Plagued Onion Farms and other KF Splinter Sites - Watch Kiwi Farms members slapfighting in this thread

It's up to you how you analyze how people react to your post. If you are going against the grain in a thread you should expect that people will react negatively. If you expected a lot of approval and you're suddenly under 20 dumb and autistic ratings, you may want to take a step back and re-read what you said with a fresh perspective, because you may in fact be saying some real retard shit.
Or just cope. They don't do anything to you. You can say one thing in one thread and get uprated for it but a different thread has a different thread culture. Go against it? Get negrated. If you don't like it, quit talking shit or just deal with the fact people disagree. Even if they're wrong. Even if they're idiots. Want more negrates? Get buttmad and call them idiots too. That will get you some nice topwear.
That's not even really true though. He's just asking for input. If he'd already made up his mind he wouldn't bother. I'd rather SIG wouldn't have done what got him banned too because I think he was a good poster but whatever. I like the idea of some kind of general amnesty every year or whenever nool feels like it though and anyone who doesn't get banned again gets to stick around. But whatever. *shrugs*
Usually a company can hire people to deal with them and just throw more hardware at it, but it's just me, my server, and whoever happens to be around that I trust enough to help.
Usually a forum this size would have something like a mirror at all times and if one of them went out the other would just take over, while you hot swapped in another machine which would then be the new backup. But that requires like three identical machines at all times. And obviously that shit isn't going to happen, because a forum this size would ordinarily make money instead of being a perpetual albatross on your life.

Also caring about stickers at all, ever, is pure faggotry. IMO nol should just randomly turn them on and off to piss off autists.
 
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EDIT: Also this thread is about onionfarms, not about you bitching and moaning about some internet stickers.
I thought this whole site was about stickers and their psychological effects, have I been lied to?
The admin for Onion Farms disagrees
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Imagine your whole site being staring at a different site waiting for people to post so you can comment on it.

Hilarious.
This is also a good example of the catch 22.

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Why doesn't Null just enjoy himself? Have fun with it!
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Wow, this is so unprofessional. This rating fuckup, done on a whim, jeopardizes the core product. This would be unacceptable in an agile development team.

Which is it? Should I implement ideas on a whim? Try out strange ideas just to see what happens, even if it may not roll out perfect and need some tinkering? Or is this a super sterile corporate environment where any issues are an unacceptable brand image casualty?

I try to take people seriously when they air grievances but this is silly. I've literally come up with something specifically based off things SIG said about the environment and am in the process of implementing, now he sits on the sidelines saying this implementation timeframe is unacceptable. It's nonsense. It's bitching for the sake of it.
Call me crazy but I think you should do, well, whatever the fuck you want. I'm not going to disagree that people don't want to bring things to you but I don't think it's entirely "Null scary." The few times I've actually messaged or tagged you I'll admit I thought about it first but it's more because I figure you're probably busy with actual issues and I don't think that's an uncommon opinion around here. I didn't think you were going to ban me for contacting you though. I'm going to guess that no one here who's half intelligent is under the impression that there'll be 100% uptime or that there won't be site issues, and even during the outage in January no one was really throwing a fit because it's just the nature of things.

I haven't been here forever or anything but I've never felt we were operating under a difficult ruleset, but it seems like some people are like "well, common sense isn't actually a rule so I can act like an utter retard to the detriment of quality." Which, barring Sig, is pretty much why the bans I know of went down.

I guess I'm just really boggled by people talking about you being snarky or short with people like this whole website isn't full of that. I don't know why you're supposed to be some shining moral example of something to these guys. The truth of the matter is that you don't owe us anything and I think some people forget that. Yeah it's a fine line because without users, no site, yada yada but still.

I don't know, I don't get a lot of these complaints.
 
I didn't think you were going to ban me for contacting you though.
The funny "pissing off nool" bans you see from time to time are often out of context so it looks like he's just flying off the handle at some super minor shit while usually the retard who pissed him off had been fucking with him for days or weeks beforehand.
 
The funny "pissing off nool" bans you see from time to time are often out of context so it looks like he's just flying off the handle at some super minor shit while usually the retard who pissed him off had been fucking with him for days or weeks beforehand.
Yeah Josh is really a big softy unless he happens to be really mad that day.
 
Reminder that the site is primarily about lolcows. As long as I can read my fav cow threads and get updates on Greer's wooing chronicles I don't give a fuck about stickers or onion farmers or anything else
 
@Null as per your 'demod all staff that get doxed' policy are you now going to demod @Trombonista for getting doxed so she'll finally stop her frantic one-handed crusade to spasticly merge every double-post she ever sees, even when it completely ruins the nuanced hilarity of manic schizocow freakouts or destroys evidence of actionable terroristic threats from lolcows?
 
Actually, with so much complaining about stickers from mostly off-topic users, it makes me wonder what would happen if we just turned off ratings in A&N / Happenings
Or, alternatively, disable all ratings in Happenings/Deep Thoughts/etc except for "autistic." Would make the post ratings in many of those threads a lot more accurate.
 
Hello frens, yes I made the stickers for OF, please feel free to call me a blind retard directly. I'll address your individual sticker comments later.
@The Jumping Dwarf this needs more archives in case they try to delete things or if Kengel just decides to take it all down.
Done. I made a bot to crawl the site automagically to get every page of every publicly visible thread and submitted them to archive.li. The queue was super backed up so they may not all be there yet, and there may be some misfires that didn't get queued properly, but there should eventually be over 800 archived URLs at the following link:


I'd just like to point out that everyone who was sucking their own dicks about how much better they are just got schooled in Kiwi Farms 101 by a filthy crossposting Onion Farmer. Completely and irrevocably BTFO :story:

Here are archives of all the art assets at their original resolutions. The stickers are scaled down to 69x69 (nice) on the site, I don't recall how the others are scaled and honestly who cares.

