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WELCOME TO THE GBS FEEDBACK POST! It's been a while since we've heard from you, our GBS posting pals. In that vein, we'd like to hear from you about your experiences with the forum. What works? What doesn't? What would you like to see more of? What would you like to see less of Couple of notes before we get started: - The reason we had the c-word rule was because long before any our times (around when Genesplicer was Jesus's high school teacher iirc) a lot of female goons really felt uncomfortable with the overuse of it, which I agree with, and therefore it was fully banned outside the last of the British Empire threads. - megathreads do exist and they're their own extremely interesting sociological niches. It's fascinating to see the thread culture that's developed over the years. However, we also recognize that there may be a large barrier of entry to a lot of threads. We'd invite your ideas on how to mitigate this issue.  RULES However, we're going to strictly moderate this thread. GBS shitposting is allowed within reason (because we can't keep you from being you), but we're going to be enforcing the rules hard.
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I can only speak for me, but I'm not going to be in total favor of a "use it at any time against anyone" sort of rule. I think there's a middle ground to be had in terms of loosening the rule, but using it against women is going to be a red line for me personally What's your thoughts on that sort of loosening?
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hosed-Up Little Dog posted:Maybe it's my lifetime spent gasping for breath struggling to keep my head out of the bog in damp rainy Britain but it seems extremely obvious when someone is being abusive to women with their choice of language and easy to be able to ban that behaviour (with or without naughty words) without using a word filter on all uses regardless of intent. Solefald posted:I'd be pretty annoyed if some mod dude swooped in to punish someone for calling me "oval office", especially if I didn't make any request for it, that's patronising as heck. If the content of post was an outright attack then sure but yeaahhh no thnx. This is a fair criticism, and maybe the outright attack angle is a different beast than just saying it I guess my issue is that the internet is already a hotbed of misogyny, and if we were to allow that word to be used freely it should come with the expectation that mods and IKs have to make judgement calls on where the line is if any. I don't want to rule lawyers this and say "this is a violation of subsection 23, clause 7". Maybe the line is direct attacks, I dunno. It's why it's helpful to have feedback like this to hear differing perspectives imo
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bagmonkey posted:hey look Shrek, it's my post I posted earlier, just fuckin do it already. If it doesn't work, go back to the old rule, ez pz. You'll have to endure like a week of heavy c word usage but the kids will tire themselves out I promise Part of why we're looking for feedback too is to update the rules thread so this'll be taken into consideration
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Yeah I don't see that going anywhere good so knock it off please 
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Aight we're done with that line of questioning
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bagmonkey posted:Back to the "Shrek Pecksniff" petition I entered on to the record earlier today Actually I've been thinking of changing my name to this no joke Might as well lean into it right?
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I do like 95%+ posting on the app and the mobile version of SA is uhhhhhh let's be generous and say it needs some improvements Don't think it's very high on astrals list rn, which, understandable!
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ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD posted:This thread seems like a gigantic honeypot for people who want to make a joke about really dumb rules they dont agree with. That being said No honeypot; we do want opinions on this but it doesn't mean we're going to act at this exact moment Nooner posted:Maybe the best solution is just to give everyone mod buttons and ability to give a hot 6 to whoever they like Unironically agree tbh
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Solefald posted:So just to be clear, they're just posting their views rather than outright dismissing people? I can't speak for them and I won't. I can only speak for myself, and I want people's views on these subjects.
