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Hellmas is now over and VPN posting is allowed again. We will hold a poll to determine the future of VPN posting on this site within the next few days.

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No. 2328032

A thread to discuss the aftermath of December’s Hellmas in a casual and completely unserious manner. Such discussions will revolve itself over questions like:
>what changes do you expect to happen for LC in the upcoming future? any theories of culture change, moderation, etc.
>did you enjoy the ban?
>did you hate the ban?
>did anything really change during the ban?
>was milk better or worse during the ban?
>what did you do during the holidays if you couldn’t access the website through a vpn?
>did you hate the luigisperging?
>should the mods have done better?
>other subjects related to it, etc.
The rules:
>no bait pls don’t get this thread shut down over petty grievances it is what it is at the end of the day
>if you’re a chronic baiter at least pretend to be a normal person if you want to post your grievances
>be careful with heavily shit talking about the /meta/ team as it can possibly get you banned
>of course no infighting/baiting but that’s no guarantee in /ot/
>btw shitposting is dead and they killed it so no more funny threadpics

Happy 2025 nonnas!

No. 2328034

I sound like a newfag but I tried to delete the other thread to change the threadpic but it said wrong password which has been an annoying problem for awhile so I hope the mods delete the other one, sorry! kek

No. 2328035

Why'd you have to bring up Luigi

No. 2328036

>>2328035
he’s been spammed throughout the entire month of december

No. 2328040

>>2328036
Oh yeah true, the event happened 12/4

No. 2328044

>>2328032
The luigisperging makes me feel ashamed to be a straight woman tbh.

No. 2328048

I have to say, the VPN ban did significantly decrease the amount of bait on /ot/

No. 2328051

>>2328044
It’s very obvious all of them are sexually repressed virgins who don’t have any options so they call themselves “celibates”/believe femcels are actually real or are actual teenage children simping for him. The soft-brain lack of developed prefrontal cortex vibe is apparent with the luigisperging.

No. 2328052

>>2328051
Or maybe they're just trolling

No. 2328053

>>2328052
It’s definitely not trolling if it’s in /g/, there’s been ugly male worship threads for years now. It’s basically the Adam Driver thread all over again

No. 2328054

>>2328051
Nobody in the thread has mentioned celibacy or femcels. I also don't know why you'd think anyone itt is a teen

No. 2328055

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>>2328054
>lack of reading comprehension
>wants to literally be handheld to use their brain like a typical zoomer
pic unrelated

No. 2328056

>>2328055
Nah you're just inventing things to be upset about, hide the thread if you don't like it and report Luigisperging when it's outside of containment and you'll live.

No. 2328058

>>2328056
No I’m just using context clues and sniffing out the most obvious vibes that come off of people even on the internet.

No. 2328061

To me, it did not feel like there was anything different during hellmas, so I guess I don't expect anything.

No. 2328076

Seems like the admin really got scared of trannies and their potential gayops, that's why VPNs need to go.

No. 2328083

>>2328058
>vibes
Headcanons and schizophrenia

No. 2328086

>>2328054
Kek they talk like 15yos on twitter wdym

No. 2328089

>>2328086
I don't hang out with teens so I wouldn't know

No. 2328125

It was horrible, couldn't access the site I've been lurking since 2016. God I hate living in this shithole now I gotta pray these people don't ban VPNs

No. 2328130

>>2328125
are you in russia? admin literally explained on /meta/ how to access the site from russia without a vpn…

No. 2328147

>>2328130
Read recent post in /meta/, please

No. 2328177

>>2328048
not really, there was a lot of jewsperging for example

No. 2328182

>>2328177
plus that one personalityfag shitting up the vent thread every 3 days

No. 2328192

>>2328048
The amount of bait and infighting went down so much that it felt like a different board entirely. I'm on LC for 6-8 hours per day, and I really preferred the environment on /ot/ during the VPN ban. I think they should keep the ban for /ot/ and maybe /g/, but all the other boards should allow VPNs.

No. 2328250

I enjoyed the ban and still was able to have fun without troons and bippies screeching at me all day

No. 2328253

>>2328177
i could have missed it if you’re referring to something else but i remember the jewsperging lasting for like a single day and being banned pretty fast?

No. 2328255

>did anything really change?
Absolutely, the infighting, ragebaiting, and unnecessarily mean responses to comments dropped dramatically. Sure there were still bad apples who obviously got hit with their bans, but /ot/ seemed much happier and healthier
>did the luigisperging bother you?
Not at all, it made me really happy to see /g/ moving fast like a car on the freeway kek

No. 2328269

>>2328083
Anyone who calls “vibes” headcanons and schizophrenia is terminally online or autistic they can’t pick up signals

No. 2328272

>>2328255
>/ot/ feels much happier and healthier when people are censored
must suppress internalized misogynistic thoughts

No. 2328275

>>2328272
>when people are censored
Yeah, when people can’t come in here and easily ban evade, bait, and destroy the joy and relaxed energy, /ot/ actually was a million times more fun than it has been over the last half decade. Following the written rules isn’t the same as censorship.

No. 2328276

>>2328275
Be careful, she's going to share her misogynistic thoughts with you.

No. 2328279

>>2328276
what are the chances that she considers herself to be “male-brained”

No. 2328287

Did the VPN ban work against infighting or was it just because of tighter moderation and people are busy this time of year? I think there's too many unknowable variables to determine how effective it was and it's hard to make a decision based on that.

No. 2328288

>>2328275
God forbid women want to be negative, it’s not like that’s already happening to women irl!!!! Yes omg ~gurl~ you’re such a girlz girl. You’re literally a living breathing female stereotype, I’m surprised you aren’t a tranny (unless you are)(infight bait/troonfoiling)

No. 2328290

The site was so much better with the ban and I hope they extend it to /2X/ and make it permanent. Literally don't care about people stuck in third world censorship shitholes or worried about the troon police in the UK.

No. 2328292

>>2328287
The site already went to shit today super noticeably since they took it off so it was 100% the ban

No. 2328293

Keep the vpn ban

No. 2328295

>>2328290
Yeah that’s cool and all but the world doesn’t revolve around you and what you decide to not “care” about. I know that’s hard to process in your mentally ill likely sociopathic brain but yeah(infight bait)

No. 2328297

>what changes do you expect to happen for LC in the upcoming future? any theories of culture change, moderation, etc.
VPN BAN PLEASE I already see the post quality turn shittier. 70% of anons support having a VPN ban so if cerbmin decides to get rid of the vpn ban I will make January 6th look like a book club.
>did you enjoy/hate the ban?
Enjoyed. I was much more active during the ban because I felt like I could speak without some drooling retard trying to "erm ackshully" me every 5 seconds.
>was milk better or worse during the ban?
I didn't see any major difference to be honest.
>what did you do during the holidays if you couldn’t access the website through a vpn?
Enjoy the holidays with my family.
>did you hate the luigisperging?
It was a bit annoying to go to the front page, find an image I found interesting and have it redirect to his thread but this level of husbandofagging is fun, reminds me of when anons were obsessed with kylo ren.
>should the mods have done better?
The mods were fine, I have no qualms.

No. 2328298

>>2328292
The website has literally been the same because it’s slow as hell kek

No. 2328301

>>2328272
censorship is “the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security“, a VPN ban is not actually “censoring”, anything per se; it’s preventing annoying bullshit from being spread like an infection here by total spergs in the first place kek

No. 2328303

>>2328297
Being “negative” doesn’t meant the post quality has gone down. I can’t wait until this world is fucking destroyed, I’m honestly so tired of having to obey and submit to soulless husks who get triggered at the scent of reality on their screens.

No. 2328304

>>2328295
ntayrt but we’re not talking about “the world” kek we’re talking about the future of lolcow, and if the majority of users support a VPN ban then…

No. 2328305

>>2328303
If you want your hardtrvth reality of negative bottom barrel women go to jc. I never insinuated negative anons I meant anons who are baiting retards. Go to cc if you want them so bad.

No. 2328306

>>2328301
The VPN ban is actively censoring many voices from posting on the website, it’s censoring of another person’s speech and ability to express themselves especially for others who don’t live in the US. It’s also a breach of privacy. Nobody is entitled to use a shitty website I get that but I’m surely going to voice my valid opinion that VPN banning is retarded and you need to get thicker skin. If you can’t handle certain words on a screen and can’t somehow win an internet argument (simply by closing the screen and walking away) then you shouldn’t be using the website. It’s very annoying that the moderators keep using newfags and certain types of users as an excuse to be lazy as shit and to censor people. Censoring people also makes their FREE and UNPAID responsibilities even easier since they have a tight and manageable herd of sheep who will bootlick every kinds of tripe they type up and will make sure to mince their poor mean cruel words against strangers online! If I’m not entitled to a website where I can use a VPN you’re not entitled to people being nice to you. Go fuck yourself

No. 2328307

>>2328298
>>2328292
Yeah, I haven't noticed any real difference yet, could anons provide some examples because it feels the same. There were illiterate anons during the ban, so they don't count.

No. 2328310

>>2328306
>a VPN ban is censoring my voice!!
well if this paragraph you just shared with us is any example of your voice, maybe none of us wanna hear it?

