when moot does another janitor drive and promotes them after another year, their MUH BOARD CULTURE will come crumbling down cause their culture just like /v/'s and /sp/'s is just shitposting

>>608852 (OP)
>primarily making /a/ really, really hard to get into.
No, no it isn't.
>Don't make threads asking /a/ to pick your damn first few anime for you and Google anime recommendations
>Watch what interests you, add others to backlog
>Discuss what you enjoyed
>Look closer into seasonal anime as it makes up most discussion
It's simple stuff

Are you serious?

It's easy to get into /a/ as long as you know what you're doing. I only lurked for a few days before making my first post, and no one has ever called me out.

Just go in with some common sense. Watch some threads and figure out what's acceptable and what's unacceptable.

Hell, I dislike "moeshit" and am sort of a DEEPfag but I've never been told to go to /v/ for it because I know when to keep my mouth shut.

>>608852 (OP)

/a/ is shit and well on its way to becoming /v/2.0

>making /a/ really, really hard to get into.
only for you because you are a stupid faggot
> a single trend on /a/ that's not boku no pico.
being the idiot you are you were making recommendation threads
>tl;dr: how do i shot /a/?
-don't mention you are new
-don't mention you just got into animays
-pretend and behave like you are an old user like everyone else
-if you want recommendations, lurk more, google, go to an anime forum, make subtle rec threads-those retards will always fall for it (lurk to see what kind of threads they are),
tldr - don't look like a retard or noob
-if you make a thread don't expect any replies, most threads just die and mostly the biggest shit survives
-don't expect any replies to your comments

>>608866

>I've been lurking a great deal since I got back into anime, and I haven't managed to discern a single trend on /a/ that's not boku no pico.

Don't worry about it. I still spend 99% of my time on /a/ lurking. Never hurts to lurk more if you don't fully understand what's going on in a thread.

>>608866

Hit the nail on the head.

>First time coming to /a/ several years ago, thought I'd be funny by making a Naruto thread, get banned shortly after.
>Leave /a/ and go back to /b/
>After maturing a bit, I stopped browsing /b/ and decided to give /a/ another try
>Rather than posting right away, I just browsed the board to see what it was all about. I saw a few recommendation threads here and there, and learned about the board's manners.
>Looked up the "Before you make a recommendation thread on /a/, check these out". Proceed to pick out a few series and watch them. After getting some exposure to anime, I picked up a few currently airing shows at the time. >Proceeded to watch them alongside /a/ and began giving my opinion on episodes/characters/etc.

TL:DR Don't be an idiot, take some time to learn board manners, come back with some titles under your belt, pick up some of the shows from the current season and you'll be fine.

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lurk moar.

I really do wish more boards were like /a/. 4chans become far too accessible.

Watch more anime.

>>608852 (OP)
Why would you want to go to /a/? Just stick to /b/, /s4s/, and the other cool boards on 4chan.

/a/ is a bad board and very easy to troll.

>im-fucking-penetrable
Nope, it's really easy to get into. I lurked for only about a week before posting. Granted, I didn't post that often, and mostly lurked. About a month in I started posting more frequently, and I can't remember any case where somebody told me to leave or said that I was /v/ shit or something.

>>608977
This. Don't go to /a/, is horrible. Stay in /s4s/.
If you want to discuss anime go to Gaia or Reddit, they know their shit.

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>>608852 (OP)
/a/ is fine, but has its own culture. A lot of newfriends expect /a/ to adjust. It won't.

Start with
>>608866
and then understand that the average /a/ user watches a LOT more than users of other communities. I would say unless you have watched at least 100 series (and that is the very low end), shut up and raise your powerlevel. You will pick up a lot just by experiencing the medium.

People who don't watch many shows don't have a basic sense of what good is and will stay with shows like Elfen Lied or Naruto. Derailing shitty threads is called quality control, and is something every other board could use at times.

As for /a/ culture, seriously...just lurk. I wouldn't advice anyone to post their first 3 months. There are plenty of rules, and if you fuck up, deal with it and abandon the thread. That's the point of an anonymous board.

>>608852 (OP)
>So, I made this post both to comment upon the /a/nons who keep their community so exclusive, and to ask for help or tips in joining the massive circlejerk that calls itself 4chan's Anime and Manga Board. /a/ is closer to what 4chan was like in its early years, regarding that people will meet you with hostility if you give away that you're new to the board (e.g. by responding in a wrong way to a known meme or something, asking something that is commonly known, etc.).

