For my fellow /pol/acks, remember what happened in /pol/ with the shills and authoritarian moderations. Know that history repeats, /mlp/ has recently gon through another scruffying. But this is different, anyone who’s recently been to /mlp/ will know of the atrocious glimmer spam threads. And people should know this, their mods ARE glimmerfags. The very same fags sliding threads, antagonizing the lurkers, threads and content shared on the board. Tensions are high, /mlp/ doesn’t want to take the abuse any more. Something must be done and the people need a refuge.
>>90801 I don’t know how you stop a lurker from lurking but the seeds of doubt have been planted and grown. We just inform them of the bread crumbs that lead here
>oh shit nobody likes our glimposting >we're making people hate us >even the mods are getting sick of our shit >let's try and make people think mods are closet glimmerniggers to hopefully divide them >that'll show them mods for banning my favorite pony and removing my reason to post here
>>90804 This is probably about all we can do, just keep mentioning ourselves. We could also make "Aryanneposting" a thing, just gently shitpost Aryanne around the board to make our presence felt. Not enough to where we cause them to hate us as bad as the Glimmerfags, but if you're on /mlp/ and you feel like responding to someone's post and need an image, use Aryanne. Feel like starting a thread and need an image, use Aryanne. The same goes for Leslie Fair and our other OCs, in fact it might be better to use them since they aren't as well known and it might cause people to ask who they are.
If the opportunity to mention the site comes up, mention the site, otherwise just keep posting our OC as if you were just posting normally.
>>90807 So then raise a stink about it. Complain loudly. Post other /mlpol/ OCs. That will draw as much attention as the original posts.
If the mods are going to be assholes one way or the other, just make their job difficult. I know we've had our own board for just over half a year and maybe we've grown a bit complacent, but I can't imagine that many of us have forgotten how to behave like a dick on 4chan.
This is going to sound stupid but I think the situation on 4chan mirrors the political situation in most Western countries right now. The power grab currently going on in which mods (elites) try to restrict and limit the communication and expression of users (citizens) is really just desperate damage control. The foundation is crumbling and people are going their own way, and the people in charge realize it, but they don't know what to do because they never thought it would happen. There's probably nothing they can do; now that the cracks have formed they're just going to keep spreading. We can expect more crackdowns and more damage control, but ultimately the mods are just prolonging the inevitable at this point. The only thing we need to do is keep casually being assholes like we always do.
Damn, didn’t think this thread would last, new update, there are two potential individuals responsible for the state of decay in /mlp/ Coinpo and BabSeed, any soul brave enough to venture into their discord will find two egotistical bastards playing anons like fiddles. One of them when confronted showed their colors. There is blatant power abuse, the questions are as follows. How to help the anons in 4chan against this hell. And how to remove the abusive janitor/mods
>>93004 >And how to remove the abusive janitor/mods That's not happening. 4Chan is the new neogaf. >How to help the anons in 4chan against this hell. Invite them here. I read the anon filly threats are now getting shitcanned. I don't know anything about them, but if they're alright invite them to make threads here.
Man 4chan has really gone to shit. I just took a look at /pol/ and it was all E-celeb, bait, and shilling. There were only a handful of threads with real discussion. /b/ is now just a bunch of porn threads and now /mlp/ is fucked too. I didn't think (((they))) would actually destroy 4chan.
>>93013 They can't destroy it only contest and we all know deep below that we must reclaim it. Not up for the war? Not a fighter? Too bad. This time war came knocking on your door so either dive into it or parish.
>>93015 We all know that the mods and owner of 4chan do not give a shit. How can we hope to fix the community if the mods actively work against it. There is no saving 4chan.
>>93015 There isn't a good way to fight this though. 4/pol/ for example is all sorts of fucked. The generals are leading to stagnation, Reddit users are shiting up the board, and the mods selectively enforce rules. It doesn't help that there are probably dozens of paid political activists trying to sway the opinion of the board. /mlp/ has the problem of the show degrading in quality and the following diminishing. The board would probably survive but the mods are actively hostile to that board. All rules for that board appear arbitrary i.e. deleting threads at random, and this really puts a strain on that board's usability. There are no clear paths to push against this madness, and assuming success it may not even be worth saving these boards.
