I blame moot/mods for putting that harmony crap on /v/ which caused /v/irgins to come over here.

>5000x4500
>.png
Nope

>>62062598

This is exactly why /a/ has always and will always be shit because newfags shit up the board with there board loyalty shit.

Prime targets for trolling.

>>62062598

No. That was also a factor, but it was mostly Katawa Shoujo, creation of /vg/ that made /v/ more ontopi and those retards came here to shitpost, loli fiasco, conferences and so on

>gigantic as fuck .png

jesus christ man

tl dr
can someone explain in one word what op's post is supposed to be?

>>62062635

> there

Get out. You are complaining probably because you see the text refers to all your retarded attitudes

>>62062671
"shit"

>>62062554
>>62062671
And this is why /a/ needs thread ID.

I wish I was autismal enough to use proxies to report this thread as illegal content however many times it requires to be autodeleted.

>>62062701
thanks anon

OP here.

Sorry for the size, I use a 58" screen. But you really should try reading.

Ctrl + mouse scroll wheel may help.

Yesterday almost everybody could read, except for /b/ and /v/ retards that have that tl;dr mentality

>>62062643
Maybe I should have said "recently" then. No doubt that there have been several "events" so far this year which have caused a bunch of shit for /a/, with /harmony/ being the latest.

And making shitty off topic threads helps /a/ how?

>>62062721

Yeah, it's everybody else's fault that /a/ shit.

>>62062710
Report autodelete was taken out years ago just so you know.

>>62062710
*post IDs unique to different threads
>60 second delay when saging a post, when sage should be encouraged

>>62062730

I specify the "Possible solutions" hoping people will email moot with them, or repost the picture when needed.

>permanently banned for bad behaviour
MEIN FURIER

>>62062742
>butthurt about being called out

>>62062758

Possible solution 1 is hilarious considering moot himself cant speak a word of moon nor can Kino-mod.

>>62062554
/v/ is now /b/ ever since /vg/ was made, they have been shitting up all the other boards

>>62062775

> not even reading past the second line and thinking this is about genders

The evidence is all around us.
The shitposters are taking over

gb2adtrw

Daily dose?

>>62062554
See here
http://archive.foolz.us/a/thread/61461246/

We had this discussion when /vg/ was made and some good shit was posted concerning the state of /a/. Just do your part, be as inhospitable to newcomers as possible, report and sage threads. Easy stuff. Let the shitstorm happening because of the new boards blow over and we'll be fine. If you post threads like this screaming "WE'RE GOING TO DIE OH GOD WHAT DO WE DO" then it's going to attract attention.

I said it before and I'll say it again: all we need is an active late night mod/janitor, and to have recs/sauce/spoonfeeding bannable like on the porn boards.

>>62062824

I mention this on the image.

/a/nons still try to be as hostile as possible, but the newcomers are each time in higher number, and we are becoming the minority.

>>62062554
analysing /a/? that autism

>>62062618
this is the most retarded post I've ever read today. You use PNG for diagrams and text, and JPG for photographs. This is actually one of those times when you're supposed to use PNG; JPEG gives you artefacts.

>>62062772
>furier
confirmed for retard

Every single goddamn year people come up with theories about how and why /a/ became shittier.
Guess what, /a/ has been shit for quite a while now. While OP's pic does make sense, it's just a small dip compared to the free fall of quality we've had over the years. It can't be expected of newfags to know what the board was like in 2005~2006 (maybe 2007 as well), though.

I agree with OP here. I stopped posting in like mid January and just recently came back within the last couple days.

I agree that /a/ has always been "shit", but right now it's seriously impossible to get anything decent going on. It's like accel spammer disappeared and all the people with 4 brain cells that couldn't sift around his spam came back multiplied by 9001

Make /a/ have nazi moderation, slightest offtopic and you are permanently banned from the board
Add a japtcha to it to make it even less likely for shitposters to access

Create "anime/manga/japan casual discussions xD" where all retards can meet.

>>62062793
I've noticed that too. Now that /vg/ has been created it doesn't seem like /v/ actually talks about anything. What I really like about /vg/ is, even though some generals are complete shit each thread is isolated so you don't see fights breaking out between groups.

I do agree with OP with regards to /a/'s deterioration in quality, but there are several points which I strongly disagree with.

First of all: OP (and for that matter, a large proportion of /a/) seems to believe that this board called '/v/' is responsible for the downfall of /a/. This statement is, and can only be, held as an inaccurate assumption. While it is true that bad posting in general have increased on /a/, it is also the anonymous who are fueling the flame of trolling/shitposting etcetera.

In a sense, /a/ has been in a spiral decline since its very creation. The previous generation of posters will always lament that the '/a/ of now' is worse than the '/a/ of then'--while I have no idea what year the OP began browsing /a/, I believe that the issues which he have addressed fail to attack the root of the problems. It is not the 'spoonfeeding' and the lack of 'boku no pico responses' that are killing /a/, it is the quality of the new AND old posters (and the lack of self-control over their own actions) that is killing /a/. No matter how you see it, rec threads form a tiny proportion of /a/'s total thread count. But shitposting in the form of 'mfw', 'dat feel' and greentexting shenanigans have been on /a/ long before KS was introduced (which for OP seems to be the day /a/ started to go shit) and that, in my opinion, is what is killing /a/.

I didn't give a shit yesterday when the mod deleted all your threads, and I don't give a shit now.

MODS = GODS

>>62062925

But we did that?

One thing is to be shit.

Another thing is to be /gaia/

/a/ has been a bearable shit for a while.

Now it is "/gaia/+/reddit/+/v/+xDD+legiuuun"

>>62062937
the threads in /vg/ feel more like boards inside a board.

cont from >>62062952

There is little remedy for this, really. Why is 2chan such an efficient board? Why are the eleven always on topic? That's right, they don't greentext, they don't have reaction images and they have the self-righteousness to be on topic. Unfortunately, 4chan is made for a Western audience and our education doesn't believe in that of a 'collateral community shared by all'. Instead, 4chan is merely a place to have fun and to spout memes. I don't think there is much that can be done besides forced anonymity, but I doubt even that will solve much problems for us,

Polite sage.

>>62062925

Oh, and make it detectable where a certain IP posts, permanently banning from /a/ those who have /b/ posts.

>>62063003
Did you miss the memo? Bans do nothing for 90% of the users because of dynamic IP's

>>62062952
Wrong, it is not at all difficult to see why posters blame /v/. Almost all of the shitposters we have today act just like shitposters on /v/. Jimmies, that feel, KS, piccolo dick, "autism", u mad, etc etc

All /v/ cancer thats leaking over.

>>62062983
>needing to say your sage is polite

this is why /a/ is shit

>>62062554
The thesis on this image is based on false assumptions. First, the "gender analyizer". I highly doubt it's credibility. Even putting that aside, an analysis of "boards.4chan.org/a/" scans nothing else than the frontpage. You'd have to start a long-term study of all pages for a set timeframe (not less than 24 hours, but I'd rather say 7 days).
Second, the image implies that Katawa Shoujo was the factor that changed certain user demographics. /a/'s userbase is by no means stable, and I highly doubt that 7 days later the contributing(!) userbase is any different than it was before the release of KS.

