigger" and bootlicking.

>>831220

>Since when did we need fucking grammar police on an imageboard?

Since 2003, I believe.

>>831233

No it was a while ago.

>>831235

The thread was for people who weren't here anymore, brainlet. He was asking people that might be coming back on occasion to throw their opinion why they left to see if something could be found to explain why the 50% drop.

>>831238

No, it was literally in the last two weeks as evidenced by recorded data.

I see you're here to talk out of your ass exclusively.

Did this faggot really start bitching on >>>/sudo/79644 now?

>>831255

He's trying to drum up support on /animu/'s meta thread too. Pretty sad.

>>831230

>>831263

It's all so predictable, the patterns are so easy to see, it's always the same complaints, over and over, they're always explained and addressed the same way and ignored every time.

It feels exactly like when /intl/ was trying to shit up the site: start shit, get punished for it, chimp out.

>>831265

It's just niggers being niggers. God bless their hearts, they never give up.

>>831266

It's just so dishonest and disingenuous. Lying this much and getting this mad over chinese cartoon imageboards... I'm too old for this shit.

>>831271

Read the rules.

>>831271

>Would be neat to at least have some form of understanding why the post was deleted

If you're getting actually unwarranted deletions please open a thread on /ameta/ when it happens/when you notice.

>>831271

I've seen posts being deleted without a ban for reasons like posting foreign memes like wojak and pepes. Which makes sense.

But if you don't get banned you don't know what you did wrong, I guess.

>>831168

>It's telling that the vast majority of people complaining about Rule 11 bans on /ameta/ fail to properly read their own ban message, and don't even realize it was the automaid rather than manual deletion.

Hoihoi is pretty much a stand-in for a basic IQ entry test. Not running afoul of her (or at least, not more than once) is the simplest thing in the world if you're not an idiot. But there's a subset of anons that are outright autistic and take any prods telling them to fit in better as a personal attack, and insist on not changing anything about their posts in the slightest to the bitter end. I can never quite tell if it's because they despise fitting in (expecting everyone else to adapt to MAGNIFICENT ORE-SAMA instead), or because they actually don't understand that's what everyone else is expecting them to do.

>>831042

Board died because of rule 4 effectively banning all discussion of things not currently airing/publishing and thus causing the board to degrade into waifutrash and pedros. Allowing /jp/ content didn't help, either, because /jp/ is basically full of human trash.

I saw this coming when these rules were introduced and none of you listened to me.

>>831300

I'm pretty sure that Rule 4 has existed for as long as this board had any degree of popularity, and it has definitely existed longer than Rule 11 and the automaid, which is what most complaints tend to be about. 4 is also not super strictly enforced, it's primarily against "hey /a/ recommend me some good anime". Funnily enough, posts and threads that break 4 have a tendency to also be breaking 11, go figure.

I only come here for Nagatoro and Elf-San updates, to be honest.

>>831301

Rule 4 was a slow burn that only started becoming evident around six months after the 4chan exodus when, yes, it did become enforced and this was a contributing factor to why everyone on /a/ has incredibly narrow and boring tastes now.

You can bitch about bot-modding and that's certainly valid but the rot was there long before rule 11 existed and we've just hit that point where the board has reached critical head-up-one's-own-ass status no different from your average chatroom circlejerk.

>>831255

What is the point of kicking the meidos out of /a/ anyway? If that happened, they'd just make another board and we'd go over there instead. /animu/ already exists for people that don't like /a/ and is decently active, so I don't know who actually gains from this. The only things that would change are:

<the label for the meido-controlled /a/

<the brand name recognition of "legacy boards" (read: access to the trickle of cuckchan refugees who can't find boards.html and are shunned here anyway)

<a larger workload for 8chan global vols

<potential user base split between /animu/ and new /a/

None of these are changes for the better.

>>831305

No

>>831255

>>831260

Nope I didn't. I've bitched once on /ameta/ in the way distant past but that's about it. If /a/ wants to have bad moderation then that's their choice, but since /animu/ is a perfectly fine alternative I never felt the need to stamp my feet and kick up a fuss. Moderation here is annoying but not enough to cause crossboard drama. I only posted what I did ITT because the topic seemed to welcome it.

>>831042

>>831048

Scheduled maintenance is definitely the culprit here. Always is. Always has been.

>>831042

I would have thought all the different time zones might play into the inactivity of the board. I usually have to wait a day before being able to reply, as I seem to be offline during the more active hours.

