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No. 87325
A surprise month of Hellmas is now in effect. For the rest of the month of December, VPN posting will be banned and moderation will be stricter.
The only exception to the VPN posting ban is the gender critical hidden board as we want the women posting there to be able to encrypt their traffic if they are living in a location where it may not be safe to post their opinions otherwise.
Please note that the VPN detection API we use is about 95-98% accurate. This means that a small percentage of IPs may be incorrectly blocked or allowed through. If you are not using a VPN and your IP address is blocked, please email us at admin@lolcow.farm and we will submit a correction for your IP to the API provider and add an exception for the time being.
Why are we doing this?
There has been an uptick in the amount of baitposting and infighting in the past few months, and it has gotten much worse in the last few weeks. The use of VPNs for ban evading has made it more difficult to stamp this out.
We would like to address one type of posting in particular: infight baiting. If you are making a post, whether it's your honestly held opinion or not, and any regular user of the site should be fully aware that it is going to cause an infight, you will be banned. Some examples of this:
• Anti-fujo/hime/yume posts outside of containment
• Anti-lesbian/bisexual/het posting
• /pol/sperging
• Extreme tradfaggotry
There are other sites where you can post these opinions freely, and we encourage you to use them instead of causing infights here.
Can’t people with dynamic IPs still ban evade?
Yes they can, but we can put range bans in place that will limit their ability to do so.
Will this change become permanent?
That is not our intention at this time, but if the userbase is strongly in favour of it, we may consider it.
No. 87326
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>>87325AHAHAHAHAHAHA THANK YOU SO MUCH MODS.
No. 87333
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Thank you admin very cool.
No. 87336
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thank you mods!
No. 87354
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the greatest gift, thank you based admin
No. 87360
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Thank you santamin,this was much needed
No. 87364
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best present ever, thank you!
No. 87373
>>87368And don't forget
>mods nuke dumbass shit to curb newfaggotry>newfag population worsensI'm starting to believe the tinfoils that the admin team and mods have been infiltrated and are trying to tank the entire site
No. 87379
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>>87378You can't even say a dissenting opinion without crybabies asking for mods to ban the meanie weanie anons talking shit about their wholesomerino husbando. Like, what infight? They should learn to ignore opinions they don't like. I'm betting these are the same faggots who instigate infights at the same time and don't know how imageboard culture works.
No. 87384
>>87325this whole site is known as a
terf site, not just 2x (whether or not you actually visit any of the applicable boards). i feel like the safety of the women who use this site should take priority over infighters and baiters. i remember the site demographics showed around 1/4 to 1/3 of people on here use a vpn. if this is a permanent thing, it'll be pretty depressing. i enjoyed being able to talk openly with likeminded women when the internet in general bends to the will of our modern day cults.
if this is going to be a permanent thing, maybe it could just apply to m, g and ot.
No. 87390
>>87383I've noticed this too!! I know it's probably too early to tell but everywhere honestly seems much better so far. Even the infights that are happening are obviously between genuine users and not just retards that troll as a hobby.
>>87384Can't you still post that way? Do you live in a country where it's illegal to hate trannies or something?
No. 87403
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>>87402They're throwing fits about it on CC too.
No. 87404
I still laugh thinking about that screenshot of the anon complaining that a vpn ban will ruin the website, and then getting red texted for ban-evading kekkk.
>>87403>it's so weird and mentally deranged that farmhands don't let me clog up an entire thread replying to myself as if I'm 12 different peopleThe vpn ban is a christmas miracle
No. 87421
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THIS is the type of user you are getting rid of admin when you ban VPNs. If this isn't proof enough that the VPN ban should be permanent to some extent, then I don't know what is. These annoying psycho fags have been ruining lolcow for so long, it's finally useable again.
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I am in no way opposed to the VPN ban entirely but I would like to question why 2X doesn't get any flack. The reasoning is for anon's safety but there's also threads on ot and other boards that could land anons in hot water in their country, will the same safety not be extended to them? I feel like farmhands and Cerbmin show 2X a bit too much favouritism especially when that board does produce problem posters. Hopefully the VPN ban is just for Hellmas and will be dialled back a little to just applying to troublesome threads, I think a blanket VPN ban is just too much to start off with, if the problem continues afterwards then maybe it would be a good solution but as other decisions for the site made by Cerbmin seem to permanent I'd rather this to be taken slowly.