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:alternatively put an actual wordfilter in place to convert it to "gbs poster", and job done I actually like this idea 
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Charles Bukowski posted:Oh yeah and I don't know any of the mods and admins anymore and they seem to either disappear when they do something irritating or are unnecessarily aggro in their pet threads or whatever. Saddest Rhino owns though. Mod voice bad, I'm 35 with a mortgage and a wheezy lung, talk to me normal. If you ain't got a bad back to go with this get off my lawn youngin
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Charles Bukowski posted:I wear a back brace working out and 2 knee braces when I go hiking. I tore a ligament in my shoulder and back while just driving. Getting old sucks. Dude that sucks! Take care of yourself In my time as mod, Greg has gone through... What six accounts? Something like that. I don't see him as necessarily a harmful poster, just one that doesn't always toe the line well and gets hit for it. I don't think he's a candidate for a permanent goodbye at all honestly, not in the same nature of those long gone. He's generic white noise shitposter #273 imo I know we have that rule against gimmick accounts and the like but it's never really been enforced because it's a legacy rule from long ago. That's probably one that'll be purged in the rules redo
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nom epique posted:Serious forums deleted when? All forums except GBS will be deleted at midnight
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Jose posted:You should switch out more often too. Gbs is gbs just swap mods often. I know I was guilty of getting lazy There ain't a brigade of posters trampling down the doors to be mod my friend
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syntaxfunction posted:Having known people who were outed and beaten while being mocked for being "an aids having human being" (I will laugh my rear end off if I get probed for that) it becomes pretty hosed up seeing people using it casually for a loving game or movie. "Oh wow that movie is so aids" cool go hate crime it I guess. You're not getting probed for that and if you do I'll ask for it to be reversed
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nom epique posted:Seth seriously unlock my thread in SAD what the heck is this? Op I don't have power in SAD I only have power OF SAD
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Sid Vicious posted:Do you like me Y[xxxxxxxxxx] N[]
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bagmonkey posted:GBS: The c*nt alarm goes off Really wish we could make this the forum title
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ninjoatse.cx posted:Byob is weirdly unchill nowadays. I don’t think they’ll mesh with geeebus. Let me echo that. It's my position is if you use it against a guy I don't really care but while we've been trying to enforce it, it's been rather inconsistent It's been fascinating to see that this is the one thing that's been bugging people. I mean anecdotally I've known that but now we have data to back it up, with some good suggestions on how to modify it. I don't mean this in a "this is a shutdown this talk" comment sort of way mind you; I'm just making a throwaway comment
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:It's more that it brings an issue of inconsistency and stupid rules to the fore. As a question, are there other rules that you see inconsistently applied or don't make sense? Like I said earlier, one of the results out of this I personally want to have is a new ruleset so hearing what may/may not work is vital to that effort We're all human - sometimes we see things and hit it, sometimes we don't see it. That's why the report function is vital - we can't or read every thread that comes up unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view)
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Nobody's saying that word filter moderation is causing users to flee the site. I'm focused only on what we can do in GBS to make it a better place to post so let's stay on that
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Bonzo posted:So I'm free to insult people, as long as its funny, but I can't say oval office. got it. I'm not sure I understand where the probing part is. If you're referring to the above conversation, it was more because I felt it was starting to veer into forums wide stuff and I can't do anything about that, I can only affect GBS As for the decision, none has been made yet. This has been up for about two full days only and the feedback is being considered. I get that we want immediate results, but I can't unilaterally deem it done because there's other mods too. This is all part of a wider ranging discussion of the rules themselves I'm gonna be as transparent as possible about the process because y'all deserve no less. We mods haven't gotten together to have a conversation about this yet, seeing how it's the weekend and I presume we have lives (excepting me, obviously). I'd also like to keep this as a permanent feedback thread too, which is another conversation we all should have But that's a long way of saying no decision has been made and we're not implementing poo poo from on high without considering where y'all are coming from
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Sid Vicious posted:Ahhh man I’m a professional artist now check it out!!! If you click the picture it’ll take you to my own website!!! Love it!
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thehandtruck posted:Didn't read the thread but is it pronounced Gibis or gee bee ess thanks u It's spelled GBS but pronounced "Throat Wobbler Mangrove"
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It's a Faustian bargain to become a mod Smugworth What you gain pales to what you lose
