/qa/ - Questions and Answers

>>8927
On the plus side you can tell people to report more and not take the bait.

>>8928
>We all want the boat to stay afloat.
I'm one of them.
Please stop bitching and shitpost moar. Thank you.

>>8929
>not giving me the (You) I so rightly deserve
>thinking you can just order the unpaid moderators to do what you want while maintaining a shitty attitude throughout, the same way you bully minimum wage retail employees
Kiss my ass.

>>8928
>>8930
Thank you

Yes, I think that reports would definitely be better than derailing the thread with pointless arguments that the users in question know are pointless

I suggest that we TRIPLE Janny's salary.

>>8933
Cool.
I guess I'll try getting some more people in the thread who haven't input here yet and let everyone know to say something.
>>8931
Oh good, since you also support this now, that's a load off my shoulders.

>>8935
>Oh good, since you also support this now, that's a load off my shoulders.
To keep /mlpol/ afloat YES. To witch-hunt posters NOT.

>>8935
Glad that's all wrapped up... >>8936
I'm pretty sure you weigh more than a goose, so you can't be a witch.
I weigh more than than a goose.
Pretty sure most image board users weigh more than a goose.
On the other hand that'd be a great new age way to pawn off a weight loss plan. It'd light a fire under their ass.

It's a two-fold problem, shitting in response to shit just makes everything shitty.
So have to hand it to jannies to see what is going on.
You get less derailing and more constructive posts and possibly helpful lessons to maximize user retention and high quality and quantity posts.
And more time is spent making stuff instead of inane unwanted corrections.
It sounds like a win-win-win-win for everyone.

>>8937
>It sounds like a win-win-win-win for everyone.
Sure, I like that. However some anons won't meet that needed sanity threshold and will come back with new ways to create drama. You see, those anons are more comfortable bitching non-stop and antagonizing than to take the smart road and ignore their perceived offenders.

>>8812
You have CLEARLY stated that you don't lurk enough. The mods and jannies have openly refused to remove Niggel out of some retarded sense of duty. At least 50 anons know how much of a whiny furfag soygoy commie he is.

>>8824
>>8825
>>8925
Then do a job right for once in your life: ban Niggel for the unfuckingtold number of actual schizophrenic fursecution posts he has made, and will inevitably make again.
Continuing to fail at this has shown that you are incapable of being legitimately unbiased and highly dishonest about keeping /mlpol/ strong. But oh fucking well, one shred of decency seems impossible since (You) can't pull that enormous head out of (Your) own asshole.

>>8938
>You see, those anons are more comfortable bitching non-stop and antagonizing than to take the smart road and ignore their perceived offenders.
Ignoring stuff is very hard for those that aren't normal fags and get what's going on.
What is easier instead is to make it someone elses problem, still a tough call is manageable because of activity on the other people picking it up.
>However some anons won't meet that needed sanity threshold and will come back with new ways to create drama.
Life is pretty dramatic. Best anyone can do is make the best of things.
To be honest I'll probably run afoul of any part of this myself at times, the new proposed rule, the adding a double check to what I post, but I also know the staff are very long suffering.
It's the only way to keep your head amidst chuckle fuck assholes like myself, besides copious amounts of SNOWPITY and Mare Essence.
See? >>8939
>>8939
Have some mare. You need it.

>>8938
>However some anons won't meet that needed sanity threshold and will come back with new ways to create drama.
Well, right on time and spot, the post >>8939 is a textbook example.

>>8939
Nigel's been gone for at least a month now, and even that couple posts were the first in several months

This is another problem I have with the "ban this guy and everything will be great!" push. You literally haven't even noticed Nigel's absence.

The same thing happened when Boomer was banned for a month (more than once). Nothing improved. We didn't have more quality posting. None of those alleged lost posters came back. It was just less posting.

>>8940
>Ignoring stuff is very hard for those that aren't normal fags and get what's going on.
It is super easy and a way of not ruining other posters' mood with noisy drama.

