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.

 

[Terrorist]

Already there are “plans” to negrate spam the Donald Trump lolcow thread

OH GOD OH FUCK WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO

 

[Lame Entropy]

Change is always hard for autists but they'll move on to bitching about something else in time.

 

[the fall of man]

Actually, the disagree on A&N is more positive than the positive ratings because it says “respectfully disagree, but I still love you”. That’s like saying you don’t fully agree with a serial killer, but still love them, and that’s messed up. Null must change this or we will create more Nazis by letting them down softly.

so what you’re saying is dislike is the most negative rating in the thunderdome and it’s like when you’ve been so bad your grandmother says fuck

 

[HumanHive]

OH GOD OH FUCK WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO

Pray, laugh, love. Same as always.

 

[Dan Abrams]

Do you see how fucking gay and retarded this sticker shit has made you all

"I was going to support this site I've used for over a year and educate myself in bank free exchange in the process, but now that I can't rate people autistic in one area of the site, it's not worth it."

It's fucking unbelievable.

Here's a counter point: why bother trying to compromise with areas of the site that begin actively rooting against you the very second they don't get their way?

Actually yeah these faggots should just be purged from the site. Look at how compromise went for @Lowtax when he dealt with a cancerous part of his forum.

 

[cjöcker]

there should be a reverse highlight system here so any post with a shitton of negrates gets highlighted so i can see an opinion which isn't the same as the last 20 i read

 

[X Prime]

Do you see how fucking gay and retarded this sticker shit has made you all

"I was going to support this site I've used for over a year and educate myself in bank free exchange in the process, but now that I can't rate people autistic in one area of the site, it's not worth it."

It's fucking unbelievable.

There is an argument to be made that the objection is not so much to whatever was done to the idiotic sticker system.

For my part, I would in fact prefer the whole thing never had existed as it makes discussion very stupid and people mention them far too often, which is more than zero times.

An alternative understanding of the objection is it seems that you're letting a couple bad apples ruin things for the bunch, so to speak.

 

[LurkTrawl]

There is an argument to be made that the objection is not so much to whatever was done to the idiotic sticker system.

For my part, I would in fact prefer the whole thing never had existed as it makes discussion very stupid and people mention them far too often, which is more than zero times.

An alternative understanding of the objection is it seems that you're letting a couple bad apples ruin things for the bunch, so to speak.

I mean, that is the argument. It's "squeaky wheel gets the grease" on par with other websites that've had it happen, and the fact that the logic is some ex post facto "well I listened to the ones who complained loudest and hardest, and now that the majority who didn't complain are complaining, I'm not open to complaints" shit doesn't sit well. Like I said before, why weren't the people who were clamoring for this shit banned or shamed for it? They're not the majority of people who use that section of the site so I don't get why their demands were given into.

This really isn't about stickers at this point.

 

[Carbonation Grimace]

there should be a reverse highlight system here so any post with a shitton of negrates gets highlighted so i can see an opinion which isn't the same as the last 20 i read

auto highlights already do that if I'm not mistaken

Wasn't the point of most of the stickers to provide people with a way to comment on someone's post without actually having to post a reply and shit up the thread? Oh well, guess I'll just use emojis in my replies as a substitute.

I thought all the problems were solved mate? Fuck happened to that?

 

[4str4staleatherbelt]

Thank you Null for this change it's excellent. I would like disagree back at the least, but this is a fair compromise.

 

[beautiful person]

I want a laughing sticker to show my amusement at posts whining about minor alterations to the sticker system of an off topic section of the site.

It’s been months since Snailslime’s negrate spam, where everyone in a thread would be affected regardless of what they posted

If not an exaggeration, then I disagree. I only ever got one negrate from Snailslime, and that was for making fun of a black kid's name that other black people on black people sites were also making fun of. Other than that, I wasn't affected and a minority of others weren't affected either. It's just a difference in opinion and a majority of people in here have the same set of opinions that she apparently didn't agree with. Idk why people couldn't just not acknowledge her.

With True & Honest status, you get access to some stickers. With the current restriction in place, what DO you get with that T&H $20 donation?

You still get to use the fancy stickers on literally every other part of the site, you gain access to the Supporters board, and you get the satisfaction of knowing that you added a bit of financial contribution to the website you spend just about every day on.

 

[JambledUpWords]

We need swastika ratings for A&N that can only be used by T&H users in order to judge who is a real Nazi and catch them before they recruit more Nazis. Five swastika ratings from T&H users and automatic ban.

 

[Lemmingwise]

I've been hoping this would happen for months.

For a second I thought there wasn't anything more gay than caring this deeply about stickers and then you say that for MONTHS you're thinking about how people have too much fun playing with stickers.

 

[XYZpdq]

REEEEEEEE NAZIS EVERYWHERE REEEEEEEEE

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

For a second I thought there wasn't anything more gay than caring this deeply about stickers and then you say that for MONTHS you're thinking about how people have too much fun playing with stickers.

Settle down there. It's not like I spent every second thinking about it.

 

[PantsFreeZone]

Settle down there. It's not like I spent every second thinking about it.

Relax. Nobody believes you think.

Can we talk about the real problem with this board now? There's not enough red.

 

[Kabuki Actor]

We need swastika ratings for A&N that can only be used by T&H users in order to judge who is a real Nazi and catch them before they recruit more Nazis. Five swastika ratings from T&H users and automatic ban.

I rate your post as being Portlandic Content.

 

[JambledUpWords]

REEEEEEEE NAZIS EVERYWHERE REEEEEEEEE

Nazis are everywhere and the Farms is the last stand between the free world and Nazis taking over. This is a serious issue and it is not appropriate to joke about it. This is the only solution there is to stopping Nazis on the Farms

If we are going to have an autistic thunderdome, I request that T&H forum go in there as well since the users in it are very evolved and responsible enough to not chimp out over less ratings. These people deserve the privilege of less ratings because they are so mature that they earned it. A&N and Happenings has too many Nazis in it and aren’t mature enough to condemn Nazis, and are probably dumb enough to actually grow to love the Nazis with the new disagree button. You can’t respect and love Nazis in A&N and Happenings, but the evolved users of T&H don’t harbor Nazis and will therefore use the disagree rating more maturely.

It doesn’t condemn Nazis enough. Only T&H is responsible enough to use that rating. The only places that should be able to use “respectfully disagree, but I still love you” are places like T&H because they are mature enough to have the privilege of less ratings. You really think that kind of “disagree” in A&N won’t stop Nazis and Nazi recruitment? We need only negative ratings for A&N because of this. Too many Nazis are there. The only people allowed to use all ratings in A&N should be T&H users because they obviously understand things and aren’t Nazis. This is common sense.

We need swastika ratings for A&N that can only be used by T&H users in order to judge who is a real Nazi and catch them before they recruit more Nazis. Five swastika ratings from T&H users and automatic ban.

 

[CWCissey]

Christ I miss the Autistic sticker...

 

[JambledUpWords]

Christ I miss the Autistic sticker...

If we ever get it back to get back at the Nazis on A&N, I’ll freely accept any that you give me to help fight for the common good.