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/qa/ - Question & Answer† (pronounced "queayy" or "qwah") is a UNESCO world heritage site and former unlisted 4chan board for discussing site-wide meta. It was originally founded in January 2015 as a platform for Moot to host a question and answer thread before he would quit as the site owner.
Over time, the board was colonised by multiple warring factions of shitposters, including: soyjakkers, frogposters, and leebaiters; fans of Touhou, K-Pop, and Ongezellig; enjoyers of political webcomics;[2] schizos who lost their way from /x/; some actual trannies;[3] some /pol/[4] and /leftypol/[5] propagandists; BBC/BWC spammers; and a couple one-off avatarfags such as the poster who hated The Doors,[6] the Boymoder poster,[7] the French Megumin poster,[8] the poster who posted a cow along with the word nigger,[9] the poster who hated the word though, the poster who wasn't a killer but don't push him, the Rikka avatarfag,[10] the poster who posted dinosaurs in every thread,[11][12] among countless, countless others.
The board was permanently locked on November 3rd, 2021 during the Great Soyset.
In order from left to right: The flag of Sproke, Pepe, Thoughjak, Does, Soyjak, Soyduelling, Schizophrenia, Trannies, Chino, Chika, Yegi, and Leebait
Contents 1 Persecution 2 Deletion 2.1 Implications 2.2 Allegations of involvement by Soot 2.3 Janny misdoings 3 In popular culture 4 Citations Persecution The stickied post on /qa/ claimed that the board had "no specific theme and you are free to be yourself!",[13] but in practice Janitors would ban posters they didn't like and would frequently initiate purges of soyjak posters, sometimes wiping half the board in the process. Whether these mass-banwaves constituted political repression is currently the subject of an investigation by the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Deletion Main article: The Great Soyset
The cabal of moderators who run 4chan had long been discontent with the direction /qa/ had taken, and mostly used it as a dumping ground for meta threads on other boards. Starting in November 2020, a resident schizo who had went off his meds began prophesysing and shared his visions of an inpending catastrophe befalling /qa/ within the near future. He tried to warn people by posting jannyjaks,[14][15] but few listened to his words. Rumour has it that 4chan jannies had him arrested and forcibly remedicated.
>Operation Clean Stable? Take your meds schizo.
On November 3rd, 2021, 4chan operatives orchestrated the long-rumoured Operation Clean Stable and permanently wiped the board clean, leaving it locked to this day. This is referred to in Soyical Folklore as the Great Soyset.
Implications The deletion of /qa/ created a large dispora community of former /qa/ users. Most soyteens emigrated to the 'party, while other factions relocated in /bant/, and others yet were never heard from again. An increase in off-topic soyposts has been noticed on pretty much every board since /qa/ was deleted.
On November 10th, 2021, the Soy Community initiated Operation Soyclipse in an attempt to avenge /qa/ by raiding multiple 4chan boards; however, it was quickly defeated.
Allegations of involvement by Soot Soot was NOT involved in the deletion of /qa/. You WILL take your meds.
Janny misdoings
ywabaw.jpg On April 25th, 2022, a /trash/ moderator created a thread[16] with an image named 'ywabaw.jpg' and with the body '/qa/ lost.'. This was then moved to /qa/[17] and deleted ~48 minutes later.
In popular culture
The End of Quay (2021) The deletion of /qa/ prompted a surge in melancholic songs made in tribute to the board, including End of Quay, Viva la Kwey and Another Day of Soy. Several poems have been written as well, such as Lament for the /qa/stanis. Additionally, Old Kwah Road retells the deletion of /qa/ in more heroic terms, and Cobman by David Thoughie makes reference to it.
Citations
https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/ghost/none/ https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/text/new%20toss/type/op/filter/text/ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/5335835/ https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/text/%22society%20is%20collapsing%22/type/op/ https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/text/%22delete%20pol%22/type/op/ https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/text/eat%20more%20chicken/ https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/text/%22what%20would%20you%20do%20if%20you%20came%20across%20a%20boymoder%20that%22/ https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/text/mégumin/ https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/filename/brown-guernsey-cow/type/op/ https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/filename/rikkagasp.jpg/ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/4443929/ https://desuarchive
