>/a/ is the best board with the best moderation
Says how shit the rest of 4chan really is, because /a/'s quality and moderation are still sub-par.
>>379095
/a/ is trash and they only watch FOTM moeblob shit
/v/ has better taste in anime than /a/ ever will
>>379097
Even if this was true (it isn't), /v/ is still a shitty board with some of the worst moderation on the site, so I don't see your point.
>>379097
>this is what /v/tards actually believe
Oh yeah man, Cowbow Bebop and Dragon Ball Z is so amazing.
https://desustorage.org/a/thread/134751300
>frogshitter thread deleted in under 10 minutes
>it would probably stay up for hours or not get deleted at all in others boards
/a/'s daytime mods are really dedicated. I'll give them that. The nighttime ones can eat a dick though.
So why has >>>/a/134749654 been up for literally three hours now?
>>379125
Because it's in Japanese. It's allowed.
Funny thing. Despite /a/ having a reputation for the strictest moderation, it is one of the only boards I have NEVER BEEN MODERATED on.
>>379138
It's literally a Western cartoon that was dubbed to Japanese. How is that allowed?
Does that mean one could, for example, discuss Disney's Frozen on /a/ if the thread was started with a link to Japanese dub of the movie?
>>379142
Yes, actually. The only requirements are:
1) Cartoon
2) People speaking Japanese.
>>379101
Better than moeshit
>>379125
Did you even read the thread? Everyone is telling them to leave to /co/.
>>379125
Nice. It only took them almost five hours and a thread pointing out their retardation for it to get deleted.
>>379262
I'm sure you were in excruciating pain during that 5 hour window. Bless your soul Anon, you have endured horrors the likes of which humanity has never seen
>>379281
/a/ queers get buttblasted by people enjoying things
>>379291
10/10 retort faggot
>>379095
I'd like to hear all the reasons why /a/ supposedly has poor quality.
Can you explain it? Every time it's brought up I'm left to believe it's just shitposters mad they can't get away with shitposting, since they never describe why they feel the way they do.
>>379303
RWBY thread was up for ~5 hours
Trying to force RWBY on /a/ in general
>>379304
Is that really it? If off-topic bullshit is your example then you're definitely cherrypicking because there's way more than just that.
>>379304
>stop liking what I don't like
>>379097
>/v/ has better taste in anime than /a/ ever will
my sides
>>379334
It's funny because it's true!
>>379165
>Dubbed Western cartoons are neither anime nor manga.
...Yes they are.
Anime: Animation. It's the literal definition of the word.
>>379344
The only good anime /v/ will admit to watching is Cowboy Bebop. Even when it comes to manime, you fuckers don't know shit about anything that came out before 1995. None of you have seen Macross, or Gundam, or Getter Armageddon, or A-Ko, or Bubblegum Crisis, or basically anything that isn't shit aside from, wait for it, Cowboy Bebop. Most of you /v/ermin are scum who like heaping garbage like Fate/Zero, Sword Art Online, and unironically throw around the term "deconstruction."
We get it, you like Berserk! It's good shit! Have you read any other manga? No, High School DxD and P-Sona 4! don't count. No? Okay, great.
Seriously, you guys are so self-righteous, but ninety nine out of a hundred of you couldn't name even a single shitty 70s Toei anime.
Besides, how is /a/'s moeshit any worse than last year's anime dubbed on Toonami?
>>379303
- Narutards/shonentards being everywhere
- Dubfags
- Casuals who have seen less than 100 anime
- Cancerous generals for shows that are not even airing
- Mods trying to force RWBY on the board despite nobody wanting it
Granted, the rest of 4chan is still worse, but that doesn't make /a/ not shit.
>>379361
Are you fucking nuts? You seriously expect people to watch ONE HUNDRED anime before they try to discuss anime? And I say this as someone who has watched a few hundred myself.
>>379358
>It's the literal definition of the word.
You might want to check that again.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/anime
"Definition of anime in English:
noun
A style of Japanese film and television animation, typically aimed at adults as well as children."
>Japanese film and television animation
Not
>film and television animation
It specifically says it has to be Japanese animation, not a western animation.
