I've been away doing Christmas stuff and I come back to see new is 99% shitposts, with only my own post and the one before this not being one.
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It's not even shitposting, it's just spam.
In some thread somewhere our janny mentioned a potential requirement for >1 month account age to get posting privileges. Something like that could work, although I'd replace it with a comment karma threshold because that's somewhat harder to do, but either way, I don't think there's an automod available here like there is on reddit, and without that, it doesn't really matter because the spam is still going to keep shitting up the frontpage until Domitius gets to it, and we can't expect him to be here 24/7. (Can we?)
Oh and if we're potentially restricting post privileges, how about finally FIXING THIS CLUSTERFUCK OF A RULESET?!
You'd need a tranny janny for that and trannies ruin everything, so no. I'm down for restricting posting privileges, maybe with the ability for established members of the Faggit subs to ask for an exemption if they join here.
Yes, this is long overdue. We don't need to appease Spez and his troon harem anymore. The only rules that should be in place are ones needed to keep the TheDonald people out of legal trouble.
Spam is trying to get people to click shady links (we've had a lot of that in the comments lately), posting everything bad Trump has done is leftist shitposting.
Can an automod even work here? I'd recommend account age and comment karma together, otherwise they just create accounts and leave them dormant until the time passes.
With this place as my home page, I'm probably here more than anyone, except when I'm banned and change it to MGTOW again.
4 & 5 should be one rule. 13 needs a better definition. 14 should probably be moved down to 3 posts a day, even if that would probably hurt me more than most people here. 16 needs to be relaxed a little, but not so much that this place becomes ConPro with people unironically spamming "gas the kikes" and thinly veiled variations.
IMO rule 14 should be based on account age and karma. Keep it at 1 or 2 a day until say 1000 karma and 3-6 months of account age, then go up to 5. There's no reason to be too restrictive on people who have proven that they can be trusted not to shit the place up. I don't know how feasible that is without automod though.
adding on that many rules is a slippery slope... the 'best govt' is a minimal one, and all that.
Just like reddt. jannies, spammers will find a way... I think its better if we more aggressively downvote the garbage content, and if more of us post the quality gaming news.
ACTUALLY NO. DOM CAM YOU ADD A FLAIR SYSTEM PLEASE? THAT WILL SOLVE THIS VERY QUICKLY
This site isn't really active enough to browse on anything except new, so downvoting doesn't do much. The problem is that Dom only has so much time to devote to being a janny, and most of that has to be spent on the Faggit sub where it's in constant danger of being nuked. As I posted in response the to the OP restricting the faggot to one account and enforcing rule 14 as is would be a massive improvement, since it's clearly the same retard on multiple alts evading that rule.
Yeah but these troons are posting like 4-5 posts about the exact same thing, that's just spam.
Regarding automod... well, I don't think communities.win has one built in. In theory it shouldn't be a problem to build one ourselves and run it externally, but I ain't doing that.
The rules are ridiculous. I see Dom is doing 0-day nukes for spammers, which is the right thing, so why do we have all this crap?
Most of them fall under buckets of illegal (already covered by ToS), spam, or anti-botting measures.
Of the remaining, Rule 16 is used to delete too much content. But although I get that this isn't a free speech forum, a lot of it falls under anti-brigading measures already being utilized so we could have some leniency here.
you can bet its a troon with nothing better to do practicing some forum sliding and consensus cracking
https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm
he knows vaccines and islam aren't popular on the right and is using that as a wedge issue to create aversion to the strong leaders
Of course. It's always a fucking troon. They destroy everything they infest. There's no such thing as a healthy community that doesn't have some kind of anti tranny measure in place.
Why can't AoV help mod? He mods the reddit.
why, so he can sell this page out too?
Who did he sell out to on the reddit? I don't blame him for being strict on there, the admins are practically breathing down our necks on that place.
He's active and doesn't seem prone to removing shit just because he doesn't like it.
Right after the split between kia and kia2 he began a series of closed-door "talks" with the old kia mods. If I remember correctly the involved parties were our resident quisling, TheHat2, HandOfBane and another 2 or so kia1 mods I don't remember the names of. The topic of said talks was that he, being the head mod of r/kotakuinaction2, offered to shut down that subreddit in order to suppress the rebellion.
After that caused a bit of an uproar, he unilaterally decided that any comment on that topic, any criticism of kia1 mods and any documentation of mod abuse from kia1 was verboten on kia2. His justification back then was that it would "poison his negotiations".
Instead, any such content had to be posted to a containment subreddit called r/kiameta, which he opened for that purpose. Transgression against that sacred rule was awarded with a permanent ban from both. That state carried on for a few weeks, then months, then half a year... All the while the evidence of mod abuse piled up. Then, after the documentation of mod abuse on kiameta became too plentiful to ignore, he simply put a lid on it and set it to private - which it remains as to this day.
I literally would not piss on that sorry excuse of a traitor if he was on fire. Actually I'd probably donate another gallon of gasoline for good measure.
I see. That's some old forum lore. Thanks for the explanation.
https://www.reddit.com/r/kotakuinaction2/comments/b5xjyk/colloquy_about_kia_issues_also_temporary_rules/
https://www.reddit.com/r/kotakuinaction2/comments/btmdn6/it_has_now_been_2_months_antonio_has_been/
https://www.reddit.com/r/kotakuinaction2/comments/apvpeo/since_meta_posts_are_banned_on_kiaproper_for_now/
https://www.reddit.com/r/kotakuinaction2/comments/cyux5v/kia_prime_claims_not_to_ban_people_for_posting_to/
Here's some old drama, the top thread in particular gives a very good picture of AoV's qualities, or rather the complete lack thereof. You can probably find a few of my comments in those threads too, user FreshNothingBurger. Also I remembered the other two names, Haterjuiced and Pinkerbelle.
More laws maketh the tyrannny.
I'm opposed to all mods unless it's me. And I don't want the job.
And I think anyone who ever wants to be a mod is an SJW spy.
It's an age old problem of the internet. No one who would make a good janny would ever want to be a janny.
So it's settled then. We're modding Piroko, right?
Yes, I 100% agree. It's clearly the same retard using alts to evade the 5 posts a day rule. If nothing else he should be confined to one account and rule 14 should be strictly enforced.
It depends on the autojanny's ruleset. If a live janny can manually approve a deleted post then it's fine, it'll just be public a bit later, it's no big deal.