>>62062983
>2chan
>efficient board?
>always on topic
>they don't greentext
> they don't have reaction images

Hahahah, 3/10. It's all I can give you.

I'm actually glad that i'm not only who noticed this.
Thi place is getting worse, just today and yesterday i can't watching at /a/ without depression.
Fisrt it was KS now it's those damn stream threads.

The Piccolodick thread is still alive. Please report this shit.
>>62062160

>No girlfriend threads started in January
No they didn't.

>use catalog/browser
>only open threads that appeal to me

Must suck browsing via the front page.

>>62062983
2chan isn't at all polite or wonderful. They fight just about as much as we do, however you are right their community based mentality has keep their post quality relatively stable. Where as here in Murrika/Europe it's everyone for themselves and unless it affects you don't give a fuck about anyone or anything.

>>62063081
>report
>doing anything when no mods

>>62063034
that feel and u mad starting with /v/

nope

>>62063081
Can't do anything at this time and hour since mod-kun is not here because of timezones.

>>62062952

But recently we have dpzens of "why are you tsundere for /v/?" "/v/ here, recommend some animes xD" (and people actually do) and shit like that.

The amount of greentext, datfeel has HIGHLY increased and for the first time in quite some time, people are discussing "girlfriends".

>>62063081
Mods deleted another thread about 2 minutes before that one appeared. They don't care.

I just read the text between the "solution" and the main thesis bracket. This image is utter bullshit. /a/ is "dying" for years, based on everyone's personal observation. Just because the reoccuring interaction elements change you label a board to die. I wasted my time even looking at this thread. Keep being a delusional whining faggot, OP.

>>62062529
Quality thread.

>>62063044

http://archive.foolz.us/a/thread/62036971/#62037939

>>62063133
It doesn't matter where it originated, /v/ uses it non stop, far more than any other board. You're just splitting hairs.

>Japanese Captcha

Okay, not as many of us know Japanese as you think you know

>Mod Crackdown

Will cause accusations of "Nazi moderators" remember the loli incident?

>creation of a new board

That's not going to keep them away you know. How in the hell are they going to know that have to post there before they post here?

Why can't you just ignore the problems and let them go away like a sane person?

>>62063034
You must also remember that a considerable portion of /a/ visits both boards. I've also seen a considerable number of /b/ posters here in the recent weeks.
>>62063038
It can't be helped. Many people tend to think of sage as an insult nowadays, particularly newfags.
Also, who are you quoting?
>>62063136
I don't think the amount of silly greentexting and invasions by /v/ has increased, simply because we cannot measure 'the number of /v/ posters entering /a/' on an accurate scale. We should really try tackle the problems at hand--which board they originate from actually matters very little.

>>62063153
all of 4chan is declining

before people understood the rules of 4chan

now people fuck things up wearing legion masks and shirts walking all over the place and underagefags go what is air and come onto 4chan thinking because they're on reddit or tumblr and just hit puberty that they can contribute or understand what fine trolling is

OP here.

Feel free to modify the image to more realistic results, provided you have any, giving more solutions and why you believe them to be efficient, et cetera.

>>62063123

and it isn't even in the right board.

What if moot took greentext away of /a/?

>>62063206
i'm not splitting hairs here. /a/ has used those as well, though not as frequently, but don't try to act like it wasn't here before /v/.

>We guess >>62062554 is written by a woman (57%), however it's quite gender neutral.

Your thread is not very manly OP..

>>62063098

Increased highly in January, getting each time more actual responses.

>>62063223
So fucking what?
I personally browsed both quite a bit but even I can see /v/ for what it is and their shit does not belong here. What the problem is, is posters who originally started from /v/ that browse both boards use /v/ as their ruler for quality and treat every board as if they're on /v/.

>>62063279
100 % of which were "fuck off"

I've been transitioning to Oneechan, but the number of posters is still really small.

>>62063275
In case you didn't read, that's what a good poster looks like. Men are imbecile pieces of shit in their blogs.

>>62063283
>What the problem is, is posters who originally started from /v/ that browse both boards use /v/ as their ruler for quality and treat every board as if they're on /v/.
This. So many self entitled fucks come here thinking /a/ will spoonfeed them like "super friendly cowboy bebop dbz loving /v/".

>>62063264
It wasn't /a/ you piece of shit, even back then they were still shitposting it's just far more now than before.

>>62063255

Email moot, request this.

It's very little, but will already help

>>62063283
>I personally browsed both quite a bit but even I can see /v/ for what it is and their shit does not belong here.
I applaud for you, as an individual, to have that sense of self-righteousness when it comes to posting, but do others think the same way?
Please, stop generalizing the problem /a/ is facing and blame it solely on /v/. I'd prefer if your definitions are a bit more specific aka 'What exactly constitutes as /v/ behavior.'

I want /a/ to be feminine.

>5000x4500

>>62063357
u mad?

>>62063381
That's got to be the dumbest suggestion yet.

>>62062554
I agree with some but not all that you have posted. /a/ is in as bad a state as you say, but I don't think splitting it up or giving lots of troll replies* will work to change that.
Maybe we really do need a chemo, like say 2 weeks of mods everywhere, banning every retard and killing all bad threads, but I'm not sure.

*Unlikable replies will almost always result in heated discussion and therefor a spread of the undesirable.

Everytime is see xD, I want to cry. Ironic shitposting is one of the worst things you can do.

I'd like to see the Faptcha put in place. At the very least as a sort of band-aid on the situation. It wouldn't fix it, but it would certainly prohibit a good amount of ignorant posters getting through.

Japtcha could work too, I guess, but I'd see that being more of a /jp/ thing. Just because I watch anime, doesn't mean I give a shit about the culture or the language, and I'm sure it's like that for others. But if it came down to it I could live with it if the quality of /a/ became better.

>>62063255
Moot should really force anonymity and implement autoban on tripfags.

>>62063425
XD
STAY MAD HOMOFAG

>Image cites tripfags as being a problem
Tripfags have a higher ratio of quality posts than anonymous posters. Forced anon would do nothing. Tripfags are just part of our culture.

>>62063439
Then we'd just get avatarfags

>>62062868
>>62062868
>>62062868

I just want more modding from actual people who know how /a/ works. Not like that loli banning one

I have been browsing and posting on /a/ for the past 5 years, and honestly, it has not changed that much - as in it's always been shit.

Those who say it has changed are newfags who suddenly realize /a/ is shit. When newfags first come to /a/, they find everything funny and everything is "EPIC WIN" and you copy paste images and threads to your friends on MSN/AOL/MySpace/IRC/Facebook/Reddit/Tumblr - whatever social platform you use to socialize online and everyone has a laugh.

