Private/Direct Messages Chain Spam Issue

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Null said:
how hard is it exactly to just post about your hobbies without doxing yourself?
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I stopped myself many times from starting a thread or just sharing pic of my hobbies because pics of unique products I create are somewhere out there. It is possible my kids wear something I made that ends up visible on their Instagrams, and next thing you know Ethan Ralph is sending them dick pics. For other less material/tangible and mass hobbies, like video games or sports the risk is minimal. as long as poster doesn't disclose tons of info
 
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Mankirk said:
Reasons I spend more times in DM chains:
-It is not searchable, by search engines or even using site tools
-If you desire, you can still go back through the history (more than 50 one-line messages re: sneedchat)
-It doesn't gamify your posting or reactions
-Rules are created and enforced by community interactions
-Notifications for unread DMs are more reliable amd visible than notifications for watched threads
-Some people feel emboldened enough to PL even while being told to stop. This is good content and I'm not sorry for enjoying it.
-It can be simultaneously user focused and topic focused, with no strictly enforced penalties for blurring these lines
-The above creates conflict fueled drama at times, which can be as enjoyable as any public lolcow
-Initiating new people into the culture, seeing their perspective on it, and their subsequent conflict and/or formation of an identity is rewarding and good content.
-Inviting people to get new eyes allows for you to break through insular community involvement, in a way that is more intuitive and welcome than @ing a bunch of random people in a public thread. I'm so sorry some people don't enjoy it but how difficult is it to leave the chat? Can leaving be made even more braindead simple for these people somehow?
-I don't go looking for random threads to participate in because a lot of those boards are filled with low effort posts that aren't as enjoyable as DM posts.

I'd be happy with a "leave and block inviter" option, but I doubt what I want or think matters.

On the topic of wishlists I'd love a way to invite every user who has not blocked DM invites, but that sounds even less realistic.
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Wow what kind of faggot defends DMs with a wall of text-Oh. It's you. lmao

Honestly the whole random invite thing could be solved if you could turn off the notifications for specific dm threads, no need to ban the Mankirks of the forum
 
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Null said:
If you're in a big DM you actually value, I'd like people to move it to a thread, and if there's some reason why that's not viable I'd be interested in hearing it.
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The only two large DM threads I have been in that were more practical to be in DMs was when I was getting help with the Hollie Dance thread and had people from UK helping me with stuff I did not know of the area or culture. But this was when stuff was coming in fast and needed to be organized before being posted.

The other was in relation to secret santa so that the OP could organize us helpers which couldn't be done publically or we'd give away the santas.

I just use leave and set it to not readd me when I get added to those long trollish ones.
 
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Null said:
How though? We literally have like a dozen active mods and most of them are board locked. What is happening that is too intrusive?
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It's not so much an action as a feeling. It's mostly the fear of certain things (I don't actually believe the forum is over-moderated outside of the instances that I was vocal about, but it's definitely been a comment I've heard made a few times) - I'll give an example:

There is a mass DM I am in with individuals who have actively ousted the rats harassing Bossman; I believe one of the main reasons for that existing was incase it enacted the gayops rule, and also because doing it in the open would allow the rats to know they were being locked on to.

Another main reason I believe creates the mass DMs is how chaotic some of the more active cow threads can be. Some cows have a lot of Internet activities but only a single thread. There are different types of farmers and they may want different experiences, and rather than shitting up a thread with things others don't find interesting a mass DM would be created. That way people don't conflict with the existing farmers who milk a cow, or don't have their existing cow culture destroyed by newfags.

There are obviously faggots who create them because they believe themselves to be the funniest and most interesting shits on the Internet and will add random people to share their autistic Internet train-set with, however for most of the DMs chains I genuinely believe that they are made because users feel like they'd be disruptive to main threads and want to be considerate Kiwis for their fellow users.
 
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Null said:
does this shit REALLY affect your fucking posting habits that much? They mean NOTHING. They do NOTHING. They exist to stop people from posting "agree".
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No, it doesn't. It is possibly the least important item on my list. In public threads, I would not post a one word message. In DMs, I might. I don't see a problem with that.
 
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Null said:
does this shit REALLY affect your fucking posting habits that much? They mean NOTHING. They do NOTHING. They exist to stop people from posting "agree".
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Reactions Received is literally the first thing I click on every single time I log in. I had it hidden in my browser before, but the domain jumps undid that and the habit came back. It's right at the top of the front page, it's harder to ignore than the feature box.

Also they determine thread highlights. People catching up on a thread will see your post if it got a lot of reactions.
 
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Netizennameless said:
People

This is the root of the problem. People don't want to be herded into their own topical hugboxes for every separate conversation or have interesting topics shut down because some mod doesn't like the discussion being off-topic. They also don't want to have to keep track of which boards they will get yelled at in and which boards are open. It's too much effort compared to DMs where no one's moderating.

With that said, the DM invite abuse is a a real problem.
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Q&A is literally a massive shitposting forum that is barely ever moderated at all unless someone fedposts. If you don't want to use a forum style website at all because it's too hard for you to figure out the different rules for different boards maybe discord really is better suited for you? It's really weird how many people don't participate in the lolcow part of the site at all and just treat this like a social club.
 
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Lidl Drip said:
It's really weird how many people don't participate in the lolcow part of the site at all and just treat this like a social club.
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Mostly because they all blend together at some point.
Null said:
i am fucking shocked people actually care and are within minutes filing tech grievances complaints that it's gone, like you people actually check that??? frequently???
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Wait, what?
 
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