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CSPAM is kind of like a mixtape pulling from all over the forum. It's mostly non-awful D&D stuff, because that's where the largest ideological/posting-style differences exists, but you'll get a video game thread, a mental health thread and a cooking thread that are a refreshing mix of effortposting and shitposting. I don't think complaining about CSPAM chat threads is fair; those are the norm in most of the other subforums as well at this point, and probably just indicative of the age of this community. I see CSPAM posters being active across the site. Most of the time it feels more like places such as D&D are the quarantine forums, which require strict rules and sympathetic mods to keep the discourse and culture from naturally aligning with the dominant trend. With a significant change in how the site is moderated, specifically when it comes to making fun of libs and calling shitheads what they are to their face you'd probably not need a CSPAM after a period of adjustment. It would all be CSPAM at that point, and what a glorious day that would be. The worst part about CSPAM are the feedback threads.
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im just a simple country marijuana grow op attorney, but
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Office Pig posted:would squizzle redeem himself by banning himself
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it's cool how "weed lawyer" is a viable career now
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if anything this is what people mean when they say the chat thread spills out and why people end up finding each other extremely unbearable
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yeah it spills out when weirdos follow harton and complain about him, i guess. is there anything c-spam can do to make harton less powerrful? or must we now acknowlege him as our god?
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Jun 26, 2021 12:02
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my efforts to know absolutely nothing about that very byob person are being thwarted and i dont like it
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Jun 26, 2021 12:03
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Tiler Kiwi posted:my efforts to know absolutely nothing about that very byob person are being thwarted and i dont like it you are simply too weak to ignore harton. he is too high to acknowledge your existence, but you are are aware of him. he has won and you should accept it
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Jun 26, 2021 12:08
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forum is full of liberals and needs deleted. thanks mods 
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Jun 26, 2021 12:08
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this is just creating more beefs
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nobody followed him, you dipshits started posting about it here and now people are explaining why they don't like it when that happens.
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Jun 26, 2021 12:09
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just boofed from my vape pen. harton is, was, and will alwys be right
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Jun 26, 2021 12:17
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CODChimera posted:this is just creating more beefs i think we can move on now, i think everyones given their point of view and this thread probably dont need several pages of this
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i use 2-3 threads in this forum to read in lowercase about insane capitalism poo poo and every bit of covid news i can find, even the stuff that's wrong. there's also a parents thread that seems good if i ever have kids. it is a nice mix between topics i care about and posting for fun, sort of like the original wddp thread from 2007-2008, but with less drama. or LF but with more chat and fewer secret service visits. i also like that the mods don't seem to get too involved and most problems are resolved with posting. i can always put someone truly unbearable on ignore. i do sometimes post in d&d too so i am glad there are both. it is good that there are different things. in conclusion, cspam is a land of contrasts, but it seems mostly fine, to me. i do appreciate the admins checking in to see what can be done about a spirit of continuous improvement w/o being too prescriptive, it is very comradely of you. btw i read the first page of this thread and nothing in between. cspam is for posting and reading is optional imho.
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Jun 26, 2021 12:26
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cumshitter posted:just boofed from my vape pen. harton is, was, and will alwys be right wow yeah that is really funny
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Jun 26, 2021 12:26
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im now a glenn greenwald guy but for harton and this is acutally way easier since harton has no strong opinions
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Jun 26, 2021 12:27
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Athanatos posted:At odds how? Does that make CSPAM a Safe Spot or a Quarantine Zone? Kinda joking with that 2nd question one there...but also wouldn't mind some elaboration. It's the de facto leftist spot on SA - walk into a coffee shop or beer hall and we're the table you decide to sit at. There's no reason to make it a competition.
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Jun 26, 2021 12:29
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I love cspam because it sort of fills the current events itch that I used to go to GBS for, has a lot of good discussion but isn’t oppressive like D&D I would like a forever stickied current events thread with a poo poo posting ban
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Jun 26, 2021 12:32
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I like cspam cause I can shitpost about stuff in various related threads with folk while sometimes real rad effortposts related to those things happen too.
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Jun 26, 2021 12:34
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let my people post!!
