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I feel like the big issue with the salt mine is that it can honestly be condensed into either a few megathreads or a CommWatch subboard. A lot of the content there is pretty samey- 'lol look at these sjws/salt righters getting mad'. Funny, sure, but incredibly repeatitive and substanceless. Not really helped by the fact salt threadsl basically have an experation date (even without the autolock limit). A lot of the outrage dies out in a few days- then the perpetually outraged move to another topic, rinse and repeat.

It might be worth having the tumblr board start picking up some of the Twitter cows, too. A lot of the social justice warrior types have fled to that platform, and a lot of the tumblr board cows seem to have dried out in general, so it might be a good way to get blood moving again.
 
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I feel like my comment on who should moderate stuff is irrelevant since I've been so preoccupied with the board I supervise lately, but as for this;
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Essentially, the supervisors for a board should both be able to prune shitposting and stimulate discussion, as well as report serious systemic problems upwards.
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Having to send messages up the chain of command about systemic problems is kind of, not the best way to get them solved I guess? It's hard to explain what I mean but it always kinda feels like I'm pestering the admins, especially since a lot of my suggestions/problems are things I've brought up before and never got a response on. I personally think a better solution would be to set out an alert just for the supers asking for their thoughts on ways each board needs to be improved. I do have some thoughts on that for Animal Control but I'll split em off into a separate post since I just woke up and wanna organize my ideas.
 
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Hodor said:
It might be worth having the tumblr board start picking up some of the Twitter cows, too. A lot of the social justice warrior types have fled to that platform, and a lot of the tumblr board cows seem to have dried out in general, so it might be a good way to get blood moving again.
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I think consolidating Tumblr and Twitter cows into one subforum is an excellent idea. There's a lot of crossover between Tumblr and Twitter regarding content (not just social justice warriors, but also weird fetishists and things like that). Plus, we've also been joking about "Blue Checkmarks" (people who are verified by Twitter despite not being anyone important) for what feels like a long time now. It would be nice to have a specific subforum where we could talk about them.
 
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What happened with this idea: (from https://kiwifarms.net/threads/should-the-cwc-forum-be-shut-down-and-moved-to-spergatory.38739/)

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After talking with waggly and the three current Chris board supervisors I believe the best course of action is giving the CWC board the Amberlynn treatment and simply forsaking any sort of rules and letting it sort itself out.
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This is literally the best thing you could possibly do for the Chris board and you won't drive any more wide-eyed idealist volunteer human sacrifices moderators to alcoholism that way (rip @Hellblazer).
 
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A lot of the Tumblr cows either moved on to Twitter or are crossposting on multiple platforms. They're social media cancer that's metastasized well outside of Tumblr by now. It's still "lol Tumblr" behavior, just on different platforms. Merging all together is a good idea.

The big cow threads get clogged up with a lot of speculation posting when there's a lull. We have enough real things to laugh about that speculating how every cow was touched by their unclebrother when they were little is a waste of posts. Scrolling past the 100th "lol they were probably molested" post is boring. These type of posts don't contribute, especially in big long threads where it can be page after page of baseless speculation and 0 content.
 
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I also now completely resent any and all niche language the community uses. "troons", "ween", "a-log", "powerleveling" et al have completely lost their meaning and are worthless articles thrown around by people trying to sound more in touch than they are. I think the entire site would be better off if people just fucking stopped.
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Potentially unpopular opinion in-bound. This is just "board culture" in action. Kiwi Farms in its current iteration has been around for a few years now and in that time it -- just like every other large-scale forum on the internet -- has developed its own culture and nicknames for things. It just happens. Words get invented and their meanings change and evolve, trying to stymie that is like that dumb cartoon gag where Bugs Bunny sticks his finger over a water leak and three more appear instead.

There needs to be more community involvement in curating and cultivating the culture it's birthed. If people are misusing phrases and terms we should all collectively be less inhibited to rate those people Autistic or Dumb or something (that's what the stickers are for, right?), or just report the posts and let a moderator sort it out officially.

At the risk of sounding like a dick, @Goodbye Horses was sort of right in his post a few pages ago. This weird paranoia really is the type of dumb shit Lowtax would do on a whim. Just be careful dude, Kiwi Farms isn't as bad as you sometimes feel it is. :\
 
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Leo Bonhart said:
Thank you, I really hope this makes some positive changes. My personal pet peeve is fucking reaction .gifs; as if we need to import Twitter's cancer over here. I have reported several of them, but gave up when no action was taken.

Honestly, I cannot keep up with several threads now that I used to enjoy because as the volume of posts has gone up, the quality has gone down. I usually give up after reading a page or two because I'm not having fun. It didn't used to be this way.
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I have never had a report about a reaction image get rejected. 75% of the time I get a notification within minutes with a thanks. Take it from a regular fag and not a mod: reports work.
 
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At the risk of sounding like a dick, @Goodbye Horses was sort of right in his post a few pages ago. This weird paranoia really is the type of dumb shit Lowtax would do on a whim. Just be careful dude, Kiwi Farms isn't as bad as you sometimes feel it is. :\
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Everything I've ever done is on a whim and it's gotten this far, though I've wanted an excuse to demod people who don't do anything without looking mean for literally years. Almost every mod I've promoted has been "on a whim". Every new board has been "on a whim". If I didn't do anything on a whim I'd never do anything.

Lowtax's problem isn't doing thing on a whim: it's not following through with his ambitions. Being impulsive is good. Having a thousand false starts is not.
 
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trombonista said:
I can help with Tumblr.

Edit: And Sisterwood, Lolcows, and Beauty Parlor. Or even Multimedia or Music.
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I figured tumblr was slow enough to not need help but if Meowthkip wants somoene in, sure. I'll add you to the rules area.

I'm debating what to do with the Lolcows board for the help area. All staff just need to moderate stuff they see tbh.
 
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neger psykolog said:
Maybe publicly showing the autism points a user has received would help people to know their current reputation. Not displaying their positive/negative ratings on posts, but purely whether they've been warned a moderator in recently history. That would probably mean that people would gang up on them and use the report feature even more.
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I agree with hiding ratings too, or at the very least until the post is scrolled over. All the forums I've used that have ratings did at least one of the two.
 
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I figured tumblr was slow enough to not need help but if Meowthkip wants somoene in, sure. I'll add you to the rules area.

I'm debating what to do with the Lolcows board for the help area. All staff just need to moderate stuff they see tbh.
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It's slow, yes, but it'd be nice to be able to have at least one other person willing to help out.
 
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The boards I tend to visit seem to be fine.

As for the Chris-chan board... He has become boring, but I think.. he´s kind of a legacy cow, and I´m sure he was the ´gateway cow´ that made many of us get invested, so I don´t agree with making it a megathread, although I realize it´s probably the best way to go about it.


Plus, it being a shithole wasteland is an appropriate mirror of Chris´ life and psyche
 
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