Selecting a Despot for the Autism Thunderdome

I have no idea how this would be scripted, but prevent response posting in a thread until 10 others have responded or a day has passed. Also, give the Thunderdome FB ratings rather than the usual subset. Seems like a structural and hands off approach that needs little effort rather than some (admittedly beyond my skill level) scripting.
 
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Tay would have fit in great in A&H.
I want to see a debate between her and GPT-3 on deep thots
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That said, the reason I hang out almost exclusively on A&N these days despite rarely posting there prior to this incarnation is because the rest of the forum isn't as fun any more. Even the darker corners of the on-topic boards like Tard Baby General and its predecessors used to be more gallows humor than genuine anger. But now it's all just so angry. As if these people actually matter. As if a disgusting person killing themselves with mukbangs or a microtransaction-addicted retard are something to be actually, for-real upset about. People trooning out their kids, sure, hate them as much as they deserve. But the correct response to a terminally online social media drone is to ignore them, not to talk every day about how angry they make you.

It used to be that if people got mad at the continued existence of Chris or Wings or whoever they'd be told to lol calm down, but now that behavior is the rule rather than the exception. And I'd rather hear some politisperg call Biden "Brandon" a thousand times than listen to someone write a screed about how they fantasize about torturing the Wogglebug to death, because at least the politisperg is trying (and failing) to be funny. It's also understandable to be furiously upset about a news article about a pedophile. It is not understandable to be furiously upset about someone's cockroach fan fiction.
I notice a lot of the people who get for-real mad over e-celebs seem to always turn out to be ex-paypigs, or discord orbiters, or paypigs to a rival cow who they insist isn't a cow too, or connected in some gay way. There's the "No interfering with the cows." rule but a lot of users try to insert themselves into things or run gay ops. In threads, people talk like they're on one cows team or another's cow's team. Imagine not being on a "team" in the special olympics, and just sitting back and laughing at it all.
 
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I do not believe this issue can be fixed with just a "despote mod".

Cannot believe I am going to say this: it is time to start the Something Awful redux arc for this website.
-Keep new free account registration undefinitly closed.
-Monetize new accounts to at least 10$, directly payable into whatever crypto you prefer.
-Limit posting in Autism Thunderdome to something like 10 posts a day that can be lifted if nerds are willing to pay more.
 
I'm chill, not combative. Maybe I could be a mod for A&N?

:optimistic:
I would gladly pitch to Null about my ideas for the future of A & H next week, but being chill is not going to help with the sperging about A & H.

And yes, corporate categories and creating a behavior chart is in my pitch.

Here's the title of one of the slides in my power point:

The Replacement of Stimulating Reactions
 
I would gladly pitch to Null about my ideas for the future of A & H next week, but being chill is not going to help with the sperging about A & H.

And yes, corporate categories and creating a behavior chart is in my pitch.

Here's the title of one of the slides in my power point:

The Replacement of Stimulating Reactions
I wanna be a hippie love and peace y'all. :)
 
I would gladly pitch to Null about my ideas for the future of A & H next week, but being chill is not going to help with the sperging about A & H.

And yes, corporate categories and creating a behavior chart is in my pitch.

Here's the title of one of the slides in my power point:

The Replacement of Stimulating Reactions
Being more autistic than they are? bold, but i have faith in you.
I wanna be a hippie love and peace y'all. :)
I mean so long as you can sight when the doom spiraling is about to hit peak fedpost hours it's not a bad thought to try and keep 'em upbeat enough to not go nuts.
 
Being more autistic than they are? bold, but i have faith in you.

I mean so long as you can sight when the doom spiraling is about to hit peak fedpost hours it's not a bad thought to try and keep 'em upbeat enough to not go nuts.
It takes one mad man to develop life changing science

It takes one man to stand up to adversity

It takes one action to cause a domino effect

It takes one autist to make change
 
I have no idea how this would be scripted, but prevent response posting in a thread until 10 others have responded or a day has passed. Also, give the Thunderdome FB ratings rather than the usual subset. Seems like a structural and hands off approach that needs little effort rather than some (admittedly beyond my skill level) scripting.
I think trying to automate the moderation would be even more frustrating than just letting things continue as they are.

I get that Null hates it and appreciate that his love of free speech outweighs his disdain for the place but it's not clear what he wants except for people to calm down and for a decrease in vitriol. Not exactly easy fixes particularly as news itself tends to default to being a controversial topic quite often these days.
 
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It takes one mad man to develop life changing science

It takes one man to stand up to adversity

It takes one action to cause a domino effect

It takes one autist to make change
Didn't think you had that much faith in @naaaaiiiiillllll!!! but i'm glad to see you have seen the error in your ways and being a tad less of a cunt was the right move. :semperfidelis:
 
I think labeling it "thunderdome" may have been a mistake, it gives the idea that there are no rules whatsoever. This site already attracts users who dislike the normie rules of other sites, getting here and finding a quarantined area with thunderdome in it's title gives the impression that anything goes.
"Two men enter, one man leaves." Sort of shit.

I didn't like the idea of restricting stickers at first, but honestly if they derail threads and stir up shit then good riddance. I would say get rid of them all together but that would fuck up highlights, instead restrict them even further, if their only purpose besides ass pats and shit stirring is highlighting good posts then leave us with only one reaction to do just that. This would hopefully kill some of the infighting, and force people who disagree with each other to post as opposed to down rating and moving on. At best this would further discourse and at worst it would drag the shit stirrers into the open allowing the jannies to deal with an actual problem all the sooner as opposed to dealing with "hurt feelings" over and over again before identifying an actual problem.

Also in the spirit of transparency and personal entertainment, I think there should be a thread for this new jannie cabal to post about offenses and actions taken. There's a reason the gallows used to be public. Besides having a new place to go to laugh at idiots on the internet, it would give the rest of the board a place to see where the line is and the consequences of crossing it. The only downside would be people trying to get that "school shooter" fame and intentionally being ass hats just to get attention. Again these are people who are likely to be problems at some point anyway, the sooner they get the jannies attention the sooner we can all ridicule them and move on.
 
@Null I have an idea on how to run autistic thunderdome.

I won't let it be an echo chamber but I wont turn it into a hugbox. If you have evidence or support backing up your claims cool. If you're just going to get on a thread and claim everything is a conspiracy by the Jewish government or Alt right manlets disagree with an issue because they are "CHUDS" I will happily ban certain people from the threads from commenting.

If you have nothing intelligent, funny, or relevant to the conversation week long thread bans for people until they can learn how to talk.
Ok so just stop overthinking this and delete the useless subforums that are full of people you hate and that you can't moderate, and ban anyone who migrates to the non-diseased parts of the site. The world doesn't *really* need another place where a bunch of retards can post memes about the day of the rope and 14/88. Or spin it off into a completely different site with independent management, and then fill said URL with the sleaziest porn and crypto ads you can find.
I mean Articles and Happenings has a purpose from time to time there is actually news worthy stuff being actively memory holed. If you're really tired of the spastic 1488/SJW types coming in make it hard for them to use the word (nigger, Kike,and etc...) if you can't slut creatively then don't slur at all.
 
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