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create a mechanism by which every 72 hours a random selection of a few posters who've been active in CSPAM during the preceding period are given IK buttons, until the next shuffle wherein they lose them and another random selection gain them
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Nov 22, 2021 07:46
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R. Guyovich posted:if anyone tries to give me any power over these forums again i will use it to immediately delete gbs, pyf and byob Seems like a distinction without a difference. homex for admin (again).
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Nov 22, 2021 08:24
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Azathoth posted:I'm certainly up for increased punishment on right wing dipshits, but separate from that, I'd just like to say that I'm so goddamn proud of how this forum has handled the Rittenhouse poo poo. Every other forum ended up needing to close their threads and you all trolled the poo poo out of anyone dumb enough to try it here. your'e welcome, I take credit for that.
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Nov 22, 2021 14:25
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Wheeee posted:create a mechanism by which every 72 hours a random selection of a few posters who've been active in CSPAM during the preceding period are given IK buttons, until the next shuffle wherein they lose them and another random selection gain them Randomly IKing thread posters in CSPAM on a rotating basis so that new IKs are chosen every ~24 hours would be a stupid idea and also a funny thing to do for April Fools' or just by surprise for no reason. Maybe limit candidates to a minimum post count scaled to the number of posts the thread has, weighted by how recently they've regularly posted in the thread to avoid handing IK powers to some drive-by weirdo or inactive poster because that would be slightly less funny. Or not because that sounds like the sort of thing I'd design while avoiding work but I assume astral has plenty to do already. Also I'm tired of hearing about larry. He wasn't that funny or upsetting and I have no idea why you people care so hard.
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Nov 22, 2021 15:36
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still can’t add mods to ignore list
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Nov 22, 2021 17:30
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Loucks posted:Randomly IKing thread posters in CSPAM on a rotating basis so that new IKs are chosen every ~24 hours would be a stupid idea and also a funny thing to do for April Fools' or just by surprise for no reason. Maybe limit candidates to a minimum post count scaled to the number of posts the thread has, weighted by how recently they've regularly posted in the thread to avoid handing IK powers to some drive-by weirdo or inactive poster because that would be slightly less funny. Or not because that sounds like the sort of thing I'd design while avoiding work but I assume astral has plenty to do already. my favourite April Fool's idea is that every poster is an IK for 24 hours, but making the mod list at the top of CSPAM 900 names long might actually break the forums
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Nov 22, 2021 17:39
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vyelkin posted:my favourite April Fool's idea is that every poster is an IK for 24 hours, but making the mod list at the top of CSPAM 900 names long might actually break the forums That would also be funny af. Less so the breaking the forums part. Also I imagine qqcs crew would immediately run in and start mashing buttons in an unfunny way because it's very important to own one's posting enemies apparently.
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Nov 22, 2021 17:41
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vyelkin posted:my favourite April Fool's idea is that every poster is an IK for 24 hours, but making the mod list at the top of CSPAM 900 names long might actually break the forums yes please. I have enough confidence in astral's skills to keep all the names from showing up otoh having 900 names in the ik list would be funny as hell
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Nov 22, 2021 17:48
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Loucks posted:Randomly IKing thread posters in CSPAM on a rotating basis so that new IKs are chosen every ~24 hours would be a stupid idea and also a funny thing to do for April Fools' or just by surprise for no reason. Maybe limit candidates to a minimum post count scaled to the number of posts the thread has, weighted by how recently they've regularly posted in the thread to avoid handing IK powers to some drive-by weirdo or inactive poster because that would be slightly less funny. Or not because that sounds like the sort of thing I'd design while avoiding work but I assume astral has plenty to do already. maybe have it be a reward for hitting a posting milestone. 50k posts, IK for a day.
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Nov 22, 2021 18:02
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Loucks posted:Or not because that sounds like the sort of thing I'd design while avoiding work but I assume astral has plenty to do already. It's this one. BONGHITZ posted:still can’t add mods to ignore list Eventually, you may become able to add IKs to your ignore list to block their posts in forums they don't IK.
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Nov 22, 2021 18:38
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Azathoth posted:I'm certainly up for increased punishment on right wing dipshits, but separate from that, I'd just like to say that I'm so goddamn proud of how this forum has handled the Rittenhouse poo poo. Every other forum ended up needing to close their threads and you all trolled the poo poo out of anyone dumb enough to try it here. I'm honestly surprised that everything more or less stayed on topic despite the sheer contentious nature of it
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Nov 22, 2021 20:35
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Korean Boomhauer posted:I sorry I haven’t been able to change it lately. I’m out of town and it’s hard to do stuff like that on mobile lol that's more of an issue with the application more than the website, but I should ask astral while they're here: do you intend to release any sort of SDK or allow some hooks to let the application add moderation options as it pings or authenticates?
