Selecting a Despot for the Autism Thunderdome

[Nobunaga]

Maybe start by hiring people who don't have a stick up their ass and a few years without being involved in gay drama over stupid shit

 

[Happy Fish]

Lmao. You really need the "no longer cares about anything at all" tag to get in. The people who would make good A&N mods are people who share the ideology of the core population, at least somewhat respect it, or are actual openly enthusiastic supporters, but don't completely tard out when their minority opinions are disagreed with.

My moderation style is basically just "go at it faggots just don't spam" anyway. If y'all looking to clean house I don't know where to begin, other than saying I am willing to help how I can even if that just means finding greener pastures and wishing you all the best.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Autism contests, like the glaadiators

More like GLADDiators.

 

[DumbDude42]

Also, in general, it seems a lot of people don't even skim the article. I see so many A&N replies where it's obvious the person only read the headline. If you aren't even going to read the OP why are you replying? I know some OPs are kind of long. Then at least skim and see if there's anything you want to address.

it's the natural reaction people have to clickbait headlines that are designed to evoke maximum outrage in the reader

 

[Dr. Ricearoni]

Not really respectful. You're addressing someone in a caustic, passive-aggressive manner, provoking someone into an emotional response.

Baiting someone to play on their emotions is not respectful.

You had some crappy kindergarten education man.

See, this is what I mean about disingenuous people with nothing to contribute. You posited a question, I offered an answer, and as you didn't like my answer, you've instead decided to attack me.
This is why the thunderdome is garbage.

 

[draggs]

Not really respectful. You're addressing someone in a caustic, passive-aggressive manner, provoking someone into an emotional response.

Baiting someone to play on their emotions is not respectful.

You had some crappy kindergarten education man.

Bret screwed Bret was very respectful

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

Just make it some pussy with a chip on their shoulder from High school bullying and be done with it.

 

[Burd Turglar]

I saw it earlier and I agree with the concept of putting a time limit on how long you need to be a member before you can even touch the thunderdome. I would say outright ban anyone not T&H but that comes across like a shitty pay wall and let's be real, plenty of T&H are dumb as shit too.

I would say mods should be threadbanning the absolute mongoloids that get into gay slap fights in threads, especially off topic slap fights.

Temp bans from the subforum to lazy ass holes that post terrible OPs and if they continue, perma bans.

A hidden sticker that acts like a tally function to keep track of troublesome and ultra try hard spergs who think their saving the white race from their keyboard and once they get to a certain point ban action takes place.

Heavy handed temp and perma bans for try hard "Nazis". Fuck off faggots, the Aryan nation would make you their pass around bussy. This would have saved us from that angry Canadian fuck whit.

Temp thread ban for any and every retard that clearly didn't read the article. This is a serious issue within A&N.

I don't think this all needs to be a forever thing but I do agree that this sub forum needs to be reigned in. I spend my time in a lot of different parts of the site but I do spend a lot of time reading in the thunderdome and it's becoming quite the black hole for fun discussion and I read the same shit over and fucking over.


This is all just spit balling while I sip a mojito in the sunshine, I could workshop some ideas and probably come up with some more ideas if you find any of this interesting @Null

 

[Gar For Archer]

I have no master plan but maybe closing it off to people below a certain post count would be an option. It certainly would cut down on people joining just for the political sperging and sock puppeting. Alternatively maybe requiring posts that aren't completely retarded in the on topic forums for x amount of posts in A&N? I in no way am volunteering my services here, I don't want to go crazy.

Post count is a bad idea, that just encourages spam posting in other forums.

At the very least you would have to tie it to ratings or account points but I dunno if that’s a good idea either.

Seconding the idea of a time limit for new accounts to post in A&H, though IMO it should be one year instead of 3 months. That will heavily discourage people joining just to spew shit over recent events.

 

[Nick Gars]

The only reasonable thing I personally can come up with is limiting new accounts from posting in the Thunderdome for a set amount of time, limiting daily posts and increasing that limit gradually for users who have shown they're not just on the board to sperg and start slap fights.

There's likely a far better solution, but that's the best solution I can come up with. I know I'm guilty of sperging on occasion, so I feel a post limit would encourage a behavior of actual discourse rather than raging into the void without consequence.

 

[Mega Man II Intro - GB]

I'll admit, I don't go into a lot of threads that seem to have problems, and I ignore users who seem to be here solely to rile up others. So maybe I'm a bit of an optimist about cleaning the place up. But here's my take.

Any rules that apply artificial limits to posting will just annoy genuine posters while proving a temporary obstacle to those determined to fuck around. An active and reasonable moderation policy is the only thing that will seriously clamp down on the problems.

Thunderdome moderation policy should be based around temp thread & forum bans. Getting into slapfights with other users? Have a little break from posting for a while. Purposely baiting people into yelling at you or each other? A little time out for bad behavior. Moderators then edit [THIS USER IS TAKING A BREAK FOR "X" REASON] or whatever into the post so everyone knows, hey, let's not feed into this or do it ourselves. A little public shaming works on everyone who cares how they're perceived.

If people want to shit up a place they want the ability to keep doing it. By taking away their toys after they start throwing them, they'll learn how to play with their toys or won't be allowed any toys at all. Force people to calm down with the low quality posts. A light touch is all that's needed, and the ability for moderators to be humble. Those who can't appreciate this and continue to shit up the place just get banned.

I know I'll get zero endorsements but I'll still volunteer for the moderation team. I have a genuine desire to see a higher quality of political discussion and spergery.

