Complaints and Suggestions #21
Previous thread >>>/meta/63684
General Meta Discussion #4
This is a containment thread for meta discussion that doesn't fall into complaints and suggestions. Feel free to tinfoil or talk about the state of the site but try to avoid being too autistic.
If cerbmin needs to hear it, post it here.
NEW /meta/ THREAD: Site Updates Thread
>>63266
Previous responses to anons:
>>62774, >>62928 regarding moovie thread
>>62963 accusing other users of being moids
>>63136 explaining infighting from a handful of users
Previous threads, newest to oldest:
>>62751
>>60569
>>56933
>>53472
>>51182
Banner Thread #2
A nice, cosy, official banner thread to submit your new banners for the benefit and expansion of the website.
Banners must be 300x100
Banners should mention the site directly or indirectly. "lolcow.farm" written, a picture of a cow, etc.
Thread Pic: >>>/meta/27528
Previous Thread:
>>>/meta/962
Lolcow Awards 2023
Nominations are now closed! Thank you to everyone who posted.
Voting is now open, and will close on December 16th. Cast your vote here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1UnzlitVUdcYzUW7r7Xdi_88HFcYUItctQuqBkqS6H78
Let’s celebrate another year of milky antics by recognizing your favorite cows! Nominate for the following categories:
Best Milk
Worst Milk
Favorite Cow
Worst Cow
Biggest Plot Twist
Horrorcow
Best Troll
Worst Troll
Best User-Created Content
Best Comeback
Best Comment
Best Poster
Worst Poster
Best Redtext
Worst Redtext
>greentext your category
And write your nominations below
Linking post numbers is appreciated but not required, and you can make multiple nominations within one post. Nominations will close on the 2nd of December and voting will begin!
Complaints and Suggestions #20
Previous thread >>>/meta/59950
Site Updates Thread
This thread will be used by staff to post general site updates and will remain locked to keep those updates easily visible. If you'd like to discuss any of these announcements, please use the General Meta Discussion and Complaints and Suggestions threads.
Technical Help & Feature Suggestions #2
Post all technical help questions and technical/feature suggestions here. This is the place to go if you're having some problem with the site or want to request a new feature.
If you have some non-technical issue, like wanting mods to do something or a suggesting a change in policy, please use >>1134
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Thread Binge Suggestions
I’m looking for entertaining, drama filled threads. What are some favorites that you guys liked to read? I liked the jaelle and nika series, Shayna, Erin painter, and onision happenings
General Meta Discussion #3
This is a containment thread for meta discussion that doesn't fall into complaints and suggestions. Feel free to tinfoil or talk about the state of the site but try to avoid being too autistic.
If cerbmin needs to hear it, post it here.
REGARDING SPAM:
While we generally avoid over-moderating in /meta/, we are currently being regularly spammed by a handful of schizos from the lolcow hate thread on crystal.cafe, and we are deleting their posts here. If you are concerned about us censoring valid criticism, you are welcome to check that thread.
Previous responses to anons:
>>60572 dev updates, KOSA bill, scrotefoiling
>>61061, >>61064 the "rapesock" controversy
>>61566 discussion of moderation, staff holidays, lack of staff
>>61595, >>61597, >>61644, >>61647, >>61649, >>61657 farmhand responses to questions about moderation
>>61724 farmhand announcing ban glitch was fixed
>>61923 schizoposting and banning in meta
Previous thread:
>>60569
Terminology
Excuse my autism, but I've noticed posters sometimes seem to mix up the following terms. I see this on other websites, too. This is understandable, since the terms are vague and not widely known.
These are subjective to some degree, but here is how I personally define them.
Samefagging
This is a general term for deceptive posting. It can mean the following things:
- Taking on more than one persona in a thread to make it seem like your view has wider support than it actually does. This is also called sockpuppeting. May involve replying to your own posts agreeing with yourself, or significantly changing writing style to make it seem like a different person is also giving similar positive or negative remarks. Particularly dedicated samefags may try to use a different IP address as well.
- Making multiple posts back-to-back, without obvious indication they were all made by you. This is not always deceptive, though is often annoying.
- May also apply to general false or omitted self-identification. For example, if the subject of a /pt/ thread started secretly and anonymously posting in her own thread to disagree with people or defend herself, this may also be called samefagging. There may be a better term for this, but if there is, I'm not yet aware of it.
Self-posting
Posting about yourself in any way, whether anonymous or self-identifying. For example: posting a picture of yourself, linking to your own profiles, giving excessive details about your life, etc. Self-posts are completely acceptable in some threads and some contexts, but they usually are frowned upon otherwise. You shouldn't try to make yourself stand out on an anonymous board. Valid spellings also include self posting and selfposting.
Vendetta / vendettafag / vendetta-posting
Posting about someone as if you are a random person who happens to dislike them, when in reality you have some sort of personal connection or grudge. Often involves samefagging. Generally has no relation to self-posting, except in cases of self-victimization. In cases where you present the chan with an implicit or explicit "call to action", to further your vendetta, this is also called a personal army (PA) request. It often involves misleading or deceptive information.
An example of a vendetta post would be arguing with a girl on social media, and later posting a thread calling her a whore. Asking people to send things to her parents, or falsely claiming she's violated some site's terms of service and requesting people report her, or including her address and phone number in the post, would be a vendetta post as well as a personal army request.
Self-victimizing / false flagging
Anonymously posting negative remarks about oneself while pretending to be other people. A rather humorous combination of self-posting, samefagging, sockpuppeting, and vendettafagging.
Other terms
Derailing
Derailing means causing a thread to go dramatically off-topic, often intentionally. It does not mean merely disagreeing with the OP, others in the thread, or the premise of the thread. That kind of disagreement is perfectly on-topic. Derailing is off-topic and distracting.
Please do not send reports just because someone is taking a stance opposite to most of those who've been posting in the thread. This is not against any rules. People are allowed to disagree.
If you think there are valid alternative definitions for any of these words, please discuss them. Also feel free to submit definitions or suggestions for any other terms, acronyms, or jargon.
Complaints and Suggestions #19
Previous thread >>>/meta/57065
General Meta Discussion #2
This is a containment thread for meta discussion that doesn't fall into complaints and suggestions. Feel free to tinfoil or talk about the state of the site but try to avoid being too autistic.
If cerbmin needs to hear it, post it here.
Previous responses to anons:
>>57339 moderation practices, poll and site statistics
>>57739 hiring staff, moderation practices, addition of newfag label
>>58335 locking of jvloggers thread, /shay/ users posting their nudes
>>58364 new jannies are hired
>>58489 moderation practices and automatic moderation
>>58669 rita/whiteglove post history reveal
>>58949 janny is removed for leaking IP history, several threads are locked due to attracting racebaiting retards
>>59063
>>59172 some info about LCF 2.0
>>60076 the moderation policy towards redditspacing is relaxed as a result of hellweek discussion
Previous thread:
>>56933
Can somebody please tell me how to find a new thread when the previous thread has been locked without a link to the new thread being posted? Every time it happens, I look everywhere, and I can never find it. It always takes a day or two for it to show up in google results, but how can I find it before that?
General Meta Discussion
This is a containment thread for meta discussion that doesn't fall into complaints and suggestions. Feel free to tinfoil or talk about the state of the site but try to avoid being too autistic.
If cerbmin needs to hear it, post it here. We occasionally monitor the complaints/suggestions thread as well. Please keep in mind we all have full-time jobs and tending the farm is a passion project. Changes may be slow, but we will prioritize quality over speed. We will do our best, anon!
First thread: >>51182
Previous responses to anon:
>>51190 hellweek plans, moderation practices
>>51207 moderation practices
>>51219 server costs, plans for implementing captcha
>>51222 priorities
>>51246 addressing tinfoils
>>51282 site speed
>>51325 lost /m/ threads, improving transparency
>>51381 introductions, regarding farmhands revealing IP addresses
>>51666 addressing Blaine/Elaine/tranny accusations, plans for old staff, plan for off-site updates page, regarding spam/CP
>>52298 lost /m/ threads, speed of site, closing lolcow Discord, males on lolcow/in deleted Discord
>>52931 addressing practice of bumping CP, allowing adriasdome, hellweek and staff plans, should calling out other users as male be a bannable offense?
>>53189 what parts of board culture have deteriorated the most? What would anon like to see enforced?
>>53457 updates on lost m threads
>>53462 old m threads are restored
Previous thread: >>53472
Hellweek
Hellweek is now over.
LC moderation will revert to a more relaxed style. We appreciate all of the user feedback and wanted to address some hot topics here. Keep in mind moderation is often extremely subjective, although we conduct Hellweek to try and orient our moderation style around the most popular attitudes on LC. Let us know what you think about the following:
Multiple Hellweeks per year: Anons brought up potentially having December and summer Hellweeks. It will depend on when staff is available, and whether there seems to be a need come this December.
Reddit spacing rules: The image >>59256 attached needs line breaks, and those line breaks wouldn’t be considered Reddit spacing since the post is just so long. Shorter posts don’t require line breaks, although for mobile users these posts may look long like >>59260 says. >>59277 makes a good case against Reddit spacing. Line breaks for dramatic effect are a bit obnoxious, but if it’s funny or sarcastic it may be excused.
Line breaks after the post number you’re replying to is an identifiable typing style and will be temp banned. Minimodding about anything, including muh reddit spacing >>59320 should be reported and bans will be issued. Bullying new users into integrating is not minimodding. We would argue that it’s necessary.
