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There's no real point to browsing /a/, /v/, etc., you'd be better off shitposting, at least you'd actually be having fun. Anytime I go on boards like /fit/ and /his/ I come back with something worth archiving. Most hobby boards are only time sinks, nobody should have time to browse them. I'd respect somebody who browses porn boards more, there's no illusion of "discussion". These boards have invented the ideas of "soul", "kino" for the whole purpose of giving them a chance to give an opinion where there is none. The /v/ and /a/ user will know every single thing discussed there, he won't gain knowledge of anything new, nobody comes to these boards to gain insight on the mediums, they come to recite their predetermined opinions. Compare /fit/, /lit/, /his/, even /pol/: Anons will admit they lack expertise in a topic, and the users there have crafted charts and guides in order to guide these new users. Even in threads where anons try and give off the impression of full knowledge in the medium there will be something worth noting. /his/, while plagued with its own /v/a/ equivalent in atheism threads, still has at least one thread with some kind of effortful, insightful reply. /mu/ is the middleground to this rule, since, while the "discussion" of the medium is worthless and no threads are worth keeping, the nature of how music is uploaded means you can usually find some song or piece you wouldn't have found otherwise. Other boards don't have the same capacity for media upload, nor the pretention that leads to more obscure finds, but if Youtube weren't to exist then /mu/ would be a useless board as well. /k/ and /g/ are middlegrounds the other way, there might be something insightful for newcomers to the medium, but most threads boil down to discourse. Similar is /ic/, which may have something to offer to anybody new to art, but doesn't give much reason to stick around. The biggest attractions on this website are worthless time sinks that aren't even fun to browse.