>>8942
>None of those alleged lost posters came back.
I mean would you?
Unless they know things have changed alot and someone gets into contact with them somehow it's near impossible, unless one day they show back up.
If it's the same old same old, the reason why they left still exactly as it was they'll say they weren't wanted.
Didn't have to be true, but that's how it looks.
>>8939
He was banned, it's since expired.
He's still gone or gone near silent.
So please understand exactly why I'm posting about adding this rule.
>>8944
Yes the streamlined process of blocking posts and or users has been made efficient.
Out of sight is not out of mind and many care very deeply about this place.
Drama tends to follow caring an incredibly large amount and trying to act on it.

>8925
>8927
>because people are bitching, I will refuse to remove the cause of their bitching, without which there'd be no bitching
Clown wig. Now.
>8933
>unpaid moderators
You could be getting paid a dollar per janny action but you'd still be getting paid a nice round zero.
>8942
>None of those alleged lost posters came back.
Why would they? They left. They don't know anything about what you have or haven't done.
>It was just less posting.
And "more posting" is An Unquestionable Good.
sage
VPN Detractor was Banned for this Post

>>8946
>And "more posting" is An Unquestionable Good
(You) made it clear before in other threads. (You) are perfectly happy with a dead site only useful for your exclusive use on writefag breads. Kinda you only accept posts from you and friends while cockblocking the rest because reasons. And BTW, when this site was almost dead with the traffic to the bottom, and you and friends didn't post much besides the Occupied Equestria games.
I doubt you care about /mlpol/ much.

>>8947
What's the problem with the writefag thread? I have no idea why you even started attacking it like 2 or so years ago. Is it because of Elway?
>>8925
>>8927
>>8933
>>8942
See, you're letting your emotions dictate what you do with the site again. Can't even put your pride aside a few secs for the sake of this place.
Woops, I said I was staying out of this. Sorry.

>>8948
Hence why codifying a rule that is less tolerant and would tend towards more action, as OP is trying to do, is a good idea

>>8946
>Detractor was Banned for this Post
Ironically, this demonstrates an example of a poster who was banned because the mods determined that their posting was distracting and bad for the thread, even though they didn't overtly break any of the rules.
Can't this same logic be applied elsewhere?

>>8949
It's near impossible to cram the spirit and culture into legalistic words that won't be twisted.
Admittedly what happens for violating the rule is up for staff pick, I even recommend combing multiple sometimes returning to a lighter sentence. The point is communication.
I can't promise anything about even more quanity of posts or high quality posts, because life happens. I've been made to eat my own words many times.
What it is, is giving a name to the driver's wheel for how the site will be.
It's also a pat on the back and showing the difference between anywhere else and here for newcomers, old frens, everyone.
The community is chatting about where to go and staff is the drivers.
>less tolerant
More confident and assured we're behind you.
Like the doctors having no news is good news. If users think you really overstepped we'll bitch and moan and if you haven't and others still do that I'll try being a voice saying it's the right course of action.
And really this is something of a last/medium resort for users, because we'll talk with each other usually.
Heck you all can ask if you overstepped and I'm sure we'll respond.
Let's bake that into the rule too.

<For future fags
I'm really hoping I'm getting across what has gone unsaid but implicitly for many years, even if we forget in the midst of bantering or shit talking.
This is a fun and silly place of ponies and politics and anything else we get our hands on.
I do hear you future fags.
"But OP isn't that the whole point of lurking so you understand and emulate the unsaid values? Hah gottem!"
Yeah yeah it is. The internet isn't how it used to be, nor how general perception shifted. The 4chins can't deal with so many people never bothering to assimilate, the amount of old fags to everyone else is vastly out numbered. So word of mouth and spending as much time trying to find those cashes of wisdom, shitposting or humor amidst everything else.
Here is an alcove not the so called sewer of the internet.
The internet is an amazing, suprising and potentially dangerous place. Like curing salts if improperly used you won't like what happens next.

>>8948
>What's the problem with the writefag thread? I have no idea why you even started attacking it like 2 or so years ago.
It was stated that writefags resent shitposting because it is popping up in the overboard. That bothers them a lot.
>Is it because of Elway?
I have no idea how, or if, he is involved in this.

I was about to write an essay over this, but I guess it's no longer my business anymore.
>>8951
Shitting on [redacted] is the only consistent way to get you banned here. Is it right or is it wrong? I dunno, but it is an undeniable fact nonetheless.
>>8952
Notice that staff is already taking action, and it didn't need to be written down in the rules for it to happen. I dunno if you trust their judgement or not, but that's what it seemed like from your posts. Well, you've seen what their judgement is now. Proceed accordingly and good luck.