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syntaxfunction posted:I don't give a gently caress if "oval office" is banned, go nuts. I just don't think it makes any sense that collectively every subforum mod has discussed this and agreed it's a bad idea, but things like "retard" are still up in the air I guess? Well, again, this isn't about the rest of the site, it's about GBS specifically. I will state that ableist language is going to continue to be off the table in terms of allowance. What I will say on the topic is that every forum is its own ecosystem, much like a lot of individual threads can be. There's the generalized site wide rules (which terribly need updating) and each forum has its own autonomy to craft rules specific to them, and it's pretty much always been this way. You wouldn't want D&D rules in here, would you? (Not to pick on them but it's the best example of how the rules of another forum definitely wouldn't apply here). FYAD definitely doesn't want GBS rules and I'm not sure CSPAM would accept rules crafted in BYOB. Each forum has its own culture, and I kinda like it like that personally. But this is my garden I tend to so I wanna make sure you beautiful flowers are happy and fed
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Want to pop in and say I see the comments, I just want to be in a space where I have time to give thoughtful responses rather than giving you just whatever poo poo leaks from my brain at that exact moment
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ok so I'm finally at my computer. I mostly didn't want to type this all on my phone. That would have been a nightmare tbh.BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:I personally don’t use the word and I understand that it’s used differently elsewhere in the world, but if it’s causing this much stress where every time feedback is requested that’s all anyone can talk about then just loving ban it in GBS because clearly everyone’s opinion on what constitutes proper use and intent is going to differ. If you’re that butthurt about not being able to use a single word then I don’t know what to tell you about how to navigate life in general. If it is that important to you to be able to say it just go to FYAD or IZ and go hog wild. I mean, I guess we could outright ban it, but it'll still have the same issue we had before where everyone's going to litigate why they should be able to use it and not anyone else. I'd like to take a charitable approach and think that not everyone who's advocating this has a burning desire to say the word whenever they want, otherwise yes there are definitely other forums you could go in and say that. Proceed at your own risk, though  syntaxfunction posted:Literally just agreeing on what slurs are inappropriate, site-wide, is something that should not be outside the realm of possibility. Extrapolating to "we need the same rules absolutely everywhere always" is not what I meant, nor is it a sensible thing to do? Ok I see where you're coming from on this, and sorry I didn't understand it earlier. I get what you mean now. The forums have definitely evolved over the years. When I first joined the f-slur was thrown around like it was confetti in a parade, r-word was pretty commonplace and the n-word was still bannable outside FYAD (thankfully). But we've all grown older, wiser and probably a bit more misanthropic tbh. Well, most of us. I would honestly encourage you to post this in SAD (yes I know, it seems like a copout) because it's probably a debate worth having with the forums at large. There's still a really large contingent of people who just must be able to post certain words. I don't understand it. I would hope they're not that way irl but who knows.  I think it comes down to the individual forum ecosystems and what's acceptable there. Most of those words aren't acceptable outside FYAD and the lites, but also them getting hit is rather inconsistent as well I've found. I wish I could provide a more satisfying solution at this moment. syntaxfunction posted:Okay well, then in GBS we should be able to use any slur or hateful remark or sentiment that gets a pass anywhere else on the site. This is the general forum so it should be a general melting pot of ideas (maybe even a marketplace of free ideas) so we shouldn't disallow anything that makes people from other places feel weird. I won't speak for other mods, but what I want to achieve from this thread is: 1) Hearing from the userbase about what works and what doesn't 2) trying to come down from "on high" and have a real conversation with users 3) updating the rules after hearing feedback I want to also mention I haven't ignored or dismissed anything. I'm stating from my view why certain things work and certain things may not work. When I say things like "This may be more of a SAD issue" or "Let's not get into forums flamewars" and the like, it's more because either I cannot provide a satisfying resolution, or because I want to keep this thread nominally on track. In terms of this: quote:Okay well, then in GBS we should be able to use any slur or hateful remark or sentiment that gets a pass anywhere else on the site. This is the general forum so it should be a general melting pot of ideas (maybe even a marketplace of free ideas) so we shouldn't disallow anything that makes people from other places feel weird. From my understanding, Jeff sees GBS as the forum's "front page" (he's free to come in and correct me if I'm wrong here). New users will most likely come here to see what SA is about before going off and exploring the rest of the forums. I'll say if I was a new user and saw the threads crawling with slurs and stuff, I'd run off the site and never come back. I'd prefer that not to happen, even if our newer users are mostly Unoriginal Name and Chairmaster reregs. BigBadSteve posted:Make Sid the official GBS artist!!!!! So I'll take these one at a time: quote:[*]Get some guidelines in place so the above sort of mod/op/idiot king/whatever