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 No.17253[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Let's talk about forced anon.

Why force anon?
Anonymity provides many benefits that other leftist communities don't provide.
>anti-celebrityism
>drama reduction
>removal of prejudice in responses, removing many potential causes of fallacious arguments (conscious or otherwise)
Users taking on identities encourages negative behaviors.

There are some potential cases where an identity might be appropriate within a single thread, but users taking board-wide identities are antithetical to the strengths of this site. Their identity serves no purpose but to satisfy the ego.

<b-but muh leftytrash community!
Take it to GETchan, Matrix or just have namefaggotry on /siberia/ only. There are many, many communities purpose-built for those values. This should not be one of them.
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 No.26877

Channers killing themselves when they realize having an IP address (an identity) is a prerequisite to using the internet

 No.26878

>>26877
So true. I feel our post are getting worse. Anything we need to talk about?

 No.26882

>>26835
Well there were definitely spam bots back then, but incelism wasn't that popular among children until around gamergate and related glowops of the time. The age of the cross armed rantsona YouTuber changed how kids interacted with the web for a long time, and trying to make a new Imageboard without that influence requires operating in secrecy and still being prepared for constant siege.

 No.26887

my god this thread is over a year old

imo the namefags haven't said anything extremely lolcow worthy in a while

 No.26889

>>26882
There was always resentful misogyny on the internet, it just didn't have a meme label yet


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 No.26785[Reply]

I think that the devs should implement filtering a user by flags on the board. Is that possible?
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 No.26806

shouldf be possible. im not a dev but it should be trivial

 No.26808

Make a uBlock filter. I don't remember how but I did it once when a particular Eurasianism flag was treating every other thread like it /Ukraine/ (back when the jannies were having a hard time keeping reactionaries off of it, they still do but it was way worse at the time.)

 No.26809

They could do a filter by IP but then people would shadowban each other over the odd shitpost and the site would become even more of a ghost town.

 No.26827

learn to interpret and use flags properly kid
They're generally used to signal roles or personas

No one person owns any flag anybody can use them

They're basically an emoji 😊👍

 No.26885

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Comrade, I implemented that in October 2021.
And another comrade wrote their own in March 2021 >>>/tech/7374


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 No.17032[Reply]

Some nights leftypol is so shit that I just pretend to be a clueless retard (no, not a fascist) just for shits and giggles.
Does anyone else do this?
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 No.26757

>>26756
I do that as well. Let's think about this for a second. Why am I allowed to post the way I do but ThingNoticer isn't? I think the difference is style. I have it, most people don't. This is why things went down the way they did.

 No.26766

>>26757
Its because frankly I only post after consuming large amounts of narcotics and only come here to look at the porn and trigger americans

 No.26855

>>26766
I play a game against myself. I try to see how much Al guul I have to ingest before I become as dull as the people here. If I do I win the game. Needless to say I've never won the game.

 No.26856

>>26855
penis cummer

 No.26862

>>17032
You guys pretend?


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 No.16675[Reply]

All the retards are crawling out! I officially declare 07:00 AM GMT as the hour where posts have the worst quality and also the hour when all mods are asleep.
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 No.26847

It's 7:48 GMT
and I can confirm this

 No.26853

Personally, l think 02:00 AM GMT is a good contender.

 No.26854

>>26853
We need to turn off american access to this place
It's the only way

 No.26857

>>16675
The shittiest time on the internets is 17:00 Eastern Coast Time.

 No.26884

>>26853
this, but its also when shit mods are still on


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 No.26746[Reply]

Word Filter Proposals: Marketing Terms Edition

(Post(ing/ed) (on/to) Social Media > Post(ing/ed)) Online
((Browse/Scroll)(ing/ed) (on/to) Social Media > Surf(ing/ed)) The Web
Influencer(s) > Sales(person/people)
Tweet(ing/ed) > Post(ing/ed)
Re(tweet/blog)(ing/ed) > Boost(ing/ed)
Content > Post
Content Creator > Poster
YouTuber/TikToker > Videographer
The Algorithm > Search Engine Optimization

Any more suggestions?
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 No.26761

>>26759
>Not wanting corpspeak to become the default is le politically correct
>literally rendered in computer code (parentheses usage)
tbh I mostly agree we should try to reserve word filters for funnies, but I see these marketing terms thrown around a lot on here and it really does degrade people's ability to think about these things outside the framework these marketing terms were made for. If you have some funny alternative suggestions I'm all for it, >>26748 has the spirit.
Also I wanted an excuse to wonderbreadpost

 No.26762

>>26746
>Re(tweet/blog)(ing/ed) > Boost(ing/ed)
you didnt think of reposting?

 No.26763

>>26761
>>literally rendered in computer code (parentheses usage)
that isnt regex

 No.26764

>>26763
Nah I'm not that good at regex yet. I can search stuff with it but I dunno how I'd make these as regex.
>>26762
Oh yeah good point.

 No.26767

OP's proposals and understanding of wordfilters are doubleplus ungood.


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 No.22154[Reply]

Leftypol is objectively the best website in the world

It is easily demonstrable by a negative definition, follow this, what are the other websites? 4chan, Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, whatever. Internet is mostly three American arms dealer in a trench coat anyway. Give me just one website that is better than leftypol. I’m waiting.

