Poll: Do you want sticker notifications back? - Not the score, just the notifications.

[namvata]

If you don't like it here you can always go back to the Sharty. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm going to move a bunch of shitflinging baboons into your neighborhood and then tell you to move out if you don't like baboons throwing shit at your house

 

[MetokurGroomedMe]

[a huge fucking image proving this person is a retard regardless of their stance]

use thumbnails you fucking faggot, no one wants you to take up half a page with a shitty tyler the creator meme from 10 years ago.

see null, now i have to tell this retard how retarded he is instead of just hoping my reaction will do it for me.

 

[draggs]

He did it because he had another one of his mood swings. But man, the rest of the site has them even worse.

Just wait a bit when everyone calms down. I feel like I'm a sane person in a looney bin right now, it's pretty fun.

I'd say it's about equal. That's why I love Null. In a totally not-gay way of course

 

[WelperHelper99]

in a thread full of whining and autstic sperging, @WelperHelper99 still manages to shine like a retarded lighthouse in the dead of night

If I dont, who will? I don't care if it's unpopular what I'm trying to explain. I care that the point is there at all.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

This shit is the snailslime drama coming back home, lmao.

 

[Anti Snigger]

Hmmmm, what kind of dopamine intake options does this "Sharty" place have available to me?

Gem
GEMMY

 

[Scipio Neomericanus]

Easy enough to say until it happens. And you're the one holding the bag like Josh is now.

I respect what Josh does. I acknowledge that this is his site and he runs it as he wishes. I think most people on this site think like this too.

It's very hard to respect people whose primary contribution to the forum is to gargle Nullcum, though. It's one thing to agree with him and it's another to shit out tens of posts trying to justify a questionable decision by using some pretty dogshit reasoning.

 

[Swingletonthesimpleton]

it's over kiwi bros sticker drama is what'll finally do is in

No. The stickers being banned for hurting feelings is the start. Then we ban doxing because that might be dangerous *oh noes!*, then we stop being allowed to make fun of people because, HEY! THAT MIGHT HURT THEIR FEELINGS! and finally josh puts on a dress and shuts down the site.

Welcome to the slope. Its starting to get slippery.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

Hyperbolic buzzword ad hom response. Yep, about what I expected from this thread.

Make sure to ping Null every time you bitch about the forum, I want to see you being this great independent thinker that'll never become a slave. Resist the system, show me the way.

"Not an argument!" The cockmongler screams in pain as he lashes out.

 

[Maricón de Mierda]

I feel like I'm a sane person in a looney bin right now

I rate this post because if you are sane in the land of the mad, then you are the mad one, not us. Now you will shit your pants immediately or a 2024 joindate will shit them for you.

 

[namvata]

Hmmmm, what kind of dopamine intake options does this "Sharty" place have available to me?

(you)s, that's it, which is what josh wants to emulate when he takes away our kiwi karma ironically enough

 

[Slav Power]

If the people who actually got bothered by the reaction score are the ones hating on us for using notifications, then there's even less reason to take their criticism seriously.

It's pretty hard to take any of you seriously with the amount of hyperbolic herd sperging without any rational thoughts about what's happening. Everyone completely lost the fucking plot at this point, people keep screaming but they forgot why they're screaming.

 

[i440BX]

I think that sticker notifications can potentially lead to users altering their behavior in line with a group-think. While this can be a good thing for maintenance of a site's culture, it can also create the Reddit Nightmare. I think Jewish has done a pretty great job thus far, and am thus willing to trust his judgement. All this being said, I did think it was fun to wake up in the morning to like 40 notifs, letting me know that my silly ms paint Rekeita meme was liked.

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I do agree group-think happens with ratings But its severity is lower here than on Reddit/Twitter. Groupthink becomes severe if the moderation is shit. 4chan has no ratings .... but it is way more group-think because the mods on certain subchans are biased.

 

[i440BX]

Hmmmm, what kind of dopamine intake options does this "Sharty" place have available to me?

Blackpill and BNWO

 

[Dyn]

(you)s, that's it, which is what josh wants to emulate when he takes away our kiwi karma ironically enough

Well now I see why you can never go back after suckling on the sweet sweet teat of the updoots bell.

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

No, I removed it specifically because I've realized that not only have many, many users apparently trained their brains to use a forum specific way that is counter-intuitive to how forums are supposed to work, but you're also making posting decisions based on that feedback.

This started because I received feedback from multiple users that they prefer to post in fucking retarded DM chains specifically because they don't want negative feedback on their posts. They have been discouraged from using this webforum as a forum because they do not feel safe to post as a result of these incessant notifications and looming persistent scorecard ratings. That is FUCKING STUPID. That means the site is broken and is fundamentally failing to encourage people to use it. It means that the reaction system, which exists to provide feedback on individual posts, is having a chilling effect on the entire site.

I am not undoing this. I am observing genuine psychological damage inflicted on people.

 

[MetokurGroomedMe]

No. The stickers being banned for hurting feelings is the start. Then we ban doxing because that might be dangerous *oh noes!*, then we stop being allowed to make fun of people because, HEY! THAT MIGHT HURT THEIR FEELINGS! and finally josh puts on a dress and shuts down the site.

Welcome to the slope. Its starting to get slippery.

it happened before, it'll happen again. history is a circle.

 

[SanicBlackMagic]

I guess I can make a distinction for the hugbox DMs that popped up (like couple of /pol/fag hugbox DMs). Those basically exist out of butthurt over people disagreeing with the group consensus and is generally an argument for removing reaction score and sticker notifs anyway.

The mass DMs though were basically giant shitposts. I think some of the earliest were born from inviting a bunch of people to some faggot's butthurt DM, and it kind of became a unique culture from there.The subsequent ones that were created to be mass DMs were usually continuing the legacy of a previous one that got deleted for some reason. Some evolved into drama hubs, some evolved into conversation hubs, but in general, they were shitposts and no one was really thinking about stickers.

I think a few people threw out the no reaction score thing as a theory as to why they're popular with some users, but to be honest, I think it's just because the guys who took part in them tended to be fun users.

Quite possibly. Id still argue that "fun users" ought to shit up one of the three designated shitting streets shitposting subs with 200 page long threads while furfag ERP'ers should go kill themselves yiff in a discord or some other pozzed site. If they want to use this site they're going to have to keep their furfaggotry on the downlow or else risk being relentlessly bullied when they cant hide their on-site convos in mass DM's.

 

[holyhandgrenade]

I enjoy this thread because it is causing me to agree with both dyn and lidl drip. My new policy of not rating any posts is hard when so many people in this thread are objectively wrong coomer retards who need their bells, but I will be strong.

 

[MadDisaster]

Don't stickers determine which post gets highlighted?

Sure, but it's still linear. It's never going to be the first post someone sees in a thread, since even if someone is only reading highlights, they're still chronological. It just shows that more users found a post interesting, for good or bad.

Honestly, on the list of things making the site challenging, sticker notifications aren't a big deal. The retards in Q&A making New Posts practically useless with their spam shitposts is far more annoying. But ignoring an entire forum section isn't an option like turning notifications on or off was.