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Larry Parrish posted:i think the biggest problem with this subforum is that absolutely nobody knows what it's supposed to be for, not even the mods. some people treat it as 'd&d, but with different mods'. personally I would say it's the Marxist political forum since you can do most of the same posting that happens here in the d&d forum, and it's really hard to actually argue with a liberal because you just have totally different base assumptions about the world. others treat it as some kind of weird friend zone and only post about lunch and buying respirators to brave the Wal-Mart exclusion zone. it has a lot of people posting in it which doesn't help any of this. i don't even, ultimately, particularly care what it's purpose is, so long as it has one. It's probably not a mistake c-spam gets a doomer rep, because ultimately the forum sprang up partly from a D&D userbase and some of that energy is like a reaction away from the base assumptions (i.e. insane optimism) underpinning the forum ur talking about. Now sometimes that means you straighten your brain and become a materialist and other times it means you an insane russiagater crank who wants healthcare and hates the democrats and likes to post sandwiches.
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Larry Parrish posted:flavius decided to probate some people and I was banned+30'd and it's since died. I've oft wondered how many users are shed every time an admin/mod decides to go insane and beat c-spam with a stick. feels like huge chip damage over the years
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Jun 25, 2021 00:19
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WampaLord posted:People calling honest descriptions of reality "doomposting" is a much bigger problem than megathreads, imo. The moniker is definitely over applied to where cspam being doomer is meme level lexicon but the phenomenon is real, to an extent. Expecting bad news can act as a crutch rather than a realistic logical progression from present information. e: to be clear, this isn't any call for enforcement (unless somebody would like to go insane like flavius) or really unique to c-spam but just goons base level over estimation of their own intelligence. Just that c-spam has discussion on actual downer topics without rigid enforcement from the happy police so it'll naturally end up in this annoyance zone from time to time. Homeless Friend has issued a correction as of 01:40 on Jun 25, 2021 |
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Jun 25, 2021 01:29
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Larry Parrish posted:good post from QCS that's relevant. I think it's ok to be depressed and angry but not to be either all the time, and I don't think you need to 'enforce optimism' to counter it. You simply need to not post like that all the time. lmfao black august was a doomer, i knew it. but yeah I think, going to my last post the solution is just to probe ppl for being annoying. I think theres away been a bit of reticence about this because post have this political nature and punishments can appear as partial vs users. It always felt like Squizzle was grappling with this on how to get a handle on taintrunner, way back when, because he operated right in this zone of annoyance.
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Jun 25, 2021 02:15
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make a 'too big, too fail' subforum and move megathreads in there imo bing bong. small cspam and big cspam. seperate but equal
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Jun 25, 2021 02:56
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Some Guy TT posted:when we talk about megathreads do we mean the threads with a large scope or the ones with a lot of traffic I just think huge page count. Institutionalized threads, mostly always on page 1. i'm just still trying all these years later to make SJY's dream of small thread churn come true. It sorta can't exist because that kind of environment requires small threads to be visible on load which can't happen since theres 10 big dogs or w/e parked right there. I'm not actually opposed to big threads or anything, just think it would be interesting. change it up u kno
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Jun 25, 2021 03:09
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Takanago posted:since it's not like there was a "MCAFEE IS DEAD" thread. exactly. when i woke up and theres was a "florida building front fell off" wtf do i post? i was like climate thread I guess. I rest my case mods & gentlemen Also, while I never cared for it: it'd also make it easier to goldmine since the idea of goldmining a 800 page thread is lol.
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Jun 25, 2021 03:19
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the reason i rail so hard for it is that small cspam thread have had some pretty good rear end results for their size. it promotes cross pollination between posters, which is important for creating content imo. Look at the nathan robinson thread. fulfilled its purpose on page 3.
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Athanatos posted:Is there a particular reason when you didn't find a thread, you didn't just make one for the topics? I mean like, OP creating effort aside, there wasn't some CSPAM rule written or unwitten that made you feel like you can't just make a thread when poo poo happens right? I think you're fundamentally looking for engagement. The way it's set up doesn't disallow it, but also doesn't facilitate it. There is also a split in how people browse purely via bookmarks vs by clicking the subforum. So, even if you don't think it, you correlate this information into that split second decision. This is how 2 people came to different conclusions on where the same event should be posted about and all 3 of us didn't choose to make a small thread. Homeless Friend has issued a correction as of 03:41 on Jun 25, 2021 |
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Jun 25, 2021 03:37
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Make a reports mock thread in cspam imo
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Jun 26, 2021 00:07
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Shine posted:Taking those two extremely biased samples at face value, I'd be like "so is this a forum where white people will call me a traitor to Black America because I'm lightskinned, or some poo poo?" and that's not fair to C-SPAM. You're welcome 
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Jun 26, 2021 05:54
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Zurtilik posted:Also a weird amount of hate for chat thread people even though I see a lot of the chat thread people out in all the other threads... chat thread mods causing mucho problems, terrible repetitive posters invading threads they never post in, etc don't cause endearment
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Jun 26, 2021 06:07
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jarofpiss posted:people keep saying this is a leftist forum for leftists to talk about things but i look around and mostly see liberals nancy pelosi is a leftist. tv says so
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Jun 26, 2021 07:14
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i prefer to think it was the result of a curse.
