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The ban reason for /k/'s off topic BR is "Off-topic; all images and discussion should pertain to firearms, military vehicles, knives, realistic mil-sim games, and other weapons."

What falls under mil-sim games? Airsoft? Paintball? Simulation videogames?

/k/ gets several threads a day about these topics. Usually the response for airsoft and paintball is uniformly "Take it to /asp/" The response for simulator videogames is different, some want the discussion to stay in /k/ and some want it in /v/, usually depending on the game.

Should I just go with the flow and exile airsoft/paintball to /asp/ like it's always been or should I start letting this kinda thing fly? Are some game allowed in /k/ or should I crack down and throw them all into /v/?

I guess I'm just looking for a bit of insight. I've been going with majority rules with making calls on these things up until now, but I can see how someone would be frustrated for getting a thread deleted or a ban for being technically "on topic" in their mind.
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>>3722
I've been scrubbing nerf off since I started, same with airsoft. I'm thinking if we let one in then the other will follow soon, and then /k/ would burn to the ground. The feedback about airsoft is already as negative as possible.

Unless you want to deal with the countless "why is this allowed but airsoft isn't?" complaints and other off topic subjects creeping in and eventually becoming board culture. It's enough trouble with the innawoods threads and radio threads.

Willis' was always welcome, same with other drawfriend/OC threads because he was on topic with his work. They where all /k/ related.
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Just a heads up to anyone who's also /k/.

These "parkourdude" threads are back. Hit them for off topic asap and they tend to die off for a few months.

Bullying the autistic isn't weapons related.
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>>3913
I've been hitting those for a while now, they never really went away, they just pop up every now and again.
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People are really starting to spam this RIP round bullshit. It's always been bad but now I think we have other boards invading us with this spam. It needs to be stopped.

Just finished with each report on /k/, and came back an hour later to 6 threads on the topic, one had 18 reports. This is unheard of on /k/. In my entire time watching over this board the most reports for a single thread I've seen was about 6.

People are making threads asking mods to ban them on site. I'm doing what I can but I'm also working pretty much 10 hours a day now.
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Where should I stand with these new "/k/ radio" threads?

They're popping up a lot lately, advertisement?

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Dear anyone who pops into /tg/ from time to time to clean the queue,

Until moot or a moderator makes a public announcement regarding ERP threads, do not delete them unless there are more than one. By long-standing 4chan tradition, text is never considered NWS. A small but vocal group really does not like them and attempts to backseat moderate them by spamming the threads. Please do not enable these individuals. I don't personally think ERP threads should be on /tg/ (they fit better on /soc/), but I really do not like backseat janitoring.

Viral is a valued contributor to /tg/. Please do not delete his kickstarter threads or ban him, as he's definitely in the top 1% for contributing OC to /tg/ (http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Category:Viral_Games).

As another note, kickstarter threads have been allowed by dint of /tg/ being focused on a niche hobby. Unlike video games or anime, it's impossible to play /tg/ stuff without monetary investment. Magic and Warhammer are notoriously expensive, board games cost money, and print books are always preferable to PDFs. The community in general likes seeing new releases. Unless a moderator notices that the thread is being samefagged, it's usually best to leave kickstarter threads be.
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I think this highlights how important it is that a janitor be well-versed in the nuances of their assigned board.

That said, if you live inside the bubble of your board's culture for too long, you can grow soft. It's a tough balance to strike.
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Umm, I don't know what tradition you're talking about, but sex fanfictions and ERP do not belong on worksafe boards.
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The official stance on that is a bit unclear, probably owing to it never being enforced. I can start purging the threads, but an announcement should be made by a staff member either in the current /q/ thread (https://boards.4chan.org/q/res/545290) or on /tg/ itself.
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Well, it's all ogre now. A little over a year later, these threads are history.

On some level, it feels kind of bad to appease that one guy who has been in every single ERPG to complain about it, but on the other hand, I requested this be done because having threads like ERPG gives the impression that /tg/ is somehow a good place to talk about fucking dragons or to solicit sexual encounters. Sometimes, enough is enough. Hiding your problems doesn't get rid of them. Maybe there's a lesson to be learned from this -- maybe it's a lesson everyone else already knew.

At any rate, /soc/ is where they seem to have set up camp for now, and I encourage the /soc/ janitors to delete meta discussion. Meta discussion isn't on-topic in either /soc/ or /tg/. Sorry you had to get saddled with this.

