Starting off with a The Who song: They sit in judgement of your wrongs.
Continuation of this thread: https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/1ARwGdpp2P/moderation-request--resignation/c/
Get to know them, probably more than before.
For the team, I and AoV will still be around for assistance, guidance, and suggestions if you want them. You should still set up a chat on your side in the event of outage or communication difficulty.
If you haven't modded before, I've given you full permissions, so take a look around. We can eventually restrict access if you'd prefer so that you focus on your specific areas, like only working on the sidebar.
I for one welcome our new overlords. Who are probably currently racing to see which of them gets to nuke imp's alt.
Just make it a weekly thing where every mod gets to ban him for a week and rotate until the heat death of the universe. That way it's fair and everyone gets a go.
I'm practicing restraint first. We've put up with him for weeks already, a few days of impotent sperging seems like a small cost to make sure everyone has a chance to make clear the minimum level of moderation they want. That said, I have no intention to fight anyone else's decision on the imp either.
I'm just here to do what I've always done, but with an extra button to get rid of obvious spam and save everyone some time.
Just so you know, I did go ahead and ban him. He's a sitewide ban evader, and was spamming and admitting to bad faith when he first arrived, and should have already been removed like a month ago. There was certainly cause, so I just did it.
That's how I knew she was doomed tbh. When you got tired of Imp's shit, and you've always been very patient by the standards here? Yeah. Ticking clock.
And now my watch has ended.
I give it 3 weeks before he's back.
Aw, stupid work stopping me. I'll just wait for the next alt 🙄
You'll get 'im next time!
Good riddance. Now can you remove the community filter that is strangling this place? Dom only put it in because he couldn't be bothered to deal with the pedo pajeet, but it shouldn't be necessary now that we have you guys running things.
Speaking just for myself, I'm certainly considering it, but these things have to be done carefully. It's bad management to come in and change things too drastically, but it's certainly on the list.
Also, u/BandageBandolier has been doing work, and manually approving a lot of stuff that was getting caught.
So, we're already improving there, but will have to settle into things a bit more - and decide the direction we want to go (community input included!) - on the topic.
As I've said, I don't want to change thigs much, until people have settled in at the very least, but we certainly have more options now that we have active mods.
Good man.
Also don't forget to ban u/TCDforver and his inevitable alts if/when he spergs out pedo style again. Or just do it preemptively.
Also don't forget tricky_dick. He's a coconut headed poop scooper.
Yeah, just ban me for being a lonely suffering man.
If you take the time to read what I wrote, you will find I very clearly articulated you should be banned for being a pedo. Not for being lonely and/or suffering.
Nothing but false accusations.
More like a whiner who constantly makes excuses when given advice on how to improve your life.
Slaving away and torturing myself doesn't improve my life, I need results and everyone ignores the problems I bring up. People tell me to go out and meet women but they NEVER give me the means to. I'm lucky to be introduced to one young woman per year.
Start lifting weights and focus on building your career. Women aren't interested in losers that chase them. They throw themselves at the winners that don't.
There. Now you have the means.
I can't even find women.
Fair enough, and watching imp spiral into insanity has been fun.
I see that, and appreciate it. You banned a few obvious bad actors/brigadiers that should have been banned ages ago, other than that you've approved everything. Looking good.
No drama, please. Also, can you add rainbow flairs like we used to have on KIA prime? Thank you, thank you.
I'm still on probation at this jannieship, so don't make me slur you. But by God I will if I have to son.
Jk, love you bro, no homo.
<3
It doesn't seem like much of a race, 30 mins on and there is no action in the modlogs.
She hasn’t posted for two hours, though. Maybe she’s in hiding now.
I have what's called a life.
You mean your shift hadn't begun yet.
If anyone here is paid to post, it's CuckPro. Your unwanted sperging chases off every sane person and prevents discussion of actual issues.
It's why Epstein List Elon freed you all from being banned from X.
Elon wasn't on the Epstein list, predditor.
I'm glad this guy's bad faith incomprehensibility won't bother us anymore (for now). He's like a full-blown psychological plague on any community he takes part in. He's so out there that he must be insane or paid to be an agitator.