This obviously has advantages since it preserves the board culture. People who are new to the board are forced to lurk and become accustomed, otherwise they won't be able to participate on the board. They might be able to still shit up threads, or troll the board to a certain degree (assuming they know what upsets /a/ and how to word their troll posts, which in turn would also require a modicum of lurking), but they can't use it. People are being assimilated, they can't easily bring their own culture with them from different places and overwrite the current culture.

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>>609034 continued
I just noticed that I formatted that post wrongly, the first quote contained part of my post already.

Due to field limitations here the continuation:

The disadvantage have been already mentioned: the community may become a bit stale. I don't think this is however that much of a problem on /a/.

A problem of /a/ is its own paranoia. It is so afraid of turning into what /v/ turned into a few years ago (it has gotten better recently) that it has a zero tolerance for anything even remotely off-topic. Through this, the community sadly takes potentially worthwhile content out of the board. For example, something like the abusehand shops probably couldn't happen on contemporary /a/ because some faggot would complain about it not being anime. While /a/ has survived the growth of popularity of 4chan probably the best when it comes to the larger boards in terms of preserving its original culture, it also has gotten rather boring in some ways. Of course this is a touchy issue, since too much of that kind of "fun" can kill a board, but I still think /a/ is overdoing it with its paranoia at the moment.

>>609041
/a/ at the moment is the most soulless board to be on, telling people to lurk more and not doing anything for new anons is good, but there is absolutely no OC and no fun on there any more.

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>>609050
>No OC
Have you even been to /a/? Just to the medium, it almost guarantees new content every season. The issue people may have is that the content isn't obvious to people that aren't watching anime.

All it takes for OC is to press F5.

>>609058
Eh, gifs of Shingeki no Kyojin aren't really that great as far as OC goes.

>>609050
I don't think there's no OC, but there's less than there was years ago. But as I said, that's a consequence of /v/ being overrun and turning to crap. Also, there's the problem of a new generation of /a/nons who haven't experienced /a/ (or /b/) of the older days and weren't socialised in an environment which essentially has the creation of OC as its goal, and are under the impression that anything even remotely off-topic was eo ipso bad. Still, as I said - this isn't a binary issue: on one hand you need a certain focus on the topic to not lose it to outside influences (which might not be more creative either) and have the board culture overwritten, on the other hand, a lot of OC only flourishes if anime is combined with outside influences, a balance needs to be found.

>>609064
Well, yeah. I mean I was wrong when I said that there isn't any OC, it's just different. It's just not that fun at this point.

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>>609062
Because you spend too much time in SnK threads. Any thread following a new episode is going to have some OC. Of course it's not going to be something memorable every time.

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>>609070
I can see that, quality has definitely gone down.

There has still been quite a bit of OC in Leviathan, Nyaruko, and Crime Edge threads.

OC is there, but the mainstream shows haven't delivered yet because EVERYONE'S A TITAN and Frodo are stale. Gargantia will probably deliver once it starts getting serious. Then there was the exploitable from Oreimo this week.

>>609093
>OC is there, but the mainstream shows haven't delivered yet
Well, in the past we've also had a greater bandwidth of content on /a/. We had /jp/ content and we also had some random stuff, since the days of Anime/Random weren't that long gone for people to have forgotten. That's part of the problem. The narrow focus of just our weekly fix of anime and the utmost hostility towards anything even remotely foreign has limited us.

>/a/ is pretty much 100% resistant to external trolls.
I love /a/ and all, but this isn't true in the slightest. Probably the best at it out of any of the bigger boards, but it still isn't great.

As for the answer to your question, you can either kill yourself out of /a/ and never come back, or just lurk more and watch as much anime as you can, like any new member should do. Also, take advice from this guy >>608879, because most new people don't know when to shut up and that's when they get shitted on. That should apply to any board though.

>>609064
Problem with it, like you say is balance. Especially with the average 4channer now being different to the average 4channer from say, 7 years ago. If you give more than an inch nowadays, it'd be sooner overrun by shitty "memes" from other boards by people who think that slightly off-topic = outright off-topic, than it would be conductive of people making funny OC.