>>379366
>using an American dictionary to describe a Japanese/French word
>>379375
This.
>>379095
>sub-par
that's because other boards have Niggerwood or literally none
>>379375
>English language image board
Why would you use a foreign definition on here?
Also
>Oxford
>American English dictionary
It is the same in the American English dictionary though.
>>379384
>Why would you use a foreign definition for a foreign word
You see, this sort of approriation is how words like "kekhold" get ruined.
>>379387
Loanwords are a thing you know.
>>379388
Yes, to describe things where there exists no domestic word. If you change the definition, it's not a loanword anymore. コンピュータ doesn't describe American computers exclusively.
>>379390
Then why does the word anime exist in an English dictionary? Because there is no western equivalent that fits into one word. If there was another way to describe it then it wouldn't be there.
>>379393
>Then why does the word anime exist in an English dictionary?
I don't know, man, why does "je ne sais quoi?" Do we really need a French phrase to describe "that thing?"
>Because there is no western equivalent that fits into one word.
"Japanime" was huge in the 80s and 90s, as a portmanteau of "Japan" and French "anime" from Latin "animation."
>If there was another way to describe it then it wouldn't be there.
Synonyms are a thing, you know.
Look I don't think Western shit belongs on /a/ either, least of all narutoshit like RWBY. But don't pretend "anime" is supposed to mean "Japanese anime" when you're the one trying to change it.
>>379359
>you fuckers don't know shit about anything that came out before 1995
Are we talking about /a/ now?
>>379403
/a/'s cutoff is 87. /a/ does a good job because they hold their tongue, as opposed to making sure everyone knows how stupid they are like /v/.
>>379365
Yes, I expect the majority of /a/ to have seem more than 100 anime. The casuals are supposed to stay on MAL, crunchyroll and other shitty anime sites.
>>379409
*seen
>>379361
>arbitrary number of anime required to post here
is this a joke post
>>379359
>/a/
>saying that it's the outsiders who like Sword/Art
lol
Also it's funny how only /a/ gets violently triggered by critical theory.
>>379405
True. /v/ makes a point of talking about how old anime is better when they haven't seen shit-all in terms of old anime. I bet they haven't even heard of Votoms. Heck, I bet YOU haven't.
>>379403
Yeah I thought that was funny too, considering /a/ only watches flavor of the month currently airing anime. Their board culture enforces the rejection of any anime older than what was new when they were a newfag. Everything else is old and irrelevant.
>Ctrl+f
>"rec"
>O results
holy shit I guess /a/ hasn't found this thread yet. Normally they immediately start spamming and accusing people of making rec threads.
>>379422
Every /m/an has seen VOTOMS
>>379421
>implying /v/ or her girlfriend evageeks know what critical theory is
TVTropes isn't Academia.
>>379435
>he thinks critical theory was created by tvtropes
Just fucking delete /a/, goddamn. I have no idea how these people are able to function irl.
Giving these retards a place to congregate is probably some kind of crime.
>>379440
These are the same people who, when told by someone who works in law enforcement that loli will get you convicted for child pornography, argued with "Nuh-uh! Loli is pure!"
You can't make this shit up.
>>379433
Yes, because /m/ magically manages to not suck every so often. But this is about how /v/ is dumb.
The Steins;Gate anime sucks. Read the visual novel.
>>379440
>>379442
>>379361
None of what you listed breaks a single rule except RWBY maybe.
>>379453
RWBY is a Japanese manga made by a Japanese man in Japanese for Japan
It is not /a/ related because _____
>>379462
The manga is /a/-related. The series is not.
Also, because that guy drew the shitty DMC comic. Fuck him
>>379440
>he thinks critical theory was created by tvtropes
He didn't imply that, you dumbfuck with zero reading comprehension.
>>379481
>he
I think you mean "I" you butthurt weeb
>>379484
>he
I think you mean "I" you butthurt weeb
>>379444
>, because /m/ magically manages to not suck every so often
I take you haven't been on /m/ lately?
>>379523
That's correct, which is why I said every so often. The amount of time that has passed since the last time they did not suck is growing larger and larger. This is the fault of people with shit taste who couldn't enjoy G-Reco or Cross Ange.
