>>163337
That is for good reason, however - an anonymous-culture board does things in which the -rare- or -occasional- use of a name is necessary - like RPG's, drawthreads or stuff centered around things like Second Life. Complete forced anonymity isn't ideal for an anonymous-culture board, ironically. Like back when LS-anon was doing his based draw threads, knowing the OP/author and their identity was needed. Anonymous culture thrives best when people *choose* anonymity, and enforce it de rigueur rather than by de jure.

We just got rid of /chat/ for being redundant. I really don't like the idea of introducing another redundant board, myself.

Anonymous /oat/ came out of a similar suggestion. But I don't like the idea because people probably would just not use it, and it wouldn't have anything about it to make it relevant besides forced anon. Making /oat/ anonymous doesn't have either of those problems.

in the case of mlpchan's /anon/, it brought people more due to current events surrounding it than it did due to the appeal of the board being anon-based. It was just a happy coincidence.

Nothing like that is going on right now, and historically from my experience with both this site and MLPChan, something like that is going to attract away a very negligible amount of people who are already for the most part spread too thin between places. In the end it would be another dead board.

>>163338
True, but I still think it's a good idea because there is no relevant pony imageboard doing this yet. And all /pone/ does is enforce anonymity to be used properly.

And we kind of already have other boards for everything you would need a name for already.

You have a point, but I think doing this has potential.

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That would imply anyone on staff thinks that anonymous culture is something to be desired, which I seriously hope and don't doubt isn't true.

This is nice. It's anonymous, but it's still Ponychan. It's like /ef/ was. If they made an anonymous board, that new board would likely be everything that the move's critics decry. It would encourage shitposting and "cruelty", acting as a beacon to attract those posters. /oat/ is great now because there isn't a choice.

>>163348
All the things that were 'wrong' with /ef/, the edge-fagging for the purpose of attention, the tripfag interpersonal drama, cliques and rivalries, being as purposefully shitty because they suddenly could and were bottled up for so long, is a non-factor in that hypothetical. If you look at the board Mcedge refers to where an anonymous culture already exists in process, you don't find "cruelty" and/or shitposting (certainly no worse shitposting than already seen from the likes of Manley, Mikie, etc etc on tripfag boards.)

>>163353
I was referring to /oat/ now as /ef/ was, not what the new board would be like.

>>163348
>That would imply anyone on staff thinks that anonymous culture is something to be desired, which I seriously hope and don't doubt isn't true.
Please explain why anonymous culture is something bad.

>It would encourage shitposting and "cruelty", acting as a beacon to attract those posters.
You dont take the public image of /mlp/ seriously, do you?
I may have to call you a faggot if you're making such a mistake.

>>163359
haha we've all been to 4chan dude.

>>163360
Which boards?
I prefer /d/ myself, the threads i frequent there are usually filled with nice people.
That may be a porn thing though, since i've personally found that the more deviant your sexual interests are, the friendlier you get.
/tg/'s story and worldbuilding threads are also pretty good, and /mlp/ usually has something fun going on most of the time.

>>163369
>the more deviant your sexual interests are, the friendlier you get.
you know, I never thought about that, but it's so (generally) true.

As for me, I've spent a good amount of time on /x/, /mlp/,and /b/, off the top of my head.

>>163378
Found your problem.

/b/ is full retard all day every day.

/mlp/ is a hodgepodge of people from various different sites crammed together for lack of better options that arent autistic (Re; Us.)

/x/ is just weird.

Spend time in the other boards and soak up their atmosphere, different interests tend to attract different kinds of people.

Even /pol/ has it's moments when you can shift through the idiots.

>>163383
Sturgeon's Law - 90% of everything is shit.

It's just a matter of whether or not the thing in question's 10% non-shit is diamond-enough to sift through the crap for.

>>163383
I didn't even want to mention /pol/. let's see, where else... /s4s/! sometimes /k/, /mu/, or /g/? I sometimes talk to /sp/ users.

>>163369

/d/ and /tg/ both get a thumbs up for sure, but /mlp/ remains disgusting.

>>163390

/pol/ and /s4s/ also confirmed shit.

>not being a /sp/artan
>not being a /fit/izen
>literally the boards for not being a shutin weabadoo nerdking
turbonerds

>>163394
you are the administrator of a breakaway my little pony imageboard, mister.

you are not allowed to call anypony a nerdking, when you are the literal nerdking c:

me too! we are probably supernerds, like in the Pokemon by now.

>>163394
>/spee/
>the board for shitposting
>/fit/
>the board for homosexuality
ayyy lmao

No, we do not need more boards of whatever kind.
And to be perfectly honest, it is hard to cater boards, their very core can be quite dynamic.

And Jesus christ, IDs now???

what is the problem with dead boards? Even if they aren't getting that much attention you can always go back and do something with it, or just do anything there since its dead. I mean why does it matter if chat was dead when there is a few dead hidden boards?
I mean its all on the same site, I doubt even mcedge's suggestion would divide/attract new users so much as just a different playground for whats here

>>163493
they divide posts between too many places, split up the community, and make the site appear more dead than it really is to newcomers and oldfriends alike.