"political sperging" is the most misused sticker on this site

[skykiii]

(So here's a post that is going to get a lot of "autistic" stickers....)

Seriously, most times I see it, its on a post that most normal people would not read as political at all, and is only "political" because either

A) the person awarding the sticker has some autistic word-association going on in their head.

(For example I once saw someone give that label to a post where someone said "my girlfriend tried to gaslight me," and when asked the sticker-giver claimed its because "gaslighting" is an inherently political concept... even though the poster was talking about his girlfriend).

Or

B) Mentioning real-world events. Apparently to some people, acknowledging real things that happened--even if you only acknowledge it as a fact without otherwise passing judgment on it--is inherently political.

"Man, the grass in my front yard grew really big after last nights rain"

"OMG you acknowledged that grass grows? Political sperging!"

Another variant I've seen is

C) the discussion is political, but the sticker is applied inconsistently, sometimes even incoherently.

For example:

GUY 1 = "I just played Adventures of Lolo on NES and it had a blue boy and a pink girl! Blue and pink are trans colors! This NES game is trans propaganda!"

GUY 2 = "Dude, its a game from the 1980s and the tradition of blue boy, pink girl goes back to before trannies existed. Quit being schizo."

Somehow Guy 2 will earn a "politisperging" sticker.... for saying the game isn't political....

(Often Guy 1 will receive no sticker despite, you know, being the guy who made it about politics in the first place. Funny how that works).

......... This has been your once-in-a-lifetime rant about stickers. Collect them all and you can be a Sticker Star!

 

[Gog & Magog]

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

im sympathetic to your plight. ive noticed that users can be a bit inconsistent in how they give out neg stickers. but you have to remember, at the end of the day the stickers dont really mean much.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

I rate people that on the boards I can because it is funny, you retard.

 

[Ultrapenguin]

Ok instead I gave you a "deviant" sticker because idk if I've given many of those out before. It's a premium sticker, for if you or someone you know buys the Kiwi Farms season pass.

The whole thing is sort of Pay To Win if you ask me, the "Semper Fi" is way too strong a support sticker. Hopefully the devs will address that in one of the upcoming patches.

(For example I once saw someone give that label to a post where someone said "my girlfriend tried to gaslight me," and when asked the sticker-giver claimed its because "gaslighting" is an inherently political concept... even though the poster was talking about his girlfriend).

They're probably saying that "gaslighting" is a reddit tier buzzword. Traditionally that's called manipulation, or deceit, something along those lines.

 

[Night Crawler]

Stickers are just an upvote downvote system disguised as something else. It's a placebo to keep whiny faggots from spamming the mods up with requests to have people banned for posting something they don't like. From what I have seen posted this doesn't work either. Upvotes and downvotes are Reddit tier faggotry. No forum I used in the past ever had such a system. The most I ever saw was a post count. Then when Reddit came on the scene with its upvote and downvote faggotry it became popular. Forums started adopting it to compete. It's just upvote downvote faggotry in another package. Same product different package. They call them "stickers" on KF.

You are right. Political sperging gets abused. But the most abused "stickers" are the dumb MATI and autistic stickers. Like 95% of the time the people marking posts with the dumb MATI or autistic "stickers" are the ones that are dumb MATI and autistic. I see the abuse all the time. Especially in certain threads.

It's funny because most of the forum users here seem to be obsessed with the old internet. But they all embrace something started by Reddit and seem to enjoy it. Nothing says new internet like Reddit and it's faggotry. Reddit is absolute total cancer.

The only positive thing I can say about the "stickers" is that it's good that it doesn't have an impact on the user because of all the abuse. It's why I said it's a placebo. It has no effect. I have seen users on here with reaction scores in the negatives and they were still posting. Some of the old alt-right forums I used to visit had upvoting and downvoting systems. Brigading was popular on these forums. If you pissed a weeb shit off he would sit around all day and "neg rep" you till your rep was destroyed and you were stuck with limited posting ability. It's just a system for weirdo faggots.

