/qa/ - Questions and Answers

>>7990
To begin with.
Everyone in the future hold your safety hors.

Safety hors is held

Wait a minute, I just went to >>>/Test/ and I am not banned.
So, can I post again?

>>7993
This doesn't appear to be the thread for this question, but yes. Don't throw threads off track again.

>>7994
Thanks.

>>7993
>>7995
Why are you namefagging? You know mods could tell if you're banned without you saying it was you in particular, right? You don't need to announce it to all of us.

Wow I would use sarcasm but I won't. Boomer anon, thanks for posting stuff you should stop making purely bait posts.
They're garbage, I'd like my time and care back.
>>>/vx/168595 →
Thanks Boomer anon I feel just awful about backing you up once. I now know not to ever do that mistake again.
Why can't you answer any questions?
Isn't your whole thread supposed to be about reasonably proving whatever it is?
All there is, is video posting about some fag and goal post shifting and remarks that make no sense and running away from any counter points.

Deliberately being aggravatingly retarded makes for bad posts.
If thats not deliberate, I'm sorry for your disability. Please seek help.

>>7999
And I have trips.
Just saying.

>>8000
This interaction is a microcosm of your personality: being the most obnoxious and smug person alive, then when a third party tells you your behavior is bad, you reply with "trips, I rest my case."

By the way, he wasn't me, dickhead. I was asleep. So good job, mister baitologist. Now, how 'bout that Southern Cross.

>>7998
>>8001
At this point you faggots almost deserve it. This nigger should've been yeeted like three years ago. You know, when this place wasn't as barren and this fag couldn't just flood every board with his bullshit.

>>8002
The site's policy on anonymity and logs means it's physically impossible to ban anything but the node used to access the site, which is hashed so even admins don't know. And of course, when one is banned, all he has to do is fire up whatever service he uses, whether it be a VPN, proxy or TOR Browser, and then he's back to posting. Banning him is nothing but a counter-signal and as such does nothing. He has to leave of his own volition whether he gets ignored until he's bored or is bullied off.

Makes things complicated.

>>8002
You're fresh. You abandoned the board and contribute little. What right you have to stop the natural activity of an imageboard, huh?
If you don't like some posts, just post something you like.
Shitting on some anon because of muh quality on a dead board is an oxymoron. Post something faggot!!!!!!! Preach with the example.

>>8004
>muh quality
Why do I get the impression it's you on another IP?
I know I've tried drumming up traffic before in a fair few threads, threads which have effort put behind making it open-ended and encouraging discussion, and most of the time it's on topics that actually ought to have a positive effect. This predates Boom Boom's presence at all; hell, part of the reason I went homeless was because I wanted to test out a financial plan and split income with someone to be an example. Fat lot of good that year long shitshow was. I shit on Boom Boom because he literally does nothing worth praising, nothing that improves morale, nothing that encourages discussion, and never actually engages in good-faith discussion. The only way to get a response from him at all is to shit on him, at which point....what's the point, he gets off on the (You)s. Frankly I regret stooping to his level in the flat earth thread.

>>8005
Knock it off with booms. The charges are laid, shitpost or shut up.
Be part of the solution not the problem.

>>8006
You know what, you're right. From now on anything I post will be completely separate from Booms. Even if it means making a hundred springboard threads that never get replies for months if not years. I've been alone this long, what's another year.

>>8007
Booms doesn't care either if he's got an answer at all. That's autism.

>>8003
I suppose you see the problem now. If this place was as active as it was three years ago. Booms would've eventually gotten discouraged. Provided the userbase didn't put up with his bs like it fucking did.
Sorry but I called it as early as summer 2020. This place just likes to stick with these sort of people for some reason. Something something, a British poster for example.

>>8009
I saw the problem back then. Problem was, I was fucking homeless.

>>8009
>This place just likes to stick with these sort of people for some reason.
Just out of curiosity, how many weekly posts you have? And even if they are a noticeable number, are you contributing to generate discussion? Or you are just ranting because is free?

>>8010
That sucks. Not much that can be done.

>>8011
I know this point is a popular one. And I get the idea: if the issue is that every post is from one guy, make more posts to drown him out. But he's literally a boomer who spends all day every day posting because his pension is in the mail. Sure, I could spend every last gram of my time posting, but sometimes, I don't know if something's worth discussing and I refrain from making it a thread topic. Sometimes, I want to actually make the OP worth engaging in. Sometimes, all I see for five pages on every board is shit like the flat earth thread and actually engaging in a discussion worth anything is fucking hard.