Imageboard bans, attaching screenshots when linking outside websites or articles: When a link is posted with no screencap, the conversation often dies with that post. Whether that’s because the post failed to capture interest or anons didn’t click the link because they want a more cohesive scrolling experience or don’t trust links is ultimately irrelevant. We consider that a low quality post. So, when you post a link, attach a screenshot of what the link contains.
Male/troon accusations: Accusing other anons of being male/troon when it’s not immediately obvious often leads to witch hunts and infighting. Women have lots of different opinions. Women may hold misogynistic opinions. They are still women.
New redtext: sus, unalived, goated, and femcel will be added as new redtext!
Hellweek theme being usable after tomorrow: We will update the existing Hellweek theme to have the fire gif at the bottom.
Misuse of terminology, twitter/tiktok verbiage, “serving cunt” ban, “rapefugee” ban, other language:>>59342 brings up these points. Things like r*pe or sewerslide are always bannable. LC is free speech friendly and is in direct opposition to self-censoring speech. Things like “serving cunt” are up to mods discretion. It’s drag/twitter language that is better suited to other places online.
The term “rapefugee” sounds like its straight from /pol/ which is why those posts have resulted in temp bans. However, we understand that rape by refugees is suffered by women, so women here may feel that “rapefugee” is an accurate term that rapist refugees deserve to be called >>59479. Global Rule 7 states: Do not instigate or engage in race related arguments. (racebaiting). Clearly, we’ve allowed race related discussion, but please keep it civil between users.
Incorrect terminology like “LC is a forum” or “/m/ is my favorite imageboard” would be better combated by bullying letting anon know that LC is an imageboard and /m/ is a board and that anon is a newfag. Remember some anons are ESL.
Our original announcement can be found below.
Hellweek will begin July 2 and will end July 9 (at midnight EST in both cases). Posts made during this week will receive extra scrutiny and moderation will increase. However, this is not applicable to posts made before or after hellweek. Please post any questions, suggestions, or concerns in this thread. General complaints stay in the general complaints thread.
What is Hellweek?
Hellweek is a period of time, typically a week, where moderation is strict. This hellweek, all boards will be participating and all bans will be redtexted in order to receive feedback from site users (use this thread for that feedback). Just because redtext is used does not mean a ban is permanent. Feel free to report posts, but if your reports are consistently frivolous or falsely accusing anons of being male, etc. expect a temporary ban for wasting time.
Why does Hellweek exist?
LC’s first ever Hellweek was held December of 2015 >>1904
>The purpose of this will be to gauge community reaction to moderation actions, and help determine if permanent policy changes should be made. The secondary purpose will be to hopefully encourage people to improve their quality of posts in the long term, without moderators having to step in.
Anons have stated that board culture has gone downhill since the coronavirus quarantine/lockdown of 2020. The drama forum Pretty Ugly Little Liars also closed in 2020. The farm has seen an influx of twitter and PULL refugees, as well as users immigrating from TikTok as LC has been mentioned on that platform. Users who violate the rules as outlined by lolcow.farm/rules and who do not conform to board culture will be the main targets of Hellweek’s heavy moderation, but the main goal is to integrate as many newfags as possible while improving the overall posting quality.
Complaints and Suggestions #18
Previous thread: >>>/meta/54138
Why can't I post images?
It says "fail to resize image" and I can't post no matter what. I've never seen a site so obsessively moderated that also has nonstop technical issues
General Meta Discussion
This is a containment thread for meta discussion that doesn't fall into complaints and suggestions. Feel free to tinfoil or talk about the state of the site but try to avoid being too autistic.
If cerbmin needs to hear it, post it here. We occasionally monitor the complaints/suggestions thread as well. Please keep in mind we all have full-time jobs and tending the farm is a passion project. Changes may be slow, but we will prioritize quality over speed. We will do our best, anon!
First thread: >>51182
Previous responses to anon:
>>51190 hellweek plans, moderation practices
>>51207 moderation practices
>>51219 server costs, plans for implementing captcha
>>51222 priorities
>>51246 addressing tinfoils
>>51282 site speed
>>51325 lost /m/ threads, improving transparency
>>51381 introductions, regarding farmhands revealing IP addresses
>>51666 addressing Blaine/Elaine/tranny accusations, plans for old staff, plan for off-site updates page, regarding spam/CP
>>52298 lost /m/ threads, speed of site, closing lolcow Discord, males on lolcow/in deleted Discord
>>52931 addressing practice of bumping CP, allowing adriasdome, hellweek and staff plans, should calling out other users as male be a bannable offense?
>>53189 what parts of board culture have deteriorated the most? What would anon like to see enforced?
>>53457 updates on lost m threads
>>53462 old m threads are restored!
Complaints and Suggestions #17
Previous thread >>>/meta/51603
why the fuck did the belle thread get locked when shayna is like 1000x more irrelevant and less milky yet has like 100 threads. BELLE WK MODS LMFAO
It's official troons have infiltrate the mod team
Lolcow looks all twisted and reversed. How to fix this please? I can’t read anything. Was it fixed for others already? Why the screenshot looks normal when i post it but not to me? What’s the reason and behide this, first time happening.
Banner Thread
A nice, cosy, official banner thread to submit your new banners for the benefit and expansion of the website.
Banners must be 300x100
Banners should mention the site directly or indirectly. "lolcow.farm" written, a picture of a cow, etc.
Submitting some OC.
Complaints and Suggestions thread #16
Previous thread: >>49127
New Admins Introduction
Hello anons, we are the new admin team! We are a team of three taking over for Shaymin.
Our apologies for the delay in introducing ourselves. There were scheduling issues between us and the old admin that made getting access to everything take longer than we wanted, but we are now in a position to work on the site. To begin with, we have removed the raid spam that had been lingering for the past few weeks. As far as introductions go, we are a team of 3 consisting of two devs and a liaison + project manager to keep communication flowing between devs and farmers. We are all farmers with 5+ years on the farms and have volunteered to keep the site up and running. All changes will be announced on the site before they are implemented - currently announcing this via banners is unreliable, so please check this thread for updates.
To clear up some misinformation: we have had access to the admin panel/moderation tools you all know of since the original transfer, and almost all of the old farmhands have stayed on board and have been continuing to moderate during this time. The discord post you have seen screenshots of was poorly worded, and was referring to a lack of access to the site infrastructure (which we now have). The 3-day site outage was due to the server bill not being paid, which should not be a problem in the future. The whole team is actively monitoring for CP to purge as soon as possible. Please continue to report it!
There are many technical issues with lolcow that we have to deal with before we can make progress. This may mean we have to migrate the site to another imageboard platform, in order to ensure the long-term health of the site (and the sanity of the farmhands). If we are going to do this, it will be done some time from now and in collaboration with our users. We will give you a chance to test and feedback on the new platform before we make the change, and it will be done with ample (48 hour minimum) warning.
We are open to any questions you may have. We are looking forward to the future of lolcow, thank you for your patience nonas and may the milk flow. ♥
Complaints and Suggestions thread #15
Previous : >>>/meta/47621
Announcements and other info
Announcements + info from Admin and Farmhands concerning the site. Please refer to this thread when asking any questions that have been already answered.
This is for easy access posts only, please keep discussion and complaints in the complaints and suggestions threads.
users still can't access lc
pls help them, they've been left in the cold with out lolcow for days now
Resignation
I'm sorry it had to come to this. I've tried my best since coming on board as admin but the honest truth is that I underestimated the work it takes just to keep lolcow running, not to mention the intensity of raids this year. I thought I could get it done while dealing with my job and personal life too but I was wrong and had to realise that I can't give this community what it needs. A lot of volunteers have stepped forward, so I'm positive that we'll find a great new team. If you want to apply as admin or moderator, email administration@lolcow.farm or join the discord linked in the navigation bar. The hidden board can be accessed through there now since there were complaints about the posting traffic.
The migration to an updated software is still most likely going to proceed, but for now our focus is to find a new admin and more farmhands. Timezones outside of North America will get priority.
Please fix the character limit
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Do admin/mods not care about broken rules?
I reported instances of clear rule breaking 12 hours ago and it was ignored. I know a farmhand at least saw the post because they commented but took no action. Also emailed the admin and got no response. This is literally in regard to something that is clearly breaking the site rules itself.
Actual Complaints and Suggestions #3
Any autistic meltdowns will be banned.
What will happen to lolcow.farm in the future?
context for those who are late and confused about this situation :
> Maintenance for 2 days (19/12 to 22/12)
>No communication of what the admin was going to fix during this maintenance
>Shaymin changed the entire website yesterday, by using the new batch lynxchan code since Vichan is getting old
> /w/ got removed, kpop-posting is now allowed and old threads disappeared
> Shaymin still left original.lolcow.farm for those who didn’t liked the new one
> Shaymin is fed up with the changes and decide to lend the website to someone else (see >>48684 )
After the major change that happened yesterday, several nonnies were left disappointed and we might witness the retirement of Shaymin. But now, we must know how and who will keep this website alive. Did any nonnies already sent their applications to Shaymin ? Will the nonnies create a team for fixing and improve the website ? Any nonnies wants to share their ideas for the future of this website ?
Complaints and Suggestions thread #14
Previous: >>>/meta/45929
Complaints and Suggestions thread #13
Previous >>>/meta/43429
Where is Shaymin
The newest lolcow admin, Shaynafag Admin, was supposed to come and say hi to us months ago in december but she never introduced herself. I've seen a lot of anons complain about the lack of words from shaymin and she's nowhere to be seen, she might as well be mythical. Does shaymin even exist? Where is she?
Protect Lolcow, a female only space, at all costs
This is a thread to talk about the current issues within lolcow and suggest possible solutions. Discuss, vent, and archive anything you might feel is relevant to combat people who might want to take it down. Complaints go in the complaints thread.