Soon enough, be it a few weeks or a few months, when you get used to /a/ and you start seeing the shit and start finding things less funnier, this is when people start saying "OH /a/ has changed, in the old days /a/ used to be so much better" when infact, this is just a form of acute nostalgia, where you think upon your newfag days when you found everything funny, and now everything is not funny.

I can guarantee you when you ask "Which time was the best period for /a/" everyone's reply will be when you first started browsing and posting for /a/ - Certain I am fallable to this too because my newfag days were in early 2007 shortly after SaiGar ended and those are the times I remember most fondly.

So this whole thing trying to point out a date when "/a/ was better" is just completely fabricated in your own mind where you lie to yourself to make yourself believe /a/ was a good place once.

>>62062554
>that pic
>implying having women on /a/ is good
Go back to /cgl/ you whore!

>>62063312
>>62063312

Oh, my screen is small and it's hard to read. Though I'm glad I'm wrong, /a/ becoming manly was pissing me off, we're all little girls here and everyone else can go away.

>>62062868
I agree, shitposters found out when the mod isn't online and keep shitposting in those magical hours.

We already have a murrican mod, hire a euro one and we took care of the most annoying of shitposters.

>>62063484
>reading is teh hard lol

>>62063484
We're all 2D here, dude.

>>62063516
Sounds like a plan.

OP, I read your unnecessarily wordy image, and I have to ask just what the fuck you're trying to prove? You used some site with a bullshit "manliness detector" with 2 single snapshots of the board months apart, with no averaging or anything vaguely statistically relevant.

What the hell are you trying to prove? You're just coming off as retarded. You're just another whiner calling everybody who disagrees with you a newfag. People have been saying that the posts on /a/ are getting worse for so many years now it is meaningless. What people like you don't realise is that these stupid meta-threads you make are half of the bloody shit-posting.

I shouldn't even respond, but you're pissing me off.

>>62063439
As much as hate tripfags, banning trips would make it difficult for writefags and such. I guess in that case, I'd support a DISPLAY_ID system.

>>62063483
Sure oldfag, I very rarely see any emoticons, rec threads, and saucefags, also mangafox posters back 6 months ago, even if they show themselves, they would've gotten saged and reported to hell.

>>62063512

Use Ctrl+mousewheel to change the image size.

>>62063241
God damn how can you live with your browser fucking up the characters that badly?

>>62063239
I'm a little lazy to do that at the moment. I'll just propose my solutions right here:
-Forced anonymity. Contributors will have to 'apply for a tripcode' from the mod.
-Recommendation sticky, any rec threads banned on the spot.
-Greentext threads, 'that feel when no gf', 'today will be just as bad as any other day' threads, deleted and OP gets banned.
-Any threads that gets derailed should be deleted.
-Any threads that do not result in constructive anime discussions: deleted and OP gest banned.
-On top of all of that, a poster now only requires 5 reports for OP to get banned.
Finally, additional moderation.

>>62063564

Providing OC without a tripcode:

You post it. Without a tripcode.

Holy shit, it just works!

>>62063568
>not using mangafox
ishygddt

>>62063455
You can't expect me to get upset over such an obvious trolling attempt.

>>62063483
You must be blind if you can't see the obvious decline in quality right now.

>>62063458
Which are against the rules, so we're good.

>>62063549
Seconding all the criticism

>>62063576
>nofunallowed.jpg

>>62063528
No. We dont want 3DPD whores on /a/!
GET OUT!

>>62063483
I can say that there are certain times in the week where /a/ is not shit.

>non-holiday weekdays
>when Amerifags / Eurofags or the kids are asleep

I want to become a mod, too bad there's no chances to become a mod.
Even if it was not me, all he need is simple rules:
1.Delete or ban any rec threads.
2.Delete and ban any 3d, cosplay, soc, thatfeel threads.
3.Ban Nurutu threads an delete them.
4.Delete any thread that isn't

>>62063576
>Any threads that gets derailed should be deleted
>-Any threads that do not result in constructive anime discussions: deleted and OP gest banned.

I think you're being a bit too subtle for me.

What we actually need
-More mods, preferably European and actually understand /a/ culture
-Faptcha
-Less meta threads

>>62063589
Yeah, yeah smartass. It doesn't work if you're a writefag.

>>62063576
>Recommendation sticky
You mean a sticky saying "recommendations are not allowed", right?
>Any threads that gets derailed should be deleted.
Are you kidding?
>On top of all of that, a poster now only requires 5 reports for OP to get banned
You must be new here. That was implemented in the past and taken off because it was abused.

>>62062952
>>62062983
I don't know if /v/ is as free of fault as you make it out to be, but otherwise I agree.
It's a witch hunt that in itself is poisoning the wells of /a/.
And trolls of course.

>>62063549
Earlier in day he said he had it all averaged out. How he could prove that, I don't know. I think it's more a case of: do we even have a legitimate way to determine the changing states of /a/?

>>62063605
So is shitposting, but that still goes on.

In all honesty I am seeing no one give a concrete cause for the perceived decline in quality. One minute 4chan is losing members to reddit and the next we have hoards of newfags coming in. It makes no sense, all you have to do is be rude to the rec threads and the people will go away, it's that simple.

But you know what would help A registry system

>>62063549

Statistically I couldn't do any better because I can't go back in time.

The only one that meet such parameters is the 27/02 snapshot, as talked about here http://archive.foolz.us/a/thread/62036971/#62037939

If you have any other method to show how /a/ has changed in its essence, feel free to edit the image.

I just couldn't find anything else besides this.

And just imagine if I had no arguments whatsoever? It would have even less impact.

Besides, it can't be denied we came from being "women" to being "men". This is undeniable. Only the percentage can be argued about.

>>62063230
>declining
That's your interpretation, faggot.
I don't particulary identify myself with 4chan. Therefore I'm not really shocked or thrown back by its changes. Just because a different kind of antisocal moron interacts with me than before doesn't mean it's turning better or worse.
Social rules change. If one got himself involved so deep to consider anonymous people who visit this site on a random schedule as members of his own social group, there's no help for him.
This "anoynmous is legion" bullshit was shared among the visitors before the big "social changes" (translation for you: "fuckups"). The difference is that this line was meant as a common understanding and not a catchphrase for kiddies to identify themselves. It just changed shape, turned from one state to the other.

Bottom line is that things are evolving in a way you don't like. It's pathetic to think that moderation, rules or any other top down control mechanisms are going to change the course. You don't like it because it will lead to a social group you don't want to identify with. There are two realistic options to deal with this stuff. It's either to distance oneself from this social group thinking or leaving this imageboard for good.

Although I'd prefer the former social getup, I can deal with this bullshit. The question is, can you?

>>62063690
>implying trolling isn't an art form that when done right should be appreciated and not scorned

>>62063425

>>62063708
Becoming the 2nd SA ? Seriously, I thought 4chan was made as the antithesis of SA.

