Qa/

Type	4chan board
Designation	/qa/
Date	January 23rd, 2015 - November 3rd, 2021
Posts⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀	5.3 million
Archive	https://desuarchive.org/qa/
Successors	Mostly soyjak.party

/qa/ - Question & Answer^† (pronounced "qway" or "qwah") was an unlisted board on 4chan 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: soyteens, frogposters, and leebaiters; fans of Touhou, K-Pop, and Ongezellig; enjoyers of political webcomics; schizos who lost their way from /x/; transgender rights activists; some /pol/ and /leftypol/ propagandists; BBC/BWC spammers; and a couple one-off avatarfags such as the poster who hated The Doors, the Boymoder poster, the French Megumin poster, the poster who posted a cow along with the word nigger, the poster who hated the word though, the poster who wasn't a killer but don't push him, the Rikka avatarfag, the poster who posted dinosaurs in every thread, 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, Chika, Chino, Yegi, and Leebait

Persecution

The stickied post on /qa/ claimed that the board had "no specific theme and you are free to be yourself!", 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.

Approved content

The only thread the moderators did not remove during the Great Soyset was /hap/ - 4chan Happenings Thread, which was a recurring general discussing site-wide drama and gossip.

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 seeing prophesizing visions of an inpending catastrophe befalling /qa/ within the near future. He tried to warn people by posting jannyjaks, but few listened to his ramblings.

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.

In popular culture

Album Cover for 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. Additionally, Old Kwah Road retells the deletion of /qa/ in more heroic terms, and Cobman by David Thoughie makes reference to it.