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Nov 22, 2021 22:32
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Victory Position posted:that's more of an issue with the application more than the website, but I should ask astral while they're here: do you intend to release any sort of SDK or allow some hooks to let the application add moderation options as it pings or authenticates? There are no near-term plans for a moderation API, if that's what you're asking. We're still in the "stop everything from being on so, so much fire" stage, though smaller bugfixes and improvements of course still happen.
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Nov 22, 2021 22:58
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Speaking of, if anyone wants to keep up with the latest forum fixes and improvements but is not already aware of it, there's a thread you can bookmark where those get posted: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3952750 Also, if anyone has an idea for a forum feature, wants to report a bug, or generally wants to discuss the forum software, please feel free to make a new thread in the Technical forum. If possible, please do try to search beforehand if there was already a thread about a topic (there are a lot of threads!).
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Nov 22, 2021 23:01
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astral posted:Speaking of, if anyone wants to keep up with the latest forum fixes and improvements but is not already aware of it, there's a thread you can bookmark where those get posted: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3952750 This is cool. I'm curious what makes moderation on mobile difficult. I just use the normal web interface to browse on my phone and it's fine. I have a recent phone, but not one of those gigantic phablets or anything. Is the mod interface just really weird and complex? I mean I'm not complaining if I manage to miss a probe for posting dumb nonsense again, but it seems like an odd problem.
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Nov 22, 2021 23:04
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Loucks posted:This is cool. My understanding is that people like to use the third-party mobile apps to browse SA, but those don't really have moderation features implemented. The forums themselves aren't very well-designed for mobile (one thing among many that we plan to improve in time) and the moderator tools are no exception. There's a very tiny button on each post that pops up a similarly tiny menu; it works well on a desktop with a mouse, but I can't imagine that's at all pleasant on a phone.
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Nov 22, 2021 23:09
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Huh, I used to use the app before I bought a modern smartphone, but I have no problem with the full website on mobile now, just occasionally have to turn it to landscape and zoom. Maybe I'm an outlier, but I can't stand the way mobile devs usually seem to strip away half the site's functionality to make it work with ancient low resolution devices. That said I'm sure plenty of users would appreciate a slick mobile site, and no one asked me anyway. Guess if we go full on Mobile Experience I can always request the desktop site. Anyway thanks for sharing all this stuff here. I appreciate that there's some engagement with users even if most of our ideas and suggestions are wild nonsense and totally not viable.
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Nov 22, 2021 23:19
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astral posted:My understanding is that people like to use the third-party mobile apps to browse SA, but those don't really have moderation features implemented. The forums themselves aren't very well-designed for mobile (one thing among many that we plan to improve in time) and the moderator tools are no exception. There's a very tiny button on each post that pops up a similarly tiny menu; it works well on a desktop with a mouse, but I can't imagine that's at all pleasant on a phone. This is accurate. To explain a bit further, basically all the moderation buttons for a specific thread are in a big row at the very top. Choosing a specific one on mobile requires zooming in and out and sometimes that messes with the rendering at least on my phone (happens in both Firefox and Chrome, fwiw). Stuff for a specific user is all linked to a small button on each of their posts, which you gotta click on then choose from a list of things that are used for both good (give plat, give custom title, and title blank) and bad (probation and ban). It's real easy to hit one or the other and not notice because the text is pretty small. As an example of why I try not to mod on mobile, I once tried to give someone a ban+30 but ended up giving them a 6er instead. Now, you may be asking how I could be that stupid, and the answer is a little complicated. First, understand that to prevent accidents, bans and probes are applied separately. So I first went in and applied a 30 day probation. Because this is a serious punishment, it is reviewed by an admin before it is applied, just like a ban is. So I did that correctly, but then when I went to do the ban, I accidentally clicked on Probation again. The screens look real similar and unlike a probation where you have to choose a length (unless you want a default 6er), bans are regular ban by default so I wasn't expecting to change anything. I missed on my phone that there was a drop-down instead of a radial button, and applied a 6er instead, which either overrode the 30 day probe or the admin who looked at it declined because I did a later probe (I'm unclear on that, but it's not really relevant). vyelkin caught the issue quick fortunately so it wasn't a problem, but after that, I stopped doing any modding on my phone. So yeah, it's possible to moderate on a phone, at least for some folks, but it is a gigantic pain in the rear end and prone to misclicks so a lot of folks don't do it or don't do it unless they absolutely must.