>>8954
Needling any member of the staff for long periods of time at every opportunity is retarded.
There's a line that's crossed and further poking just demanding retaliation.
>luck
Well if everything goes to shit you can blame me.
<Nothing ever happens
Then watch as nothing fucking happens. I think things will happen and things will get better.
I have a shred of faith if not in people then in a higher power and then horse pussy.
The rule is over emphasizing what is already here in the rules and what all of what /mlpol/ is.
It's plainly doing something out pic 3 shit fucks.
<Rules don't do anything Anon
That's correct, people do. It's about how people interact and agree or disagree on how to interact with each other.

>>8955
>Well if everything goes to shit you can blame me.
I disagree, there's only so much you can do. Still, it's better to try something than sit in your ass and do nothing.

>>8953
>It was stated that writefags resent shitposting because it is popping up in the overboard. That bothers them a lot.
Stated by whom? And since when do writefags resent shitposting? Writefags are the most prolific shitposters on the board. I'm curious what autismo chain of reasoning led you to reach such a bizarre conclusion.

>>8957
Go look into the treads listed at >>8859 , everything is there.
> I'm curious what autismo chain of reasoning led you to reach such a bizarre conclusion.
It is literally posted on those threads, when pushed for clarifications, that the bumping of threads, disrupts their threads being at the top of the overboard.

>>8960
So, in essence, this is about people complaining about your shitty meme-dump threads always being at the top of the overboard.

When you say:
>It was stated that writefags resent shitposting because it is popping up in the overboard. That bothers them a lot.

What you're actually saying is:
>I post shitty content that nobody likes, and I interpret the many complaints I've received as a conspiracy against me, and for some autismo reason that only makes sense in my head, I place the writefags at the center of said conspiracy

And what you're actually meaning to say is:
>I post shitty content and have severe autism

This is like Nigel and his Discord hater-army. Instead of simply accepting that nobody likes the content you post, and remedying the problem by posting better content, you double down and go on the offensive. You reject the reality that's in front of your eyes, and replace it with a version of reality that you find more palatable.

In other words, you're a delusional fucking retard.

>>8961
>Instead of simply accepting that nobody likes the content you post
C'mon, you and friends by being loud are not the whole /mlpol/
Also I never posted to cater you, but to post memes that are indeed relevant to current events.
Also you are referring to the >>>/sp/21290 → thread, if you don't like it fair enough, but to lobby to shut it down and lying about being "facebook" memes is very jewy of you. I have the right to shitpost in /sp/ as anyone of you.

>>8962
>C'mon, you and friends by being loud are not the whole /mlpol/
This is literally the same gaslighting technique that Nigel uses. "haha, it's not that most or all users on this site hate the garbage content I flood it with, it's just a dedicated group of haters who hate on me because they're haters." Next you're going to be accusing people of organizing on secret Discord servers to plot against you.

>Also I never posted to cater you, but to post memes that are indeed relevant to current events.
Here's the thing, dude: if one person tells you your memes suck, that's one person's opinion. If the near-unanimous reaction to every meme you post is people telling you that your memes suck, then it's a safe bet that your memes actually do suck.

I'd like you to stop and think about something for a second. Really think. Has anyone on this site ever come to your defense? Can you recall any specific instance in which anyone has ever said: "Gee, I really enjoy that gigantic image-dump thread full of the same kind of low-effort unfunny memes my uncle posts on Facebook, I really wish we could have more content like that on the site?"

If everyone you meet tells you that you smell like shit, you can dismiss them as haters if you are so inclined, but really the best course of action is to just go home and take a shower. I'll leave you to meditate on that.

>if you don't like it fair enough, but to lobby to shut it down and lying about being "facebook" memes is very jewy of you
First of all, the vast bulk of your memes literally are facebook-tier. I am going through your thread right now, in real time, and 90% of what I see are low-effort image macros with no punchline. It's the kind of shit that boomer uncles spend all day mindlessly upvoting and retweeting, or whatever it's called on Facebook. As I clarified above, this is not just my opinion, this is a collective sentiment shared by most, if not all, of mlpol, as evidenced by the fact that the response to your content has been overwhelmingly negative. On a personal note, I find it genuinely disheartening that you can't tell the difference between high-quality memes and low-quality ones.

