- Joined
- Nov 14, 2012
A global rule on the Kiwi Farms, which has existed in perpetuity without alteration since the day I started running the site in 2013, has been:
If you have nothing to say, say nothing. If you don't care about the topic, don't reply to it.
The forum sees over 10,000 daily sign-ins. We have over 2,000 threads in on-topic areas. Additionally, we have very active off-topic categories for discussing things not related to Internet drama.
If I feature any thread on this website, or if a user posts a Community Happenings thread, there is a guarantee that a not-insignificant portion of general traffic will not care at all. That's why it benefits the forum to have more features and more community updates, not fewer.
There are some groups of people who are very eager to share in the Community Happenings thread anytime anything happens, and then there are some threads in which huge and very funny things happen and nobody outside the thread notices because they don't talk about it. I think a reason a lot of groups don't bother sharing funny things with others is that there is a type of user I will call "feature tourists" who violently shit up every thread that lands on the front page.
In the future, when the forum software rewrite is complete, I will have a more advanced way to limit new posts in featured threads. In particular, I'd like to try a delay between opening a thread you've never read before after it has been featured, and being able to make a new post to it.
Until that is ready (and it will not be for a very long time), people will simply have to exercise human restraint. The two kinds of posts I'd like to see less of are:
I'd also like to see more people trying to post a Community Happenings post. There's a lot of threads that never get featured, even when something funny happens. A lot of more recent posts have been very long, with complete summaries, and images and videos. You don't really need all that. If someone does something and it's a very simple something, a tagline and a link is really all you need. There's not much risk, because if people don't care, they won't post. The absolute worst that can happen is I will delete the post.
If you don't care, don't post.
If you have nothing to say, say nothing. If you don't care about the topic, don't reply to it.
The forum sees over 10,000 daily sign-ins. We have over 2,000 threads in on-topic areas. Additionally, we have very active off-topic categories for discussing things not related to Internet drama.
If I feature any thread on this website, or if a user posts a Community Happenings thread, there is a guarantee that a not-insignificant portion of general traffic will not care at all. That's why it benefits the forum to have more features and more community updates, not fewer.
There are some groups of people who are very eager to share in the Community Happenings thread anytime anything happens, and then there are some threads in which huge and very funny things happen and nobody outside the thread notices because they don't talk about it. I think a reason a lot of groups don't bother sharing funny things with others is that there is a type of user I will call "feature tourists" who violently shit up every thread that lands on the front page.
In the future, when the forum software rewrite is complete, I will have a more advanced way to limit new posts in featured threads. In particular, I'd like to try a delay between opening a thread you've never read before after it has been featured, and being able to make a new post to it.
Until that is ready (and it will not be for a very long time), people will simply have to exercise human restraint. The two kinds of posts I'd like to see less of are:
- Posts that exist simply to state you don't care about the recent feature or community happenings post. Generally, I will threadban these people, but since they don't care it's a weak deterrent.
- Posts that exist simply to state the most obvious, superficial observation possible for the sole purpose of getting a post in as close to the featured post, like a game of horse shoes.
I'd also like to see more people trying to post a Community Happenings post. There's a lot of threads that never get featured, even when something funny happens. A lot of more recent posts have been very long, with complete summaries, and images and videos. You don't really need all that. If someone does something and it's a very simple something, a tagline and a link is really all you need. There's not much risk, because if people don't care, they won't post. The absolute worst that can happen is I will delete the post.
