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No. 3229
>>3228>>3227Also now that you've killed the website by introducing a shit ton of drama with the admin change and post-change changes, and alienated a large portion of the userbase thus slowing the entire site down, you're looking for advice?
We all know you're going to use this survey to give yourself asspats while writing off any negative criticism as "bitter salty jelly haters" or "robots"
No. 3233
>>3228>>3229What's with the salt? Pretty much nothing "bad" has actually happened after the admin change. It's been pretty uneventful, the most we've had is irritating robots attempting to "raid" us for the umpteenth time, and at least they've actually received swift bans.
I do agree that a Google survey is less than ideal, though.
No. 3234
>>3229Has anything even changed since the new admin? There's not been anything major, just MPA retards and robots being cracked down on, which is exactly what the site needed, and the old admin already wanted that and did it to some degree.
What else is there to complain about?
No. 3245
>>3242Come on anon, surely you have a better argument than just going "Oh yeah well you just disagree because you're part of the group I'm being dumb about!". That's not even a step above calling me a shill.
I just honestly think of all the possible issues you could have, a farmhand cracking a joke when they ban someone is pretty minor, it doesn't actually do anything, and it's more interesting than just a stock banned message.
No. 3254
>>3244I had a similar experience to anon (not banning, just policing). Makes you feel like not posting.
Farmhands should ID themselves 100% of the time (even today I see something that looks like a warning but is not ID-ed. And they should be minding the farm, not overdoing it in their fave thread.
I've seen some of my reports acted on of late, so thanks!
Sorry but a google survey is not for me, I hope this is helpful anyway.
No. 3255
>>3248That makes more sense then, yeah, farmhands shouldn't use the red text if they aren't banning someone or trying to get something across to an entire thread, but even then, just use it in their own post.
>>3249What banned topics do you mean? I always see people complain about it, but aren't the only banned topics the MPA and /r9k/ ones?
No. 3259
Can we just delete threads that are full of robots?
For example,
>>>/b/88245I'm so sick of them shitting up the board
No. 3262
>>3261*Old admins
Sorry, mobile typo.
No. 3264
>>3263from what i understand, the point of /b/ was to act as a 'containment board'. Resorting to outright censorship of specific subjects or anonymous opinions, no matter how much you may dislike or disagree with them, is the death knell of any chan imo.
You can kind of see how saying that we need to ban all the robot posters is a really slippery slope. Although robots are annoying af, we have to acknowledge the possibility that a poster may not be
intentionally baiting, their opinions may really just be that inflammatory. (I think that this is why there's the perception that mods just delete posts they disagree with; it might be a case of another user reporting your post as 'derailing' 'baiting' or 'off-topic', and at least on /pt/ and /snow/ the standards for 'off-topic posts' are much stricter than /b/ or /g/.)
Blatant /b/ baiting (for example, starting an entirely new thread just to ask, 'why are women so fat?' when the Fatty General 2.0 is still on the front page) is more of a grey area, but within a thread like the 'Penis Size' thread, it's not out of line for posters to make comments like 'baww women only like big dicks muh genetic inferiority', no matter how aggravating these statements are to see over and over again. Unfortunately, the only way I've found to deal with it personally is to hide or ignore these types of posts unless they are explicitly breaking one of the site rules.
No. 3265
>>3264I'd generally agree, but when it's just obviously intended to be inflammatory, it shouldn't be tolerated.
Go have a look at some of the stuff in that penis size thread, there's people just listing all the ways women are shit and evil, and then insulting everyone who says he's being retarded.
It's fine to have an opinion, but blatant bait, or asking questions over and over that have already been answered should be cracked down on.
If you want to whine, put it in an appropriate thread like the vent one, but there's a big difference between venting and just attacking other users in my opinion.
Plus, you know, this isn't /r9k/, and we shouldn't encourage that sort of behaviour.
No. 3266
>>3264You don't have to ban them, just lock or even delete threads that art out into endless robot discussions.