>>93019 It's worth saving just because it's worth a damn to you, me and whoever loves free speach. Furthermore if it falls it will demoralise and wound all who dared to oppose the bloody cabal from their own initiative. Not enough? They will come to this place and any other refuge that polacs will take. They will ruin it just like /pol/ to ensure complete defeat of free speach on uncontrolled platforms. Not only that but they will study this we're and create automated response bots to instantly destroy any uncontrolled freespeach platforms even faster. This time it's all in for everybody.
>>93018 Mods do what they must: not get into it. As they promised originally whatever the hell happens to /pol/ will be theirs to deal with. Fighting back is simple enough. Fight fire with fire. Use enemy's weapon against them. Shitstorm for shitstorm.
>>93032 I'm uncertain if it will work this time. Current invaders come not from desire but from money. That is very very different from what we faced before.
>>93036 It will amuse and please every /pol/ac and will give blueshills free forces such as reditors. That is my suspicion of /pol/ didn't convert them yet
I vaguely remember something 12 years ago when some small circlejerky furfag site erupted into chaos because some guy became disliked by everyone(first all 30ish active members, then everyone else joined in for the lulz), then everyone started drawing art of their OCs killing the shit out of his OC. I think it was some fox-wolf thing, but the important thing was the killing. Some people drew the OC getting the shit mauled out of it, some drew the OC getting torn apart by regular wild animals (Sometimes with the artist's OC watching), some people drew the OC getting beaten up by fictional characters or their own OC with varying levels of blood and facial damage, some people drew the OC getting shot and killed by regular-ass humans with guns or roadkilled by regular cars, and I think one guy made a bad small GIF animation of the OC being obliterated by orbital laser strike but I'm not 100% sure about that last one.
The important thing was the violence. The shocking violence against their most precious and beloved OC. The bloody ones were posted in the NSFW area, and the less-bloody ones were posted in the non-NSFW art sections. The board was flooded with this stuff.
Remember, Glimmerniggers are the worst kind of hasdrones and waifufags. Saying anything negative about Glimmer or the episodes she's in or the writers that shill her will get you on their shit list for life. Despite all the buzzwords they memorized, such as "Butthurt", "Safe space", "Hater", "Faggot", they are pussies. These people have staff positions on all the major brony sites and they risk these positions so they can abuse their power and ban Glimmerhaters, criticism, and ponitical dissent. Actually seeing their precious Glimmyglam getting hurt, killed, abused, beaten, that might just break them.
Fillies and gentlecolts... It's time for the New Year's Glimmer Gassing.
>>93046 Hit reply too early, forgot to mention the rape. People drew male OCs raping this OC, too. I don't remember if it was because he hated gay shit, or if it was just the whole "Constantly asking people to draw his OC with female characters" thing.
>>93052 No bullshit. People tried to use goreposting to scare off reddit when they flooded in in an attempt to stem the flow. Everyone who posted gore got banned and deleted. >examples of things that got you banned
>>93118 Yep isis is pure evil. And the sooner they are all killed the better. >that video is also one of the tamest I had >didn't want to post video where they burn people alive, or make kids behead people, and all the other shit isis does for sake of example of what gets/got you banned on /pol/
>>93070 Now when you mention it I do recall that happening. You proved your point. Sry. Anyway back on track. /Pol/ now makes shareblue reveal threads. Any ideas on how to help them except for doxing shareblue?
>>93185 This, the reason we’re here and this place exists is because we wanted to be the opposite of 4shill. Now, I wish to bring up a important question. How do we convince anons to join us? Not everyone one /mlp/ or /pol/ share the same thoughts as we do. Some of them probably aren’t worth saving. What can we do to show anons that what we are offering is better then anything else? Because when 4chan becomes a too toxic environment for anons to withstand, they’ll want to leave. When they do, they’ll look for a place to bunker down, and we are radically different then the environment they came from. If I remember correctly, one of our edicts was no generals, but that conflicts with the only thing keeping /mlp/ afloat amongst the sea of glimmerfags, shills and more
>>93210 I mean, there are CYOA's too on /mlp/. Are they are to considered generals? On the other hand, participants are rarely disturbed... Maybe we should try to make our own greens like Manos or Anon in Equestria? They can always come here for porn tho...
You know those "I miss the good old days" threads? Post in them, and remind people the good old days was the time period before Glimmer and Glimposting faggots. Back when the future looked bright, back when you felt you could help make a brighter world. That's what we brought with us in our hearts when we came here.
