| What the hell happened to MAL ? Why are the discussion threads so quiet and boring now ? What happened to all the MAL memes and top tier shitposts ? What is responsible for the poor state of MAL ? Is this the better MAL that you guys wanted ? Edit : I think we want to know what the mods think about this too. @Shocked , @Tyrel , @_Ghost_ , @Kineta and all the mods , What do you think about the current status of MAL. Do you guys really think it's better than before ? And your thoughts about the banning that everyone's been complaining about ?( please post as a part of the forum members , not as a mod ) |
Z-DanteMar 1, 2016 12:28 PM
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| You're just suffering from what I like to call 'mal disillusion disorder', its perfectly normal for long time users to experience this I am afraid. |
| I've been here way too long... |
| Yep what that guy said^ It's just the cycle man, it's the cycle... Some Old users out = New users in |
| Then why don't you start shitposting? If you don't like the threads given, make one yourself. I never bother making threads myself, I only answer those I feel like answering. |
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| Well you see, the forum mods evolved into Gestapo and then began committing online social media injustices to the members that once breathed entertainment into this forum. |
| Be thankful for the wisdom granted to you. |
| Ask to the mods, people are constantly getting banned, that's why. |
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| Because old users don't actually care m8 Or they all got banned, welp. |
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| It all began with rule 6 Later on, MAL decided to introduce a new character minimum rule and a shit ton of people got banned And then it all went downhill You think the forum's quiet now compared to how it was during august-december? You should have been there before rule 6 was invented The same thing happened to the review section, that place used to be boozing with activity before the "Not helpful" button got removed and just look at it now, none of the reviews on the first page have more than 5 "Helpful" votes except two (and one of them is a troll review) and shit/troll reviews get upvoted to high hell (and don't try to tell me those sorting options are helping, they got introduced way too late and are nearly worthless anyway) |
Comic_SansMar 1, 2016 11:01 AM
 Nico- said: Conversations with people pinging/quoting me to argue about some old post I wrote years ago will not be entertained@Comic_Sans oh no y arnt ppl dieing i need more ppl dieing rly gud plot avansement jus liek tokyo ghoul if erbudy dies amirite |
| Haven't even been here for a year and already getting nostalgic smdh |
| Proud founder of The Official Anti-Ging Freecss Fan Club Join now! Kellhus said: GuusWayne said: there is a limit to the suspension of disbelief And it's the fan that did it. Not the smoking porn reading rubik cube genius rape ape with a magic boat. |
| I've been on MAL for ages, but I didn't participate in forum very much and I guess I missed the golden era of MAL. Can someone tell me about the good old days? Sounds like you had fun, guys. |
> Buys house in new town > 3 months into living in new home > "what happened to this town man, it used to be so different..." |
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Sexymofo said: And that explains why you're still here.CD was great back in 2014 but I think a lot of the funny people and good posters have moved or been banned. (BOOM headshot!) |
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| 30 char limit and mod tyranny happened |
namea said: Same here. I'm practically ancient around here, but never really got involved with the forums.I've been on MAL for ages, but I didn't participate in forum very much and I guess I missed the golden era of MAL. Can someone tell me about the good old days? Sounds like you had fun, guys. |
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| Nah, though maybe it's what the mods wanted. The 30 character limit and the banning led to this. |
hoopla123 said: 30 char limit and mod tyranny happened Did you already forget what this place looked like a month before the 30 characters threshold? A fucking schoolyard ruled by 8 yo assholes spamming fate pics. "mod tyranny">>> the retardation competition we had before. |
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| Well someone had to say it.. The place has been pretty dull ever since Emiya was permabanned. Also recently @SodiumChloride was banned twice for making awesome threads.. Its the oppressive fascist mods bro..... Anything potentially fun is being sniped out.. Too bad I only came in around the tail end of that golden era.. |
Gesu-Mar 1, 2016 11:14 AM
Clebardman said: hoopla123 said: 30 char limit and mod tyranny happened Did you already forget what this place looked like a month before the 30 characters threshold? A fucking schoolyard ruled by 8 yo assholes spamming fate pics. "mod tyranny">>> the retardation competition we had before. Look at how famous Trump is, everyone loves watching retards be retards. |
Comic_Sans said: It all began with rule 6 Later on, MAL decided to introduce a new character minimum rule and a shit ton of people got banned And then it all went downhill You think the forum's quiet now compared to how it was during august-december? You should have been there before rule 6 was invented Can you tell me more about rule 6? I wasn't around back then so to me November-December was the shit.. |
GesuYarou said: There was a period when there were a lot of sex related threads in CD, but one day the mods(?) had enough so they created rule 6: http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=516113#msg38758019Comic_Sans said: It all began with rule 6 Later on, MAL decided to introduce a new character minimum rule and a shit ton of people got banned And then it all went downhill You think the forum's quiet now compared to how it was during august-december? You should have been there before rule 6 was invented Can you tell me more about rule 6? I wasn't around back then so to me November-December was the shit.. Naturally here was a gigantic backlash (e.g. this thread: http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1366532) but they refused to remove it anyway After a while the activity started to decrease a little bit That's pretty much it |
