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>>7161
i've ignored this post
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>>7161
>>7162
I've ignored and blocked both of you on facebook
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test
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>>1986
rip santa hat when i reply to this thread
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>>1986
Testing

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How easy is it to make it so that when you go to a thread, all the posts that were reported in the ban queue would show up as grey. This will make tracking replies and understanding the content much easier for everyone.

Also for the report page, is it possible to lump all the reports from 1 thread together. Or just add a sorting criteria (most reports, same thread, etc etc)
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I don't know how realistic/reasonable this request would be, but maybe there could be a "NWS" section of reports available to janitors. So instead of showing [some board]'s reports at https://reports・4chan・org/#/[some board], you could have a section purely for NWS reports from all (or most all) 4channel boards at https://reports・4chan・org/#/nws. You don't have to be familiar with a board to know whether or not something is NWS. This would hopefully help to balance out the load between janitors with higher and lower traffic boards. Maybe it would be too much work to implement this, though; I'm not sure. It's just an idea.

Also LMAO I'm getting "Error: Our system thinks your post is spam. Please reformat and try again." on /j/. That can probably be removed, since if someone is spamming on /j/, there are bigger issues than the individual post.
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>>6890
would also have to filter cute and funny
and then they'd just find other ways to say it without triggering the filter
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I'm a new janitor (came on during this cycle), but I have noticed something that might help with the queue.

It seems that a lot of the time posts that fit the criteria of "announcing reports" seem to float around on the bottom of the queue. While these are very minor infractions, they are always unambiguous WR-worthy posts. If they were sent up to the top, they'd be more apparent instead of floating around in a sea of clearable bickering at the bottom -- they along with other minor infractions that tend to get reported accurately. So, while they are not posts that require immediate attention, they are unambiguous and can be dealt with swiftly if we could see them better.

This is all speculation based on my limited knowledge. I do not know what the actual reports look like. All I know is that I find a lot of obvious posts sitting at the bottom of the queue.
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>>7094
I don't think it's (necessarily) the number of reports that is the issue, so much as the content of the posts being reported. If a post is at the top of the queue, then it probably needs to be dealt with more quickly, often for legal reasons (i.e. GRs 1, 2, 4). Stuff of low importance will be handled whenever someone gets around to it. It's fine for them to sit in the queue for however long that takes.
If you haven't downloaded it yet, you should definitely check out Hotpocket Helper >>7036
Imo it makes the sorting of reports so much easier, and it really helps to make having a large number of reports a lot more manageable.
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>>7095
It's better then the old system. Used to be sorted by the number of reports.

Post here, like your fellow jannies! Acquire e-peen!
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Only jannies with 100+ likes may post in this thread!
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I have 0 perks and i dont fucking care

Fuck yall can suck a caterpillar dick im going back to shitposting
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>>7065
updooted :^)
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>>7061
Hit the bell icon to join our notification squad and never miss another upload
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Merry Crimbo everyone!
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>>6887
*they know*
Also happy employee appreciation day

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I wrote a userscript which adds the janitor tools to 4chan x and I thought I would share it here as it seems some others may find it useful as well.

The script does the following:
- Adds the deletion and ban request icon buttons to the end of all posts, including those that are auto-updated.
- Automatically sets the cookie which 4chan x uses to determine whether or not it shows captchas to you, so you can use captchaless posting.
- Adds a link to /j/ to the end of the custom board list, and will indicate when there are new posts in a similar manner to the native extension.

If you want to post without the cooldown, there is an option in the 4chan x settings to disable this, just open the settings panel and Ctrl+F "cooldown".

The script works in pretty much the same way as the native one does, just changed to accomodate for 4chan x specific elements.

I've been using it myself for the past few days and it seems to be working fine but let me know if you find any something odd occurs, or if you have any feedback.

I have only tested it with ccd0's v3 fork, but I believe it should also work with loadletter's v2 fork.


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>>6875
Looks like its not working, for me at least.
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>>6888
Ah, nevermind I'm just retarded.
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>>6889
Would you be able to explain what you did to make it work? I'm at a loss here.
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>>6894
not him, but I did this on mine ages ago.
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With the recent updates to Hotpocket Helper, I suggest you all switch to it and ignore this script. I have been testing it and it being updated by professionals makes it a superior product.

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OH NO NO NO NO NO DOOMBROS WE GOT COCKY

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Last thread 404'd:

http://WatchSP.Net
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Can we get a filter on /lgbt/ for the specific phrase "You will die a delusional male no matter HOW you hurt yourself."

There's a spammer who posts that exact phrase, with changes in capitalization, as much as he can.