Complaints and Suggestions thread #12
previous: >>>/meta/40923
Complaints and suggestions thread #7
Previous thread: >>>/meta/30359
Site logo thread
In the most recent admin appareance, she suggested that some artistic anons should make a new site logo for the front page. Original post is here:
>>>/meta/40770
All artistic anons are welcomed to participate, please suggest a cool website logo!
Retirement & The Future of LCF
After a few months of badly orchestrated infiltration attempts to take over the site, I have decided to no longer accept google form applications. Applications for moderation roles will remain open for the time being. If anyone is interested in taking on full responsibility of the site then the best way to contact me would be email or discord (link is by the listed boards).
I have some potential canidates but I don't like to put all my eggs in one basket. The reality is that if no replacement is found by the end of the year, I will inevitably be forced to pull the plug like PULL or settle for a less than ideal replacement to maintain the pastures. To make the transition easier I have decided to provide detailed documentation of all server infrastructure.
What's Changing?
- admin role has reduced technical requirements with optional support in the early transitional months
- I am no longer funding the server bill - if you're interested in donating to keep the site afloat then you can email or shoot me a message on discord for the link - monthly server cost is listed at the page
- apply as the next Administrator by providing a detailed email explaining your interest and qualifications, discord works too
Complaints and suggestions thread #9
jannies and admin missing edition #9
previous thread: >>>/meta/33094
Complaints and Suggestions thread #10 (redux)
trannies kill themselves edition
previous thread:
>>>/meta/34548
Complaints and Suggestions thread #11
previous: >>>/meta/37093
Board-tan
The officially chosen lolcow-tan is >>2091
Complaints and Suggestions Thread #11
help
Wtf
Are you seriously letting moids stay if they pay up? Are you willingly letting the CP and tranny spam up? What the fuck is going on?
If you don't care about this website or its moderation anymore, just close it entirely, let it die with honour instead of keeping it barely alive. Or resign and give it to the people who actually care. Previous admin said this on the last townhall: this will always be a female only website. I don't know why you're letting the stupid male trolls do this.
Companies and products you won't support
Inspired by >>>/m/221721
Companies or products you will not support and buy, for whatever reasons you may have. Bad actions and business practices, questionable ethics, shoddy quality or just bad personal experiences, anything goes. Please mention your reasons, and post sources if available.
Townhall Nov 2021
Good morning / good evening farmers, the last townhall of the year begins in 3 hours. In preparation a room has been prepared for anyone to join anonymously, no registration required (you should also recommend me some videos to queue in thread). I will also be on discord in case anyone wants to privately message me, but email also works. I will try to limit the length of the townhall to an 1hr 30min so everybody can get their questions and thoughts in before the meeting ends.
If it is your first townhall, don't be intimidated. Feel free to make a cup off tea and join us anyways, unless you actually have something better to do.
Anyone else think that it's very creepy that Adam clearly runs the site and refuses to let other men around. Anyone else have an abusive rapist partner like that? I get you don't want men around but maybe a gay GNC to sniff out the rapey males since one is your fucking site owner MIGHT NOT BE THE WORST IDEA AT THIS POINT LOL
Ban the IP, delete the post, idc Ian or Adam or one of the other names you use online to creep on girls, you did this brazenly on another site and now I will make sure you can't harm a single user here.
You shitty scote.
Re-open /int/
Most of you might not know this, but we actually have an entire board dedicated to international topics, right here:
https://lolcow.farm/int/
The board was intially closed due to "lack of activity", but there's been a very big interest in making international threads on /ot/, to the point of clogging the front page with them.
My solution to this is: tweak the board a little, don't make it about cows only. Move all international threads from /ot/ there and delete the shit threads and duplicate threads on /int/ (there's some vandalism atm due to the board not being properly closed), replace them with the current ones.
I think this might help /ot/ stay focused on off-topic threads, and we already have an /int/ board for the threads that are bumped constantly and don't really belong on /ot/. My only request is, make the board visible so more traffic is guaranteed, and truly reinforce the no racebait rule-
Here's some threads from /ot/ that you can move there:
>>>/ot/1201446
>>>/ot/1176608
>>>/ot/815514
>>>/ot/1113313
>>>/ot/1081510
>>>/ot/986511
>>>/ot/621962
>>>/ot/1094882
>>>/ot/724145
>>>/ot/1075106
>>>/ot/583426
Complaints and suggestions thread #8
Previous thread: >>>/meta/31751
Banned for using the # < 3 code compilation
Hello, this isn't really a complaining thread, but a thread to compile the unfair emoji bans when you use the # < 3 code that turns into ♥ that dumb jannies overlook all the time.
Proof this heart shouldn't be a reason for an emoji ban here:
>>>/meta/6821
Feel free to post your own examples
Actual complaints and suggestions #6
stop ignoring us challenge
Actual complaints and suggestions #3
Because it's been 2 days and admin seems to be asleep
Should mods start banning anons who accuse others of being another anon
Risking a ban to ask this question, should mods start banning the anons who accuse others of being "x" other anon? Example:
>Omg you said this word! You must be x!
>Stop saying (thing I don't like) you must be ____-chan!
>Only ___anon would say that!
I often see these accusations without any basis or proof, and I also see a lot of anons complaining about this calling it annoying. Should mods start enforcing a rule about this? It would honestly prevent so many unnecessary infights with very stubborn anons. This rule would be very similar to how people think x cow is in the thread (omg Lucinda is that you?) Etc.
Can I make a thread about Katherine Ann or are mummy vlogger threads not allowed?
Mane a new complaints thread, I have complaints.
Actual complaints and suggestions #3
3 Rules:
Nicole anon stfu already
No spam
No derailing or infighting
Hello everyone, I'm your new admin!
Regina has been showing me the ropes for the past few weeks and finished transferring everything to me.
I've made a new discord, anyone who wants to join can do so at https://discord.gg/J6zJuXV. You don't need a discord account to join, and there is no longer any verification process.
If you are interested in being a janitor or moderator for the site/discord, please apply here: https://lolcow.typeform.com/to/zD7ZD8
I plan on issuing a survey in the next couple of days to see what direction we want for the site. I want to generally have stricter moderation to cut down on nitpicking of snowflakes and off-topic posts. This will remain a place for free speech, however I'd like to improve the general quality of posts, if possible.
Thanks, and please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions!
Town Hall Chats
Last night, we held a pretty productive chat in https://chat.lolcow.farm/r/meta about site policies and what sort of threads belong in /snow/. I may do another one tonight.
I'd like to start doing these once every 1 or 2 weeks. Some chats may have specific topics. Otherwise, you can just ask me general questions about the site and discuss the state of it and its future.
I will also try to post transcripts for each chat, possibly with some off-topic discussion removed, for people who are unable to join at that time. Note that a lot of off-topic discussion is still in these transcripts, so apologies if you have to sift through a lot of irrelevant material.
Town Hall #1 - 9/14/15: http://pastebin.com/rt4QLix2
What's the difference between Lowcow and Crystal Cafe?
Site changes & HELLWEEK IS UPON US
Summarizing tonight's Townhall:
- A new team of moderators and janitors has been hired and is working hard to keep lolcow clean. Staff has an all-new moderation guide with specific ban reasons and times. Bans increase with a factor of 2 for repeat offenses in succession.
- A posting guide for new users will be added in order to integrate them more efficiently rather than filling up threads with attempts to alienate or teach them.
- Users are encouraged to use the reports system to let staff know privately if they agree with moderation decisions (public ones like warnings). This is a way for us to (under consideration of bullshit reports and bias) keep tabs on which moderators reflect the community.
- Posting new threads on /pt/ will be restricted to staff members. For thread continuations, a warning will be posted once a thread has reached 1100 posts (100 posts before bump limit).
From that point, users can submit summaries of recent drama and thread OP pics to a dedicated thread. Staff will then post a continuation thread. Recently, continuations have been missing social media links and summaries, so we'll try this as a solution.
- Posting new threads to /snow/ will be aided by a new post form (pic related). Until the form is installed, a post template will help new users make decent quality threads.
- Race and trans wank will be reduced to one thread each in /ot/ which will be put on autosage.
- Proposed: In times of zero milk, when a thread is mostly speculation, it could be put on autosage until a moderator undoes this when there's fresh drama.
- Nitpicking, armchair psychology, and absolutely baseless speculating must be saged and kept under control. Endless tinfoiling about e.g. Taylor's or Dakota's income or specific shade of hair color must stop and will be punished.
- Hellweek starts tomorrow. This means strict moderation and lots of temporary bans.
- For example, all posts that only consist of "hi [cow]" or "lol" or "underrated post" will be removed and punished with a short ban.
- Taking bait is now a bannable offense unless saged and kept to minimal interaction.
- The Chatango box, although requested as an alternative to Discord, seems unpopular and has been voted to be removed.
- Incel threads will be banned until farmers learn not to lure them to lolcow by attentionwhoring in their communities.
- Zero tolerance for male posters who identify themselves in their posts or otherwise fail to fly under the radar.
- Ember's thread will be put on autosage. You can keep posting in it, but don't make a new one.
- /sty/ and /cream/ will be removed.
Feel free to make further suggestions or post your feedback on any of the above.
Mod applications
Lolcow.farm needs more staff!
Please apply here:
Application form
Lolcow Awards
Welcome to the first annual Lolcow Awards, feel free to comment and celebrate!