>>379095
>/a/
>best moderation
Enjoy being owned by Fakku you stupid fuck
I think the word "best" is subjective.
But it's actually a fact the /a/ is the most moderated board.
>>379562
Thanks I will, I like Fakku
>>379589
Peachy Butt Girls is a great title, too bad it probably has penises in it and ruins the whole thing.
>>379562
>still butthurt over a tripfag attention whore being public banned
Ayy.
Fakku shill threads are still deleted on /a/.
>>379599
Probably the tripfag himself posting as anon because he was banned.
>>379599
>public banned
>hating a product is shilling
Your next post is going to be "fuck off Jebus"
>>379589
how much do you get paid per ban?
>>379365
>You seriously expect people to watch ONE HUNDRED anime before they try to discuss anime?
Yes anon, because /a/ is mostly filled with people who have anime/manga as a hobby passion. If you want a shitty casual environment, go use reddit or any anime forum, /a/ doesn't want it
>>379365
One hundred anime is literally nothing. That's what, 500-1000 hours spent watching anime? You can reach that number by watching anime casually for a year.
I personally wouldn't take seriously anything a person who has seen less than 300 anime says, and even that is hardly a number you should brag about. I'd be ashamed to admit I've seen less than 500 anime and would expect people to disregard my opinions if I did.
Are you honestly telling me you're fine with, say, people who have spent less than 1000 hours playing video games sharing their shitty, uninformed, casual opinions on /v/?
>>379361
You are why people hate /a/
>>380004
what if i've spent a thousand hours watching anime but 500 of them are rewatches
>>382251
Then you have some serious mental issues, like all the other weirdo creeps who spend as much time rewatching old stuff as they do watching new stuff.
Seriously, what the heck dude? Sure, I can understand rewatching a few of your favorite shows every once in a while, but who the heck spends as much time going through stuff they've already seen as they do discovering new stuff?
>>380004
Not that anon.
>You need to listen to 500+ songs or watch 500+ movies to think one is shit.
No.
>B-but muh refined tastes.
Shut up.
You could watch every anime in existence, and then also go watch a couple thousand movies, play a couple thousand games, and listen to a few dozen thousand songs (because it is important to understand the worth of an anime series in context to general media as well) and your taste would still be uninformed, because how can you understand the real value of a story if you haven't also studied philosophy, literary theory, and both the specific history of east Asia and Japan (to understand the historic context and cultural background evoked by the series) and history in general to understand its place in the world. And you sure as hell can't form a real opinion about the artwork and animation of the show if you haven't studied general art for at least a decade or two, and animation for at least one more.
The information you've consumed doesn't make value judgements about something any less subjective. It just alters the perspective from which you make those judgements and shifts your personal tastes. Your ego might really want to pretend you're "better at watching anime" than that 12 year old weeb kid who wears a naruto headband to school, but the truth is your taste isn't objectively superior in the slightest.
Muh taste is exactly what makes /a/ such a completely shit board.
>>382293
>people can't form opinions on art without study
How's that liberal arts degree going?
>>382248
Good. That's my intention. The less crossboarders there, the better.
>>382277
>who the heck spends as much time going through stuff they've already seen as they do discovering new stuff?
if i watch bad shows i feel like i'm polluting the content of my mental library so i only watch shows that i'm pretty sure i'm going to mark at least 9/10, and there's really not very many of them
then at some point i'm stuck with the decision "am i going to enjoy this new show better than my favorite 10/10 AOAT" and the answer i usually come up with is "no, time to watch my favorite show again"
>>379361
>watching anime
Manga board when?
>>382300
Apparently better than your reading comprehension, since the whole argument of the post was that additional information doesn't make opinions less subjective.
>>379365
100 is generous, personally I think 200 would be a better limit
and /v/ is the worst, without a single contender
>>382293
>You could watch every anime in existence (...) and animation for at least one more.
