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Articles & Happenings is the third attempt at a news board on the Kiwi Farms. It is a cursed place. Every moderator who has been assigned here has resigned within a year. During 2016, the political crossfire was so bad it spread to different boards and culminated in me banning American news discussion entirely for several months. It has been deleted in its entirety twice. There is no actual discussion here, it's people posting garbage. It leans much further right than the rest of the site and doesn't particularly conduct discussion because dissenting opinions are dogpiled by a thousand memelords posting shit they read on /pol/ without any critical analysis.

The only rules that can be enforced are empirical ones with boolean violation answers. New threads must cite a real source directly and must use the headline of the article as a thread title without any editorializing. Articles must be archived in some way and must link to the original article. Replies that are one word or a reaction images are automatic one-month bans from the board.

I'm creating this now because it seems like this place is here to stay and is one of the largest areas of the entire site. I might as well throw in bare minimum effort to improve it. I don't even try to find mods for here because they will quit, without exception. I've added new prefixes ("Business" and "Crime") just now.

Discuss.


New threads should be made like this.
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Null said:
I have restored stickers because people stopped complaining as much. All "Respectfully Disagree, but I Still Love You"s have become regular Disagrees. Some cached values may not reflect this.

If someone goes through your post history to mass-sticker you, report the user from their profile. Do not do it back to them.

Consider using the ignore button.
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Thanks Null. I hope everyone on this board keeps this this post from @Secret Asshole in mind before indulging in any sticker-related faggotry that threatens the forum:
 
I just want to say thank you Josh for bringing the stickers back. I've missed that thunk-provoking sticker.
Now if I could get my avatar rights back, that would be nice too.

edit: thanks
 
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Null said:
I have restored stickers because people stopped complaining as much. All "Respectfully Disagree, but I Still Love You"s have become regular Disagrees. Some cached values may not reflect this.

If someone goes through your post history to mass-sticker you, report the user from their profile. Do not do it back to them.

Consider using the ignore button.
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FUCK

i know i said i would quit, but i'm an asshole so i won't but if this causes anything like it did last time i'm done for real
 
Secret Asshole said:
FUCK

i know i said i would quit, but i'm an asshole so i won't but if this causes anything like it did last time i'm done for real
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Why don't you just ignore those people? Yeah, secret watcher is a not-so-secret retard, but anyone that wants to whine about it should just be disregarded. Perhaps I'm oversimplifying the final solution to the janny-sticker question, but it doesn't seem that hard.

If we can deal with HHH and snailsme's autism, we should be ok with stickers.
 
Having posted a couple of articles, I had a couple questions.

From websites like dailymail.com and nypost.com, it can be hard to cut and paste the actual text of the article, because of pictures and other inserts. Is there a way to view in a print friendly mode on firefox or brave? These options are not made readily available on these website.
Also, I am able to download and rip videos from tiktok and youtube and elsewhere, but not twitter, using dwhelper. Can someone recommend a good, sage extension for twitter? Thanks.
 
Norbert the Tiger said:
Having posted a couple of articles, I had a couple questions.

From websites like dailymail.com and nypost.com, it can be hard to cut and paste the actual text of the article, because of pictures and other inserts. Is there a way to view in a print friendly mode on firefox or brave? These options are not made readily available on these website.
Also, I am able to download and rip videos from tiktok and youtube and elsewhere, but not twitter, using dwhelper. Can someone recommend a good, sage extension for twitter? Thanks.
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Just don't be a lazy fucker and c&p the text section by section. It takes fuck all time longer and if I can manage it on mobile you can
 
Brahma said:
Just don't be a lazy fucker and c&p the text section by section. It takes fuck all time longer and if I can manage it on mobile you can
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No I'd rather be able to do it more efficiently, if possible. It can be time consuming on daily mail articles in particular.
 
What is the criteria for a megathread on a topic to be created? Also it seems some get used and some don't.
 
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What is the criteria for a megathread on a topic to be created? Also it seems some get used and some don't.
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There's no clear criteria, it's based off of when enough threads about a specific topic make the interest apparent enough to warrant a megathread.
Sometimes that hits, sometimes it misses. Like you mentioned with the "some don't" bit there. Like, I'd vastly prefer to break up the Biden megathread into smaller topics if only for mod tools to load quicker, but users seem to enjoy it as a US politics general, so I try to just keep it from drifting too far afield instead.
 
Absolutego said:
There's no clear criteria, it's based off of when enough threads about a specific topic make the interest apparent enough to warrant a megathread.
Sometimes that hits, sometimes it misses. Like you mentioned with the "some don't" bit there. Like, I'd vastly prefer to break up the Biden megathread into smaller topics if only for mod tools to load quicker, but users seem to enjoy it as a US politics general, so I try to just keep it from drifting too far afield instead.
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Would it be an idea to lock and open a new one on the regular?
 
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