There's also the issue of the Weekend Smut Threads still being around, and I'm not sure what to do with them. They are, roughly speaking, threads where users request sexual-themed stories or images, and others provide these stories and images, usually hosted off-site (like on Pastebin or Imgur). I've been allowing these so far: my reasoning is the same as allowing drawthreads.
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>>3990
I do not think they are necessarily on topic. However, a lot of the content in them is more or less board related (/tg/ has writing stories about sex in 40k forever), especially as compared to ERP generals (which were literally just F-List hookup threads). I wish they were less general-like but we all know how troublesome it is to deal with that problem. Maybe even more so here, because they're not daily, but exist mostly on the weekends.

I don't particularly like them, but at the same time I'm perfectly fine with withholding judgement on them. I would however watch them for meta discussion - I'm sure some users associate the smut threads with the ERP threads.

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/co/ is currently facing a multitude of problems which need to be dealt with immediately.
These issues include the constant stream of sexualized characters/porn of those characters and the topic of feminism being as troll-bait and to derail threads.

/co/ is hit with thinly veiled waifu threads almost constantly. These threads almost always lead porn of that character being dumped and the threads really don't serve any purpose other than creating a place for people to dump their images and talk about how much they'd like to fuck waifu x. Although moderators have commented on these threads not being allowed on /co/, users continue creating and posting in these threads as if they truly believe they are, but who can really blame them?
4chan has a constant stream of users both new and old flooding in and out, and without stating certain board rules which aren't specifically stated under the website rules page, how are users supposed to know what is acceptable on a board and what is not?

There is also no current rule against troll-bait topics like feminism besides the obvious rule against off-topic subject matter, but with web-comics specifically about these troll-bait topics, some users post under the guise that the subject matter is infact comics.

Just as MLP was once used to troll /co/, feminism is the new hot-topic and needs to be dealt with.

I would like to request a few new rules be added to the /co/ section of 4chan.org/rules.

3. All feminist/gender related content (including web comics, series, and cartoons) are not to be posted on /co/. This content belongs on /lgbt/. (or /pol/?)

4. Waifu/husbando threads/image dumps are not to be posted on /co/. This includes but is not limited to Caturday/muttday/"would you?"/"I want to fuck x" threads.

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HALLELUIAH!
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>>3987
HAIL!
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>>3987
To defeat /hsg/, is to court death
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>>3987
Homestuck Generals are being posted in /r9k/ now.
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>>3992
It seems they didn't appreciate the fine company of the [s4s] gentlemen.

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I janitor /mu/, and I'd like to talk about KPOP threads. Their location on my board makes sense--certainly moreso than /vg/--they aren't strictly breaking any rules, and they've been pretty good about keeping it to one thread at a time with little spillover into the rest of the board. I understand all of this, and so I haven't taken issue with them at all until recently.

I think they're beginning to bring down the standards of the board. More and more people are making excuses for their own shitty posting (e.g., chart circlejerk threads) by saying that if KPOP generals that never ever mention the music are allowed, then their own non-music threads should be too. While their arguments are flawed, it's easy to see where these people are coming from.

I'd like to propose again--as has been done before--that KPOP threads be moved again, to /s/. The users who participate in the threads seem to mostly be migrants from /vg/ (right? I don't know much about /vg/, I just know that these threads started showing up on /mu/ suddenly one day), so they're not invested in /mu/'s culture at all. Moreover, the subject matter is just a good fit for /s/.

Thoughts?
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>>2881
Janitor on /r9k/ reporting.

I can confirm that they have been posting KPOP threads in /r9k/. They've been getting around 1 report per thread, and they are currently on their 3rd thread.
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I'd like to know if anyone has anything more to say on this subject since the supposed migration of the threads (or part of their posters) to /r9k/, which didn't pan out that way exactly.

>>2698
This post (correctly) observes that a "K-pop general" is an on-topic thread for /mu/. It's common knowledge that there's rarely any discussion of music in them (see >>2522), but the suggestion is just "target the posters, not the threads."

This assumes that are on-topic posts inside the threads that would be left if you got rid of all the off-topic.

There should be some line drawn past which the "K-pop threads" are no longer considered somehow separate from the "blogposts and sexual fantasies about Korean idols" that make them up. One of the current threads, >>>/mu/47593120 (https://rbt.asia/mu/thread/4759312.html0), doesn't even make the minimal effort to have a board-relevant OP. It's just a picture of a Korean idol and the comment "imagine doing things to this whore."