This is absurd. ~300 anime watched is not a particularly high standard. You're trying to argue against the idea of having basic standards by blowing it completely out of proportion with ridiculously unrealistic demands. It's like saying that just because a person doesn't want literally illiterate people on /lit/, he should demand that only people who have read the entirety of Western canon be allowed on /lit/, since har har how can a person be considered literate if they haven't read the entirety of the canon? Don't be a shitter, dude.
>The information you've consumed doesn't make value judgements about something any less subjective.
Of course opinions are subjective. A person can see a hundred mecha anime and still have unbelievably shitty taste and like the "peace princess" archetype or love Zeta and hate ZZ. But it is also an undeniable fact that watching more anime increases your knowledge of anime. This isn't something you can argue against. Watching more anime makes you more familiar with all the "tropes" and all that shit in a way reading TvTropes or Wikipedia or Evageeks just won't. As you watch more of it, you start to recognize and become familiar with various voice actors, directors, art styles, character designs, evolutions of genres and subgenres, recognize references to other stuff, etc. and actually learn more about all the topics you talk about.
It's not about "taste", it's about knowledge. No one wants to listen to that one shitter who thinks Aldnoah was the first mecha where Martians were the baddies. I don't care if a person prefers Asuka over Rei, or thinks Homura did something wrong, but I don't want to listen to shitters who think Evangelion and Madoka were completely revolutionary, groundbreaking anime because they've never seen any other mecha or mahou shoujo in their life.
>>382348
I don't need to have a fucking degree in biochemistry and biology to understand that mainlining krokodil followed by unprotected sex with a Somalian prostitute isn't good for me. I can also probably say that Chargeman Ken isn't as good as Astro Boy without an in depth understanding of 1970s Japanese animation.
Even then, I'd probably concede that someone who played more vidya than me or watched more anime would havse more relevant knowledge on hand.
>>382394
No, I'm pointing out that it's absurd to consider 300 anime a regular standard. Especially since you aren't even factoring in quality.
If you have never watched any anime, and then you watch 5 really solid series, you are going to have a higher (arguably) standard than someone who has seen 400 generic ecchi harem shows. You don't need to have watched any shows at all to watch DBZ and Baccano and tell which is the better show. Any normalfag who has never seen an anime before could do that. Your quantities are arbitrary, "lel you need to watch 500 anime to have a really good idea of what makes anime good" is a fucking stupid argument. A person who reads a lot of books is going to have a better informed opinion of the quality of an anime story than someone who does nothing but watch anime.
>But it is also an undeniable fact that watching more anime increases your knowledge of anime. This isn't something you can argue against.
I never attempted to argue against that. I actually pointed that out in my post.But more knowledge doesn't mean your opinion is any better than someone who just watched babby's first show. What you view as groundbreaking is subjective and a matter of perspective. If you are very well read, chances are that nothing that has ever happened or will ever happen in anime is groundbreaking. It's relative. "You're wrong because I've seen more shows than you" is not sound logic. "X isn't actually that groundbreaking, Y show did something similar" is--and the latter actually leads to good discussion, something that really doesn't happen on /a/ as much as the board wants to pretend it does, because its drowned out by "Shit taste, lel."
>>382402
My point exactly. It's stupid to throw out arbitrary metrics like, "If you haven't watched x amount of series..." Knowledge is relevant to arguments like the above "groundbreaking". Until /a/ learns that "hurr you are casual" is fucking retarded, it will continue to be a shit board.
>>382440
>If you have never watched any anime, and then you watch 5 really solid series, you are going to have a higher (arguably) standard than someone who has seen 400 generic ecchi harem shows
You really don't. In fact, being exposed to both good, bad and mediocre is necessary to develop good understanding. The amount is also important to develop a frame of reference. You can easily spot inexperienced posters who don't understand common japanese sayings or recognize japanese cultural references.
The amount is arbitrary, sure. But it's an easy way to draw the line between someone who probably can offer a valuable opinion and someone who can probably not. It's not like there's any way to enforce it regardless, so the whole debate is pretty moot.