On the old internet you either ignored someone's post and moved on with your life or you tell them how fucking stupid their shit is. Of course "flame wars" would start over this a good bit of the time. I think they call them slap fights now. The mods would step in, and it would be handled that way. There was no upvote and downvote faggotry. You had to learn to deal with differing opinions like a normal person and not an autistic screeching faggot loser.

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

genuinely, who pays attention to what kinda stickers they get?

 

[The Last Stand]

Sounds straightforward to me. Maybe stop political sperging.

 

[skykiii]

genuinely, who pays attention to what kinda stickers they get?

Chris-chan maybe?

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

genuinely, who pays attention to what kinda stickers they get?

Everytime I get good ratings, or ‘pozzed’ as I like to say, my day gets a little better.

 

[Some Dumb Faggot]

People who care about stickers have to the biggest faggots around. Who cares?

 

[skykiii]

On the old internet you either ignored someone's post and moved on with your life or you tell them how fucking stupid their shit is. Of course "flame wars" would start over this a good bit of the time. I think they call them slap fights now. The mods would step in, and it would be handled that way. There was no upvote and downvote faggotry. You had to learn to deal with differing opinions like a normal person and not an autistic screeching faggot loser.

Probably the best it ever got was Usenet, which had no moderation--I've heard of a thing called "killfiles" which I think only some usenet browser supported (none of mine ever did) and even back then I thought they were dumb.

Once the internet started moving towards web-based forums though is when a lot of the rot started. Now you had moderation and all the faggotry that brings. Ignore buttons also enabled all sorts of autist behavior. I recall so many people who would put someone on ignore but then respond to/talk about the people they're ignoring anyway, going entirely by third-party misquotes.

To be honest, the old internet wasn't much better about making people learn to deal with differences. In fact most times I saw people use the term "flame war" it was usually just a very civil disagreement... but to the kind of socially maladjusted people who use the internet, disagreement = insult and thus, flame war.

The biggest problem is text based communication itself. A lot of people will interpret things like forum posts thru their own current headspace. You know how it goes... you're laying back in bed, see something you wanna respond to, and you hash out something with a few jokes and chuckles and even a jab at yourself to make it clear there's no hard feelings.... only to come back the next morning to find that somehow people online read it as an "anger-induced screed."

People who care about stickers have to the biggest faggots around. Who cares?

You just said it: The biggest faggots around.

 

[Chin of Campbell]

Disagree, it's MATI for sure, because people tend to give it to posts that make them mad rather than posts that are made in anger.

 

[Some Dumb Faggot]

You just said it: The biggest faggots around.

I'm not the one bitching about online stickers that mean nothing. This isn't Reddit, if someone neg-rates you get over it.

 

[Jewthulhu]

I think the political sperg sticker should be unlocked everywhere.

 

[Tablet County]

But the most abused "stickers" are the dumb MATI and autistic stickers. Like 95% of the time the people marking posts with the dumb MATI or autistic "stickers" are the ones that are dumb MATI and autistic. I see the abuse all the time. Especially in certain threads.

Somebody's been getting negrated a lot I see.

 

[skykiii]

I'm not the one bitching about online stickers that mean nothing. This isn't Reddit, if someone neg-rates you get over it.

You just responded to a self-effacing joke response getting mad.

 

[Named User]

I do get a little sad when I get Autistic stickers.

 

[Seafarer]

Hey at least it actually gets used unlike the poor dislike rating

Edit: see? Even now people would rather give this post the feels rating.

 

[beautiful person]

Acknowledging stickers gay af.

But also, I'm pretty sure I'm misusing the drink sticker most of the time.

Disagree, it's MATI for sure, because people tend to give it to posts that make them mad rather than posts that are made in anger.

People need to be reminded what these stickers used to mean. MATI sticker was originally A-Logging, as in, seething at cows rather than being amused by them, usually because they vaguely remind you of yourself. Or the TMI sticker, which used to be for Powerleveling, as in, posting revealing information about yourself, especially information that would be considered by normal people to be personally embarassing. A-Logging and Powerleveling also tended to be directly linked to each other, because people would powerlevel in order to compare themselves favorably to a particular cow, which is exactly what Anthony Logotto (A-Log) was all about when it came to Chris Chan.