Articles & Happening Meta Discussion

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.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

@Useful_Mistake I need a ruling. I saw a highly amusing Grady Judd presentation and I would like to post the video, and just the video. Not any of the ai slop articles online rags made about it. Is this permissible?

If you're willing to transcribe it, post it in A&N. Otherwise do so in Multimedia

Orlando media like wesh2 and channel 6 often have decent writeups, and I'm pretty sure I've seen the leo's press release on facebook or whatever as the op
there's also the dedicated thread

Thread 'Sherriff Grady Judd appreciation thread'

Mar 17, 2022

Meet Sherriff Grady Judd. He's a police officer in Polk County, Florida, and has been a sheriff there since 2004-2005 (although he's been a police officer since 1972)

This dude is at least partially responsible for Polk County having one of the highest crime solved rates in the country. On top of that, he's helped arrest over 100 sex traffickers.

If anyone wants me to add something to the OP, let me know.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=35et9ZrXTSc
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hb5vlVIVrN4
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3aUvj9oSbpk

• The Cunting Death
• Replies: 63
• Forum: General Discussion

Reactions: x 18 x 9 x 3 x 2 x 3 x 1

 

[Soyjak Enjoyer]

My civil rights are being violated

 

[Null]

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

tbh on that subject I tend to half-ass my twitter backups lately since archive today and ghostarchive both seem to be a coin flip if they work with twitter that week
is there anything reliable for twitter archiving these days?
I know nitter works as a front-end, is that a backup too?

 

[Useful_Mistake]

is there anything reliable for twitter archiving these days?

https://megalodon.jp/ works really well if you don't need to archive the entire thread. Ghostarchive can archive threads, but you may have to try a few times

I know nitter works as a front-end, is that a backup too?

If it preserves the post after the deletion, then it is a backup.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

https://megalodon.jp/ works really well if you don't need to archive the entire thread.

yeah almost always I'm just flipping Soandso Times' headline or Grady Judd shitposting, I rarely cover slapfights back and forth

 

[sodaboard]

some sites also refuse to be archived correctly, i try to run anything from yahoo finance through archive.fo and it never starts

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Whatever issues A&N has, I think it still may be better than leftist MSM news.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

some sites also refuse to be archived correctly, i try to run anything from yahoo finance through archive.fo and it never starts

Yes, some Ukrainian sites used to have that problem. My workaround was getting pulling up Google Cache version and archiving that. Would work almost always, but Google recently killed that program.

Another solution is to keep trying archive.md until it works. Reuters sometimes refuses to be archived by archive.md, but if you do it enough times something breaks and it gets archived properly.

i try to run anything from yahoo finance through archive.fo and it never starts

Try turning off your vpn. The "never starts" problem is almost always as a result of an antivpn kill switch in archive.fo and its alts

 

[Xarpho's Return]

What is the protocol for adding articles that are old, like "before 2000" old? I had an interesting on Germany and patriotism that I posted a few months ago that was well-received partially because it had relevance to today, but then I added an article on Blockbuster from 1997 that also has some relevance to today and people just called me late and gay.

Ideally, there needs to be a [Historic] tag (joining [Business], [Culture], [Science], etc.) to allow posting of such articles while giving users a heads up on what's happening, and don't want them to be tricked thinking into there's some action in Rhodesia again (or whatever).

 

[Useful_Mistake]

What is the protocol for adding articles that are old, like "before 2000" old? I had an interesting on Germany and patriotism that I posted a few months ago that was well-received partially because it had relevance to today, but then I added an article on Blockbuster from 1997 that also has some relevance to today and people just called me late and gay.

Ideally, there needs to be a [Historic] tag (joining [Business], [Culture], [Science], etc.) to allow posting of such articles while giving users a heads up on what's happening, and don't want them to be tricked thinking into there's some action in Rhodesia again (or whatever).

Make an "old news megathread" or something. I had one made back in the day, but I can't find it now.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

on the subject of archiving what works with facebook these days? I tried most of my bag of tricks at shitwood busting up a trannie mass shooting

https://www.facebook.com/VolusiaSheriff/

but fucked if I can get it backed up short of recording in OSB

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

on the subject of archiving what works with facebook these days? I tried most of my bag of tricks at shitwood busting up a trannie mass shooting

https://www.facebook.com/VolusiaSheriff/

but fucked if I can get it backed up short of recording in OSB

if you just want the video fdown.net works. I haven’t seen anything that pulls and archives the pages themselves.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

if you just want the video fdown.net works. I haven’t seen anything that pulls and archives the pages themselves.

I was able to dig up an internal url, that didn't work in fdown or ytdlp. but I cant even get an easy link to just the post?

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

I was able to dig up an internal url, that didn't work in fdown or ytdlp. but I cant even get an easy link to just the post?

Nah you just need a url to the post the websites do that shit themselves

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1187870716751756/

Voila

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Nah you just need a url to the post the websites do that shit themselves

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1187870716751756/

Voila

oh yeah the reels thing derp thanks

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

Can we get a moratorium on Heated Rivalry articles? This shit is getting fucking ridiculous.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

Okay even I can see the Jewsperging needs containment at this point lol