>>382440
I think you've missed a key point. The original complaint of this was you have to watch x amount to talk on /a/. The complaint was less about taste and the quality of their opinion and more that /a/ is filled mostly with people with the shit as a hobby. Hobbiest don't give a rats ass about some faggot casual who has barely even scratched the medium and thinks they know anything. They want to talk to other hobbiest who have actually experienced tons of the medium and at least have a basic understanding of the medium and don't spout stupid shit like 'moeshit is killing the industry muh manime.
Even someone who has seen thousands of anime can be a retard and have learnt nothing, but at the very least, they won't actual spout real retard shit like casuals and at least actually fucking enjoy the hobby and are willing to actually experience the medium
>>382277
>old things bad
>new shiny good
/a/ in a nutshell
Also
>tripfagging
Kill yourself my man
/a/ is a board that prides itself on its "self-moderation" while easily having the highest amount of actual moderation of any board, by far.
What other board gets public bans? Which regularly gets sticky threads?
/a/ is the coddled prince that thinks he became a knight due from effort and not nepotism
>>382534
>/a/ is Suzaku
>>382490
>Even someone who has seen thousands of anime can be a retard and have learnt nothing, but at the very least, they won't actual spout real retard shit like casuals and at least actually fucking enjoy the hobby and are willing to actually experience the medium
We can agree to disagree then. I'd much rather have an intelligent discussion with someone who is just getting into the genre and has the unique perspective that provides than one of an innumerable amount of the waifu/shitposting autists that plague /a/ and have seen hundreds of series.
Again, this is part of what makes /a/ kind of a shithole board. The majority of boards are hobby or interest based, all of them face the same occasional new/ignorant visitor coming in. But most boardss don't handle it the way /a/ does, with shitposting and meme spam about normalfags and casuals.
If you go to /out/ and make a thread along the lines of "I have never hiked before but I visited a friend yesterday and took a walk through the woods behind their house" etc. I'd imagine you aren't going to be met with "lol faggot, generic woods are shit, please go on at least a hundred hikes in good park locations". /cgl/ is probably the only other board that has that kind of elitism, and even they are generally more helpful towards new members of their community. /a/ is far too concerned with preserving its self-labeled expertise, and it has become terrible because of it, imo.
>>382550
/a/ would tell you that this is because they need to defend themselves from evil outsiders who would shit up their board.
That's what they say, and yet when the mods cracked down on people shitposting Naruto threads, it wasn't overrun with narutards like they claimed it would be...
>>382550
>I'd much rather have an intelligent discussion with someone who is just getting into the genre and has the unique perspective that provides than one of an innumerable amount of the waifu/shitposting autists that plague /a/ and have seen hundreds of series.
Well, unfortunate, you aren't going to get that here. /a/ is pretty much the only place on the english speaking side of the net, that has actual speed, and isn't welcoming to newfags. Every other site for anime/manga that has speed, welcome them with open arms, and well, I shouldn't need to explain what's wrong with them.
So, basically, you don't like /a/ because it has maintained the age old internet methods of being anti-outsider and anti-newfag. You are showing your new my friend. EVERY BOARD at some point did the exact same as /a/. However, due to the chanology shit, slowly since then, that culture has been dying on every board except /a/. Not because its bad, but because a insane flood of newfags that outright refuse to learn the sites culture and instead force their shitty external until oldfags gave up and just let the flood happen. You ARE the problem. What you are looking for is /v/. A board that is welcoming and friendly to newcomers with speed. What you are looking for is /b/ 2.0, except with a topic flavour
>using a slow board as an example
No. Slow boards are something different, faggot. Slow boards can be friendly to people new to the board as they don't have to worry about a influx of new users and people raiding their shit. If you asked stupid questions or made it obvious you were new to the site, they would tell you to fuck off just the same
So, fuck you. Fuck you for thinking the website should be some hugbox friendly site that welcomes people with open arms. Use the fucking hundreds of thousands of websites made for just that, not fucking here. Fuck you
>>382696
I don't understand how you guys keep maintaining this idea that you're the last true heroes of anonymous culture while every other board bent over and took it willingly.
Your board has strong and swift moderation including public bans to regularly trim the fat and keep the board healthy.
Stop patting yourselves on the back.
