inb4 people prove OP's point about /a/ being less mature than Gaia

The majority of users in their anime forum are complete faggots.
When I was on their I met a couple good people, but that was at least four years ago and I'm sure they've all moved on to 4chan.

>>33538939
This.

Also, emoticons make your argument null and void.

You want to show some emotion, go talk to someone in real life. Have fun with that.

>>33538958
Never understood what the deal is with emoticons

We use ;_; all the goddamn time

>>33538958
but constant reaction images, umads, and green text are just fine? Bullshit. You're a hypocrite.

>>33538996
Yeah, one.

We don't do shit like ^_^, XD, or any of that other crap.

>>33539014
Took the words outta my mouth anon
Only thing I have against them is the narutards

>>33538901
/a/ is much better than Gaia, and mainly the reason why I stopped going on there.
There's better discussion on here, a larger variety of series people are interested in, and anons are willing to upload good pictures and scans and shit.

Only 2ch trumps /a/'s power level.

THIS LOOKS LIKE A TROLL

I CAN TELL FROM SOME OF THE WORDS AND FROM SEEING QUITE A FEW TROLLS IN MY TIME

>>33539039
I guess it's the association with the faggots that use them constantly.

>>33538996
";_;" became acceptable when J-List had an add for one of those mousepads with fake boobs on them, along with "Life like texture ;_;"

Since then it just caught on, besides, it's a million times better than ":D, D:, :) :( xD, XD x] x[ :] :["

>>33539014
>implying that isn't just cancer from /b/ and /v/

More seriously though, the few times I've ventured over the demographic seems much...ah...younger and femaler. Also, holy fuck avatars and signatures and shit take up so much useless space.

Everywhere is the same.
Full of underage faggots that think TTGL > Eva.

>>33539014
They're like emoticons with the same concept... but BETTER... and um... LESS GAY!

Because there's like... different pictures and stuff... and it's funnier! IMAGES COOL. EMOTICONS STUPID! ^-^ OH SHI-

I can't stand majority of users in the most forums.
Everyone is attention whoring, stealing someone elses jokes to make them look "funny and interesting", use avatars and signatures full of crap that takes you two days to scroll over, and they always think their word is the last.
Oh don't forget all the cocksucking to the mods and users with billion post which consist of nothing but 4 words that do not even contribute to the thread.

>>33539088
>Also, holy fuck avatars and signatures and shit take up so much useless space.

This.

Goddamn... how can they even browse the forums without getting a headache.

Cool story, bro

The people here just don't need to expose their powerlevels, because most of the people calling them out are trolls. There are a lot of very well versed people on /a/, there's just no reason to bust out the encyclopedia.

>>33539088
unfortunately /a/ has the same demographic as /b/ and /v/ nowadays.

Reasons Gaia is shit:

-13 year olds
-It's a forum
-With retarded avatars
-All its users are stupid, like way below average intelligence

>>33538845

Trolling in a troll thread

>Not only that, but the users tend to actually act more mature than /a/ ever does

>>33539066

>He's trying to start a discussion about something I dislike! He must be a troll!

>>33539157
4chan enters in the definition of forum too

>>33539187
Although some interesting discussion can come from this thread, I doubt that the OP had any other purposes apart from trolling.

Okay, just how many of you used to go on Gaia?

The vast flood of immature tween faggots on the board trumps anything useful you might get out of it. Not to mention that their message boards go 3x faster than /a/ so you can't even hold a worthwhile conversation.

I gave it a fair shake for around 2 weeks a couple years ago and it was useless. Even when I did make a nice discussion reply, it was buried 3 pages back within 2 minutes. Or I would just get a reply back of "yea" or "I disagree" with nothing else. Only place the pace was slow enough to chat was like the politics board....

To be honest, I have a Gaia. I use it to chat with the few people I met on there that are worth talking to, and roleplay fantasy when I get the writer's itch. I don't like the anime discussion there because alot of it is WHICH NARUTO CAHARCTER IS THE BEST?!?!?! or ICHIGO VS. LUFFY! or L IS SOOOO HAWT.

There's the rare topic about something good, but it's usually drowned out by the crap. Not worth touching. /a/ actually discusses the series relevant to my interests, or ... at least talks about something IN the series relevant to my interest, anyway...

hey faggots

Gaia doesnt have Moot

4chan has Moot

4chan is then superior to Gaia

Moot >>>> * >>>> no Moot

>>33539218
4chan doesn't have post counts, registration, moderators you have to worship to even post here, signatures, avatars, fixed threads

We aren't a forum, otherwise I wouldn't be posting here. Forums are fucking awful.

>>33539218
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imageboard

There you go, since you don't understand.

>>33539183
>Implying

>>33539291
>moderators you have to worship to even post here
>MODS = GOD

I have a Gaia account since 2004 but I haven't been there for 3 or 4 years. It wasn't bad. Their fighting games subforum was hilariously misogynistic.

Lot's of underageb& visit both 4chan and gaia sadly, i don't really hate gaia but the forums i've been in suck hard.

>>33539039
..because reaction images are so much better!
but really, many anime forums arent as bad as you guys make them out to be. too bad Im too shy to make an account and actually post with it.