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Jun 26, 2021 08:19
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skooma512 posted:See, I don’t understand why there’s always someone demanding to atomize communities and posters into more and more specific sub forums. Leftists need to go to the leftist sub forum, ok now some are getting too rowdy in their threads so leftist poo poo posting needs to happen in C-SPAM-> Shitposting now, ok now some of that isn’t what I want to read anymore so now it needs to be C-SPAM-> Shitposting -> Double Shitposting this is why you make the big thread subforum in c-spam. so you come in the door. boom its little bitch thread land. then you click another button to go to big rear end thread land. but as your mouse is moving over whats this, oh this thread looks interesting. boom. engagement. its loving genius, all postives with no negatives. your welcome.
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Jun 26, 2021 19:41
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Zurtilik posted:Going 5 subforums in to find the concentrated shitposting thread that's two bots posting 'beefer' and 'tormp' back and forth... I don't think it'd be split along chat vs whatever lines. Just old/established vs spontaneous/short. It's just a solution to bookmarks/crews. The idea is how do you promote engagement against threads that already have their groups established. Not necessarily effort vs no effort. Would such a structure actually do anything? Nobody knows...
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Jun 26, 2021 19:51
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Epic High Five posted:Megathreads are a boon for small threads because you can post "hey I started a thread for X, come post here if you're interested" and you get like 600 people seeing it instead of just hoping interested people stumble across it before it gets knocked off page 1 You would still be able to do this if they were if big thread land was the cspam subforum
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Jun 26, 2021 20:01
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Carving up the forum into one for big and small threads feels like changing something just to change it. Strictly categorizing threads does not seem very c-spam. The best answer might be making the button to sort by thread creation time more prominent. Absolutely, but also Squizzle was hyping having total forum control so let's do something cool imo
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Jun 26, 2021 20:56
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lol snoo would have definitely fell instantly to the drama as they wielded their ikship to smite their enemies and been trapped in the cycle of grievance until naught but bones remained
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Jun 27, 2021 02:59
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F Stop Fitzgerald posted:make pener a mod. i bet he'd hate it haha now we're talking
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Jun 27, 2021 03:15
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resistentialism posted:Does (apparently) objectionable trump thread material really get posted frequently in other threads? I mean besides the times when someone who doesn't like it happening in the trump thread brings it up to argue something. I don't read a whole ton of threads most of the time so this is a real question. duscat backed up flavius in stirring up poo poo in the marxism thread until it got deleted lol.
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Jun 27, 2021 03:29
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Oliwan used to pick fights in the glenn thread, and pull trump thread posters into the glenn thread. luring people into the glenn thread is its purpose though, hell i wish it happened more
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Jun 27, 2021 03:40
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cumshitter, you're gay
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Jun 27, 2021 03:41
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Happy Thread posted:What was that again about cracking down on weird group dogpiles lol don't beg mods jfc, bear the weight of your posts
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Jun 27, 2021 04:18
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please, regarde post in pyf like a loser
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Jun 27, 2021 04:35
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Schnorkles posted:c-spam is, at best, completely unrecognizable from what it used to be. To be fair, this is because your usual haunts are limited. Trump & Bernie being blown away are ofc gonna change the crews. Podcast thread, for example, same as its ever been.
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Jun 28, 2021 21:05
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Admiral Ray posted:Yeah, the Climate Change thread is about the same as it was 6 years ago, too. I can understand why most people don't want to hang out in that thread, though. climate thread occupying a ravenholm'esqe status in cspam never fails to make me lol
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Jun 28, 2021 21:17
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jeffrey unban eox plox
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Jun 28, 2021 21:32
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Happy Thread posted:I am familiar with hundreds of users who post in the major themed CSPAM threads (Epstein/COVID/Climate/Doomsday). I barely recognize two people in here who populate those. That goes for the last two pages, the first two pages, and many in between. i wish i was familiar with u shutting the gently caress up bro
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Jun 28, 2021 21:33
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kronix posted:CSPAM is FYAD for losers who like politics and have no sense of humor. None of us (myself included) could have handled FYAD in its heyday. not true. I would have fired an rpg into fyad and killed htem all. handled
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Unoriginal Name posted:I believe we should make the following sweeping changes to things that displease me, personally: its incredible
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