As with many things these days, 4chan is a victim of its success, and as boards like /a/ get bigger, the harder it is to maintain the balance between being on-topic and having that little bit of freedom that is conductive of some fun original content. No sooner would you see OC, than you would something like /v/-tier shitposting like "der is a skellington inside you, 2spooky". I think it'd be pretty much impossible to find that balance unless /a/ starts to slow down and unfortunately, that isn't happening.

>>609093
>OC is there, but the mainstream shows haven't delivered yet because EVERYONE'S A TITAN and Frodo are stale
Thing is, the whole EVERYONE'S A TITAN thrown around for like a year now, since it started cropping up in the manga threads and has nothing to do with the show, really. And the Frodo malarkey isn't exclusive to SnK; it has only plagued SnK threads since the anime was announced last year.

The only thing that has cropped up from SnK anime threads is the whole shitty "hurr, stop posting, Jean. This isn't a Jean thread" shit.

>>609107
So the only solution I see is moving to another site. Oh wait, all the other sites are even worse.

>>609107
>I think it'd be pretty much impossible to find that balance unless /a/ starts to slow down and unfortunately, that isn't happening.
I'm not that negative about it. I think the board could survive a bit of leeway. It's hard to tell how much though, and the problem is that once it is too much it can't be gotten rid of without some serious mod intervention and no tolerance policy.

Still, it's not like boards couldn't recover: /v/ has been getting better; and I don't think that has something to do with the creation of /vg/ and /vr/, but more with the good job the mods and janitors have been doing regarding thread deletion. You still have the occasional off-topic thread (I mean absolutely off-topic, e.g. post ITT if you're circumcised), but they've become rare, since few have the patience to deal with the constant disappointment of having their threads get deleted after the first few replies.

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>>609107
Re-read the sentence above that, and yes I know Frodo started way before Titan. The shows that have been producing the most OC are the ones people aren't watching. This is the problem right now. The only quasi-exception is Maou, and that has devolved into best girl wars.

Last the shows producing OC were GJ-Bu, Psycho-Pass, and Vividred which were the main shows of the season.

>>609113
Not that any /a/non is going to miss a butthurt casual, but you could consider just taking the advice to lurk more and actually try watching anime.

Contrary to the opinions of assorted outsiders /a/ isn't a haven for "culture shitposting", they just actually talk about anime. Outsiders call it culture shitposting only because they don't know about the shows being discussed or they just don't like them.
Most of the so-called anime "fans" that roam the internet only want to circlejerk about the same handful of shows they saw on toonami and cry about the industry being dead because it doesn't cater to them. /a/ knows that is bullshit because they know their shit, and that is why outsiders have a hard time.

tl;dr:

Go fucking watch some anime and lurk more.

>>609113
I know what you mean. Honestly, if I could transplant /a/, as it is now, to another site completely, I'd be happy. As any tag alongs would soon be bored and leave. I'd also love it if you could only access /a/ by editing cookies, like sadpanda. Of course, neither of these things will ever happen.

Another thing that puts me off other imageboards (other than their habit of dying after a year) is the shitty software. Including the extensions we have nowadays, browsing any other chan simply isn't as smooth as 4chan.

>>609118
If I remember properly, /a/ is one of the few boards with 2 near-dedicated mods (i.e. spend nearly all of their time on /a/ and their global duties second), which is something most other boards do not have. Our mods do allow for tangential topics and have stated as such before that they do let things slide; they are also pretty good with dealing with shitposting and do a generally decent job; when they are online that is. We do have a reasonable amount of leeway at the moment and perhaps we could use a smidgen more, but I still think the sheer size of the board is working against the staff and the liberties they can allow for, in my opinion. It's definitely hard to tell how much and I wouldn't want to be in their position, to be entirely honest. After all, they're only human and can only do so much at a time. Or if we could clone Kinomod several times, that would also be fine.

I do sound really pessimistic, but in all honesty, I'm still happier on /a/ than any other board on 4chan and happy enough on most days (though there are some periods when it becomes intolerable with things like thinly veiled blogshit).

>>609124
Ah. My mistake.

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>>609136
/a/'s mods are actually not bad, but tend to be fairly slow for the amount of shitposting we get. I too would love a sadpanda style item, those actually do keep retards out, but there is no way it is going to happen here because it would kill traffic.

>>609140
I don't think it is so much that they are slow, it is just they can't be around all of the time and they have to struggle against massive amounts of shitposting and trolls at any given time. And then there are ban evading faggots like siztra and the IRC crew that make it a full time job to fuck up the board.