Gaia used to be the place where we could look at in our times of trouble and say "Haha, well at least we aren't as bad as THOSE guys." but everyday we slowly lose the ability to do that.

>>33539291
it's not like the term forum was invented thousands of ages ago or anything

/a/ and gaia are both shit in their own way, this is because anime fans, weaboos, otaku, whatever you want to call them come under two types: idiots, and stuck up assholes.
both groups can't stand each other, and therefore flock to different places. /a/ is full of assholes who think their opinion is best, and gaia is full of idiots.
I am a stuck up asshole, therefore i prefer /a/.

>>33539354
Same here. I hate being shy.

Gaia ain't as bad as Narutofan.

/a/ is shit thanks to One piece fans

is shit too thanks to K ON fans

and wtf this meta thread is still alive

The entire concept of Gaia is boring and pointless as fuck. At least now they have an MMO or something. There is no stimulation or purpose in spending money on an online avatar that does nothing, unless you have the mentality of a 12 year old. I have more fun with free DREAM AVY o.~ stuff that lets you just dress the thing up without it having anything to do with a user account or fucking play money.

>>33539354
>>33539397
>being shy on internet

What the fuck people? Even tho you have some gay account you will still stay anonymous.

I used to have one and I also posted in the anime forums on a daily basis, but I stopped going on once all the interesting people got banned and the only ones left were the obnoxious regs

>>33539322
That's because moderators don't do shit most of the time, so when they do it's celebrated. Also usually when they do something it's to publicly ban a hated tripfag.

It's hardly like if I said I HATE THE MODS, MODS ARE FAGS they'd ban me, unlike on a forum where all the users ignore you if you call a moderator out for being a faggot/clearly wrong. Then if you do it again you get banned. Forums suck.

>>33539435
A username can still tie you to your posts.

>>33539435
sometimes I feel a bit shy even here so its not like that matters

>>33539371
It's not like I wasn't referring to the modern internet only version which was obvious in the context of this thread or anything.

>>33539274
I just ventured over and took a look at their Anime forum.

40 threads on the front page
2 are Big 3 threads both Bleach
and half are actually about good shows

>>33539421
NO /a/ is shit thanks to you guys who bitch about everything.

>>33539014
On my times, Greentext, reactionimage and anything related to that were considered cancer, but with this new times all that newly /b/-oriented attitude has taken over by now.

>>33539472
it's easy to drop a username and make a new one, and the chances are nobody will know.

>>33539446
Looks like we're in the same boat.

The biggest difference between forums and 4chan in anonimity.
Yeah we have tripfags, some even have avatars be it trolls or not, but usually their circlejerk threads get saged to death, and they are considered faggots by the majory of the userbase.
On the other hand, you have forums, where mostly people crave for attention. An user with thousands posts there is considered to be fun, smart, awesome and whatnot, even though that person could be one of the biggest faggots ever born. Try interupting few of these users circlejerk thread, you'll either get banned or spammed by their cocksucking fans.
4chan is not gold either but atleast its better than the majority of forums.

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things like this annoy OP, if the post accepts the fact I used a bunch of spaces.

>>33539472
So what, its not like you own those posts, you need to realize that on forums a mod can change your post as much as you like, besides its not like its hard to make another one if previous one gets deleted.
>>33539494
You are anonymous in here, and no matter how stupid your post may be you will be forgiven.

>>33539608

Bacon and eggs?

>>33539522
But instant anonymous posting is low entry to barrier. I can't be bothered to deal with making an email account, setting up an account, etc etc. Fuck that.

>>33539592
I do like this aspect, too. The anglophone internet world is too heavily oriented on identity-based social networks: facebook/myspace, forums, blogs, twitter. Fuck that noise. Let me judge you by the quality of your posts, not by how popular you are.

>>33539510

Then it's changed from when I last looked there. Which was easily over a year or two ago...

Every place has its share of shit, Gaia just had a very fucking large amount of it.

>>33539668
>I can't be bothered to deal with making an email account, setting up an account, etc etc.
http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/

>>33539708

It goes in cycles.
Every so often, Gaia becomes pretty decent. It's just rare.

Now, that's excluding the guilds - which tend to be either great or godawful depending on the guild.

>>33539652

>>33539592
another thing about anonymity is the assumptions you make about posts. on a forum with usernames, people have reputations they want to respect, so opinions people post are assumed to be true, although they are likely to be false in order for the user to "fit in" with the community.
With Anonymous posting, posts are generally assumed to be trolls unless proven otherwise, although people can more easily post their actual opinion.

I went back to gaia after like 5 years, and there is so much more confusing avatar-based crap on there I just gave up.

Really I wish there was a female based 4chan, where all anons are assumed 18+ like here but also assumed female. It would be interesting to see how the demographic shift would effect the posts and subjects outside of single topic boards like /y/ or /cm/. in b4 generalizations

>>33539774
Oh! That is nifty. Still not interested in signing up for many fora, but good to have on hand. Maybe while I'm at it I'll finally make a NYT account.

>>33539918
...Kinda sounds like LiveJournal, but without all the retards.

>>33540373
Ha, you got me there.