Why isn't this rule enforced? Go to pretty much any board and you'll see /pol/ derailing multiple threads with shitposts.
lol u tk him 2da bar|?
>>497926
>shitposts
Shot posts cant be factually correct so its not shitposting most of the time
>>497931
Is this a new definition?
>>497929
Check'em.
>>497933
Woo, that's some nice doubles you got there partnuh
>>497933
noice
>>497929
That's strike one, bud
Fake and gay.
The following is the real rule, no mention of /pol/:
>3.You will not post any of the following outside of /b/: Trolls, flames, racism, off-topic replies, uncalled for catchphrases, macro image replies, indecipherable text (example: "lol u tk him 2da bar|?"), anthropomorphic ("furry") or grotesque ("guro") images, post number GETs ("dubs"), or loli/shota pornography.
>>497988
It was a thing two years ago.
>>498012
Justin Bieber was a thing 2 years ago too but that doesn't mean he is now.
>>497926
mods and janitors have a special menu of all the reports, why would they go out and look for rule breakers when they can just ban them and remove there posts from there.
JUST FUCKING REPORT THE POSTS DONE!
>>497982
Be careful thats a mod...
>>498035
We do, but the post will remain
>>498043
mods get capcodes, got ourselves a janitor here
>>498103
If you're this new to 4chan why would you speak with such authority about it?
The problem is that politics are so intertwined with culture that political discussion is relevant to pretty much every board at one point or another. You can't just quarantine everything with the slightest whiff of /pol/ like you can with /mlp/.
>>498310
cuck
>>498312
Cuckposting, on the other hand, could be addressed with the filter we already had.
>>497926
Nice shopped faggot.
>>498081
They still have every bit of meaning they once did. This is ridiculous.
>>498327
>actually no
Actually yes.
>/a/
Obscenity laws in Japan and the West, the TPP.
>/v/
GG nonsense.
>/sp/
International sporting competitions inevitably bring up political issues. Slave labor building stadiums in Qatar, FIFA and IOC corruption, Cuban soccer players defecting to the US.
>/ck/
Veganism, food stamps, GMOs.
>/lit/
Literary theory and criticism, books with political context.
Just a few examples from boards I'm familiar with. You can make a case for banning discussion of specific political topics that are especially disruptive to boards, but you can't just put a blanket ban on any sort of political discussion on 4chan outside of /pol/.
>>498338
There's a difference between politics and /pol/itics.
>>498340
Obviously, but my point is that the distinction isn't always cut and dry. To go back to the /mlp/ example, there is no difference between MLP and /mlp/; anything to do with the show belongs on its containment board. Separating politics and /pol/itics requires a bit more nuance.
How about restricting political discussion of governmental structures and national political parties to /pol/ huh
>>497926
>le /pol/ boogeyman
>anyone who isn't a left wing diversity advocate who thinks there's nothing wrong black people must be /pol/
this is why no one takes you seriously. It's blatantly clear you've been on this website for at most 3 years, you most likely found it through reddit and facebook and are bemused why it doesn't conform to the liberal culture you are used to on social media
>>498511
jesus christ dude
>>498511
t. circa-2012 cancer
Every time you fags get triggered by /pol/ and post your impotent butthurt on /qa/, my penis grows several degrees harder.
Listen, dummies: the internet and the world is sick of safe spaces, PC culture and rampant leftist faggotry. Get used to the values espoused on /pol/: they're coming to a forum and soon a community near you. Best ready your anuses.
>>498549
Like I read other faggot's posts in a thread before replying... ;^)
>>498553
ah the true mark of a /pol/ster
go fuck yourself
>>498548
It's funny how /pol/ actually thinks people don't like them because they can't handle their ideals, rather than just because they sound like edgy highschoolers.
>>498548
>triggered
this meme is getting old
>>498597
/pol/ cares less than you think if people don't like them or not.
>>498103
>that's a janitor
Nigegr you don't know do you?
Remember to lurk moar next time
>>497926
/pol/ posts, from what I've seen, were just light banter in the form of cross board memeing. The people who respond in a pissy way are the ones who start the actual thread derailment, and it's almost always because they're offended by it.