It's a nearly impossible task to babysit these threads for all the off-topic and garbage quality posts in them, but they can't be deleted outright because a "K-pop general" as an entity somehow still gets a pass as on-topic. So what can be done?
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To add to what >>3949 said, the k-pop general currently spawns more than half the reports in /mu/. Some of them come from regulars of the general itself, that abuse the report system. Other recurring ones are soft and hardcore porn, stripping image-sets (neither of them have anything to do with the artists) and a streaming channel.
I also suspect that some of them are evading bans (besides ƒany !!iFtOCIXKJj1, a well known ban evader), but it's really hard to pinpoint the ban evaders since most of them behave in a similar way.

Some even admit that they are just there to post garbage and for off-topic: https://rbt.asia/mu/thread/47593120.html#p47593253

The general isn't well-regarded by rest of /mu/ and generates cross-board spamming (mostly on /sp/ and /tv/).

I agree with what was said in >>2698. K-pop is music, but the general is composed almost entirely of stuff that isn't related to the purpose of the board. There must be something that we can do about it, fixing it will improve the quality of the board a lot.
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>>3950
Hear hear.
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>>3950
Maybe KPOP needs its own containment board at this point. KPOP posters have threads on /mu/, on /r9k/, on /hr/ (and on /vg/ to a certain extent where one or two users repost the same KPOP plastics and other off-topic discussion daily).

However, why do I have the feeling that this wouldn't solve anything, I know for certain that that one KPOP poster on the Starcraft 2 general would still be shitposting even if there was a /kr/ board. His love of shitposting has no boundaries, it's his life, it's him, posting off-topic KPOP idols on a damn video game board is all he has in his pathetic life.

This is no easy task.

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So obviously with the new HTML that was rolled out today there are going to be bugs as well as things that should probably be tweaked. Use this thread to point them out!

Screenshots with annotations would be very helpful. Mods should email screenshots and explanations of mod specific bugs to grapeape@4chan.org instead of posting them here.
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>>3732
Check your native extension settings to see if "inline ban request panel" is checked or not.
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Can't open /j/ when using frames.

Have to open it in a new tab.
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I no longer have any buttons to delete or br something. I have to report the post and then I can deal with it in the "reports home" page.
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>>3925
and now they're back.
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>>3925
If you have any problems with the janitor extension, you should always try the following:

1. Go to the [Settings] menu and check the options under the Janitor section. You must enable "Janitor boards" and enter your boards in the list (press [Select]). If you want the X and B buttons, enable "Use icon buttons."
2. Make sure neither "Disable janitor extension" nor "Disable native extension" is checked.
3. Make sure you are logged in and have passed the HTTP auth prompt which pops up the first time you go to reports or /j/ after opening the browser.

HTTP and HTTPS store extension data separately, so if you go from one to the other, you won't have any janitor settings enabled.

Let me have my fun and I will leave. Deal?
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I'll even tell you how I did it
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Boo :(
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Why so mean ;_; I just want friends
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Btw this is the funniest thing I have ever read. I hope you unbanned the guy
I believe I should be unbanned from this absolutely wonderful website because I did not read the rules and therefor could not follow them. I am legally blind, and therefor can not read or write. I hope 4chan takes this handicap of mine very seriously. Also, I did not even start the said thread in question. You see, my cat did it. Yes, that feline devil started the thread which got me banned. (How could I start it if i'm blind!?) I have seriously spoken to my cat and have devised a very appropriate punishment for her. I took away her yarn ball. I know that sounds very rash and some-what abusive but I take breaking the rules of 4chan very seriously. So seriously, I have just printed out the rules and have plastered them around her play area in the event she feels the need to post again.

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So the text of this rule currently says: "All requests belong on /r/ unless otherwise noted."

That's pretty broad. This has led to some pretty divergent interpretations on the team. These differing interpretations have led to inconsistent enforcement between boards, which is apparently quite confusing some users.

For clarity, what we're trying to target with this rule is users creating new threads in which they ask for the name of a particular model or character, ask for the source of a particular image, or ask for more images of the same theme (without first providing several images of their own to get the thread started). Left alone these threads would greatly increase overall thread turnover and push most of the actual content off the board. Obviously this mostly applies to the porn boards, but it can occasionally apply to boards like /a/ and /co/ if people are asking for links to particular episodes or issues, or particular fan art images, etc.

