To the mods/janitors related to or working in /mlp/:
What's the issue? You've deleted and banned Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) threads, a few generals, and greentext story prompts, which totals to four entire pages out of the ten that /mlp/ has. If I may recover over the rules, brought out from the source and unaltered;
1) This is the destination for all cartoon/anime pony related content on 4chan. All content is pony related and happening in the pony dimension.
2) This is a work safe board. No pornographic images or NSFW content is allowed. Any CYOA thread or work that is not safe for work is either not posted or linked to alternative sources.
3) Topics must be show-related. The threads you've removed generally happen in the pony dimension, and usually-- if not always-- use locations from the show itself.
4) No roleplay. There is no roleplaying going on in the threads, we write ABOUT ponies or refer to the viewer as the main character. This is a casually used loophole that nobody had to remove in any way beforehand.
5) Ponies only—no anthro. This is never used, sans Equestria Girls, but that's a different case entirely.
So what's the big idea? There's no real reason for you to perform the tasks you've done, and now the board's panicking, causing the thing you wanted to avoid; off topic, rule breaking banter. Is there at least an explanation for all of this?
I thought they were just deleting generals. This is the standard for most other boards. Why not /mlp/ too?
>>480098
no, you see R3 does the job here. and if that isn't enough, there's also GR6. it all depends on how strictly they enforce it
i know because i used to be on the dark side
Good, we're a general now, just in /qa/
We need a good oppic and some greens.
Looking at the catalog in /mlp/, the quality is already through the roof!
>>480112
>generally happening in the pony dimension
That's most generals. No reason for them to be removed because of that.
>>480153
still not show related in terms of being explicitly about the show
>>480153
Not show-related enough! Only discuss the show and waifufag a lot.
why was don't fuck quest deleted? was it because it has the word fuck in it?
maybe the plan is to deleted all the good threads in hopes that people will leave /mlp/ and then it will be deleted for low activity
>>26906364
>>26906347
>>helping
this doesnt seem all that productive desu, mods dont give a shit what we do, but the only actual way to make a difference is to flood the suggestion box with unique replies, not start an easily ignorable thread on /q/
>>480165
Right. Because waifu threads are so high-quality compared to generals. At least the generals that got taken down had some green and some art. There are tons of other threads that are so much crappier than generals that are spared.
So why just the generals? If it's a boardwide crackdown on quality, okay. But it seems hypocritical to shut down some of the most active threads on /mlp/.
Storm appears to be over now that the deleted threads are staying up.
>>480177
wrong year, anon. check your time machine date settings
>>480180
It seems that the shit is over.
It certainly showed just how much shit _people_ we have on the board though, those glad to see everything crash and burn.
The byproduct of anonymity, I guess.
And one of the writefags for my favorite thread got banned for a month..
>HI ANON, I BROKE INTO YOUR CAR!
>Hi anon, what are you reading?
>HI ANON, ARE YOU ASLEEP YET?
>HEY ANON, I MADE US A CAMPFIRE IN YOUR LIVING ROOM!
Hi Anon, did you know roleplaying is against the rules?
https://www.4chan.org/rules#mlp
Mods and janitors have tried to take a hands-off approach with this format of thread, but it's gotten to the point where low-effort "greentext bait" threads using this format have started to take over the board. These threads are often completely unrelated to MLP other than the OP image, and since they take very little effort to create they routinely get spammed and push other, genuinely creative threads off the board.
Just to be clear, CYOA threads are not roleplaying. CYOA threads have a single author driving the story with posters making suggestions on how the story could proceed. Roleplaying is when people responding to the thread are expected to take on an active role as a character in the story.
Now that the new season it starting it should be easier to find new things to talk about without resorting to the "greentext bait" format of thread. We know /mlp/ thrives under relaxed moderation, so we'd really appreciate it if as a community you'd refrain from posting or replying to threads in this format.
Thanks a lot,
~Scruffy
>>480199
how the fuck did the generals fucking fit in here.
>>480184
those link to mlp, I was too lazy to remove them, the post still stands. QA is for being a refugee, not for actual change.
>>480199
That's real nice, but it doesn't give a reason for purging all the threads full of content that don't fit that description.
>>480199
>>scruffy
you're obviously not a mod shit head, there is litterally swaths of off topic stuff the janitor ignored on /mlp/ in favor of deleting threads with content, low quality content sure, but certainly better than almost anything else on the board so thats really not saying much.