>>382705
>I don't understand how you guys keep maintaining this idea that you're the last true heroes of anonymous culture
Except we don't. We are just simply one of the only boards left that actually give a shit about our board and are willing to take the matters into our own hands
>>382708
Do you honestly believe that? /jp/ was twice as autistic about defending itself as /a/ ever was, but it didn't have a mod backing up the train so the whole thing imploded in the space of a single year.
>>382673
>it wasn't overrun with narutards like they claimed it would be...
Because those tards have moved on to Dragonball Super, which is currently shitting up the board. The point still stands.
>>382709
>>382711
I can't remember well, but I'm almost positive that there was more to the /jp/ shit then just a lack of mod backing
>>382717
>I can't remember well, but I'm almost positive that there was more to the /jp/ shit then just a lack of mod backing.
Well, yes, the real problem was a massive influx of shitposting retards. But it wouldn't have been a problem if /jp/ had a mod who was ready to stand by it.
Being a shitty little problem board, it had nothing of the sort, only dozens of autists trying to defend the board before they gave up and started committing suicide one after the other.
>>382718
Deleted this post because I was wrong about the /a/ thread being deleted.
The story is that the same shitposter is on both boards with the same thread
>>>/a/134825419
>>>/v/320360580
I'm going to see how it plays out and which gets deleted first.
>>382718
>What is the difference here? How did those /a/nons successfully self-moderate that post into deletion so fast while the cancerous /v/ thread remains?
It seems I've been misinterpreted. Taking shit into your own hands doesn't just mean scaring off newfags and killing shit threads, its also forcing the mods to bend to the boards will. If /a/ decides tomorrow that frogshit is ok on the board, the mods would leave it, but because /a/nons fucking hate the shit, its banned
Would like to note I removed my previous post because it was only somewhat true.
>>382725
Please teach me your ways. Teach everyone your ways. I want to believe in mods again
>>382696
>So, basically, you don't like /a/ because it has maintained the age old internet methods of being anti-outsider and anti-newfag. You are showing your new my friend.
No. Because all boards continue to be anti-outsiders acting like outsiders and anti-newfags acting like newfags, other boards just don't have some misguided paranoia that they are being invaded, because they aren't retarded and don't think that 4chan is still some unknown site in 2015. The problem is that /a/ takes their anti-newfag to autistic levels, and then embraces this false identity where they pretend that 98% of the board isn't the same fucking normalfags they pretend they aren't. Old /jp/ was anti anything not /jp/ long before /a/ began its whole /r9k/ level "normalfags get out" shit, and it refrained from being completely fucking autistic and shitposting itself into oblivion the way /a/ has.
I used a slow board as an example because the majority of slow boards on the site are higher quality than /a/. /a/ has a level of moderation that means it doesn't need to resort to being fucking retarded to deal with new users doing stupid shit. When people ask stupid questions or make it obvious they are new to the site on a slow board, users call them out on it, report the post and fucking move on with their lives and the discussion at hand, instead of shitspamming or derailing the entire thread to the point that mods have to delete it.
I don't expect 4chan to be a hugbox, I expect it to be 4chan; not a fucking preschool where spergs throw tantrums because someone new made a stupid post. But please, continue to pretend that spamming other boards with "lel smug anime face epic troll meme xD normalfags" is somehow proof of /a/ being, in any sense, a quality board.
/a/ is in some ways better than other big boards, but /a/nons are also legends in their own minds who think their board is the best the world has ever seen, and anyone who even mildly disagrees OBVIOUSLY got laughed out of /a/ after he tried to make a thread about Cowboy Bebop and is just being salty (/a/nons always deploy this strawman).
There unfortunately does not exist such a thing as a good anime community.
>>379358
Anime means Japanese animation outside of Japan, and saying that anime is synonymous with any and all animation because that's how the word is often used in Japan (or at least has been used) is just a semantic argument. The fact is that anime is a unique and distinctly Japanese form of animation.
>>379375
Anime doesn't come from French, it comes from English.