Favorite Cow:
- Onision >>>/pt/346069
- Margaret Palermo >>>/pt/346078
- Pixyteri >>346101
Worst Cow:
- Onision >>346069
- Incels >>346074
- Dakota (tba)
Best Milk:
- Keekweek >>346075
- Onision >>346069
- Margaret Palermo >>346078
Biggest Plot Twist:
- Venus’ Escape >>346078
- Keekweek >>346075
- Billie’s return to the Onion house >>346069
Horrorcow
- Hartley Hooligans >>346081
- Ashley Isaacs (tba)
- Onision >>346069
Best Troll:
- Kiki Kannibal >>346075
- Milk-chan >>346088
- Lainey’s fake tweet >>346084
Worst Troll:
- Kiki Kannibal >>346075
- Sindy Pop >>346098
- Vicky >>346094
Best User-Created Content:
- Lolcow banners
- Spergchan >>346075
- Onision thread pics >>346069
Best Comeback
- Kiki Kannibal >>346075
- Pixyteri >>346101
- Lilou Vos >>346075
The nominee summaries have been contributed by members of the Discord. Thank you!
Announcement
>>>/pt/283531
Discuss
What's it like running an active community with a lot of interesting topics / people? Is it satisfying to watch it grow etc?
(Posed to the original admins as well I guess, if they hang around)
Thoughts on these posts?
https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/cgl/thread/S8773674#p8773831
>I kind of miss drama threads on /cgl/. Don't get me wrong, I know the farm exists but I'd rather discuss actual drama then having to sit through 500 replies of people going 'lol get a nosejob" and how 'ugly' everyone is. I guess that's just because I never really cared about discussing someone's looks? So the farm is kinda boring to me most of the time.
https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/cgl/thread/S8773674#p8773850
>The farm is a cringefest most of the girls there are so insecure they need to shred every cow's physical appearance to pieces "lol she's so ugly and fat and her nose is so big and her eyebrows are terrible geez she's sooo haggard and old looking" also lots of ana chans calling everyone a fatty. It's painful and not fun anymore. I miss the drama here because it was simpler,
https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/cgl/thread/S8773674#p8773857
>Oh this so much, I'm average close to underweight but I usually don't care what strangers on the net think about my body type.
>But somehow these girls manage to get under my skin and make me hate myself, when it's not even about ME or anyone with similar body shape or weight. I cringe every time someone mentions the farm nowadays because of these people's unhealthy obsession with how other people look
https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/cgl/thread/S8773674#p8774577
>This. I lurked the farm a lot for a few months and I gotta say the posters are more cringeworthy than most of the cows. If you read the OT threads about mental health and feels, it's more than apparent that a lot of the people on there are batshit insane themselves and very miserable. I realized I was among that group and have been trying to improve my life and personality, it's really distressing to realize you fit all the stereotypes of a typical farmer. I just seriously hope more of them do before it's too late for me.
Certainly some valid points there.
pic unrelated
Bribery
Can banned users bribe their way back into their accounts?
Townhall Chat
I've been discussing some potential changes with my fellow staff members and would like to make some bigger changes to lolcow. I'll also reintroduce regular townhalls, approximately once a month. They will take place on an independent chat platform, you will not have to use our Discord server for it.
The townhall chat has been rescheduled for Sunday, February 18th, at 6 PM EST. Announcements and chat links will be posted on lolcow, tempcow and discord half an hour before we start.
I'd like to get as much input as I can, but if you can't make it, there will be a summary on lolcow afterwards.
/pt/ thread criteria
There has recently been an uptick in /pt/ threads which many members of the community find to be lacking the criteria for "lolcow"ness. Often this is because the OP is not descriptive or clear enough in demonstrating that someone is a lolcow. In other cases, when they are descriptive, many people disagree that they're actually a lolcow.
Here are a few threads which have been moved to /b/:
>>>/pt/112001
>>>/pt/110838
>>>/pt/111652
>>>/pt/116793
>>>/pt/117423
>>>/pt/115068
>>>/pt/116632 is borderline, and has not (yet) been moved.
In response to this, I adjusted the guidelines for /pt/ and added this paragraph:
>If you are posting a new thread about someone who isn't widely known, and there are no previous threads about this person, include an explanation in the OP or immediate follow-up posts as to why you consider them to be a lolcow. You should include links, pictures, videos, screenshots, quotes, or other evidence. Threads that do not obey this may be moved to /b/.
A few questions I would like input on:
1. Would it be worthwhile creating a new board, something in between /b/ and /pt/, for threads about specific people which do not fit in /pt/? Or is /b/ fine by itself?
2. The rules do not stipulate what qualities really constitute a lolcow. Would it be worthwhile coming up with a list of very specific criteria for who/what is deserving of a /pt/ thread?
3. In borderline cases, how should thread moderation decisions be handled, if at all? Some form of voting would be nice, but voting is kind of impractical on anonymous imageboards. One option could be increasing the number of volunteer staff and having the volunteers cast votes, but this is also susceptible to bias and potential drama. The current procedure is simply me making the sole decision.
Staff Applications
Hello everyone,
we've exhausted the last round of applications, but our team still needs more helping hands. If you'd like to join us, please fill out the following form and if it's a good fit, we'll get back to you shortly.
You can apply to
- be a Janitor
- be a global moderator (Farmhand)
- become the new lolcow.farm Admin
- help with technical issues
- moderate specific threads
- moderate Discord or volunteer in other ways.
You must be willing to use a Discord account to communicate with the rest of the team.
Fill out the application form here.
Hi everyone,
There is a slight issue with the permaban system, sometimes when issuing them there is some IP collision. If you are wrongfully banned please appeal and we'll get back to you as soon as possible. Sorry about everyone who's been wrongfully banned, especially in the robot invasion crossfire.
Make a new Complaints and Suggestions thread REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
User Statistics
I'm surprised the userbase is so successful.
Makes me feel like a loser by comparison.
Rules Update & Newfriend Guide
As announced here >>>/meta/4372
Relevant changes:
> Minors can be posted about as long as they're 16+ and their full legal name isn't mentioned. First names are okay.
> Doxxing is no longer allowed.
I know some people will disagree with this, but please consider that we never allowed or encouraged cowtipping anyway, so the information gives cows and unintegrated users ammo and invite vendettachans without being of much value to threads. Most of it can be found online anyway.
> Absolutely no more posting of family members by name or picture.
I have updated the rules and put together a usage guide for new posters. I'd like to thank the many farmers who contributed to this <3
I hope this update reflects the board and its issues.
See the new rules here and the usage guide here.
~TOWN HALL MEETING~
Town Hall will be held at 6 pm CST
(sorry for the inconvenience; if anyone shows up at 4 we can just watch YouTube videos for a while)
Our first Town Hall meeting since the departure of OG admin-sama
Our Farmhands will be there and the plan is to discuss any main concerns and ideas that farmers have. One topic of discussion will be the possible removal of the /manure/ board so if you have an opinion on this matter then try to attend. Additionally, we will elucidate recent site events of interest.
The meeting will be at http://cytu.be/r/lolcowTownHall
This Thursday, October 6th at
Board Culture: Better Farming & Chemo
This thread discusses the current social fabric of lolcow; where it's going, where we want it to go and how to take it in that direction. Also how to improve our farming skills as a cohesive whole.
We propose fixing "social" issues here, especially in curing the cancer that is killing the farm.
Proposed Changes
This thread is for discussing proposed changes.
I will update posts regularly to describe some potential proposed changes.
These are just ideas, and I am only looking for feedback. These will not necessarily ever be implemented, or if they are, they may change drastically before they are implemented. These are not things I am definitely planning to do, just changes I've been thinking about.
This is a work in progress. Posts may be edited regularly.
Please offer your thoughts on all of these proposals by replying to this thread.
Staff changes & current issues
As a response to recurring complaints about staff and report handling, we've made a decision. As most of you don't know, I inherited lolcow not after the first Admin's escape but after the next Admin following that, who also hired the current staff. Because I didn't want to step on her feet, I didn't take actions the way I should've. As of today, we've removed all staff hired by the second admin.
Please apply here if you'd like to be a Farmhand.
I will also address any complaints, comments, and questions you may have in a Townhall chat next week.
Townhall Meeting Tuesday 06/06
Rescheduled: The Townhall has been rescheduled for Tuesday 6/6/17 at 7 PM EST.
Topics will include the following:
>integrating newfags
>male posters
>/sty/
>nitpicking
>new features
>new staff and their responsibilities
Please come and voice any comments and/or suggestions. A link will be posted an hour before we start.
Posting Statistics
Someone asked about posting statistics.
Here's a line graph of all posts per week for /pt/ up until today. As you can see, post rate has been increasingly pretty steadily.
The post below is the same graph for /b/.
lolcow awards 2016
The survey is up, click here to take it
To celebrate a year full of rich, creamy milk ending, we'll host the lolcow awards 2016!
You can now submit your nominations.
Categories
> best milk
> favorite cow
> worst cow
> Horrorcow
> best troll
> worst troll
> best comeback
> biggest plot twist
> best user submitted content (photo edits etc.)
Once we have a good amount of categories, the thread will be updated, and you will be able to post your nominations for each category. After that, a poll will be posted for everyone to vote.
Enjoy!
Chat
https://chat.lolcow.farm
I've set up a chat page. The code is derived from CyTube (http://cytu.be) with minor modifications. You can talk about whatever you want and share videos.
You do not have to register an account to chat. Registration is optional. You only need to register if you want to make a channel or want to reserve a certain name.
The official chat channel is http://chat.lolcow.farm/r/meta.
