I think the problem with a lot of boards on 8chan is they're big enough to be active, but too small to have their own culture. /v/ and /pol/ are their exceptions, they are big enough to be active and have their own culture, which for better or for wors

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Anonymous 03/18/15 (Wed) 05:52:14 3f126a No.1087

I think the problem with a lot of boards on 8chan is they're big enough to be active, but too small to have their own culture.

/v/ and /pol/ are their exceptions, they are big enough to be active and have their own culture, which for better or for worse, is distinct from 4chan.

/a/ feels like a collection of people who used /a/, who want to be an /a/, but there's nothing differentiating it from /a/. It's just small /a/.

I guess this means that the best boards are the boards that pop up for a week and die, like /redchanit/ and /bane/, or otherwise fill a niche. /weebpol/ fits in this category as filling a niche, but unfortunately there's not enough boards that fill a niche for otaku hobbies.

I think the solution is to have threads that make the board feel a little more like a community instead of just a smaller /a/. Not meta threads/shitposts, but like anon's idea down below of a hunger games contest with /a/ related themes, r/a/dio is another good example. Stuff that makes it feel distinct from 4chan or any other website's weeb board.

Anonymous 03/18/15 (Wed) 11:36:16 177ef5 No.1099

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>>1087
I feel that 8/a/ does have it's own unique charm. I browse other /a/ boards and each one has it's own atmosphere. 8/a/ is still a relatively new board, it will take time for that special feeling to develop into something more. I see it like this, the best days of 4/a/ have been and gone, the best days of 8/a/ have yet to come.

Anonymous 03/20/15 (Fri) 02:15:31 5bbea2 No.1177

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>>1087
>It's just small /a/.
Yep. And by that it makes the board insufferable to browse through sometimes. Bump limit is a rarity compared to the number of new threads that pop up. It's as if there isn't a sufficient collective amount of thoughts to discuss and share to have any conversation.

From the looks of the catalog, the average post per thread that isn't a million years old is about 20-40. Then the thread dies.

Occasionally we get the long threads like board tan.

Anonymous 03/20/15 (Fri) 04:09:45 908ed7 No.1191

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Your post on /meta/ and the reply about /am/ made me want to post the thoughts I had when I originally saw your thread.

It was a decision made back by the back by Ruya I believe to allow /jp/ content. My thought is that /a/ should embrace and build on being a kind of 2D/Random. So /a/ content would be anime, manga, visual novels, all the other odd socks that got thrown into /jp/ over time, Japanese games, other 2D Japanese media and highly related 3D like Rider and Sentai. It already pretty much is this way but is not widely advertised as such outside of passing mention in rule 7 in the sticky.

With regards to /rec/: I think we need to do a better job with how we handle newfags. Unless 4chan shut downs completely I don't think we can ever hope to get a rush of new longterm users. We need to build our userbase based on our pitiful local stock. Redirecting people to a mostly dead board doesn't help us do that. I made the lurker thread to try to get a gauge on how many newfags we had and how far along they are. From my estimation it seems we have about 50-75 users with very low powerlevels.

I have been trying to brainstorm ways to help them on their way so we can eventually have more generally knowledgeable posters. One would be start doing some kind of weekly "/a/ watches the classics stream." I would need to figure out the best way to livestream but I'd willing to try setting this up myself and maybe even advertise it on other boards. I'm not really sure what to do about source and recommendation threads other than encourage people to use /rec/ more. How many source request and recommendation threads are we getting now anyways? I remember at one point it was said they would be 1/4 of the catalog if they weren't deleted.

Unrelated thought: There really needs to more benefit of the doubt given to threads that are trying to make OC. That thread about drawing real people into anime characters wasn't the best but it could have spawned something interesting or funny. I think we are too afraid to try to have fun.

Anonymous 03/20/15 (Fri) 04:48:49 c2b631 No.1192

>>1191
>I think we are too afraid to try to have fun.