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Nov 22, 2021 23:37
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Azathoth posted:Stuff for a specific user is all linked to a small button on each of their posts, which you gotta click on then choose from a list of things that are used for both good (give plat, give custom title, and title blank) and bad (probation and ban). It's real easy to hit one or the other and not notice because the text is pretty small. And when Az and astral say they're small buttons, they aren't kidding. This is what happens if I want to give Az a sixer for fun: First, I have to click the tiny little square button on the far left:  Then it opens this equally small menu:  If I click "probation" it takes me to this menu:  where I have to choose the length of probe from a dropdown box (it defaults to a sixer if you don't pick anything), write in the reason that will appear in the Leper's Colony and the user's rap sheet, and add any mod-only notes if there's a need for any. If I want to ban Az instead, I get this menu:  It's basically the exact same form but you just pick between ban and permaban (it defaults to a regular ban if you do nothing) and write in the reasons same as with the probation. I've never tried to do it on mobile because I always just browse from my laptop, but I can really see how the tiny buttons and virtually identical screens lead to mistakes now and then. And astral could tell you this far better than I could, but this is a very low priority for fixing because it generally works the way it should and it's a feature that a very small proportion of the users of the site ever interact with.
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Nov 22, 2021 23:45
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so, anyone here planning on shooting up any protests? Just checking to make sure I don't catch a stray round while I'm out xmas shopping. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Nov 23, 2021 01:31
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DObnfF9wCw have you guys seen this video. pretty cool
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Nov 23, 2021 02:20
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OK, that’s far more of a hassle than just clicking around and shitposting where the worst pain point is manually entering bbcode. I can see why no sane person would mod on their phone. Thanks for the explanation.
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Nov 23, 2021 02:42
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There is no sane reason to be reading these forums on a mobile browser over one of the apps, both the Android and iOS apps are vastly superior reading and posting experiences.
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Nov 23, 2021 03:12
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Shout out to the bird thread for being the best thread. Corvids rule
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Nov 23, 2021 12:34
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cspam is for the birds
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Nov 23, 2021 13:22
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zegermans posted:your'e welcome, I take credit for that. my feedback is that i have no idea what your posting is like but i always smile when i see your cute zergling avatars, zegermans
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Nov 23, 2021 15:26
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Can we get the glenn greenwald thread stickied for a week? the posting has been rather circular with the trolling lately, and needs better posting
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Nov 23, 2021 23:44
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papa horny michael posted:Can we get the glenn greenwald thread stickied for a week? the posting has been rather circular with the trolling lately, and needs better posting convincing people to post in the Glenn thread is getting a buddy to try malort, not for the faint of heart nor something someone should just stumble into
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Nov 24, 2021 00:12
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ok you can turn off the bat signal now
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Nov 24, 2021 11:15
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please beecock any goatstein posts until he posts his steampunk wedding photos
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Nov 24, 2021 14:41
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Rad-daddio posted:so, anyone here planning on shooting up any protests? lol gonna cry?  (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Nov 24, 2021 15:20
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That loving pose cracks me up every time.
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Nov 24, 2021 15:25
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Loucks posted:That loving pose cracks me up every time. the gif answers the question no one knew to ask: what would it look like if gumby was antifa
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Nov 24, 2021 15:58
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ban vlogging
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Nov 24, 2021 17:13
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My favorite reports were always the many frustrated people reporting Alec's vlogs going  WON'T SOMEONE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS?!
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Nov 24, 2021 17:23
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:My favorite reports were always the many frustrated people reporting Alec's vlogs going We are powerless to stop him in the face of such pure posting spirit. Also, I refuse to watch any of them to see if he's actually doing something that warrants a ban. It is truly a catch-22.
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Nov 24, 2021 17:26
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:My favorite reports were always the many frustrated people reporting Alec's vlogs going lol people actually reported the vlogs? They suck but are allowed under the current cspam rules. This is why I second this motion: ShallNoiseUpon posted:ban vlogging
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Nov 24, 2021 18:15
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Rad-daddio posted:lol gonna cry? they are crying right now (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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ShallNoiseUpon posted:ban vlogging
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