4chan/History/qa

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Dates to find:

  • 2015-01-23 - 00:30~ EST - /qa/ - Question & Answer is created. moot makes the first post at 00:53 EST.
  • 2015-01-23 - 02:00 EST - moot has a livestream session that lasts eight hours[1][2]. Twelve stickies in /qa/ are maxed out.[3]
  • 2015-01-27 - 14:00 EST - Posting on /qa/ is disabled[4]. Assumed for moderation purposes due to being directly preceded by a brony raid..
  • 2015-01-27 - 16:30 EST - Posting on /qa/ is reenabled.[5].
  • 2015-01-28 - Drafting of the Declaration of /qa/[6]
  • 2015-01-29 - Declaration of /qa/ - Question & Answer
  • 2016-XX-XX - Hiroyuki Nishimura's AMA
  • 2016-12-17 - Anonymous makes a complaint demanding the unbanning of /pol/'s /diy/, a raid thread using fire safety regulations protocols to close down spaces[7]. A later poster asks for elaboration on part of the mods, to which Anonymous-San, famous as modcat, replies in his old format of using the warning form.
  • 2016-12-18 - The outraged poster posts his warning revealing the usage politically loaded language.[8]
  • 2016-12-19 - 10:30 EST? Anonymous-San is unceremoniously and permanently relieved of his moderator duties after a verbal beatdown by RapeApe.[9]
  • 2016-12-20 - asan breaks the news over #4chan IRC provoking outrage from basically the entire /a/ & /jp/ webspheres[10] and even within team4chan[11]. Asan later pops on the thread with intent to burn bridges and explains what happened in detail, revealing considerable information on 4chan's inner workings and rousing /qa/ into a riot[12].
  • 2017-01-XX - first /jp/ raids
  • 2017-02-13 - alleged date where a small spinoff clique spams an invitation to raid /qa/ through all the /jp/ webring ►
  • 2017-02-XX - 2D/Random declaration by /qa/'s first major tripfag, GRXVDF aka Global Rule 15 Defense Force
  • 2017-03-XX - Weeb/Frog board wipes I - Asukascript spam makes it's first appearance. --> frequency of thread creation ----> measurable? ask anton
  • 2017-10-24 - /qa/ is listed on the boards table to curtail the wave of "Hiro-approved meta threads". Everybody groans. Text on the news space [13]:

Meta on /qa/ only.

All meta discussion of boards is to be redirected to /qa/.

- Hiroyuki makes a sticky with instructions on how to use /qa/[14]. Mods ban honking on penalty of fine.

  • 2017-10-26 - Mods add a post to the sticky indicating how to contact them with appeals, technical problems or urgent issues on IRC, using an anon-made infopic.[15]
  • Thread Creation Limit 2018?
  • Post Deletion Disabled 2018?
  • Hiroyuki's VTuber contest. 2018
  • Mass Rangebans 2019?
  • Spinoff / Frog board wipes II 2019
  • Kissu Creation 2019
  • atechan / kissu fight 2019
  • bant board wipes? 2020? --> only anecdotical evidence of bant clique raids
  • Earliest Jaks 2020
  • Party Creation 2021
  • Board Freezing 2021
  • Ghost posting disabled on desu 2021? 2022
  • /qa2/ creation 2023
  • Mod whimsy 2024

Symbols:

☼ Unverified aka "i'm the primary source"

► Source is exclusively anon testimony, no primary evidence.