>>480199
So what about AiE, Anonfilly, RGR, My little progress, Pone Prison, Marital problems, Slave pony, Age difference, ALL the CYOAs, demon pony, ect?
>>480207
>low-effort "greentext bait" threads
>>480220
>>480215
>>480209
You can direct all comments here:
>>>/mlp/26906578
>>480233
>direct all comments here
>thread is locked
Wow.
>>480233
You mean the locked thread idiot?
>>480245
>rules being enforced
>randomly deleting threads with no pattern or reason
>post a damage control sticky about "enforcing the rules"
heres your (you)
>>480248
>reading is hard
>>480248
they could have at least cited the fucking rule they used to ban everyone.
>>480256
>yeah I agree, reading IS hard
>>480258
I read your post, sweetie, and I will leave my comments where I want. I want to bitch, it's cathartic.
>Just to be clear, CYOA threads are not roleplaying.
>but we deleted all the CYOA threads anyway
So are the mods explicitly contradicting themselves because they're bored and need new ways to fuck with us, or...?
>>480419
A theory is that they hired a new mod/janitor, told him to delete roleplay threads, and he fucked up and deleted a bunch of shit that didn't fit the bill.
The sticky is just them damage controlling. Think about it. They deleted the threads, THEN decided it was against the rules to make threads like that in the first place.
again
>>>/trash/
What are you all doing pumping out such complete trash anyway?
Your fiction is all sonic-tier shit that you should be ashamed of.
Can you imagine being the parent of one of these stains?
>>480486
thanks for contributing
>>480475
Would be nice if they could muster up the maturity of a fucking child necessary for them to admit they made a mistake and tell us so instead of leaving us to play a guessing game of whether our future CYOA threads will be deleted or not.
But of course they wouldn't be 4chan mods if they met the maturity level of children.
>>480623
I think the real problem is your unwarranted sense of importance about anything the brony fandom shits out
>>480098
It's a repeat of 2013, except this time, it wasn't ACTUALLY Scruffy pulling this shit.
>>480199
^See this post? That's not scruffy. Yeah, here's a few little things about the severely backpedaling rogue cuntwaffle:
#1: this is a defensive as FUCK 'apology'. The "have tried to take a hands-off approach-" line.. WHAT? Since when? How about fucking never! Now and then a janitor or mod shows up, goes rogue and deletes a bunch of shit, and then everything goes back to normal once they're removed, or told to stop using personal preference as to what they should delete. In this case however, the sheer size of the net thrown out to start deletions is.. startling. I hate to say that each precedent is getting bigger, however, it does seem to be part of a larger trend.
#2: WRONG as fuck. I am the owner of one of the 'now completely and utterly banned roleplaying threads', and have been running it since late 2013. There have been janitors and mods that have come INTO the thread after a deletion and told us, "Hey sorry about you guys getting deleted, but we told the idiot to go play in traffic". This was back when the 4chan IRC chat was actually open and active, mind you. During one of our down periods I had at least 5 talks with the /mlp/ board mods, somewhere in early 2014, specifically about whether or not we were considered legitimate. After getting the runaround for a week their ruling was essentially this:
"The 'no roleplaying' rule only applies to non-structured roleplay.. basically anything that isn't being STRICTLY maintained by a DM/GM/whatever. Because you guys are using dice for reactions & cause-effect, keeping a good amount of traffic on the board, maintaining control of your player's posting habits, as well not letting your players go into other threads, we really don't care."
Thanks, piece of shit mod. Now I have to worry about whether we're going to get fucking permabans due to an unreasonably hotheaded fucktard on an overinflated ego trip.
Wouldn't have been so bad if there was more consistency and organization instead of just anarchy one second, and Nazi germany the next second... that and if there were more mods familiar with pony and the culture around it instead of /mlp/ being in the hands of a couple janitors and whatever mod happens to be on at the time. It always seems like the cycle is "Mass deletion without any rhyme or reason, shitstorm and more deletion thanks to global rule 10, and then trying to calm everyone the fuck down half assedly and establishing some rules while not acknowledging the other damages"
Still, it's finally nice to see ">I am a pony from the show, please react" Threads are bannable now
>>480629
I think the real problem is your unwarranted sense of importance that led you to make that post.
>/mlp/ getting buttblasted because they aren't allowed to do anything they want
The mods may do it for free, but you guys fucking deserve it.