No. 2328311

>>2328305
>Go to cc if you want them so bad.
Even miners don't want them, lol.

No. 2328313

Cerbmin please keep the VPN ban for /ot/. For other off topic boards, I don’t really care if VPNs are allowed since they’re not as active, and I think VPNs should be allowed for cow boards. But /ot/ is OFF TOPIC. Why should VPNfags be protected when chronic baiters abuse VPNs to ban evade? Baiters are not contributing milk or doing anything good for this site.

No. 2328314

>>2328306
>If you can’t handle certain words on a screen and can’t somehow win an internet argument
NTA but anon thats not what the VPN ban is about? It’s about removing the ability to ban evade and shit up our website

No. 2328319

>>2328314
apparently not wanting to deal with baiting, bad-evading shitstirrers on the reg makes us thin skinned.

No. 2328320

>>2328311
NTA kinda off topic but I feel bad for the CCfags who had to deal with the bums that were camping in their threads and saying really crazy stuff. Any miners lurking right now I apologize on behalf of my VPN using nonnies

No. 2328325

>>2328314
You actually disgust me, actual concern trolling by pretending to not know what the VPN ban really is about. I don’t care about the arbitrary fluff about why the VPN ban exists, it purely exists to censor people, it’s not rocket science. It’s honestly the same generic copy-paste shit now, pretend to be innocent like you don’t know how the fuck to read people’s posts and pretend to “innocently” ask a question again pretending to be dumb to further frame your own agenda and confuse people. It’s to censor people, band people in the same groups, categorize and give titles to faceless people by thinking /pol/ spergs, chronic baiters, etc. are all the same making these applied rules very arbitrary and done with no context. If someone writes their posts with the slightest hints of snark and attempts to insult, they are banned. If someone even attempts to rock the boat and bring up interesting topics that pisses off the bootlickers they are subject to these arbitrarily written rules. They treat /ot/ as the gossip boards, which makes me feel like they’re rotating moderators from the gossip boards which I thought the same moderator is assigned to only one singular board and that’s it but apparently not. Something sniffs like shit and I seriously think the admin is a completely different person because why are the mods always the ones calling shots for what should happen with the website? Why should an admin who barely even uses the website herself even immediately co-sign this shit?? Nobody asks questions you bootlickers just happily accept it because now those people you were definitely egging on in an infight you can simply just head to /meta/ with your own version of the story or mass report and it gets taken down. The moderation is actually horseshit and now seriously typing your opinions and saying “mean words” should get you banned on a place where worse shit is said about lolcows lmfao

No. 2328329

>>2328320
I wish you disordered bitches could be euthanized. The bippie behavior with the hysterics/dramatics to get your way is somehow so convincing for the mods to take seriously. The mods must be mentally ill tards to even want to be mods in the first place which is why they always coincidentally side with you retards. Your lot must always helicopter around everyone and control everyone’s speech and what they say because nobody can criticize disordered women without them chimping out and hitting the report button kek(a-logging, infighting)

No. 2328332

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>>2328325

No. 2328334

>>2328328
Because they’re lying. It was until the luigi fantards started flooding the CC lolcow thread the thread went completely down hill but yeah sure it’s definitely the baiters bringing down the website and totally not the moderation and the types of users they clearly favor over others

No. 2328337

>>2328325
nona not even being flippant when i ask this; if you really feel that way about the moderation, then why are you even still here?
>now seriously typing your opinions and saying “mean words” should get you banned on a place where worse shit is said about lolcows lmfao
just because we talk shit on lolcows doesn’t mean we need to be rude to or infight with each other, it’s really not hard to behave with a little bit of dignity when socializing with other anons

No. 2328339

>>2328269
the overuse of the word "vibes" in recent years is a chronically online thing funnily enough

No. 2328340

>>2328337
The anons who sperg about le internet privacy and free speech for the poor anon in botswana who cannot access the site are the same anons who are so easily identifiable from their sperging alone. It's almost funny

No. 2328341

>>2328330
Sorry anon if I articulated myself poorly I didn’t mean to make it sound like I was referring to the anons who are standing behind the VPN ban, I was talking about the banned users who had been using VPN’s to access our site and were banished to CC during the weeks of hellmas
>>2328329
>I’m sorry that some anons acted crazy on CC
>I wish you disordered bitches could be euthanized
Kek, happy new year to you too, nona!

No. 2328342

>>2328339
The word vibes existed before the internet retard kekkk

No. 2328344

>>2328342
>overuse

No. 2328345

>>2328340
You don’t care about your own privacy or anything because you’re impulsive, sloppy, want to be coddled and catered to. That shouldn’t be a problem for the ones who are smart enough to use VPNs

No. 2328346

>>2328275
>joy and relaxed energy

That's /g/ not /ot/. /ot/ has always been chaotic like what are you on?

No. 2328347

There is barely any difference since the VPN ban except this place feeling as dead as cc. What's the point of an imageboard if you can't be anonymous?? KEK Anyone in favor of this crap, might as well migrate to twitter or reddit.

No. 2328348

>>2328342
that's why i said "the overuse of" and "in recent years" nonnie, not the word itself

No. 2328349

>>2328346
sure /ot/ has always been the wild west of our boards but i like it better when we’re able to have fun and relax together, and i think most anons feel the same way

No. 2328350

>>2328341
No, I meant to say anti-VPN ban anons and just deleted to repost. They were being reasonable in both CC and the other bunker about this besides from a couple of cherry picked examples.

No. 2328351

>>2328347
we are anonymous on here? the VPN ban wouldn’t result in us having to make accounts to use lolcow

No. 2328352

>>2328346
Once an imageboards removes shitposting I think it’s practically dead at this point. Is there something about shitposting that pisses off zoomers or something?

No. 2328353

>>2328352
No but jannies hate shitposting unfortunately

No. 2328355

>>2328350
idk i saw some screenshots of an anon on CC saying they wanted to kill the admins, all because they couldn’t access lolcow. i feel like thats kind of extreme and i can only speak for myself when i say this but i’d prefer for those types of users to not be able to post on our boards

No. 2328356

>>2328351
Are you stupid or retarded?

No. 2328358

>>2328351
Nayrt but are you slow?

No. 2328359

>>2328345
I can read your past present and future like the ghosts of scrooge from how obvious your typing habits are. I used a VPN and I was able to suck it up for a month, and I liked the results. Also fun fact: Your cheap VPN makes yourself more susceptible to having your data sold to companies than non-vpn internet usage. A bad VPN is worse than no VPN. Let's not pretend you're caping for some bigger cause when we all know you just want to bait to your hearts content, you're probably putting your hand down your pants knowing that there's someone even responding to you in your completely invisible life.

No. 2328360

>>2328320
CCfags or miners are 80% troons so it doesn't matter. Their site is a literal shithole. I feel so uncomfortable to the bone seeing their threads with 10 replies max littered like waste disposal kek

No. 2328362

My only wish is that this is something cerbmin and/or the farmhands decide on. A vote will be manipulated anyway so what's the point.

No. 2328363

>>2328359
Ntayrt but I also regularly use a VPN and before the ban I used a VPN on this site, but I didn't give a fuck about posting without one either. So what if farmhands can see my post history? I don't post anything illegal or personal or private anyway, nobody should be posting those things. It's very obvious that the VPN spergs just hate the fact that they have a limit on their baiting and infighting, or they have paranoid delusions that the farmhands are voyeuristic stalkers.

No. 2328365

>>2328359
>Being exposed is better than having privacy with the risk of being exposed.

No. 2328366

>>2328356
>>2328358
no i’m just asking how lolcow would stop being anonymous, we’d all still be anonymous to each other and just because the mods can see your IP on your post history doesn’t mean they can see your identity or name

No. 2328367

>>2328363
In certain countries, talking about gc shit is illegal. No one cares about what the farmhands see, people are more worried about their internet providers?

No. 2328368

>cow boards were slower
>infighting and baiting on /ot/ was lessened but not eliminated
>a certain schizo was still able to post schizo rants on /ot/

>>2328320
The JC threads were completely free of infighting and the CC threads were obviously being targeted by the same group of chronic master baiters that target LC. The CC thread would peaceful and then at a certain time each day the same poster would arrive start infighting and accusing everyone else in the thread of being a tranny.

No. 2328372

>>2328368
ntayrt but cow boards are slower overall because people don’t enjoy keeping up with cows anymore, its not as fun to keep up with Dasha as it was pt during her prime

No. 2328375

>>2328369
how would they be able to identify you? i was never educated about internet safety in school so i am genuinely curious how they have the ability to figure out your persona based off the string of numbers

No. 2328378

>>2328355
Cherry picked example of very possible tranny baiter or roaming mentally ill anon that the ban didn't keep out, if you're making opinions based on screenshots I feel you shouldn't be expressing those as truth.

No. 2328379

>>2328048
It felt like older lc again where I could just chill on /ot/ and reply to nonnies without some random sperg getting aggro all of a sudden

No. 2328391

>>2328375
Typing style and IP range, interests as well (as in what threads you frequent often), even if you have stellar opsec and never talk about yourself if you live somewhere where there's only a handful of anons you can be singled out just based on those.

No. 2328398

>>2328379
older lc was just as bad. wym

No. 2328400

>>2328396
How would you know? You werent here.