I had fun once, it was terrible. 0/10 wouldn't recommend

But on a serious note, the /rec/ board already has threads with charts uploaded. Plus the rules also mention the /a/wiki which has the same charts.

One thing that needs to get done is to update those. There's a few new "obligatory watches" that came out, and methods for acquiring anime and manga have also changed.

Anonymous 03/20/15 (Fri) 17:18:18 7ae63c No.1210

>>1191
Look at the ban list, around half of all bans are for recommendations or source requests.

Also, please don't stream anime for newfags, or they'll think it's fine to watch Chinese cartoons that way.

Anonymous 03/20/15 (Fri) 20:07:23 c2b631 No.1217

>>1210
>Also, please don't stream anime for newfags, or they'll think it's fine to watch Chinese cartoons that way.

How about a disclaimer saying

>We do not condone streaming. If you stream when watching by yourself, you're a faggot

Or something

Anonymous 03/20/15 (Fri) 20:34:57 3f126a No.1219

>>1191
>>1192
Rec threads don't offend me that much. I think anti-rec is necessary on fast boards, on slower or more cozy boards it is okay within reason. On /ot/ or lainchan /w/ it does not seem to be hated. However /rec/ is slow but not dead, it gets regular activity, I think it is fascinating that we have a board just for anime recommendations. On 4chan /r/ was just pointless, but on here we have a board to redirect them to. That is why if the board wants to ban rec threads I am ok with it.

I think it is an example of trying too hard to be 4chan though. On 4chan /m/ there is a rec thread from mid February, still not deleted, and 4chan /co/ also has regular rec threads. The reason /a/ banned rec threads was not a philosophical decision about the virtues of elitism, it was because so many retards came from other sites to ask for anime recs it directly impacted the quality of the board. I do not mind 8/a/ importing the elitism over since I think it has inherent benefits, it's just an example of how we need to think of what makes us different than 4chan and not try to be just the same.

Plenty of people love /ot/, or wiz/jp/, because they are cozy and different, despite these boards being much slower than 8chan. We need to think of what makes us different, since being just a slow version of /a/ is an liability, but if we focus on why we are cozy, then slowness is just fine. I don't think being 2D/Random is the solution though.

Anonymous 03/20/15 (Fri) 20:37:49 3f126a No.1220

Also, look into syncplay for streaming, that's what lainchan uses for group streams, it's where you need a local file and everyone just has it synced to the same point. This is probably not that good since one user with a bad connection or buffering problem can hold everyone else back, but look into it.

Anonymous 03/20/15 (Fri) 20:44:36 3f126a No.1221

>>1210
>Look at the ban list, around half of all bans are for recommendations or source requests.
Hm, that is a lot of spam. However, I think a thread like what was referenced in this

>>1101

Is the kind of thread that would be justified to let slide. Ironically, 4chan mods would be justified to delete it and I would be fine if they did. Since 4chan is faster, and those "creative rec threads" are more likely to drag down board quality. But here, they would bring up board qualify and the coziness level. Users in that thread were saying it should be deleted here if it was posted, since it violates the rec thread rule, and it does, but I think the rec threads should be enforced against tards who sound like they're from facebook and not to the letter. There doesn't need to be a rule change for this, just leave it to the moderators' discretion.

Anonymous 03/20/15 (Fri) 22:27:13 c2b631 No.1229

>>1219

If you look at the ban logs, you'd see we get a hell of a lot of /rec/ threads as well, it's just the mods deal with them quickly enough.

Anonymous 03/21/15 (Sat) 06:53:24 7ae63c No.1273

>>1221
Please disregard anything the guy you linked to in >>1101 says. He thinks using Firefox 3 is more secure than using a recent version.

Anonymous 03/21/15 (Sat) 07:53:59 62f889 No.1274

>>1273

Cripplekike please go. Get your garbage ad-hominem out of here.