I've never seen this much of a pushback against people who post /tv/, /sp/, /v/ etc. memes for the purpose of making bantz. /pol/ memes seem to be the only ones that warrant all the butthurt response, and conveniently, they tend to offend some people's political sensibilities. What a coincidence.
>>498802
>/pol/ cares less than you think if people don't like them or not.
This just enforces "edgy highschoolers".
>>498822
Yeah man aoe2 threads becoming literaly unusable because of /pol/ culture surely is dem evul sjws pushing their agenda.
>>498838
Have you stopped to consider that sometimes, it might just be the board/thread that is shitting up itself? I don't know where aoe2 threads are, but if it's /v/, like I suspect, then the threads would be fucked regardless of /pol/ memes. They would shit themselves up with some different content, if /pol/ content weren't usable.
There's nothing intrinsically destructive about any content, with the possible exception of My Little Pony stuff. And that's because it's almost universally hated. /pol/ is the third most popular board on the site, so the two can't be compared.
>>497926
>Why isn't this rule enforced?
It is. You just dont think it is because you think it means "dont post non-liberal opinions."
Because this place would be boring as heck without shitposting.
>>498907
You can and have always been able to post right-wing stuff without being bitched at. Like OP said, /pol/ does it in threads that aren't political in nature.
>>498597
Just delete this thread, that's not even the real rule: >>497988
>>497988
When did this change?
>>498910
>le /pol/ is a single individual meme
I fucking love this maymay. It's a sign the person posting is alien to 4chan and is a butthurt faggot whose opinions should be immediately discarded.
>>498920
>no 1 curr
>>499331
>maymay
>a sign the person posting is alien to 4chan and is a butthurt faggot whose opinions should be immediately discarded
>>499331
nice lack of reading comprehension kouhai
>get on /qa/
>first thread I see is a "wahhh /pol/" thread
EVERY
TIME
>>498310
you can quarantine things with the reeking stench of /pol/
That rule was unnecessarily alienating /pol/ users, thankfully it's been removed.
>>497926
Because Moot and the mods had a hardon for /pol/ since it was the only place on 4chan that acted like old school /b/ for a time and did Original Content. This is why Moot let /pol/ overrun all the major boards with shitposting.
Then /pol/ turned on moot and moot threw up his hands and left 4chan (with the fappening as well playing a major role)
So basically /pol/ now dominates all major boards on 4chan.
>>499510
>Because Moot and the mods had a hardon for /pol/ since it was the only place on 4chan that acted like old school /b/ for a time and did Original Content.
Holy fucking shit, ten out of ten chromosomes.
The addition of /pol/ killed 4chan.
Its humor is extremely predictable and revolves solely around pretending to unironically support ultra conservative ideologies. There's a difference between humorous shitposting and just pretending to be a stormfag autist.
>inb4 its not pretend
>inb4 le reddit maymay
4chan is dead.
>>500097
Just remove all non interest boards
>>500101
'non interest' is kindof ambiguous but I can dimly see /pol/ qualifying as such under any possible definition. I just ... uh, don't know exactly which other boards you think should be removed under that rule.
>>500118
Also, that would be a terrible idea.
>>500137
oh that's what he means
that's dumb
>>500097
/pol/ revitalized 4chan. The future for this site will be more focused on politics, with more political boards.
Free and anonymous political discussions. That will be what brings traffic to this site.
>>497926
Same reason they don't enforce jaywalking. Because it's a shit rule.
>>500150
>more traffic
>good
Kill yourself.
Could it be that people who aren't from /pol/ hold non-leftist-SJW-faggot beliefs?
That would be unbelievable, right, OP?
>>500154
It doesn't matter what anyone's beliefs are you fucking idiot, political discussion belongs in /pol/.
>>500154
you don't understand what 'keep /pol/ in /pol/' means, at all.
>non-leftist-SJW-faggot
are you falseflagging? what is this bullshit
>>500159
Say something like "I don't like how developers are ham fistedly forcing flamingly homosexual into vidya".