>>831051

There was profound disdain for the moderation on /jp/, and an appreciable portion of /a/. There was an opportunity to capitalize on this and 8/a/'s mods squandered it by being power tripping assholes worse than cuckchan's. They've calmed down in the past year or two to the point that I can tolerate posting here, but the damage is already done.

>>831220

> Since when did we need fucking grammar police on an imageboard?

Since the creation of 4chan. Elitism about grammar has been a defining feature of image boards until the Eternal Summer happened.

>>831220

Talk like idiots and you'll attract idiots. Look at /tv/.

I'm not looking to waste my time constantly wallowing in shit and acting like a post-quantum-ironic hipster nigger faggot weeaboo. I want to discuss the series I'm reading and watching in a constructive and literate manner. I don't want immature retards wasting our time with low effort threads, thinking that all boards are /b/ and that decade old stale memes and beliefs about 4chan are still relevant here when they were what turned that place into cancer incarnate in the first place.

I don't like anything that's airing, everything I'm reading is coming out too slow, and I feel like I've gone through a good bulk of the stuff I want to watch.

>>831042

All the seasonal threads I'm in except Franxx are pretty slow and Franxx had a week off. Normally boards survive content droughts by making their own content but such a thing would be instantly banned here so anyone with half a brain has moved to /animu/ in the meantime.

It's not rocket science really. Without OC and divergent opinions a board is resigned to a gradual but inevitable decline, and the best way to cull OC and divergent opinions is to overmoderate. Elitism was never necessary on 8ch anyway, it is already a small enough community.

>>831397

Same. Starting to feel if I have exhausted all the things I wanted to see and should just check every few years for new stuff.

>>831417

>I have a dynamic IP so even if I get banned it only takes a minute to evade, but it's easier for me to simply not put the effort into contributing than risk a ban

Have you considered reading https://8ch.net/a/automaid.html and not getting banned to begin with? Surely that would be easy enough. I have never seen a good argument for why avoiding the bot is an unassailable goal, it's all right there in the open.

>>831431

>Have you looked at the state of any of the top boards recently?

You have just made my point for me. Less moderation leads to more activity.

I think our argument stems over where exactly to draw the line for activity vs elitism. No one wants this place to turn into 4cuck /a/, but no one is well-served by a graveyard either. The fact that this thread and /animu/ exist is testament to the fact that many people feel that the line has gone too far in the direction of elitism and needs to be pushed back towards activity. In any case we are starting to repeat ourselves so I will leave it at that.

>>831432

Everyone's constantly bringing up /animu/ in this thread, but normally /animu/'s activity is like a third of /a/'s, which the same posters often berate for being dead.

>>831435

It's different when /animu/ does it though.

>>831432

> The fact that this thread and /animu/ exist is testament to the fact that many people feel that the line has gone too far in the direction of elitism

/animu/ is far worse than half-chan /a/, actually a good chunk of 8chan is worse or equal in quality to it's 4chan counterparts.

The moderation here isn' even strict, you just need to read the rules and follow them.

> needs to be pushed back towards activity.

Why? Activity doesn't matter, quality posts are the thing that matters.

If you put effort into your posts people will reply.

>>831437

>The fact that the population lines haven't overlapped yet doesn't mean they won't.

That's very wishful thinking. The site as a whole is bleeding users, and you won't get many people from /a/ to migrate who haven't already done so. Not only that, those that migrate also end up coming back to /a/, because it's less dead, as evidenced by all of you dropping by to let us know how much better it is over there.

>>831418

>he forgot the question mark at the end

I chuckled.

>>831432

>You have just made my point for me. Less moderation leads to more activity.

Less moderation leads to lower quality. It has nothing to do with the level of activity, seeing as /v/, /pol/, /tv/, and every board before /a/ on the board rankings are overloaded with shitposting, low-effort threads, and "Look at this article/tweet/reddit post" threads.

>>831464

People weren't getting banned because they thought there was NTR, people were getting banned because it crossed well over into shitposting by the end.

>>831395

I'll share them later in a proper thread like >>831427 suggested.

>>831473

Gotta look fancy and acceptable to society. Got it.

We need our own space after all, were we can be protected from dissent and unacceptable behaviour. Mods=Gods amiri- I mean, am I wright?

This isn't even Reddit at this point. Reddit at least owns to the fact that they are sheltered faggots who WANT a safe space and often call it by that same name. No, /a/ is worse than reddit, full of fags who think its even acceptable to be treated like babies, and act like they're on a high horse at the same time. /ameta/ is full of chills who go "well your post lacks (subjective) quality, and 6 hour isn't even that long anyways, it's perfectly acceptable in an imageboard to be muted like that and having to plea like a dog in a meta board for an unban"

Again, the defunct 2chan is spinning on it's grave right now. Have fun in your safe space.

