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.

 

[AprilRains]

wha what did i do

Same thing I did, whatever that was.

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

Megathreads are awful when it comes to news stuff and Catparty has the best clickbait.

 

[Fubby]

You know exactly what you did.

i am just a simple monkey

 

[Freya]

I hate finding a genuinely interesting story, considering posting it here and then realizing this entire board is just THE SO CALLED TOLERANT LEFT outrage porn

 

[AnOminous]

I hate finding a genuinely interesting story, considering posting it here and then realizing this entire board is just THE SO CALLED TOLERANT LEFT outrage porn

The worst that could happen is nobody responds to it. So why not just do it? Just don't be surprised if it turns into "and this is the doing of the Jews" within 3 posts.

 

[Freya]

Just don't be surprised if it turns into "and this is the doing of the Jews" within 3 posts.

ok, lets see if it takes 3 posts

 

[MrJokerRager]

ok, lets see if it takes 3 posts

The Jews did this and are behind this subversion.

 

[It's HK-47]

I hate finding a genuinely interesting story, considering posting it here and then realizing this entire board is just THE SO CALLED TOLERANT LEFT outrage porn

I very nearly posted that in A&H, but got sidetracked with the DOJ threatening to beat Yale's ass for discriminating against Asians and Whites, instead. I don't think that original story is uninteresting or wouldn't do just fine in A&H. I mean, if you think the board has too much outrage porn, which it kind of does, why not offer alternatives?

I think that the biggest seizure of terrorist-related digital currency in U.S. history is pretty interesting, after all.

 

[The Pink Panther]

this is the doing of the Jews

Always.

 

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This board is plagued with bottom of the barrel clickbait that barely ever gets more than 20 or 30 responses. See: Almost every thread started by the users "Catparty" or "Arm pit cream". Most of these threads are faux outrage bait (or some other shit nobody cares about), which is a shame, because then real news go unnoticed, and there's no discourse of value happening here. A News board adds a lot of value to the site but not when it's filled to the brim with crap.

I find a good proxy for the quality of information in an article is whether it is published by a source, like Teen Vogue, or MSNBC, that Wikipedia considers a reliable source.

Only articles from a publication that has been denied this status should be allowed.

 

[and 3 others]

I find a good proxy for the quality of information in an article is whether it is published by a source, like Teen Vogue, or MSNBC, that Wikipedia considers a reliable source.

Only articles from a publication that has been denied this status should be allowed.

But what about when the purpose of posting the article is to laugh at the idiot who wrote it?

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

The worst that could happen is nobody responds to it. So why not just do it? Just don't be surprised if it turns into "and this is the doing of the Jews" within 3 posts.

I mean to be fair if you default to "the Jews did this" you're right far more often than wrong.

 

[X Prime]

RIP Arm Pit Cream.

May flights of Canadian geese sing thee to thy rest.

 

[Absolutego]

RIP Arm Pit Cream.

May flights of Canadian geese sing thee to thy rest.

I assume it was chat nonsense? it's always chat nonsense.

EDIT: did he pull a @snailslime and hand out too many top hats?

 

[X Prime]

It was chat nonsense, apparently. I'm not aware of the full story except that he defended Twinkie. Twinkie has been tempbanned until the 26th, but no idea if APC is coming back.

 

[mr.moon1488]

It was chat nonsense, apparently. I'm not aware of the full story except that he defended Twinkie. Twinkie has been tempbanned until the 26th, but no idea if APC is coming back.

It's a temp ban.

 

[WinchesterPremium]

I mean to be fair if you default to "the Jews did this" you're right far more often than wrong.

Only if we're talking about your moma.

It was chat nonsense, apparently. I'm not aware of the full story except that he defended Twinkie. Twinkie has been tempbanned until the 26th, but no idea if APC is coming back.

We should probably just ban everyone who uses the chat. Nothing but trash.

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

Most of the only chat users are fags. Nothing would be lost telling them to kick rocks.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

I’m noticing articles from three to five years ago are being bumped back into the spotlight.

 

[cuddle striker]

The worst that could happen is nobody responds to it. So why not just do it? Just don't be surprised if it turns into "and this is the dong of the Jews" within 3 posts.

The Jews did this and are behind this dong.

I’m noticing articles from three to five years ago are being bumped back into the spotlight.

same here, is it new users? there's been a bunch of them.