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>>608902

Why would making a Naruto thread get you banned? Isn't Naruto anime?

>>609136
>We do have a reasonable amount of leeway at the moment and perhaps we could use a smidgen more, but I still think the sheer size of the board is working against the staff and the liberties they can allow for, in my opinion.
I wasn't even arguing about what the mods tolerate. The first bastion of content filtration is the userbase after all. Rather than the mods deleting threads, it would be other /a/nons freaking out over, disregarding, reporting, etc. things that are borderline /a/ related.

To use my previous example in >>609041. The abusehand itself is not /a/ related at all in a strict sense. However, /a/ likes loli, loli is common in anime/manga, etc., thus the abusehand becomes borderline related. The userbase then proceeds to make it directly /a/ related.

I fear on a contemporary /a/, people wouldn't get the idea to make it /a/ related. It would be just dismissed as something that isn't directly /a/ related and thus has no place on /a/. Saged, reported, off the board it goes. Part of that culture which just takes something unrelated and makes it related has been lost I fear.

>>609143
I wasn't arguing against you there, just so you know. It was more like a compliment to your post, or my take on it. I essentially agreed with you.

I probably should have made that clearer.

>>609140
>I too would love a sadpanda style item, those actually do keep retards out
I don't think so. The types of actual retards who would be kept out by something like this are no threat to the board. If they flood in in great numbers they can become an issue since a board can only assimilate a limited amount of people at a time, but anime - unlike video games for example - doesn't have that type of mass appeal. Much more of a problem are domestic shitposters.

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>>609143
/a/ still has a sense of humor and playfulness, if that is your concern.

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>>609142
Not this shit again. It has such a terrible fanbase it makes discussion literally impossible and banning it helps keep retards off the site. There is plenty of pasta.

>>609142
People decided that Naruto has no place on /a/ because the people who'd be into it would be unhealthy to the board. Personally, I don't think the people who would discuss Naruto on /a/ would be significantly worse than the people who discuss Bleach, Index or anything other of that sort.

I think the no tolerance policy regarding Naruto is yet another aspect of /a/ overreacting. Naruto is way past the height of its popularity and while it actually WAS popular there was Naruto discussion on /a/ and it certainly didn't kill the board.
The really retarded Narutards, the literally autistic types, I doubt they would be compatible with the type of discussion on /a/ and rather go elsewhere than attempt to reform the board - which in the past didn't happen either.

I'm not arguing in favour of Naruto here - it's crap - but I still don't think it deserves to be banned from the board, even though I don't read/watch it myself.

>>609142
nah, /a/ is 3deep5casualanimes

>>609151
I never said it doesn't. I just said it could relax a little bit.

>>609154
It's silly to me that the don't allow naruto but allow MLP threads

>>609159
Since when does /a/ allow MLP threads?

>>608852 (OP)
I'm a filthy scum /jp/sie and even I don't see /a/ as THAT bad. You just need to learn to take it easy.

>>609158
Nah, one of the reasons I think /a/ is great is because it keeps people afraid of saying stupid shit.

>>609167
That's not what I was referring to. I was referring to the way how off-topic / borderline off-topic content is dealt with. A too narrow focus stifles creativity in my opinion. A middle-ground needs to be found. But we've discussed this in the previous posts already.

>>608852 (OP)

I deep penetrated ur mum m8

/a/ shitposting is limited to certain threads and is quarantined off and contained like an infection.

For example it's always the flavor of the season anime (outside of /a/) that is always filled with shitposting. Right now that is SnK. The vast majority of posters in SnK threads are from /v/ and /b/.

Flavor of the season for /a/ is OreImo. It's overloaded with shitposting too but not as bad as SnK. Riajuu would never watch OreImo. The threads are still horrible.

There is also typical shitposting threads designed to trigger a negative emotional reaction. Some never get any replies and others know /a/ better and stroke them just in the right way. It doesn't matter just don't post in them.

So ask yourself before you browse /a/:
Is this thread flavor of the season?
Is this thread designed to provoke an emotional response from me?

If you steer clear of both those things then you should be exposed to minimal shitposting.