There's literally nothing wrong with glimmer. It's the main characters that have gone through so many shitty dynamic character changes that you don't notice the basic archetypes of a random good character anymore. You've all been jewed and it was a group effort.
>>93310 >literally nothing wrong with glimmer objectively false. Literally everything about Glimmer is wrong and I can list each and every thing if you want. >It's the main characters that have gone through so many shitty dynamic character changes Yeah fuck that. Introducing Rainbow to reading was good because it broke the "Sporty one hates books" mold and she still had her own tastes and was still her own person. Making her a Wonderbolt too early was a terrible move, as was making all the wonderbolts angry shitty petty childish assholes that like pretending they're military ponies even though they're just a famous state-sponsored acrobat troupe. >you don't notice the basic archetypes of a random good character anymore. You've all been jewed and it was a group effort. Are you saying if you don't love Glimmer, you've been jewed? I shouldn't have to go eady on Glimmer's execution as a character just because you like the idea behind her.
>>96549 >/g/reeks already came up with a solution Not to be the pessimist, but how long until Gookmoot comes up with a new (((fix))) that breaks their solution? http://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/63894609#p63894609 This thread is quite active for /g/.
>>96557 Gookmoot added malicious scripts that connect the users to 3 shady domains. Furthermore, those using traditional block softwares/extensions had 4chan crash on them unless they allowed this shady stuff to go through unopposed.
>>96565 Bullshit like this is part of the reason I left that site. I wouldn't be surprised if anyone else decided they were tired of that crap. Giddy up.
>>96562 >>96584 The code around those three longer lines sort of looks like a simple encryption algorithm, like it's not just obfuscation to evade blocking. Maybe I'm being paranoid.
/g/ were talking about how this whole mess were sending base64-encoded data to those shady domains, but nobody had decoded what it actually was. In the /trash/ thread someone had a screenshot of a bitcoin miner being supposedly added, but I haven't seen anyone mentioning anything odd that would indicate one running, like spikes in CPU usage.
It could just be an overly complicated way to get around ad blockers, but for now I'd assume it comes with some tracking crap as well.
>>96604 Dunno Anon, 4cuck still looks fucked up for me. Scanned PC for everything, checked if IP is not into bot-net. Seems fine. Still, avoiding that shithole untill the next year.
>>96604 https://pastebin.com/raw/28Lcd7KR is supposedly the more recent one, and the other one has problems loading the catalog. Either way you should not be fucked - at least yet.
Here's my attempt at summarizing what's going on: 4chan has added code to all worksafe boards that communicates with three shady-looking domains, two of which seem to be hosted in Ukraine and one hosted with Google. This seems to be a way to get around adblocking. Users' browsers will also send some data to the domains and nobody knows exactly what that is about yet.
There is some obfuscated code on the pages themselves that check that the domains can be reached, i.e. that they are not blocked by an extension/router/whatever - and if they can not, this code breaks the site, specifically CSS and the catalog doesn't load.
The solution to this is to either block the obfuscated script, which some extensions can do, or prevent it from running through adding a userscript (that's what the code in the pastebin links does).
Ublock Origin is supposedly updated to fix this automatically now too.
4 security addons, linux and dozens and dozens of blocked trackers, scripts, adds and the like and I am still not safe Fuck those fucking slit-eyed kikes Government sucks, the net sucks, humans suck I feel like going rogue
>>96805 inb4 some idiot actually tries this, ends up blowing his dick off, and the Democrats get another tale of human stupidity to use in their war on guns
So did anyone do any fishing lately? I saw someone mentioned mlpol in the botnet disaster prevention thread on /trash/ at least. If that's an "organic" mention and not anyone from here that's even more interesting.
>>96868 I posted this today, the thread was pruned almost immediately after I posted it. I think the mods are a wee bit sensitive about anons mentioning the extra scripts Hiro added to the site.
>>96910 This is the right way to advertise the site. Shitposting would make us look shitty, but just offhandedly mentioning why we're better will make the 4chan mods look like the villains they are.
And the more subtle it is, the better it works. Something like ending a post with "that's it, I'm moving to mlpol" fit into natural conversation, and will REALLY reveal how petty the mods are when they delete something as casual as that.
In recent news, increasingly nervous glimmer poster reminds anons how “popular” poochie is http://boards.4chan.org/mlp/thread/31615885#p31616011 But to make this more interesting. How would you rate all the seasons and what order would you put the characters of mlp?
