Selecting a Despot for the Autism Thunderdome

Secret Asshole said:
5) If a discussion is not going anywhere and is not getting moved and just degenerates into people calling each other names and screaming at each other, you will each get one warning and banned from the cesspit for 3 days as a cool down period. The next time it happens, you are permanently banned from the cesspit.
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I'd start with 2 thread bans, but I know I'm too nice for this job.
draggs said:
Why it's unacceptable everywhere else but apparently acceptable for muh politicks has always been kind of a mystery to me.
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Because dealing with it requires actual work and @Secret Asshole is the last man standing. That's what HK-47 was trying to work toward before he burned out and left us to persist in this doomed world we have created.
 
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Null said:
I disagree that I shouldn't be able to discuss something newsworthy on my own site though. Where else am I going to post about shit? I go to /pol/ after the TX shooting and the threads are mostly just discussions about which of the dead children are the sexiest. I can't fucking stand 4chan anymore, it's ruined.
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I'm just a newfag, but why not start small? Ban all stickers there and see how it goes. That might help, at least a bit.

gang weeder said:
It sounds like a flat politics ban is incoming.
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That'd be unfortunate as it's essentially the only forum I know of which allows politics but doesn't ban wrongthink. However, nuking it would be much preferable to watching it become just like those other forums ruled by trannies and tranny lovers. Fuck that.
 
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SSj_Ness said:
I'm just a newfag, but why not start small? Ban all stickers there and see how it goes. That might help, at least a bit.


That'd be unfortunate as it's essentially the only forum I know of which allows politics but doesn't ban wrongthink. However, nuking it would be much preferable to watching it become just like those other forums ruled by trannies and tranny lovers. Fuck that.
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How about people who are socks have no say in this
 
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1Tonka_Truck said:
I'd start with 2 thread bans, but I know I'm too nice for this job.

Because dealing with it requires actual work and @Secret Asshole is the last man standing. That's what HK-47 was trying to work toward before he burned out and left us to persist in this doomed world we have created.
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So what you're saying is HK-47 was an essential character and the thread of prophecy has been severed. Damn I guess we could reload from a previous save
 
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draggs said:
So what you're saying is HK-47 was an essential character and the thread of prophecy has been severed. Damn I guess we could reload from a previous save
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HK-47 was just about the best mod this place ever had, managed to keep AnH controlled chaos, and he still go swallowed up in the end, so make of that as you will. (granted trump losing is probably what did him in)
 
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an retard said:
This is kinda outing me as a "current-thing" lurker I guess, because I don't know if this applies to the wider Thunderdome board culture or not and I'm using it as a bit of a case study, but I like the kind of two-state solution that's emerged with the Ukraine threads where both sides got their own corners to have their pro/anti Russian postings, and occasionally a vatnik comes into the MSM thread to piss up the wall and vice versa. Usually when that happens its bad-faith sperging though and kind of sours discussion.

In this case, clamping down on that kind of combativeness by banning them out of that corner would probably improve quality of discussion, but when you prohibit people from shitting where they want it does bring about the hugbox accusations and makes it look like threads have to keep to consensus opinion or the jannies swoop down.

I think in this position where discussion quality is the goal, I would let the hugbox accusations rain in and just threadban people coming in to shit on the thread's consensus. I don't think this necessarily means the consensus should be never be challenged, if you have a good-faith case against someone's opinion that's something that should be posted, but when you can clearly see some fuckin retard is rolling in just to stir shit up because he sees the posters there as ideological opponents or something, they should really just fuck off. I guess it can be hard to differentiate the two sometimes, but there is definitely a class of Thunderdome posters who just aggressively seek out opinions they disagree with in order to be combative and I feel like a good mod would be able to identify these people and treat them accordingly when they come into a thread with no other clear intention than to shit on the floor.

NOT volunteering btw, janny work sounds like hell and I have under 30 posts and mostly just lurk so its entirely possible my position on this is tilted. Too busy to sweep up full time, too.
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The same thing happened with the Covid threads, there's the pro-vax 'mainstream' thread in off topic/health and fitness and the conspiracy/anti-vax/dystopia thread in Happenings and people overwhelmingly kept to their own side's thread. Apart from the occasional bit of mocking and screenshotting the most extreme posts from the other thread (which can easily be stopped and probably should be) it all seemed pretty well behaved and only got ugly when, for example, someone would trot into the pro-vax thread to explain about the 5G transmitters in the vaccines and got what they deserved.

I don't really like echo chambers, but a forum that can keep two completely opposed echo chambers going and playing nicely is a good thing. But there's probably not that many topics that would fit that approach.

Preventing unregistered and new posters from even viewing the AT for 90 days or whatever would stop new people from joining just for those threads, and limiting or culling the current problem users would calm things. But some of the people shitting up those threads are old users with thousands of posts all over the forum who still jump into AT threads to post one line crap or stir shit or be what they seem to think is funny, and they're not necessarily people you'd want to ban from the whole site.
 
