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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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LOWERCASE LETTERS said:
Literally every time I look at this forum it's just packed to the brim with ragebait.
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It's a handful of people that just spam stupid articles, I've said several times there needs to be a cap on threads per day you can start here. I'd wager there is something in the backend that could accomplish that.
 
Ebonic Tutor said:
It's a handful of people that just spam stupid articles, I've said several times there needs to be a cap on threads per day you can start here. I'd wager there is something in the backend that could accomplish that.
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Anyone who starts more than one thread a week here should be made read only in this forum for their own good
 
LOWERCASE LETTERS said:
I don't care about saving it, I just want to mabye make it a little more readable by removing the ability of 3 to 5 retards to spam articles nonstop all day long. That @clipartfan92 guy in particular just spams articles nonstop like a shitty RSS bot.
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Bleep blop bloop. I posted 9 articles yesterday:

TitleSourceReplies
A majority of Americans think the Trump probes are about 2024
The Washington Post34
Sharp partisan divide over sympathy with striking writers and actors, poll finds
The Washington Post31
52 days on the road: A migrant family’s desperate journey to Chicago
Chicago Tribune23
BBC faces mass revolt from television viewers with 2.8 million claiming they no longer need to pay TV licence fee

Daily Mail19
AP: Democrats see Michigan and Minnesota as guides for what to do with majority power
Associated Press16
As Proposition 12 takes effect, L.A. pitmasters face a ‘once-in-a-generation’ pork price crisis
Los Angeles Times9
‘Tomorrow’s martyrs’: Inside a Palestinian militant cell in the West Bank
The Washington Post5

Is Social Justice for the Birds? Audubon Attempts an Answer.		The New York Times5
Durham (North Carolina) Officials Directed City Attorney to Try to Unmask Anonymous Wikipedia Editors
Indy Week (Durham)4
The articles are all from reputable sources, are formatted correctly, have images when applicable, and have active user engagement. Maybe you should stick to the VTuber thread since that seems more your speed.
 
I'm not trying to be a dick, but if you come at someone with attitude, expect it back. How many articles do you propose should be the limit to post per 24 hour period? Which topics should those articles cover? Does the ignore option not hide topics created by people (I've never used it). I could understand if I was posting into the darkness, but the threads get engagement and engagement is the whole purpose of a website.
 
Null said:
You act like a complete fucking turd and you're shocked nobody wants to do your marching orders. Get a grip.
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Just giving what was put out there....

clipartfan92 said:
I'm not trying to be a dick
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The articles are all from reputable sources, are formatted correctly, have images when applicable, and have active user engagement. Maybe you should stick to the VTuber thread since that seems more your speed.
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Guy got snarky with the people pointing out the problem before I snapped at him.
 
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