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Crusty Nutsack
Apr 21, 2005

SUCK LASER, COPPERS


In an effort to wrangle the stickied threads and make finding things easier, we have created a forums index of helpful links:

Help and Resources:
[Mental Health] A wildlife documentary set in hell as narrated by Dale Gribble
organize your workplace [THREAD PROUDLY MADE BY POSTERS UNION LOCAL 269]
[Mutual Aid] - jobs jobs jobs JOBS JOBS
US Goon Fund

Cool poo poo:
I scan English-language books, mostly from the USSR (PDFs ahoy)
[Book] Name of Goods: The Book of C-SPAM
2022/2024 U.S. Elections Predictions Thread
[Marxism] you can still be normal and defend stalin
[Periodicals Chat] THE NEW GOON
Lets read some theory: Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
[Pre-modern history] catulllus was a cspam poster born some 2000 years too soon
[Happy Thread] Risk-free news checking zone

Hobbies:
Smug Fitness Fascists: Consider Hard Liquor and a Salad as a healthy alternative
[weed and pets] god,weed stores own
[Cooking] man I'm so stoked for food
[Gardening] cardboard is an important element of soil composition
There should be a thread for posting only art

Regional:
[Asia/Oceania] China's linguistic shift to socialism with gay characteristics
[UK] At peaks of despair, British policy changes, occasionally even for the better.
[Latin America] Hugo GirlBoss
[Mideast + Africa] there is no PP and it has no functionality
[auspol] The ultimate in nihilistic self absorption
[Europe] Kdo je prvi cestital Trumpu, kdo???
[Brasil] quem bate cartao nao vota em patrao
palestine/israel thread - Diffusion Tensor Imaging
[Canada] tankie pamps are extra poopy today, as to be expected
[California] leading the nation in wildfires and COVID

Somebody has issued a correction as of 23:38 on Dec 28, 2023

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Crusty Nutsack
Apr 21, 2005

SUCK LASER, COPPERS




Welcome to the one and only casual political subforum for Something Awful! C-SPAM is a politically-focused forum for casual shitposting, jokes, and laughing at the state of the world and how we're all DOOMED to read PFC's post!

The current C-SPAM mods are:
  • Vyelkin
  • Crusty Nutsack
  • eXXon
  • croup coughfield
  • fosborb
  • Jazerus
  • Korean Boomhauer
  • lobster shirt
  • Shear Modulus
  • Vox Nihili

If you need to contact a mod or IK, you can do so via forums PM. If you don't have forums PMs, you can join this discord server to be able to PM us. You won't be able to post in this server; it's just to facilitate PMs.

However, here as elsewhere, there are some rules you do have to follow, cheerfully enforced by our dedicated team of moderators and idiot kings. The idiot kings will change often.

A quick reminder that all standard forum rules apply, and a few are re-emphasized here and will result in a very very harsh punishment if you decide to break them!

1. :siren: Do NOT explicitly or implicitly threaten harm on anyone, especially people under Secret Service protection or who might work in the White House. If you do so, you are risking a permaban. :siren: but we'll sort of really respect you after your account gets nuked, to be clear.

2. Text spam, twitter spam, or any really stupid spamming of any type is forbidden. Image spam is also forbidden unless it's a dedicated image thread. All other rules apply, though.

3. Even if you aren't breaking a specific rule to the letter, if you're making consistently lovely and bad posts we will come down hard on you so don't do it! This includes being a huge rear end in a top hat for no reason and getting too personal with your insults.

4. Don't post in-line NWS! This gets our resident computer touchers soooo mad, poor babies. That being said, this is a political shitposting forum, so read it at work at your own risk!

5. Slurs and bigotry are not cool, and "ironic" racism is just tap dancing straight to the real thing, so don't post like that. This doesn't apply if you're quoting someone else being a shithead, but if you abuse this exception to toss pejoratives around casually we'll see through it pretty quick.

6. Reporting people is helpful if you think they've broken a rule or are generally being a shithead, but please be clear in the report reason, Despite our best efforts we can't read mindsyetand what you think is obvious bad behavior might not be so apparent! Abusing the report function to carry out forums vendettas will not end well.

7. Do not say that anyone, on here or off, specific or general should kill themselves. Do not say that it would be good if anyone killed themselves. Do not say that anyone should be killed. Do not lay out methods for successful suicide, even if you direct them toward hypothetical terrible people who might be reading. These types of posts can be triggering and it's not cool.

8. We're not doing mass election toxxes anymore but if you want to toxx on your own and then self-ban if you fail then I mean ok.

9. Don't post your own tweets.

10. Do not directly link quotes from any other forums in CSPAM (i.e. unsourced/unlinked & unattributed quotes are fine). Do not post in other forums and then come back to CSPAM to giggle about owned libs or your imminent probation. What you post elsewhere on SA is your business, and when you post there you are subject to their rules and moderation.

In addition to these rules, the individual IKs may have their own mad whims and feverish delusions, which they will post in the IK Edicts thread, and which may or may not be enforced by the mods as well.

On doxxing:

quote:

SA User Doxxing:
Linking anything from off forum or stepping into real life is too far.
  • "I found this person's social media account, look at all the dumb poo poo they post [LINK]" "Looking at his Facebook, I see his wife works for DC"
    Bringing up past ON FORUM posts that are relevant to the topic is for the most part not going to be punished.
  • "He posted about liking that in that one thread 6 years ago. [LINK]" *Note: Importing drama and generally being creepy with people's post histories can still earn you a probation

Famous Person/Public Official:
  • Anything relevant to their position or celebrity is, for the most part, fair game: "They worked at XXX in 1998, they are giving XXX huge contracts now, Larry David sucked my dick in 1998, etc." "They posted pictures of their 2-story pool, look at this thing"
  • Well known facts or things the person has opened themselves up for mocking is not considered doxxing: "He posts the same ketchup sandwich on his Instagram every single day."
  • Anything non-position related, or things they have not made public themselves, is off limits: Family, Address, Private Phone Number, "They walk their dog in ZZZ Park," etc.

Random Internet Blip (i.e. No leash lady):
Don't dig up anything. SA does not need to be the Go-To place to vigilante these people. If something is posted on a news site/twitter, it's fine to discuss, but don't be the people making it the news.

These rules and examples are general guidelines. There may be things not covered or borderline examples that don't fit the above. The mods and admins will make final judgements and always try and take into account context of posts. If you can't determine if your post will be doxxing, ask someone or err on the side of caution and don't post it.

On idiot kings:

If you become an idiot king or mod of CSPAM, go to hell!

(link to the previous version of the rules thread for continuity: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3980065)

Somebody has issued a correction as of 11:52 on Mar 21, 2024

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