No. 87425
>>87403I legit don't understand the logic of going to an imageboard to complain about another one. like are you such an immature piece of shit that you legit cannot conduct yourself any other way online? hope the mods there catch on
>>87410youre clicking a virtual button on your smartphone anon. its not hard.
>>87421this poor retard clearly want given enough attention as a kid and has no friends lmao vpn ban should be permanent.
No. 87432
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>>87421you cherrypicked a completely insane comment in that thread that people on cc called out. no one agreed with that anon. most anons on that thread are just concerned about privacy, especially after the whole site went down for a month because of an attack. someone also pointed out how the hidden board was given leeway but anons in similar threads (the tif/tim threads) are not.
i was almost convinced by these posts here. i went to look at the cc thread and most anons seem like normal women. there are some completely deranged anons and trolls. it would be nice if it keeps those people out, but they are outnumbered.
No. 87436
>>87433First off
>Nothing posted on lolcow should violate any laws to beginWhy have curtains if you're not doing anything illegal in your house?
Second if the entire site gets dumped with IPs tied to posts then you can build a profile.
>Post in vent about your shitty wagey jobGot the job
>Posts between the hours of x and yGot the general location
>Post in mundane about how the weather isGot a more specific idea of the location
>More posts linking you to youWith enough time and effort with a full leak then scrotes could find you. Not every nonna is smart enough to do proper opsec.
I'm mixed on the VPN ban. It would increase the quality of posts here but I can see nonnas not being clever enough to hide their tracks, thinking being anon does all the work.
No. 87441
>>87436>>87437I feel the same, and even though I don't break rules here, I have felt targeted by farmhands in the past (over nothing). I had someone ask my nationality out of the blue in a completely random, lighthearted thread and I've never been able to forget that. I'm pretty sure it was someone who could see my IP and was confused about the food I posted. Fucking creepy.
Another time in another lighthearted thread I mentioned a subject I'm an expert in, and someone got weird about it, like "how many people could there be who work on XYZ" - fuck that, I was right to not say anything specific there. More than once I've gotten some ban for a random days-old post just because a farmhand didn't like something I said in /meta/.
There's no accountability for the people who moderate and admin here, and I wouldn't trust any personal details or IPs to be kept private. The apologies and making it right after huge issues ("good moid" thread, movie anon, IP leaking, everyone getting accused of being Blaine) never seem genuine (or never exist). Be safe, nonas.
No. 87442
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The quality of posting is SOSOSO much better. I feel like 90% of the toxic users were VPN users or something, I see so much less unnecessary nastiness. Still some good imageboard culture banter and ribbing etc. but way less flat out toxic "kill yourself dicksucker" type posts. I was close to leaving this site and if it stays like this I genuinely wouldn't want to leave anymore. PLEASE ADMIN KEEP THE BAN
No. 87443
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>>87441>>87437I get where you’re coming from, and I don’t necessarily disagree, but in my case, I’ve taken way fewer bans since I stopped using VPNs. I used to feel like farmhands had a vendetta against me, and maybe I did really piss off some farmhand, or maybe they just assumed I was a troll because they couldn’t see my post history. This might sound like a janny shill post, but I legit haven’t taken a retarded ban in a while. However, I do remember the good moid thread incident, so I think the concern is fair. I also feel embarrassed to think that farmhands can go through my post history and witness my occasional spergouts, kek. Oh well, things are so much better now, it’s hard for me to want to go back to VPNs. Maybe if mods just keep the ban for the most cancerous /ot/ threads, that could be a fair compromise.
>>87442A Hellmas miracle!
No. 87453
agreeing with the other anons about the noticable difference, i feel like this should be a permanent change
>>87437i sort of get it, but i think if you feel that way you just shouldn't be posting things you would be embarassed about online. i know it might be a de-stresser or feel indulgent to talk freely and "anonymously" but it's better to be cautious about posting anything online. scrotes and trannies are lurking and if you're worried about what jannies think, they'll always have something to pick on. just don't identify yourself and you should be fine. i feel like being careful/mindful about what you say online regardless of what and where you're posting it is a good practice to have. i always think before i post anything on here, even the most mudane of things
No. 87454
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>>87410theyre lying to make up an excuse why they don't want to post without a vpn because social media (especially and facebook, google and tik tok product) and damn near every website nowadays is spyware with a pretty filter and marketing over it lmao
no one gives a fuck for these online randos, they just want to keep vpn-shitposting and not have their history neatly tied to one ip address
No. 87518
>>87515Yeah, I want to hide my troon hate from my ISP so I'm not on some hatelist, not hop VPN countries to slip past an infighting ban. There may be shitty VPN users, but there's also
valid reasons to use VPNs.
