Retire A&N and Happenings to Spergatory.

[POWER IN MISERY]

do it faggot

 

[Arm Pit Cream]

That absolute feel when the last A&N post is in a thread about a 90yo grandma arrested for sedition for denying the holocaust

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/91yo-h...-is-released-after-second-imprisonment.79188/

 

[FuckedUp]

let's take away everyone's guns because someone had an epic gamer moment at a skewl

 

[Xarpho]

Null is a cuck for announcing that A&H/Happenings would not only be locked "until further notice" but then locking said threads so no discussion can happen.

First off, why the fuck is Null white-knighting Frederick? Brennan basically backstabbed Null and started a rumor that Null "took money from a cripple" all while never releasing the 8ch update that was planned, and 8ch getting fucked was a long, multi-year process that had far more than just DANG, DIRTY TROLLS trying to corrupt the site.

Second off, Null was the one that basically let his longtime shitposter-in-chief CatParty have free reign of the subforum post every far-left, word salad article he could find, and then cried about A&H's users when the pitchforks came out. Board-banning CatParty and Arm Pit Cream would literally solve 98% of A&H's problems overnight, but that can't happen because of muh /pol/ boogeyman.

 

[Sanshain]

Good. A&H is the worst part of this entire site. Burn it to the ground.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

Null is a cuck for announcing that A&H/Happenings would not only be locked "until further notice" but then locking said threads so no discussion can happen.

First off, why the fuck is Null white-knighting Frederick? Brennan basically backstabbed Null and started a rumor that Null "took money from a cripple" all while never releasing the 8ch update that was planned, and 8ch getting fucked was a long, multi-year process that had far more than just DANG, DIRTY TROLLS trying to corrupt the site.

Second off, Null was the one that basically let his longtime shitposter-in-chief CatParty have free reign of the subforum post every far-left, word salad article he could find, and then cried about A&H's users when the pitchforks came out. Board-banning CatParty and Arm Pit Cream would literally solve 98% of A&H's problems overnight, but that can't happen because of muh /pol/ boogeyman.

This isn't wrong. Every time I open A&H or Happenings, half the damn postings are CatParty crossposting random news articles.

Granted, everyone has done that in this or that thread or forum, but holy balls, he tosses stuff up like he's being paid for it. Nonstop.

However, I will abide by a similar remark I made about (of all places) RPGnet: if a section of the forum is causing Null that much heartburn, then that section needs to go.

You don't like it, fuck you. It's not your fucking sandbox. It's Null's.

 

[Grumpy]

Where the fuck am I supposed to post about the pasta I just ate now?

 

[Dom Cruise]

Honestly, dropping A&H may be a good thing, there's so much retardation in modern media that it's best just to ignore it.

The modern internet is overdosing on politics, it may not hurt to take a step back away from it.

 

[Strange Wilderness]

I'm going to throw in my two cents. Nuke Happenings but keep A&N, but no politics. If you want to post a story about Florida Man robbing a Publix naked with an alligator before escaping on a stolen tricycle that's fine because that's funny. Articles about current events and political junk aren't allowed unless its something humorous like a fist fight on the Senate floor or an anti-gay marriage politician getting busted using a glory hole at the airport.

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

@SIGSEGV is a gay faggot who wasn't remotely an A&Her in the first place. You shouldn't even be blaming A&N/Happenings, SIG is just a stupid nigger.

He should have known that Glowies are fucking top-notch expert pros in detecting ironic statements

 

[HarblMcDavid]

I'd say no to the question of the topic.

I'm not really a denizen of A&N and can't really speak to its specific culture, though the few threads I've posted in haven't been bad. I post in Happenings a lot more, and where I've posted in Happenings hasn't been awful by any stretch, but I haven't been around much since the election proper so I can't speak to that time period specifically. What I'm getting at is maybe I'm not seeing the problems, but what I've seen hasn't been bad at all for a discussion ruleset straight out of the late 2000s.

I do enjoy Happenings quite a bit, and would be sad to see A&N and Happenings go the way of the dodo. Perhaps a rethink on the rules is needed, but given the context for the post which brought the FBI knocking I'm not sure what exactly the best approach would be.

Edit: It occurs to me I haven't expressed sufficient concern about the ability to document actual, well, happenings.