Making a bread that gets any kind of engagement is already hard, and add to that the fact that most anons are gonna miss the tree amid the absolute swamp that is the spam. It's not like I haven't tried to make content worth discussing, try to get closer to the community, work on myself -- I've been here for six years, and three of those years were spent amid a frantic struggle not to completely waste my 20s. And yet, here I am. It's demoralizing, okay?

>>8013
I wouldn't even bother. This is like the millionth time we had this discussion.

>>8014
You're right. I've wasted my thought tonight.

>>8014
>This is like the millionth time we had this discussion.
And yet (you) rarely post a pony. Go figures.

>8016
>this is the part replied to, and nothing else
Just...
Goodnight. I'm not engaging in this thread.

>>8015
>>8017
Rest well.

The thread https://mlpol.net/mlpol/366376 wasn't baked by me.
I was told by the management before that they don't want corana-chan posting anymore. So don't blame me.
Just saying.

>>8021
Why are you pre-empting a thread half an hour old with "it wasn't me" before anyone responds or complains, and if you're gonna do it would you at least be so kind as to explain who you are? Fucking narcissist.

>>8022
>Why are you pre-empting a thread
Sorry about that, but I am pre-empting niggers bashing me because of reasons; not actually the thread.
FYI, I've got a lot to post in such a thread but I was told not to.

>>8024
That's cringe. You're cringe.
The thread has no replies. Nobody cares about it. Stop drawing attention to yourself.
>>8021
This post doesn't even contain a question, ffs.

>I was banned again
Can I post now?

>>8028
Looks like it.

Greetings /qa/
I'm the OP of the Corona-Chan series and I would like to restart the corona-hoax posting.
Given that the rumors plus gossip are getting louder by the day about the corona psy-op being re-deployed, to censor the subject is not making any favor to the poners, on the contrary, it helps the conspirators who want to subject silenced.
So, may I post corona related stuff again?

>>8032
Why would that ever be banned?

>>8033
Not clear enough if that is a yes or not, sorry.

>>8034
Sure, I guess. Post away.

yes!!!!

>>8033
>Why would that ever be banned?
Remember that some poners complained because they didn't like it, and the mod agreed with that opinion, so to please them I stopped posting. But now it looks like soon the subject might turn into a hot happening.

>>8037
The mass posting of faceberg-tier images. Not many users enjoy that barrage. Nor the anti-discussion postings.
Actual happenings would be nice.
Actual discussion and interaction would be nice.
Please share content not crap.
Thanks for listening to this PSA.

>>8038
>The mass posting of faceberg-tier images
Some might be, but most are not and in line with /pol/ tier ones. So, your claim is false.
Anyway, mass meme posting has its own containment bread at /sp/ and should not spawn anymore snowflake screeching.
>Actual happenings would be nice.
I agree. Please post them as soon as you spot one. Thank you.
>Please share content not crap.
Again, be so gentle of leading by the example. Post your gems and announce them as "not crap", please.

>>8038
>Actual discussion and interaction would be nice.
I hope you are one of the first to engage on it, otherwise criticism just for the sake of it, only accomplishes a negative and destructive environment. Overall, an negative anon shitting on allegedly "low quality" posting while posting little or discussing nothing, only serves an anti-board sabotaging purpose; and that's undeniable.

>>8042
Projection is unbecoming. The anon you are saying has not posted or discussed is wrong. This anon is very active. Please fuck off.

>>8043
>Projection
On the contrary. I speak with actions. I shitpost non-stop and you know that.

>>8039
>>8040
>>8041
>>8042
You know what your problem has been from the start? Your idea of a healthy site is one that never stops posting for a moment, when clearly the userbase is too small to accomplish that kind of post rate. Slow posts aren't the problem. Shit posts are. You shun any form of questioning or rebuttal to anything you say as "sabotage" because you have no grounds to debate on any of your beliefs. Instead you default on changing topic or posting so much shit that no reasonable person can be expected to parse it all.

The site didn't need your memes. You imposed them on the site and got mad when we said we'd rather be slow and good than a nonstop flow of sewage.
You know what? Fuck it. This site isn't worth sabotaging because it's been a heap of shit for months, if not years. If routing the cancer out can't be done, the only thing anyone here can do is cut themselves out.