And no one can tell me that Penis Size thread wasn't made by a robot in the first place
No. 3267
>>3261Which ones in particular? You mean all the ana shit getting banned? Because that was a great choice, the containment threads were way, way quicker than pretty much any other thread and you'd end up with 14 all in the catalog at once, and it leaked to other threads, with comments like "Ew she's so fat/her nose is weird/2 out of 10 her elbows are too pointy" starting to fill up unrelated threads. It still happens, but less.
But I might be missing topics, what else was outright banned?
No. 3269
>>3265I was actually reading through the penis thread just now, so I completely get what you mean.
I mean, I don't think that the thread was complete shit at first, probably just a robot who was curious about 'the wimmenz chan', but after that one troll(s? idk) came in then it devolved pretty rapidly. It looks like the mods already banned at least one of the posters, but it's possible that they could be using proxies to circumvent the ban and keep going. When I say it's a 'gray area', what I mean is that I think there's some uncertainty about how to handle threads like that–whether to ban the problem poster(s?), delete their posts outright (and/or the responses made to those posts), move the whole thing to /manure/, or completely nuke the thread.
I think that if we start deleting threads because the topic attracts robots, the robots will probably just make new threads or infiltrate the existing ones with OT whinging. Expecting the farmhands to constantly monitor /b/ in case threads are created that have too many inflammatory responses/attract too many of the /r9k/ types seems unrealistic–/b/ was never meant to be subject to the same rigorous standards as /pt/ and /snow/–but if you have any better ideas, I think the fact that this survey was even put up in the first place shows that the new administration is probably open to suggestions.
No. 3271
>>3269>but it's possible that they could be using proxies to circumvent the ban and keep going. Even easier than that, they just reset their IP on their end, it's why bans aren't generally that effective on chronic shitposters.
I honestly just think that if there's a whole chain of comments with bots that they should just wipe the whole thing, or at least if it's the generaly baiting "women are all whores" one. If they're just having a discussion it's different, but bait should just be wiped in my opinion.
I really do agree with what you're saying though, it's not as easy as just doing a single thing to fix it, and obviously my beliefs aren't the same as everyone elses, so it's hard to say. Could be worth running a survey on this issue specifically I think, or at least a poll with the most commonly suggested solutions included. Survey would be better though, you could just put a "Your own idea" at the end of it.
>>3270You're right, but it should be a containment thread. I swear we used to have one that was explicitly for robots and /pol/ types to post in, what ever happened to that?
No. 3272
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also, can we add something like pic related to the sticky on /b/? ignore robot posters etc.
No. 3274
>>3267Kick my ass if you want but I miss the ana-chan shit a lot.
My only problem was it bleeding into some other threads, but if the current team of farmhands start giving a shit that problem wouldn't happen.
Same with all the robots in /b/ i don't even go on there really anymore.
No. 3275
>>3274>I miss the ana-chan shit a lot. You know there's forums dedicated to this right? And other similar forums that do allow it?
Here, it attracted the sort of underage people who need to make every thread about if a person's pretty enough or not, and generally doesn't have anything to contribute and should be banned.
Maybe bring back a couple of the individuals that were banned who actually did interesting stuff (like, Kadee isn't banned despite her being related to ED somewhat), but I don't think we should bring back general threads like that, it should be something that has to be ran by admin first in my opinion (so you don't get a flood of different people who aren't interesting at all drowning everything else out), and is heavily moderated (so the MPA people get banned when they start treating this forum like that one). I agree a flat out ban is a bit harsh, but it should definitely be a situation where it's not allowed unless you're expressly given permission for it.
Bots are harder to deal with though, because they come here simply because it's mostly women here.
No. 3287
>>3283If a male posts in /g/, they generally receive a temp ban (if they're not a robot), because that board is specifically for girl talk. Otherwise, we will warn. If we see the same person doing it repeatedly, we will temp ban.
>>3285Admin is in the process of going through all of the results, and will decide what to do from there. The process has already started.
No. 3292
>>3235>>3276Please continue to report anything that goes against the rules and giving reasons whenever possible, it really helps in maintaining the site.