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Feline Supremacist said:
I admit, I've made posts that negatively affect the conversation. I'll do my best to restrain myself and not reply to bait posts from now on.
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IMO - I think that should always be the go-to response for any new mod. I think most people don't realize they're actively shitting up the thread. Before going nuclear on someone who doesn't realize they're negatively affecting the conversation, just send them a DM.

There should be a logical chain of escalation from a polite DM all the way up to a permanent site ban that can be used to determine whether a user is capable of integrating into the community or they're an irredeemable niggerfaggot that needs to fuck off. I think 90% of issues can be resolved with a DM chain.
 
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JosephStalin said:
Suggest putting people on ignore instead of pigfighting them. That's what I do. That way I need not play by their rules and they rent no space in my head. Suggest if everyone did this there would be rather less need for a mod/mods/despot/whatever.
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I've been doing this for almost a year now.

They just bitch that it's "cowardly" and real people can just ignore stuff without the ignore feature, and then precede to keep shitting up threads and not ignoring shit they don't like, sadly.

Ignore feature pretty much saved my account and caused me to mellow out. When someone acts like an annoying retard for 3 or more posts I just ignore them. Works great until someone else in the thread starts fighting with them.

I also suggest to people to turn off notifications for stickers, and would suggest that this just be a standard practice cause it just leads to people getting pissed off over things that ultimately don't matter.
 
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Like I said in previous posts is this site has a bias problem, not from the top down but bottom up, all the twitter and reddit banned people tend to have more Right leaning views and use this site as an alternative which is fine but really makes this place a pro-donald, pro-russia, anti-vaxx, anti-abortion, pro-gun, anti-government place in A&H, Me as a centrist regularly get into arguments over my usually milquetoast takes because its not extreme enough I present arguments and videos which pisses off the the bulk of the people in the thread and then they will make snide comments like "Oh looks like Disheveled is slapfighting in the thread isn't that a ban?" and what the fuck are the mods to do when people start brigading against a few users with different takes? They get tossed out of the discussion and feel burned by it. It just becomes a hugbox and becomes a /pol post.
 
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Disheveled Human said:
Like I said in previous posts is this site has a bias problem, not from the top down but bottom up, all the twitter and reddit banned people tend to have more Right leaning views and use this site as an alternative which is fine but really makes this place a pro-donald, pro-russia, anti-vaxx, pro-abortion, pro-gun, anti-government place in A&H, Me as a centrist regularly get into arguments over my usually milquetoast takes because its not extreme enough I present arguments and videos which pisses off the the bulk of the people in the thread and then they will make snide comments like "Oh looks like Disheveled is slapfighting in the thread isn't that a ban?" and what the fuck are the mods to do when people start brigading against a few users with different takes? They get tossed out of the discussion and feel burned by it. It just becomes a hugbox and becomes a /pol post.
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The only thing your dumbass does is a-log people daddy null doesnt like or go into a thread, start some shit and start acting like a victim when you get inevitably kicked out
Fuck off
 
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Nobunaga said:
The only thing your dumbass does is a-log people daddy null doesnt like or go into a thread, start some shit and start acting like a victim when you get inevitably kicked out
Fuck off
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I was ayylawging Ralph, Jimbo, Dax (dick masterson), Nick Fuentes before Null ever did...
 
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I dunno, I personally don't see too big a reason to change things too much, but that is largely because I neither take the risk of owning the site nor involve myself in the endless shit-slinging slapfights (though they can be amusing to witness). I'd be in favor of strong no-nonsense bans for fedposting though - something like a 3-strike short ban, long ban and perma-ban for those who can't help but try to ruin it for all of us.

I can for sure say that while a politically neutral mod is impossible, one of the obviously left-wing types would be a poor choice. They are basically low-effort trolls who prey on the absolute rock-bottom retardation of the lowest IQ /pol/-posters and can't hit above that weight class and would for sure just rile people up more with power abuse (your Snailslimes for example). On the more left-wing spectrum I could see someone with a temperament like Android Raptor being a good fit, against the political grain but actually going for discussion to elaborate points rather than drive-by low effort. Other people who I respect would be JosephStalin (more right) or The Last Stand (who I see as more center, could be wrong), but a mix absolutely has to be achieved to stop it devolving to left or right. Not nominating anyone specifically, just looking at traits.

In the end, I'd like A&H to stay relatively similar as both a place for free-speech and a containment zoo for the most retarded the rest of the site can laugh at with popcorn in hand, but that toppling tower is hard to balance. I feel I spend most of my time in more general interest oriented threads, but it is nice to let off some steam in A&H without fear now and then and it is unique in that regard basically the internet-wide and I would hate to lose that over some dumbasses taking it way too far.
 
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