You just disproved your claim. Better hope that’s your last comment here, TheImpossible1. You’re incapable of not violating the rules.
Obviously I didn't notice the pinned post and expect King Retard screeching as usual.
Nope, I have a sixth sense for when you spew your mental illness. What a waste of a superpower.
lol
You spend 90% of your day trying to goad people into Fed shit.
Could have fooled us.
JudeoPhile racist troll pajeets like this are the people/bots we want banned when anyone calls for moderation. The fact u/SwampRangers and u/Thisisnotanexit don't understand this is why they should be banned too.
Pings aren't working, so no one was even notified of mod powers. Most of us aren't online, and Bandolier is sensibly starting by taking things slow. We're all getting acclimated here.
Fuck it. I just banned Imp now, though. I was thinking of taking it slow too, but he's so egregious, and being an alt for a sitewide ban evader who has engaged in actually dangerous and likely illegal activity is enough of a reason. He's gone.
EDIT: And within ten minutes the DMs have begun. I'm on "the payroll" apparently. Even though he admitted to rule violations from the very start, and it was clear he'd be banned as soon as we had moderation again.
He really is insane. It's good that you banned him though.
CuckoldOfSanDiego will do it. They've been jerking off to the possibility for years.
Sadly I was too late. I'll just get you next time.
This is the opposite of drawing the short straw lmao
Which proves they aren't fit to be moderators.
Kaarous remains despite declaring openly that he is a paid activist. Explain that.
There are many Muslims here?
One would be too many
Pretty sure we're all bacon enjoyers around here.
Petition to revoke rule 16.
Mods are fags, and conspiring.
As is tradition.
I want to start slow, and not go right into changing things...but that's been on my list for years, literally since the beginning.
We'll see how the community and the rest of the mods feel, but I'm definitely open to it. Won't happen today, as I think moving too fast would be silly, but I'd say it's a possibility.
The only justification for R16 is to keep the people too spergy to do the easy workarounds from shitting up the place, but generally the worst offenders would do something else rulebreaking anyway.
As I've said, my main concerns are the outsiders coming in with negative intent, and I have no interest in going after regulars here for stuff that isn't disruptive. R16 enforcement is...nowhere on my priority list. I really only care about it when it involves calls to violence...and there's already rules against that anyway.
I've always said we don't need sixteen rules. But, again, I want to take things slow.
I get that you don't want to take a blowtorch to things on day 1 but Reddit tier rules against bigotry are not the way to deal with spergs. Rule 16 is so elastic and the previous guy used that to justify selective enforcement. That's not to say I believe the new group will engage in that kind of bad faith moderation but relying on collateral damage from aiming at a target you shouldn't be aiming at isn't the way to go.
Absolutely agreed. I was just playing Devil's advocate, providing the only positive spin I could for R16.
We'll see what the community and mods want to do but, as I said, I'm personally not a fan of R16, and think the rules could be cleaned up and consolidated in general.
Once you get stickies working, how about a stickied debate thread on rule changes?
Sounds good to me.
I respectfully disagree. The actual justification was so that tribalism and identity politics would remain weaponized against White people and monopolized by our enemies. It was only ever meant to tie our hands behind our backs and keep us from ever banding together, even on a backwoods forum like this one. Zionists don't tolerate dissent anywhere or any time.
I addressed that in another comment. I was just playing Devil's advocate.
Rule 16 is terrible, and I've been against it since the beginning.
Yeah, I saw that right after I posted.
That's in the other thread
A fine crew if ever there was one :)
Let's all just remember to keep away from the antics of the old Reddit sub (Both members and mods).
And may I be the first to say "Mods are fags".
Thank you.
Noted. And a universal rule.
I, for one, welcome our new fags.
A sad day.
We have taken the best of us and turned them into faggots.
True and real. :(
Sorry to read of your personal woes Dom. I wish you the best on that.
Welcome new mods. Good luck. I wish I had something clever to say but most of you have at least some respect from me, and the weird work ahead will not always be pleasant.
Thanks Alfredic
Hey! Welcome. Just don't screw it up, I guess.