Replies to otherwise rule-abiding threads asking for sources/names are not what we are trying to get rid of here; these are essentially harmless. The threads on these boards have a much higher reply limit than image limit, so there's no way that these sauce replies are preventing anyone from posting more content. So on one of the porn boards, within an otherwise perfectly fine thread, if someone asks for the source of one of the images within the thread then that is not something that should be deleted or ban requested; it's essentially harmless and it's a waste of everyone's time to try to police that sort of stuff. Moreover, while it might be annoying to some, it's certainly not something that we should ban someone from the entire site for 24 hours over.

tl;dr - delete or BR request threads, ignore and clear reports for request replies

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Every single day there are around 3 people simultaneously derailing threads with genwar bullshit. They spam terms like ''genwunner'', ''hoennbabby'', ''sinnohfetus'', ''unovasperm'', etc. and without fail they succeed in baiting morons to respond. Everyone on /vp/ is tired of this shit. I've been trying to curb it, but it's incredibly hard due to the fact that no one ever reports it, and when they finally fucking do, the thread is already shitposted to bump limit and the bastards responsible for it long ago moved on to destroy another thread.

I'm begging for a variant of /v/'s rule #2 (Flaming/flagrant "fanboyism"/etc. will not be tolerated.) to be created for /vp/. This would make life easier for everyone on /vp/, since now people would actually realize that genwar shitposting should always be reported and janitors would have a ban template for this shit.
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/vp/ as of late is only friend safari threads and gen wars. If the /vp/ janitors could get a specific ban template for gen wars that'd probably help them immensely.
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The 'GTS Jewing' Generals have devolved to the point of Showderp and have started to get deleted. Considering that the whole idea of these Generals is to put a crap pokemon with fake details (for example, putting up a 0IV Ditto with normal ability as a 6IV Ditto with special ability) for a Legendary, basically stealing.

These have also led to multiple 'giveaways' of 6IV Dittos of which the OP will trade cloned or multiple "6IV" Dittos (which aren't 6IV at all) and receive good high IV pokemon and run away with them.

There are legit giveaways for Dittos and other so-called PokeBank pokemon, so just keep an eye out for them.

Any threads that say they are trading pokemon for legendaries using high IV pokemon via the GTS are likely the GTS Jewing Squad at work.
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It's been just about 6 months since X/Y launched, and with some new people on board, it's probably a good time to go over the state of /vp/

The biggest overall issue /vp/ has is just not reporting the stuff that should be reported. Moderation gets blamed when something NSFW is posted but... surprise! No one reports it. If people reported stuff that's against the rules and ignored the shitposters, we'd be in the clear. (of course, that's very wishful thinking)

While measures are being taken against /vp/'s most active shitposter, we've had some new issues crop up as well. Mainly, a ton of new waifu/Pokewaifu threads as well as the advance of the Anime threads. We've had issues with Waifu threads for awhile now, and with new team members obviously comes a higher awareness for what they do. The most common ones are Pokeboy, Pokegirl, Hetero and Pokewaifu (especially Gardevoir, Lucario and Goodra threads for various reasons)

The Anime threads have officially been warned multiple times to keep their weekly episode threads from starting until Thursdays but have also now elected to have a general thread as well. Watch these threads for waifu pandering, especially in regards to the female traveling characters Bonnie and Serena.

There's a lot more issues but I think it's a good time to go over them and discuss solutions to things.
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Some of /v/'s rules applying to /vp/ makes a lot of sense.
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>>3638
Actually... most of those make a lot of sense. Especially the 'skimming the board before making topics' and keeping everything Pokemon related. Perhaps changing our rule about porn/nsfw and the like to 'any NSFW content related to Pokemon' (which covers hentai, porn, nsfw writings and drawings, among other content)

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With the recent rise of this Princess Trainer game on /v/, I thought it might be prudent to ask about an official stance on H-Games on /v/. I've personally taken to leaving the threads up and BRing any actually NWS images, but given the nature of the games they tend to attract NWS content and I was curious as to whether these belong on the board at all.
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Kill them all sir
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I think we will just leave them be until they burn out. This game doesn't have enough content to become a long time general, probably last a week more or so. I've been lurking in a few thread, very little NWS contents and the discussion was definitely there.
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Discussing nsfw games isn't against the rules, so provided they aren't posting nsfw content I don't see what the issue is. From what I've seen, people posting in the thread have largely been very mindful of the fact /v/ is a blue board.

