Update 2024-03-27: Greatly expanded the "Samples" page and renamed it to "Glossary".
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I'm sure you don't know me, but I am a popular poster on /co/. Admist the MLP threads plaguing our board, I decided to come to /a/ for a chance of pace around one month ago. My mind was shocked by how deep this board's culture is in comparison with that of /co/. Kind of like walking into a close-knit community, /a/ has a lot of board in-jokes that are ONLY found on /a/ and nowhere else on 4chan, or for the matter, the Internet entirely. "Oh, wow," was my first reaction, but after I learned more about /a/, I began to understand why its culture became this deep. Great amounts of time are spent on /a/ by its users. As if that's a surprise, but there are people on /a/ that have been here since 2007, some even earlier. Now, I know what you're thinking. Don't try to think that I don't understand how cancerous /a/ has become, even in my short time on this board. I see the spammer spamming everything on a daily basis. Just posting on this board can be a bother when he's hogging up the servers. Under all the spam, though, there are some really interesting things to be read. Some say its cancer, but I have come to appreciate some of the "off-topic" threads on the board. Tripfags on /a/ are a bit different than they are on /co/. Going from memory, I'd say the tripfags on /a/ are a bit nicer. On /co/, a single disagreement can result in a tripfag completely blowing a fuse and sagebombing your thread for hours. To put it frankly, tripfags on /co/ get mad really easily. Quite, I'd say. Understand this: I have come to enjoy /a/ in my short time being here. Inside and out, /a/ truly has a deep culture. Never again will I underestimate just how strong the bonds are on /a/.
The nostalgia of the past combines with the intricacies of tomorrow to create the present time of the present day!
GET Summon!
Come forth, The Month of Remember!
As long as this card is on the field, for one month only (this November), /a/ will no longer be the cancerous trash heap that it has been known to be, and it will go back to pre-2008 levels in terms of quality content. /sp/ will have ZERO POWER in ruining /a/ any further.
