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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.
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whatever I feel like said:
In all fairness, I remember that and it was a good time doxing trannies. Bad time that a lot of the dox were incorrect because people didn't put the work in. It was that one month where Lowtax stayed sober long enough to convince you all that he was cool, right before his inevitable fifteenth freakout.
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Was the the botched attempt at getting Facts are Useless happened? Cause I can't remember if it was then or during one of the other events. Also, falling for the name Kirk Johnson, and not checking to find out that it's goatse man.

I like this place a lot but that was honestly shameful.
 
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Absolutego said:
The last 70 pages or so of this thread are like a microcosm of the subforum it's discussing, serving as a honeypot for local lolcows to out themselves, and I for one am loving it.
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So you mean over 4/5ths of the thread then?
 
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In A&H he's actually required to do both.
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Where? All it says is cite an article. It doesn't say you can't use archive links. Archive links also include a link to the original anyway. And if you just cite directly to kotaku or some shit people will complain a lot more because nobody wants to give that fucking garbage ad revenue.
 
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AnOminous said:
Where? All it says is cite an article. It doesn't say you can't use archive links. Archive links also include a link to the original anyway. And if you just cite directly to kotaku or some shit people will complain a lot more because nobody wants to give that fucking garbage ad revenue.
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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.
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And must link to the original article. Right in the OP.
 
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