However it is important to remember that we don't always add red text or delete posts even if we have taken action against the poster.
No. 3294
>>3293>when they realised what a circlejerk of SJW's and radfems this was becomingHow could you possibly come to the conclusion that a site where /pol/ opinions have a dedicated thread full stop, and the only other threads on politics I've seen is right wing in nature is for SJW's? Let alone radfems somehow.
The reason the site's so much slower is because a lot of the MPA crowd left when the ana threads got removed. Quality of posters is more important than the number of posters though, don't you think? 4chan's fast, but the community is just absolute shit.
No. 3297
>>3293Admins need to have a personality. It's the hallmark of a good leader. This one has made no effort to introduce herself through a crafted personality, not even through a silly cow/whatever avatar in order to showcase some creativity , or to make her intentions for the site clear. Is she going to keep running censorship through forbidden threads? Is she going to be ok with farmhands making unprofessional snippy "comments" in red on posts that have broken no rules, but just have opinions they disagree with?
I think she needs to be more transparent with us, or to at least seem that way. Also that old stickied admin thread about hellweek or whatever is annoying as shit, I get that it's hard to move due to scary coding but come on now…
I'm female but I have a lot of internalised misogyny, so I'm scared that this admin is overly emotional and egoistical. Unable to strive for neutrality and subjectivity like a good admin should. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot simply dislike the gender of this new admin.
No. 3298
>>3297>I'm female but I have a lot of internalised misogyny>internalised misogynyWhat the actual fuck
lol I'm about to start taking seriously the anon who was sperging about sjws circlejerks taking over the site
No. 3299
>>3297Admin can you guys just ban sjw users like this? They don't even need to be here if they're this special. I agree with
>>3298 kek.
No. 3300
>>3299Only one part of her post was even using politically correct terms or whatever bullshit, you are overreacting.
P.S. I don't like how the new admin is some kind of doormat and barely exists, it has nothing to do with her supposed vagoo. I didn't like the old one either on the premise that he was a duder who ran a primarily female site and from what I heard he was a weirdo.
No. 3301
>>3298>>3299Sometimes people exaggerate or say obviously illogical things for comedic value. If I was truly an sjw feminist I wouldn't dislike Admin for being female.
>>3300At least this admin is maintaining the site and seems aware of coding, which is already much more than we could have hoped for at certain points in time.
What I'm worried about is a repeat of the staminarose fiasco. The admin was a bit of a wuss and didn't really care much for the site anyway, so upon the first signs of potential legal trouble (pt cp report drama) she bailed. This admin also seems bothered by threats (forbidden people ) and seems to think they don't need to be objective when it comes to what people like (you might think the ana threads are goddamn retarded but a lot of people obviously enjoyed them.)
No. 3305
>>3304Fucking this. At least robots are really obvious and easy to ban, MPA types are just bad posters, they don't violate any rules, but they just shit up the site.
Plus, there's nothing that interesting about most of the ana's they posted, it was just talking about their weight over and over, and stupid gossiping about their looks. The ones who were interesting were allowed to stay, as far as I know.
No. 3324
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So, about 100 people responded to the survey that was posted. Overall, there was more positive than negative feedback.
As for the banned cow topic, it seems that the majority feel that banned topics are a bad idea and shouldn't be deemed as such. However, there was an overwhelming agreement that ana threads should stay off-limits.
Former admin was pretty clear that some of the banned threads should stay banned (ie Berry and Aly). So some of the previously locked threads may be opened again now that we have a full Farmhand staff.
There were some critiques about moderation but nothing that hasn't been brought up already and is being corrected.
There has also been a lot of clear annoyance with SJW/tumblr/PULL-tier users posting. There isn't a whole lot we can do about it besides do more temp-bans and make an example of it. It should go without saying that those types of posters are frowned upon here.
It also seems there's a universal discontentment with the separation of /pt/ and /snow/. There have been a lot of requests to move threads back or have clearer distinction, so that's something to look into as well.
There is also a general desire to have a busier site. Maybe with the unlocking of certain threads site traffic will pick up somewhat.