This site's wasted my energy for far too long, and for what? I got the same shitty lot in life I did in 2017. You're all niggers and I hope you get evicted by your kike landlords and then shot by niggers for sleeping in the wrong alley. But most of all, I hope that you, Booms, die a slow and painful death in a hospital, unable to hasten your demise. I hope you live to be a 90 year old demented vegetable, being what you've been for years: a fucking burden.

>>8045
Well, I desire for (you) just Friendship, not more not less.

>>8046
Shut the fuck up, you living backpack.

>>8044
Your projection is an anti-board sabotage. Where did that come from if not projection? He did nothing but asked you to not spam.

>>8047
Have a pony.

>>8048
>He did nothing but asked you to not spam.
Most of that have been already solved. >>>/sp/21290 →

>>8045
But I like you anon...

Remember how cute ponies are and the joy they bring. The community is for positive emotions, not negative emotions.

>>8051
Since the fuck when? 2019? Get real.

>>8052
I am bringing the cute ponies.

And no, I do not generally engage in arguments I know cannot end amicably, if that is what you are referring to.

>>8050
Yes, except you are back to using a general, which the whole point of our last argument is to not rely on generals, as they upset the user base because it is against the policy section. You are only going to post there and spam updates, which is not addressed in that thread.

>>8054
>Yes, except you are back to using a general
Oki Doki. If the corona-chan bread is the triggering spot, then I will let it go. No big deal.

>>8053
You bring nothing. You only ever show up to defend the garbage at your doorstep. Be it niggel or this retard.
I don't even know why you are even a fucking mod.

>>8056
All right, you want to fly shit around then let's have it.
Lotus as the ## Admin is trying to calm down both sides and to be conciliatory. Blaming him is to shit on the wrong target as he has the duty to keep the wheels together.
Fasces as the ## Mod has the duty of to be the cop and do the dirty work. In this case he sided with the hysterical party long ago and I'm on the receiving end of his displeasure.
There is an obvious schizophrenic rift among the staff, in this case Lotus who is top boss and Fasces who is to my understanding a subordinate. On one side Lotus authorize me to post, on the other side Fasces totally dis-authorize me and expresses his displeasure. This is a very confusing situation indeed.
Also Fasces told me more than once that "The Community" wants me to stop spamming (posting) which implies I'm not considered part of the community any longer.
There is a very hostile anon who lose his marbles and has no better idea to outright throw insults at me like I'm the worst enemy. Very disfunctional board indeed.
As a frequent Tor poster I saw many IPs banned because the mod didn't like the answer, or because the anon called somebody a jew. No wonder that /pol/ posters left in mass, in my case I'm very autistic and that method hardly will work.
But, I have to recognize this is not a imageboard with a staff committed to welcome fresh blood, but to expel anybody not onboard with the /mlp/ fags. So, please come clean, you literally want a Blue Pony Board but lurking under the banner of /mlpol/ so you may feel edgy.

>>8057
And by the way, the above is a testimony of how to kill an imageboard. The steady decline is not a result of low quality, but the direct result of suppressing a lot of voices who left forever. And you did it.

>you want a blue pony board
You're still under the impression there's some kind of rift between "polacks" and "ponyfags" here?
Anyway, idga fuck about you. It's impossible to reason with you. What I want to know is why Lotus needs to stand on behalf of every subhuman on his porch.
He said it himself. He's argued with so many people over a certain poster, and many of them have left the site over it. Was it necessary to treat the site as if it was the mental clinic where he works? Was it worth it?

>>8058
>And by the way, the above is a testimony of how to kill an imageboard
This.
F

>>8057
>>8058
>>8060
If spam and generals being banned by agreed upon policy set in place in 2017, then your idea of how an imageboard lives or dies is fucked. You don't get to deceive Lotus by saying you were banned in posting corona stuff when the issue is generals and spam.

Let me make this clear for you. You are banned from spam and generals. If this is an attack on you, then you admit that you only engage in this material. Otherwise, it should be business as usual and no problem.

This is your final warning. You will engage with this website like a normal fucking person. Is that understood?

>>8061
Calm down Fasces, no need to over do it.
Even when you banned me, I didn't do any ban evasion. So, I listen to you, not always, but usually do.
Also chillax, I'll restrict my forbidden activities to /sp/ and a couple of threads at /cyb/, /ub/, and /vx/; you know which ones.
Thank you for your understanding.

