Why has Null put the join dates back?

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Title.

Will we see a reverse decision on sticker notifications?

 

[Solid Hyrax]

@New Fag your name fits you so much right now.

 

[COME ON OUT YOU RAPIST]

I thought pink triangles were meant to designate disruptive newfags. It's why the triangle is pink.

 

[Vecr]

I thought pink triangles were meant to designate disruptive newfags. It's why the triangle is pink.

The triangle's pink because of Nazi Germany.

 

[COME ON OUT YOU RAPIST]

The triangle's pink because of Nazi Germany.

Is the newfag color pink because of Nazi Germany's triangle, or was the historical triangle chosen because the newfag color was pink?

 

[Dysnomia]

This quote pisses me off, why did he feel the need to specify "flat", as though there's any other kind of circle

Stop misgendering shapes transphobe.

 

[Cat Phuckers]

Maybe he realized it was a RETARDED idea.

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

Because he's a hormonal bitch-ass nigger, as usual?

 

[BumboDumbo]

Call me a cringe poster, a sperg, a redditer, runs off me like water on a duck's back. Reveal my pink join date and watch me recoil, I've been found out!

 

[SentinentCloud]

lack of fatherly figures leads to boys growing up with issues being assertive

 

[Bucephalus]

The problem with registration dates is that it makes new users not want to sign up for the site, it makes them not want to contribute, and it divides the forum's userbase. None of these are conducive to a healthy website.

Speaking as a 2024 registration date newGOD: I had lurked on this site and watched the podcast for several years before biting the bullet and making an account. One of the things that made me hesitant to register, before I did in May (when they weren't around), was registration dates. Why would I want to sign up for a site that punishes me for making an account?

Everyone with a post-2021 registration date essentially has a permanent pink triangle affixed to their account. It doesn't matter if your posts are generally welcome contributions to a thread, or if you're a dumb faggot that shitposts constantly, if your registration date is bright pink and visible next to all of your posts, people will automatically profile you as "stupid newfag, will never be One Of Us™, ignore their posts." This doesn't happen if they have to click your name to see your registration date instead, like they did a couple of days ago.

If anyone in this thread remembers when Something Awful was relevant, you'll recall it has this feature where anyone who signs up has this as their profile picture,

and they can't change it for a year. For 365 days, all of their posts are tainted by the fact that they're a stupid newbie, regardless of quality. Like many of Lowtax's decisions, this was (and is) stupid. I am not going to pay $5 to sign up to post on a forum so I can be called a stupid newbie by oldfag losers with accounts made before the Cambrian explosion. This forum may be free, but the same basic principle applies here.

@Null, this is a dumb change, and the only thing it adds to the Farms is a caste system. This website should generally strive to be less like India whenever possible, not more. Please go back to eating pizza instead of curry. Thank you.

 

[Null]

Because the color is pink?

 

[Asian tech support]

Everyone with a post-2021 registration date essentially has a permanent pink triangle affixed to their account.

this is a pretty good idea ngl

 

[WelperHelper99]

@Null, this is a dumb change, and the only thing it adds to the Farms is a caste system. This website should generally strive to be less like India whenever possible, not more. Please go back to eating pizza instead of curry. Thank you

Bro, it's just the color of your join date. It means absolutely nothing. Lmao.

 

[Bucephalus]

Because the color is pink?

I mean, the color association certainly doesn't help. If all of the registration dates were light grey or white or some other neutral color, it'd be less of an issue, but that wouldn't solve the core problem of dividing the userbase into cliques based on seniority.

My opinion is biased, but I think people should be judged by the quality of their posts, not how old their account is, and having the registration date visible underneath everyone's profile picture poisons the well when you're looking at a post made by someone with a newer account.

It's creating a problem when there wasn't one a week ago.

this is a pretty good idea ngl

Bro, it's just the color of your join date. It means absolutely nothing. Lmao.

Race traitors, both of you. Shame. Shaaame.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

It really pleased me to read a post earlier and think "This guy is a blithering retard. Bet he's a newfag" and then be surprised to find a bright pink 2024 under his username. It's fun when my prejudices are proven correct.

Touch grass, faggot.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Race traitors, both of you. Shame. Shaaame

Bro it's literally the color pink. Who gives a fuck?

 

[Lokenstien]

Everyone with a post-2021 registration date essentially has a permanent pink triangle affixed to their account.

I was going to go point by point on your post but it's not worth it because the main take away is that you are putting waaaaayyy too much thought into, on average, how join dates are perceived. Newfags get bullied for their behavior, for not reading, for being annoying, for failing to learn and understand the site culture, etc. I see enough of 2024 join dates who make competent, comedic and contributive posts who aren't bullied for that little pink date under their name.

Touch grass, faggot.

Get better material.

 

[A-Stump]

Who cares

 

[BULLY HUNTER_78]

There are join dates?

Hello fellow phone poster. We are brothers in our blindness to join dates.

 

[harmy.kook]

Because of all the shit going down probably.

Probably makes it easier to mock the Gay-Op'ers/Feds