>>6375
I agree with much of what you say. I've long been of the opinion that we are being extremely unfair in our handling of Kemono Friends threads. Moderators like to point out low thread quality as the justification, but even threads with perfectly fine quality are routinely deleted either by moderators or janitors, so the users are simply under the impression that the quality of their discussion has no bearing on whether threads are allowed or not.

What's really happening, in my opinion, is that threads are simply drawing a greater degree of scrutiny from the moderation team, and I think the reason is that some of us have decided that the topic itself has expired and people should no longer be discussing it. My problem with this is that there is no rule in /a/ saying that you are only allowed to discuss anime for a certain period of time after it's done airing.

I believe "generals" are generally bad BECAUSE they normally signify a diminution in quality of discussion. But when there is no such diminution, and the threads are still a combination of topical conversation and innocuous commentary about which girls are cute and which ones have nice foreheads and which ones you'd like to cuddle with (which has always been fine on /a/), then I wish we'd be honest about the real reason that we're raising the bar on conversation in those threads.

Mods may point to the high amount of meta posting, but I only really see meta posting in those threads when there is some mod intervention which causes confusion among the posters, and I think it's understandable that people would post things like "why are we on permasage?" when they are genuinely trying to discuss some /a/-related topic.

Anyways, tl;dr I think if the reason generals are bad is because the threads go to shit, then that itself proves that we don't need to change our standard when dealing with them.