>>62063708
>Shitposting
>Currently bannable, but goes unnoticed mostly

>Tripfaggotry
>Not bannable because its part of the website.

Terrible analogy, stop moving the goalposts. Tripfagging needs to go away.

>>62063724
No I can't. Where the fuck do you think you are? As far as I know /a/ isn't quite "epic meme place for fun and laughter xDDDDDDDD y so serioz" level yet.

>>62063683
>You mean a sticky saying "recommendations are not allowed", right?
I don't really understand why /a/ seem to be so hostile towards the creation of a recommendation sticky. /lit/ has one as well, and I don't see how that damaged the quality of their board in any way.
>Are you kidding?
If you think derailed threads are fun, go away. I do believe that /a/ is for anime discussions.
>You must be new here. That was implemented in the past and taken off because it was abused.
I may have forgotten, and I apologize if that was actually the case. With that being said, the reporting system is severely underused at the moment. That is a fact, isn't it?

>>62063701

Maybe moot has some data? Increase of traffic, compare posts of IPs, I dont know...

>>62063483
I'm agree that /a/ is not become shit in one day, but there's a times when it's getting worse.
I browsing /a/ all day every day and i can easy to tell when it's getting worse.
However we still need a decent mod who browsing /a/ and actually cares about what /a/nons want.
It's not that hard and i'm sure things getting little better.
Right now it's bad, probably morning /a/ ist he worst time on /a/.

>>62063770
It's ok. /a/ is pampering them. They don't know know that shit is truly like.

I just hope /a/ declines down the /jp/ path, rather than the "epic meme place for fun and laughter xDDDDDDDD y so serioz" path.

/a/ is always easy to troll and get to
>250 posts and 50 image replies omitted.

Faggots don´t know how to report hide and ignore shit threads and mostly /v/ faggotry.
Seriously i dont go mad or autist over anime/manga shows that i don´t watch/read or like because: "OPINIONS", but /v/ faggotry or plain off-topic bullshit is just awfull.
Also autosage for shit grammar and offtopic

>>62063752
See, there you have it. The only way to stop the so-called decline is to become like all other websites. This whole thing is just a phase, it goes up and down. In a few months "that feel when no gf" and the "flood" of rec threads will be over and we'll be on to complaining about some new thing or another.

Remember Lanced Jack? Accel? These things pass.

>>62063222
>Okay, not as many of us know Japanese as you think you know
>implying that you can determine the quality of posters by their Japanese skills
Of course that's nonsense. A Japanese captcha wouldn't require you to speak Japanese, it requires access to a katakana/hiragana key board layout, which would be needlessly bothersome imo.

>>62063785
>I don't really understand why /a/ seem to be so hostile towards the creation of a recommendation sticky.
Lurk more, read something in archives. It's been explained so many times that I'm honestly sick of explaining it.
>If you think derailed threads are fun, go away.
I was referring to the fact that you can easily abuse that system to get rid of on topic threads you don't like.
>With that being said, the reporting system is severely underused at the moment
The reporting system is fine. In case you didn't know, we have ZERO MODERATION from midnight to around 8:30-9. If anything, we just need a late night mod/kanitor.

I sent like 3 emails to moot a week ago explaining how shitty /a/ is in the early morning (EST) and that we direly need mods/janitors on at that time.

No response so far, but hopefully he gets around to reading them. It is completely disgusting how shitty this board is in the early morning.

>>62063785
A sticky full of charts would just attract the attention we don't want on /a/.

we need some autistic mods from /jp/ and more moe threads instead of "ANIMEI IS FOR ADULT AND MATURE PEOPLE SUCH AS MY SERLF YOU NECKBEARDS HAVE SHIT TIER TASTE"

also, ban 3x3 threads

>>62063816
>>62063770
>"epic meme place for fun and laughter xDDDDDDDD y so serioz"

For fucks sake -- stop making this acceptable!

What makes /a/ shit?Threads like this

>>62063568
>emoticons, rec threads, and saucefags

These have always been on /a/ and will continue to be here.
They were here back when I started posting and they will continue to be here.

Heck one of the first things I learnt about /a/ back when I was lurking /a/ was the only valid emoticons were ;_; and >:3 - anything else was frowned upon. And generally I like to think those things are frowned upon even today.

Rec threads have always been here too, generally they've been frowned upon because it drives us all crazy, but once in a while people decide to help out if the OP seems nice enough.

saucefags will always be here even with newfangled technologies like iqdb and google images that help loads. They will always be idiots.

As for Mangafox, that in general has to do with distribution channels changing, before everything for manga was about DDLs and XDDC via IRC then it shifted to online readers.

>>62063604
That's the thing, we have had threads like this all the time on /a/ where everyone will profess "OH MY GOD /a/ IS SO SHITTY RIGHT NOW, WHY 6 MONTHS AGO /a/ WAS A MAGICAL LAND WHERE EVERYONE WAS ON TOPIC AND TALKED ABOUT ANIME."

This is just your brain finally adapting to what /a/ has been truly like all this time. We had these kinds of complaining meta threads in '07, '08 '09 and so forth.

If anything /a/ is certainly better than it was in '09/'10 where where had Gorespammer, Wikispammer, scriptkiddies spreading viruses, Anontalk spam and god knows what else that shitted up /a/. That was a time when /a/ was at a low - if you were posting back then, you would have known what kind of hell hole /a/ was.

>>62063785
The report system is used and everything works fine when the staff team is awake. For example, see this thread during the /v/ raid a few weeks ago. http://archive.foolz.us/a/thread/61298601

>>62063770
but it will never be. there is a /b/ and the other /b/ for those who don't want to be on /b/.

>>62063816
I originally came from /b/ and switched to /a/ after about a year when I couldn't stand the lack of randomness anymore. I browse the more interesting boards occasionally, but I'd consider myself to stay on /a/ mainly. I tried /jp/ for a while and turned back with disgust. I don't consider myself pampered, I had my share.

>>62063724
I consider /a/ to be a valuable vehicle of discussions and I would hate to see such potential go to waste. You can say that I could visit some other 'chans' instead, but they receive literally no traffic. And yes, there is still hope in /a/ if we act soon enough.
>Things are evolving in a way that you don't like
/a/ is for anime discussions. That I think everyone can agree with. If there are constructive discussions going on, that satisfies my set of social rules, and vice versa. Right now, /a/ is having far too little discussion for what it's worth. I browse /a/ once every couple of days, and half of the threads on the frontpage isn't even on topic. I would hate to see this board turn into /b/.

>>62063863
>ban 3x3 threads
Second. Facebook/blog/MAL style
>look at me and my options
posting with no actual discussion or content being shared.

>>62063883
>These have always been on /a/
Doesn't make them acceptable.

>>62063922
I'm not saying they are acceptable, read my post bro.

>>62063564
Allow trips for OP:
Problem solved.