>>608852 (OP)
>/a/ is pretty much 100% resistant to external trolls.
Haha what. Mention how lolicons == paedophiles, liking traps makes you gay or that incest isnt right and the board practically does the rest for you. /a/ strives so hard to force its one-way frame of mind that all you need do is deviate slightly and watch the fireworks.
> Threads made by outsiders are saged, dropped, and derailed with stunning efficiency.
The only threads which get this treatment are recommendation threads and naruto: both of which are known to be big no-gos as far as /a/ is concerned.
>I haven't managed to discern a single trend on /a/ that's not boku no pico.
I dont know how you cant. Any given thread is practically made of tropes, memes and other irrelevant catchphrases because nobody is going to take the time to write (or read) any post that doesnt convey a message - by which I mean why your own tastes are sublime and any disagreement is sacrilege - in under a sentence. The only times this may change is between seasons.
In that sense /a/ does retain its sense of "ye olde 4chan" (read: /b/) because you are encourage to lurk before even thinking of posting, but also because of that we see the same threads (and posts) being made day in, day out. Not necessarily because its worthwhile or productive, but because that is what the board knows. Its accepted. And may the bottomless depths of the board have mercy on your post if you dont conform to /a/s standards.

/a/ certainly is dense and riddled with preconceptions, but is that necessarily good? Maybe. It keeps that mentality of "you had to be there" alive but just as much propagates that you are somehow wrong if you were not. Its just like being on any other forum where people with a higher post count or earlier joining date tell newer users that theyre stupid because they havent been about as long: something that was meant to be lost with anonymity.

>>609184
After the great /b/ split several years ago, two factions existed.

Faction 1 wanted to be relatively tolerant and raise its userbase, but still be pretty random. They ended up in /v/. The problems that plagued /b/ followed, albeit slower than /b/.

Faction 2 decided to be elitist fucks and decided that people that attacking newfriends until they either give up or LURK MOAR, and sending people to watch gay shota hentai was the best way to deal with morons. These people ended up on /a/. /a/ has kept that culture despite the popularity increase of 4chan and the general mellowing out of most Internet subculture in general. I for one, am glad /a/ ended up this way.

>>609194
I don't think there were really two distinct factions like that. /a/ and /v/ have always shared a great part of their users and only in the recent years they've grown apart.

If anything, to tell people to lurk more rather than to be inviting was closer to how /b/ was in the early days of 4chan. /b/ didn't really "open up" either, it was simply overrun due to its popularity. The same happened to /v/. /v/ was elitist, hateful, opposed to mainstream gaming - and a lot more so than /a/ was elitist back in those days, starting a Halo thread would result in the same treatment as starting a Naruto thread on /a/ nowadays. That didn't help /v/ however. After /b/ fell, /v/ was one of the prime motors of creativity on 4chan and as video games became more and more popular with a mainstream audience, more and more people flooded into /v/, especially after /b/ became a boring porndump.

/a/'s extreme elitism isn't something that is that old. While /a/ has always been elitist in the regard that nobody wanted something to do with weeaboos from gaia (weeaboos in the actual sense, not in the "watches anime" sense that is used nowadays), the board was a lot more relaxed back then. /v/ was the always angry board of the two.

After the creation of /jp/ (which also took more "random" content out of /a/) and due to /v/ further declining and /a/ not wanting to share the same fate, /a/ became a lot more elitist.

>>609184
> Its just like being on any other forum where people with a higher post count or earlier joining date tell newer users that theyre stupid because they havent been about as long: something that was meant to be lost with anonymity.
It's not like that at all because there's no unavoidable enforcement mechanism. In order for a new user to be lynched, they have to expose themselves as a new user through their behavior. They're being judged by the content of their posts, which is the point of anonymity.

If someone manages to waltz into an anonymous board where nobody has any way to tell who or what they are, and they proceed to convince everyone that they're new, then they are stupid and deserve to be called out. Good new users will remain undetected.

>>609161
They don't allow MLP threads on /a/ see global rule 15
i don't know why anon thought they did

>>608852 (OP)
>Threads made by outsiders are saged, dropped, and derailed with stunning efficiency.

If you react, you have been trolled. End of story. Just like how a MtF is a woman.

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>being a city with walls so high

/a/'s main problem is people who try too hard to fit in, it's slowly turning /a/ into a giant circlejerk where if you have a differing opinion you're directed to /v/.
It's a different cancer than what /v/ suffered from but a cancer nonetheless.

>>609373
Differing opinions are tolerated on /a/, so long as you make a coherent argument. The tone of /a/ is very hostile as a whole though, so you have to adjust.