>>8062
You are free to post in new threads or existing threads that are not specifically a general. You just need to actually listen to me to process this information.

>>8063
>existing threads that are not specifically a general
Not a general at /mlpol/.
What about Horse, Cat, Flat Earth, and Books?

>>8064
and music?

>>8064
I think we can agree that those are specialized enough to not be generals. Horse is basically just the post every time you visit /sp/ concept. A corona virus general has literally every headline you find on the subject. It lost all discussion potential or looking up any information within it. It all gets buried. You need to line up some more specific discussions or topics within your field.

And flat earth is just your personal playground that you expanded to your landfill thread. It is kind of pointless to fight back against it because you both don't vary your talking points or posting style. I fought you for months to mix it up and it has proven literally impossible.

This is why I am drawing this specific line in the sand. You need to learn to adapt and maybe improve, or stay the same and stick with whatever self-limitations you provide yourself by needing everything you post to be a general.

>>8066
Ok, so if I understand well, Books and Music are niches that I'm allowed to fill, no discussions are required there.

>>8067
Yep. You need to turn the other things you like to post into a niche or open it up to discussion. Make it more specific.

Later.

>>8070
Not now?

>>8071
I suspect this will get intense and now I'm on something that not be stopped. Later please.

>>8072
Very odd, but if you insist. I will simply lay out my argument for when you get back.

I had a massive post, but then the power went out. Let me give you a shorter version to avoid losing this one too. I want you to look at this pattern.
>>>/mlpol/361271 →
>>>/mlpol/361388 →
>>>/mlpol/361430 →
>>>/mlpol/361612 →
>>>/mlpol/361655 →
>>>/mlpol/361745 →
>>>/mlpol/361830 →
>>>/mlpol/361833 →
>>>/mlpol/361882 →
>>>/mlpol/361883 →
And finally you get one post. All of that for one response. But take a look at this new pattern.
>>>/mlpol/361931 →
>>>/mlpol/361933 →
>>>/mlpol/361935 →
>>>/mlpol/361936 →
>>>/mlpol/361937 →
>>>/mlpol/361939 →
If you look closely, you see a massive difference. You got responses! Amazing. How did this happen. You posted a shitty graph and two sentences. It must be the graph you posted, right?

Except, this doesn't line up with what he responded to, which was the text. You probably just hijacked that as well from wherever you found the pic, but that had an interesting effect. People tried to talk with you.
https://youtu.be/cphNpqKpKc4?feature=shared

This cannot stand. So, you begin your panic mode response.
Ignore
>>>/mlpol/361970 →
Act smug + refer to my totally convincing image/video
>>>/mlpol/361972 →
And bury
>>>/mlpol/361983 →
>>>/mlpol/362022 →
>>>/mlpol/362023 →
>>>/mlpol/362064 →
But, it appears people attempted to return to the conversation you attempted to end.
>>>/mlpol/362089 →
>>>/mlpol/362092 →
So, you return to your pattern
>>>/mlpol/362094 →
>>>/mlpol/362095 →
>>>/mlpol/362104 →

Oh well. I guess you need to go back to your engagement drawing posting
>>>/mlpol/362222 →
>>>/mlpol/362231 →
>>>/mlpol/362432 →
>>>/mlpol/362545 →
>>>/mlpol/362617 →
>>>/mlpol/362886 →
>>>/mlpol/363039 →
>>>/mlpol/363104 →
>>>/mlpol/363132 →
>>>/mlpol/363180 →
>>>/mlpol/363328 →
>>>/mlpol/363512 →

This is how many posts you made before getting a single response. And I do mean single. You didn't respond to that one and funny enough, there is no discussion that happens. You go back to posting articles and memes.

My point in all of this is to try to show you a pattern. You get responses by responding. You generate an initial response with an interesting line of text to respond to and debate or expand upon. Your posting style and the generals have done nothing for the site and you have been self-sabotaging in your efforts.

>>8074
It's almost as if the only way he garners responses is by flinging shit at otherwise sympathetic people for a response which he then proceeds to "defeat" with said shit, and when it fails, he's back to flinging shit everywhere.

In case you're curious (you aren't), homelessness is approaching again. And this fucking retard is YOUR problem. When he loses his dopamine, and people drop off the site like flies, he'll go back to demanding attention from whatever backwater shitheap website he got those worthless memes from.

Friends, we don't know anything
And by now, we can't even tell
The food in the kitchen is rotten, and so are we!
But at this point, it's how we smell.