>>97086 I know this is irrational. I know it's stupid to feel like these old farts and normies are "Appropriating our culture" by being on our side. I know this is the natural reaction to being alone and hated for so long and then achieving explosive culture-shifting world-changing popularity.
But goddamnit, why can't Redditors accept that their subreddit is an accessible jumping-on point on the path to becoming redpilled, not the end of the path, and Reddit Culture is incompatible with Chan Culture?
>>97005 >why we're better On aggregate, this is staring to become less true. There are no shills here, there are no redditers here, but there is little else of note here. OC, the life blood of pony has slowed to a stop and the amount of political discussion happening is minimal. If not for the anon filly anons, the main /mlpol/ board would be effectively dead. The question should not be how to fish users, but what is there to make them stay. An ad not conveying a value proposition is a shit ad. Before anyone says why don't I post more, i'm the OP of 17 threads in the catalog right now, and have bumped almost every thread. This place's very existence made me excited, but now I am becoming board.
>>98384 We are better, we just need more users so this superior discussion forum will be more likely.
Unfortunately, apart from the "Skeptic" shit imploding, there isn't much politics to discuss. And MLP's steady decline in quality has made discussing it kinda sad, especially with its death date coming up.
I propose we all get together and rewatch this show, one episode every few days, discussing it and having fun like in the old days.
>>98386 *lively Look, we have higher-quality discussion and higher-quality users. A lot of us are busy, so it seems deader now. This is natural. Still, I reckon my "MLP S1-2 rewatch" idea would be great.
>>98387 This place is going from comfy slow to dead. It may be subjectively "better", but if nothing goes on here what's the point? Tell me, what keeps you coming to this place? Not the discord, HERE.
>>98394 I can tell you part of the "problem" but I don't have a solution. /pol/ is a board based around disagreement, and it is currently being shilled to hell.what the shills and "trolls" don't know is that no one would bother going to /pol/ if they weren't there, since they don't provide easy punching bags for other users. Since this place has no shills, and we mostly agree with each other, there isn't much to say. On top of this politics is just not very interesting right now, it's just the media going after Trump over and over and over again.
>>98395 Yet being the key word. I want this place to not just live, but thrive. We know the problem(numbers) but the current solution(fishing) is only partially successful. What should be focused on is not getting new anons, but preserving the old. That way less people leave, and new people are more likely to stick. I personally plan to stay here until at least April 1st 2018 for to spite the 4chan mods and to have some keks.
>>98397 The same thought has crossed my mind, and I think you are right. One possible solution to this is to use /mlpol/ as a home port to launch raids on small left leaning websites/communities. This would provide someone to argue with, an opponent to challenge ourselves on, and more importantly bring over neutral lurkers to horsepill. It seems people are resistant to raiding though.
>>98400 Meh, it would sure bring attention here, but I can see that going badly. I really think the place is fine, it's gone through slow phases before. In fact, I'm still amazed it's gone this long, and I've been here since day 2. I took about a two month long break from the internet and came back about two weeks ago, and the only difference I noticed is that /sp/ is dead now. I really think this place will pull through, I'm just waiting for a second /pol/ harbor we can seize upon.
>>98394 Fuck the Discord, it's a circlejerk that encourages leddit namefagging, low-quality posting, and fragile egos. It's antithetical to this site's culture and desires. >>98400 I like the idea of raids, but we need to be doing/saying something with them. We can't just burst in and yell "NIGGER NIGGER HORSEPUSSY TRAP THREAD!", we need strategy and an end goal. Redpilling specific high-value targets, turning two liberal sites against each other, exposing hypocrisy on one site and getting another site to laugh at it, triggering cucked glimmernigger admins on derpibooru and starting a campaign calling for their resignations, we need a game plan that goes deeper than "Shout and slander, whoever gets tired first loses".
>>98413 Not for filly posters, that sucked for them hard. >>98410 If you only post here once in a while, this place is tolerable. If you want to post here a lot, it is somewhat terrible. It depends on how you use this place. I stand my ground though saying this place could be better, and the heat death of this site seems inevitable without course correction.
>>98417 >>98410 We've tried getting raids going in the past, it's hard to get enough people on board to pull it off effectively. This board has some major autism when you get us all riled up enough, trouble is finding a cause we all care about enough to get that riled up over.