>>380004
Watching anime is not enough to understand anime. You also need to read about it a lot, and develop a holistic understanding of Japanese entertainment, culture, subculture, history and society. And people saying they've seen this and this many anime isn't any different from someone saying "I'm an expert, so just trust me." Recently some guy on /tv/ said he's seen 800 anime, yet what did his actual views on anime suggest? That's he's maybe seen ten anime and has not even the slightest idea what the fuck he's talking about. Of course he hadn't really seen 800 anime, he was just saying that.
>>382440
Most people who don't watch anime or only watch it casually are pretentious plotfags who only care about how telling people they've watched/read something improves or worsens their social standing. Same goes for "anime fans" who unironically talk about "taste" and call things (or themselves) "patrician."
>>382440
>>382764
In an ideal situation, we would be able to get some /g/ nerd to develop some kind of algorithm or whatever and you would be able to input all the data regarding all the anime you've seen, the quality of the anime you've seen, your knowledge of Japanese culture in general and otaku culture in particular, your knowledge of how the anime industry works and how animation is done, your knowledge of Western animation and its influence on anime, your literacy level and knowledge of fiction in general, your education level in regards to both cinematography and literature, etc. and it would analyze all that and calculate your "anime knowledge quotient".
But until that happens, all we can do is choose an arbitrary amount of anime and say "you need to see roughly this many anime until your opinion on anime actually starts to be worth expressing".
>>382768
Ok, and how about people who say they've seen 800 anime when the real number is probably missing two digits? Even their anime lists don't mean anything because those can be faked. People's views on anime (or whatever the topic is) should be judged as-is.
>>382777
Well yeah, obviously anyone can lie and say they've seen a lot more anime than they actually have. You can't actually stop people who have seen less than X anime from posting. But you should try to create an environment where people are strongly encouraged to watch at least X anime before posting and make them feel guilty for posting if they've seen less than X anime. I don't think this is an impossible task. After all, many people buy into /a/'s anti-newfag and "elitism" reputation and you have quite a few people who admit that when they first started watching anime and browsing /a/, they were too scared to post and would lurk for months before posting for the first time.
I fucking hate power level fags
I think there should be some kind of essential list of anime everyone is required to watch though
This bullshit with required amount of watched anime is also stupid because anime vary greatly in length, some have only 12 episodes and some thousands, I would say better measurement would be total time spent (like on MAL)
Minimum should be a month in total
>>382786
Imagine if you were only allowed to discuss an anime if you've seen at least 25 other anime of that same genre.
Imagine, an /a/ without Evafags.
>>382786
These lists exists and are available if you know how to google.
>>382791
Yeah but there's no definitive one like for /mu/ and /tv/
>>382789
No, that means you could've watched the entirety of the big 3 and claim that you have a wide experience in anime. You wouldn't, you would have just watched the same kind of shonen garbage riddled with fillers and drawn-out manga adaptions. A variety of different works is completely necessary
I still prefer /a/ and /jp/ to any other board on here by a mile
>>382888
Watching the entirety of original Naruto and 20 shitty harem shows is equally valuable
>>382992
Because you are a Filthy weeaboo
>>383021
That's why he's on 4chan, innit?
>>382534
>/a/ is a board that prides itself on its "self-moderation" while easily having the highest amount of actual moderation of any board, by far.
>What other board gets public bans? Which regularly gets sticky threads?
>/a/ is the coddled prince that thinks he became a knight due from effort and not nepotism
This. As everyone knows, /a/ is the board most mods main. Of course they care about it.
Also "more moderation" != "better moderation"
>>382708
>Except we don't. We are just simply one of the only boards left that actually give a shit about our board and are willing to take the matters into our own hands
Are you fucking stupid? Every other board isn't allowed nearly the freedom of deciding its topic that you are.
If any other board tries to do what you do they get slammed down hard.
>>382725
Look at shit like /tg/. They regularly shitpost Quest threads, and dont want them on their board, yet the mods force them to take it.
No other board has the freedom /a/ does. If /a/nons used any other board they'd understand that.
>>382768
>tripfagging
kill yourself you attention whoring faggot
>>383021
That's why I'm on 4chan sorry if you're upset
>>383017
As I said, a variety is necessary. 20 shitty harem shows being the alternative is a strawman you made up
>>383054
>>No other board has the freedom /a/ does
Are you under the illusion that mods didn't ban the people who shitposted the RWBY threads to death?