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It was mentioned earlier that C-SPAM isn't a single community, but an aggregate of several, and I decided to actually do some stats on it. I took the non-sticky threads on the first page with more than a hundred posts, and looked at how large a percentage of posts the top 30 posters of that were responsible for, and how much overlap they had with the top 30 posters of other threads: As can be seen, the top 30 posters generally represent a significant chunk of total posts (weighted average 41%), so I think it's fair to say that they actually define the tone of a thread. Even in the threads with low percentages, every third post is by a top 30 poster, and then it goes all the way to only every tenth posts being from a non-top 30 poster. If we accept that the top 30 are pretty representative of the tone of any given thread, then we can see which threads are fringe within C-SPAM and which are more universally C-SPAM. At one end, you have Copecasts and Poop Culture, at the other, auspol and CSPAM CHAT. Of course, a thread can be fringe for reasons both of posting culture, and topic. auspol is obviously a case of being a regional topic, not particularly interesting to non-Australians, but the same explanation doesn't hold for the chat thread. It's pretty obvious that that thread has a culture divorced from the general C-SPAM culture, which can be fine, but is certainly a reason to skip it when searching for new mods. The obvious threads to look for new mods in, if you want ones that have a broader understanding of C-SPAM "culture", would be the ones where there's more overlap - a sign on noninsularity and broader appeal. They're less likely to get a blinkered view of the forum, less likely to develop tribalistic tendencies in regards to other threads and the posters in them, which should overall make them better mods - and certainly more accepted by the community. Given that trust is like the #1 thing that needs to be built up, broad appeal seems important. Tiler Kiwi posted:if anything this is what people mean when they say the chat thread spills out and why people end up finding each other extremely unbearable
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Jun 26, 2021 12:41
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ArmZ posted:let my people post!!
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Jun 26, 2021 12:41
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poofing a beefer is not funny people getting mad about poofing a beefer is pretty amusing
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why do weirdos keep coming in with demographic data of c-spam? can this forum be better run if we understand the number of the posts? the entire point of gulliver in the land of the lilliputians is that demographic data and knowledge led the lilliputians to decide that yes, the better decision was to kill gulliver rather than keep him as a weapon. swift's point was literally: This new science of demographics will be used to kill the irish also i didnt look at your tiny and smudged chart
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athanatos! athanatos! im the biggest nerd and ive run the numbers on how to make your job as a mod easier!!! -someone with no sales experience ever
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Jun 26, 2021 13:01
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this is what posting trump does to a mf
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data nerd poo poo is neat, i feed off of over analyzing numbers. tho i wonder how many ways you can shape that data to tell a different story, but i think its pretty relevant to the whole question of it the chat thread is a commons of the board or its own thing. ive always got the impression there's a divide, there's a lot of posters in that thread i dont really see much elsewhere and vice versa. i dont think its something to get defensive over. itd be kind of fun to see poster crossover presented as one of those, uh, relational web things to see where theres poster crossover and there isnt. i dont think itd help anything at all, itd just be cool to look at.
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i will use this data. to be gayer
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the data says im right. prove im wrong
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A Buttery Pastry posted:It was mentioned earlier that C-SPAM isn't a single community, but an aggregate of several, and I decided to actually do some stats on it. I took the non-sticky threads on the first page with more than a hundred posts, and looked at how large a percentage of posts the top 30 posters of that were responsible for, and how much overlap they had with the top 30 posters of other threads: this is some dnd lib poo poo gently caress off nerd
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i copy every post i read into an excel spreadsheet, because i am normal
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johnny mnemonic but all the data are crammed in my rear end. makes the ending with the dolphin more intelligible imho
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using posting phrenology to submarine my perceived forum enemies
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cumshitter put down the cocaine it's tomorrow now
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Cpt_Obvious posted:cumshitter put down the cocaine it's tomorrow now maybe this is a coke idea, but the dorks close their c-spam.xcsl and dont save and ill stop snorting
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Tiler Kiwi posted:data nerd poo poo is neat, i feed off of over analyzing numbers. tho i wonder how many ways you can shape that data to tell a different story, but i think its pretty relevant to the whole question of it the chat thread is a commons of the board or its own thing. ive always got the impression there's a divide, there's a lot of posters in that thread i dont really see much elsewhere and vice versa. i dont think its something to get defensive over. And as an addendum to my suggestion, maybe picking some mods that also post in one or more other forums wouldn't be that bad. Like, just to get more rounded mods? Not saying they need to post a ton in other forums, or that we can't have extremely C-SPAM focused mods, but getting mods with slightly broader interests wouldn't hurt either. cumshitter posted:i copy every post i read into an excel spreadsheet, because i am normal
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A Buttery Pastry posted:You've spent more time posting weird chat thread poo poo in this thread than I did loving with numbers. you crunch forum data for fun to ~create a better forums experience~ dont you dare loving talk down to me
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Gumball Gumption posted:Yeah, climate thread isn't dooming. They're just right and have the numbers to back it up. iirc climate thread had a short "you must be this doomer to post" streak about 2 years ago i think, which made it real annoying to read, but it's chill now yeah
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