Give more emphasis to new or pertinent information. Something like an automatic highlight of posts receiving a certain number of stickers would make it much more efficient to surf the highlights to get the QRD on a developing story.

I like this. Since we don't have a winner sticker I use the info sticker to rate higher quality posts. Either the post is informative or it's contributing to good discussion. Either way it doesn't get misapplied too often.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

Post count is a bad idea, that just encourages spam posting in other forums.

At the very least you would have to tie it to ratings or account points but I dunno if that’s a good idea either.

Seconding the idea of a time limit for new accounts to post in A&H, though IMO it should be one year instead of 3 months. That will heavily discourage people joining just to spew shit over recent events.

I'm aware it has issues, but at least if they spam in an on topic forum they can be banned or slapped down. Might drive off some of the more batshit posters.

 

[Local FloRida-man]

it's the natural reaction people have to clickbait headlines that are designed to evoke maximum outrage in the reader

So what we do is have people replace the headline with a hexadecimal code and just post the main article. If people want to sperg about a certain topic they need to actually read the thing to see if it agrees or disagrees with them. No one will do this of course, because reading is gay. This means less posts. Less posts mean less work mods. Perfect.

The titles really are what's causing alot of the combativeness though. People go hunting for specific topics because that's where all the slapfights happen. And I don't just mean A&H regulars. A lot of people use the thunderdome as an autism laundering service. They feel the need to politisperg, go there and find their personal topic, start shit, then return to genpop. Normal kiwis praise them for trolling those poltards/keeping it out of the rest of the site, and A&H takes the heat. The only way to stop this is.... idfk actually. Apartheid?

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

At the very least you would have to tie it to ratings or account points but I dunno if that’s a good idea either.

You'll just start getting targeted negstickers from the cliques who get pissed off, I fear.

Some would say it is already a thing, but it would become an even bigger problem and would result in even more bitching to Null.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

New A&H punishment idea - instead of banning them just limit them to only being able to participate in some thread where the leftoids like HHH conglomerate and take away their posting ability and all ratings except positive ratings for a set amount of time.

We may get investigated by the UN for human rights abuses but tbh that's just firmly worded tut tutting.

I disagree with @Hollywood Hulk Hogan but I don’t think I’ve ever gotten in a slap fight with him and I kinda like him. No homo.

Maybe start by hiring people who don't have a stick up their ass and a few years without being involved in gay drama over stupid shit

He could hire some cheap Filipinos to moderate from some dubious business process outsourcer.

 

[RiverFalcon]

The thing that amazes me is that I have recently been a regular in a thread in Autistic Thunder Dome that has equivalents in (I believe) both General and Health, where those threads are way more autistic and filled with slap fights than the one in Happenings, are these sub-boards really still that bad?

 

[dirt lamb]

just get rid of it already. you've been playing with the idea for long enough. the amount of good content that comes from these boards can also be found on places like reddit, the rest of it is shitposting and its attracting so many users that 1. arent here to laugh at lolcows and 2. have no idea how to use the site but #1 is enough of a reason to get rid of it entirely.

 

[Cat Bread]

There are some good suggestions that have been made in this thread and I do think that if they were well applied, they would help with managing A&H. I also really like @Clout $ Monei 's idea about tying posted that are highlighted to a high number of "informative" reacts. Other members have already voiced their concerns about needing to trim the fat/noise in massive, rapidly updated, happenings threads, and I think that implementing this kind of post-highlighting system would make navigating those threads and getting to the meat of the topic much less painful.

Post count is a bad idea, that just encourages spam posting in other forums.

At the very least you would have to tie it to ratings or account points but I dunno if that’s a good idea either.

Seconding the idea of a time limit for new accounts to post in A&H, though IMO it should be one year instead of 3 months. That will heavily discourage people joining just to spew shit over recent events.

We could make a minimum post count one of many conditions required to access A&H. I have had experience with communities that had a sub forum hidden from guests and new users. In that case, members had to have been members for at least 6 months, reached a minimum post threshold, and had to be in good standing (ex: no recent warnings or temporary bans) before access was granted. Not disclosing the eligibility criteria made it such that users were less likely to spam low effort posts to rack up their post count.

EDIT: I just wanted to add that I acknowledge that the potential for abuse does exist (as with any system) and there will always be someone who slips through the cracks, but it could be something to consider. It may even slow things down a tad which might be a plus depending on your preferences.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

The only reasonable thing I personally can come up with is limiting new accounts from posting in the Thunderdome for a set amount of time, limiting daily posts and increasing that limit gradually for users who have shown they're not just on the board to sperg and start slap fights.

There's likely a far better solution, but that's the best solution I can come up with. I know I'm guilty of sperging on occasion, so I feel a post limit would encourage a behavior of actual discourse rather than raging into the void without consequence.

You can also have the time limit reduced or eliminated by contributing to the site ie sending Null some cash to get True & Honest.

A post limit that resets every 24 hours can reduce some of the spam.

 

[Mega Man II Intro - GB]

arent here to laugh at lolcows

The off-topic forums have almost as many posts as the thunderdome and those aren't about lolcows either. I watch cow threads that rarely get bumped with anything more than "this is a funny cow" from someone who just tuned in and I watch off-topic threads that get quality posts on a regular basis. If it's a forum for lolcows only, okay, but I don't think the userbase in general wants that. Thunderdome is more debatable but again, it's getting a huge volume of posts and a lot of the posts are quality.