Articles & Happening Meta Discussion

Articles & Happenings is the third attempt at a news board on the Kiwi Farms. It is a cursed place. Every moderator who has been assigned here has resigned within a year. During 2016, the political crossfire was so bad it spread to different boards and culminated in me banning American news discussion entirely for several months. It has been deleted in its entirety twice. There is no actual discussion here, it's people posting garbage. It leans much further right than the rest of the site and doesn't particularly conduct discussion because dissenting opinions are dogpiled by a thousand memelords posting shit they read on /pol/ without any critical analysis.

The only rules that can be enforced are empirical ones with boolean violation answers. New threads must cite a real source directly and must use the headline of the article as a thread title without any editorializing. Articles must be archived in some way and must link to the original article. Replies that are one word or a reaction images are automatic one-month bans from the board.

I'm creating this now because it seems like this place is here to stay and is one of the largest areas of the entire site. I might as well throw in bare minimum effort to improve it. I don't even try to find mods for here because they will quit, without exception. I've added new prefixes ("Business" and "Crime") just now.

Discuss.


New threads should be made like this.

 

[AJ 447]

Being a fat ball-busting bitch who stepped down from her position and is now actively trying to dictate how things should work when she could have done so when she had the role for months amuses you more.

I'm not fat you faggot furry

 

[X Prime]

I'm just hoping one of them tries to be an inferior form of CDM.

CDM has reregged as Dynastier, you know.

 

[BILLY MAYS]

What A&H exclusives feel.

 

[Absolutego]

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What A&H exclusives feel.

Low-effort bait like this is almost as tiring as all the guaranteed spergouts it generates, tbh. Lazy circlejerking all around is A&H's chief problem.

 

[GS 281]

I'm not fat you faggot furry

Em posting in A&H at :18

 

[Syaoran Li]

Honestly, I think we could use a few more megathreads. The two most obvious ones are a Greta Thunberg thread and one for Jews/Israel/ADL, although I think it'd be best if if we broadened any megathread on Greta to a general climate change thread.

I'd also recommend a megathread for the "Gamergate is responsible for (insert problem here)" threads that Cat Party is infamous for posting to A&H.

 

[Feline Darkmage]

CDM has reregged as Dynastier, you know.

Big if true.

 

[X Prime]

Honestly, I think we could use a few more Megathreads. The two most obvious ones are a Greta Thunberg thread and one for Jews/Israel/ADL, although I think it'd be best if if we broadened any megathread on Greta to a general climate change thread.

My problem with this notion is that people in Weeb Wars are complaining that topics get retreaded in the huge general thread. I can easily see the same happening here. Guess we'd just deal.

 

[Absolutego]

Big if true.

>registered less than two weeks ago
>250 messages and ~1k reaction score.

Yeah that's CDM all right.

 

[X Prime]

Big if true.

@yawning sneasel stated he checked the IP, apparently he didn't bother using a VPN for deniability.

 

[AJ 447]

Em posting in A&H at :18

you in this entire video

 

[Nobunaga]

>people get off topic and post their dumb shit in A&H
>come to the thread to do exactly that
Bravo mods, bravo

 

[AJ 447]

>people get off topic and post their dumb shit in A&H
>come to the thread to do exactly that
Bravo mods, bravo

I'm not a mod

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

I may not like A&H on some occasions, but I have a feeling that quite a few of the people that hate it only do so because it isn't a left-wing echo chamber.

 

[Recoil]

..

My actual suggestions for improving A&H:

1. Disable all ratings. It will cut down on a lot of clutter where people always try to be the first person to make the same tired jokes, discourage dog-piling, and overall I think will foster better discussion.
2. Ban posting op-eds outside of the clickbait thread.
3. Ban users who post duplicate threads.
4. Ban users who post reaction images.
5. Make more megathreads.
6. Limit users to only posting a maximum of 2 threads a day.

emspex is right
If anyone knows how the corruption works its way into the collective discourse, it's gonna be a mod.
If anyone is gonna have a truly objective overview of the way the machine works, it's gonna be a long time mod.

 

[Snow Fox]

I like A&H. While I often bitch about Democrats, I don't really disagree with many of their points. More just their general insanity the last few years. The circle jerking is fucking agitating, but inevitable. Some dissenting opinions are needed for healthy discourse.

you in this entire video

This is fucking terrifying. Thank you for sharing, I know a few people I want to send this to.

 

[Absolutego]

I may not like A&H on some occasions, but I have a feeling that quite a few of the people that hate it only do so because it isn't a left-wing echo chamber.

I'm so tired of this persecution complex A&H regulars have about criticism, and my politics are firmly within the local groupthink. There may be a couple speds mad that this place isn't reddit but most people making fun of A&H are doing so because it's descended into nothing but tired "own the libs"-style circlejerking that is hostile to even mild dissent and makes every thread read like it was written by a chatbot.

 

[BoingBoingBoi]

what about having a&h be OPs only rather than it being a discussion board? most of the time i just read the article and ignore the thread anyway since it's full of trash. there are a million other websites and social media places to shitpost about politics.

 

[heathercho]

CDM has reregged as Dynastier, you know.

CDM was a saint. He is missed.

I may not like A&H on some occasions, but I have a feeling that quite a few of the people that hate it only do so because it isn't a left-wing echo chamber.

If people want to state something in contradiction to what they feel is the narrative, why won't they? Just say it, who gives a fuck?

They're fine to laugh at others and dox people but can't express their opinion or neg rate someone? Get fucked. People worried about dogpiling? What do you think laughing at speds is? That sounds like a right for me not for thee situation. Just say whatever, who cares.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

I'm so tired of this persecution complex A&H regulars have about criticism, and my politics are firmly within the local groupthink. There may be a couple speds mad that this place isn't reddit but most people making fun of A&H are doing so because it's descended into nothing but tired "own the libs"-style circlejerking that is hostile to even mild dissent and makes every thread read like it was written by a chatbot.

"Persecution complex"? I can only speak for myself here, but I don't feel at all "attacked" or "persecuted" when a left-winger posts on A&H or even criticizes A&H as a whole