No. 2328403

Ironically I didn't get redtexted/ banned as much as normal. I didn't change anything about my posting, maybe the jannies just took the sticks out of there asses. It was kinda annoying to have to turn my VPN off then on whenever I wanted to post, so I guess it did make me post less. I would prefer no permanent VPN ban, but I can also see why it needs to happen. I didn't use /ot/ at all in December, but if it was more enjoyable, I believe all you nonas.

No. 2328452

>>2328378
>Cherry picking
You keep saying this as if there weren't dozens and dozens of posts on CC talking exclusively about the desire to bait, infight, samefag, and be a general nuisance. It's bullshit and you know it.

>>2328368
>The JC threads were completely free of infighting.
There was less than 50 posts on the JC bunker during the VPN ban.

>>2328367
You think that VPN companies won't hand over your information if law enforcement requests it?

>>2328365
If you are that paranoid about farmhands exposing your posts, get on some Prozac or something. Why would random jannies give a fuck about what you post? You act like the jannies seeing your IP is the same as them seeing a recent face picture, your social security number, address, phone number, and email.

No. 2328454

>>2328297
>reminds me of when anons were obsessed with kylo ren
those were the dark days

No. 2328456

>>2328403
Same here, no ban this hellweek.

No. 2328459

>what did you do during the holidays if you couldn’t access the website through a vpn?
Enjoyed my holidays all the same and wasted less time on LC kek. Not bad but i'd genuinely be sad if the VPN ban became permanent. I use one because of a dedicated online stalker who has done things like use my credit card info when i typed it in w/out a VPN (because some shopping sites block them), among many, many other things. I'd rather not use one but it has been the single best measure against his harrassment/threats. Still, i'm aware i'm in the minority of VPN users and i get why anons want them banned. It should be implemented on /ot/ at the very least.

No. 2328502

>>2328452
>dozens of posts on CC talking exclusively about the desire to bait, infight, samefag, and be a general nuisance
It would be quite the shame if I could and will very easily debunk that. I'm not particularly pro or anti ban, I'm just not convinced of the efficiency of it due to other factors and the ad hom and pathos on both sides is fucking annoying because it's not really helping to figure out what the best course of action would be. You talk as if the CC thread is just a circlejerk of hate and not disgruntled anons.

No. 2328507

The site felt really good during Hellmas. Had some good conversations and actual laughs on here during the month, really enjoyed being here. I didn't get banned even once. I'm pro VPN Ban.

No. 2328526

VPN usersare backbone of this site and are the ones who actually keep up with posting milk. Most casuals who don’t use VPNs are just “commenters” (and complainers). People won’t feel comfortable contributing milk and actual GOOD milk without the protection of a VPN.

No. 2328536

>>2328502
You sound desperate. You shouldn't be this worked up over a website on the internet.

No. 2328539

>>2328507
Yeah, the conversation aspect was really good. I felt like threads were derailed a lot less, and that I was able to have a lot more good interactions with anons. When VPNs are allowed, conversations suffer because everyone is getting distracted with all the bait being posted or the conversation derails because of infighters. It's been less than a day without the VPN ban and already /ot/ went to shit with low-quality bait getting attention and infights raging for hours.

No. 2328542

>>2328526
this. /snow has gotten noticeably slower during hellmas

No. 2328549

>>2328526
you could just turn off your VPN to post milk?

No. 2328555

>>2328542
Then just have a vpn ban on ot and g

No. 2328560

i won’t lie, i’ve definitely contributed to /snow/ slowing down majorly over the last year cause the cows we have are just not ushering any laughs out of me the same way shaynus used to..

No. 2328563

>>2328305
>>2328368
>>2328452
who/what tf is jc

No. 2328565

>>2328560
and samefag, they’re just not interesting either
>oh my god, another attention whoring social media addicted woman11!? she needs a thread!
kek they’re literally all basically the same person now, theres no variety or charisma. at least with onision, lainey, and billie there was real absurdism and drama!

No. 2328568

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>>2328563
junkuchan, a shelter imageboard ran by an asian boy we call “cuckmin” kek

No. 2328569

>>2328565
I've thought that for a while but lately I've been browsing the Dana thread and it seems to have promise.

No. 2328574

>>2328568
Holy fuck. This is literally why we can't have nice things anymore. Do you not know how to gatekeep? You're the type of person that posts about LCF on social media all over the place. DON'T POST IMAGEBOARDS ON OTHER IMAGEBOARDS. THIS IS HAS BEEN A RULE SINCE FOREVER. It's common etiquette. If they wanted to find it, they have to lurk to find it. You are seriously fucking braindead. Holy fuck I hate you.

No. 2328578

>>2328574
Don't worry it looks shit

No. 2328582

>>2328568
oh shit I'm retarded I should've been able to connect the dots. sorry to make you spoonfeed kek
>>2328574
don't worry quean I won't post on your board

No. 2328586

>>2328574
sorry anon she just asked a question and i answered it? also i didn’t see sperging like this when lolcow was down for 10 days and everyone was suggesting different imageboards to bunker in on CC
>you’re the type of person that posts LCF of social media for telling an anon about an imageboard that has already been posted here
kek do you need some essential oils or something because you need to chill

No. 2328588

>>2328574
>This is why we can’t have nice things!
>(in reference to a cuck porn imageboard)
You’re so right nona

No. 2328590

>>2328588
>>2328586
>>2328582
Holy shit newfags are so retarded

No. 2328592

>>2328526
This
I'm a normal user and I just stopped using the site last month. The admin have revealed users in the past for no reason other than shits and giggles. You have to be stupid to use this site without a vpn.

No. 2328594

>>2328590
it sounds more like you’re looking for something to be angry about, not sure why you care so much about /shelter/ considering how insanely dead it is

No. 2328597

>>2328586
It's the fact that you're too naïve to understand the consequences of your actions. You have no idea about IB etiquette and no decorum. Newfaggotry is a state of mind and you'll never escape it.

No. 2328599

>>2328592
Nta but it wasnt a admin (they only do that when it's a cow self posting and spreading shit against others like how creepshow did) but a farmhand

No. 2328600

>>2328590
>>2328574
If you’re not supposed to post about imageboards on other imageboards then wouldn’t it be against the rules to have a CC bunker thread here? Or the pastures bunker thread on JC?

No. 2328602

>>2328600
>then wouldn’t it be against the rules
Distilled retardation.

No. 2328603

>>2328597
>too naïve to understand the consequences of your actions
Damn NTAYRT but you’re being insanely dramatic kek what is the consequence of posting a screenshot of JC’s front page on lolcow?

No. 2328605

>>2328051
Are you the same fat ugly butch lesbo who keeps malding over straight women wanting to rape luigi's eyebrow? Get a grip and take your insulin.(infighting)

No. 2328606

>>2328602
This response doesn’t answer my question or acknowledge the point that I’m making. Do you have an answer or are you going to continue insulting anons?

No. 2328607

>>2328603
Now the cuckqueans’ safe space will be ruined

No. 2328610

>>2328607
Why will it be ruined?

No. 2328611

>>2328610
Hopefully it won’t be but you never know, can’t cuck in peace around here

No. 2328612

>>2328603
If you need to have it spelled out for you, retard, it's the fact that when there is a bunker, only those that know about it go there. Ergo, only dedicated farmers know about the bunker threads. You act like this site isn't being watched 24/7 by moids, trannies, and other degenerates, ready and waiting to fuck up where ever we go next. There's a reason you don't want to advertise IBs. If I posted a link to LC right now on TikTok, for example, who do you think would come to LC? Do you think it would be a type of person that farmers would like? Use your brain for a moment.

No. 2328613

>>2328599
That doesn't make it better, the fact it's happened multiple times is a disgrace

No. 2328615

>>2328597
you should go ahead and write a book about imageboard etiquette if you’re such an expert on it, tizzy.
>>2328607
>>2328611
i really don’t think it’ll change at all kek, it’s a very dead imageboard
>>2328612
nta but junkuchan is already ran and frequented primarily by men because its a porn website? what are you talking about

No. 2328619

>>2328606
its really just basic ib etiquette not to share them around, you sound like a newfag. there's a reason anons type 'fc' 'cc' or 'jc' instead of typing the full name, and it's not to save time while typing

No. 2328620

>>2328612
>Thinks that moids and trannies aren’t already beating off to content on a website with a board titled /cuckquean/
I wouldn’t throw around the word “retard” if I were you nona kek, it takes one to know one

No. 2328625

>>2328619
I’ve been using lolcow since 2018 and I’ve seen thousands of posts where anons verbatim reference specific imageboards, this is the first time I’ve seen an anon get spergy and aggressive over it, hence my confusion

No. 2328626

>>2328615
Nta but hey faggot we know junkochan is run by a moid but the only good thing about that site is cuckking didnt advertise the shelter thread (and that's saying something because that thread was for a while there) on other ibs so wasnt flooded posting lc bunkers on 4troons will only attracts pedo troons to the site that spam cp

No. 2328628

>>2328626
>cuckking

No. 2328631

>>2328626
nta but
>didnt advertise the shelter thread on other imageboards
do admins do that when their website starts getting more traffic just from sheltering users?

