>>1304
>purpose
They aren't allowed because they have a purpose, they're allowed because they're allowed because they were allowed on old 8chan because they weren't allowed on cuckchan. Five or six years ago when the movement wasn't a total joke and/or a bogeyman for leftists, I'd be fine with it, but times have changed. The thread on /v/ still lists "operation #NotYourShield" in the subject field, as though a fucking hashtag for attention whores actually means anything. That particular subject was one of the major attack vectors that let normalfags and redditors co-opt gamergate and turn it into yet another toothless husk.
Even Seagull admits that normalfaggotry is part and parcel of the topic: >>>/v/26584.
>>1306
>How are we any more safe from the same thing happening to a board here?
We're not literally being targeted by feds and other glowniggers like /pol/ was, for one thing. For another, the fact this board is so much smaller (and is part of the webring) makes it more likely that people will roam, so to speak, and go /meta/ for one reason or another. When the site first launched, people regularly posted on this board to report bugs and get dev updates; it may be one of those things that bears repeating whenever a new surge in users happens, but I don't think it's a bad practice.
Personally, I think the main reason people (read: /v/ users) are opposed to the idea is that it reminds them of /a/'s hyperautistic moderation methods, which is a legitimate concern. However, the "problem" with /a/ isn't that it has a separate meta board for meta discussion: it's that the mods have carte blanche to ban users, delete posts, and remove images without providing any explanation why and that they have a hidden list of rules that nobody ever gets to see. The fact /ameta/ is where most non-/a/ posters end up for making absolutely innocuous mistakes has soured people on the idea, I think.
Julay.world also had a similar setup, but that site was riddled with /cow/tards so the problems arose from them rather than the separation of board and board meta.