A large number of the Japanese are complaining that the overseas voters, primarily Americans and primarily from 4chan, screwed up this year's Saimoe and it should be run over again. They wish to ban overseas voting but the inherent technical issues prevent them from doing so, and once again we're considered a "necessary evil" or just tolerated. It's obvious they don't want us voting or participating in 2ch in general, so why are people so persistent in pestering them? We have our own image boards and 2ch-style discussion boards. It should be just common courtesy to leave other people alone, and common sense to avoid places where you aren't wanted. Yet we continue to cause drama and problems for 2ch. Why, Internet?
2 get.
>>1
desu desu
>>1 fails for missing context.
Try again, and this time tell us what the hell Saimoe is.
>>4
Only THE biggest moe character popularity contest, the World Cup of Moe. 4channers latched on to it this year with many threads discussing matchups and results.
Welcome to not everyone caring about 4chan.
lol, internet.
Well if it's the World Cup of Moe, they should accept foreign teams, shouldn't they?
>>10
Should they also accept girls from say, Dragon Tales?
>>11
Sure, they'll lose first round so who cares?
i don't know which is funnier, the fact that 2ch got trolled or the fact that it was 4chan that did it.
Dora the Explorer is so moe~
Anyone have a link to the SaiGAR tournament?
It should be re-run. Suiseiseki is far from the essence of moe that is Nagato Yuki.
Well, 4ch and 4chan pretty well suck compared to 2ch so I can understand why so many foreigners visit and voted. If the internet doesn't belong to the world then I demand all non Americans to GTFO our internet. Otherwise put up with it.
>>18 seems to consists mostly of actual English word, but I think somebody shuffled them all around or something.
What I'm saying is, the internet isn't owned by the Japanese so they can't complain that "foreigners" voted. >>1's post stated that people outside Japan should stay the hell away from 2ch. If that were true then the internet doesn't belong to the world but individual nations. If individual nations "own" their own internet then rightfully the US, who originally created the internet and manage the lions share of interenet protocol, should kick every other damn person off.
Sorry if I wasn't being clear.
>>20
Well, the solution needn't be that drastic, and that's not the problem I was referring to. I meant when the japanese say "This is our contest, please do not fag it up with your 4chan /b-tard votes for desu" and everyone does exactly the opposite. It's more a lack of common courtesy than anything.
>>21
they said that prior to the contest?
link please.
>>21
Did they ever say that at all?
And I'm not talking about just a few posters, as theres always a few people with differing opinions.
Yeah, nominations have started for SaiGAR:
http://www.michaeldodd.net/saigar/
As for /b/tards spamming up SaiMoe with Desu votes, wasn't the majority of 4Chan's /a/ rooting for Nagato Yuki in that quarter final?
>>24
In the end I think the non-asian foreign votes only amounted to about 8% of the total. Still, there were more than double the total votes cast compared to last year's final so interest is increased all around.
Here's my nominations:3
Roy Focker, Macross
Bruno Global, Macross
The bartender, Bartender
Akagi, Akagi
the yaranaika guy, Kuso Miso Technique
>It's obvious they don't want us voting or participating in 2ch in general, so why are people so persistent in pestering them?
It's the fact that they dont want "us" there.
It's like putting a huge cake infront of a kid and then tell him he cant taste it.
>Roy Focker, Macross
uhho!
Nothing's stopping the Japanese from voting in SaiGAR. As far as I know, they're aware of it and have a vague idea of what it's all about.
>>26
QFT
Japan is the cake. We like the cake. We like it's flavor, at least, maybe not it's calories and the fact that yeast is a fungus. But we eat it because of the frosting, anyhow.
The cake is a mean overlord and attempts to scorn us by not letting us at it. It lets is lick the frosting, but when we try and have conversations with it, it calls us gaijin and ignores us, or flames us.
Thus, when the cake is going to do something special, we troll it and act as a thorn in its side. I am friends with one Japanese person, who has forsaken his own country and attended high school and college in the United States on account of - in his words - "Japan sucks, the culture sucks, the school system sucks, the food sucks, everything there sucks. Never go." I disagreed with him because I like the flavor of the cake, but the fact is if the cake is mean to me, perhaps it's best just to take pleasure in it's paradoxical offerings of delicious frosting... lost my train of thought.
Japan is a delicious cake. Anonymous must eat it.