Shakedown in Progress

Killing Chris is alogging.

Cutting down some of the CWC chatter might be worth it, though. The "what if" threads are probably the worst offenders in the board. The top level should be limited to CWC happenings. I wanna say only tzars can create threads on the top level but that's probably going to lead to someone with 100 PMs about how Chris shat his pants and did nothing daily. You could move Chris chatter to another subforum if people want it still, like Sonichu discussion has. At least the awful threads and money wasting weens wouldn't be at the forefront.

 

Make shitposting on that board a bannable offense! Make Inner Circle great again!

On a serious note, Null: how hard would it be to code a "off-topic" rating thresold that fires an admin message so that someone can look into it and possibly remove the post from the thread? Does this happen already with the "a-log" rating? I seemed to receive a couple mod messages after getting too many a-logs on a post, a couple times since I've been here. If you can add something like that to the site it would further your plan, because people are much more likely to rate bad posts than to report them.

You could even add a "does not really advance the discussion" rating for that purpose ("boring" rating with a ZZZ icon, for example). I mean, as long as it'd get mods into cleaning those posts...

 

Is there a way to categorize posts, such as "update" and "comment", so thread watchers could choose to just see posts containing updates while skipping out on the discussion?

Putting things into categories could be left open to the writer. Everything after the OP defaults to "comment" and abuse of said feature to mark "Hurr, Chris is a cultural virgin" an "update" gets paddled.

It would be useful for content where seperating it into different threads would be inconvenient, yet reading through pages upon pages of comments can be a chore.

 

Why not give the CWC board the Amberlynn treatment ? Give up any pretense of moderating it and let the cringelords and other edgy faggots spill their autism and engage in pointless debates over the shape of Chris' dick to their heart's content.

Chris is boring as fuck but at the same time he's likely the primary reason people discover and join this community. There's always going to be people wanting to discuss him and it's almost 100% guaranteed that they'll bring nothing new nor interesting to the table, so I agree with you that stricter moderation isn't going to do jack shit.

You should just wash your hands off the entire board and let faggots be faggots.

 

Are the unironic use of these words now a reportable offense?

 

Posted a new sticky with a twitter search tutorial, made sure to give threads clearer names, repurposed the Trump thread, did some moderation... things are looking good. I'm going to keep Salt Mine my sole focus because it's always been my favorite and I want it to survive and succeed. ​

 

I agree 1000% except on the use of "troon". Keep that one, it's funny every time.

 

Don't do that, the basic problem is that people don't use the report button to report rule offenses - giving them more buttons they won't use isn't the solution. Also I know you don't care for ratings personally but the rest of us do (cue in @Deadpool copy-pasta). You're better off leveraging the rating's popularity to fit your wider vision for the website, come XF2, IMHO.

Also, in the post here you explained your sentiment about the current state of some of the boards, it really feels that there's a nostalgia factor in there - not that you're being subjective and wrong over what makes a better forum, just that as websites grow it naturally becomes harder to maintain that sense of tight community where no one wants to be the shitposter because everyone else will notice. When any site grows too big, there's too much noise for that - and from the data you shared with me a couple months ago, KF is getting bigger by the day, so you might want to reconcile those things.

May sound simple to say "we just need more active admins" - but we all know of other forums (some with their own threads here) where too much admin literally shitted the site, because admins are just amateurs with their own biases most of the time... It's a tight rope to follow and is known to backfire.

 

A&H is the best forum why is it coloured shit.
Clearly your colours are wrong.

 

I think is a good idea.
But I think it would be better making a "lolcows info" subforum where it have the thread of the lolcows with their info that only mood can updates.
Like the lolcow wiki.

 

I honestly can't agree more, we have the older members and lets be honest the autistic newfags, heck we had a bunch of bans at the start of the year alone.

 

I know this isn't a "RIP mods" thread but RIP Karen Riley, she was a good mod. What the fuck happened to her?

 

Yeah and unfortunately we can't just close the doors either to prevent the website from growing further. I mean we can but what does that really solve? It's a much more profound question than just "how many admins do we need" and I don't think any big website has solved it yet

Not gonna lie, I'm pretty hyped for KF XF2, shit gonna be amazeballs!

 

The French took her.

 

For what its worth, here are my thoughts on the cwc board:

The cwc board is basically its own stand-alone board in the sense that it attracts posters who come for chris and stay in that board. This makes it more likely to be a lawless cesspool because many of those posters aren't getting exposed to the general culture, but I don't think its a total lost cause.

1. I think public warnings should be used more often in that board. Not only does it help clarify what is good and bad posting, its just plain fun. Yes, this is what ratings are for, but the message gets muddled when all the raters are also re.tards. Another reason I support this idea is that I would imagine the cwc board has a high poster turn-over rate (new posters joining, then leaving within the month), making moderating by reports and post deletion less effective as an overall behavioral modification strategy.

2. One of the shittiest parts of the cwc board is searching through shitposts for content. I propose locked content threads for things like facebook and twitter updates that a few people have access to updating and all commentary regarding updates should go in a containment thread

3. In the cwc board especially, but maybe the whole board, should have a ban on threads created by brand new members. Maybe members should have to reach a certain amount of posts or days before they are allowed to start a new thread.

4. If you vote for me for mod I'll make sure the school starts Free Taco Tuesdays in the quad and I'll fight for more student parking.

 

I’ve reported some posts and gotten responses of “don’t report stupid shit”. So you can’t ask people to report all problems if the mods are just going to brush it off.