>>480679
Who would dare try restrain these tossers?
They're super powerless IRL and thus are a tempest online
>>480640
nice autism paragraph I printed it out and pissed on it but I didn't read it :^)
>>480692
>*^:)
>>480640
You are so mad at the janitors for banning shit that was already against the rules, that you took time out of your life to write up an essay that looks like it was written by a 9th grader on your love for your pony roleplaying threads. Fucking /mlp/ at it's finest.
>>480702
>>480692
Sine the two of you so clearly have the reading comprehension of edge-lord slashfic writing autistic 13 year olds, I'll put this in simple terms:
"You didn't even read what was written, retards."
>>480710
u mad
I think the most annoying part of it all is the half-assed explanation that doesn't match what happened at all. If you're going to go nazi on a board sure, whatever, there's nothing anyone can do about it. But don't back down and throw up an obviously incorrect excuse for what happened. It just makes the mods look like little bitches. If there was a fuck up just admit it. If it was intentional then give the actual reasons for it.
>>480724
Again, Sorta wish /mlp/ had more consistent and organized Moderation instead of just "It's either ruleless with shitposters running rampant or full on no fun dictatorship", would have definitely meant less shitstorms.
Sadly the problem is, there's probably about 1 or 2 mods on the whole 4chan team that actually knows anything about poni and the stuff surrounding it, so another thing to blame is the fact that any other mod could just enforce the rules literally, not knowing anything about the board and community other than the rule sheet.
Maybe the mods could look into making little encyclopedia like entries on /j/ for each board that give details on the community, just so no one jumps in and deletes everything blindly.
>>480732
Maybe they could just make those 1/2 mods who know what the show is the only mods?
Since the shitposting I see isn't really rampant, so many are either not needed, or doing their jobs.
/mlp/ should be removed in its entirety.
If moot wasn't such a pathetic cuck he would have permabanned you horsefuckers
>>480780
/mlp/ wouldn't exist at all if most if /v/ and /b/ wasn't full of cry-baby autistic betas that overreact to someone posting a pony reaction image.
>>480795
DELETE THIS
>>480640
make your thread again and see if its scruffed. i'd be surprised if it is. the sticky seems more like an excuse than a policy.
>>480807
they're deleting breads right now
>>480809
they're deleting generals? im seeing shitpost and complaint threads being deleted.
>>480810
not generals, those were deleted at the rampage. now it's damage control purging
>>480811
yeah i was there for the rampage. Damage control threads being deleted means nothing, those are always deleted.
point is, lots of generals that were deleted are now back so that anon shouldnt just assume he'll be scruffed forever.
>>480768
Mods are global.
i have a long running general that was deleted. now i'm afraid to recreate it for fear of getting banned.
>>480827
>fear of getting banned
It's 3 days mate. It's not a big issue even if you are banned.
>>480827
> he doesn't know how to evade
Herro Leddit.
>>480098
Non-Automated Response:
Hello friends. I see you have a complaint regarding the current situation over at /mlp/.
You see, there are times when those sorts of threads are acceptable, and when they are not. Hiatus time is the time for a majority of non show related content, and when the show is back on, the pendulum must shift the other way to focus on the show.
Kind of like /co/, where shows on their hiatus aren't allowed to have their generals, or are limited in their posting.
>What constitutes deletion?
Precisely what's in the sticky.
Cyoa's are safe, however the possibility of mood shifts are possible, so a safe bet would be to run your games on other sites.
>Most of you new cyoa folk come from other sites in the first place so that shouldn't be an issue.
If you are upset about this, or feel as if this has ultimately affected /mlp/ for the worse, please provide feedback over at www.4chan.org/feedback regarding your complaint.
If not, then just accept that time brings change and that while some things are left behind, the ride truly never ends.
Hope that's been helpful.
Thank you for browsing 4Chan.
Have an excellent day!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VIllAilTnE
>Mods deleting what they don't like
So business as usual?
>>480870
Pretty much. Just more extreme than normal.
>>480827
>caring about bans
why do adults give a shit its just ponies
>barneyfag became janitor for a day
Is that what happened?
>>481144
Look at 4chan.org/bans/
Literally about a good number of the /v/ bans are him breaking the ban evasion rule.
