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Giveaways were rare and special, not just breeding rejects.
People knew their shit and bothered to google first if they didn't.
People knew how to stick to one general instead of flooding the board with the same topic over and over.
Proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation mattered.
Not a single thread would have shitposts like "ur mum" and "rekt".
Emoticons, even the supposedly ironic ones like :^) were frowned on because people knew that's what reaction images are for.
Being smaller meant less chance of underageb&s getting led here from plebbit and meme aggregators.
There was room for fun and originality instead of decrying every hint of it as autism. Thread topics had more effort put into them and weren't run into the ground if the first turned out succesful.
People in general were nicer.
There was plenty more OC.