Shakedown in Progress

[Hodor]

thinking about it, something that might cut down on threads devolving into circlejerks: bring back closing a thread after like a thousand pages, then make a new one with an updated OP. It's pretty hard getting into/keeping tabs on cows like Dobson or Moviebob when the thread is cartoonishly ballooned.

 

[Ruin]

thinking about it, something that might cut down on threads devolving into circlejerks: bring back closing a thread after like a thousand pages, then make a new one with an updated OP. It's pretty hard getting into/keeping tabs on cows like Dobson or Moviebob when the thread is cartoonishly ballooned.

We don't start new threads anymore because it fucks up our SEO. The main problem as I see it is users are not proactive enough in updating their op's. Take Brianna Wu for instance, the op mostly talks about her shitty game and gamergate when the last 200 or pages are about her congressional run. It's confusing for new users who read the op and then jump to the latest updates.

 

[Gingervitis]

@Meowthkip Since Null doesn’t know what to think about tumblr, listing it as pink and all, what do you think of it at the moment?

 

[Francis York Morgan]

thinking about it, something that might cut down on threads devolving into circlejerks: bring back closing a thread after like a thousand pages, then make a new one with an updated OP. It's pretty hard getting into/keeping tabs on cows like Dobson or Moviebob when the thread is cartoonishly ballooned.

That might help with some cows like Moviebob but not so much with the ones super protective of their Google results like Brianna Wu. I remember Null or Jaimas explaining awhile back about how it works but creating a fourth topic for John Flynt basically pushes us down on the results when searching him.

EDIT: Beaten to it by @Ruin. But to add, I think that could also be remedied by a more active community on the Lolcow Wiki. Brianna's pages are by far the most detailed, but even they have comparatively little information on what's been happening with his campaign. Ali Rapp's page looks like it hasn't been updated since Jake left her. And I feel like there's next to nothing on other major cows here when I look.

 

[admiral]

thinking about it, something that might cut down on threads devolving into circlejerks: bring back closing a thread after like a thousand pages, then make a new one with an updated OP. It's pretty hard getting into/keeping tabs on cows like Dobson or Moviebob when the thread is cartoonishly ballooned.

I agree, it might also stop people from going into 100+ page threads and shitting them up because they don't know what's going on and can't be bothered to read the op.

 

[Sammy]

tl;dr this thread

"Here's a heads up about what I'm planning to do with this place to make it better"

"Oh neat, but instead of that let me tell you how I feel / nominate myself for something I wasn't asked to do"

We're furthering the discussion.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

So would spergatory for off-the-handle debates between users be a defunct concept, or...?

 

[YW 525]

Excellent work so far, guys. The system looks to be working just fine.

Doesn't seem like you need to change anything. Moderation responsiveness is appropriate. Any more and you're asking to push a boulder for an eternity or two.

 

[Darwin Watterson]

I mentioned a few pages back that I would be deleting all posts offering to take staff and supervision positions because it was just creating a lot of discussion in a thread that was for another purpose. It isn't anything against you.

Ahh, okay. I apologize, I didn’t see that. My fault.

 

[Francis York Morgan]

I agree, it might also stop people from going into 100+ page threads and shitting them up because they don't know what's going on and can't be bothered to read the op.

Or, you know, said users could ask what's been happening instead of shitting up a topic. I don't see the harm in someone asking for an update on a cow with an 800+ page topic with an OP that hasn't been touched in years. At the end of the day, the community itself has to responsible for not being shit as well. If that means handing out a threadban or two to people calling ADF a potato two years after that joke ran its course or someone asking if Chris is getting better then fine.

 

[AnOminous]

We don't start new threads anymore because it fucks up our SEO. The main problem as I see it is users are not proactive enough in updating their op's. Take Brianna Wu for instance, the op mostly talks about her shitty game and gamergate when the last 200 or pages are about her congressional run. It's confusing for new users who read the op and then jump to the latest updates.

Mods can edit those, though, or even transplant an older disposable post into the thread and replace it as the OP (when the OP has gone away or died fighting a couch or something).