The worst thing /a/ does is feed the attenion whores. There are countless annoying tripfags /a/ claims to hate, but then they go on a give these worthless sacks of shit attention instead of filtering them or leaving them the fuck alone. So what happens? They come back, because they keep getting attention. An all-around increase in shittiness.

>>62063456
Just the fact that it's a tripfag often derails a thread.

>>62063883
Spam is short term and because of that does not classify as a factor of the board being "shit". What does classify as "shit" though is board and poster quality, which are long term factors. There's a difference between one guy spamming for a while until he gets bored or phased out and having /b/ level posters staying here and forever being detrimental to the board.

>>62063967
This, treat a tripfag like an anon and soon he'll act like one.
>>62063973
But it's the anons who derail it. If they ignored the fact it was a tripfag it would be better

>>62063967
I agree with you, and this happends very often. Seriously it is not that hard to ignore faggots, but no you just reply to the same faggot 5 times each one, the same with 0/10 trolls for example recently there is this guy asking for sauce on most threads and playing retarded and so you got 100 replies insulting the guy for "being retarded" most awfull thing is that this is not new for fucks sakes it happends almost every fucking day.

You misanthropic, autistic shiposters obsessed about "normalfags" should just go here http://img.oneechan.org/ and never came back .

>>62064019
>treat a tripfag like an anon and soon he'll act like one.
That's a funny way of saying "ignore them".

>>62064019
I agree with what you said but tripfags should still be banned. All the benefits they bring are also brought by the USER_ID system, with the latter bringing far less negatives than the tripcode system.

>>62063986
The thing is, during the spammer days, there were people who were glad of the spammers and used them as their own police force to take down threads they didn't like.

>having /b/ level posters staying here and forever being detrimental to the board.
This has always been a case for 4chan in general. having /b/ on this website will always bring other people from other boards here.

Actually check this image out, this is from 2007. We've had these problems from a very early time period. You either become used to it and just ignore the shit and be glad when you get legitimately good threads every now and then.

>>62064079
I wish I could lock the thread after your post.
Time to hide this.

I think it would be pretty simple to vastly improve /a/

An expanded and more draconian moderating team

A communal "kickban" system; a button next to "report" that allows users to vote to ban a user based on a selected post. If you accumulate more than X votes, you receive a 3 day ban

Trips only for OP; attempted use of trips when not the thread starter automatically results in a three day ban

Permanently ban Komeiji, and then automatic three day bans for anyone mentioning his name

I think the kickban system would have the most dramatic effect but all of them in conjunction would vastly improve the experience here

>>62064093
Same difference. Ignore the fact that you know them, do not call them by their name and for the love of god do not create threads about them

>>62064019
>This, treat a tripfag like an anon and soon he'll act like one.
By saying that, you are pretty much implying that it's okay for everyone on /a/ to be using tripcodes, as long as they act and post like anons. The fact that you are establishing an identity in an anonymous environment disturbs the flow of discussions and promotes 'inequality' in terms of discussions. After all, didn't the 4chan FAQ say that tripcodes are only for contributions to the board? Give me a list of tripcode users who actually contribute to the board, everyday discussions not included.

>>62063576
>-Any threads that gets derailed should be deleted.
>-Any threads that do not result in constructive anime discussions: deleted and OP gest banned.
What?
Half of all good threads get derailed at some point.
And it's not necessarily OPs fault if a thread goes nowhere.

>thread hijackings and flamewars

moar plx.

>>62063973
>It's a tripfag often derails a thread
I've been an anonymous even before I became a tripfag, and unless his name is no tripfag derails a thread. Aside from the tripcodes, he posts on the topic. It just so happens that the Big 3 Boards (/a/, /v/, /b/) is too easy to troll with this "anonymous cultured board" that they derail the thread just to justify their self-imposed rules. I'll agree that 4chan is not your forum, but it becomes jarring to "black knighting the whole thread" just because someone is posting with a tripcode.

>>62064113
The point is though that if everybody were like you and "became used to it", then there'd be no "legitimately good threads" for you to post in, or if there were then they'd be filled with faggots. You complain about people acting up and going against shit that is bad for the board but the fact is that those people are the ones who keep /a/ from falling into /b/ or /v/ levels of utter shit.

>>62064145
>Give me a list of tripcode users who actually contribute to the board, everyday discussions not included.
I'm not you but I'm going to ammend your request.

Give me a list of tripcode users who actually contribute to the board AND would be unable to do so in the same manner with the USER_ID system.

>>62064163
*unless his name is lanced

>>62064145
But it's worse if you call them out on the fact they have a trip. They feed off attention, whether it be positive or negative. I'm not saying it's okay for everyone to use a trip, but if you just ignore the fact that they have one and not use their name they'll get bored and may go back to being an anon

>>62064193
Generally those who provide scanlations and translations and dump epic stuff.

I can't recall any names, but there are some who do contribute quite well.

>>62064212
They could do that with the user id system.

Next?

>>62063830
In a few months, it will be summer. It will only get worse.

>>62064193
Hox and that guy who does Pokemon Special are the only ones that come to mind at the moment. Basically, anyone who does scanlation works.

I swear to God, there's more ;_;

>>62063727
Only if it's good trolls. Nowadays it's just guys going "sauce" or giving sauce or doing similarly pointless things that make the newfags start the entire witch hunt process again.

>>62064232
See>>62064224

Next?

>>62064226
All the kids are going to reddit now though

>>62064145
I like "blue images" and "general noodles"

>>62064147
I think I should've been a bit clearer in my statements.
>Half of all good threads get derailed at some point.
Depends on how it's derailed. As long as it's a anime related discussion, it's fine.
>And it's not necessarily OPs fault if a thread goes nowhere.
The mods/janitor will decide whether it was the OP's fault or not, and whether it is the OP or the posters who are destroying the thread.

>>62064254
No, no they couldn't

You know what's funny? Do you know what's REALLY FUCKING FUNNY? Out of all the threads on the front page THIS is the only one that's offtopic

>>62064261
All the edgy reddit users come here though.

>>62064145
>Give me a list of tripcode users who actually contribute to the board, everyday discussions not included.
SHiT
J
Hox
Amuro
Bro

I'm pretty sure there's more, but there's no point in making a user ID especially if it's too hard to make one and having a tripcode does the same job in a more convenient way. It's not like you have hidden password for your trips

>>62064285
And why is that? Why do they need to have a specified identity to contribute?

>>62064121
I like most of these, but I don't know how I feel about a "kickban" system. I feel like it could be easily abused, and because your other proposals would be just as effective in improving quality.

>>62064193
Honestly, having identity on an anonymous imageboard is just plain wrong on all accounts, except for a very minority of specific cases.
The problem is not with the tripcode system itself, it's with the posters themselves. Hence why I proposed that a poster can 'apply for a tripcode' from the mod.

All this tripracism is disappointing to say the least.

I thought we were past this /a/.

>>62064334
I don't mind your idea because it screens the trolls.