The traffic here is going to come and go, it's the same with pretty much any small imageboard. 4chan is slowly imploding though, there will probably be more scruffenings and I wouldn't be surprised if mods start going after /pol/. We just need to make sure we're still around when 4chan finally does go down for good, because I guarantee you it's going to happen in the next few years, if not sooner.
>>98410 I'm all for raids and messing around too, but >>98424 has a point. I'm pretty sure the last thing that the majority of us participated in together was the /qa/ raid back when the 4cuck board was first shut down. It's gonna be pretty hard to find something of that level to get all of us pissed off at once and sounding the raid sirens.
>>98430 yea, I'm not sure how many saw atlas's link to the site, how many cared, and how many cared enough to spread the message onward myself. We have probably lost anons during the confusion of that time alone, and it doesn't help that 4cuck has started banning people and deleting posts for even mentioning this site.
>>98431 I remember at one point we had as many as 4 different bunker boards going simultaneously. I created this thread https://mlpol.net/go/res/40.html and asked admins of each board to have it pinned so that it would create some cohesion, but I think we were already pretty fractured even then.
Starting with the number of people who were around 4/1-4/2 on 4chan/mlpol/, a pretty large number, likely more than half, probably just assumed it was over when the board was closed and went elsewhere, leaving let's say 50% of the original user base who went to occupy /qa/. I think I found out about the /qa/ raid from a thread on /mlp/ if I remember correctly, prior to that I didn't even know /qa/ existed and I suspect neither did a lot of people.
I found out about the endchan bunker from a post on /qa/ and started hanging out there. That was the only bunker I was aware of for a while, but I think a lot of anons were congregating on Discord. Then I think I started seeing this board getting mentioned a lot on /qa/, like so frequently for a while I thought this place was a false flag or something, there was also an anon on endchan who started a rumor about Atlas being an opportunistic dataminer. After a while the other bunkers died off and this place became the primary gathering board, but between the people who moved to Discord, the people who stayed on /qa/ in hopes that Hiroshimoot would bring the original board back, and us I think we wound up with realistically maybe 20% of the original 4/mlpol/ userbase, if even that many. Of that number I think people just gradually have been getting bored or preoccupied with other stuff, even if we'd retained 100% of our original userbase a large number would probably have dropped off by now.
>>98436 it's sad indeed, but so far our retention hasn't been that bad. the home page still lists us at over 1800 UIDs, which accounting for old posts in old threads, I'm pretty sure that still puts us at a comfy 1000. We haven't been exploding, but we're by no means catastrophically shrinking.
>>98437 >>98438 definitely, I wasn't trying to suggest that we're dying, I just think we should assume that between confusion and people who were just in it as a joke dropping off, we're probably down to the core userbase right now, which is actually a pretty healthy size considering we're basically a niche within a niche. I think if we can keep this place going long enough to still be around when 4chan dies for good, we would be in a pretty decent position to expand.
>>98440 My guess is the people who have stuck around this long are the ones who are in it for the long haul, I think as long as everyone makes an effort to check the board once or twice a day, start a thread every now and then when you think of an interesting topic, create some OC whenever appropriate, and reply to a few threads here and there we should be able to maintain this level of activity. If you keep an eye on the stats you'll see that even though our activity has tapered off since summer we still hold pretty steady at around 100 to 200 posts daily on the main board, which again for a small chan is pretty good.
In recent 4cuck news that’s really a thinly veiled bump. /trash/ is mobilizing a civil war over a sept. get, the get being OP used to ban fat posters. http://boards.4chan.org/trash/thread/13333333#p13354870 Ground zero of flame wars sparking up by a few prostate pickled individuals creating several other threads to counteract this get. Meanwhile /mlp/ is growing evermore restless with glimmerniggers testing the nerves of others with little regard to what is said or done, only that their presence is felt. http://boards.4chan.org/mlp/thread/31655386#p31673170 And final story for this evening is about the father-board /pol/.
>>102304 >Apparently I forgot to talk about /pol/ my bad > There is very little good news for /pol/ outside of a few threads trying to push a few good topics. The alarming advances of /left/pol/ on 4chan is concerning to parties of that interest
>>102315 >4chan civilwar when? Hopefully soon, but I dunno. I give it a war for it to turn into a world war situation >left pol is dying Well obviously, I was referring to the left elements in 4chan