I don't recall there ever being an issue with MGQ discussion/etc before so I'm not sure why we'd change stance now.
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>>3615

Going to have to side this with, so long as they aren't posting actual NWS content, I don't have a problem with it.
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>>3612
>Well the question is, where would they go? /h/?
Discussion of hentai games DOES belong on /h/, just like discussion of hentai anime belongs on /h/ and not /a/. Not a lot of it is actually taken there, but that's where it should be.

I personally don't think any H-games should be discussed on /v/ at all, but owing to the staff's stance about discussion always being worksafe or something, these particular threads are probably okay. But /v/ posters often just ignore the fact that it's a blue board, so if you want to give all H-games a free pass, you're occasionally going to have more trouble than it's worth -- see the recent release of Artificial Academy 2's character creator, for example.

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Ok, I've asked about this in the IRC a couple times a few months back but I never got a response. All the kpop faggots on /mu/ are claiming that they have to post their waifu shit on the /mu/ kpop thread because the waifu-centric ones on /r9k/ always get deleted. Janitors of /r9k/ is this true? Because I think a topic-less board is a much better place for that stuff than a topical one, and for a little while when we at /mu/ started cracking down on waifu shit, all the waifufags actually left and the kpop threads on /mu/ actually became music-related and civil. Can we just let that happen again?
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They've been showing up more recently on /jp/, trying to butt in on the AKB48 threads. Been dealing with em accordingly.
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Template:
>Off-topic; all images and discussion should pertain to ROBOT culture. Advice threads belong in /adv/.
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>The robot is reborn! A place for hanging out and posting greentext stories.

I don't admit to being an expert on /r9k/, but there is a Robot culture, hence the board not just being another /b/ or /s4s/.
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>>3594
>all images and discussion should pertain to ROBOT culture.
Seriously? That is really not made clear anywhere in the rules.
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>>3595
It is indeed the template that I, and the /r9k/ have undoubtedly used many times before. I agree that it should be clear in the rules as well.
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>>3595
I freely admit that this doesn't make any sense and it should probably be removed.

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>Advertising (all forms) is also not welcome—this includes any type of referral linking, "offers", soliciting, begging, stream threads, etc.

There's some confusion regarding stream thread. For the longest time I believed that there was a blanket ban on them because, to quote one mod: "4chan is not for watching others play or draw things on streams."

Then the 4chan cup happened and after some minor drama and spam they were allowed on /vg/ and /sp/ while banned everywhere else. And now, months later, it seems there are even more exceptions to the rule and it's becoming really hard to remain consistent and not look like a hypocrite in deleting one stream thread while leaving another one up, what with conflicting orders from different mods.

So the question I have is: What am I supposed to look for when deciding whether a certain stream thread should be deleted or kept? When does it break the rules?
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We should define "stream threads."

The problem is that there seems to be an expectation that every thread that has anything to do with a stream must be advertising, and therefore falls under global rule 11, which we apply with no wiggle room. But that's clearly not the case, because many threads associated with live events and streams happen on various boards - game threads on /sp/, live watch threads on /a/ and /tv/, event stickies on /v/. Many threads on /vg/ center specifically around streams. All of these are live events where the thread serves as a place to comment and discuss the event, and in this day and age more and more live events are going to involve Internet streams.

What's the key difference that allows these threads to be posted? From my perspective, it's the fact that they are cases where we can be certain that the people making the threads are not really advertising, because they are not the ones producing or profiting from the stream content. We know, for sure, that the OP of an /sp/ hockey thread is not an NHL sponsor or a Fox Sports PR agent. But that's just the way I see it.

So, a bright-line line rule banning "stream threads" isn't good enough if the definition of "stream thread" is this unclear. Obviously it doesn't mean "any thread that has anything to do with an online stream," and we can't reduce it to "monetized streams only" since as mentioned before that's too hard to determine. So what does it mean?
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>>3518
On vg when the stream is relevant to the thread I usually leave it, for the most part they are.
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>>3519
IIRC on /vp/ it used to be a complete ban, way back when nuzlocke streams flooded the board.
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If we wanted every link to every stream to be banned under all circumstances, we'd just put all the domains on autoban. I've often posted stream links myself, and have stickied threads that link to streams, and I don't think that every single stream is always bad under every possible circumstance. Often they're blatant advertising/spam, but other times they're innocent and are positive contributions to the community. A certain amount of judgement needs to be exercised.