harassment of female posters ceases. Spinz was not 'tugging' in her posts, and believe me, as a chronic tugger I can tell the difference. As has been pointed out by multiple male goons over the last few months, it seemed to be purely sexist, i.e. male goons can mention funny memories from their sex lives, women goons can't, or they get harshly punished, probated so often, and escalatingly so, that they basically give up on posting in GBS at all (this is where Spinz has been for about the last ~2-3 months). I don't know what the deal is with that, and the admin that implemented that rule has stepped down. I want this to be a safe place for anyone to post. No one came to me about Spinz, so I really have no clue where this all came from. If she wants to reach out to me privately I'm happy to talk with her about this issue, but I'm not sure I necessarily want to litigate that in public at the moment. In terms of female goons posting here, I know there's a trope that "GBS hates women" and I'd really like to kill that. The majority of people on this site are male, and (someone correct me if I'm wrong here) I think sometimes women may feel they have to hide themselves or somehow try to fit in with the boys by downplaying themselves. I'll say if you have worries that a goon is being harassed by a mod/ik/whoever, reach out via PM to an admin. We have two new ones, and a third on the way. I can vouch that they're standup people who will listen and take your concerns into account. quote:[*]If anyone posts here whose name is unknown in GBS, one can assume they probably aren't a GBS poster. And there's a good chance they're an alt of an account from the troll forum we don't talk about and I won't name here because we "don't want to start anything". They destroyed QCS too, to the extent that almost every new thread there has to be almost immediately locked, that has been the case for months. So complaining about them there achieves nothing but further harassment. And, not coincidentally IMO, they hate Spinz and have done for years. Anyway, IMO people who don't post in GBS (ignoring occasional snarky abuse, trolling and "hahaha our forum is better than yours"-type posts) should have no say in policy changes. None whatever. Some of them are our literal enemies and want nothing good for GBS, as even a small study of their posts elsewhere soon shows (of course being lying amoral trolls their b*tchy alts here will claim otherwise til they're blue in the face). FFS don't let those with primarily ill-will for GBS be influential in any changes to it. And no, putting our heads in the sand doesn't solve the problem, that would be asking for it. I take issue with this one. Anyone is free to post here in any thread, and I'm not going to be pulling profile histories of people if they're just posting. We have a CSPAM mod posting here, we have admins posting here, we have people from all across the forums who come here to shitpost. Hell, Larry Parrish posted in r/relationships and he was never a problem there. Are there people who post here to rile others up? Yes, but it also takes two to tango. For example, there was a poster a while back who was trying to rile up a certain thread. Absolutely no one bit and they wandered off because it wasn't achieving their desired results. Not engaging actually works a lot of the time. Also, I think part of the issue here is saying "some of them are our literal enemies." This is a web 1.0 forum where we shitpost with people from across the world. We have a much better community than Reddit, and it's more tight knit. But at the end of the day, you will most likely never meet these people. When you log off or go do real life stuff, you should not be thinking about these forums. You certainly should not be of the mindset that you have posting enemies, because we're all shitposters on this site, every last one of us. It's the thread that binds us all, from the very top to the very bottom. You can debate what the "heart of the poster" is, but you can't deny we each all have it. I'm not saying you have to like everyone on this forum. God knows I don't, but I don't see them as my enemies. I roll my eyes when they pop up and get on with my day. I would recommend you do the same. Though I gotta admit, love the passion in this part. quote:[*]Other than the above, and the odd rare other change no doubt posted by others here, ffs leave GBS alone. About all who post here regularly (with the caveats above), love GBS. It is a miraculous treasure, it's amazing it can exist at all. IMO it is fragile. Some have tried to end it completely, with some success occasionally, witness e.g. the so-called 'archived' old GBS' subforum. Let's celebrate what we have and make it a bit better, not f*ck with it til it breaks or all the good posters leave. I love the passion you have with this, and I'll speak for all of us to say we're not looking to change the culture here. We're just looking to make it better. BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Yeah I kinda don’t see how we discuss any major issues within GBS without talking about the forums at large, especially considering that most of the recent drama bombs were caused by non-GBS posters making a stink about GBS because they travel around looking for things to complain about. I think there's a fine line, because you can't always say "It's those CSPAM people" or "it's IZ" or whatever. Sometimes people just like to post to rile others up, but I will say that the mods of those forums don't take kindly to their members trying to harass other forums. I'm in constant contact with CSPAM mods and let them know if I'm doing something that might affect them, their posters or their forum. I have no desire to change their culture. If they want to complain about GBS, let them. We're stronger than that, and I think the new SAD forum and the addition of new admins may actually decrease the problems we've been having over the past few months. Time