No. 2328632

>>2328625
>I’ve been using lolcow since 2018
>2018
My point exactly.

No. 2328633

>>2328632
ntayrt but that’s like 7 years anon, you can’t possibly expect all of the users here to have been here the day JCM opened up shop KEKK

No. 2328637

>>2328631
No dumbass, it's because they understand the simple IB etiquette that advertising boards is distasteful and opens the doors to retards.

No. 2328638

>>2328632
Trying as hard as you can to infight and start an argument about jc being mentioned is more newfaggy minimod (not even minimod, cause discussing cc, jc, or mc isn’t against the rules or bannable behavior).

No. 2328639

>>2328638
>Obsessed with rules
>Doesn't know what spoonfeeding is

Go back.

No. 2328641

>>2328637
wait so i’m confused, why even mention ‘advertising’ (kek) the shelter thread when thats not even a thing that happens…? are you just pulling stuff out of your bum nonny

No. 2328642

I miss the vpn ban

No. 2328643

>>2328642
Me too

No. 2328644

>>2328642
>>2328643
these are the people we get rid of when we have the vpn ban turned on kek, weirdos autistically hung up on imageboard ‘etiquette’ but talk down on and insult other anons for following and keeping up with the rules like normal posters

No. 2328645

As someone who has been viciously defending and sperging about a vpn ban on /meta/ for about 3 years straight, I feel so very smug. I've been trying to hold back because I don't want to influence staff's decisions negatively in any way now, but just let me say in this thread:
I TOLD YOU SO, I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO AND YOU DIDN'T LISTEN, OF COURSE THE WEBSITE WOULD BE BETTER NOW
TO EVERY FALSEFLAGGING BAITING DEFLECTING MOID WHO CALLED ME A TRANNY FOR BRINGING THE VPN BAN UP
GET FUCKED HAHAHAHA

No. 2328646

>>2328615
>what are you talking about
You have no idea what is going on and why anons would be upset. Anyways everyone shut up about it, jesus you're attracting attention to it by complaining about anons posting it.

No. 2328647

>>2328639
>Obsessed with rules
Well yeah we’re expected to follow the written rules, also when did I say I didn’t know what spoonfeeding is? That wasn’t mentioned in my response at all?

No. 2328649

You know considering the nuclear levels of newfaggotory in this thread I understand why ot should remain a VPN banned board except some threads that may warrant that privacy for its farmers

No. 2328651

>>2328646
>what are you talking about?
>wow you have no idea what is going on
you are right i don’t understand why anons are getting angry with me and trying to tell me that i’ll ruin /cuckquean/ and that trannies and scrotes will come invade jc, but it is already owned, operated, and frequented solely by men?

No. 2328652

>>2328645
I feel the exact same way. Earlier this year I was fighting a one woman war against an army of baiting trannies in /meta/ and everyone called me a schizo retard for it, but lo and behold, I was right the entire time. Like I always am. So I stand with you, anon - we are the vanguards.

No. 2328654

>>2328651
Holy shit just shut up

No. 2328655

>>2328398
it really wasnt

No. 2328656

>>2328651
What if someone makes fun of cucking

No. 2328659

not surprised they're trying to put the lid on this discussion now that VPNfags are being reminded the facts about that site…
>>2328656
dont! he’d probably get hard!

No. 2328667

I was terminally online over the past two weeks because I was sick and stuck at home. And I’ve never enjoyed Lolcow more than during the VPN ban. I didn’t get any bans, even though I was feverishly writing dumbass manifestos. For once, it felt like I was having actual conversations.

>>what changes do you expect to happen for LC in the upcoming future?
Give us back Kpop Critical and all the feminist threads that were banished to the forbidden board. No one is using it except for 'blackpilled' anons who can’t stop talking about semen.

No. 2328669

>>2328667
>Kpop Critical
Tbh it'll attract kpoopers maybe a idolfag Critical would be better

No. 2328672

>>2328667
If they're going to keep the VPN ban, they should really allow a lot of the threads banished to the hidden board to return to /ot/. I think it would be a really cool idea.

No. 2328676

do you think we’re gonna get a hellmas stats report the same way we did last hellweek?

No. 2328678

>>2328568
>asian
you really didn't want to say "indian" kek

No. 2328680

>>2328678
>Indian called cuckking or cuckmin
>Scared the sacred board will be raided by males
I think it'll be fine.

No. 2328681

>did you enjoy the ban?
No, I'm a thirdie too fml I guess
>did you hate the ban?
Yes
>did anything really change during the ban?
The site seemed slower, almost barren tbh
>was milk better or worse during the ban?
I noticed cow threads got way slower, less users posting might look good for a shithole such as /ot/ but cow boards…
>what did you do during the holidays if you couldn’t access the website through a vpn?
Usually I post recipes, Christmas pics and talk with fellow nonnas when holiday season approaches, not this time though. On top of this Christmas being awful in general I couldn't access this site, neither. So, it was just shit all around, it kinda ruined my xmas. It felt like getting kicked out of a club with no notice at the worst time possible
>did you hate the luigisperging?
Irrelevant
>should the mods have done better?
They did good because it was hellmas

No. 2328762

Might be a decent idea to disable VPN while the poll is active.

No. 2328804

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>>2328652
Based, proud of you. Let's hope it wasn't all for nothing.

No. 2328836

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>>2328350
>cherry picked
you can keep saying this, but the fact is there were hundreds of posts like picrel. cc mods ended up deleting something like 200 posts from the lc hate threads on cc that the vpn tards were congregating in anyway, so a some of them are gone but a lot of them are still up. these are the types of posters that don't deserve to be on lc.

No. 2328845

>>2328840
>>2328836
This is the first time I've posted this picture. Show me an example of this picture being posted anywhere else on this website, because to the best of my knowledge it hasn't been posted here yet.

No. 2328846

>>2328840
Where else have you seen that pic?

No. 2328850

>>2328846
She deleted the post, how funny. I guess she thought that there was only one example of baiters going mask off, instead of admitting that there were so many posts like picrel.

No. 2328945

No issues with the VPN. If people are concerned about having a blanket VPN ban we could have more individual threads be inaccessible to post in via VPN if they have issues with infighting. Or maybe captchas could be implemented specifically for those using VPNs?

No. 2328969

>>2328945
VPN banning doesn't stop autists from chimping out, they know how how to ip reset

No. 2328972

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We need a VPN ban. Today this board was so ass. I really dgaf about the 20 anons that "need" a VPN to post when we have 200 retarded chimps that are hellbent on shitting up the board with the most tired and unfunny bait.

No. 2328976

>>2328972
Agreed. The site's more chill without VPNs and less bait is created.

No. 2328979

>>2328976
I believe that every pro-VPN post I've seen has been from baiters trying to do a gayops.

No. 2328981

>>2328972
I wish moderation would take better care to redtext or delete worthless shitposts like these than nitpick about dumb shit like paragraph spacing when it bothers nobody.

No. 2328983

>>2328979
As soon as VPN posting was allowed again, I instantly got replies to my posts that read like nonsense and like they were produced by ai. In the most chill threads too where you wouldn't think they would be prompted. I just ignore it but it shits up the thread because newfags just keep responding to it as if it's real.

No. 2328986

>>2328972
In all fairness that particular baiter was posting even while the VPN ban was up so..

No. 2328990

>>2328983
It's seriously so obvious at this point that VPN ban is a necessity, at least for /ot/. Why bother using this board when it's all just bait regurgitated for the 100th time posted by VPN spergs?

>>2328986
Yeah, and it got banned. If you post bait, you should get banned. Bans should mean something. Bans shouldn't just be decorative. When VPNs are allowed, bans are just decoration. If that poster gets banned right now, it could just click a button and boom, in 2 seconds go right back to baiting.

No. 2328992

>>2328972
literally every vent thread for the past few weeks has had like 100 posts of infighting in them, i dont think its related

No. 2328997

>>2328990
They're baiting all over the site it's not just /ot/ unfortunately.

No. 2328999

>>2328992
if you think thats what this is about you're not getting it
>>2328997
cant wait for the vpn ban to be a permanent feature

No. 2329004

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>>2328836
They go on CC to brag about it too after the fact. This is a common thing to do for a lot of baiters.

No. 2329009

>>2328990
It's decoration regardless. You can ban evade without a vpn. You literally just reset your router or reinstall your web browser on mobile.

No. 2329013

>>2329009
That's a lot more work than pressing a button and evading in 1 second. Having to reset your router or reinstall your web browser is a much bigger deterrent.

No. 2329015

>>2329013
Not at all, spergs here do it all the time.

No. 2329018

>>2329015
Don't be glib
>>2329009
Hence why range bans are effective and need to be used more commonly alongside VPN bans

No. 2329028

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>>2329013
nta but thats not true nona, mobile posters on iPhones can easily ban evade by just opening a new tab in private safari
>>2329018

No. 2329043

>>2329028
The lack of tech literacy here shouldn't surprise me.