Looks like it's pretty much died down, and most of the stuff getting deleted now are "Lol, fuck da mods" shitposts
>>481214
It's only been a day, and most CYOAs that were deleted haven't even been remade yet. Far too early to tell what'll happen in the future.
Wow they finally put a stop to those god awful CYOA and circle jerk general threads? The board might be salvageable now. I thought they'd left it to its fate.
I am imagining a parent trying to wrest a pony toy from their fat balding adult son, and him shrieking in panic and rage of being deprived of his binky.
>>480852
so basically all cyoa and generals are on haitus until the haitus?
well, looks like i'm finally over 4chan
>shit is pretty much over at this point
>about 2 or 3 shitposters still reposting shit everywhere
This is just getting pathetic at this point, they're not even really trying
>>482246
Is it really over? Don't you think it's a little bit shitty that people just kind of gave up on it so soon? I'm not saying start a revolution, but it seems bad to just say "ah whatever" and excuse whatever happened without explanation.
>>482533
>thinking we have a choice
>>482533
Detail what we're supposed to do about it.
Whatever the answer is, this certainly isnt fucking it.
awww, it was so fun
i barely managed to bump
>>482533
Pretty much is over, only shit getting deleted now is obvious shitposting and "Fuck da mods, what's Global Rule 8?"
>>480098
If this is true, they're getting ready to merge /mlp/ back into /co/
>>482572
Nah, MLP is too big of a topic
>>482572
>>482572
/co/ would throw a fit about this.
>>482572
But I don't want the ponies to come back, I just want GR15 removed.
>>482620
There would be no need to cut down on the roleplaying if the point of this was just to remove GR15.
I guess they could be banning RP for the hell of it, but since when do they fucking care
>>482607
Who gives a fuck? R15 has only caused more problems than it fixed
>>482637
Look at the number of recurring threads on /mlp/, if that happened, /co/ would literally be mostly former /mlp/ generals
>>482639
What makes you think those recurring threads or any thread not about the cartoon or comic would be allowed or on /co/?
>>482544
>I lay eggs
>>482639
Right just like how /v/ is nothing but Pokemon generals right?
That's just an excuse, an excuse that only gives shitposting spergs like Barneyfag ammo. Realistically if the generals were to migrate anywhere it would be /trash/
>>482643
Shitty comparison considering /vp/ is a thing and was created because of the sudden surge of pokemon threads on /v/
/mlp/ was created because rampant shitposting from everyone, and a couple people being left just watching as they couldn't legitimately discuss their show, because it was suddenly against the rules.
Also they wouldn't migrate to /trash/, since it's not exactly a great place for cyoas, writefagging, and whatnot.
>>482648
Did the shitposting stop? No. All it did was make it acceptable to whine a specific media and give shitposters more to work with, and it's like /mlp/ is some safe haven to discuss th show either. Besides how does that relate to now? Generals by their very nature don't stick to actual discussion for very long before it turns to shipping, wanting to fuck the characters and maybe some speculation.
And if they have to, they will migrate to /trash/ seeing how it's the most suitable board to house them
>>482658
*not like
>>482658
Shitposting would have continued regardless of whether /mlp/ was around or not, the board creation at least gave the topic a place where people into the show could discuss it and ponies, while ones not into the show could just not bother with it.
>>482666
For the record I'm arguing the existence of /mlp/ so much as I am R15.
Which I stand by, I can take or leave /mlp/.
>Don't see the problem
>Finally get around to watching the new episode
>There's no general to bitch in
>mfw
I need somewhere to complain!
>>482648
>Also they wouldn't migrate to /trash/, since it's not exactly a great place for cyoas, writefagging, and whatnot.
It's as good a place as any other board as long as it allows the content.
>>482750
Every other site has hover mods that constantly interfere with their boards and fuck with it. Arbitrary rule enforcement is better than that.
>>482544
At least if the faggot had the decency to link them to a different site with better moderation.
I can't believe I actually thought would get rid of /mlp/ for April Fools.
>>482847
the fuck are you talking about.
It's there, it has been there as long as anon in equestria
Hehe sweet. The April's Fool layout is still on for old threads. I'm keeping this one.
>>486649
Where'd the layout go?!?! Why do you faggot mods always remove everything good? What the fuck kinda mods are you anyway?
>>487361
Most threads were regenerated manually on the 2nd, a few seemed to be missed. Posting in a thread also regenerates it. It's your fault that this thread has the normal layout now.