will tell, but I'm hopeful. hot cocoa on the couch posted:a whole bunch of iks is a good low risk way to take the pressure off mods who say reading a lot of posts is a lot of work (a somewhat justifiable excuse, gbs is very active compared to other non politics subs) and can make context reading and warning more viable instead of button press word filter style moderation hot cocoa on the couch posted:i think it's a forums wide initiative to have always open feedback threads in major subs. it's a good idea imo to have ongoing community feedback. it's not just about oval office and mega threads lol. Gonna group these together. I agree that we should probably rotate IKs, and we should look at adding some more IKs forum-wide as it'll help with traffic and such. I'd especially like IKs of the bigger threads that none of us really wander into, as I don't personally like Kramering into threads and being "HEY Y'ALL KNOCK IT OFF" (see: my post in the RLM thread). In terms of mods, selecting mods is an arduous process. If we had the numbers, we could probably do a one year max rotation of them. As an example, let me tell you how the process works: 1) Someone says "Hey, this forum needs new mods" or "we could use a new mod here" 2) The forum mods begin posting or soliciting ideas of who would be good for it 3) Mod candidates are selected 4) Admins do whatever they do, presumably to make sure they're not a permabanned rereg or psychotic or whatever 5) After the admins are done, the current mods reach out to the prospect 6) The prospect declines for any number of reasons I mean, on #6 I'm being a bit facetious, but the decline vs. acceptance rate is kind of like my K:D ratio in TF2: it's baaaaaaaad. That's why it's a bit easier to have IKs: there's very little pressure being one. You just kinda do your thing, detached from the backend. But burnout is very real I'll admit. It's why I disappeared for like a month; I sort of had to. syntaxfunction posted:I also want to say that I know I might seem like I'm hating on the mod team and being harsh but I actually really like GBS, and I appreciate the work y'all do. It's difficult to moderate a bunch of poo poo-flinging spider monkeys, and you do good work. Nah I don't think you're hating, you're expressing your opinion and I appreciate it  Trust me, I can tell the difference between mod hate and frustration. It's fairly obviousI understand the idea in your second sentence, and it's something that I have to find a balance for. The issue is where is the line? What makes a shitpost vs. a post intended to rile people up, and where's the line to that? It's something I struggle with. I get the impulse to be like "They don't post here normally, they're just trying to rile people up!", but I have to make that judgement call when I see the reports come in. Am I right all the time? Hell no I'm not; I've definitely done bad shoots. But "shoot them first and let God sort them out" doesn't necessarily work in this instance. Then you're thinking "does everyone get 6 hours? 18? a day? what separates this post from the one above it?" It's sort of the calls I make when I get reports. Saalkin posted:What you don't post like that all the time? I subscribe to the  mentality, which has gotten me in hot water before but I will never stopScRoTo TuRbOtUrD posted:Gbs is a fun place to post jokes with your friends I try only to use bans in extreme instances. I have to be mindful of the fact that this isn't Reddit; people pay actual money to post here. Most of the time probations are far more effective than bans, so I try to use those whenever possible. But if someone's going over the line, it's :banhammer: Bad Purchase posted:mods should be forced to say one nice thing about any poster they probe You have no idea how badly I want to probe you with a compliment. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Pretty sure this is the longest post I've ever made on SA, and I'm sure it'll be picked apart for clues or whatever or I may have said something dumb that I'll have to backtrack on. But like I said, want to be as honest and transparent with y'all as possible, and I hope this gives you insight into where I'm at
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:To keep with the thread rules and bring it around to how it relates to GBS, there’s a thread in there right now about the new admins for feedback on them. If 75% of active users (disclaimer: I do not know what the actual stat is) the site don’t even go into SAD, then you’re allowing the regulars to effectively select admins that favor them. That applies to current mods and IKs as well because it’s always a one sided argument in there. There really needs to be strong moderation to deliver actual punishment when dissenting opinions are replied to with harassment and doxxing attempts so that SAD eventually feels like a safe enough place for actual discussion. This is a very good point. I'm wondering if we should do an announcement or something for those types of posts, to try to draw in a larger audience I'll bring this up with the admins and see what their thoughts are