No. 2329047

>>2329009
this is such a bullshit reason to not ban VPNs.
>banning VPNs curbed so many evaders
>YEAH WELL THERE'S OTHER WAYS TO DO IT
like ok and? why wouldn't we want them to implement tools to cut down a large number of them? sure it isn't all of it but it's a good amount of it. why wouldn't we want that just because a few annoying faggots go the extra mile?
weird

No. 2329052

>>2329047
I don't care if they ban them or not but all that's going to happen is the site will go mostly unmoderated and unbearable spergs will thrive either way. The site is not enjoyable and hosts only a small amount of transplants, most OG posters left 2 years ago, and the turboautists are unable to read tone and make conversing akin to pulling teeth whether there's a ban or not. It'll just be another nail in the coffin of a dying imageboard.

No. 2329056

>>2329052
>moderation adds new tools so they can moderate the site
>cry about dead moderation
>moderation bans baiting faggots and infighting
>cry about censorship
>VPN ban implemented and the site allows down a little in favor of less infighting and more discussion
>cry about it being dead
it just sounds like this isn't the site for you. sorry!

No. 2329060

>>2329028
you can do that on android too by opening incognito

No. 2329062

>>2329056
Can you not read? I said I don't care if they're banned kek throwing other peoples flimsy points at me doesnt make them mine.
>maybe this site isn't for you
Definitely not. It's gotten extremely uninteresting in the past three years, a major decline in the userbase overall. It wasn't even this cringe in 2014. I post occasionally still, but the cycle of ot chatposters larp too much and it's like talking to children most of the time–I'm just saying the site is a dump either way.

No. 2329067

>>2329062
you "don't care" about it so much that you decided to post the same argument about why it doesn't matter in /meta/.
back on topic, i am for the VPN ban. i'd been waiting for it, and it didn't disappoint. i really hope it's implemented for good

No. 2329181

luigifaggotry made /g/ even more unbearable. i wish degenerates had their own board instead being lumped with fashion/certain hobby threads/makeup&skincare/advice/relationship threads for which I go to /g/ and degens make experience worse

No. 2329182

There's been a lot of mansplaining since the vpn ban was lifted

No. 2329207

>>2329181
I want an NSFW board like cc

No. 2329214

>>2329207
>NSFW board like cc
I don't think the mods need to deal with de/g/enerate porn and the moids that post in those boards, /g/ is already enough

No. 2329233

>>2329181
Idgaf about Luigi but just hide the thread? We already have tons of threads simping for weird 3DPD males, get used to it. At least the Luigi thread is funny.

No. 2329235

>>2329214
Make it hidden like CC.

No. 2329237

>>2329181
I hate Luigi but I think it's funny, seeing /g/ have some traffic for once is nice. Idk why

No. 2329262

>>2329181
I never understood why we even have /g/ and /ot/ both. The distribution of threads makes no sense. there are mental illness threads and sexual orientation threads in both, celebricows in /ot/ but gardening in /g/…

No. 2329268

I wouldn't trust shit to these mods tbh, I don't know why everyone seems so trusting of them so suddenly. I still remember the time a mod with a personal vendetta stalked a random anon and brought up details from her older posts to embarrass her, that was frankly frightening. Who tf would trust their real IPs to these people?? Much less if we cannot even fully confirm they're all female

No. 2329270

>>2328972
>I really dgaf about the 20 anons that "need" a VPN to post
Of course you don't kek. This site is barely active, there's like, 60 anons posting on a good day, cut on those 20 and this site will become a ghost town. Can't believe there are threads that go 6-7 hours inactive, we seriously turning into cc

No. 2329275

>>2329262
Same. Why is there a desi women thread on /ot/ but the black and Asian women threads are on /g/?

No. 2329292

>>2329181
I sincerely don't understand the difference between /ot/ and /g/ sometimes. We're all women here so isn't everything we post already girl talk? The hobby thread distribution is confusing as well, like the gardening thread is in /g/, but the outdoor hobby thread is in /ot/. I wish the relationship, sexuality, attraction, and hornyposting threads had their own board because there's so many of them that it makes /g/ hard to browse so I usually just stick to /ot/.

No. 2329295

>>2329275
We have a Asian (sea and east asia) thread on ot too the desi thread is a thread of nonas who belong or are in desi culture (south asian) regardless of their ethnicity (that includes brown,white,black skin) desi isnt a skin colour

No. 2329307

>>2329292
Clarifying the rules as to what belongs on /ot/, /g/ and /m/ would probably help solve some of the problems with /ot/. A lot of newfags don't browse other boards so anything and everything just gets dumped on /ot/ when really it should be on /m/, /g/ or even /snow/.

Another issue with /ot/ is that there are so many hate threads and threads that are political. /ot/ used to be a relaxed board where anons would discuss random topics with each other. Now it's become politicized and this attracts the wrong type of poster that comes here to argue their political viewpoints.

No. 2329309

>>2329270
>There's 60 anons
You cannot be for real KEKKK

No. 2329315

>>2329309
It's a variable number, anon. Mods said there are around 100 or more anons posting but it can vary, sometimes the farms aren't that active

No. 2329316

>>2329307

>Another issue with /ot/ is that there are so many hate threads and threads that are political. /ot/ used to be a relaxed board where anons would discuss random topics with each other. Now it's become politicized and this attracts the wrong type of poster that comes here to argue their political viewpoints

This. Can't even chill out and have fun discussions because some retarded sperg who's too chicken shit to air their grievances out with the people who've pissed them off irl come to /ot/ just to stir shit and all of the political/hate threads make it so much easier for them. Nothing wrong with wanting to talk politics or shit post about how much pitbulls suck but you don't need a hate thread for fucking everything.

No. 2329319

>>2329292
I like /g because it's like a slightly calmer version of /ot. Gong on this board genuinely stresses me out sometimes kek

No. 2329343

>>2329235
CC still had tons of obvious moids hornyposting

No. 2329464

Just love all the race bait and mansplaining showing up since the removal of the vpn ban… Please reinstate the ban

No. 2329517

>>2329319
I felt the same until I hid the undesirables and now my /ot/ experience is much more pleasant. I mostly keep the threads I like open so it surprised me when nonas were saying /ot/ became a shitstorm during the VPN return since I didnt see much increased activity on my opened threads. says a lot that the sperges seem to avoid the more mundane /ot/ threads because they're not out for genuine conversation, just shit posting and rage engagement.

No. 2329559

I loved the ban, really hope it gets reinstated.

No. 2329578

I loved the ban. The /g/ lesbian threads were free of that one freak who keeps sperging about "bisluts" for a whole month.

No. 2329590

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I understand the why but please don’t reinstate the ban cc is too weird for me please let me stay here! I don’t use vpn but still couldn’t post and I’m too chicken to email mods about it.

No. 2329591

>>2329214
But porndumping/fetishposting would keep the autists in check

No. 2329593

>>2329590
>I don’t use vpn but still couldn’t post
What

No. 2329596

>>2329593
some ip addresses were accidentally/incorrectly blocked, the vpn blocking isn’t 100% accurate

No. 2329597

>>2329578
it was? the posts in there during the last 5 days of December were full of that

No. 2329598

>>2329596
Yeah, so you just had to email the admin about it.

No. 2329603

>>2329181
/g/ has always had retards lusting after hideous scrotes that look like the hunchback of notre dam, why is luigi the straw that broke the camel’s back? Nuke the unconventional attractives thread instead

No. 2329615

>>2329603
Exactly kek, the shit posted on /g/ now is honestly way more tame than it was years ago

No. 2329616

>>2329603
Just hide the thread fagg/ot/.

No. 2329629

>>2329616
I do hide it, I still have to see your favorite receding hairline geriatric flavor of the month whenever I clear my cache or a new thread is made

No. 2329645

>>2329181
I couldn't care less about the Luigi thread but I agree that the thirst threads should have their own board.

No. 2329656

>>2329597
IME the goldstar and comphet discourse is an eternal thorn and hot topic in lesbian and even bi spaces because the people who engage in them are usually mad at the time for good or bad reasons.
I think the muh-bisluts freak is a separate organism, distinct from other anons by its singularly obsessive nature that repeats exact phrases verbatim across its posts. Other anons might still chime in on the rants so it's a 'not all rectangles are squares' situation.

No. 2329684

It seems to me that racists and men love to hide behind vpns because holy fuck today is cringe and gay on here

No. 2329690

>>2329684
I can't believe we had almost a month of peace and prosperity and then within 2 days of permitting VPN posting again this board became so shit that there's no point of using it. I actually loved /ot/ when the VPN ban was on, it was actually fun again. The whole reason they needed a VPN ban to begin with is because of this board being so shit. IMO they should keep VPN bans off in the cow boards and the hidden boards, but they should keep VPN bans on the off-topic boards (maybe except /m/ since there's not much bait posted there to begin with).

No. 2329691

>>2329645
Making small chans split boards usually slows posting activity to both. I don't care about thirst threads, just go into the catalog and click what you like. Lurking males may not like seeing women lust over whatever they want but women are more civil.

No. 2329695

>>2329004
>Posts shit bait on LC
>Gets banned
>VPN ban is on so can't ban evade
>Runs to CC to post more about the bait

It's so tiresome. It was so great seeing the chronic baiters have meltdowns on CC when they couldn't ban evade on here anymore.