Users can create their own channels by registering an account and clicking Account -> Channels. The owner of a channel becomes a moderator of it, and can ban or mute people from it. Channel owners are free to enforce their own rules as long as none of them conflict with lolcow global rules. However, in cases of extreme power hunger, drama, or overzealous moderation, I reserve the right to take control of a channel and appoint a new owner.
I will likely embed a channel (with video removed) into some part of the chan in the near future, to function as an inline chat box.
Please discuss chat issues and suggestions in this thread. I threw the color scheme together pretty quickly and don't like it that much, so I would appreciate style suggestions. If you want, you can adjust the CSS values yourself with Chrome developer tools (F12 on Windows, Cmd + Alt + I on OS X) and tell me the exact changes you'd like to see.
Please also suggest new emotes. Emotes can be based on images of any size, but they're downscaled to 120x120 in the emote list page and 85x85 in the chat, so crop images as much as you can and make sure they look good at 85x85. Ideally they should be 120x120 or larger.
Usage
New channels are private by default. Go to Channel Settings -> Admin Settings to set a password or to make it public.To use an emote, click Emote List and press one of the buttons, or type the emote name surrounded by colons. :cow: is one example.
Message styling is the same as the ones valid for lolcow.farm (see >>2). So **bold** (bold) and #<3 (♥) work. The ones in the CyTube guide here work as well, but _ and * are italics and ** is bold: https://github.com/calzoneman/sync/wiki/CyTube-3.0-User-Guide#default-formatting
Full documentation can be found at https://github.com/calzoneman/sync/wiki/CyTube-3.0-User-Guide.
**Survey Time!!**
The farmhands have crafted a survey for all site users to take, in order to improve moderation. Be as honest as you'd like; negative feedback is what will lead to the most positive changes. Discussion can always be had here in meta, but this is an opportunity to voice concerns off-site where no one needs have any concerns about confidentiality.
moar announcement
Hokay…
So, time for another announcement.
This may be long so I'll make a list of the points I will be addressing and you can decide what concerns you.
-Banned cows still being a concern
-New Farmhands and the application
-"Sperg-chan" (our resident Taylor-obsessed spammer) and other invaders, like from /r9k/ etc
-Dramu with old admin (or lack thereof??)
-What you as Farmers can do about the current problems
-Brief summary of some changes being made
>Banned cows
Not the 8chan board, though they are also part of the reason for this announcement being made in the first place.
I know that there was a lot of backlash when former admin took down some of the threads and I am 100% behind that decision. However, I also think there's a way we can effectively give everyone a place to post about them without allowing them on main boards. This would be done by creating a few new boards where the banned cows can be discussed, along with a separate set of staff members that would be able to police these offshoots of the community. (Example; a board such as /sh/ for Shuddercows could include all the ana posts that aren't allowed currently. Someone from that part of the community could run the board and appoint staff members appropriately, as long as the main rules of the site are respected)
>Our new staff members
I have appointed a few new staff members since the admin change. One of the janitors from the previous administration was made a mod right from the start and I brought in someone I trust from off-site as a mod to deal with reports from the get go, and some janitors were appointed via the application I created. Some of the new Farmhands started as janitors and were later promoted to mod.
I have a few more applications to read over, and potentially recruit more members. If you plan to apply and would like to come onboard to specifically moderate a certain board, feel free to mention that in your application. The Farmhand application can be found in this thread >>2823
Right now we have a lot of moderation being done by people following the basic schedule of daylight hours in the US. We need more people who are available during the daytime in the UK and EU (which corresponds to night hours in the US)
>Spammers and other evil forces at work
It's pretty clear by now that our site has been invaded recently. Part of this is due to the URL being posted elsewhere. And the reason for the URL being shared, partly was due in part I suspect to Spoony's being banned. I very much would find it believable that she's behind a lot of the /banned cow/ threads on 8chan. In the past she was responsible for the initial /r9k/ incursion. Now we have some other anons who are annoyed by the admin change and have been further making lolcow's presence known to the rest of the Internut.
There aren't a lot of options for combatting this, since robots are plentiful and have too much time on their hands. So we have been issuing bans and deletions. It's not hard to proxy, though, and we are dealing with a plethora of IPs which leaves little to be utilised by our home team.
A few other possibilities are adding a captcha, which has only the >potential< to be effective; a prolonged hellweek; and overall encouragement for more users to make reports
>admin "drama"
It may not be a good idea to engage any trolls further, but there has been some talk of thirst for milk from the former lolcow staff. The fact is that there is no involvement in the site from the former staff any longer, so whatever speculation is being made has no real chance of being confirmed. I can also testify to the vast level of samefagging being done by the involved parties. Imho any dramu being brought up is the invention of a very minuscule number of people and they are literally milking themselves at this point.
I have also un-stickied former-admin's farewell announcement, as it was making some people salty over the attention he was supposedly recieving from it.
>ways you guys can help improve the site
Ultimately this website doesn't belong to me or any one individual. We are a community and the best way to make changes is for everyone to do their part. Making reports is a big deal. Staff can't constantly monitor every single thread. The more detailed reports will make for better judgement calls.
Also, I am asking for ideas anyone has on how to benefit the site. I've taken into consideration the posts that have already been made. Some of the ideas are met with dissent and it ends up being a matter of trial and error to see what works best. Hellweek and captcha have been brought up a lot and that's the next thing that's going to be implemented. Just keep making suggestions; this thread would be the best place right now. Anywhere in /meta/ is appropriate but suggestions and complaints made on cow threads have the potential to be overlooked.
>stuff in the works
As mentioned in other points within this announcement, I would like to add a few more boards that would accommodate certain people's interest in some of our banned cows (see the banned cows segment I wrote for more details). Some other boards I would like to add are an oekaki board or just a general art board. It would be cool to see some comics drawn of our board-tan as well as potentially some of the cows and/or resident village idiots. It would be cool to get some more drawings done by some of the artists in the tan thread. I want to do a summer-theme for our homepage so if we can get drawings that correlate to that theme we can add them in random circulation at the homepage.
Other "changes" include the concept of creating different styles. I have always used the classic chan style myself, but if there are users who have preferred styles then you can specify which ones you like. I think it would be fun to make some more involved ones that have backgrounds and such, or otherwise different buttons and/or fonts. A kawaii theme and gothic Lolita would be the obvious choices. This idea might be seen as useless to a lot of people but if it interests anyone then I will work on it.
Look out in the near future for another session of Hellweek, because that could begin at any time. Also know that a captcha and possible flood detection filter might be added soon but will most likely be temporary until the influx of idiots is curbed.
Hellweek in Session
The time is nigh.
Hellweek is upon us, Farmers. Prepare yourselves:
-stupid personal blog posts will result in a ban
-overtly samefagging will also result in a ban
-generally poor quality or baiting posts will result in a ban
Moderators have the discretion to temporarily ban anyone that is going off-topic, if they see fit.
I have promoted new moderators and brought in new janitors so let the fires blaze, and let the milk forever flow!!
Indefinite hellweek
Indefinite hellweek is now in effect. I do not know when or if it may end. It applies to every board.
You can use this thread for discussion, but I likely won't reply to most posts. To appeal a ban, use the actual appeal form.
Note: If you're banned, don't assume I was the one who necessarily banned you. We have several mods. If the ban isn't reversed, though, you can consider it a ban I approve of.
Rule changes and clarifications - Definitions
Here are some rule changes and clarifications of existing rules.
First, since there is no objective definition of what "self-posting" or "samefagging" actually mean, I'm going to define some terms.
The actual rule changes will be in the post below this one.
Sockpuppetry - General term for any deceptive anonymous posts made by an individual, where the poster tries to give the impression that they weren't the one who made the post.
Anonymous attentionwhoring / attentionfagging - One form of sockpuppetry. Posting about yourself anonymously, while trying to hide the fact that it's you who's posting, to attract attention to yourself. Generally the person will pretend to either be a fan or a "hater". This may include complimenting yourself, insulting yourself, linking to or uploading your own photos or social media posts, or just mentioning yourself at all. Examples include Princess Doll (>>>/cream/64) and Eboni (>>>/cream/12).
Samefagging - Another form of sockpuppetry. A few things can be called samefagging, but in this case I'll just refer to it as when a poster tries to reinforce their own position in a thread by giving the appearance of multiple people who agree with them or who disagree with and/or dislike the opposition. Often occurs during arguments and disagreements.
Blogposting - Sharing personal anecdotes, details, stories, or experiences in a thread intended to discuss a specific topic. This includes posting about your physical attributes, physical or mental health, family, childhood, job, relationships… Sometimes referred to as "self-posting", but I will call it blogposting to reduce ambiguity.
Branded - A poster who has violated a global rule and had some, or all, of their posts labelled with their name or username. Please re-read the rules to understand what violations may merit this. This is only done in very rare and extreme cases. >>>/cream/ should have pretty much every instance of branding.
Hellweek
Hellweek is now over.
Hellweek lasted from Monday, December 21 to Monday, December 28. Dozens of bans were issued.
You can also continue to discuss what you thought of it in this thread.
Things we plan on improving in the future, if we do this again:
- Making it clear which boards will receive increased moderation, as there was some ambiguity and miscommunication regarding /b/.
- Responding to reports more quickly. (Though all of them should have been responded to within at most 24 hours.)
- Possibly providing some kind of public ban board so people can get an idea of what's being moderated.
Reports were very helpful to us. I also created a new mod panel that allowed us to quickly review and dismiss every single post made during hellweek, though this did get a bit backlogged.
The original announcement can be found below.
As discussed in Wednesday's townhall:
From Monday, December 21 to Monday, December 28, lolcow staff will begin an experimental "heavy moderation week". The purpose of this will be to gauge community reaction to moderation actions, and help determine if permanent policy changes should be made. The secondary purpose will be to hopefully encourage people to improve their quality of posts in the long term, without moderators having to step in.
