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>Constantly flooded with /soc/ content. Thread after thread of guys posting pics of their shriveled, mutilated penises and begging us to rate them. The sticky even clearly states that "rate me" and camwhoring threads belong on /soc/, but this is seldom enforced, and only if I personally go out of my way to report the dozens of these posts that occur on a daily basis, which I'm frankly tired of doing.
>Constant shitposters like pic related trying to use /hm/ as their personal army, because evidently our sexual...
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>>411750
And to think I made a thread just the other day celebrating how nobody ever had complaints about /hm/ and /s/, and now here is this thread.
What a world, what a world.
>>411750
First you'll have to find a mod that's actually a faggot in the homosexual sense and not just in the "I don't like them" sense.
That board's kinda icky.
>>411825
The lack of moderation on /hm/ has been a more recent issue. /soc/ content started creeping onto the board a few months ago, and then it just took over entirely. Now it's one thinly-veiled camwhore thread after another, posing as a dump for amateur content, like "Post the biggest dicks you've ever seen," or "Post your favorite uncut cocks here!" Of course, the only content posted is selfies.
It doesn't help that there are selective idiots on /soc/ who keep backlinking /soc/'s...
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4chan is being over saturated with new boards. Ever since 2008 moot added in boards that no one asked for, like a board for outdoors, science, lgbt, business, and fashion. These boards are all but useless to many people here and were never needed to begin with. Now while there are some new boards I do like, such as /wsr/, /his/, and /trash/, other ones simply have either failed, been shitposted to death so badly you can't even use them anymore, or are dead. Most people that like 4chan are nerds: Basically the ones that like anime, video games, and comics and cartoons. And...
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>>411726
Holy crap you have no idea what you're talking about.
We need about 15 more new boards and none of the current ones need to be deleted. There is nothing wrong with having 70 boards, even if they end up being slow. Get the fuck over your fear of change.
inb4 8gag and reddit and other apples and oranges comparisons to 4chan.
>>411737
Back in 2007, aka the glory year of 4chan we didn't have 70 boards. We didn't need so many to begin with. We are not Reddit or 8Gag, we don't need this many boards.
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>>411745
The glory days are over and the top 5 boards are overcrowded and bursting at the seams. Deleting boards is exactly the opposite of how to fix that.
>we didn't have 70 boards. We didn't need so many to begin with. We are not Reddit or 8Gag
First of all, who the fuck is "We" and Second, who died and made "Ya'll" think 4chan has to be preserved like a national forest?
It's simply progress, mah boy, progress....
Why are there only three pages of threads? What did I miss?
Just look in the archive, because I'm too lazy to. I'm guessing /s4s/ raided the board again or something.
memes
On the bright side, it wiped out ALMOST all of the /d/ spam. Apparently mods only do their job if someone literally floods the board.
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Seriously the board is a cancerous containment board with no valuable discourse.
>>411410
This tbqhwy.
>>411410
>no valuable discourse.
According to whom?
>containment board
that's why we need it
Here's an idea:
Every time someone asks for /pol/ to be deleted, ban them from all boards except for /pol/.
That way, if it's actually /pol/ false flagging, they have to go back to their board, or if it's a Tumblr tard, they have to either go to /pol/ and argue their points with them or fuck off.
>>411312
that will be so funny XD
really epic
Good idea.
Who is your favorite Touhou?
the one with the stupid hat
>>411185
Dumb 2hoe poster
The fat one.
So I want to break this into multiple questions.
If Brad Pitt tweeted "I will commit suicide in 1 week my fans, just wanted to let you know I love you"
Will police kick his door down, beat his face in and throw him in the car so he can get help?
Or maybe if it's not that exaggerated, but let' say I told people that I was going to commit suicide, and since it's illegal they try to throw me in the hospital, and I start resisting. what then?
I run away from the police, will they chase after me?
I get in my car and drive...
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>>411757
>Will police kick his door down, beat his face in and throw him in the car so he can get help?
If you express a clear intent to commit suicide, you can be committed to a psychiatric hospital against your will. That doesn't mean you can troll somebody by posting from they're computer, "I'm going to kill myself!" I'm pretty sure the police would just come to your door and ask you if you wrote the post, if you were serious, if you intend to follow through,...