No. 2329699

>>2329578
At this point I'm sick and tired of hearing anons screech and cry and whine about fakebians and bihets and bisluts and goldstars and all these buzzwords. I'm not even trying to be a "both sides are idiots, I am big brain" person I'm just tired of seeing this literally everywhere I go. Nobody mentally sane from either "side" is so obsessed. This shit should be contained and there's a thread for it but nobody uses it

No. 2329709

>>2329699
>there's a thread for it but nobody uses it
this is on purpose. they don't actually care about what they're talking about, they only talk about it for the purpose of starting or engaging in an infight. that's why they don't contain it to one thread, they post it in any thread thats active. there are about half a dozen bait topics that get recycled constantly because they're inflammatory and they're sure to get a reaction, either from other infighters, newfags, or spergs.

No. 2329712

>>2329709
Yeah and that's also why they never read your post if you dare argue back just to tell them they're being illogical and need to shut up. They'll twist everything you say to try and make you sound like le evil scary bihetfakebian la meangatekeepergoldstar, the lack of reading comprehension is on purpose. I wish it was a bannable offense at this point

No. 2329723

>>2329712
>if you dare argue back
this is exactly what they want. it really is so easy to just ignore and report. if you see a retarded post that you know is meant to bait for infights, just report it for bait and report everyone that did respond to it for replying to bait. kind of tiring that it still has to be said: report and ignore bait.

No. 2329733

>>2329712
Seconding the other anon to please just report and continue/start other conversations in the thread. Any replies to the baiters just gives their voices more room and unfortunately makes you sound like one of them, and it makes other reasonable lesbianons leave and hide the thread.

No. 2329743

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>what changes do you expect to happen for LC in the upcoming future? any theories of culture change, moderation, etc.
I've posted what happens next here
>>>/meta/88201

No. 2329748

>>2329578
Wat are you on? That anon still posted tho.

No. 2329750

>>2329743
don't link your cringe schizoposts everywhere. it just makes you look desperate for attention.

No. 2329947

>>2329262
The site in general doesn't have enough traffic to warrant being split up the way it is. Merging boards would probably be better for thread traffic.

>>2329307
/ot/ used to be a relaxed board before all the chill threads were moved to /m/ when it was created, leaving more of the hateful threads behind.

No. 2329954

>>2329947
Personally, I don't see the point in merging boards. It takes one second to click onto a different board. I think the different boards are all unique enough to warrant separation. I always just assumed most anons used all boards.

No. 2329955

>>2329947
>>2329262
I prefer it separated. The chill to unchill scale goes /m/ > /g/ > /ot/. /ot/ is honestly just infight central now, I don’t know how much worse the /g/ threads could get if it moved to here. Then again I like the lesbians on here than the ones on /g/ so… maybe it would be for the best? It would also bring more traffic to some interesting threads like the fashion and plastic surgery hate thread (which honestly could fit in /ot/ anyway imo)

No. 2329960

>>2329955
I hate that the threads that are usually considered "interesting" are the hate threads. An anon posted a while ago that at a certain point LC went from being about lulz to being about hate, and it struck a chord with me.

No. 2329961

>>2329960
I mean, I just think the plastic surgery hate thread could have some milk potentially, which like it or not is a part of the culture of the site (regardless of if it’s changed or not). And still, fashion, journaling, gardening etc are all fun threads just not exactly “lulz”. What even is “lulz” anymore?

No. 2329967

>>2329954
In practice most people have 'home boards'. It's well known in UI design that every swipe or button press you add will slow the user (that's why so many apps now are designed around vertically scrolling feeds).

>>2329955
And the reason /ot/ is infight central is because the infight threads used to be offset by a bunch of chill threads. The chill threads got moved which raised the overall conflict level of /ot/. I don't think /m/ should have ever been made, the outcome was super predictable and panned out exactly the way I thought it would.

At minimum I think the admin should at least consider adding captcha or stricter timers on individual threads to prevent impulsive, low effort flooding.

No. 2329978

>>2329967
>At minimum I think the admin should at least consider adding captcha or stricter timers on individual threads to prevent impulsive, low effort flooding.
Please, no. God, have mercy on us all and do not let cerbmin implement this. I remember last hellweek when mods extended the timer and it was so janky and frustrating. This is not the way!

No. 2329981

>>2329978
Captcha isn't too bad? Submission timers IMO only work well on a very individual basis like they work for very specific threads and not for others.

No. 2329989

>>2329954
Agreed. When I was a newfag, I felt that certain boards should be merged tbh (inb4 aggro anons take this the wrong way, I’m not calling anons who feel this way newfags, I’m just speaking from personal experience), but after a while you notice the difference in board culture. I think more anons stick to a certain board than you might expect, as >>2329967 said. Multiple boards also allows threads to be banished to a less popular board that might stir up infighting. For example, husbando threads being confined to /g/ limits blackpill sperging on /ot/.
>>2329981
Are you referring to captcha like 4chan has? If so, I stand by my earlier post. Please, no. It’s such a pain in the ass imo. Besides, lcf is already slow. I don’t think we need captcha to slow down spammers in the way 4chan might.

No. 2330008

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>what changes do you expect to happen for LC in the upcoming future? any theories of culture change, moderation, etc.
I don't know tbh, I just think everything's going to somehow get worse.
>did you enjoy the ban?
I did.
>did you hate the ban?
No, I support it
>did anything really change during the ban?
From what I saw in the threads I browse, only for the first few days after the ban when it was more peaceful. As time went on post quality just went to shit again.
>was milk better or worse during the ban?
I don't use the cow boards so can't answer this
>what did you do during the holidays if you couldn’t access the website through a vpn?
I don't use a vpn to post.
>did you hate the luigisperging?
No, I was following them and thought it was hilarious and a good time but I do think the novelty has worn off.
>should the mods have done better?
Ehh, don't know. Wasn't really paying attention to them.
>other subjects related to it, etc.
I'm of the opinion that vpns should stay banned on the offtopic boards but not the cow ones. If you're paranoid about the mods having your post history through your IP then… just don't post in a way that could identify you, even subtly lie if you have to. That's part of being anonymous, no?

No. 2330059

>>2330008
People who are so egotistical they think mods are constantly looking at their post history are cringe. You guys aren't that important, let's be real.

No. 2330073

Notice when the VPN ban lifted all of the baitiest threads become more active. Sorry for muh free speech and thirdie anons but it's clear that the ban has more pros than cons.

No. 2330075

>>2330059
Some of them have leaked post histories that weren't even from cows to be fair. And a few other incidents of referencing things anons posted in other threads that would be impossible for a normal anon to know without looking through their history.

No. 2330090

>>2330008
>it's the /ot-onlyfags advocating for a vpn
That's just given. Why even cater to these fags who don't come here for the main purpose of the site.

No. 2330105

>>2330075
>a few other incidents of referencing things anons posted in other threads that would be impossible for a normal anon to know without looking through their history

so tired of this line. if anons decide to forgo their anonymity by acting like a personalityfag or constantly revealing personal info about themselves, sooner or later anyone that pays enough attention will catch on and be able to identify them.

a good example is that retard from northern ireland. tldr; an anon from ni decided to post the same vents for a month straight, reveal personal info about herself, post pics of herself, confirmed her location, and talk about herself and her life to such a point that some anons recognized her and told her to stop attentionwhoring and linked back a bunch of her posts. then, the irish anon went ballistic and emailed cerbmin about it because she was convinced farmhands were the ones that revealed her post history, instead of just admitting that she was stupid enough to forgo her anonymity.

a lot of retards on here don't understand the principle of anonymity. they don't understand how to be anonymous. just because none of us have usernames doesn't mean none of us can be recognized.

if one anon consistently makes a very strange misspelling, for example, it becomes easy to track them across multiple threads based on that misspelling.

it's not "impossible" to notice very obvious patterns. inb4 "urrr durrr take ur meds" — just because you're too retarded to notice things like that doesn't mean everyone else is.

>>2330090
>still calls it /ot instead of /ot/
>doesnt know what we call people that only use /ot/
pathetic

No. 2330110

The only thing I noticed was how shayna's and Addy's threads got really slow. I know shayna is boring but still, it was fun to see the autists nitpicking her to shreds.

No. 2330114

>>2330105
I'm not talking about anons repeatedly mentioning the same things in multiple threads, I'm talking about random one-off posts

No. 2330126

>>2330114
that's not at all what i was talking about. if i make 10 different posts in a day, and every post i make has "I`m" instead of "I'm" then it doesnt matter wtf im posting about, it's obvious enough that it's me based on that weird typing quirk alone. anons underestimate others' intelligence to the point that they'd rather believe there's a secret farmhand vendetta against them instead of admitting that they're not as anonymous as they should be.

No. 2330137

>>2330126
I wasn't talking about typing quirks either, just completely normal posts that don't stand out.

No. 2330147

>>2330073
Just put the ban in those threads then. We know there are threads that attract baiters. We know that thread-specific vpn bans can work (like in amerifags during the election). They're are cow-lite threads on /ot/ that I enjoy posting in (consoomers, artist salt, small webs) that vpn users would like privacy for posting "milk" in

No. 2330152

>>2330137
completely normal posts that don't stand out TO YOU. there are many different anons on this site. such a thick skull.

