Selecting a Despot for the Autism Thunderdome

[SteelPlatedHeart]

There’s a difference between expressing a political opinion and just throwing insults and talking down to the other side. No one’s saying you can’t express yourselves, just don’t be overly aggressive edgelord or condescending fart-sniffers about it.

Or at least don’t do so unironically.

 

[Barry McKockner]

What always kills this shit is anytime you allow a moderator to be subjective. That's always where biases and such come in.

 

[Breadbassket]

There’s a difference between expressing a political opinion and just throwing insults and talking down to the other side. No one’s saying you can’t express yourselves, just don’t be overly aggressive edgelord or condescending fart-sniffers about it.

Or at least don’t do so unironically.

Essentially people should be allowed to dislike the political stances of another person but don't become a sperg about it.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

What always kills this shit is anytime you allow a moderator to be subjective. That's always where biases and such come in.

If we’re getting multiple mods, could help to get ones with a mix of opinions(so long as they’re not extremist about it.

Not sure about the main one in charge though.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

There’s a difference between expressing a political opinion and just throwing insults and talking down to the other side. No one’s saying you can’t express yourselves, just don’t be overly aggressive edgelord or condescending fart-sniffers about it.

Or at least don’t do so unironically.

Yeah. We're all retards screamimg into the void, stop taking it so seriously and just talk with each other, or ignore each other.

 

[Lurker]

Essentially people should be allowed to dislike the political stances of another person but don't become a sperg about it.

look where you are. then reassess your opinion.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Essentially people should be allowed to dislike the political stances of another person but don't become a sperg about it.

Or at least take it to PMs or some Spergout Fight thread or something, yeah.

 

[X Prime]

>You believe FtM's are women
>15 year old shows their bare chest (post top surgery)
>You're fine with it

If you're going to try and lie about things, you should expect that someone would eventually link the thread showing it.

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/the-da...f-what-is-a-woman.120586/page-3#post-12066974

 

[JambledUpWords]

It also doesn't help when ATers either go out of their way to find the articles designed to push a specific set of buttons (@CatParty and their dollar store equivalent @JambledUpWords notwithstanding)

The more people click on those articles though, and comment, the more demand I perceive there to be. I just like to laugh at journos. More people should do it too. If you can’t laugh at a site dedicated to lolcows (which includes journos), then what’s the point?

 

[Kenya Jones]

There’s a difference between expressing a political opinion and just throwing insults and talking down to the other side. No one’s saying you can’t express yourselves, just don’t be overly aggressive edgelord or condescending fart-sniffers about it.

Or at least don’t do so unironically.

But the name calling and stuff is the best part!

this is kind of random but i never knew people thought Bob Marley sung "Don't Worry Be Happy"

HOLY FUCKING SHIT HOW DID I NOT REALIZE THIS?!!?!?!? I LITERALLY WATCHED A THING ON BOBBY MCFARIN LAST WEEK!!!!

If you're going to try and lie about things, you should expect that someone would eventually link the thread showing it.

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/the-da...f-what-is-a-woman.120586/page-3#post-12066974

"I don't believe it because the source is a trusted one but it doesn't have the right politics"
God, you're so fucking gay, you will call something pedophilia, call others pedophiles, but when some lolcow with the same views as you does it, it's fine.

 

[Penis Drager]

I seem to recall that Ashy the Angel was well-tolerated despite being an outright commie.

No idea who that is. Please @ people if you're talking about them if it's not too much trouble.

 

[Autopsy]

Your gay clique is trying to turn this place into just another libtard hellhole, you hate the truth.

You do realize when you say this, you are accusing someone who has been around far longer of trying to "infiltrate" and change the website? I don't know why you would even insinuate this when it underlies how the dynamics are fundamentally opposite. Even 4chan was more ambivalent left-wing to moderate in the 00s and early 10s before the contrarian wave swallowed it whole.
Reddit, by contrast, was more right-wing before the populist elements and retarded management features subsumed it to a left-wing hell-scape (at least on the major, directly managed subreddits), but Reddit shouldn't be your goto example for the ideal social network, I think.

As a fellow shitty politisperg reactionary, we are the shitty immigrants making things worse on nearly every website. Step one is acknowledging that, and step two is figuring out how to integrate the aforementioned shitty immigrants harmoniously into society, and rehabilitating the people who are voluntarily moving into the shitty immigrant exclave (the forum equivalent of joining ISIS).
There has to be a way to convince ONE website, just one, that right-wing-ness is a Religion of Peace™ and righties can play nice for more than a month without declaring a Jihad or being a public nuisance. If that can't be done on this website of all websites, it is fucking impossible.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

As has been talked to death earlier: it's easy to have a happy hugbox with a cohesive community. What's ideal is the latter without the former.
A lot of these people are hated just because they have left wing views. It's easier to ban them, sure. But now you're left with a hugbox.
What's better is that you give the minority view some leniency and the people who just can't stand to have the majority view questioned be swept away.

That's bullshit, here's the first post by @Hollywood Hulk Hogan early in the thread just stirring shit, not "just having left wing views":

Lol of course you alt-right manlets believe "great replacement" bullshit. You retards believe everything you read on /pol/, which is why so many of you tards believe QAnon

This guy is only not banned because he's an oldfag. Not that I'm advocating for banning him, you can't have enough clowns imo, but you're wrong.