>>62064302
They don't need a tag attached to them throughout the whole site. If they start a thread, their identity within that thread will be cemented. Not outside the thread.

Wait a minute?

Why are you guys discussing tripcodes for the last 50 posts?

The main problem are not them, but /v/ influx, sauce threads (by anonymous), recommendation threads (by anonymous), emoticons (by anonymous), >datfeel (by anonymous), etc.

Get back on what is more important.

>>62064121
>if you accumulate more than X votes
Which the mods are against

As they have already mentioned: "Just because the thread isn't something you like doesn't mean you have to report it"

Unfortunately, there's a lot of /a/utistic people who WILL abuse this system to ANY thread that encourage creative topics and discussions just because it didn't fit in the boring culture of the board

If only there was a way to tell the OP apart from other posters in a thread without using a tripcode.

>>62064388
that has been discussed to death: it's mainly

/a/ is shit before you know it. All you have to do is move on

>>62064388
This is a metathread, which is already against the rules. I don't feel bad breaking some arbitrary rules set by OP regarding the topic to be discussed in an already off-topic thread.

>>62064431

I disagree.

>>62064312
When you're addressing issues or questions then sure. Granted, Hox and the other guy I mentioned rarely post to begin with.

>>62064334
That might actually work.

>>62063967
/a/utists can't filter anybody. The best we can do is pretend they are anonymous.

>>62064226
Hardly, I've always felt "newfag summer" is something Anonymous makes up in his mind as a reason to blame the shittyness of 4chan.

Certainly this might have been true in the very early days 04/05/06 but starting from 07 and onwards when 4chan became really popular, the quality of posting has always stayed the same.

Before it used to be Newfag Summer, now it seems to be blaming the magical influx from /v/ for some reason.

>>62062554
I really wanted to read it OP, if you hadn't made it in such a fucking retarded way and put font size 1 million next to the regular font size in a 5000x4500 image making it impossible to read without zooming in and out every time you finish reading a section. Learn to format your shit and come back.

>>62064487
In the summer, lots of people will come to 4chan. Not necessarily this board at first, but they will come.

This means they will be filtered in through /b/ and /v/ before they get here, which probably makes them worse.

>>62064334
so, wait...

what you're saying is we wait for a bunch of voluntary members who are mostly absent from the board to give you a password just so you can contribute something that should've been contributed long time ago?

that seems ineffective if you ask me

>>62064509

I have stated I use a 58" screen and hadn't thought about it, my bad.

But I approve and even encourage people to modify the picture to make it easier to read, more accurate, with more information, better solutions, et cetera.

Thank you

I wished moot was here to discuss this with use and propose his ideas...

>first:trripfags are not that bad
>after years:fucking tripshit
Tripfags is the cancer and shoul be banned, trut me, there's not a single tripfag who can be good and intelegent.

>>62064561
Oh hey OP, you're still posting here?
When did first you come to /a/? I'm just curious.

>>62064163
You are averting your eyes from reality by putting up the way things SHOULD be.

Of course, not all trips are equally hated.

>>62064605
screen cap the thread and send it to Moot ?

>>62064392
I want kickbans so that people using emoticons, or le, or asking for sauce, can be banned temporarily to teach them a lesson; much like poorly performing players in online games, while they may not be breaking any rules they are making the "game" less fun for everyone else.

I'd say that posting the word "sauce" should be an autoban, as it is used exclusively by visitors from Other Boards (/a/nons will, having exhausted reverse image searching options, politely request the title of the work said image was taken from), but then how would I talk about wanting to fill Miyako with my special sauce? A conundrum to be sure.

>>62064621

I came in 2007, lurked some months without posting and left because of health problems.

Came back during CODE GEASS and remained until beginning of 2010. Absent for some more time, came back at the end of 2010 and remained until now.

>>62064653
User moderation is a terrible idea and you should feel bad for ever suggesting it.

>>62064646

Perhaps if enough people do it.

Can someone screencap it all?

And also the last thread http://archive.foolz.us/a/thread/62036971

>>62064622
I just faced with reality, tripfags are retarded newfags.
I don't really care about them ,but what i say is;there's not a single good tripfag.

>>62063819

> shit grammar

How is that so? Can you give examples? I may fix all "shit grammar"

>>62064348
You're still here though.

The biggest problem for me is recommendation threads. I just feel that our problems tend to stem from those either directly or indirectly.

>>62064622
>You are averting your eyes from reality by putting up the way things SHOULD be.
The same can be said for the recent discussion. /a/ has been working quite well with or without tripfags, and the thread only derails because there might a possibility of samefagging or there are people who are too stupid to ignore a comment

>>62064653
>word sauce is an autoban
people like you make me sick We don't need to autoban "sauce". We just need to learn how to ignore things to minimize imminent trolling

>>62064388
Trips will always be a more interesting topic than anything else. It's like Germans and Jews.
>No money? Let's burn some Jews!

>>62064776
>ignore saucefags

Yeah that might work for awhile and then the floodgates will open because they find it acceptable to just spam sauce and given some spoon feeding treatment.

>>62064746
I was talking about my shit grammar.

>>62064809
>acceptable
if anything, they will just think "saying sauce doesn't work"

>>62064838

Oh, sorry for misunderstanding.

>>62064703
I would prefer if OP's image gets refined a couple more times and all of /a/ gets a say on how exactly /a/ should be improved. I don't think moot's attention span can last that long.
>>62064776
> /a/ has been working quite well with or without tripfags
I understand your mentality in the sense that 'as long as tripfags post like anons, they are fine', but the incorrect usage of tripcodes fundamentally damages the integrity of having an anonymous imageboard in the first place, you being no exception. Having a tripcode attracts attention almost instantly, even though you may not have meant to do so,

>>62064856
Well, you forgot about the people who are willingly giving the sauce. It's catch 22 really, considering the newfags are not only composed of people who are new to anime, but also people who knows some stuff and have the culture of a gaiatard.

>>62064856
You're forgetting the obvious: newfags tend to help out other newfags. Everybody ignoring rec threads for example won't do shit when some faggot posts his rec chart saved in Feb 2012.

>>62064884

This. The image should be improved with more information, more possible solutions, given proper treatment, etc.

Then we could email moot it, specifying all we agree and desire

>>62064776
>The same can be said for the recent discussion.
Are you saying we should ignore one problem because there is more than one problem? What kind of logic is that?

>Spoonfeeder
>Online reading
>Emoticon using faggot

Sad thing is, less people call them out than before.

Now I realized what "/a/ has turn to shit" really mean.

>>62064776
People asking for sauce are invariably terrible and stupid. If someone sees an image they can't place, and the various reverse image searches yield nothing, I have no problem with someone asking "Hey, where's this from? It looks like something I'd enjoy". In fact, in such cases, I'm happy enough to provide the series' title, if I know it, because it is always good to have more people reading or watching a franchise simply to promote discussion.