Only posts made during this week will receive extra scrutiny. Posts made before or after hellweek are not eligible to be moderated more harshly than usual.
Since this is just an experiment, all bans issued during hellweek for rules that are not currently listed at https://lolcow.farm/rules will last no longer than 4 days. Most will likely be a lot shorter than 4 days, but that is the maximum.
Heavy moderation will primarily be enforced in /pt/, /snow/, and /g/. /b/ is mostly not receiving any additional scrutiny.
Moderation will be extremely subjective, and in some cases, may even appear arbitrary. I can't really provide a list of specific things we will be targeting, but here are some general ideas for what will likely be focused on:
- Immaturity
- Vendettas
- Giving clear signs that you are new to the Internet, imageboards, or lolcow.farm
- Blatantly injecting your own agenda into a discussion, especially when apropos of nothing
- Self-focused or very off-topic derailing
- Talking about yourself excessively
- Use or overuse of specific words, phrases, or emotes
- Unwarranted/emotional overreactions
Of course, this is pretty vague and not helpful, but that's pretty much the best I can do. You all will probably get the idea within the first few days.
Importantly, rules will change a little around samefagging during hellweek. Samefagging may be called out in specific instances. If you suspect it, feel free to report it.
But rules around identity will still exist as they currently are. If you aren't breaking a global rule, staff will never publicly out you or identify you in any way. If you're samefagging in a thread about someone you know, you may be banned and/or called out for samefagging or having a vendetta, but nothing about your identity will be revealed. So, vendettas won't be called out in cases where they would blatantly identify the person with the vendetta; that would be a non-public ban instead. It is impossible to call out many kinds of self-posts without outing someone's identity (like a cow complimenting themselves in their own /pt/ thread, for example), so those cases will always be handled privately, without public outing or ban messages. General self-posting will still be called out if it wouldn't reveal details about someone's identity.
People are encouraged to report many more posts than usual during hellweek. However, too many frivolous reports may result in yourself being banned and/or your report being called out, in extreme cases. I'd say for most people, it's fine to report as much as you want without fear of being banned: just don't report someone for arguing with you or insulting you, or something like that. Basically, just don't do this: https://lolcow.farm/pt/res/187661.html#196112
If you have any questions, you can post them in this thread. I may not answer all questions.
Farmhand
Due to issues with people sometimes seeming to trust me more than other staff, from now on, I will also be using the Farmhand tripcode outside of /meta/ when making moderative posts (like "stop derailing" or "don't do that"). I'll only use the Admin tripcode in /meta/, or when dealing with general administrative or site tasks in other boards.
I've already used the trip myself sometimes in the past, but I will now use it all of the time. No one will be able to know if a particular "Farmhand" is me, a mod, or a janitor. Consider all Farmhand posts as decisions made or endorsed by me. If you have an issue with a staff decision, still complain about it here, but don't assume that I'm not responsible for the decision.
Just wonderin - how come so much heavy moderation over here? Has shit posting been a serious problem in the past?
2018 Cow Awards
A user survey was opened at the end of December based off of nominations in this thread >>>/meta/7479
The results are as follows.
Rule Change Discussion
Discuss and debate rule changes here.
Rule changes can be found at >>1014
Actual complaints and suggestions #2
Any more TELF meltdowns will be banned. You too belle anon, not everyone is a WK.
Actual Complaints and Suggestions
A thread for actual complaints and suggestions staff will actually take the time to read. Filling the thread with spam or your personal vendettas will result in an immediate ban from /meta/. Coming here to pretend you didn't evade a permaban will result in another permaban. This thread may also be used in an emergency when abuse material is posted. Take technical questions to the appropriate thread.
This thread is not for:
- "can you ban this anon?"
Use the report system and don't waste our time.
- "Can you lock this thread because I don't personally like it?"
Use the fucking hide thread feature. If the thread violates a global or board rule then use the report system.
- "Bring back a banned topic!"
No.
- "Hi cow! Hi scrote!"
No.
If you complain about a ban, at least post the actual ban in question. You can also always appeal or email admin@lolcow.farm if you want the matter discussed in private.
>>>/snow/1211835
How is this not a personal vendetta thread? Also they’ve been caught cowtipping numerous times. Even Kiwifarms and ED are bored with this troon and the thread is no more than people having a spurg fit I’ll probably be banned for asking but it’s really a necro thread they keep reviving
Upon account creation I was banned as "spam", the fuck is this shit?
CdawgVA thread?
Complaints & Suggestions
Please post all general issues and complaints here. If you want mods to do something, or have some issue with or suggestion for site content, you should use this thread.
>>>/meta/6821 should only be used for technical issues and suggestions (can't load site, site slow, bugs, site feature requests). This thread is for non-technical issues.
If you use the thread to infight or instigate arguments you'll be banned from /meta/. If you come here to make a complaint that could have been handled with a report you will be ignored.
Give us back our manhate thread you fucking trannies
What the fuck is going on
Is this site always working?
Marilyn Manson New Thread?
Where is the new Manson thread? #12 I think.
Complaints & Suggestions
Please post all general issues and complaints here. If you want mods to do something, or have some issue with or suggestion for site content, you should use this thread.
>>>/meta/6821 should only be used for technical issues and suggestions (can't load site, site slow, bugs, site feature requests). This thread is for non-technical issues.
If you use the thread to infight or instigate arguments you'll be banned from /meta/. If you come here to make a complaint that could have been handled with a report you will be ignored.
Rejoice! Another round of festivities is upon us!
To celebrate a year full of twists and turns, we are hosting the Lolcow Awards 2020!
You can now submit your nominations in this thread.
Categories;
>Best milk
>Favorite cow
>Worst cow
>Horrorcow
>Best troll
>Worst troll
>Best comeback
>Biggest plot twist
>Best user submitted content (photo edits etc.)
>Best Comment
>Worst Poster
Once we have a good amount of nominations, a poll will be posted for everyone to vote.
Enjoy!
Perfection.
Hey, cum-guzzlers!
My name is Steve, and I hate every single one of you. All of you are fat, retarded women who spend every second of their day talking about dumbass shit. Why not do something better with your life, like sucking my cock? I got an 8-inch cock that's FAT. Nice 'n fat and I got it in my hand right now and it's…gettin' hard. I'll pig fuck you. You better beg for it! I want a good cocksucker that sucks the cum right out of the cock. Balls rubbin' against your chin. I'm gonna cum in your mouth so much, you'll be shittin' cum. And before I cum, I'm gonna squeeze ya nose, and you're gonna take it all. Don't be a stranger. Just hit me with your best shot. I'm pretty much perfect. I was captain of the football team, and starter on my basketball team. What sports do you play, other than bitchin' here on this shitty message board all day? I mean, I guess it's fun making fun of people because of your own insecurities, but you all take to a whole new level. This is even worse than fingering yourself to Twilight. So if you wanna get laid and feel like a woman for once in your life, hit me up. (No fatties or ugly chicks, which pretty much rules everyone out here I guess!) I got washboard abs, chiseled features, 6"2, black hair and piercing blue eyes. I can fuck the shit out of you at a moments notice and within ten minutes ready to go again after I cum. You'd be wet instantaneously the moment you see me. I turn lesbians straight, I can eat a peach for hours. I teach lesbians how to eat pussy. So come at me you tards.
Steve.
so confused
>>19018
You asked me to take it to meta but you had closed that thread, so i'll ask again:
>>814019
You closed the other thread in /meta/ but I have one more question. Is the anti-joke policy is that global on the entire site, or are other people than myself just not allowed to joke about Billie's asshole?
And should we report jokes from now on?
complaint thread was full (surprise)
the moderators in the onision thread are pure shit:
>>>/pt/813147
as soon as you joke or say anything bad about anyone the accuse users of having a "vendetta" against that person and go in mass ban mode. its stupid and it needs to stop.
unless we're not allowed to joke about people anymore? doesn't the very word lolcow imply that laughter is involved?
Complaints and Suggestions
Please post all general issues and complaints here. If you want mods to do something, or have some issue with or suggestion for site content, you should use this thread.
>>>/meta/6821 should only be used for technical issues and suggestions (can't load site, site slow, bugs, site feature requests). This thread is for non-technical issues.
If you use the thread to infight or instigate arguments you'll be banned from /meta/. If you come here to make a complaint that could have been handled with a report you will be ignored.
Lolcow Awards 2019
Rejoice! Another round of festivities is upon us!
To celebrate a year full of rich, creamy milk ending, we'll host the Lolcow Awards 2019!
You can now submit your nominations.
Returning Categories;
>Best milk
>Favorite cow
>Worst cow
>Horrorcow
>Best troll
>Worst troll
>Best comeback
>Biggest plot twist
>Best user submitted content (photo edits etc.)
New categories;
>Best Comment
>Worst Poster
Once we have a good amount of nominations, a poll will be posted for everyone to vote.
Enjoy!
Server Migration, and Gendercritical
This is the thread where you voice your thoughts about the GC/PP changes that will occur in the near future.
I will post a list of new features along with the final board layout once I'm ready to deploy things.
What's new and confirmed?
>watch thread
>improved catalog
>better filters to hide threads, and individual posts
>ability to ban all TOR posters
>integrated captcha options
Clarification on the poll outcome for /2X/
I see that many anons were confused about my two recent posts on the topic. /2X/ is not staying because of the number of anons who don't know what it is, and the potential for an increase in scrot bait and racebait if it's listed.