Just to checking in. I've got a few things to do this morning, but wanted to let everyone know I saw this, and acknowledge it.
As u/BandageBandolier said, please let us know what your feelings are on moderation (aside from mods being fags, that's a given, and has already been pointed out.)
I can't speak for anyone else (we're not that organized yet!), but I for one am not here to take over, or change things. I just want to keep things running smoothly, and take out bad actors when they pop up. Not here to police regulars, or their speech, outside of when they occasionally go full schitzo.
Hope everyone is having a good day, and I might do a more detailed introduction later.
The only real problem this place had was the long delays in dealing with trolls and spammers. Should be a thing of the past now, assuming you lads aren't all in the same timezone. Even then, it would be a significant improvement.
Main reason I wanted mod status, and wanted more mods in general.
We've all been good at coexisting over the years, and I have no interest, and see no need, in trying to moderate discussions among regulars here. But I want the ability to nuke the obvious bad faith outsiders, when they pop up. It was a massive failure that these people, who were never part of the community here, were allowed to have so much impact, for such long periods of time. There's no excuse for that, and it was just shitting up the board when it happened. My main goal is not letting that happen.
Assuming none of the new mods go power hunger (I think it seems like a good bunch, personally, and don't expect major problems), it will be a change of the better. We'll see what people want to do, but it also lets us open things up a bit, as the previous filters didn't let anyone new in, pretty much.
Sounds good to me. The previous asshole's sole interest was targeting regulars while doing nothing about the pajeet, bluestorm, or whoever the spammer of the day was.
I think it was more an issue of him being inactive for long periods of time, not that he was specifically covering for or targeting anyone (outside of a few exceptions.)
But, yeah, it was obnoxious him moderating month old comments and temp banning regulars for very minor things, after letting actual lunatics run roughshod for that same month.
It just wasn't consistent.
Mod logs are in the side bar. Can be prettied up later, but the links are there.
I'll see if I can do that, still getting used to things here.
And, when stickies are working again, I plan to make a sticky with the modlogs link, too. I've always said that should be a thing, to help keep mods accountable.
For now, here's the scored mod log, which has the most functionality, as I recall:
https://scored.co/c/KotakuInAction2/logs
Consider a community filter for the terms:
"Foid"
"Age cuck"
"Forced child marriage"
"Married off at puberty"
I think you know who this refers to.
I don't think we've had an issue with him in ages.
Interestingly...he fucked off right after community filters were implemented, despite not getting caught in them. At least that's my interpretation.
But, yeah, we can adjust as needed. Nice thing about having active mods. If it becomes a problem, we can always add terms as needed.
Personally, I don't feel the need for that to be official. You're totally welcome to make those threads, and see if there's interest. If there's interest in the threads, and in making it more official, they could probably be stickied though, yeah.
I'll try to check the mod logs and see if there's any blocks for you, but go ahead and make any threads you want, and now that there are regular mods, we'll be approving stuff that gets caught but doesn't violate the rules. So post away.
I'd like to know why Kaarous isn't banned when we know he's a paid influencer for the Project 2025 movement.
I've asked this question to admins, mods and everyone else I can think of, and nobody ever answers.
Hilariously, stickies may be broken, so it may behoove the user-base to upvote this post for visibility.
They can be removed, just not added.
I unstickied the Day 3 of Videogames thread to check and while that did become unstuck, stickying this thread did nothing in turn.
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/1ARd3mI47c/day-3-of-videogame-links-classic/c/
Thank you.
You're very welcome
Congratulations to the new crew!
It's interesting that besides being here since the lifeboat move & checking in most days, I really have no profile in my mind on any of the regular users promoted other than Smith.
Hi, I'm
Troy McClureCarmenOfSandiego. You might remember me from such posts as;https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/17r9N9IYuv/sam-maggs-is-now-writing-star-tr/c/
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/17rmXYU3Ev/samm-maggs-rapes-picard/c/
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/17rSsedcu9/comics-dc-in-2023--aka-dyke-comi/c/
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/16aA9D5JK6/blaxmen/c/
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/16aTa1mEZo/xmen-bwc/c/
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/16an5X9Uoq/blaxmen-bwc-3/c/
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/19AxC0OeGm/4chan-hacked/c/
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/19AxLSGAuU/4chan-is-back/c/
And more!