So when you're bored, you're hungry and you're tired
Well there's a screen in every room and every pocket
So just tune it all out, because you're tuning in
To what we're shoving right through your socket!

>>8075
Sorry to hear that. And yes, he is my problem. That is why I am attempting to handle it.

>>8076
Whatever you say.
Magic of friendship is a joke. None of us ought to meet in real life and we're all beyond saving. No amount of contrived analogies between fascist unity and horses will ever make it happen.
If God looks upon us, it isn't with a smile.

>>8077
Cool

>>8077
Am sorry about it anon. But that's all I can do, be sorry. Can't blame me for it, or anybody else here for that matter.

>>8074
This is, imo, partly a consequence of allowing generals. Amy of those articles posted could have been posted in their own threads, which would have made room for discussion without them being buried in the generals.

>>8083
Can you fucking shut up about generals? That's all you ever talk about. We already stated that they are not allowed, for fuck sake.

>>8084
Pardon me if I sound like a broken record, but it was only yesterday that that thread was even locked, even though that generals have been prohibited since 2017. I'm glad the decision was made, and I'm just adding my insights to portray why enforcing the rules of the site is important, because the alternative reinforces and enables unfavorable behaviors like the ones you referred to above. I hope we can move past this point.

>>8085
The reason why we haven't enforced it is because we get nothing but shit for enforcing. It took this long until people had enough to realize that the rules were worth enforcing and are not censorship.

>>8086
I, for one, appreciate it when the rules are enforced, and hope they continue to be enforced. The rules are here for a reason. Nobody thought it was censorship when those rules were written, so enforcing them shouldn't be censorship either.

>>8087
Your first statement was right. You, for one, believed that. Some people don't agree with the one that is you. You are right in that people did not believe it censorship at the time of writing, yes. The problem comes when we hit staff rule #3.

Staff will take all community suggestions into account
As this is a community site and not a top-down dictatorship like some other sites user input is very important
Staff found to be deliberately removing community suggestions to avoid changes on the site or push their own agenda will be subject to punitive measures up to and including dismissal

This means that we need to attempt a diplomatic solution to a problem if possible. This is why too strict an enforcement of this rule when there is an outcry against the enforcement, such as anonfilly. Anonfilly made sense. Other generals do not. However, people made vocal support for this poster saying it helps the site.

Therefore, we have to talk this out and find a solution to minimize the direct action we must take against him.

>>8088
>there is an outcry against the enforcement, such as anonfilly. Anonfilly made sense
Anonfilly was a special case. The decision was made after days of debate, and an explicit exception was made to extend hospitality to Anons who had been expelled from /mlp/. /sg/ was another case where an explicit exception was made.
>Therefore, we have to talk this out and find a solution
I'm all for that.
I'm a bit of a constitutional originalist when it comes to rules though. I think the rules should be enforced, and if the rules aren't working then they should be changed.

>>8088
It's not said much, but all staff and every Anon. You're all loved.

>>8090
D'awwww. Thanks.

Where can I post news with to break Rule 3?

>>8092
Just make a thread about a particular news topic. Provide a link and a summary of what the newslink entails, a relevant picture (bonus for additional ponies), and open the discussion.

>>8093
What about if the topic already exists as a general? It is like it doesn't make sense to have 2 threads about the same.

>>8094
Ignore the general threads. Just because some retard broke rule #3 doesn't mean you can't make specific threads.

>>8095
I'm the retard. KEK

>>8095
Then it might be possible that 5 or even 10 new threads might pop up every day. That won't make the catalog look good.

>>8098
An alternative that might work is to make a thread in /sp/; News General

>>8098
No. That's the intended appearance of the board.

>>8100
So, a lot of threads without answers (that is the very definition of spamming) is better looking than generals containing a topic. Mmmmmmh. It doesn't look right to me.
Better I will post in /sp/.

>>8101
If they don't get answers, they'll slide. If they didn't get answers, they wouldn't be worth posting in some general either.
>Better I will post in /sp/
That doesn't really make it better.

>>8102
>That doesn't really make it better.
Yes, it does. The plan to post multiple threads in /mlpol/ is doomed to failure because the faggots will complain with good reason that messes the catalog up with according to some crybabies, "garbage". It happened before when a snowflake spammed /mlpol/ with pony threads because pony breads in /overboard/ were slided all the time.