When the new server is deployed, or even after a much needed break, Pink Pill/ Man Hate can come back because it's more of a vent thread than a political thread like GC was.
You can mock mentally ill trannies in the following threads:
>>>/snow/867400
>>>/snow/895014
>you are derailing if you take the troon discussion outside of the subject or topic at hand
How things will be until server migration
You have /2X/ until I archive things. PP and GC threads will stay locked in /ot/ for now. Contrary to what anons believe, I did not say that /2X/ would remain hidden. What I meant is that the board can stay until server migration.
Things that will earn you a ban
>going to /ot/ to infight when you can use this thread
>using the complaints thread to lose your shit over the GC verdict
>pronoun derailing in any drama board (especially the onision thread)
>infighting in /ot/ and screeching about handmaidens whenever there is a disagreement
Complaints and Suggestions
Please post all general issues and complaints here. If you want mods to do something, or have some issue with or suggestion for site content, you should use this thread.
>>>/meta/6821 should only be used for technical issues and suggestions (can't load site, site slow, bugs, site feature requests). This thread is for non-technical issues.
If you use the thread to infight or instigate arguments you'll be banned from /meta/. If you come here to make a complaint that could have been handled with a report you will be ignored.
Please post all general issues and complaints here. If you want mods to do something, or have some issue with or suggestion for site content, you should use this thread.
>>>/meta/6821 should only be used for technical issues and suggestions (can't load site, site slow, bugs, site feature requests). This thread is for non-technical issues.
Do not use this thread to infight and instigate pointless arguments.
Hellweek
Hellweek will begin April 15th to April 22nd. Posts made during this week will receive extra scrutiny and moderation will increase. However, this is not applicable to posts before or after hellweek. Boards unrelated to drama will not be participating so there's no need to worry about moderation changes there.
Examples of trends and behaviors to be targeted:
∙ Spamming low effort images
∙ Spamming social media statuses with no context
∙ Blogging and inserting your personal life into the discussion
∙ Derailing threads to uphold your politics or personal beliefs
∙ Unwarranted/emotional overreactions
∙ asking to be spoonfed
∙ extreme and abnormal nitpicking
∙ posting in a way that indicates you're new to lolcow.farm
All rules listed on https://lolcow.farm/rules still apply, but are not the primary focus. The goal is to purge as many newfags as possible while improving the overall posting quality.
Ban lengths for the listed behaviors may not exceed 1 week. Ban lengths for everything else may not exceed 4 days.
Please post any questions, suggestions, or concerns in this thread. General complaints stay in the general complaints thread.
The board catalog doesn't respect your css choice. So if you have a dark theme such as darkcow moving to the catalog is incredibly painful on the eyes.
General Complaints & Issues
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>>>/meta/6821 should only be used for technical issues and suggestions (can't load site, site slow, bugs, site feature requests). This thread is for non-technical issues.
What the hell just happened? I didn’t click anywhere, it itself broke. I’m writing from the phone. How I can fix this?
General Complaints & Issues
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>>>/meta/6821 should only be used for technical issues and suggestions (can't load site, site slow, bugs, site feature requests). This thread is for non-technical issues.
Drmusic2
Hello, i'm Drmusic2 and I was mentioned on a post on here and yes I do admit I was a lulcow for a while at least, up until 2014. And I didn't exactly take too kindly to being treated as a punching bag for internet trolls. For the record Mr Metokur didn't even do a video on me, he just did a video that mentioned me and I didn't attack him. I wasn't even mad at him I was simply just stating how embarrassed I was about how I used to be, I consider a lot of my early work to be garbage when I look back at it and I pretty much hate my old persona of trying to be edgy and different.
Most people don't seem to understand this and thought that my transformation fetish only was centered on overweight people, and like having a fat fetish was wrong or against the law…true the werebelushi and such were my bread and butter but it's just that trolls typecast me as that specific type of lulcow that it made me feel like they don't even know me. When I commented on Mister Metokur's video, I wasn't attacking him or saying anything bad about the video, I was just embarrassed about how I used to be as that video showed how I used to be.
People like Lawler/Crichax and EmilyRees just don't get me.
Wanted: Entry level janitors and tech people
We're looking for janitors (low-level farmhands) and people with Linux or web dev experience.
If you're interested in helping out, introduce yourself ITT and write a few sentences about how you can help. If we're interested, we'll contact you through a temporary ban message.
Can sage be hidden like on 4chan?
People seem to just use it as a downvote or when they're getting mad.
How many users?
I feel like you might be taking advantage of the Anonymous feature of image boards by not having any indication of actual user activity.
There's no way to know if you're replying to one crazy pretending to be multiple people, or if there is actually any interest in a thread.
Considering the entire purpose of this site is to identify autistic internet antics, perhaps including a 4chan like replies/images/posters would be beneficial to certain threads. Or even a user id.
Also ps: finding threads here sucks it's so difficult.
General Complaints & Issues
Please post all general issues and complaints here. If you want mods to do something, or have some issue with or suggestion for site content, you should use this thread.
>>>/meta/6821 should only be used for technical issues and suggestions (can't load site, site slow, bugs, site feature requests). This thread is for non-technical issues.
There isn't currently a thread for minor notices and changes to the site. For full transparency this will be a thread to inform you all of any updates or changes that aren't necessarily worthy of an big announcement.
I have been ambiguous about my gender up until now, but to prevent confusion, I'd just like to inform everyone that I'm male. (Every other staff member is female.)
I prefer to preserve my anonymity as much as possible, but it feels wrong when someone assumes I'm female and to not deny it, so I think it is best to let everyone know.
General Complaints & Issues
Please post all general issues and complaints here. If you want mods to do something, or have some issue with or suggestion for site content, you should use this thread.
>>>/meta/6821 should only be used for technical issues and suggestions (can't load site, site slow, bugs, site feature requests). This thread is for non-technical issues.
This site confuses me
What is this site even about?
General Complaints & Issues
Third edition!
Please post all general issues and complaints here. If you want mods to do something, or have some issue with or suggestion for site content, you should use this thread.
>>>/meta/6821 should only be used for technical issues and suggestions (can't load site, site slow, bugs, site feature requests). This thread is for non-technical issues.
It's been a very long time since the community has gotten together to discuss the site and changes. I think it's about time to fix that so I've scheduled a townhall as seen on the announcements.The townhall chat is scheduled for Monday, February 4th, at 9 AM JST via cytube (a link will be posted).
I don't plan on rescheduling the projected date because it's futile to try to meet everyone's preferred time frame. Anyone that can't make it will be able to read a recap in this thread.
Please use this thread to bring up points of discussion you would like to bring up at the townhall.
Announcement
- we found a new admin based on the applications that were sent in. She has been a lolcow user from the start and we are confident that she'll be a great leader. She'll start sometime during January.
- the new admin will use the applications to pick her own mod team. Whether or not current mods stay will be up to her.
- once the new admin is officially owner of the board, she will move to a new server provider which should offer better performance and fewer concerns about takedowns.
- we have chipped in together to upgrade the current server for the remainder of time before the switch so that lolcow can run smoothly until the new admin takes over.
Sorry for the wait and all the open questions. I'm just posting to share an announcement, the rest will be worked on once the admin is with us.
Lolcow Awards 2018
Rejoice! Another round of festivities is upon us!
To celebrate a year full of rich, creamy milk ending, we'll host the lolcow awards 2018!
You can now submit your nominations.
Categories
> best milk
> favorite cow
> worst cow
> Horrorcow
> best troll
> worst troll
> best comeback
> biggest plot twist
> best user submitted content (photo edits etc.)
Once we have a good amount of nominations, a poll will be posted for everyone to vote.
Enjoy!
Official Art Thread
Use this thread to make new OC art for your favorite cows.
We want to encourage more OC content to the site without disturbing threads and annoying anons.
Be civil, don’t derail, spam low effort OC, or start arguments.
If you want to do redlines or redraws go to:
>>>/ot/243951
Board tan is also very encouraged.
[Thread pic taken from >>3810 ]
There have been a couple of changes over the past few months and we believe there is always room for improvement. We've taken the time to apply a few changes to the current rules. Global rules apply to all boards and now specific rules will only apply to /pt/ and /snow/ respectively. The rules page will be better formatted soon, in the meantime read the rules when you have the chance. Here are some of the major changes.
Global Rules:
•derailing on any board is a bannable offense
For example, taking bait from robots on /ot/ or derailing Onision threads by nitpicking Lainey's ring for days
•Using lolcow for attention or profit is a global offense
For some reason some people seem to think advertising doesn't fall under this. To that person, stop advertising your loli discord server.
•Abusing the reporting system can now warrant a ban
This isn't that much of a problem but do take the time to read through this.
Rules for /pt/ and /snow/:
•mini-modding is now an official ban offense
•The definiton of cow-tipping has been expanded (the most important change)
Do not alert a subject to their thread or take any other action to lead them to lolcow.farm (cowtipping).
∙Do not contact a subject's family/ friends/ etc.
∙Do not use lolcow.farm to crusade against a cow (not your personal army).
∙Do not organize raids on twitter, twitch or other social media.
∙Do not brag about or announce having personal contact or interactions with a cow unless you're also delivering newly obtained or confirmed information.
•Rule 8 " The use of sage in /snow/ does not permit a violation of the rules stated above."
For example, saging does not give you an excuse to blogpost.
In other news, we have stumbled upon a Patreon with various entertaining perks. This Patreon does not under any circumstances whatsoever in any way, shape or form help us cover the fees of running lolcow, as such a thing would be frivolous and quite frankly tasteless. We would never support the notion of crowd-funding the new, more expensive server we moved to.
https://www.patreon.com/farmhand
General Complaints/Issues
Second edition!