For those wondering my name comes from the cartoon 'Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego' and back when we moved to Voat(?) and someone joked about using similar naming formats to what Dom had. I ran with a joke that I was Dom's nemesis but the board fizzled out and I stuck with the name when we all came here.
As mentioned in my other post I'm mostly busy UK work hours so not really expecting to be playing whack-a-mole constantly but I may at least be able to offer some non US time watch hours.
Other random things people may or may not want to consider.
I'm not coof'd. I got none of the vaxxes. Any of them.
I spend my free time either playing games or on walks with my dog. No I won't post pics because of OPSEC.
The last game I bought was probably Stellaris over 8 years ago. I pirate pretty much everything nowadays due to a combination of shitty dev companies, Paradox being a very good example of greed with its DLC prices, and stupid decisions, like modern WoW being pants on head retarded so I play on various private servers from different expansions.
I'm not clinically diagnosed with autism, but after long enough everyone assumes I am.
Mods are fags.
I wish I could have banned Imp.
somewhere in a deserted bunker, ancient bones creak in existential discomfort that this was ever in question
I mostly remember the game show. With a black woman host saying "gumshoe" a lot.
I do remember Voat. But don't remember KIA2 migrating there.
I'm a quiet man with quiet tastes I guess, and have tried to be fastidious about not bringing anything personal here or in the reddit days of yore. Just on the off chance some loon took offence at having basic biology explained or something.
That's why I leave occasional red herrings in my post history.
It's less of a commentary of the cadre of new mods. And more of a commentary on the nature of the .win infrastructure.
Scrolling through KIA2 as a mostly text forum without user avatars apparently depersonalizes the vast majority of people, making them mostly forgettable apparently.
I think that’s beneficial in a way. Helps me to engage with the idea being presented rather than my preconceptions about the poster. Other than the handful of posters that are so toxic I remember them.
Shout out to the people who stepped up. I don't keep track of screen names but hopefully they're all legit.
They seem legit, and even AoV agrees, and most of them do too.
...
That sounds less democratic than it is.
Welcome aboard! Am I finally allowed to leave my auto-filter/deletion banishment now?
Apparently so.
Well this was a surprise, wondered what these new tools were when I came on.
Normally I'd be snarky and post a Palpatine or Sideshow Bob laughing meme but I'll be serious for once.
I share the sentiments of u/BandageBandolier and u/Kienan in wanting to do minimal moderation, more having to act against porn/gore spammers and similar obvious trolls. Take some time to get used as most I've done in the past is run clans lol.
Welcome to the party, pal.
Palpatine posting definitely crossed my mind too, but it's always creepy when mods even jokingly do that, and I agree it's better to keep things serious.
Sounds perfect.
Pings are working again, too, by the way. Perfect.
This was my first thought.
https://i.giphy.com/yr7n0u3qzO9nG.webp
My second was realising while reading this 7 hours ago I probably wasn't going to get home in time to ban Imp.
Hijacking this thread to say it's just now officially been proven - a midget popped up from the trap door and shot Kirk with a palm gun and nobody saw because the whole audience were Erika's plants - that's why TP had to get the memory card to destroy the video record. '''They''' predicted this with AI Super-Intelligence, Google searched the principals from Israel to leave a fake trail and MKUltra'd the patsy into position on the roof so TP could rally Christians to fight off demon aliens.
Duh it all makes perfect sense now.
I'm waiting until after the first mod battle to pick sides on that one.
I find your lack of faith
disturbingperfectly understandable, and there will be no repercussions whatsoever for this open act oftreasonpragmatism. Please stay seated right where you until the dust settles, for your own safety.Lmao. That's pretty much how it goes.
Literally chose a bunch of stormfaggots. I guess we're just selling out to Project 2025's agenda.
Smith1980 is the only sane one.
Anyone who speaks up for the rights of Western Civilization is a 'stormfaggot' to you envious little shits.
It's funny that even you can't say anything bad about Smith.
