MLP-fandom differences

[Gentian]

Gentian was interested in differences between Russian- and English-speaking parts of MLP-fandom, so i'm starting this thread. Due to my problems with English, i wont be able to write it all in one day, so this will be long-living one, i suppose. And, of course, i'll be glad if you make my life little easier and ask some questions on the topic. And there would be some history of RU MLP imageboards.

Disclamer: I'm not familiar with blogs, or social network parts of fandom, so this thread would be firstly about imageboards, because RU-fandom started and grew on boards. But i have some friends to ask if you're interested in it too.

First part will be about some general similarities and differences.

Like 4chan's /mlp 2ch.hk's /mlp (that's Russian largest imageboard) have some "traditional" threads, almost 95% of threads are traditional. There are general-thread, chatacter-threads, art-threads etcetera, etcetera, we'll talk about it later.
The first big and the most important difference between 2 boards is that Russian /mlp/ have quite strong moderation, many (for imageboard) rules and that was agreement of anons from the creation of it.
The main idea is something like "let's make board customizable, so it could be nice for every type of bronies\ponyfags".
Of course, this system isn't working perfect, but still generally board live in peace. Ponyname-lovers visit ponyname thread, artists are sitting in "Arts school" thread and that's nice for me.
The second big difference is about size of ru-fandom at all. It's 5-10-20 times smaller, so on it's much easier to meet someone on board with who you talked somewhen before. Thread diversification makes it even more easier. That makes board somehow more cozy. But still, it's an imageboard.

Next time i'll talk about some problems of board.

That's interesting. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge with us.

With the fandom being so much smaller, and more organized, and it being so much more likely to run in to people you already know, does this mean users try to crreate reputations for themselves?

Anonymity is considered a good thing on the English boards, and those with names are generally regarded as attention-whores. Is it different on the Russian side?