Articles & Happening Meta Discussion

Articles & Happenings is the third attempt at a news board on the Kiwi Farms. It is a cursed place. Every moderator who has been assigned here has resigned within a year. During 2016, the political crossfire was so bad it spread to different boards and culminated in me banning American news discussion entirely for several months. It has been deleted in its entirety twice. There is no actual discussion here, it's people posting garbage. It leans much further right than the rest of the site and doesn't particularly conduct discussion because dissenting opinions are dogpiled by a thousand memelords posting shit they read on /pol/ without any critical analysis.

The only rules that can be enforced are empirical ones with boolean violation answers. New threads must cite a real source directly and must use the headline of the article as a thread title without any editorializing. Articles must be archived in some way and must link to the original article. Replies that are one word or a reaction images are automatic one-month bans from the board.

I'm creating this now because it seems like this place is here to stay and is one of the largest areas of the entire site. I might as well throw in bare minimum effort to improve it. I don't even try to find mods for here because they will quit, without exception. I've added new prefixes ("Business" and "Crime") just now.

Discuss.


New threads should be made like this.

 

[AnotherPleb]

Because it's not about that, it's about their politics...

How much is the dems paying you jannyfag? I hope you aren't doing it "for the cause" cause lol

We really are heading the way of Something Awful at this rate.

If they were going to ask for money the dems would head to someone else.

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

If they were going to ask for money the dems would head to someone else.

places like here, SA, Chans, ect are the perfect places to influence. Make any movement coming out of them look grassroots even if it's astroturf.

 

[AnotherPleb]

places like here, SA, Chans, ect are the perfect places to influence. Make any movement coming out of them look grassroots even if it's astroturf.

Why pay the jannies when they will already do it for free?

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

Why pay the jannies when they will already do it for free?

Neets need money

 

[ForTheHoard]

Here. Round 2 of Biden megathread. If they ban it then they ban it.

Edited out the link. All the threads were merged.

 

[CockPockets]

Oh no there's five threads now.

 

[AnotherPleb]

Oh no there's five threads now.

Rookie numbers.

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

Ride has expressed a dislike of right leaning individuals before.

I don't think that thread was closed because it was "slow."

Hasn't he doxxed users before using system data?

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

Hasn't he doxxed users before using system data?

If that's the case why is this nigger a mod?

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

If that's the case why is this nigger a mod?

Like others have said, all the mop pushers are the same to me. I seem to remember seeing something about this on the site that cannot be named.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

Lol the lock mighta been stupid but y'all seething over this one janny. They already work for free, don't let them live upstairs rent free. They're ok with multiple threads, go multiply and be fruitful. Some more focused stuff ain't gonna hurt us.

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

Lol the lock mighta been stupid but y'all seething over this one janny. They already work for free, don't let them live upstairs rent free. They're ok with multiple threads, go multiply and be fruitful. Some more focused stuff ain't gonna hurt us.

It's the principal of the thing you retarded new nigger faggot. This site does value free speech and faggots doing shit like that threaten it.

You want Something Awful or Reset Era? Cause this right here is how you get it.

 

[XYZpdq]

lol "it was slow" is the excuse?

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

lol "it was slow" is the excuse?

LOL yes.

I let em know what I thought on their profile too. Cause fuck shitty excuses like this.

Edit: if my account goes down / gets weird shit... well you know, I've gotten a vague threat.

 

[CarlosDanger]

I just want to know what harm the thread was causing? The discussion on there was on topic most of the time until some faggot would come in just to start shit and then disappear. Why not let us have a US news megathread and leave us the fuck alone?

 

[X Prime]

The claim is that the thread was loading slowly from the database.

Others have commented that it might be true for the mod tools.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

I just want to know what harm the thread was causing? The discussion on there was on topic most of the time until some faggot would come in just to start shit and then disappear. Why not let us have a US news megathread and leave us the fuck alone?

And when it wasn't on topic it moved so fast the derail was over in no time. Like a 5 page discussion on burgers ("Burgers?") and if you didn't like it scroll past and in a few hours we were 3 pages past that.

 

[CarlosDanger]

The claim is that the thread was loading slowly from the database.

Others have commented that it might be true for the mod tools.

So wouldn't have been better to say "hey guys this thread is too big and fucking with our database, so we are going to close it and you can create a new thread?"

 

[Ruin]

So wouldn't have been better to say "hey guys this thread is too big and fucking with our database, so we are going to close it and you can create a new thread?"

Because that's not the actual reason. Someone was seething and whined enough to get it closed.

 

[ForTheHoard]

Assuming they're acting in good faith, we need clarification on the new page-cap for threads so we don't run into this issue again.