 

[Pee Cola]

A lot of the better submitters will add their own perspective as a little addendum at the bottom of the OP, separating it with a dashed line.

The trouble with this is that not every poster has the ability or desire to separate their opinion from the article as published, and not every reader has the ability or desire to comprehend which part is article and which part is OP's opinion.

I think that works pretty well too if a particular mod if stylistically autistic about double posts.

I know the janny you're referring to and I agree with their stance on doubleposting in almost all cases. However in the case of A&N, clear demarcation between a published article and an OP's opinion should take precedence over aesthetics. Allowing doubleposting only in A&N and only under the original post by the original poster would be a help rather than a hindrance.

The more people click on those articles though, and comment, the more demand I perceive there to be. I just like to laugh at journos. More people should do it too. If you can’t laugh at a site dedicated to lolcows (which includes journos), then what’s the point?

You and @CatParty get a pass because you two are only in it for the lulz.

 

[evrae]

I wasn't even aware that Secret Asshole was even a thunderdome mod all this time despite multiple mod burnouts and the like, I suppose that kind of displays how that hands-off approach works quite well.

I'll admit a number of my posts are within A&H, mostly because I feel like I can't really contribute things to discuss in most cow threads (I still read over them plenty though). That and certain threads (such as covid and monkeypox) are things I feel I can contribute or explain meaningful information in. There's plenty of posters that I'd say contribute well to discussions (JosephStalin, Otterly, etc), and some that while exceptionally spergy in the past has managed to mellow out to some degree and contribute to the site in a meaningful way, they get drowned in the sea of shit of blatant fedposting and internet slapfights over disagreements, obvious baits and stickers.

I prefer reading through it over actual news sites, since things tend to be more direct to the source (at least on threads I read) and I'll admit I enjoy reading various NCBI papers I've seen linked while on break. I think the board overall can have a place and it'd be sad to see it go overall, it's just a matter of putting together a group that can tolerate the flooding sewage treatment plant and stop it from spilling out into the local rivers. There's names already suggested by others earlier who I think would work well (JosephStalin, Android Raptor, The Last Stand), then again, it's up to the low odds of them being willing to be jannies at that point.

I just wished people would stop getting so utterly riled up towards others, all sides on here would be pariahs in the current climate by virtue of being members of this place to begin with, so it's not needed to yell at the guys going up the same creek as you.

 

[LurkTrawl]

I don't see how you can have moderation of A&H without having rules for the moderators. Otherwise anybody moderating it will have their political bias seep into their moderation decisions consciously or subconsciously.

I'm of the opinion that the only moderation in the section should be as someone else said, actionable threats and shit that could obviously get the site in trouble only. Moderating it so there's less combativeness would effectively kill the reason a lot of people even use this section of the site in the first place. If the reason for the continued attempts at moderating it is because of people in other sections of the site complaining about the thunderdome's "culture" seems odd to me as it's effectively having people from other categories of the site trying to force moderation on the people who primarily use A&H, and seems as strange to me as Internet Famous demanding different moderation standards in Beauty Parlor.

 

[gang weeder]

I'm just a newfag, but why not start small? Ban all stickers there and see how it goes. That might help, at least a bit.


That'd be unfortunate as it's essentially the only forum I know of which allows politics but doesn't ban wrongthink. However, nuking it would be much preferable to watching it become just like those other forums ruled by trannies and tranny lovers. Fuck that.

I don't think the site would ever become a tranny hugbox lmao. I agree banning politics would be unfortunate but if null decides to do it there won't be any point crying about it either

 

[Penis Drager]

That's bullshit, here's the first post by @Hollywood Hulk Hogan early in the thread just stirring shit, not "just having left wing views":


This guy is only not banned because he's an oldfag. Not that I'm advocating for banning him, you can't have enough clowns imo, but you're wrong.

I'm not sure how that disproves my point but okay.

 

[Kenya Jones]

That's bullshit, here's the first post by @Hollywood Hulk Hogan early in the thread just stirring shit, not "just having left wing views":


This guy is only not banned because he's an oldfag. Not that I'm advocating for banning him, you can't have enough clowns imo, but you're wrong.

He's right.

I don't see how you can have moderation of A&H without having rules for the moderators. Otherwise anybody moderating it will have their political bias seep into their moderation decisions consciously or subconsciously.

I'm of the opinion that the only moderation in the section should be as someone else said, actionable threats and shit that could obviously get the site in trouble only. Moderating it so there's less combativeness would effectively kill the reason a lot of people even use this section of the site in the first place.

Read Null's OP and then edit your comment accordingly.

 

[Breadbassket]

The trouble with this is that not every poster has the ability or desire to separate their opinion from the article as published, and not every reader has the ability or desire to comprehend which part is article and which part is OP's opinion.

Maybe at most allow the OP to have a couple sentences added to the article if they want to do so. They would need to clearly state though that this isn't part of the original article though and if they have anything in addition to say after that they could be allowed to doublepost.