 

[Spicy Hog]

I gotta say a lot of people want to be mods, Null must pay well.

 

[Super Collie]

I don't see why tumblr needs its own special subforum because they generate content on multiple social media networks like twitter, fb, and hipstergram. Half of them belong in the rat king as is and the rest can go into lolcow general.

The Tumblr board could probably be renamed social media snowflakes or something. Could help breathe some life back into it if it’s made clear threads can be made about anyone with that mindset regardless of where they primarily post their stuff.

The way I see it Tumblr is a specific mentality, not necessarily the site itself. Shifting the focus onto other sites would be good though because most Tumblr users with that mentality are under 18, most adults like that focus on Twitter instead.

The Tumblr board has been bleeding content, actually. Like Meowthkip mentioned, the Purplekeckleon thread was transferred to Animal Control recently (I saw it pop up the other day and was confused at first). Tumblr is dying, but the mentality cultivated by that site is very much alive and well like Xerxes said. The subforum itself is fine and is serving a purpose, but I think having it focus only on Tumblr is holding it back. Opening it up to all social media platforms and migrating in some of the threads from Lolcows who are predominately known for their antics on Twitter/Facebook/etc might give it new life.

My idea is to move all the useless post into one board called " The useless post board" -things not to post. To make an example out of them.

We technically already have this in the form of Spergatory, however that forum also tends to act as a catch-all for archived boards and not just "here's what not to do" posts.

It would be amusing if there was a pseudo-Spergatory called something like "Trash Fire" where shitty threads get dumped to and people can still post in them but with some sort of penalty applied (user ratings are disabled and every new post automatically gets rated Dumb, or a new negative rating unique to that board called Trash, or something like that). All the thread prefixes in that forum could be where the threads originated from.

 

[Funnybone]

@Null bean quick question--- is the lolcow wiki still avail to contribute to? I got an awesome mechanical keyboard and i want to write everything

 

[Sissy]

I gotta say a lot of people want to be mods, Null must pay well.

I really hope people are doing it ironically, working for free is gay, especially when your boss is as moody as Null.

 

[Feline Darkmage]

The Tumblr board has been bleeding content, actually. Like Meowthkip mentioned, the Purplekeckleon thread was transferred to Animal Control recently (I saw it pop up the other day and was confused at first). Tumblr is dying, but the mentality cultivated by that site is very much alive and well like Xerxes said. The subforum itself is fine and is serving a purpose, but I think having it focus only on Tumblr is holding it back. Opening it up to all social media platforms and migrating in some of the threads from Lolcows who are predominately known for their antics on Twitter/Facebook/etc might give it new life.

The problem I see with this is how is it that much different from lolcows, Beauty Parlor, or Rat Kings. Would it be similar to the Social Justice subforum EDF used to have? If so, where would non-SJWs/anti-SJWs or alt-right tumblr people go?

 

[Uncle Warren]

tl;dr this thread

"Here's a heads up about what I'm planning to do with this place to make it better"

"Oh neat, but instead of that let me tell you how I feel / nominate myself for something I wasn't asked to do"

Well he DID say "Be the change you want to see, faggot." If people are willing to actually try to assist, why discourage them?

 

[AnOminous]

I gotta say a lot of people want to be mods, Null must pay well.

I'm surprised so many people here turn out to want to be cucks.

 

[InLivingTuna]

Well he DID say "Be the change you want to see, faggot." If people are willing to actually try to assist, why discourage them?

Because people should reasonably try and prove themselves before they're given power over a section of the site. I've heard that I contributed like 75% of all reports before I was made a supervisor, and @CasualSeppuku had a similar story.

 

[Uncle Warren]

Because people should reasonably try and prove themselves before they're given power over a section of the site. I've heard that I contributed like 75% of all reports before I was made a supervisor, and @CasualSeppuku had a similar story.

True.

That being said we do kind of have a lot of users, and most don't report probably for the same reason: Bugging mods about things is generally a bad idea.