In a perfect world, it would be nice to word filter that phrase into something like "I appreciate and value you as a person." but an auto-ban or just blocking people from posting that phrase would be good enough.
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I believe there's a filter in place for vertical lines of mass-quoting, but could there be one for this style too?
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>>1329
Can we get a filter for /pol/ for anything along the lines of "how can x even compete". Usually used in the bi-nightly interracial porn spams.
Another one is ">X wants to Y this" followed by a picture of an attractive woman from some ethnic group. For example
>Trump wants to deport this
[Pic of attractive Latina]
>Serbs want to remove this
>[pic of attractive Muslim girl]
>Nazis want to gas this
[Pic of attractive Jewish Girl]

Ad infinitum.
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Filter request for the exact phrase "produce Barr bodies" on /lgbt/

It's used entirely to troll trans-posters and only serves to start off-topic shit flinging.
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discord.me/* on boards where the other discord links are filtered

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Is /j/ supposed to have porn ads?
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its part of the new janitor morale program
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I feel my work morale rising.
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my morale is rising and so is my pee pee
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>>6818
>so is my pee pee
I think you should go see a doctor
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>>6818
why is your pepe standing?

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i mean the title sounds really shameful and just opens them up to abuse from the userbase, wouldn't calling them regulators or supervisors or something have been better?
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>>5978
moot's gooks
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>>5975
>"Hiro's Heroes"
how would /tv/ feel about this
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>>5975
>Hiro's Heroes
this one, this is the name for me
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>4chan Chads
>Troll Control
>Pepexterminators
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>>6801
>4chan Chads
kek

"junior moderator" seems more appropriate

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I know that they're supposed to be on /fa/ as per https://rbt.asia/g/thread/66587656.html/#66588005 yet they're still getting made on /g/ by determined posters and perhaps posters who do not know that these threads are now supposed to be on /fa/. Is there a possibility of using the spam filter to automatically warn people with a custom message that /wt/ belongs on /fa/? The subject is always "/wt/ Watch Thread" and the OP text is usually "This is the thread about the technology of watches and timekeeping devices"
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>>6736
that's pretty retarded, watch threads make a lot more sense on /g/ than they do on /fa/, if you know anything about watches and watch enthusiasts.
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>>6741
>>6736
time to start a watch board
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>>6736
You can ask a mod to permasage.

>>6741
Tech related discussion about watches is still allowed. The general is not.
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>>6741
this
>>6746
that's kind of stupid hairsplitting. I don't see what harm those threads were doing. The /fa/ threads will be much more cancerous
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>>6741
>that's pretty retarded, watch threads make a lot more sense on /g/ than they do on /fa/, if you know anything about watches and watch enthusiasts.
>>6759
>that's kind of stupid hairsplitting. I don't see what harm those threads were doing. The /fa/ threads will be much more cancerous
Then you never spent any time in /wt/ on /g/ or moderating it. The topics in the thread were often far more /fa/ related than /g/.
It's been over a month since they were moved and it went pretty smooth compared to all the other moves I've seen. They seem to be doing well on /fa/

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So you've never used IRC before, and now you need to learn. This guide will walk you through the process of installing and configuring the necessary software to get you into #janiteam.

First, download and install OpenSSL:
http://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html

You need this piece of software as #janiteam requires that you be connected to the Rizon network using a secure connection. If you aren't, then you can't join. You need "Win32 OpenSSL v1.0.1f Light" and possibly "Visual C++ 2008 Redistributables".

Next, download and install HexChat.
http://hexchat.github.io/downloads.html

Just use the default options to install, and run HexChat when finished.
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I ended up re-registering with a new email address. It wouldn't let me register with my usual one and it kept saying Part 1 of Registration process expired or something similar. so -yay- At least I'm in there now.
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>>3582
Started using my mac more often. Best IRC client for OSX?
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>>6705
When im on my mac, i run a windows VM and use hexchat on windows.
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>>6705
irssi in your native terminal, you have access to the best IRC client so why settle for anything less?
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>>6705
after you don't like irssi, try weechat

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So I know that Captions and Literature threads on /d/ have been disallowed for quite some time now, as announced by this sticky: https://desuarchive.org/d/thread/75.html09079. Many users aren't aware of these rules, though, and post the content anyway, unknowing that it has been banned. This usually leads to it getting reported by the more experienced users, and maybe a little fighting between the more experienced users of the board and the newer people, who insist that the content is allowed because the rules don't say anything about them.