Nico- said: Conversations with people pinging/quoting me to argue about some old post I wrote years ago will not be entertained@Comic_Sans oh no y arnt ppl dieing i need more ppl dieing rly gud plot avansement jus liek tokyo ghoul if erbudy dies amirite |
| I remember the sex thread rush, terrible. I don't get how anyone praises it as a bastion of good shit posting. It was that awful mid ground posting between "haha im just pretending to be a pervert" and "no actually I really am a pervert and I hope girls send me pics" It got so thirsty im pretty sure most of the female users who weren't making super attention threads were actually starting to fear been aggressively stalked by people. You know it stops been the fake im only joking kind of talk when male users start getting genuinely pissed at girls not talking or responding to them in these threads. and im anti feminist PC bullshit so if I say it got a bit over the top with male on female user stalking/harassment you know Ive seen some shit....So much thirst. |
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Spooks said: I remember the sex thread rush, terrible. I don't get how anyone praises it as a bastion of good shit posting. It was that awful mid ground posting between "haha im just pretending to be a pervert" and "no actually I really am a pervert and I hope girls send me pics" It got so thirsty im pretty sure most of the female users who weren't making super attention threads were actually starting to fear been aggressively stalked by people or were. You know it stops been the fake im only joking kind of talk when male users start getting genuinely pissed at girls not talking or responding to them in these threads. and im anti feminist PC bullshit so if I say it got a bit over the top with male on female user stalking/harassment you know Ive seen some shit....So much thirst. I agree. The greatest bastion of good shitposting has to be the OPM in anime discussion. |
| Be thankful for the wisdom granted to you. |
| Oppression of free speech became the norm . Joke threads should be allowed when forum activity is especially dead but they aren't . We now have to bow down to Mr 30Char . Ah wait........Forget I ever said that .I don't wanna get banned again . |
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badwolf45f said: Ask to the mods, people are constantly getting banned, that's why. Exactly i just got unbanned today after one week and some days . i don't even know why i got banned in first place Freedom of speech is dying in this site , well i had a good time in hummingbird |
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AllenVonStein said: badwolf45f said: Ask to the mods, people are constantly getting banned, that's why. Exactly i just got unbanned today after one week and some days . i don't even know why i got banned in first place Freedom of speech is dying in this site , well i had a good time in hummingbird Oh, you're back... Well, you're either lying or in denial because I'm pretty sure I know why you got banned, and I think mods told you already on IRC... or you can ask them. |
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| It'll be interesting to see for how long this thread can go on without being taken down and Z-Dante being banned for trying to start an uprising mass movement for freedom of speech spamming.. |
| It's changed because every once in a while you'd get an interesting sex thread, or a funny thread like the flirting thread that used to be on here. That was funny and everyone liked it, but now everything to do with sex is banned. Anything that appears to misread or too difficult for discussion might get you banned for "baiting", so there's a legitimate concern to try and not post a "shit thread", even though some "shit threads" stay open. Sorry mein fuher!! I don't want to be banned again. I will not speak out. |
Trance said: I'm a guy and I can imagine buttfucking another guy. I don't find the thought repulsive, and I can even imagine kissing another man. |
Euphemistic said: and no-fun-allowed zone. Because some people need written rules and a slap to understand how to behave. I'd be fine without the characters threshold but we all know a small part of the users would abuse that freedom. |
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Euphemistic said: Clebardman said: Because some people need written rules and a slap to understand how to behave. I'd be fine without the characters threshold but we all know a small part of the users would abuse that freedom. There was some shitposting,but I do not really recall anything that serious that would warrant it. Though I was banned for the most of December and for the entire January,so might impression could be wrong. You didn't see when 10% of the active users changed their names and started filling pages with Fate pics? Lucky. |
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Clebardman said: The forum about a year ago generally felt like a much happier fun place, where the mods would just delete spam threads, tidy up spam posts and lock the thread if it continued. But overall I didn't see the spam as a serious problem. It didn't appear to be a continuing thing at least, if it was a problem. Euphemistic said: and no-fun-allowed zone. Because some people need written rules and a slap to understand how to behave. I'd be fine without the characters threshold but we all know a small part of the users would abuse that freedom. They had pretty cool rules and discretion. Now they crack down on banning and deleting. The reasons end up being arbitrary for bans or deleted threads and we can all sense it. Plus we need to debate incest and pedophillia at least once a month or the forum will get mopey. |
Dick_DawkinsMar 1, 2016 11:54 AM
Trance said: I'm a guy and I can imagine buttfucking another guy. I don't find the thought repulsive, and I can even imagine kissing another man. |
Clebardman said: The baiters mostly baited against the troll threads. They were nothing serious and were just baiting for fun IIRC.Euphemistic said: There was some shitposting,but I do not really recall anything that serious that would warrant it. Though I was banned for the most of December and for the entire January,so might impression could be wrong. You didn't see when 10% of the active users changed their names and started filling pages with Fate pics? Lucky. And they all got banned temporarily just for that. |
