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.

 

[AnOminous]

But the fact is, nobody has demonstrated a problem to fix. If anyone but the owner of the site had made this thread they'd just be laughed at.

Sounds like groupthink to me. Oh lol you're banned. Nice socking, tard.

 

[Sheryl Nome]

Sounds like groupthink to me. Oh lol you're banned. Nice socking, tard.

Huge surprise.

 

[X Prime]

What, was that Corbin again?

 

[beautiful person]

What, was that Corbin again?

Yup. He seems really attached to this place.

 

[Sheryl Nome]

A huge victory in the battle of ideals here on A&H

 

[X Prime]

Did he forget the VPN again?

If so, I can only roll my eyes so hard, and I like Corbin.

 

[Nobunaga]

God dammit corbin
I know that mods deserve to get dabbed once in a while but jesus christ, just take a vacation or learn to use a vpn

 

[AnOminous]

God dammit corbin
I know that mods deserve to get dabbed once in a while but jesus christ, just take a vacation or learn to use a vpn

Or at least set up a credible cover story. Jeez. Wait for some mass shooting or other event that gets a load of dipshits showing up, then act slightly less new than they do. Don't just show up obviously not being new at all.

 

[TherapyMan]

Or at least set up a credible cover story. Jeez. Wait for some mass shooting or other event that gets a load of dipshits showing up, then act slightly less new than they do. Don't just show up obviously not being new at all.

Case in point for this board being a source of internal lolcow content.

 

[Absolutego]

Or at least set up a credible cover story. Jeez. Wait for some mass shooting or other event that gets a load of dipshits showing up, then act slightly less new than they do. Don't just show up obviously not being new at all.

I, for one, am enjoying this silver lining to all the account deletions. BoomerDenton's already back to shitting up the MCU thread, only being able to hold out for, like, 9 days after re-regging.

 

[Cosmos]

Corbin, dude, you need to cut the fucking cord and move on already. You’re not subtle, everyone can tell who you are the minute you start posting. You’re just going to keep getting banned and people will keep making fun of you. Go join a Boomer Facebook group or something.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Isn't this like his fifth sock? At what point is he going to get his own thread?

 

[Cosmos]

Isn't this like his fifth sock? At what point is he going to get his own thread?

I don’t take halal threads lightly, but considering that he was literally voted off the site and still keeps coming back for more (all without bothering to pretend to be someone else) it makes me think he’d make a good topic.

 

[Nobunaga]

Isn't this like his fifth sock? At what point is he going to get his own thread?

Outside of haha boomer posting or butthurt i dont think corbin is interesting enought to deserve a thread
What would you even fill it with? Boomer memes and screencap of mods being butthurt about being called a nigger by him?
Though that may change with time who knows

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

That was really low tier Corbin posting. I feel like if it was Corbin something bad must be going on in his life. That was a hollow shell of the spergery of the Corbin we knew.

Jannies are still faggots.

 

[DumbDude42]

What would you even fill it with? Boomer memes and screencap of mods being butthurt about being called a nigger by him?

wasnt there a thread about his autistic rants in the 'talk to staff' forum where he repeatedly bitched about having his posts deleted or moved or something like that? that might be a start.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

wasnt there a thread about his autistic rants in the 'talk to staff' forum where he repeatedly bitched about having his posts deleted or moved or something like that? that might be a start.

Looked like he mostly bitched about other peoples' posts being deleted in a well meaning but misguided crusade of spergery from what I remember.

 

[LordofTendons]

Good God, Corbin is not worth the time. Just ban and delete him when he turns up so we can get back to the stuff that's really important-- internet hoaxes and bashing furries.

 

[Trig.Point]

> nobody has demonstrated a problem to fix
> the owner of the site had made this thread

The owner of the site has made a thread about how maintaining the website doesn't feel as rewarding because of A&H. This is a huge fucking problem. It's an existential threat, you absolute intellectual titan.

We can go around in circles but essentially that post pretty much sums up the situation.

I have a focus on A&H and I'm perfectly happy with no changes taking place. I think the lack of engagement from left wing members of the forum is less to do with the challenging atmosphere on A&H than the fact many have joined the forum with a very narrow focus of topics that they want to post on.

However if changes need to happen, we just need to reconcile themselves to them. My main concern is that any rules put in place are crystal clear, and everything is not just in the gift of the moderator to decide.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

However if changes need to happen, we just need to reconcile themselves to them. My main concern is that any rules put in place are crystal clear, and everything is not just in the gift of the moderator to decide.

I like this site but let's face it, it's gonna be the latter not the former. It's how the rest of it is run. Place seems to function in spite of it so far though.