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.

 

[Arkancide Pact]

Inertia mostly, because before the last year's worth of notoriety this site was actually a pretty awesome place to chat about current events, Then we got invaded by waves of unfunny boomer facebook republicans and 8pol refugees.

Have whatever fun it is you get from here that drives you to circumvent dozens of bans for months on end to keep posting, because at the rate you guys are going I strongly doubt this place will last another year before it gets purged like Events and News did and we can't talk politics on this forum anymore.

What if null set up a special filter for you so every post you click on just at takes you to a single paragraph that says "OMG you're so right and smart and brave and stunning"? Would that help your chapped ass heal?

There's another option between blocking, ignoring, reporting, and censoring opinions you don't like. It's called fuck off, who the fuck is holding you hostage?

 

[Absolutego]

What if null set up a special filter for you so every post you click on just at takes you to a single paragraph that says "OMG you're so right and smart and brave and stunning"? Would that help your chapped ass heal?

There's another option between blocking, ignoring, reporting, and censoring opinions you don't like. It's called fuck off, who the fuck is holding you hostage?

I've been here for 3 years and am too lazy to try and find a current events forum that isn't a shitpile, and there are a few users here whose opinions I find valuable among the endless amounts of kosher-related chaff. What's it about A&H that makes an account created <6 weeks ago so invested in defending its honor that he rages at anyone criticizing how dumb it's become? Might it be that you actually aren't that new, and have a documented history of having an unhealthy obsession with this particular subforum, that all went to shit when this thread outed your previous ban-evasion account, Corbin?

 

[Arkancide Pact]

I've been here for 3 years and am too lazy to try and find a current events forum that isn't a shitpile, and there are a few users here whose opinions I find valuable among the endless amounts of kosher-related chaff. What's it about A&H that makes an account created <6 weeks ago so invested in defending its honor that he rages at anyone criticizing how dumb it's become? Might it be that you actually aren't that new, and have a documented history of having an unhealthy obsession with this particular subforum, that all went to shit when this thread outed your previous ban-evasion account, Corbin?

Good point. Keep crying about all the Nazis on this thread until null deletes a&h then I guess, Boris.

But yeah, attacking me instead of making an argument showed me alright. Damn, I'm just so invested in protecting a&hs honor that I don't want a couple of whiny bitches to cry to daddy until it's closed.

Or, maybe i enjoy exposing petty control freaks because that tends to decrease their influence, and you make it easy to take apart your bullshit concern trolling and get you to start crying about mean opinions and cruel ratings pile-ons.

"Back 3 years ago more people agreed with me. Waaahhh."

 

[The Last Stand]

@Arkancide Pact didn't necessarily deny Absoluego's statement about Corbin. And he's making an ass of himself on the State of the Board.

 

[ProgKing of the North]

@Arkancide Pact didn't necessarily deny Absoluego's statement about Corbin. And he's making an ass of himself on the State of the Board.

Don't forget black people in the avatars

 

[AprilRains]

There ought to be some term for what's happening in the last several posts. None of you are exactly covering yourselves in glory.

 

[Ineedahero]

Don't forget black people in the avatars

I just use thunk provoking, but I wish there was a mind blown rating.

 

[AlexJonesGotMePregnant]

Good point. Keep crying about all the Nazis on this thread until null deletes a&h then I guess, Boris.

But yeah, attacking me instead of making an argument showed me alright. Damn, I'm just so invested in protecting a&hs honor that I don't want a couple of whiny bitches to cry to daddy until it's closed.

Or, maybe i enjoy exposing petty control freaks because that tends to decrease their influence, and you make it easy to take apart your bullshit concern trolling and get you to start crying about mean opinions and cruel ratings pile-ons.

"Back 3 years ago more people agreed with me. Waaahhh."

okay im definitely rating you "Corbin Dallas Multipass" now bro. Your sperging is a lot funnier when we get to watch you spinning out from an actual happening all the way to your butthurt, but it's less entertaining when you start right at the butthurt.

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

I have notice way more poltards here in the last few months. In so many threads people are screaming about "JEEEEEWWWSSSS ZIONIST REEE" all the time. It is a bit tiresome and ruin some threads that could be good.

And notice all the dumb and neg ratings on the posts in most of the cases.

All this concern trolling stuff is how you get SomethingAwful/Resetera, do you want SomethingAwful/Resetera?

