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.
>>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]
should janitors get a new name?Anonymous02/08/17(Wed)14:12:00No.5971[Reply]
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?
I know that they're supposed to be on /fa/ as per https://rbt.asia/g/thread/66587656/#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"
>>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.
>>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/
Anonymous ## Manager Basic IRC Guide for Complete N(...)04/06/14(Sun)11:02 No.3582
Basic IRC Guide for Complete Noobs Version 2.0Anonymous ## Manager04/06/14(Sun)11:02No.3582[Reply]
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.
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".
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.
Caption & Literature Threads on /d/Anonymous03/23/18(Fri)22:08:20No.6602[Reply]
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/7509079. 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/.
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.
Anonymous The future of /vr/01/06/18(Sat)18:03:31 No.6498
The future of /vr/Anonymous01/06/18(Sat)18:03:31No.6498[Reply]
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.
>>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
>>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/
>>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
Quests, /tg/ and other boardsAnonymous ## Janitor12/12/13(Thu)23:49No.3396[Reply]
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.
>>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.
>>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.
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?
Anonymous Any chance of giving janitors (...)06/06/16(Mon)04:44:06 No.5430
Any chance of giving janitors additional tools?Anonymous06/06/16(Mon)04:44:06No.5430[Reply]
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.
>>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.
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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