What is not acceptable is every thread winding up with a dozen posts demanding "sauce", especially since these are the users who are creating that feel and mfw threads. We do not want to make these users feel at home. They are terrible, and you should feel terrible for wanting to coddle them. I'd rather have /a/ drowned in vitriol than in /b/ posts.

>>62064884
>you may not have meant to do so
Then why tripfag?
Is there another reason to take up an identity other than to have an identity?

The point is, OP, anime & manga fans are intrinsically retarded in some way, just like you are autism retarded for analizing an internet imageboard and I am for using memes like autism and actually responding to you, and anyone that negates this is self-deception retarded. I can't even start measuring the retardness present in this thread. There is no solution, we tried it with /jp/. No matter how many slices you cut, shit will always be shit.

We are gonna carry that weight.

>>62064923
It's a logic where you prioritize things that really matter from the things that doesn't really matter

>>62064907
>>62064909
Ok, I seem to be mistaken and I revise my viewpoints. I still think it's too trivial to ban the word "source" or "sauce" or anything like "does anyone know which anime this is" considering there will always be some seasoned visitor/anon who still doesn't know what anime this is, even if tried by Google and Tineye.

>>62065037
But you can still lurk while banned now.

>>62065007
Because I need to track my own post. We tripfags are baka like that

And besides, if someone doesn't like my opinion on some matter or the other, he is free to put me on my ignore list just to lessen the expected shitposting

>>62065007
Indeed, there are certain tripcode users whose posts look exactly like what the rest of /a/ produces, and contributes just as actively to discussions, yet they still use tripcodes constantly. Perhaps, they want to gather an accolade of post counts? I have no idea.

>>62065037
If we want to take the middle road, maybe auto-ban of "sauce" should be implemented for some period of time, maybe a month or maybe even longer. The newfags won't stay long enough if they are suddenly banned for their laziness, while still keeping the original userbase.

>>62064973
Oh fuck, when was this? Why did I miss this

>>62065037
Fuck off already.

>>62065132
It's obviously on another shitty chan. I'm guessing oneechan.

>>62065087
Please see >>62064465
You're just being inconsiderate.

>>62065132
Nope, it was in another *chan, I wish they can do it here.

Autoban sauce is good idea, minimalize shitposting at least.

Is this /jp/?

Too many emoticonfags and people who can't type properly. I don't mean perfectly correct grammar, just try not to write like a retard. Anyone who types "i" instead "I" instantly has a shitty opinion and there's no point in reading that person's post.

>>62065097
I'm pretty sure there's something wrong with the "Monkey Experiment", considering we have already done whatever we can with recommendation thread YET we still have influx of saucefags who justifies their thoughts on why they wish to be spoonfed

lol u mad?

>>62065037
>It's a logic where you prioritize things that really matter from the things that doesn't really matter
Good thing the tripfag knows that being a tripfag is a-okay.

>>62065183
>Too many emoticonfags and people who can't type properly

And the saddest thing is, less people cared enough to call them out.

>>62065183
You forgot ALL CAPS CRUISE CONTROL, I mean damn, why talk like a neanderthal ?

>>62065261
i havent seen ppl using caps that much but honestly reading text like this is really annoying

>>62065291
So does yours.

>>62065315
I guess you didn't get the point, also you can't say "so does" to that.

>>62065368
Is this jokesonyourimpretending things?

>>62065190
Moot really needs to hear our plea and recruit mods from many different timezones, /a/ has a large userbase and I think it deserves to have a squad of mod just to control this influx of shitposters.

>>62065261
>>62065291
>>62065315
>>62065368
>>62065446
Proof that trying to prove shitposting is shit by shitposting is shit.

>>62065446
Sure if you really can't read behind the lines. And I think you meant "is this one of those jokesonyourimpretending things?".

/a/ really should have a "common guidelines" like the ones in /fit/, /wg/, etc. Heck, it doesn't even have to be stickied as long it's a common sense and agreed by the (experienced) member. Something like The Falcon Guide from /g/.

I believe the guide from /g/ is quite effective as someone is asking for source (parts recommendation), common members start replying with link to the guide while saging, making that thread dives down to page 15 quickly.

All in all, I still believe /a/ is still the place to discuss ongoing anime right after (or even when) watching it away, due to the quickness of the replies.

Maybe they just need to create /ae/ - Anime Episodes.

>>62065649
>agreed by the (experienced) member. Something like The Falcon Guide from /g/

>>62065649
I dunno.. we used to do that... with /a/ recommend website and all that, but it still encourages spoonfeeding at one point

>>62065649
>/ae/
>another /v/-/vp/-/vg/ incident.
We should try to avoid that as much as possible.

Well if you look at /g/ right now, people using emoticons are not even called out, it's pretty much reddit at this point.

You guys really need to take a chill pill or smoke some weed.

>>62065772
And soon /a/ will be one.

>>62064163

You use the neologism "shitpost" thus I cannot take this seriously.

>>62065994

As I said before, feel free to modify the image at your will, in order to improve it.

When I version that is agreed by most of us is ready, it could be emailed to moot.

Hey dipshit OP, have you ever considered that maybe, just maybe the website improved their algorithms?

>>62065959

>>62066073

They have not. Once foolz is back I can prove it.

>/a/ is dying!
This bullshit again? This is the 3rd time /a/ is "dying." Fuck off OP, you're the faggot here.

I remember back in the day when the punishment for watching boku no pico was eternal purgatory.
Now it's /a/'s favorite.

>>62065959

>>62066145
Or when having a waifu wasn't a religion.

>>62065649
No. common guidelines make people feel like they didn't need to lurk and could just barge in here, knowing everything they need to know after having read what was stickied.

The community simply needs to discourage people from being faggots and /a/ does a good enough job.

I don't agree with the Japanese captcha, sometimes it's hard enough to decipher plain English captcha.

>a sudden increase in nurutu and bleach threads

Remember when there were weekly Bleach/Naruto/One Piece threads on /a/ ? Of course you don't you fucking newfriend.

/a/ actually got better when it comes to Shit 3 threads. And there's no reason for /v/irgins to come here when they have infinite threads on /vg/ with 1000 posts and 500 images.

Sage for shitty meta shit. At least make the meta thread interesting and more believable next time.

>>62066156
I can't believe you did so much editing on that and still didn't correct the "belive"

>>62066213

>japanese captcha
Only if you put Water Temple captcha on /v/.

>>62066226
I didn't do much editing, it was three steps of copying and pasting.

>>62066236
So it's pointless then.

>>62066250
I meant more the collective of all editors. Of course you're right, but an autist like me would have this spelling mistake as the #1 priority.

>>62066280
You could simply correct it and repost the corrected version.

>>62066236
>add nip lan captcha
Fucking weaboos I dont want to waste time going to wikipedia!

>japanese captcha

what the fuck will this do? I'm pretty sure you can be a good poster without knowing runegladesh. Either the board will have like 7 regular users or people will stop posting altogether since this is such a shitty idea. If someone shitposts, ban them. Then they can't post either way. Japanese captcha or not.