Second of all, if you want to talk about what's jewy, I would direct your attention to picrel, specifically the portion I highlighted which I was able to do because I know how to use GIMP to create and edit images, as opposed to just mindlessly reposting whatever shitty memegenerator.net-created macros my boomer uncle posted on facebook yesterday. This literally describes your literal behavior in this thread. You have claimed that multiple people besides you were banned for posting the same things that you post. When it became obvious that you were actually just talking about yourself being banned under multiple IPs, you backtracked and tried to argue that you never made that claim in the first place. You were also called out for samefagging in your own threads to simulate engagement. When this was pointed out to you, first you denied doing it, then you changed course and said you were making "addendums" and were not samefagging, then you accused me of slander, then you abandoned thread. Watch: next you're going to say that none of it ever happened and I'm slandering you again, even though we can all click on your ID to highlight your posts and see exactly what you wrote.

Your behavior so far in this thread is literally the jewiest shit I've ever seen on this site in seven years.

>I have the right to shitpost in /sp/ as anyone of you.
Yes, and just as you have the right to post, others have the right to react. If you're the only one posting in your thread, and everyone else is telling you that your thread sucks, then the community has spoken: your thread sucks. If your thread sucks so bad that seeing it constantly bumped to the top of the overboard is actually causing users to flee the site, then it goes beyond just an issue of one anon posting shitty thread, to a meta-problem affecting the community as a whole. If every effort to reason with you, ie by explaining to you that your content sucks and asking you to either post better content or stop posting, has failed, and if you obstinately insist on posting the same content that everyone hates in spite of everyone telling you over and over that they hate it, then eventually moderator action is indeed justified. This is basically the substance of what we're arguing about here.

>>8963
>gaslighting technique
Facts.
>it's just a dedicated group of haters who hate on me because they're haters.
Not quite, it is a group of haters because my threads were popping too much in the overboard.
>Has anyone on this site ever come to your defense?
A couple, but they were ignored.
>unfunny memes my uncle posts on Facebook
What a piece of manure you are, I really doubt most memes would not be censored in facekike. >>>/sp/21290 → is there to everypony to see.
>Here's the thing, dude: if one person tells you your memes suck, that's one person's opinion. If the near-unanimous reaction to every meme you post is people telling you that your memes suck, then it's a safe bet that your memes actually do suck.
Here is the thing, dude: I don't buy it. Most of the memes are good. But you went far beyond the content by itself to the personal terrain. Then most the memes I posted suck, according to you.
>Yes, and just as you have the right to post, others have the right to react.
Stay on your lane poner.

...hard to read a wall of text. Jeeez.

>>8963
>If your thread sucks so bad that seeing it constantly bumped to the top of the overboard is actually causing users to flee the site,
I missed this.
I disagree. My threads where created to fill the void for the sudden polack disappearance. (You) mocked me calling me the /mlpol/ savior. Remember?

>>8963
>If your thread sucks so bad that seeing it constantly bumped to the top of the overboard is actually causing users to flee the site,
I forgot the meme.

>>8965
Just go back to sleep, Sonata.

>>8964
>Facts.
Keep on denying the obvious. Living in a delusional private reality worked out well for Nigel, maybe it will work for you too.
>Not quite, it is a group of haters because my threads were popping too much in the overboard.
In other words, your thread sucks and people don't like seeing it every time they reload the overboard, and thus people complain.
>A couple, but they were ignored.
Cite specific posts or you're full of shit.
>What a piece of manure you are
Gee willickers, isn't that just, like, your personal opinion?
>I really doubt most memes would not be censored in facekike.
The quality of the memes is what's at issue, not whether or not they'd be censored.
>>>>/sp/21290 → is there to everypony to see.
Yes, as I said, I have the thread open and am looking at your memes. They suck. They are unfunny rehashed image macros of the sort that are routinely posted by boomer uncles on facebook. This is why the reaction to your meme thread has been overwhelmingly negative. We've been over this.
>Here is the thing, dude: I don't buy it. Most of the memes are good.
Ever heard that old adage about leading a horse to water?
>But you went far beyond the content by itself to the personal terrain.
This is not a sentence. Also: what?
>Then most the memes I posted suck, according to you.
This is not a sentence either.
>Stay on your lane poner.
What the fuck are you even talking about? Also: I believe you meant to say "stay in your lane."
>hard to read a wall of text. Jeeez.
Terribly sorry for making you read. I'm sure anything longer than 140 chars is a tremendous strain on your attention span.