As far as I know, literally none of these people are Stormfaggots. I know of most that for sure they aren't.
Everyone is a stormfaggot to him.
We're all stormfaggots on this glorious day!
/speak for yourself
I'm all stormfaggots on this glorious day!
Go post on Reddit if you want anti-stormer mods. That sites literally made for you in that sense
Hi Imp.
I'm responding to you because I'm genuinely curious about your way of thinking; your way of life on this board, as it were.
Both you and I know that, since you won't disavow the "natalism" of Jewish people, you are effectively about as useful as the Chinese "50 Cent Army".
If you feel that "Western Basedness" is equivalent to anti-Jews (I won't use the term anti-semitism for reasons both you and I know), then just say so. Your position is a retarded position to hold, to be sure, but at least be honest with your intent. Why is this so difficult for you? Is it because you're a bad-faith-actor, you little goblin?
He has already been banned since making that comment and so won't be able to respond.
To that end, you probably don't need to goad him anymore.
Having DresdenFirebomber banned is great.
If he resurfaces, I will make sure not to goad him again.It is true that I was genuinely curious of his motives though.
Cheers!
Are mods able to unmod one another? Mostly just curious.
I don't know if it's a faux pas but I believe in transparancy, plus anyone who cared could look up how the scored moderator rules work anyway.
It looks like Dom and "C" are locked to me and I am able to edit my own permissions and everyone below me in the list. So I assume the list order is also a permissions control heirachy like it used to be on Reddit.
So allow me to not be my usual goof for a minute and say the 9th circle of hell is reserved for traitors and I take that concept very seriously.
That sounds about right. Luckily, I'll just be over here in case of a David-Me event.
In a month or two. ;)
sigh
I had to...
I didn't say you were wrong...
Hi new team.
If I may suggest something while we're talking mod related stuff.
If the ignore/block whatever worked where you don't see someone's stuff even if they're not the OP, that'd be great. It'd cut down my only actual grievance with the site.
As it is right now, adding someone to block/ignore only works for the threads they start. It doesn't ignore the comments they make outside of that. If there's a way to do that, and I'm just too retarded to realize it, let me know.
That's a major site issue, not a moderation one. We can't change that functionality.
Only thing I can suggest, is try the different URLs; I've heard others say it behaves differently depending on how you access the site.
Feel free to experiment, and see what works best. I think there are three different URLs. The oldest dedicated one, and then the Communities and Scored URLs, the latter two I think are pretty similar to each other but might have slight differences.
https://kotakuinaction2.win/
https://communities.win/c/KotakuInAction2/
https://scored.co/c/KotakuInAction2
I appreciate it, thanks :)
Nice. Glad to have new mods. I keep having to block freaks and deviants. Glad imp is gone again
Looks good to me. But I am very jealous that you did manage to persuade Kienan to become a mod (I think I know the reason why, but still).
He didn't persuade me. If anything, I persuaded him. Or, more accurately, things got so bad, he just said fuck it, and modded some people.
As to the reason, it's pretty simply; here needed it much more. We never had the gaps in moderation on Reddit that we had here, as far as I recall. Even when we were being outright brigaded, we never had so much stuff slipping through the cracks. Maybe once or twice, but not on the regular.
Moderation here was a mess; either too much, when Dom was around and catching up on weeks-old minor infractions, or had set up filters that nuke everyone; or not enough, pre-filters, when we had pedophiles, porn, gore, and so much more, getting spam-posted nonstop.
I mainly want the mod powers to pull the trigger on any more obvious ne'er-do-wells that pop up, to keep the board running smoothly. There was no excuse for some of the shit that was getting through. It's better now, but probably too locked down. We'll see how all the new mods want to handle things on that front.
I thought the reason would be that here, you won't be required to act against your principles by censoring stuff that shouldn't be.
It's both.
But I never wanted to be mod, I just thought it was more necessary here.
Firm handshakes all around gentlemen.
I'm tired of NIGGERS
Godspeed to the new mod team. These seem to be solid choices. Please don't go mad with power, and here's to many more years!
Hey, these are all guys I like. Good choice.