What we're trying to achieve is to prevent people from using 4chan as a means of advertising their monetized streams, and for preventing every person with a Twitch or Synctube account from spamming thread after thread of game or movie streams. We're not trying to ban every single stream link as sometimes the streams are both on-topic and entirely necessary to the discussion at hand. For instance, in a game thread on /sp/, if someone links to a stream that's fine. Ditto with someone linking to an esports tournament stream on /vg/, or a stream covering an industry announcement or event on /v/ or /a/.

What's NOT ok is people starting new threads for their personal movie streams on /v/, /x/, /tv/, /co/, etc, even if those streams are in some way topical. Ditto for threads devoted to personal game streams (typcailly twitch.tv).

The question you should be asking yourself is: "Is this stream being advertised for the benefit of the owner (to get ad money, view counts, subscribers, influence, etc) or is this stream simply being linked to by someone other than the owner for the purpose of adding to an existing discussion?".

The blanket ban was put in place because it's difficult, or in some cases impossible, for staff to know which streams are monetized and which ones are not. It's usually pretty obvious which are which, but for cases where you're uncertain (for special events, for instance) ask a mod. I'll try to provide some guidance.

Here are examples of advertising/spam streams
● Streaming Kung Pow - Come watch at http://synctube.com/my_stream_site
● I'm a gurl playing LoL @ twitch/sweatycleavage - Please subscribe!
● Come watch the big game with us! http://joowz.spamredirect.com
● GiantBomb is marathoning pokeymans for charity! Come watch with us: http://giantbomb.com/give_us_hits

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>>3521
>GiantBomb
for the record, giantbomb is owned by CBSi and should be considered more like an esports stream: 3rd party professional content that is subject related (vidya) but the poster is pretty much 100% unaffiliated with and is only using 4chan as a vessel for discussion. in most cases the v community works to circumvent CBSi's paywall and will provide links to information on how to obtain their premium content - think /sp/ posting cookies to access NFL's online content during the last season.

conceivably you could delete these links as they are probably violating copyright law if you wanted but they definitely are not advertising.

otherwise i agree with all the other examples, and it's pretty easy to distinguish between someone's personal stream promotion vs professional media content relevant to the board subject. i think ">the topic of discussion exists independent of the stream; the stream is merely in support of the discussion" is a solid golden rule if people are unsure if a stream link is advertising.

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So, Japanese figurines/pvc. They're not specifically enumerated in the rules of /jp/ and /toy/ specifically says "no Japanese figurines".

Obviously figs are very much a general Otaku interest, but we've had a couple of threads completely trashed by mass spam dumps from people who don't want them on /jp/.

I'm wondering if the phrase "figurines (NO hot glue)" can be added to /jp/ rule 1. Unless, of course, there's some objection.
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They are majorly otaku culture and they've been cited as on-topic in the first moot post. They are as important as Touhou and VNs, in my opinion. No need for them to show up on rules.
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>>2893
I agree 100%. Just my inner OCD/autist keeps yelling about it. Like I said, it's a little thing.
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Hello there. Theres just a couple suggestions I have for /jp/.

The first being the image limit. I'd like to try setting it at 300 images/300 post bump limit (Currently 150/300). Theres two kinds of threads I can categorize:
1. Image dumps that usually hit that 150 pretty fast, and then the thread gets abandoned in favor a new one. (Most touhou threads, Kigurumi, Train cam, Japanese scenery, Idol threads sometimes)
2: Discussion threads where posts will likely hit 500 before even 10 images get posted. (Kantai Collection, Most VN Generals, Vn Translation, /jp/ Projects, and most every other thread as our users aren't as fond of reaction images as other boards.)

I'm suggesting this because i've noticed been a recent trend where users are trying to discourage others from posting images (On an imageboard, no less) to save room for "more important" pictures, in particular the Idol posters and Kantai threads. I think this will benefit the rest of the board as the usual imagedump threads will have less duplicates from people wanting to continue a themed thread, and once the original thread gets maxed out on its image limit it will have already hit its bump limit as well, letting the thread slide peacefully away. I think the increased image limit would be balanced out by the large number of threads that don't frequently post images anyway, and this will not affect them in the slightest bit. There's been a troublemaker that bumps abandoned threads for whatever reason, but this is more of a side effect "cure" for that I suppose.
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Secondly, the post timer, specifically the new thread creation timer.
As it currently stands, its aburdly long and only punishes those who make on-topic threads. It does nothing to limit actual spammers.