Please post all general issues and complaints here. If you want mods to do something, or have some issue with or suggestion for site content, you should use this thread.
>>2 should only be used for technical issues and suggestions (can't load site, site slow, bugs, site feature requests). This thread is for non-technical issues.
Technical Help & Feature Suggestions
Post all technical help questions and technical/feature suggestions here. This is the place to go if you're having some problem with the site or want to request a new feature.
If you have some non-technical issue, like wanting mods to do something or a suggesting a change in policy, please use >>1134
If you want to email me: lolcow.farm@gmail.com
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Please bookmark the Twitter. Status updates will be posted there in the event of site downtime or other issues. You can follow the Twitter if you want, but be aware that this may harm your anonymity if your Twitter username or tweets you've made could be linked to your real identity.
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- Boards have unlimited pages and threads allow unlimited posts. However, all threads will "bump-lock" after 1200 posts. This means further posts will no longer bump a thread.
You can read more site usage information at https://lolcow.farm/info. If you are new to imageboards, please read it.
Post styling
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**words** => words
***words*** => words
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[spoiler]spoilered text[/spoiler] => spoilered text
~#words#~ =>words
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Survey
Welcome to the first lolcow.farm survey.
Each person should post in this thread only once. You can say whatever you want about the site, its users, or me. Please try to give serious and truthful answers though, since I will use this feedback to make decisions about rules and site changes. This isn't a "vote" or anything, but it will guide changes I make.
Only make a post if you are replying to the survey questions. Don't reply to anyone else's posts.
To answer, I'd much prefer if you use greentext for the questions. All you have to do is make sure you copy the > with each line. I would recommend you copy all the questions at once, paste them into your reply, then start answering each one. For example:
>1. When did you first start lurking or posting on lolcow?
7 months ago
>2. How did you find the site and where did you hear about it?
Yahoo teen chatroom
Please give answers as long or short as you like, unless the question specifies a length requirement. You may skip any of the questions if you don't want to answer them. Everything is optional. If for some reason you don't want to post your answers publicly, you can email your answers to me at lolcow.farm@gmail.com
>1. When did you first start lurking or posting on lolcow?
>2. How did you find the site and where did you hear about it?
>3. Describe lolcow in one sentence.
>4. (Completely optional) What is your gender?
>5. (Completely optional) What, roughly, is your age? Feel free to give an age range, or your exact age if you want to.
>6. Do you usually just read threads, or do you post more than once a week?
>7. Roughly how frequently do you check lolcow?
>8. Is lolcow the first imageboard you've lurked or posted on?
>9. Did you lurk or post on Stamina Rose, or its predecessor?
>10. What related communities (sites and specific sections/boards) were, or are, you in? You can include any sites you want here, but if you use(d) any of these sites you should probably list them: /cgl/, other 4chan boards, /cow/, other 8chan boards, Tumblr, PULL. Please list them in order of "most frequented" to "least frequented". So if you go on /cgl/ the most and Tumblr the least, it should be "/cgl/, ..., Tumblr".
>11. What do you think is the #1 issue facing lolcow?
>12. What do you like most about lolcow and/or its community?
>13. Which board do you read/use the most? And which do you like the most, if it's not the same board?
>14. Roughly what percentage of /pt/ threads do you actually read or follow?
>15. Roughly what percentage of /pt/ threads do you ignore or don't care about?
>16. Do you think opening /snow/ was a good idea?
>17. For the following statements, reply with one of "Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Neutral/Don't Care, Agree, Strongly Agree". You can elaborate further if you want, but you don't have to.
>17a. Users from Tumblr and/or PULL are negatively impacting the site.
>17b. Users from /pol/ and/or 8chan are negatively impacting the site.
>17c. There are too many racial discussions and arguments in threads.
>17d. I believe freedom of speech is extremely important.
>17e. The opening of /g/, for girl-interest topics, was a good idea.
>17f. I am overall satisfied with most of the content on the site.
>17g. Post quality has been declining on average over time.
>17h. When rules are enforced, they are usually enforced fairly and without bias.
>17i. Rules should be enforced more harshly than they are now (stricter moderation, more bans, longer bans).
>17b. Users from /pol/ and/or 8chan are negatively impacting the site.
>17c. There are too many racial discussions and arguments in threads.
>17d. I believe freedom of speech is extremely important.
>17e. The opening of /g/, for girl-interest topics, was a good idea.
>17f. I am overall satisfied with most of the content on the site.
>17g. Post quality has been declining on average over time.
>17h. When rules are enforced, they are usually enforced fairly and without bias.
>17i. Rules should be enforced more harshly than they are now (stricter moderation, more bans, longer bans).
>18. Do you think self-posting should be banned in /pt/? How about /b/? Where should the line be drawn as to what is actually self-posting?
>19. Do you think any new boards should be added? Should any existing ones be removed?
>20. Are there specific behaviors, phrases, or types of post you're sick of seeing?
>21. Do you think samefagging is an issue? If so, in which boards is it causing issues? Do you think policies around samefagging should change, either by adding randomized unique poster IDs (not usernames) like some 4chan/8chan boards, or changing rules regarding samefagging, or both?
>22. Is there another website or community that you think we should follow in terms of rules or moderation? If so, which community, and which aspects should we consider adopting?
>23. Is there anything that you think lolcow staff have done poorly? If so, what is it, and how could it be changed or improved?
Scheduled downtime & temporary replacement site
We're back! Please leave all feedback regarding the temporary site in this thread. Thank you!
Previous Announcement:
The site will be down starting September 1st due to planned maintenance by our hosting provider. It should be back by September 3rd, however it might take a little longer and we can't guarantee a specific date! Unfortunately, the length of our provider's downtime is out of our hands.
During the downtime, lolcow.farm will load a temporary site you can post on. The temporary site will still be readable once lolcow is back, but posts on there won't be migrated back to lolcow so you may have to manually repost things or summarize them. Sorry for the inconvenience!
The temporary site is already up under https://temp.lolcow.farm for you to get used to.
Due to the short notice we received from our hosting provider and the (hopefully) short downtime window, I decided a temporary imageboard might be a better idea (and less work) than setting up a new server with lolcow's current configuration and transfering hundreds of gigabytes over to it all for something we would close in a few days anyway. Plus, this provides us with an opportunity to experiment with alternative board software and fun new features for users to play with.
Please don't be alarmed by some of its new features. If you find any of them useful or would like to keep them long-term, please post your feedback in this thread. Thanks!
Tempcow
Hi everyone,
here's the place to discuss everything around our recent decision to move Off-Topic discussion of Onision threads to a dedicated Tempcow thread to allow users to chat and nitpick without clogging up the main thread.
This has led to some user complaints about the main thread being too strict and mean-spirited towards users who bring new information. Obviously we will work on improving moderation to get the backseat modding under control, but I'd also like to give you a space to discuss what you think of the separation in the first place now that the changes have been in place for a while.
General Complaints/Issues
Please post all general issues and complaints here. If you want mods to do something, or have some issue with or suggestion for site content, you should use this thread.
>>2 should only be used for technical issues and suggestions (can't load site, site slow, bugs, site feature requests). This thread is for non-technical issues.
Rule Changes
This thread is locked and will be used solely by me to document significant rule changes. Each post will include the date the rule was added/deleted/changed, and the change that was made.
You can make your own dedicated threads to discuss specific rule changes if you like, but otherwise, you can discuss all of them here: >>1023
The rules are at https://lolcow.farm/rules
New guy's questions
I'm new to this website.
Does a [Catalog] or a search exist?
Does lolcow.farm has an API?
Does lolcow.farm has an archive, even if it's a third-party one, like 4archive.org is for 4chаn
Should Aly have a separate thread?
During the recent townhalls, the majority of people voted to merge Aly's thread with the ED general thread in /snow/. On both day 1 and day 2, no one could come up with a decent argument for Aly retaining a separate thread other than the fact that it would clutter the general thread.
If you think she should have her own thread again, please provide alternative arguments.
Townhall / Threads about underage people
We are currently deciding whether or not to allow threads about underage people.
If you're interested in discussing this, please join the townhall discussion at https://chat.lolcow.farm/r/meta. We'll also be discussing a few other site issues.
The townhall is starting now.
Arguments for banning threads about underage people:
- Threads about underage people attract underage posters, and worsen the site as a whole.
- The minimum age to post is 18, and it's unfair to not let people post in their own threads or defend themselves.
- People under 18 have less self-control and are less culpable for their actions, so it's less justifiable to mock them.
- Creates less liability.
Arguments against banning threads about underage people:
- Freedom of speech.
- We could still allow it, but put the minimum at 16 or 17, and add some stricter criteria for threads about people under 18.
- People like Dakota and Charms were discovered before they were 18. We'd also miss out on the Princess Doll drama. We may be missing out on potentially humorous cows.
- We couldn't have incidents like the shoplifting doxing drama.
Feature changes
This thread records changes to the functionality of the site, including new features and changed features. Changes to policy, rules, or moderation are in >>1014. You can discuss all changes in >>1134.
The /pol/ thread on /b/ got merged into another (in my opinion only slightly related) thread.
Why did this happen? Is this something we should grow to expect? I just find it illogical, is all.
Does this mean I can go spam the other thread with /pol/ images? Because that's what the initial thread which got locked was for…
/meta/
Please use this board for all meta-discussion: questions, suggestions, and discussions regarding lolcow.farm itself.
Feel free to make a new thread to discuss a specific issue if you want.
Rules here are the same as the other boards, except that off-topic posts will be moderated more strictly than in /pt/.