Should off-topic boards qualify for autofeatures?

[DICKPICSRUS]

Why not feature new lolcow threads to help get them started

 

[Black Waltz]

I think the only time an A&H thread should be featured is if it's something a lolcow did, like that incel in Canada who ran over people.

 

[DICKPICSRUS]

I think the only time an A&H thread should be featured is if it's something a lolcow did, like that incel in Canada who ran over people.

or something big like a shooting

 

[Black Waltz]

or something big like a shooting

I mean, if a lolcow did the shooting sure

 

[Audit]

The A&H board is already filled with enough politisperging and doesn't need the help by getting its threads featured. Already, we're dealing with enough low effort comments and rants in that forum and it's become like a second deep thoughts sub forum. Keep all of the other off-topic boards featured though, I do enjoy the occasional game-related thread that pops up and gets enough posts to warrant being featured. It's always nice to see stuff like the Ugandan Knuckles meme spiral out of control and laugh at the shitshow that was Mass Effect: Andromeda.

 

[DICKPICSRUS]

I mean, if a lolcow did the shooting sure

Pretty much all shooters tend to be lolcows

 

[Monika H.]

Pretty much all shooters tend to be lolcows

Or halal, don't you think @FuckYou ?

 

[Luigi]

Lolcows should be a priority. News only if they are featured manually and are actually important (stuff that relates to us, for example. Not some britbong baby)

 

[usernames can change now!]

If there's a big enough happening to be actually worth a featured thread, it would/should be featured manually. Autofeaturing a thread that boils down to "lol califorenglandorida" is redundant.

 

[Super Collie]

If there's a big enough happening to be actually worth a featured thread, it would/should be featured manually. Autofeaturing a thread that boils down to "lol califorenglandorida" is redundant.

This.

I was originally going to vote for option 3, but then I took a look at the boards in the off topic section and none of them are really integral to the Farms. I don't think I have ever seen a featured thread from anything other than A&H and maybe Deep Thoughts, so instead I just voted for option 2 to omit the entirety of the off topic section from the feature algorithm because it seems like the easier thing to implement.

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

I voted for keeping OT out of features. Especially A&H. Kiwi Farms isn't a fucking news aggregator and featuring threads from that board even by virtue of automatic algorithms encourages people to use the site as such. If you're averse to seeing CNN news stories just go to Drudge Report or something for your news; you'll get better sources anyways.

Personally I'm not too big on the auto-feature function to begin with. Nine times out of ten a thread gets featured because most of the traffic is just soergy arguments or low-effort shitposting. Threads should only be featured manually by staff because the actual content is particularly noteworthy in actual context of lolcows, like if Chris gets arrested again or if Flynt wins that seat in Congress.

 

[Computery Guy]

Honestly speaking as someone who doesn't think A&H is "Hitler 2: This Time It's Slapfights"...

Yeah, no, don't feature Off-Topic. We're still a lolcow board first and foremost, News sees a lot of traffic that isn't related to that, and as far the autofeature algorithim goes the other Off-Topic boards may as well not exist altogether.

 

[Strelok]

Offtopic may or may not be a good idea to autofeature, but A&H is a dumpster fire. It's an even more autistic version of -insert news website- comment section.

Not to mention, by virtue of being about current events, A&H would dominate the featured threads unless given some sort of different weight in the backend. Someone posts about a politician drinking a beer and it reaches 10 pages in an hour.