>>8965
>I missed this.
Tends to happen when you have a low attention span and don't read things.
>My threads where created to fill the void for the sudden polack disappearance.
Whatever your purpose in creating them, the simple fact is they are low-effort image dumps that generated no discussion, other than meta-discussions like this one about how your memes suck and nobody likes them.
> (You) mocked me calling me the /mlpol/ savior. Remember?
No, I'm afraid I don't. You must be thinking of someone else.

>>8967
>I forgot the meme.
If that image is your idea of a meme, then it's no wonder you're having trouble understanding things.

Anyway, I've said my piece. If you want to keep on being an obstinate, delusional faggot with shitty meme-game that's up to you; I won't keep wasting my time arguing with you. At this point, I think my vote is for just permabanning you and being done with it.

>>8969
>Anyway, I've said my piece.
A good advise, take it: >>8968

>>8970
>A good advise, take it
This isn't a sentence either. okay, now I'm done replying.

>>8971
>This isn't a sentence either
Writefags and semantics. /s

>>8962
>C'mon, you and friends by being loud are not the whole /mlpol/
Notice how nobody else is saying the opposite? You are the only neigh-sayer in this thread.
Even if it is not all of /mlpol/, it is all of /mlpol/ that bothers to interact with you, so who are you doing this for?

>>8962
>by being loud are not the whole /mlpol/
Indeed, I'm waiting for anyone else to show up in this thread.
I would highly recommend sharing this thread so more points of view can be had from where ever.

I fuckING HATE NIGGERS!!!!!!!! I HATE NIGEL!!!!
And I also hatE THAT ONE BOOMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND THAT TWO BOOMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>8963
>Gimp
Ew, nothing personal, but I'm actually more of a full stack engineer. I use Adobe Photoshop all the time.
Obscure meme from Techlead's lunix video

>>8964
>I really doubt most memes would not be censored in facekike.
Half of the time reverse image search leads me to Facebook.
Where do you get these things? What site do you get them from? What site are you importing all of this from?
>Stay on your lane poner.
This is our lane.

>>8960
>that the bumping of threads, disrupts their threads being at the top of the overboard.
You have once again missed the point. It's not about who's thread is who's. It's about the disruption itself.
Posters complained because the general feeling of the site changed very quickly to something that they were not used to and were not fond of. When those posters eventually figured out that they could trace that change back to a certain user, they got angry.
People who build up an online community for years don't like it when newfags suddenly come in and start changing it. As they say:
>GTFO normies REEEEEEEEE
Especially not horse autists and /pol/acks who built said community because tourists from off-site turned 4chan into something other than what they were used to.
Especially with cases like >>8972 where they refuse to assimilate imageboard culture and keep spewing redditspeech, because they don't know what lurking is and can't comprehend the term "When in Rome".

>But you went far beyond the content by itself to the personal terrain.
It wouldn't be personal if you had just lurked and assimilates into the community like everyone else, instead of always doubling down.
>A couple
Yeah, I was one of those. I thought you'd change overtime, but you didn't.
I still think you could change, if you just tried.

The site is slowly losing anons over time and will die if this continues. We need more anons so how about ads on 4/pol/ and 4/mlp/?

>>8982
That question should probably be asked in its own thread.

>>8982
I feel you, link from a thread redirecting to here suggesting to put it here.
Your point does deserve its own thread too.
I'm hoping that the rule will give pause for people just leaving, and sometimes it can't be helped irl and other things require alot of attention.
Plus if the rule is implemented the preservation and spreading of culture is safeguarded for the new waves.

>>8982
>We need more anons
A detail that I consider of great importance to get some traffic for free. Many bros look for pony pics using search engines and is very important that the posted pics to be properly named in order to be indexed.