>>383054
>/a/
>freedom
what
if i ever post on /a/ i feel like i have to constantly tip toe so as to not offend anyone in their hugbox and get banned
>>383789
I don't agree with him, but that's not what he meant. He meant that the userbase on /a/ has a freedom to make their own rules for what's allowed or not that the other boards lack.
>>383793
it's just not fun on /a/
if you're even slightly different from their hugbox you're going to get banned or shitposted to hell
they can't handle anyone who is even slightly different, it's fucking annoying
it's fucking /a/, but you can't talk jackshit about anime there if your opinion differs or maybe you dont like the current season
>>383793
The fake rules that /a/ manages to invent actually manage to gather some approximation of a consensus, I think most other board have a harder time with that.
Though this is also a chicken and egg problem since for a while their invented rules were implemented by moderation, and the people who didn't agree left.
>>383795
>Muh manime
>>383795
They're just being protective of something they like. I don't agree that only one opinion is allowed, there's almost always banter about the airing shows back and forth. Of course, if you can't handle said banter and can't adapt to their culture, maybe you shouldn't post on /a/. It's not for everyone.
But most probably, your interaction with /a/ has just been "fuck all this moeshit why don't you discuss anime I like instead", in which case you started the shitposting and shouldn't expect anything else in return.
If you really want to post on /a/, you should just lurk the board for a while and observe what's accepted and what isn't.
Moefags are the /a/ equivalent of poptimists on /mu/
>>383821
Kill yourself, /v/
>>383815
>They're just being protective of something they like.
This something they like is a product of people who came into 4chan during the media shitshow. I can tell you right now that those of us who were enjoying 4chan during 2003 and onwards would like nothing more than the current mass of retards on /a/ to fuck right off. They came in like a fucking hoard and completely destroyed the creative culture and replaced it was a sterile, repetitive hivemind.
>>383821
>>383822
Fuck off retards.
>>383822
Typical kneejerk reaction from butthurt moetard
You are literally unable to take criticism
>>383795
I don't think anyone would want to discuss anything with you in any situation considering you're obnoxious and type in lowercase all the time.
>>383824
I don't agree that /a/ is sterile and lack creativity, my opinion is in fact the opposite. So there you go
>>383831
>I don't agree that /a/ is sterile and lack creativity
That's because you weren't here during the time it was born. Almost everything posted today is the same shit which has been recycled for the past handful of years.
>my opinion is in fact the opposite.
That's because you're a newfriend. Lurk moar.
>>383866
The recycling is only natural, since it's a way to connect with the past. At the same time, new things are born every season with the new shows that air then. It's not stagnant whatsoever.
>>383815
The only /a/ meme you're missing is bitching about Rec threads
>>383866
>Almost everything posted today is the same shit which has been recycled for the past handful of years.
That's something from the current entire 4chan environment and unfortunately will be here forever until Hiro puts the brakes on the site and forces it backwards.
/a/ is still more creative and less sterile than the other big boards on the site in comparison. A good deal of that comes from the fact /a/ gets new content daily and every season. Everything gets it own jokes, 'memes', userbase, creative things and shit. A lot of said things just don't stick and die just as quick as its made or with its season. This at the very least is reminiscent of old 4chan, were the vast majority of your 'memes' were more of inside-jokes if anything and never become that big or repeated constantly. The majority of the other boards, they have most of even the smallest jokes stick for a long time and normally become pretty big until they find something to replace it.
The entire of 4chan is stagnating and lacking of creativity due to the size of it and the constant newfag barrage that refuse to adapt. But, /a/ is still less stagnate then the others, even if its just a shiny polished golden shit
/a/ is the worst board.
>>379125
I'm curious who the cast is.
>>379365
I've seen 250 anime and I've been posting on /a/ since I only saw 20 anime in 2013 with Kill la Kill.
>>382745
Fucking this. Holy shit.
Cuck.
>>382745
I'm a newfag but not a normalfag because I'm a NEET. I didn't realize there was a name for what I was until 4chan. It helped me get over depression to see there were other people like me.
