>>1000282>why do you think /m/ is interested in attracting peopleBecause there are very few people interested in mecha, and mecha feels lonely and wishes more people would talk about mecha. It's never been big in the west, and it really doesn't help that what should be its flagship show is stuck in licensing hell. /m/ would be delighted if anyone would come and talk about mecha with them, so /m/ is interested in making it easy for people to try mecha.
/a/, on the other hand, is besieged by people who can't carry a conversation at the level /a/ wants to have, and /a/ wants them to go away. To ensure /a/ has only high powerlevels, /a/ takes several deliberate measures to make things as inaccessible as possible:
- doesn't advertise
- no beginner's guides
- no sticky
- no wiki
- no forgiveness if you break rules you would've known about if you'd lurked moar
- thread titles that require you to lurk or have a high powerlevel just to understand what they're about
So many people are interested in the topic of /a/, that /a/ has to do the opposite of /m/: be deliberately hostile to the people they don't want, even if this means accidentally turning away some people they do.