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drat you all post a lot when I'm gone. Since a lot of this is conversation, I'm only going to respond to salient points of feedback.hot cocoa on the couch posted:aside from the post above yours, all the SAD posts are commentary on GBS interacting with SAD on rules and policy, and how they feel they can't post in SAD (which some mods have told posters to do). i think it's on topic, as long as it doesn't turn into a crying fest on SAD and brigading or w/e dumb poo poo Tarquinn's right, but the rest of the thread feels like it started to turn into a general SAD commentary. If you want to talk about SAD and GBS, do it. If you want to talk about SAD in general, I would post a thread there or take it up with an admin. There's nothing we can do here about it. Karma Comedian posted:I'm a fan of monthly (or up to) quarterly feedback threads myself. I think it's important to be able to address subforum issues in a timely manner, and I also appreciate the opportunity to give out and take in feedback about the mods and our performance. Thanks KC! I'm debating whether to have this a rolling thread or quarterly. At the moment it doesn't seem too bad as a rolling thread, but time will tell. Piss Creep posted:I'd like to be able to block threads the same way we can block users Charles Bukowski posted:I would also like to be able to ignore threads. Some might bother me or hit too close to home, some I might just be tired of seeing on the first page of any particular subforum at any time. Something you could skim through in the options to unhide or reset the blocked threads filter if you wanted it all to come back? It's an interesting request. I'd post it in the tech forum; this is astral's domain and he'd know much more than I do about the feasibility of whether this could even be implemented. If you're worried about it, the tech forum is way different than SAD and tends to be chill (the Massacre at IZ Flags not withstanding) Bad Purchase posted:mods should stop soliciting feedback here or in SAD and just do the best they can with their own judgement I know you're being facetious but I'll take it in good faith and disagree with this. I think it's important to listen to users. I know one complaint has been that we come from on high and act holier than thou, which I hope isn't the impression we give off here in GBS. I shitpost as bad as the rest of you, or worse most times Also the olives request is good feedback we'll implement that in the rules ninjoatse.cx posted:Can we discourage people from posting "Sorry for the snipe"? Don't really need probes, but I think we've figured out that every post that's divisible by 40 + 1 is a new page, and no one cares. Sniping is a proud tradition here in GBS and it stays. Back long ago, during the Dark Era of Proper Punctuation, it was illegal. It was not fun and didn't foster a good sense of community. Plus it's kinda fun to see if you're able to snipe without posting seven times like Nooner did after you bagmonkey posted:Mods can you let GBS have a little light file sharing, as a treat? Maybe it'll help attract new posters You're free to post files that are public, such as freeware or abandonware, or ones that are licensed under Creative Commons. Just no ones under copyright or anything that'll sic lawyers on Jeff because I'm not sure he'd be happy about that and then he wouldn't be happy with me and it'd be a whole thing bagmonkey posted:Can we, as a forum, take a collective stance that piss IS stored in the balls? I take no sides in this debate, as whatever side I come down on people will flock to (or against). This is for the forum to decide. VOX POPULI VOX DEI bagmonkey posted:Create "The Really Proper Posting Forum for Angry Gen Xers" and we'll call it even There's a forum for RSF suggestions! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4026662 You could post that suggestion there and maybe they'll take it up Smugworth posted:Just wanna make sure you've seen these comments. I have seen them, and there's now a thread for you in the mod forum (it is not the thread you think)!!! hot cocoa on the couch posted:i think we need less moderation but more iks. precision guided munitions instead of carpet bombing More IKs should be on the docket, I agree. That's something we'll take back from this and we'll start looking at suitable IK candidates. MrQwerty posted:2023 GBS is pretty fuckin tame compared to 1999 GBS, the idea that GBS needs more moderation, especially mods from other forums (specifically forums that don't like GBS) is just loving outrageous. The feedback that I'm getting is that GBS moderation is pretty okay all things considered, we just need some tweaks here and there. I think what we need to do is not get worked up over the people in SAD calling for GBS people's heads. I'm dealing with a lot of it in the background, as much as I can. I get people's sentiments but it's starting to dominate this thread. Sid Vicious posted:am I mod You are the weakest link, goodbye! BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Sorry I’ve been away for a few hours but I probably wasn’t clear. It’s all SAD. The reason all of the feedback threads end up talking about SAD is that SAD is the problem. GBS polices itself pretty well I think but for whatever reason people from other sub forums are enraged at GBS’s existence. People have been enraged at GBS's existence since the dawn of the forums. The great GBS-FYAD wars of years ago still resonate today. While we're in an uneasy truce now, it's still a truce, and there's still peace. But there will always be breakaway factions that don't like the peace and want to hate on GBS. Let them. The fact is they want to be in the peanut gallery while you all are posting in the trenches. XeeD posted:The forums used to be better, we had properly spelled shitposting. What could get you banned now could get you banned even then. But yes, I am absolutely nostalgic for making you worthless fuckwads punctuate. we will never punctuate again feel free to do so yourself but this will never be a rule. That era is dead; let the corpse rest in peace
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I'm struggling with how to say this, but this is getting very close to brigading SAD, which is the same sort of complaint you've all had about them. I'm going to warn you not to do that. If you have a legitimate gripe, then post it while following the rules. I don't care to hear the whole "well they don't follow it why should we" poo poo This thread is getting way off track and I'm going to stop warning here soon on it. Knock it off.
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:The House Oh my god If nothing else comes out of this thread this did and holy poo poo
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