Logos​

Here are some of Kengel's original logos for the site. I may be missing a few, there are quite a few snapshots on archive.org if anyone wants to go full autism looking for more:
OnionFarmsLogoKengelOriginal2.jpg
OnionFarmsLogoKengelOriginal1.jpgOnionFarmsLogoKengelOriginal3.jpg
OnionFarmsLogoKengelOriginalHalloween2020.jpg
Here's the logo I made. Yes the font is a blatant imitation of the KF logo since that's clearly what Kengel was going for. I didn't use Null's custom Quattrocento even though I have it, though, because I'm not a complete monster :)
OnionFarms.png

Background​

Here's the tiled version at an unreasonably large resolution:
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Here are the individual tiles in their original black & white before I blended them into the purple background. First is everyone's favorite doomer:
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Next is YandereDev and his cum chalice:
CowTilesYandereDevBW.jpg
And last we have TheBitBlock who I'd never heard of before, but is apparently some sort of goddamn inflatable diaper degenerate :story:
CowTilesBitblockBW.jpg

Reaction Stickers​

Like
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Dislike
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Agree
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Disagree
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Feels
OF_Black_Love.png
Winner
OFWinnerBig.png
Real American — Semper Fi equivalent. As explained here it has nothing to do with HHH. If it did then I would've used a black NWO costume because that's what the IRL HHH wore :p
OFRealAmericanBig.png
Bear Computer — Bear Computer. I didn't actually make this so I don't have the original size, pretty sure Sig just cut it out from a regular picture of Bear Computer.
OF_bearcomputer.png
Haha — Replacement for default Xenforo reaction with the same name.
OF_Black_Haha.png
Deep Thunk — Thunk-Provoking equivalent.
OFThunk.png
Shocking — Replacement for Xenforo's default Wow reaction.
OF_Black_Shocking2.png
Dumb
OF_Black_Dumb.png
Autistic
OF_Black_Autistic1.png
Optimistic
OFOptimisticPlainBig.png
Tantrum — Mad at the Internet equivalent.
OFTantrumReworkB.png
Informative
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Sherlock Homo — A rating for when people post something obvious. I was going to make it a No Shit Sherlock with a poop emoji, but making the hat look good was surprisingly annoying so I decided to just drop a rainbow on the onion.
OF_Black_SherlockHomo.png
Late
OFLateBig.png
TMI / Powerlevel
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Sick Shit — Generic disgusting reaction that covers the same bases as Deviant and Horrifying.
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-1 — A neutral rating that looks negative just to fuck with people. There's a hidden message at the bottom if you adjust the brightness and contrast.
OFMinusOneD.png

Misc​

wow
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story
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Buffalo Cube — someone requested this sticker but scumbag jannies completely ignored it, #FreeBuffaloCube
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Gangweed Disapproves@gangweedfan wanted this crazy combo sticker, ended up being implemented as an emoji
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I don't have animus for any of these people. I understand they're angry and want the Kiwi Farms to be XYZ and since it's not they want to figure something else out. It happens every few years.
I think a lot of them are only angry because they got permabanned for dumb mistakes that they totally wouldn't have repeated if they had just been warned or tempbanned. They don't want Kiwi Farms to be something else, they just want to be able to enjoy the site again without feeling like they'll get banned for trying to have fun on the Internet. They want to be able to participate like normal instead of skulking around on a sock trying to act like someone else so they don't get banned for socking. That's the impression I get from talking to some of them, at least.

Personally I'm not angry and I don't want Kiwi Farms to be anything different. I mean, I want it to be a place where the people I like don't get permabanned for things that don't seem to warrant it, but beyond wanting to talk to those people I have no reason to care about splinter sites. I wouldn't be on Onion Farms if those people were still here. It's your site, do whatever, I'm just saying I think using more tempbans would work wonders. The unhinged retards who actually want to piss you off are just gonna sock anyway — permas only deter reasonable people who will actually take the hint when you tell them to fuck off forever. Food for thunk.
 
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I'm not too familiar with the general purpose or lore of Onion Farms, but it looks like an atrocious parallel universe version of Kiwi Farms. Like Bizarro or a mirror universe. For some reason it reminds me of what the world would be like if the USSR somehow won the Cold War.

Even the fucking rating pictures look like they were copied from here using a scanner full of LSD instead of ink.
 
Actually, with so much complaining about stickers from mostly off-topic users, it makes me wonder what would happen if we just turned off ratings in A&N / Happenings
A&H should be the guinea pig for every forum experiment because they have tons of activity, they sure as shit will let you know what they think, and if A&H is somehow kill then nothing of value is lost, except perhaps containment.

Also that guy was right about one thing. You sure don't seem to be having fun anymore. You need another vacation or aromatherapy or pop some hehpills or something. Hopefully the fun will return as the site grows into financial stability.
Stickers are awesome for if you want to see whether someone's autistic. Just silently rate them autistic and see if they throw an autistic tantrum.

And yes, emptyquoting is a problem on some sites to this day, to the point that it can be pretty funny. The old Something Awful would sometimes have ten pages of reaction posts whenever anything interesting happened, and it would become impossible to find the post that sparked things.
Remember that post you made about dgsw emptyquoting some faggot that posted a political wall of text on gbs for pages? (Archives and also lol SA so irrelevant not one of these was done automatically: 1 2 3 4 5 )
Emptyquoting isn't always dead and gay, just 5 9s of the time.
 
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