>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 orientation is nothing more than the butt of a joke to these guys.
>Tripfags hijacking threads with incessant attention whoring and drama over the stupidest shit. Threads that actually are on topic and try to focus on a specific niche of porn quickly get derailed by racism or some anon who doesn't like the thread's subject matter shitposting gross reaction images to drown out everybody else.
>Guys infrequently posting bisexual, trap and straight porn, which the rules explicitly do not permit on /hm/.
>I would argue the /hm/'s regular diaper and sissy generals violate the "tasteful images only" rule, but given the lack of attention to other issues plaguing the board, I doubt our resident janitors will ever care enough to enforce this.
>Just like most every other board on the site, we too have generals devoted solely to circlejerking over YouTube e-celeb shit, which isn't even remotely pornographic in nature.
For the last time, *please* assign some active janitors to our board. If Hiro can't be arsed to maintain the basic infrastructure of /hm/ anymore, then what's the point of allowing it to limp around like a sick and hobbled dog on its last leg? I'd sooner propose someone euthanize the board than leave it in the godawful neglected state it's in.
>>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 cockrate threads to /hm/, as if that was where they belonged. "Rate me" and camwhoring threads are clearly against the rules, as outlined in the sticky.
The YouTube / e-celeb shit has been going on for way longer. All attempts to report it (and there have been at least 50 incarnations of the "Hot YouTubers General" thus far) have failed to result in any deletions.
>>411840
I volunteered to janitor for /hm/ (and /lgbt/ as well, due to the extreme volume of /pol/ trolls) months ago, but never heard back from the staff. At this point, I'm starting to wonder if all the gay-themed boards are just containment, and nobody actually gives a shit about the quality of posts there.
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 also 2D porn. When I see something like this >>411365 it rings so true, so much so I'm saving this for future reasons.
Hiro you must understand we have almost 70 different boards on here. This isn't like 2ch, we have no need for some many of these boards, simply because on many of them you can go to some other forum or some other site and get better information without shitposting. Hiro if you were to easily remove the boards that are no longer needed, you would most likely see things start to improve around here, freeing up space
>>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.
![845b88e529d06cb0700c46f48d4dff8e[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/gm5zd4q.jpg "845b88e529d06cb0700c46f48d4dff8e[1]")
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 away and say I'm going to commit suicide and there's nothing they can do to stop me.
I'm now breaking the law right now? To what lengths will they go to hunt me down?
Are they willing to shoot me dead if I keep resisting arrest?
>>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, etc. If you acknowledge that you are serious about the thread, then they'll probably detain you right then and there.
I'm sure this varies from country to country, however. I've only known one person (here in the U.S.) who was detained by police because she made vague statements that suggested she was suicidal. When the police came to her door and she tried to assure them she wasn't suicidal, they detained her anyway. She had to be evaluated by a psychiatric unit, which released her after assessing that she wasn't in fact suicidal.
>>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 for ruining their "fun" by just reporting every single thing the mod does and wasting everyone's time?
Mods just need to be rotated out every so often. When you sit in some IRC echochamber where everyone's sucking up to you because you're a mod, you're less likely to think you did anything wrong. Or maybe you just get fucking tired of dealing with the community and see them more as adversaries and idiots than people you're meant to be serving and helping. As mods, they need to clean all of this shit up and be serious, so they don't often get time to just interact with the community at all and think of it as mods vs users, which isn't a healthy way to think about the site. They should see themselves as part of the community.
And while swaglord/invisibro is a huge faggot, I can see why he caters to /s4s/ because he probably doesn't have much time to be a part of any community aside from one that's just based on quick, idiotic jokes and shitposting for fun. Between real life and then having to do mod shit, it's probably a fuck of a lot easier.
But I think if they did some kind of mod rotation so you always had fresh users in who are actually part of the community coming in, and giving the guys who have been around for awhile a little break before coming back so they can see the current state of the community from a user's perspective, shit would be a little easier. It's just a matter of finding a way to implement such a thing that actually makes it worthwhile.
>>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 to people. Then shitposting gets worse somewhere else and people then go and cry "MODS DON'T DO SHIT!" and if they are active "NAZI FUCKING MODS JESUS CHRIST".
The current mods just need a fucking break. Rotate some new ones in and get some users who were actually part of the community prior to this. Obviously vet them and screen them before giving them that much power, but rotate the older guys out and give them a break. They've become disconnected from us.
And maybe they should make /j/ and any other mod/admin boards where they talk about shit public and read only like some other sites do. Maybe if we saw what they were thinking about and understood their reasoning behind whatever policies they're taking, it'd get rid of the endless conspiracy theories. What are the mods doing? Thinking? We don't need to post there, but a little heads up would sure clear some things up. Sure, people would probably bitch about what's said there, but they already complain about mod action anyway. At least then we'd have some idea of what's going on and we could go "oh, this is why they're doing X" rather than every random theory under the sun coming up and nobody knowing a thing because it seems like the mods are simply AWOL and when they do appear, fucking with everybody and seemingly antagonistic.
Even moot said not communicating with the user base was a mistake. No other site has such an absent and uncommunicative administration team and it's because of that that 4chan is in such a bad state of affairs.
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.
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