Thread 8859

What's the most well-behaved board on 4chan? /po/? /lit/? /trv/?

>>8859 (OP)
maybe not the best-behaved, but /a/ always amazes me with how high-quality it is compared to other some other boards

>>8859 (OP)
Conversely, what's the worst behaved? /tv/ is up there.

>>8860
How does /a/ do it? Even with all it's flaws it still manages to maintain a level of quality far above the other media boards and a resistance to shitty external board culture thats not present anywhere else.

Despite the popularity of animay/mango, it's not very accessible to normies. There's little casual generic discussion either. It's also very hostile to external influence and had some form of gatekeeping last I checked. In fact for me personally it's so offputting I don't even go there unless there are threads for shows I'm watching- which probably helps with maintaining quality.

Not a value judgement or call-out or anything, just some observations about /a/. It's not even my wheelhouse, I just lurk there sometimes. And yes, I know >>8873 is a copypasta.

/a/ has a lot of colloquial rules that you have to lurk there in order to know. Some kinds of material that would be considered NWS elsewhere on the site is permitted on /a/. There is a very strict enforcement of "no request threads" which quite literally gatekeeps users; but asking for recommendations during the course of discussion is permitted, so users have to engage with the discussion in order to at least get introduced as a newbie. There is a "no generals" rule that is enforced quite well, despite the several threads that are functionally generals despite not being marked as such -- looking at you, buyfag and isekai generals -- so this creates a low-effort filter as well: users have to at least be able to "play ball" with the moderation and the others users in order to be able to post certain things. Anime is a visual medium, so the imageboard format suits the discussion style well: imagine trying to talk about anime on some other site where you have to find a host for your image, and then you need to link or embed it... yuck! Discussion is rarely approachable unless you're familiar with the content: there's so much anime and so few things to go off of, that unless you know what you're looking for, you won't find it. If you open a random thread on /a/ and don't know the show that's being discussed, it can be absolutely impenetrable.

tl;dr gatekeeping.

>>8877
Gatekeeping really is a good thing, it's only actually bad when it's self-destructive, akin to an auto-immune disorder.
It's a community's immune system, and you need it for the community to remain in health.

The community telling troublemakers or newcomers who refuse to adapt to fuck right off back to the landfill they crawled out of is what makes the community worth jannying for. They know what's fucking up.

>>8859 (OP)
The dead ones.