You are expected to use actual English and have watched enough material to know what you are talking about. Liking bad things isn't hated, so long as you don't pretend that they are actually good.

There aren't that many things that are genuinely hated (see Naruto, SAO, Elfen Lied), but there are plenty of things that /a/ will try to avoid talking about because it attracts people who don't know what they are talking about.

Any references to "feels", "mfw", etc. will get you sent to /v/ because you obviously forgot where you were.

Blogging will get you called a faggot. We don't care about your girlfriend, and would request that you stop shitting up the board.

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>>608852 (OP)
When I first started browsing on /a/, I quickly learned of its intolerance of newfaggotry.

What did I do?

I lurked. I didn't complain, I didn't push their buttons, I didn't ask stupid questions. I lurked and posted my opinion on things like anyone else and nobody noticed I was new.

As far as my experience with it is concerned, /a/'s infamy as a den of intolerant oldfags is a myth. If you just act like an ordinary anon and don't act like a fucking newfag, then nobody cares if you've been here for five days or nine years.

>>608852 (OP)
>Furthermore, /a/ can often get really self-absorbed and it looks to be very prone to discussion exhaustion because of the lack of new blood and ideas coming through.

This right here? This is why sometimes other boards say they are better at anime than /a/, because there's NEW DISCUSSION that IS NOT about NEW TOPICS.

>>609400
>it attracts people who don't know what they are talking about.

Here's something I really don't understand. How does this, hypothetically, happen? Let's assume that a /tg/ user never visits /a/. He knows that Naruto is not an okay subject, from personal experience, but likes to use the setting for his pen and paper games, or something. Whatever, he likes the manga, or some shit.

Then something drastic happens. Enormous. People start talking about Naruto on /a/. Serious, 500 post threads that delve deep and discuss.

How does the /tg/ guy learn of this, if he NEVER VISITS THE BOARD? He'll naturally assume anyone telling him different are trolls, and would never discover the opposite.

So why is /a/ so scared that people who never visit the site, or the board, will discover these hypothetical threads? Where will these mysterious unwelcomes come from but from within?

The only answer is that there are people on /a/, people who have been there for YEARS, and quite a few, who are waiting for Naruto (or whatever) to be liked so they can talk. These people hold a differing opinion and are shouted down, so they just wait. And wait. And wait. And then a good thread pops up and they do. And /a/'s 'fears' are confirmed, oh god, someone who doesn't know what they are talking about (read: with an opinion opposite mine!) is here! Clearly I must derail this and sage it as hard as I can, because oh god, I can't stand just hiding it.

>>609406
At least she isn't as bad as Shitura.

/a/ needs moir naruto

>>609446
The mods seem to agree.
I just got a three day ban for shitposting in a fucking Naruto thread.

>>609684
Show me where it lists exceptions to the rules. Go on, show us.

>>609421
I could tell him a lot, but the short answer is still LURK MOAR.

If Naruto were ever to be tolerated (aside from something like an occasional new manga thread), it would get linked in /b/, /q/, and /v/ among others. Even if /a/ decided it started off ok, it would get shitposted by cancer from other boards coming in as well as the IRC brigade.

Pfft, the insufferable newcomer ratio on /a/ rises at the cost of elitism every year. I guess that's fortunate for faggots like OP though.

>>609684
Shitposting against naruto gets you banned. Shitposting against people not liking naruto is totally okay. I'm guessing moot hired some shitty narutard mod along with his other shitty janitors.

>>609699
Shitposting is shitposting. If it gets reported, it gets removed.

>>609406
This guide is outdated

>>609701
Oh really?

>>>/a/86048395
>>>/a/86050578
>>>/a/86051359

I reported each of these posts. Note how this fag hasn't been banned yet, neither have his posts been removed, and yet dubs shit gets instantly removed. Guess that's going to be another /a/ mod complaint thread for /q/.

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Mod is really retarded, how did that meme generator thread, and those youtube faggotry thread get there

/a/ is one of the worst boards for it, they're only a little more mature than /v/. Plus, they're one of the easiest board to troll on 4chan. To a newfag, sure it looks scary, but they spout memes and greentext 24/7, as well as making shit threads that are basically a picture of a well known character, but discussing some tertiary topic. Their only protection is the fact that the staff is so dedicated to them and that anime and manga are more obscure than video games.