I was surprised too when I came to this conclusion, but I accepted it and so will you. Leftypol is the best website in the world (objectively).(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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 No.22452

>>22451
no

 No.22575

Leftypol is kinda dead innit

 No.24185

>>22575
Yeah but at least it's easy to some good necrobumps

 No.26713

It sure is, isn't it

 No.26725

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 No.16508[Reply]

This is a discussion thread about the concepts of community self-moderation and self-curation, how they can apply to this site, and its interaction with the extent of staff-enforced 'quality control' (deleting reactionaries, idpol, derails, etc.)
There's pages of other threads for other topics so don't derail it with 'jannies should/nt ban [x]'.
—–

I believe a discussion community should ideally be capable of self-moderating. There are some obstacles to this, and I want to ask what they are, which can be solved, and how it can be achieved.

1) Why curate?
In a sentence, so that the catalogs aren't filled with or endorsing 'the same thread every week', reactionary shitposts, idpol bait topics and other generally-unwanted or quality-degrading topics.
Most of the community consider this a detraction from insightful threads getting attention, a welcome sign to unwelcome users, or simply a bad experience. Too much of this, and the users leave and the site essentially dies.

1) b. Why self-curate?
In a list:
>so that the site isn't reliant on random volunteer jannies to stop the above from happening
>so that jannies can be told with confidence to not curate topics that currently would just sit at the top of the site all day if they didn't
>so that a raid when jannies aren't online isn't paralyzing for hours
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 No.16512

>>16510
seething janny didn't even read the post, all he fears is irrelevancy on an irrelevant site, how ironic.

 No.16517

>>16512
Bringing janny drama into this really detracts from any seriousness.

I agree with some things here but the best way to do these kinds of things is to formalize them and have them imposed by jannies. Warning bans for bait takers, encouraging reporting, shit like that.

There's a big issue with not taking the bait:
Reactionary positions go unchallenged. How do you plan on dealing with this?

 No.16524

>>16512
Not a mod but ok
You just want people to self-impose a karma system, it seems
Most problems could be solved by just saging shit threads, you don't need to do anything extra

 No.16538

A very good description of the problem.
While I would agree this all sounds very nice, I can't help but think it breaks down when it comes to solutions.
Just to counteract bait threads you need to make high quality threads, effortpost, make OC make people aware of the problem of the problem of the attention trap outlined continuously. That looks an asymmetrical fight.
>>16517
>go unchallenged
Who cares if they are unchallenged if no one sees them? Compared to a shouting match over hundreds of posts this problem is trivial.
Sage and move on has been wisdom passed down through the ages for a reason.

 No.26714

Horrifying to think this might be someone's actual opinion
Why is there a distinction between a community and a janitor in the first place?


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 No.19587[Reply]

I know half of you will freak out because its me saying it, but could we have a thread on the main board that is just for people to hang out in, post random shit, generally talk about things, not necessarily politics related but obviously there will be a lot of crossover. Like Matrix/fbi.gov but you don't have to sign in an all that junk. Just a thread for banter and shitposting. Yes technically there is a whole board for that on /b/ but i feel a fast hangout thread would be better. Also whatever happening thread is happening and ITG end up defacto being this anyways, so it might free those threads up a bit.
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 No.19723

>PMC
Smells like stupidpolyp in here

 No.19864

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hear me out guys…. what if we made a thread that's an imageboard, it'd be like nesting imageboards and free up infinite space, just put all the conversation in one thread and make it about whatever topics, but curate it so it doesnt turn into fbi.gov, think of the possibilities

 No.19940

Very cool
>>19588
true

it should be more anon than the matrix since it's public

 No.19959

>>19722
Who is this physco path?

 No.26711

>>19625
The post that started it all. Should have followed the advice (it's not my post but almost as good as mine).
>>19630
damn


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 No.26702[Reply]

thanks for making my animal election fred sticky mods (more like gods) xoxoxoxoooxooxo ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

 No.26703

xd


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 No.26335[Reply]

Hello everyone, we have decided to take some measures to try to make /meta/ more productive - first of all, all posts by mods wil now be identified by mod tag (preferably) or by putting mod in the name field if needed. This will also apply on all other site management threads. Individual mod names will be optional. We hear the criticisms that have been levelled on this issue and we apologise that it has taken some time to take this action.

In addition we would like /meta/ to be a more productive space in general, so please try to post suggestions for improvement rather than blanket criticisms. We may move ban appeals into a dedicated thread in order to reduce the amount of new topic clutter. I hope that we will be able to introduce more reforms soon but this is an important first step. In addition, recruitment of new moderators to give some new blood is continuing apace currently. Please bear with us for more improvements!
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 No.26686

>>26568
I've been banned multiple times for "illegal content" and /pol/ spam but I literally am just shit posting and arguing with Grace from my phone. Probably something to do with dynamic ips. Every single time I appealed and got denied, so I had to wait 'til I'm home to make a /meta/ post.
Not really sure what to make of it, there could be a wrecker in the mod team or there could be a glowie abusing certain ip ranges constantly.
Or, dun dun dun, it could be both :o

 No.26688

>>26686
Not a lot into wrecking personally but paranoia is hilarious to me

 No.26693

>>26685
>muh pomo
ok anglo

 No.26700

>>26685
*poststructuralist

 No.26701

>>26693
>using words you don't understand
yikes


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