The main reason for this is when an off-topic post, or spam, gets deleted that post timer gets reset. Our ever present spammer remakes his threads every 15 minutes as soon as the mutes expire. Meanwhile everybody else has to deal with the next 3 (is it 3?) hours of downtime if they maxed their thread out and want to make a new one, or want to correct a mistake in the OP on things like comikets, VNTS, kantai, or idols.

If the timer could be reduced to maybe 1 hour, and have some way to not reset that timer on thread deletion, that would keep the number of BRs i'd have to send for specific spammers WAY down. As it is, if I don't BR them then the thread gets reposted within the next 5 minutes guaranteed. Granted this would probably just make them reset their routers more often, but its still one more step they have to take to be a problem while easing up on our normal users.

Thirdly: If the image limit changes happen, could /jp/ get a short sticky mentioning this, as well as a reminder to use the catalog and reporting features, and take it easy and such?

Fourthly: Any chance on getting local/global ban request templates for "4chan/jp is not your blog" or a local one for starting inter-community flamewars? Similar to the one /v/vp/vr/ has for console and genwars.
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>>3441
I support these ideas. As a whole, the current spammer are barely affected by the thread timer, mainly because we currently have only one guy who keeps posting the same threads every time, and he easily deals with the limit because of the reset when his threads are deleted.
The image limit being adjusted would also be quite helpful, considering imagedumps are quite common in /jp/, even if we also gather a lot of dicussion.
The flamewar/not your blog template would be interesting, although I don't see it as a priority. For now, revamping the timer system would be more helpful to the board.

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>Вellatap!THORNEYX7s!!4OZ4td6vwjq
>Banned countless time, uses different tripcodes to bypass
>Replies seem automated in nature
>If it's not automate, it's one very sad person who has organized posts to spam
>All posts are about an underage disney channel girl

When is this going to end? It's annoying that there is almost always going to be an "underage disney girl" thread on the frontpage of /tv/. Bellatap has been banned countless times at this point, threads deleted thousands of times at least. It's clear 99% of the users do not want bellatap on /tv/ and just have to grit and bear it because we(the janitors) can't stop him. Help? Pic very related
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>>3381
I've banned him a couple of times in the past few days. He's been posting from some ranges that by rights should've been banned a while ago. They're banned now, though that's unlikely to stop him.
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>>3255
The same thing happened on /r9k/.

People will/and probably are filtering his threads.
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>>3381
OP here. I have noticed a decrease in his posting, but maybe he's just switching methods. Thanks for the update.
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Yeah he seems to have given up on using tripcodes for the time being, but now someone is spamming another thread in place of those birthday countdown ones, something along the lines of "RIP Вellatap" accompanied by a picture of the actress. I presume this is his new daily repost thing for now, so ban request on sight for reposting at least.

But if you see any threads about Adam Sandler atm (pic related), just be wary he may be posting in those as the actress is question is starring in one this upcoming film of his called 'Blended' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1086772/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_3

Now I know /tv/ in general can struggle to keep any sort of topic on track where certain actresses are involved, but this guy is relentless and constantly ban evades and sees to it that threads turn to shit about him and drags in unrelated waifu debate crap. So if you suspect it is him, Id recommend pinging a mod if you can. Its really painful to watch those threads get clogged up and derailed with his BS.

One more thing, there is a similar ban evader who goes by the name !mOMSEnVKAI aka Mr !MoMseNWOak who has also dropped his tripcode(s) recently, and just like Bellatap he constantly posts images of the eponymous actress (Taylor Momsen in this case) and just continually causes drama about waifu related meta garbage (he'd do this all the time in /q/ IIRC). This guy still sometimes posts with a trip, but more frequently now he posts as Anonymous. He has a habit of going into Red Letter Media threads and stirring up meta drama, so just be on the lookout - he still attaches pictures of taylor momsen to nearly every post so he's quite easy to spot. It seems like he takes umbrage with low content RLM threads amongst countless other things, but he just makes things 10 times worse by stretching meta arguments out over 100+ posts, its a similarly painful experience as the Bellatap derails.
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>>3410

I have noticed that Momsen is back; I've been BRing for avatarfagging when applicable.