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| ^^As much as I like you and respect your opinions, I don't see how discussing pedophilia or religion on a weeb forum is going to help. Damn, we're supposed to talk about anime but half the users don't know the difference between art style and animation... |
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| To be honest I cried after I saw rule 6. |
Wecc said: All hail HaXXspetten king of the loli traps!  |
Z-Dante said: The baiters mostly baited against the troll threads. They were nothing serious and just baiting for fun IIRC. They were one of the most cancerous manifestation of Internet's anonymity allowing people (who are probably decent grown-ups IRL) to act like fuckin 5 yo spoiled brats. |
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badwolf45f said: Yup this. People getting banned back and forth and getting their ass handed to the character limit.Ask to the mods, people are constantly getting banned, that's why. |
| It's what i was thinking before seeing this post. Where are the retards that were shitposting here when i subscribed to this forum ? Well, i guess the question was easy to respond. In the garbage. |
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Klad said: badwolf45f said: Yup this. People getting banned back and forth and getting their ass handed to the character limit.Ask to the mods, people are constantly getting banned, that's why. Who the fuck manages to get banned twice for that shit seriously? Baiting, trolling, insults, okay, but the fucking characters threshold? JUST TYPE 30 FOUKIN CHARACTERS GOD DAMN |
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Clebardman said: ^^As much as I like you and respect your opinions, I don't see how discussing pedophilia or religion on a weeb forum is going to help. Damn, we're supposed to talk about anime but half the users don't know the difference between art style and animation... I think you're getting your anime discussion sections confused with our casual discussion sections. This is the place for none anime related stuff. could just stick to the anime sections if you don't like none anime related topics? |
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Clebardman said: Yeah but this is causual discussion. We're supposed to get the views of others on anything. ^^As much as I like you and respect your opinions, I don't see how discussing pedophilia or religion on a weeb forum is going to help. Damn, we're supposed to talk about anime but half the users don't know the difference between art style and animation... It's had an opposite effect on thread quality with the added rules and quicker banning. Some of the threads that get deleted before anyones even started commenting man.. |
Trance said: I'm a guy and I can imagine buttfucking another guy. I don't find the thought repulsive, and I can even imagine kissing another man. |
Clebardman said: Z-Dante said: The baiters mostly baited against the troll threads. They were nothing serious and just baiting for fun IIRC. They were one of the most cancerous manifestation of Internet's anonymity allowing people (who are probably decent grown-ups IRL) to act like fuckin 5 yo spoiled brats. Oooo. Too much salt. You're like a CherryLover v2. Well , they did their part of derailing troll threads to oblivion ( movement against hentai thread for example ) and I think at least half of the regular MAL users supported them. Did you actually report them for baiting ? |
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| SJW keeping the loli, moe and ecchi lovers down, even thou they themselves would fuck a 15 year old if they had a chance. Also too many butthurt islam/blacks, can't offend them with the truth or you get banned. |
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Spooks said: Clebardman said: ^^As much as I like you and respect your opinions, I don't see how discussing pedophilia or religion on a weeb forum is going to help. Damn, we're supposed to talk about anime but half the users don't know the difference between art style and animation... I think you're getting your anime discussion sections confused with our casual discussion sections. This is the place for none anime related stuff. could just stick to the anime sections if you don't like none anime related topics? Did I mention this subforum specifically? This forum as a whole is supposed to be a place dedicated to discussing anime, yet all I see in the anime discussions subsection is a bunch of "X vs Y" or "List your fav X" threads with an understanding of animation that comes closes to 0, so it's pretty safe to assume that MAL's users are even less knowledgeable when it comes to subjects that aren't their hobby, don't you think? I didn't say that discussions about religion or pedophilia should be banned either, I was just questionning their purpose. I'm pretty sure your comprehension skills aren't to blame, you're probably just trying too hard to bash me. Actually, I think you're still butthurt because I asked you what you were doing on an anime forum since you don't watch any. |
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Z-Dante said: Clebardman said: They were one of the most cancerous manifestation of Internet's anonymity allowing people (who are probably decent grown-ups IRL) to act like fuckin 5 yo spoiled brats. Oooo. Too much salt. You're like a CherryLover v2. Well , they did their part of derailing troll threads to oblivion ( movement against hentai thread for example ) and I think at least half of the regular MAL users supported them. Did you actually report them for baiting ? The problem with the baiters was, however, that even non-trolling threads sometimes got derailed by them. I'm not against them, but they did go a little over the top. But nowhere as terrible as some people make it seem, sadly. As for the topic itself...mods have been doing their jobs and some users even got banned from what I hear, so less shitposting/troll threads now compared to back then. |
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