So why don't we add a rule to /d/, explaining that Fiction, Captions, and "Censorship Captions" aren't allowed? I think it would help to keep a lot of this content off /d/, and on its appropriate boards. I see a lot of content on /d/ that violates the rules or goes into a grey area, but a lot of stuff (especially western art by certain artists) never get reported, because a lot of people are just used to posting it on /d/ instead of /aco/ or /trash/.
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OP here...
So I spoke with another /d/ janitor some time ago and he had some pretty good explanations about why there aren't formal rules against captions/censorship threads. They were deemed to be of an unfitting quality to /d/, so they aren't allowed for that reason. Fiction really isn't hentai, either.

Currently vr is suffering from a massive brain drain. In it's years of existence, every topic has been explored, every anon has been called a faggot for liking the music in obscure JP only computer games and every console had been repaired using 3rd world country tier settings. There are no topics left for us to discuss and as a direct result of this, vr is in a downward spiral of shitposting. The typical vr anon is there because he sees himself as roughing it or is like me, the shit they call retro now is the shit I grew up with. In the years of vr we've enjoyed, we've had some truly great discussion without WE WUZ KANGZ memes that v deals primarily with. It is my opinion, however, that the massive wave of shitposting we have been existing in currently is a direct result of a lack of several things. New people, new ideas and new topics. I considered at length today if 2000 or 2001 would be a better goal post for the board and I can honestly say that at this point, vr serves essentially no purpose if we do not give it life. We have tilled it's soil and enjoyed many summers of fruit, but we have done so at the cost of quality.

Here is the typical morning for a vr janitor. Remove 'I can't believe you thought THIS was better than Genesis.' Browse board to remove the copy / pasted version of this thread for SNES, TurboGrafx, PC Standard / DOS and any other iterations of this thread. Anon wants to post, he wants to post on vr, but because he has discussed in detail sprite transparency, disk drive rot, button input lag and CRT refresh rates so such a degree, he would rather shitpost then have those spirited arguments for the 600th time. Having the metric of 1999 being the hardline for retro was fine for years because there was always more stuff to discuss, but vr is in the dark ages and has not had a golden era in a very long time.
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>>6597
Not him but I was a part of the conversation too.
I'd say having a separate handheld and home console cut off date would work well. Handhelds go obsolete faster than home consoles
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>>6596
>Additionally, there are concerns that opening up the GameCube and Xbox to the board would open up discussion about Smash Bros. and Halo respectively, which are ongoing and popular series and are largely defined by more recent titles.
i don't see why this is a problem when we have scenarios like this happening already
we have zelda threads where people occasionally try to talk about the modern games, metroid threads where people occasionally try to talk about the modern games, sonic threads where people occasionally try to talk about the modern games
as long as it doesn't dominate and become the focal point of the discussion (i.e. "sonic 3 handled X better than Generations did" instead of "MAN I CAN'T WAIT FOR SONIC FORCES TO COME OUT WHO'S WITH ME???"), it's fine, otherwise it gets pruned

it's going to happen anyway, trying to go with a half-solution isn't going to solve anything, especially when people WILL explicitly call out this out for being an imbalanced solution
i say apply occam's razor, just move up the cutoff one generation. gba, gamecube, ps2, xbox, bob's your uncle.

yeah, we're going to have a fucking funhouse with the smash and melee threads, but that's what we're here for. and, frankly, even the worst of them is still going to be easy street for us, /vr/ isn't as active as /vg/ or /v/
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>>6601
what we could do, which could help with new and old issues, is have a rule that ongoing series like Smash Bros. and Halo and Metal Gear are to be discussed on /v/ or /vg/
even if it doesn't dissuade bad posts by a noticeable margin, it would at least provide a clearer idea of what the board is about and provide more specific ban messages when it's broken so people have less wiggle room or genuine uncertainty
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>>6601
Why do generations instead of a specific number of years to be considered retro? That fixes the PC games confusion, too
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>>6614
Tradition.

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This is probably a discussion that needs to happen.

Some boards call them CYOAs, some call them quests.

For purposes of being on the same page, I'm going to define "quest thread" or, simply "quests" as threads that have the OP act as the author of a collaborative story where the next action of the protagonist is decided by crowd participation.
-Threads can be stand-alone, or continuous. A quest can begin and end in one evening, or take place over weeks or months, with a new thread picking up where the last thread left off.
-They should include creation of original content: text-only narrative, and/or the creation of new images as the story advances.
-The next action can be decided in various ways at the whims of the Quest Master (QM), but usually involves at least one of: voting from pre-selected choices (A, B, C...); write-in choices ("what say?"); discussion and consensus between participants; or rolling dice: either to determine which option is selected or, more commonly, to determine how effective actions are.

Quests are structured very much like tabletop roleplaying games: they have a person (OP, QM) running the thread, with participants deciding on what their character should do. It's a little bit different from most tabletop games in that the player character is played by many people at once, instead of each player playing his or her own character. There's a tabletop game called "Everyone is John" that uses this principle. Naturally, quest threads would fit most topically on /tg/.