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As we move into Fall I think we should have a thread about /v/ to discuss current events and future items to look for or be aware about. I got some topics ready to go but if you got anything to add please do so!

Anyways, current events I think that should be addressed, if you got input then give it!:

1. GTA Threads. They’re huge and ubiquitous, and the whole thing has been pretty crazy from the island info leaks to the actual game leak to the actual release. Long story is, there’s a lot of ‘em, and there has been a lot of ‘em, the main issue being that there’s like 6 on the board at any time.
I think that no later than after this next weekend we should really work on containing them. Not “banishing them to /vg/” but we should ensure at least related GTA topics stay in one thread, that’s a service we owe /v/.

2. Low quality posts, I think that ultimately they’re being diminished but they also seem to be homogenizing. I’m seeing less “xxdddDDDxxd” sort of stuff and more “*tip fedora*” or some other kind of action GAIA bullshit. Luckily, the users are pretty good at reporting this so I’m happy about that. Are other janitors noticing something similar?

3. Ban Evaders. Seems like I see less and less or Kronie on /v/ and a lot more on /vg/. The only notable guy I can name off the top of my head atm that I’ve seen repeatedly recently is that thundersword guy. Am I missing people or are you guys noticing the same thing?

4. Flamewards, fanboyism, trolling, etc. General consolewar stuff seems down but that’s probably just a calm before the storm (more on that later), the biggest areas seem to be LoL vs. DotA2 stuff and a slow but steady resurgence in WRPG vs. JRPG stuff. Has anyone noticed any other areas to pay attention to?
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As you already pointed out, I also see less and less ironic shitposts. The fake roleplaying stuff you mentioned earlier is just another type; there's no need to worry about it, if you ask me.

Ban evaders are always roaming around on /v/ and I still see Kronie to this day. It also looks like Manly Tears is still posting but he seems to get banned regularly when he's caught advertising his channel. I personally do not ban request him, since he's posting anonymously to avoid bans. I haven't seen KurokawaThundersword in a while and I believe he has stopped posting for now but don't forget that he can always return.

>Has anyone noticed any other areas to pay attention to?
We should definitely keep an eye on the new Pokemon threads. As the administrator said, Pokemon has its own board and belongs there; this means Pokemon threads are permitted to be shot down on /v/.
Also, I fear there soon will be a rise of pony trolls again; TF2 was updated with a pony hat and I believe trolling in these threads will increase.
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>>3241
I would also approve of some stickies, the moderators definitely should put a few up, otherwise the whole board might as well be called /ps4/, /xb1/ or /sws/.

>>3242
>other repeaters like "What is the [x] of video games?" usually used as a way to make offtopic threads about subject x
This. I delete those threads on sight. If I recall correctly this started with "What is the Eva of video games?" and the only thing they talked about in these threads were Evangelion, Madoka or other anime. The pattern is always the same: stay on-topic for a while and then discuss anime.


>>3332
>One other issue I'd like to bring up that has really been gaining too much popularity is the "*raises paw*" and other furry roleplaying shit. There was far too much over the last few days
>last few days
If only, that would be too good. The acceptance of furfags and their general behavior has been growing since early 2012; the origins seem to come from dragon dildo threads and off-topic garbage like making fun of furfags.
A prime example would be the infamous "dragon threads". The OP seems to be just an anonymous poster who wants to discuss dragons in video games, but if you open large threads, you will notice that there is a lot of furry shitposting in them, from yiffing to furporn to RP, circlejerking and all that other crap.

The big problem here is that there are users who endorse such behavior and support it, while either trying to barely not break any rules or forcing it in other threads. I'm afraid it might be organized shitposting.
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Have some confirmed Steam sale dates:

- November 27th through December 3rd
- December 19th through January 2nd
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>>3351
Thanks pal
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>>3351
Time to start saving up my money.
And bandwidth.

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How do you add/change your nickname on IRC without it making you a 'guest'? Layman's terms please.
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>>3267
What program or method are you using to connect?
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Hexchat
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>>3269
pretty sure you need to go to file --> network list.Then change your nick up at the top.

So then you're gonna have to register that nick on rizon, since you can't enter #janiteam without a registered nick.
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>>3270
there should also be a field for your nickserv password, so after you register you can have it automatically log you in on startup.
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Okay, thanks! I'm going to try that in a day or so when I get back home and can log onto IRC.


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