No. 87543
>>87511I am in full support of a permanent vpn and nothing is gonna change my mind. the vpn ban practically killed off the mind numbing immaturity and ignorant opinions spread as fact and allow discourse to continue.
>>87515>could actually face repercussionslol how anon, i think people are taking lc a bit too seriously. unless youre in a country with a track record of tracking people via their ip address what are you talking about, and even then its important people journalists who are targeted. hell this isnt south korea where online bullying is so extreme the police track you down via your ip address. lc and its inhabitants are not important in the grand scheme of things.
No. 87547
>>87546That only happens when the posts are reported BY troons, Facebook accs are tied to a name/picture and Facebook co-operates with the cops too. One of the admins seems to be British based on her spelling/giving times in GMT so if the owner of this website is safe you need to calm down. Plus UK hates troons they just banned puberty blockers, they call it
TERF island for a reason.
No. 87565
>>87561So much this. There's three reasons a permanent VPN ban will make this place deader than CC.
One, like you said, people use VPNs to protect themselves from doxxing. We know that feds are here, and there is a history of farmhands handing over our information.
Two, many women use the VPNs while at work (even on their personal cellphones which uses the work wifi) to stop their work from tracking exactly what they're doing. If VPN is banned, those women will only be able to post in a small window after work. So you won't have the flow of conversation and people replying to little things throughout the day, you'll have one or two occasional posts once a day. This stops conversation and discourages people from bothering to post since they're not going to get any type of response.
And three, one of the farmhands is racist and the other farmhands are doing nothing about it. This farmhand never does anything about it when the pol trolls come on here and tell white women to kill themselves and post racist memes, yet if you so much as say an Indian male is a rapist (in the news thread with proof of your accusations) that's an immediate ban from her. So honestly, people should be able to avoid her racist temper tantrum bans because none of the other mods are reining her in and she's not being even handed.
No. 87571
>>87565Post proof that the mods have ever given details to the feds instead of just pulling that accusation out of your ass.
And saying a permanent VPN will kill the site is BS, it's doing just fine rn and December is usually a slow time of year
No. 87587
>>87403lol these 'people' are unreal
Hope it's permanent
No. 87592
>>87586For me it's the fact that Unpopular Opinions isn't moving a mile a minute. I think last week it went through 4 threads in one weekend.
>>87587They are. It's kind of funny to laugh at them. I think it's starting to dawn on them that they lost their bait and infight platform, because their posts keep getting more desperate.
No. 87615
>>87565Farmhands are not admin. Every single ib admin will give out information to the feds if someone is posting illegal stuff.
>If VPN is banned, those women will only be able to post in a small window after work. So you won't have the flow of conversation and people replying to little things throughout the day, you'll have one or two occasional posts once a day. This stops conversation and discourages people from bothering to post since they're not going to get any type of response.I genuinely don't see the problem with that. There were years this used to be a very slow ib. More replies doesn't mean a quality conversation.
No. 87623
>>87618the amerifag thread looks like it got cleaned up quickly so that's good. the schizos are new ones as
>>87622 said
No. 87652
>>87651honey. discord exists. other social media playforms exist. texting friends or being alert of a "community" exists. please for the love of god use them and stop throwing a tantrum on an imageboard, its embarrassing. youre not being deprived of anything, youre just being entitled and getting mad when its not catered to your "needs".
I feel like the real cows on lc are anons like these. theyre amusing for a bit, but then it becomes pathetic.
No. 87658
>>87652Discord?? Go back
>>87651People shouldn't be posting at work, they should be working. It's just a few hours. Get a hobby. Maybe you could knit and liven up the knitting thread? Please say yes
No. 87681
why allow this thread especially during hellmas?
>>>/m/440644 I know you redtexted it as a shit thread (rightfully) but it also clearly doesn't belong on /m/ unless you're considering making /m/ an imagedump board
A surprise month of Hellmas is now in effect. For the rest of the month of December, VPN posting will be banned.