Registrations will remain closed to the public throughout June, 2022.

[Disheveled Human]

Over the past couple years I do not think most users understand that part of making an online forum is growing and diversifying it; Outright banning people seems like a bad idea when you have that kind of concept in mind. It is like with the America First Nick Fuentes people, don't ban them let them cope so we can laugh at it and maybe one day they will clue in and become normal users.

 

[Retink]

no dude he was just banning people from the site by issuing 100 point warnings to trigger spam bans.

of course those people would just re-reg because if you ban someone outright and they think it's unfair and you don't try to work with them at all they have no reason to respect your ban and stay away.

Ah ok, that's way worse. Thought he was just banning them from threads or subforums, so I take that back, L20park was being unreasonable there.

 

[A Logging Company]

Seriously, though, I never expected the farms of all places would fall victim to Eternal September.

Actually, Usenet is probably pretty cool these days by having the double gatekeeping of a paywall and being an obscure technology to most normies.

 

[The Grimace]

>all the people from 2020-2021 talking about newfags
my fucking sides

 

[Trapped Under Rice]

So, the way I'm reading this is Null is signalling to current users that now is the time we will finally ascend to the Solar warrior aristocracy of the Hyperborean Kiwi Imperium. Just like the kshatriya and brahmin of old. While the shudra and dalit classes of zoomers lurk in perpetual ignominy. This is all as the Laws of Manu perscribe.

Please tell me if I'm misinterpreting this.

 

[What the shit]

Newfags are gay.

 

[Kermit Jizz]

>all the people from 2020-2021 talking about newfags
my fucking sides

Hey man, everything is relative. I'm just glad this wave of 22 newfags killed the "2021 users are the worst" meme. I'll settle for second worst.

 

[ArmouredRobin]

Can we find something more vile than the Chris-Chan sex tape to force new users to watch before registering?

Gunt tape.

 

[(((Obar Lazcano Kamz)))]

Maybe force users to actually read the FAQ before creating an account? I know I've known of this place for years but actually reading it and knowing to use a pseudonym to avoid links back to real life was emphasized in it.

unfortunately you cant force people to care about things they dont care about

 

[Haint]

Ignorance of the rules is no excuse. If required to read the rules, the responsibility falls on the applicant for failing to adhere to the rules. Everybody should be given a chance. One chance. Agreeing to read the rules is there one chance.

An issue I find with A&N is that it's dwellers forget that one should not get emotionally involved with the internet. Laugh, make an insult and move on. It's not that hard.

 

[REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!]

Hey man, everything is relative. I'm just glad this wave of 22 newfags killed the "2021 users are the worst" meme. I'll settle for second worst.

I used to think the same thing about the 2021 users. Now I can see that we're all just awful and are too gay to realize it.

 

[A Gay Retard]

I’d suggest implementing a registration cooldown: once a person registers, the account is restricted from actually posting for x number of weeks. It would force some lurking and weed out people who joined on a whim after hearing Tucker Carlson mention YouTuber Christopher Chan.

 

[Wyald]

Good, keep the retards out.

 

[Beavis]

Get rid of A&H forums.

 

[stupid orc]

Get rid of A&H forums.

A&H makes the tranny jannies sperg and what could be better then that?

 

[Disheveled Human]

Disclaimers never work people read them and still ignore them you need to send a personal warning to them. Remember everyone is special and needs special treatment. The best thing for A&H is to only ban anything illegal on it and let the pile of garbage burn because that is what it is.

 

[Autistic Joe]

That's stupid. You're stupid. Just charge new accounts like $10 or whatever to sign up. Get paid, you dumb Serb! You can always ban them afterwards.

Bonus points if they're allowed to keep re-registering for another :tenbux: after being banned. Just as long as he doesn't start charging the rest of us for avatar changes, or to use the search feature lol.

 

[Seymour Duncan]

Oh yeah, time to feel smug about the account I never bothered really using and go back to lurking without an account again!

 

[Retarded INTP]

I've never put a dollar into advertising this website. We are mostly hidden on search engines. Despite this, our userbase doubles every year. It's 100% word of mouth. This is why.

Also, most of them are complete fucking morons lmao

 

[Your Favorite New Friend]

The kids who grew up with social media practice about as much infosec as their boomer grandparents. Apparently only those who grew up in web 1.0 learnt the value of not attaching your virtual shit to your actual identity.

Vernor Vinge wrote True Names in 1981, about a decade before the web even started to take shape. The idea of staying anonymous (pseudonymous, really) to avoid being killed, captured or controlled is featured prominently.

As the web became more and more a normal part of everyday life, it inevitably became more familiar and less terrifying. To Boomers and Zoomers the web is Facebook, Youtube and TikTok. They missed Mitnick being treated as if he could start a nuclear war by whistling and the decades when we were all told that if you told someone your real name online they'd kidnap and rape or murder you.