The CHOP thread brought much joy due to the antics of the inhabitants and much of that insanity is lost to twitter's moderation now outside the thread, the Floyd thread is a unwieldy lumbering beast but even then it is a remarkable living document archiving continued civil unrest in a way that is hard to otherwise coherently piece together for future generations when all the evidence is deleted routinely and all that remains is "mostly peaceful protest" stories which intentionally downplay things, and the Wuflu thread while also an unwieldy beast serves much the same purpose. I highlight those three threads as I have the most experience with them specifically (and I am not suggesting there aren't other threads falling in to this category, I just don't have enough experience with them) because I feel strongly there is a benefit to some way for us to document significant events in history as it may not seem significant in the moment but history occurs in the present and our autistic style of documentation is remarkably effective.

If Happenings must go, in my view threads like those will be the biggest loss, so keeping in mind a way for users to do such documentation in the future (assuming orange man doesn't manage to kill 230) is a benefit in my eyes, as I feel those kinds of threads can be made to work in a world where those boards are nuked.

I would be inclined to agree with you, however I have just now skimmed through some of those threads and I have scarcely found the behaviour you profess to be true. Maybe I'm missing something. Give me examples fam

I'll suggest the George Floyd Riots thread specifically is a bad example except with regards to the volume of posting.

I can't speak to all the threads in Happenings, but my niggas in the Floyd thread are definitely being done dirty by implication here based on what I saw over around 4600 pages of it before I took a break. The worst I saw was the occasional jew-heavy tangent when things slowed down, which isn't super surprising in a thread where a diverse group of posters discuss antifa and BLM shenanigans, but that usually got moved pretty quick for getting off topic.

 

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Second off, Null was the one that basically let his longtime shitposter-in-chief CatParty have free reign of the subforum post every far-left, word salad article he could find, and then cried about A&H's users when the pitchforks came out. Board-banning CatParty and Arm Pit Cream would literally solve 98% of A&H's problems overnight, but that can't happen because of muh /pol/ boogeyman.

Neck yourself, faggot. You are the cancer killing A&H.

 

[Freshly Baked Socks]

Where the fuck am I supposed to post about the pasta I just ate now?

This post looks appropriate.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Maybe Null should try banning retarded sperg shitposters before we nuke whole boards first? I think it should be noted that it wasn't one of the /pol/ posters that ya'll hate who got a visit from the FBI- it was a guy acting like a clown in order to make fun of /pol/ posters.

Yeah but let's be honest, here. He only got the visit because some /pol/ poster reported him. There was way worse stuff posted in that thread than that

 

[Toolbox]

Fuck. I was about to post about how 9/11 was actually a win for non-binary intersectional feminists and "how that's a good thing".

 

[José Mourinho]

Lolcows have reached a point where it's inevitable they will sperg about politics, so there's still this issue unlike back then where Chris had zero idea about politics and we just laughed off any spergposts regarding his political leanings especially he didn't even sperg much about it.

I would suggest remove the boards but still keep political sperging in the relevant threads (preferably at a minimum unless it is about politics) and if there's interesting news they can make a thread in Off Topic.

 

[Superman93]

A&H gets deleted for the 823th time.

 

[Kirito]

I called this happening a number of months ago. I said that these people would absolutely start posting manifestos and calls to violence when trump lost. I said it was a matter of time and people called me crazy or biased for it. I have been a vocal proponent of their removal for quite a long time. This happening should have been obvious to anyone with eyes.

 

[Sanshain]

There's absolutely nothing wrong with CatParty's posts. The bad parts of A&H are the no-life agenda-pushing morons who cannot allow even one day to pass without posting at least nine threads with a smug self-aggrandizing subtitle about how this proves the last twenty threads they posted undeniably correct. When I first joined this forum, they'd have been immediately laughed out of the farms, but those days seem to have sadly long past.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

I'm going to throw in my two cents. Nuke Happenings but keep A&N, but no politics. If you want to post a story about Florida Man robbing a Publix naked with an alligator before escaping on a stolen tricycle that's fine because that's funny. Articles about current events and political junk aren't allowed unless its something humorous like a fist fight on the Senate floor or an anti-gay marriage politician getting busted using a glory hole at the airport.

I think that'd be a reasonable compromise. God knows the news is full of weirdos even nowadays.