>>62066236
if i knew japanese I would go to 2chan

>>62066336
Sure I could. I'm just gonna stay hypocrite and lazy as fuck though.
Maybe once I have an actually constructive addition to make, but my brain is bleached lately...

You what I've noticed? The lack of Spinzaku in gif threads. It saddens me.

faptcha

>>62066454
Where you can't post since they b& non-Japanese IPs and finding a working proxy is harder than you may think.

>>62066236
Would be good in /jp/

>>62066454
All you'd need for this is a simple table, or possibly even a little browser add-on, since it doesn't seem like the Japanese character is going to have any noise applied to it.

>>62066540
This is nuts. Sure everybody should know about all the important shows, but you can't be expected to list every important character from the 500 most popular shows, especially since that removes your right to drop shows.

Faptcha and Japtcha would solve nothing.

>>62066541
I rarely post here

>>62066601

You can refresh until a certain extent

>>62066618
No amount of captcha will fix this shithole. Did the captcha stop Accel?

>>62066601
>>62066604

You can refresh it so new characters appear, it won't solve the problem but it will at least slow down the rate they can post and also, if you got it wrong for some amount of tries, you will be banned.

>>62066618
Still, I just tagged my Madoka folder, and I had to go to wikipedia a number of times (didn't memorize all of the last names, didn't know the name of Sayaka's witch form, etc)
Also, there would be the problem with: which spelling is the correct one?
Is it QB? Is it cooby? Kyubey? Or even Incubator?

>>62066673
I'd rather have accel than these shitposters, the lesser than the 2 evils.

>>62066673
Speaking of faggotspammer,

What happen? Did moot finally took some action or did the faggot finally realized that nobody gave a fuck about his spam.

>>62066701
I'd rather have none of those.

>>62066601
>especially since that removes your right to drop shows.

What's bad about that though?
The more anime a person watches, the more refined his taste in anime becomes, and the more mature his replies concerning this topic will be.

Not to mention that I already know the names of a shitton of characters whose shows I didn't even watch, all because of /a/. It's not like it'll stop you from browsing, it'll just make posting harder for those who aren't as devoted to the board theme, thus encouraging lurking.

>>62066685
You can put the nickname or full name of the characters, and you said that you need to go to wikipedia right ? Then the faptcha has done its purpose.

I think changing the capatcha would be like putting a band aid over a gaping wound.

>>62066743
>The more anime a person watches, the more refined his taste in anime becomes, and the more mature his replies concerning this topic will be.
Shut up, goddamn autist. Forcefeeding people will not refine their tastes, it will destroy them. The human body knows there is no point to taste if you are not going to use it.

>>62066743
It's easy for me to forget all of the names of the characters even in my favorite shows, let alone some random shit.

>>62066825
Yes it will. Stop being so dramatic you faggot. It's not like you're being injected with protein powder. Besides,as the guy above said, you could just refresh a couple of times.

If you can't handle watching some anime, what the hell are you doing on the anime board?

>>62066752
I visit wikipedia on my own time, though. When trying to have a civilized discussion with somebody it would be huge distraction, and it would worsen the quality of my posts, because people would have to wait longer for them.

>>62066601
The characters should be recognizable enough for anyone who's spent two weeks on /a/. If it forces people to lurk, I don't give a fuck.

Why are you even discussing this, it's not going to happen.

>>62066920
I can google any anime character under 15 seconds, and if your post becomes "worse" after a little distraction and just half a minute,then it wasn't so good to begin with.

>>62066932
Agree.
If people doesn't know even simple basics, then should never post on /a/ untill they learn more.

>>62066899
Who said I can't handle my anime? I only wish to be able to pick the shows I like, not be forced to watch everything to the end.
>>62066932
>recognize != able to name them properly

>>62062937
>>62062793
Nah, that's wrong.

Actually /v/ was great for about 2 or 3 days, when every off-topic thread were deleted. It was only vidya.
Then people complained that "/v/ culture threads" aka posting a berserk thread once in a billion years and other off-topic shit and it went back to this harmony crap.

Now you people here have to explain why shitposters would leave /v/ to spam other boards?

>>62067002
>>recognize != able to name them properly
Tohsaka Rin, is very properly for me.

Using genderanalyzer as a board behavior indicator? Fucking seriously?

I don't deny /a/ is full of shitposting, but damn this is complete horse crap and I can't believe there's people taking this seriously.

>>62067028
Are you trying to prove a general rule by use of examples?
>>62066981
>if it was nice to be able to avoid waiting for something, then whatever is being waited for can't be good
Did I understand that right?

>>62067002
>watch 1st episode of a show
>"Well I don't like this anime, guess I'll just drop it, at least I got a good look of the character's faces and the name of the show"
>"Hey look, the captcha shows a character from that show I watched and dropped some days ago, but I forgot its name and I'm too much of a lazy cunt to refresh the captcha so I'll just google the anime and see the character list"
>captcha inserted
>hit submit

This will also guarantee that we will have far less "baby's first post" and people WILL start lurking again, just the way it was supposed to be.

Too bad it'll never happen.

>>62067116
And let's assume you watch 3 episodes of an anime and the character is introduced in the fourth.
Sure, with good shows you should be able to recognize the drawing style (unless there are multiple works from the same manga-ka or something like that). (but that won't always save you)
I personally don't know any site off-hand where they offer lists with pictures and names of all characters involved. Certainly not wikipedia.

>>62067002
Again, I don't care if it forces people like you to lurk. Basically all of these characters are mentioned so much that you should know their names by now.

>>62067269
Actually I started avoiding all the fate threads because I decided not to like the franchise*. I still know Rin though, from back in Fate/stay Night, the only show of the franchise I watched.

*currently thinking about giving one of the new seasons another shot, since it seems to get so much support, but not really looking forward to it

>>62067213
The only reason you'd refuse that sort of captcha system is because you're a very lazy faggot. If your post has so little intellectual value that you can't be arsed to submit a captcha for the sake of posting it, then you might as well not post at all.

That or you don't actually watch much anime and neither you lurk /a/.

>>62067109
>Are you trying to prove a general rule by use of examples?
I just showing you that it's not a problem if you are not fucking newfag.

>>62067343
Yeah sure I'm lazy. Lazy enough to spend my entire life in front of a PC. What the hell kind of person frequents /a/ you think?
Now you've reduced your entire argument to just insulting me.
The merit of my post is determined by my willingness to do some additional research for it? That's stupid. If I know an answer to a posed and unanswered question, then the value of my answer is determined by the asker (and by it's formatting/legibility), not by my psyche.
>>62067458
So that's a yes then. You ARE trying to prove a general rule by use of one example.

>>62066820

It is not changing the captcha, as that is not possible. Captcha is universal for all boards.

What is being proposed is to ADD another captcha

>>62067592
Okay, then I'll rephrase it. Adding another captcha would be like putting a band aid over a gaping wound.

Better?