No. 2330153

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>>2328325

No. 2330156

>>2330137
Ignore that anon, I agree with you, I don’t know they’re being unnecessarily obtuse. Yes farmhands sometimes reference post history. For example I once got banned for having a “scrotelike history” by one of the newer mods (I’m just a lesbian) and I’ve definitely seen people’s histories being mentioned offhandedly.

No. 2330159

>>2330153
you always know it's a chronic baiter typing when they include the term "bootlicker" or upload that retarded "no fun allowed" image they're all so fond of.

No. 2330197

I miss the vpn ban. It was so beautiful and chill being able to post for a full month without getting my head bitten off.

No. 2330209

>>2330197
It's just so painfully obvious that there are losers dedicated to being as vitriolic and combative as possible because they're bored. December was the most fun I've had on /ot/ in a long time. So many interesting conversations, funny interactions with anons, just generally a cool atmosphere.

No. 2330217

>>2330159
kek, truly nona. I don't know why other anons can't just drop and report

No. 2330227

>>2330197
I started using /ot/ more as soon as the VPN ban got put in place. Now that it's gone, there's barely any point to post on /ot/. I can't contribute anything meaningful while the freaks obsessed with baiting and infighting dominate the board. The VPN ban was truly the best choice the administration made in a long time. It should be a no-brainer that /ot/ needs a permanent VPN ban.

No. 2330267

To me it seems like the best compromise would be to put more specific threads under VPN ban. The baiters like to shit up specific threads so why not target the threads that have the most issues? The majority of /ot/ would still be accessible to people that need to use VPNs for whatever reason.

No. 2330274

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>>2330209
Yup. I caught this tard on /meta/ before it was deleted.

No. 2330280

>>2330267
Baiters will just move to other threads. They’re here for the thrill of getting replies, not because theyre actually interested in farmers unpopular opinions or whatever other threads they plague

No. 2330284

>>2330267
You keep trying to deflect and blame certain threads rather than the baiters. It's not slick. Baiters don't care what threads they bait in. If Thread A gets a VPN ban, they'll just start baiting in Thread B. Total VPN ban on /ot/ is the only way forward. Let the cow boards be VPN free, maybe even /m/, but /ot/ should be free of VPN posts.

No. 2330287

>mods allow /ot/ to become a shithole, plagued by infight and hate threads that attract males, trannies and baiters
>Predictably, it becomes the shittiest board
>Instead of literally just deleting the problematic threads (unpopular opinions, etc), they ban VPNs instead
>"Y'know what?? We shouldn't stop there, let's van VPNs at EVERY BOARD"
Wtf I hate /ot/ users now. /m/ doesn't need a vpn ban (chillest board), /snow/ users are mostly against a vpn ban for milk reasons, /g/ I'm not sure but obviously is not THAT much of a mess as /ot/. /ot/ is a disgrace and it needs tighter moderation, you all can put all the damn bans you want at that board, but the whole site?? Why??

No. 2330289

>>2330287
if you read the thread youd realize most of us are okay with vpns on other boards but most of us specifically think /ot/ should have a vpn ban and some of us think /g/ should have one too. something tells me you dont really care tho

No. 2330294

>>2330284
>>2330280
But don't certain thread topics just make it easier to bait? How would you bait in something like the cooking thread or Sonic totem thread?

No. 2330295

>>2330284
"Unpopular opinions" as a concept in itself is controversial, don't act obtuse now, that thread was and will always be full of infighting. It's harder to post bait at mundane shit or stupid questions, for example

No. 2330298

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>27775 posts in 2 weeks
>13.4% made through a VPN
>3722 posts made through a VPN
>86.6% of posts made without a VPN
>24053 posts made without a VPN

The pro-VPN crowd seems really 1-dimensional. Why should we care about a group of people that contribute so little to
the site?

No. 2330300

>>2330295
I wonder if there's any way to make that thread better other than the VPN ban.

No. 2330301

>>2330298
Vocal minority

No. 2330302

>>2330294
>>2330295
Always deflecting & always projecting

No. 2330308

>>2330294
I feel like if someone really wanted to, they could bait by posting about some ethnic cuisine and how bad it is, and just snowball into talking shit about the people and their culture. In the sanic thread, you could bait a personalityfag and rile them up by asking a snarky question about them, but there really aren't any active personalityfags anymore.

No. 2330309

>>2330302
0 arguments, eh?

No. 2330313

>>2330309
Nobody is taking the bait anymore. Go to bed.

No. 2330314

>>2330298
This is quite curious to me, it's actually a very small percentage of VPN users, so, what are the chances such a small number contributes to 90% of bait?
>>2330313
schizo

No. 2330316

>>2330314
learn to read statistics

No. 2330319

>>2330316
So now it's a relevant number instead of a "vocal minority" and "20 irrelevant users at most"? I see

No. 2330326

>>2330319
lol no. it says "13.4% of posts" not "13.4% of posters." learn to read. its cringe how you type all your posts with the tone of a stereotypical anime supervillian btw

No. 2330329

>>2330314
>>2330319
You are so stupid

No. 2330337

>>2330289
(nta) if /g/ gets one it should only be in the lesbian related threads imo, since those are the ones filled with the most infighting

No. 2330338

>>2330337
maybe the black girl thread too cuz moids seem to target that one a lot too

No. 2330362

>>2330326
>learn to read
>you type all your posts with the tone of a stereotypical anime supervillian btw
In my defense, I'm just ESL. Not trying to backtrack any of my opinions, but yeah maybe my delivery was kinda weird I'll admit

No. 2330385

>>2330337
>>2330338
these are good ideas maybe you should request them in /meta/?

>>2330308
Good point

No. 2330467

>>2330289
/g/ has some threads that deal with sensitive/culturally taboo subjects that could benefit from the privacy of posting with a vpn. If anything a /g/ vpn ban should just be in specific threads that have a problem with baiting/infights, and not the whole board.

No. 2331280

I've reported over 100 posts since I opened LC. Farmhands, just do yourself a fucking favour and tell Cerbmin to turn VPN ban on for all of /ot/. There is no point in /ot/ if it's just gonna be a bait and infight board for Zoomers with no friends.

No. 2331283

>>2331280
>I've reported over 100 posts since I opened LC.
You're the problem

No. 2331288

>>2331283
Reporting posts for infighting, derailing, racebaiting, general retardation and newfaggotry, etc., makes me the problem? Go get some friends retard.

No. 2331311

>>2331288
That's just too much, it ain't good for your health

No. 2331316

>>2331280
Just a question, if you reported 100 posts since you opened LC, how many of that 100 would you say gets listened to?

No. 2331319

>>2331280
Agree. I've been reporting posts too.

No. 2331334

>>2331280
It’s not that serious kek, you sound like one of those hall monitor kids from those American tv shows

No. 2331341

>>2331311
>>2331334
>Bait is fun! I love infighting! You take the website too seriously, tee hee!
Can't wait until the VPN ban is permanent. Seriously go make some friends. Go outside and talk to people and make friends.

>>2331316
Already 20+ redtexts so far. The issue is that the moderators aren't here 24/7, so if there's a big infight going on for example and they're not fast enough to respond to reports, it continues to get worse and more out of hand and more reports are made.

>>2331319
Not banning VPNs just triples the workload for farmhands, especially on /ot/. I don't know why it's even a question of whether or not it should be implemented. I don't hate the farmhands, in fact I think they're probably doing way too much work for free. At least with a VPN ban they get a lighter workload.

No. 2331412

>>2331280
>reporting posts you personally disagree with then just hiding the thread or ignoring it
Gives us examples of posts you’ve been reporting and well judge how report-worthy they seem kek

No. 2331416

>>2331412
you sound delusional

No. 2331419

>>2330298
I like how people are taking those statistics seriously. It’s safe to say they pulled that shit out of their smelly unwashed asses without showing us the methods on how they came to that exact number. It’s so rigged lmfao

No. 2331421

>>2331416
More than the person who makes sure to report posts that could’ve well been within the rules? Yeah sure jan

No. 2331422

>>2331419
kek someone's angry that the stats show that 87% of posts were made without a vpn

No. 2331425

>>2330287
I can’t believe we went from dunking on de/g/enerates for being the worse board users to now /ot/, it’s actually insane how the site culture has changed. The slightest hint of shitposting, snarkiness and joking around makes these losers dribble piss inside their knickers, the farmhands have decided it’s way more efficient catering to literal children and oversensitives then allowing interesting posts and threads.