Someone replies with "OMG REPORTED. WHY ARE WE BEING INVADED BY POL #TRIGGERED"
>>500165
are you a korean
>>500165
>I post on /pol/ and /v/.
Seriously, do the world a favor and kill yourself.
>>500170
It's not /pol/ though, dumbass.
People like you talk shit about /pol/ so much it's lost all meaning and basically come to mean "anything that doesn't belong in the liberal hugbox you wish 4chan was"
>>500173
dumb gook
>>500175
Are you schizophrenic or something?
Nobody is following you around 4chan, you fucking lunatic
>>500173
>political discussion isn't /pol/
Are you legitimately retarded?
>>500181
I don't think you understand what the words "political discussion" mean.
>>497926
Because it refers to a kind of shitposting that exclusively switches the topic into a politically driven one that is unrelated.
If the conversation ends up being something politically driven related to the topic (I.E someone shits on feminism in a videogame) it doesn't invoke the rule because it's still technically on topic.
It isn't meant to prevent opinions you don't like.
>>497988
>Macro image replies
Isn't this a relic of an era where moot hated memes and thought they should only be on /b/?
>>497988
Wow, reading that rule really shows you how much of a nazi (in a bad way) moot was.
>>500206
>nazi (in a bad way)
...
>>500308
>..'Cause It's a wonderful world,,,,
>>500186
>>>/biz/rules/2
>>497988
Get rid of this shit or at least revise it.
I swear this is the "I'm a janitor / mod and can't find any legit reason to ban you but i'm gonna anyway because i disagree" rule that gets enforced whenever you ass blast the staff.
>>500311
Wrong. Rule 6 is that rule. Rule 3 is pretty clear in what it forbids.
>>500310
If you think /pol/ stands for political discussion or was pioneered for that look up what it stands for on that very page.
Then look up /pol/ harbor and come back to tell me moot made it for political discussion.
>>500314
>Taking jokes as truth
moot destroyed /news/ because he personally disagreed with the far right mentality and racism emerging on it, then realized he was being biased and remade it. The name is simply a joke because moot didn't agree with /news/ but also making a point to any would be users that it was not a politically correct safe haven.
/pol/ was still intended to be a politics and news board. regardless of it's user base. The new /news/ is simply a result of people not wanting to use /pol/ or to simply have a reliable news feed without wading through the non-news related threads which are abundant on /pol/.
>>500314
What the heck am I reading ???
""
On the 7th of December, 2014, Ben "Zyklon-B" Garrison threatened Moot with a lawsuit unless he took down /pol/. Since "the CEO of Troll, Inc." who was now an official SJW, couldn't take the problematic /pol/ anymore, so he purged it. First by deleting the capcha and letting in waves of /b/tards, furries, autists, /a/ and /lgbt/. He then proceeded to replace words that users typed such as "/b/" and "nigger" with "tumblr" and "cracker" respectively. Marquees displaying [trigger warning] show up on all posts, wordfilters are abundant, and the board has the title "The 8 steps of cuckolding" with subtitle ">she does it for fun". /pol/acks from all over were chased out of their home, after unsuccessfully trying to take over /s4s/ (because you can totally take over a board dedicated to nothing but memespam and mindless shitposting) they had no option but to retreat to their backup hugbox run by that midget on a wheelchair.
And nothing of value was lost.
""
>>500333
a Reddit tier ED article?
>>500335
Make Pol Great Again.
>>500313
Speaking of rule 3, they need to enforce that more often. People get away with stuff like >>>/v/334681551 even though the rules expressly forbid it.
>>500343
That rule was specifically so Redwood could turn /co/ into tumblr.
>>500368
But that rule has been in place since before tumblr even existed.
>>500371
Redwood was modding /co/ for a while. He was the only mod to ever ban for racial s
>>500308
When you come to realise that the holocaust never happened the nazis become the good guys
>>500333
The funny thing is that the people who invaded /pol/ become neo-/pol/, and they're 100% as racist and right wing as the old /pol/.