>>831432

>Less moderation leads to more activity.

I would take zero activity over /a/ turning into a shithole of cuckchan and Facebook reposts like /tv/.

>>831508

Burn it!

>Are there still places on the internet where people write like this?

Probably, but I don't follow trashy Western sites.

>>831508

>didn't spoiler this atrocity

What's the opposite of headpats? You deserve that.

>>831523

>What's the opposite of headpats?

Getting your ass groped by old men?

>>831523

Dekopin.

>>831525

That's adjacent not opposite.

>>831461

>Probably because it's from after /a/ went to shit. I'm sure it's one of the reasons it even went to shit.

I think that image is at least 10 years old, probably more.

>>831464

I disagreed a lot in the first Nagatoro thread and never got banned for it. I do remember another guy who had opinions similar to mine who I imagine got banned because he was acting like a huge retard.

>>831474

>Gotta look fancy and acceptable to society. Got it.

That's not the point at all, the point was explained several times already in this thread and others. You need to stop talking to yourself and actually read what other people post or else you'll be stuck in this idiot loop forever.

>/ameta/ is full of chills who go "well your post lacks (subjective) quality

Link me to one.

>and 6 hour isn't even that long anyways

It isn't. Back when 4chan was new people would regularly get day long joke bans just because mods felt like it and it's not a big deal, because it's just one day. People also cried about it back then and they were made fun of.

>the defunct 2chan is spinning on it's grave right now

You think people didn't get banned on 2chan for being retarded?

>>831536

>>831464

Yeah, I never got banned during that affair either, despite being on the "wrong" side.

If anyone got banned it was just the one or two people on either side who were acting like retards.

I'm not really a regular here, but I came around to post multiple times daily when Made in Abyss was a hot topic. Last Tour was also driving a lot of excited traffic, I noticed. I think you're seeing a lack of compelling content that drives speculation and therefore conversation. There's comparatively little novel out right now.

>>831417

>OC also gets shot down real hard here by the community for not being elite enough

I've never seen this, usually if someone makes OC that no one thinks is good it will be ignored or someone will improve upon it.

>>831588

>I once again get to play internet historian

I don't know why I enjoy it, but I do.

/animus/ is one of the endlessly fractionated infighting subcliques that spun off of the Alice2 phenomenon on halfchan /b/. They originally created and squatted on /aneki/ out of spite (tripfags like Jack_Spicer and Eva tried to lead a contrarian movement against Alice), but ultimately ate eachother with petty drama and backbiting, splitting off into a bunch of groups that hate eachother. Lots of top boards that have come and gone were only 3 to 5 people posting like they were chatrooms, creating massive PPH. /animus/, /imouto/, and others I can't remember anymore were just transient camps of the same people.

Hence the board subtitle Avatarfag Circlejerk.

t. Very early but now former member of the Alice2 thing.

>>831600

We're talking about /animu/ not /animus/, though the history lesson is appreciated nonetheless.

>>831603

Well, now don't I feel silly. Glad somebody liked it.

>>831091

8/v/ sucks cock now.

>Where did everyone go?

Learning Japanese instead of watching anime.

>>831111

>>831120

Actually my main issue is that sometimes an essay post will be deleted if it's anti-degeneracy. But the bans are so short, I'd come back to see if someone replied to my post the next day and then see that my post disappeared, but I'd reply fine. I don't think I was banned those times, because I still should have showed up in the ban list (considering how recent they would be), right?

>>831165

>Minor infractions are forgiven if the core of the message is alright

No they aren't.

Certain emoticons were okay while others weren't, for the stupidest reasons. And I was spat at for daring to argue with reason, on /ameta/. Blind arrogance is always frustrating.

Still, I like it here even with the moderation I haven't had any problems in a very long while, for example, and at least the bans are very short, unlike imkampfy's bans I only go onto /pol/ for quick news nowadays and have been for some time; a quick look at the catalog and that's all, because it's been garbage for years now.

What I can't stand, however, are fools pretending to be oldfags, but that's another board....

Banning for grammar is good, because then it forces anons to really think about what they're writing.

>>831185

*Also, kill yourself.

The board has grown an infamous reputation for a place where you don't go to talk about anime and manga. At this point /tg/ is a better place for manga threads strangely and places like /animu/ are more laid back places to shoot the shit about anime.

The common concensus seems to be /a/ is a insular echo chamber secret club where only certain things are allowed and the moderation team are either over the top thought police or extremely lazy and relying on bots.