No. 2331429

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>>2331425
it's always the same lines with vpntards kek

No. 2331430

>>2331422
Or maybe you’re just retarded and take people’s words at face value. It actually makes me laugh knowing they probably wrote random numbers up kekkkk

No. 2331431

>>2331430
absolutely seething

No. 2331435

>>2331429
You’re literally obsessed with VPN users clearly kek. You have to trek all the way to a dead imageboard to start infights with the supposed “chronic baiters” you despise who kept the CC thread peaceful until the hellmas tards started flooding the website when LC was down and suddenly the entire quality of the thread went down. It’s not just the chronic baiters causing chaos it’s also annoying little cunts like you but you can keep shifting the focus off yourself on to the easiest targets I guess

No. 2331439

>>2331435
i havent stepped foot in cc since september when the last bunker was happening. that image comes from /meta/ where a lot of examples were posted. stay seething lonely soul

No. 2331443

>>2331425
>The farmhands have decided it’s way more efficient catering to literal children and oversensitives then allowing interesting posts and threads.
While I agree that the crackdown on “shitposting” was taken too far, how did the quality of /ot/ decrease during hellmas? I only saw the quality improve. However, the cow boards were unfortunately very slow

No. 2331453

>>2331429
Wait that anon was so right though until they had to add the last part of the tradfags getting their posts banned, that was deserved. I think all of the autists moved to /snow/ and /m/ and /ot/ is full of normies and children now
>>2331443
It was absolutely shit with slow-moving posts, meaningless posts as well like not everybody comes here to use it as some chill chat room if they wanted /ot/ to be like that then it would’ve been smart to keep the dumbass shit threads. Also the amount of baiting, retardation and being unintegrated was still there and oddly enough it exposes to me how when the real users stopped using the website because of the ban, holidays, changed interests, etc. you could seriously tell most /ot/ tards are tiktok/twitter/tumblr implants. It was kind of easy to sniff out and the signs were there with the ugly man psyop and fandom thread it’s just topics that feels very teenage-girly or what insulated teenagers would only talk about, even the spergs from /m/ who think anime is the equivalent of renaissance art have chilled out with that shit but it’s just a different flavor of tism that felt slightly unusual for the website. The luigi spergs have sealed the deal with this theory, although in the past there has been infamous ugly male worship threads there was a difference between how those users spoke and the ones now.

No. 2331461

>>2331341
> Seriously go make some friends. Go outside and talk to people and make friends.
Kek anon, that’s rich, this is literally an anonymous image board. Again, not that serious

No. 2331463

>>2331453
>there is nothing wrong with baiting
>THAT ANON IS RIGHT!
seriously? lol

No. 2331476

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>>2331453
Second ayrt, I still support an /ot/ VPN ban, that just wasn’t my experience though I wasn’t online a lot, but holy fuck I checked the luigifag thread and it’s even worse than I imaged… definitely underaged kek. The most recent post is just foul.

No. 2331481

>>2331476
God, it's hard to believe these were typed by adult women.

No. 2331504

>>2331476
Tryhard memeing. He's butters and I'm tired of seeing him plastered everywhere, why tf do they keep photographing him

No. 2331514

>>2331476
Idk how they found the website who keeps telling them about this place and why are TIFs so attracted to this place as well

No. 2331517

>>2331514
They mention it a lot on Roblox, especially the Spanish-language dance club servers.

No. 2331518

>>2331514
Because rill life columbine hybristiphile YAOIZZZ xd. God everyone is shitposting so much it isn't even funny anymore and hasn't been for awhile

No. 2331526

>>2331517
And you know this how?

No. 2331536

>>2331517
Are you admitting you found this place because of Roblox? Kek
>>2331518
Notice how the mods don’t care about their behavior either, some of the mods might be newfags I’m afraid

No. 2331555

>>2331280
>Zoomers with no friends
Zoomers have 0 knowledge on internet safety and don't know what VPNs are, they're more likely to post embarrassing shit with their real IPs kek

No. 2331574

>>2331555
?? VPNs have been common since the mid 2010s. Almost every Youtuber has been sponsored by one of the major VPN providers, they're advertised heavily on TT too, and some web browsers have VPNs built in now. It's kind of silly to act like VPNs are a top-secret technology that only Millennials know about.

No. 2331611

>>2331574
It's not about vpns being a top secret tool or not, zoomers simply don't care nor use them as much

No. 2331616

>>2331611
Sometimes you all talk about Zoomers as if they're aliens

No. 2331617

>>2331611
But if a zoomer with no friends was to get permabanned for faggotry on here with their IP in bold would this not cause them to simply google “how to change my IP” then download a VPN to ban evade after the fact and continue shitting the threads up? Also a lot of people use VPN’s to watch different country Netflix due to licensing.

No. 2331655

>>2329603
>>2331476
His thread is full of tourists not regular farmers (one even admitted it) barely integrating.

No. 2332676

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>I am not ban evading!
>Banned for ban evasion.

This is why a VPN ban for /ot/, certain threads on /g/, and problem threads on /snow/ is so important. These anons take bans way too personally, they think it's an attack against them instead of just upholding the harmony and culture of the site.

If an anon is constantly switching IPs, half the time they don't even realize they've been banned, so they don't even know what they're doing wrong or how to stop doing it. It seems like the most autistic, most combative, most narcissistic anons tend to be the same ones that use VPNs to post. Obviously not every person that uses a VPN is breaking rules, but at the end of the day it's pretty obvious that VPNs enable the worst type of anon to run free shitting up the boards.

I'm posting this on a VPN right now, I understand the desire to use one online, but at the end of the day so few people on this site actually use a VPN besides the same losers that sustain themselves on infighting and racebaiting all day long.

No. 2332881

Inb4 they inevitably put VPN banhammers on this shithole and kill the site. The concern trolls pretending /ot/ has never been cancerous are lying just to piss VPN users off, it’s always been shit kek

No. 2332906

>>2332881
/ot/ was recognizably better for actual conversations during the ban even though it was slower. maybe the ban evaders will slow down if we don't keep the ban but /ot/ has been unbearable with the actual posts being drowned out by baiting spergs since lifting it

No. 2332977

>>2329989
perhaps captchas could be implemented only for people using VPNs

No. 2332980

>>2332977
Perhaps fuck that and just ban vpns and the spergs can go hang out with the robots on 4chan

No. 2332991

>>2332980
4chan has banned VPNs for like 10 years now.

No. 2332993

>>2332991
Racists don't need to hide behind vpns there i presume since I never go there

No. 2332994

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>>2332881
>VPN bans will KILL the site
>Anyone that is for the VPN ban is a BOOTLICKER!
>The VPN is for the TRANNY JANNIES!
Do you ever get tired?

No. 2333002

>>2332881
/ot/ was so much better with the ban

No. 2333010

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/snow/, /w/, /m/, /pt/ and /g/ didn't have massive problems before the VPN hellmas ban, and it doesn't now. Why ban VPNs for the whole site when it's just /ot/? Just ban the VPN for certain threads on here, or autosage them like the dumbass shit thread.

No. 2333023

>>2333010
Lmao. We've all already come to the conclusion that the VPN ban should be for /ot/ and some threads on /g/, and not for the cow boards. We all already know that if we put a VPN on only select threads, the tards will just migrate to non-affected threads and shit those ones up too. No matter how you try and spin it, we all see through it.

No. 2333024

>>2333010
All the off topic boards should have them

No. 2333041

>>2333023
>No matter how you try and spin it, we all see through it.
You sound like a schizo, that is my first post in this thread. I haven't seen proof of "wandering infighters". When VPNs were banned in the Amerifag thread for the election, we didn't have increased baiting in the unpopular opinion or vent threads (for example).
On that note, the unpopular opinions thread always gets filled with bait anyway, so I'd support it being autosaged. If the baiters just move into other threads, ban them. Not every baiter is the same troon switching VPNs every 5 minutes, most will get tired and give up, and it's shitty to just rely on range bans for the persistent infighters because that punishes anons who are unlucky enough to live in the same city or town as an autist. We have mods for a reason.

No. 2333045

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>>2333010
>other boards didn't have massive problems
>/snow/
Selfposters in the ana thread & radfem thread
>/w/
Jirai vendettafags that can't integrate for shit and ban evade like picrel
>/g/
Lesbian/bihet wars held between competitive baiters to see who can be the most retarded, racists trolling in the black girl threads, /fit/tards chimping out in the ideal bodies threads

That's just off the top of my head. I don't think a VPN ban is a good idea for the cow boards, but even certain threads on those boards would benefit from a VPN ban like the ones I mentioned. It's disingenuous to act like VPNs aren't the primary tool that idiots use to evade bans.

No. 2333047

>>2333045
That's not even getting started on the fujohime wars

No. 2333049

>>2333023
>>2333010
I think the VPN should be just for /ot/ too, and specific threads on /m/ and /g/ can have VPN bans installed if enough people request it. That would probably make the most people happy while not affecting the site's usage rates too much. I can't think of a better compromise than this.

No. 2333050

>>2333041
>If the baiters just move into other threads, ban them.
See, bans aren't effective when people use VPNs, because VPNs let them switch over to a different IP, and they can evade their bans.

No. 2333056

>>2333050
Which is why I said
>Not every baiter is the same troon switching VPNs every 5 minutes, most will get tired and give up, and it's shitty to just rely on range bans for the persistent infighters because that punishes anons who are unlucky enough to live in the same city or town as an autist. We have mods for a reason.

No. 2333071

>>2333056
I really don't get the point you're trying to make. If your IP address is included in a range ban, all you need to do is email the admin and tell them about the situation and they'll unban your IP.

It's stupid to expect the farmhands to be here every minute of the day. We all know that there are times when moderation is absent, usually it amounts to a few hours every day. Moderators shouldn't have to deal with all the ban evasion, because it wastes their time. VPNs limit the tools that the farmhands need to properly moderate the website.

Not every baiter has a VPN, but it's pretty obvious that VPNs are frequently used by baiters, infighters, vendettafags, and selfposters.


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