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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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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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I noticed there’s no Portland, Oregon mega thread. Would that get through?
 
Brahma said:
Would it be an idea to lock and open a new one on the regular?
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That's probably what we'll do around the midterms. I anticipate that thread becoming a pain in the ass to mod this fall.
Random Internet Person said:
I noticed there’s no Portland, Oregon mega thread. Would that get through?
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I'm not going to block it being created, but I'm not sure it'll have enough fuel to sustain itself without mods forcing it. The various antifa/dumbass events happening there only generate a few pages of users saying "lol anarchists are retarded" every time it's posted.
 
That almost worked, but was too vague to take effect. Make the janitor jokes before I retitle the Biden megathread "US Politics General" and finally satisfy a personal grudge I've had for two years now
 
do it, you know you want to. Joe is boring but AMERICAN POLITICS is enticing
 
This is just an observation but to me it seems since the Biden megathread was rebranded to US politics general it seems that there are less articles on the topic posted there then there were when they could just be put on A&N on their own. Maybe its just due to the nature of messageboards easily being able to bury posts? I don't know.
 
Breadbassket said:
This is just an observation but to me it seems since the Biden megathread was rebranded to US politics general it seems that there are less articles on the topic posted there then there were when they could just be put on A&N on their own. Maybe its just due to the nature of messageboards easily being able to bury posts? I don't know.
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You devoted too many braincells to this non-issue. Consider eating bugs and living in a pod for awhile
 
Following up on what I said in this thread - and in fact, it was that thread and a few similar ones that inspired me here - I think there should be a "Florida" prefix tag to add to threads about wild and crazy stories coming out of everyone's favorite wild and crazy state.
 
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