It always starts with this same exact stuff, as I've stated a dozen times over and once they get that next thing you know calling somebody an exceptional idiot gets you banned and you wonder, "how did we get here?".

Just put em on ignore and be done with it if upsets you so much.

 

[ConfederateIrishman]

So how many months do you all think A&H has left?
I give it around 9 once the 2020 election makes people sperg too hard.

 

[AnOminous]

So how many months do you all think A&H has left?
I give it around 9 once the 2020 election makes people sperg too hard.

It will get deleted and then it will immediately get re-created because there is no way to delete politics.

 

[Unog]

There ought to be some term for what's happening in the last several posts. None of you are exactly covering yourselves in glory.

It's called "never get in a fight with a pig, you just get covered in shit and the pig loves it".

And notice all the dumb and neg ratings on the posts in most of the cases.

All this concern trolling stuff is how you get SomethingAwful/Resetera, do you want SomethingAwful/Resetera?

It always starts with this same exact stuff, as I've stated a dozen times over and once they get that next thing you know calling somebody an exceptional idiot gets you banned and you wonder, "how did we get here?".

Just put em on ignore and be done with it if upsets you so much.

See, this is the reasonable approach. The excuse that you can't see what those people are posting without removing them from your ignore list doesn't exist either because you have the option at the bottom of every page that has ignored content on it (opposite the page selection buttons) to view all blocked content on that page.

It really boils down to not only not wanting to see the content, but not wanting others to see it either.

If you just can't be asked due to how laborious it is to just keep scrolling then ignore people. And keep doing it. Eventually it'll be the same as having different threads on the same topic, as people who are like-minded will have all ignored the same folks they don't want to see opinions from. The only thing standing in the way of that is the hilarious illusion that if you report the post to be deleted that it somehow doesn't make you just as bad as someone who would've put that poster on ignore in the first place.

"Oh you're a pussy for putting that one guy on ignore lol anyway wow I need to report this wingnut alt-righter's take because da jooz /commie's take because da rich sperging is so tiring" kind of logic makes you even more of a faggot than someone who can just admit they don't want to see that person's content and put them on your ignore list.

 

[AprilRains]

So how many months do you all think A&H has left?
I give it around 9 once the 2020 election makes people sperg too hard.

Prophecies shouldn't try so hard to fulfill themselves.

 

[Superman93]

I don't know how I want to go about moderating A&H beyond just keeping OPs on point, or even if I want to bother at all, but wingnut ranting about jews / politics in general in any on-topic board should be reported.

What about rampant "Nigger" posting?

 

[The Pink Panther]

@Arkancide Pact didn't necessarily deny Absoluego's statement about Corbin. And he's making an ass of himself on the State of the Board.

Don't forget black people in the avatars

It's obviously him. Corbin is really bad at hiding his powerlevel. A&H is like heroin for him.

 

[AnOminous]

It's obviously him. Corbin is really bad at hiding his powerlevel. A&H is like heroin for him.

I don't think he should even have been banned in the first place really.

"Oh you're a pussy for putting that one guy on ignore lol anyway wow I need to report this wingnut alt-righter's take because da jooz /commie's take because da rich sperging is so tiring" kind of logic makes you even more of a faggot than someone who can just admit they don't want to see that person's content and put them on your ignore list.

I put people on ignore not for my own benefit but because I'd tard out and respond to them otherwise. And not with quality posts, but with tard posts.

 

[Absolutego]

I have consistently good ratings, and productive conversations,

I actually wasn't aware you got banned (again), because I finally realized it would be more productive and I'd sperg out less if I just put you on ignore, but your obsession with the first thing I highlighted, and the fact that you think it created "productive conversations" is part of why you consistently lower the overall quality of discussion in any thread you post in. Being serious, take a few weeks off before trying to circumvent another ban, and find a more productive use of your time than being the preeminent contributor to a circlejerk.

 

[byuu]

Socking to prove you're not Corbin, seriously?

 

[byuu]

Lol, be banned, either do nothing, proving I'm guilty of the accusations, or "sock" in an attempt to dispute them, this proving I'm guilty of the accusations.

How about just shutting up and letting things go for once? That's the single best way to prove that you're not Corbin.

 

[Absolutego]

I guess I see why you want people like me gone if that's your grasp on logic. Must make it hard to make a point or be right about anything.

you are clearly very mad and I recommend going on a walk or something.