It was like a massive recruitment drive
>>500343
Wow, it got deleted. That's the first time I've ever seen such a thing happen. Based /qa/ Mod Force.
>>500340
Is /pol/ still mad about that?
>>500618
>ARE JUICE STILL MAD ABOUT THE HOLLOW COST
>>500621
so you're saying /pol/ is Jews?
>>500618
yes and no, the crossboarding population doesn't care, it's mainly the paranoid pure /pol/ posters who deeply resent it, most of them are newfags who considered it some kind of war.
>>500778
/pol/ is clearly a massive conspiracy by pro-zionist interests to make 4chan look bad and anti-semetic
>>>/tv/68423480
Holocaust denial thread up for 4 (four) fucking hours on /tv/.
>>500783
/pol/kids see everything as a war. From posting porn on blue boards to eating a toast.
Everything in the good will to spread the redpill.
>>500810
God bless this board.
>>497926
Because people have varying opinions.
Someone expressing an opinion that differs from yours is not a "shitpost," and someone daring to being anything other that a leftist liberal does not mean you're being "invaded by /pol/."
>>498910
Threads shouldn't be political in the OP generally, threads that aren't political becoming political over time isn't as annoying.
>>500811
Non-/pol/ posters inflate that significantly, there really aren't that many faggots on there that think they have to go "redpill" other boards. What happens is you have somebody posting a bait opinion that draws /pol/ opinions out.
>>498593
lowercase ad hom retort with no punctuation
>>501054
i would like to respond in the affirmative followed by a spoiled question mark but alas this board does not have spoilers enabled
also that's not an ad hom you faggot
>>500908
THE CRITERIA FOR BEING A /pol/ POST IS NOT JUST 'OH YOU'RE NOT BEING LIBERAL[1] ENOUGH'
[1] WHICH IS SUCH A RIDICULOUSLY AMERICAN WAY TO PUT IT
>>497926
racism is not inherently /pol/
>>498338
>veganism
>politics
lel
>>498548
>the internet and the world is sick of safe spaces, PC culture and rampant leftist faggotry.
You say that like /pol/ isn't basically the same shit, with all it's "MUH DEGENERACY REEEEEEEEE" shit
>>503334
But hes right u know
>>497988
It was a thing a couple years back, but the /pol/ part was removed mostly because it was vague, especially when most boards share some traits with /pol/ (Hates sjws, doesn't like liberals, complains about current generation in some way)
>>503569
is he though
is he
>>497926
Because someone who disagrees with you doesn't mean they came from /pol/. Grow some balls or go back to plebbit you insufferable cunt.
>>505712
Kill yourself you illiterate fuck.
>>505810
*illegitimate
/pol/ is a good boy, he did not do anything wrong
>>506013
/pol/'s actually more like that scenario where a shitty kid torments you when no one's looking but they grow a halo and angel wings when their parents appear.
Rules are there for Law bureaucracy. No one really cares about rules.
>>506021
And people who complain about /pol/ are like the boy who cried wolf.
They've abused this scapegoat so much and popularized it among newfags in a way that makes it so anyone who's not a reddit/tumblr refugee is "/pol/" at this point.
>call someone a nigger or make Jew jokes
That's /pol/.
>tell feminists to stop shitting up our boards
That's /pol/.
>think Donald Trump is funny and don't get triggered by him
That's /pol/.
>say anything politically incorrect
That's /pol/.
>talk about the current events in an industry which might have some political elements to it
That's /pol/.
>not being a white knight
That's /pol/.
At this point even if I don't go there regularly I wear "/pol/" as a badge of honor because that's what I get called when I say things that were pretty much standard on my boards 3-4 years ago before newfags started calling me /pol/ for it.
And now if /pol/ does start invading a board and make holocaust denial threads or complain about cultural marxism in every cartoon, while they would've been told to go to /pol/ a few years ago, now it's lost all meaning and they're preferable to outsiders who think anything that triggers them is "/pol/". So I'll take their brand of bullshit over the other type of faggotry, even if that means letting them run amok. That's why you think "/pol/" has infested every board.