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>>411757
Another off topic shitpost thread
There should be a more transparent and easily accessible place to look at all the bans that janitors and mods enact, and if a certain threshold is passed of unique IPs flagging it as an abuse of their power, it's sent to hiro/a mod who actually gives the slightest shit to look over, and if they agree, the janitor or mod's privilege is suspended.
>>411723
That's what the bans page is for. It should have all bans, though. Not some selected handful.
And while there should be accountability for what the mods and janitors do, just having shit get flagged would be easily abused from both sides.
Let's say it goes to a mod. What's to say he won't go "nope, no problems here, my buddy was just kidding around and these guys take it so seriously"? Or who's to say a bunch of pissed off shitposters won't be reporting a mod...
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>>411723
Every time I see one of these threads complaining about an unjust ban, I agree with the modmins who banned it, with the notable exception of ones from /tv/.
"Go away little shill" is SUCH a worthless post, OP. Holy shit.
>>411727
And here's a part I couldn't fit in before. In relation to the mods and their time, you could say "why not just be part of the community and be like the rest of us?"
1. They're mods. They wouldn't see mod abuse since they've always got that little bit of power. Nobody's gonna ban them for shit.
2. If they DO care and take time to just post among the community, reports in the queue aren't cleared out as fast because one less mod is doing mod work and is talking...
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So there have been meetup threads on /a/ over the last few days. I assume mods have not noticed because this is a clear violation of board rules and if it belongs anywhere it is >>>soc. Can mods please delete these threads
>>>/a/136114421
>>>/a/136115029
I thought /a/ was the mods hometurf. guess they don't even give a shit about them anymore lel
It's some faggots from /b/ and /v/ trying to shitpost
>>411655
Yeah but some anons actually took it serious and thought there would be meet ups.
I know you guys are obsessed with reddit and other sites, but my biggest worry right now is that every board is turning or has turned into basically /b/ with a side topic, what can be done about that?
I thought we could block people who posted on /b/ or /v/ grom other boards.
>>411525
>every board is turning or has turned into basically /b/
You're 7+ years too late on this one kid.
I don't even know what you mean by that. Very few boards have the same tone as /b/, thankfully.
are you here op or are you writing the not code.
What you want is a secret board, fine this IS the best way to do that.
>why not make it trip only
Because someone has to write the code.
http://youtu.be/GU1Jv7kz_60
Let'us meek this in mind and remember slow and steady wins the race [spoiler]war[/spoiler]
but seriously who cares that lots of the vids are slideshows
So if you start getting this message "Your ISP, IP range, or country has been blocked due to abuse" then is there really no way around this or way to appeal this? FAQ says the only way is to buy an expensive pass.
>>411513
You can try chaning you're IP a few times until it works.
>>411570
That does nothing to stop a ISP range block because they are essentially blocking your service provider.
>>411513
i used to never have to worry about this because i dont come from a 3rd world shithole but now that its happening to americans im worried
why the fuck would you block hundreds of 1st worlders for one 1st world shitposter?
>/qa/ is only 4 pages now
What is this?
Not sure, but the mods deleted a lot of the old threads.
>>411583
The mods deleted a whole gaggle of threads where the OP just said "memes" with a dank image attached to it.
The end of /q/. The Promised Land.
title says it all
lwhy would you mods just removed it out of the blue?
Because spam is against the rules so reporting it as a rule violation suffices.
Also
>see a positive thread on something I don't like
>surely it must be shills advertising; none of the millions of anons here could possibly like said thing
>reported for commercial spam/advertising
The abuse was rampant.
baka desu senpai
Smh Tbh Senpai
BAKA DESU SENPAI
smH tbH faM
If one can be /fa/
How does one be /qa/?
>>411506
very carefully
Hey, let's say i have some images of a nice UFO's and i want them to be protected in the cloud without any witness. Best practices for that? Thanks for answer.
post'em here and I'll take care of the matter for you
>>411489
All you need to do is encrypt the shit out of them, not give anybody the key, and then post them all over the fucking place. Each of these steps are trivial. Just do all three of them and you're golden.
>>411837
This.
Use PGP. The free version is called GPG. https://www.gnupg.org/
Invented in the 80s. To this day, considered the best way to have data at rest.
Then just upload it to Mega.nz or something.