Most QMs use a tripcode, but only for the purposes of running the quest, just like God intended. Only /tg/ has the dice-rolling function, but fast-moving boards (/v/ and /b/) use the last two digits of a post to decide the roll result. Many quests are text-only, but some do have artists drawing for each update. There are other sites (Anonkun, Questionablequesting, etc) that use different discussion software to facilitate quests.

Continued...
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>>5452
that still requires users to go into that advertising thread on /tg/ and read to discover a thread.

It's not really any different than a single meta thread on /qst/ where GMs can advertise their quest. It's just those looking for a quest that will go out of their way to see it. They can go on /qst/ if they are interested in seeing what quests there are.

I personally think /qst/ needs a broader audience to bring in more people. Games of any kind being officially allowed in. Any game that you can play via 4chan posting, allowed. Encouragement for new styles of gameplay to be experimented with and attempted.
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These are the kind of people who asked for /qst/, by the way.
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>>5449
>>overwhelming negative opinion
>From who though? The quest people?
Yes.
>I remember there being a pretty robust cooperative effort for designing the rules of /qst/ as well.
/tg/ didn't really have any kind of input on /qst/ rules, especially not once they found out that it was going to happen no matter what they said. The only things that came out of that were letting non-OPs post images (the restriction to OP was outrageous) and the 72-hour bump limit (maybe, might be forgetting).

>It might help alleviate their fears if they were allowed to have one meta thread up on /tg/ regarding quests, where they could discuss currently running games, organize and discuss plans for new games, and advertise their /qst/ threads?
There's Quest Thread General on /qst/ which is where this kind of meta thread needs to be.

Quests are insular by nature. If you play in a quest that doesn't mean you care about any other quest, and, in fact, other quests you might find right stupid. The intent of quest participants in /tg/ has never been "let me see if there are any good quests going on now" and instead has been "let's see what's on /tg/... oh look, an interesting quest thread, let's see what's going on here." /qst/ is kind of like /vg/ in that regard. You don't go to /vg/ to find new threads to post in, you go to /vg/ because you know what you're looking for already.
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>>5489
As expected, it happened! Commence the tear-drinking: https://twitter.com/cegremo_hq/status/774658216533819393
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What to do about role-play threads like Galactic Federation and Mage's Guild? I see they've been being moved from /tg/ to /qst/. Is this the preferred action going forward?

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Don't get me wrong, I'm not asking to be able to ban people or anything drastic like that. But I think that giving janitors a couple more tools would make life much easier for both janitors and mods.

First off, I'd like to be able to issue warnings.

You can often see heated discussions that start to veer off topic and start shitting up a thread. In those situations, it would be helpful if I could issue warnings to people participating in it to try to calm them down and to get them to drop the issue. I know I can request warnings, but mods can't be expected to respond to those instantly, so the thread will keep getting shat up in the meantime. And I don't really feel like issues like these are worth bugging mods for their attention on the IRC.

It's possible to try to get people to drop the issue by deleting their conversation, but it's likely that they'll miss it and won't notice the mass deletion. Or they might notice it but keep arguing anyways. By giving them warnings you're sending them a direct message, so they're more likely to pay attention to it.

I know I can give them a time out by requesting a ban, but I often don't feel like those posts are worth banning people for, and it just wastes mods' time by sending them requests over trivial things. And by giving janitors the ability to issue warnings, it eases up the mod workload as they no longer need to process warning requests from janitors.

And while on the subject, I would like it if it was possible to issue a warning without deleting the post the warning was issued for. I'm not asking for the ability to give out public warnings or anything like that, but sometimes it feels like it would do more harm than good to delete a post, but the person making that post is still making a low quality contribution and should be warned about it.
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>>6242
Permasage feature would be a godsend
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It would be really helpful if Janitors had access to an ID system, so we can tell if someone is avatar-posting easily.

What do you guys think?
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>>6244
Wont happen, we're not supposed to be able to identify posters or something.
It's a bit of a nuance, but if you see a lot of the same character being posted for no particular reason other than to hold a conversation (and if it's not just a character theme thread like you see on /a/c/e/h/v/jp/whatever/) you can stick it with an avatarfag ban request if you're confident or attempt the whole pinging a mod thing.
Can then go back and check the other similar images and see if they have a pending avatar ban request on them.
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In my book most of these requests would be godsends (modsends?), especially anything that would help us figure identify individually disruptive posters, but I think that 4chan doesn't plan to roll out anything of the sort to janitors.
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a lot of these seem like they'd be a bit much, but being able to warn posters owuld be nice.


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