/qa/ - Questions and Answers

>>9184
No.

Does this faggot seriously not remember what happened last time? I'm scrolling up, and I remember why he was banned (when did he get unbanned?).

>>9193
His post history indicates a month ago. He has several IPs that he uses, so I guess he swapped to one that I went easy on before he was ban evading.

>>9194
>a month ago
No wonder I noticed the quality dip.
>he was ban evading
Isn't ban evasion cause for a ban?

>>9193
For the record. I asked permission to post again.

>>9195
Yep, but since he fucked off for a bit, we tend to be forgiving if someone returns after a prolonged absence. We have another poster around here that had gone through that. Though I am doubting this guy wants to utilize this kindness to be a better poster...

>>9196
Correct. But if you don't behave, I will make sure to add to the record that you asked to be forcibly removed like last time.

>>9197
>we tend to be forgiving if someone returns after a prolonged absence
Why?
>Though I am doubting this guy wants to utilize this kindness to be a better poster...
Why are you giving banned users the benefit of the doubt then?
>But if you don't behave
Why are you adding additional conditions that move the goalpost to enforce an existing ban?

>>9198
>Why?
Why not? It isn't like we can't clean up his mess if he spergs again.
>Why are you giving banned users the benefit of the doubt then?
Some people can change. Not many, but some can. A ban is a button away, but sometimes you should wait before you press it.
>Why are you adding additional conditions that move the goalpost to enforce an existing ban?
They are the same conditions as last time and the same as everyone else that posts here. We didn't ban Zald back in the day on sight for making normal posts. We banned him when he came back and specifically did spam posts.

>>9198
>low IQ poster ask questions
Dear poner, I always had around 300 IPs to choose from, my retirement from the board was to respect the management's wishes, I still do respect them.
Referring to the causes of my multiple bannings, to be honest, I'm oppressed for some kind of sadistic Mods, they accuse of low quality posting, to which I don't agree, but, they have the last word about what is low quality and what it is not.

>>9199
>Why not?
>It isn't like we can't clean up his mess if he spergs again.
There are damages inflicted by allowing bans tongo unenforced that aren't cleaned up as easily as deleting a few posts. Site-wide cultural community damage.
>Some people can change. Not many, but some can. A ban is a button away, but sometimes you should wait before you press it.
Is four years of not changing not long enough?
>We didn't ban Zald back in the day on sight for making normal posts.
Zalds shitposts were not nearly as damaging to the community. Zald made open troll/bait threads; he didn't drastically lower the overall quality of discussion on the site.
>9200
>I'm oppressed for some kind of sadistic Mods, they accuse of low quality posting, to which I don't agree
See, even now he refuses to take accountability for his behavior.

>>9200
Nigger, you never respected my wishes from day one. I was trying to explain exactly what people had problems with and how to compromise to repair relations. You are still a faggot in my book and your antagonizing of the user base makes my vote ready to cast already to ban you. I will leave it to the rest of the staff to judge what to do from here.

>>9202
>I will leave it to the rest of the staff to judge what to do from here.
I'm pretty sure you have authority and agency to enforce bans on a ban evader...
Idk, it just feels stupid giving fourth and fifth chances to someone who clearly does not deserve them.

>>9201
>Is four years of not changing not long enough?
I used to think so, but then I saw someone actually change that was a thorn in my side. Not as much as everyone on the site wishes, but we are working on that.

>>9203
>'m pretty sure you have authority and agency to enforce bans on a ban evader...
I do, but as I said before, I wait a bit to see if anything changed. You might not agree, but I fail to see the community harm you allude to by being inconvenienced for a couple of posts from him. You didn't even know he was back before now.

>Idk, it just feels stupid giving fourth and fifth chances to someone who clearly does not deserve them.
No one deserves it, but it is given despite that. That is friendship. And friendship is half the battle.
https://youtu.be/c71nqMqmiaw?feature=shared

As for authority, it is best not to make an action that can upset someone on staff that has a different opinion on the situation. It might move slower, but part of the reason the site is still running is because we don't have massive infighting and break apart the means to run the website. If I banned him when another staff member specifically forgave him, it would not be good to go behind his back.

>>9204
>I wait a bit to see if anything changed.
He literally just now in the post above refused to take accountability for his behavior and asserts that he did nothing wrong: he has not changed.
He is disrespecting you and the site and is simply demanding that you indulge his sense of entitlement.
>but I fail to see the community harm you allude to by being inconvenienced for a couple of posts from him
Because when posters engage with his garbage they get frustrated and conclude that /mlpol/ is not the board of quality discussion that it claims to be; then they leave and they never come back. It has happened before.
>You didn't even know he was back before now.
No. I did know. I just didn't complain about it because I, like you, cautiously observed to see if he would correct himself.
>No one deserves it, but it is given despite that. That is friendship. And friendship is half the battle.
Letting a faggot take a shit on your front lawn while flipping the bird at you every day is not friendship.
>that can upset someone on staff that has a different opinion on the situation
Who?
Who on the staff values this poster enough to let them get away with ban evasion?

Anyway, it appears that the decision has already been made. Just giving my voice on the matter.

>>9205
>He is disrespecting you and the site and is simply demanding that you indulge his sense of entitlement.
Correct, which is why I let staff know and they will decide if my suggestion to take action is justified or me getting too emotionally charged. You can disrespect staff and the site as that is not against the rules. The problem is that it indicates he is going to do the stuff he was banned for doing, which is why it takes a little more time than my gut reaction.

>Because when posters engage with his garbage they get frustrated and conclude that /mlpol/ is not the board of quality discussion that it claims to be; then they leave and they never come back. It has happened before.
Correct. But even then there is no pleasing a person that only sticks around because the people they don't like are banned. It is a discussion I should make in a thread about how there is not really any community within the board, only meta community that happens to like the board.

>Letting a faggot take a shit on your front lawn while flipping the bird at you every day is not friendship.
Correct. I just responded to that.

>Who? Who on the staff values this poster enough to let them get away with ban evasion?
Value is a strong word. Like I said, it is being friendly that allows people to have a second chance.

>>9206
>it appears that the decision has already been made
Again, you are too rash. Sometimes you just have to wait a few extra minutes. You are on this site after all. Waiting a bit is not a foreign concept.

I did warn you BoomBoom

>>9208
I made a question and all hell broke loose. Jeez.

>>9210
Incapable of honesty, as usual

>>9184
>>9210
Didn't have a chance to respond to this earlier, but I'm just going to quote what I told you earlier. Important bits have been bolded for emphasis:

>>9159 →
>As ever, it’s up to you. If you can interact normally with the site and not cause trouble then you’re as welcome to post here as anyone else. If you’re going to start pointless drama and flood the site with low-quality content like you were doing before, it will probably go the way it usually does. The choice is, and has always been, yours.

So the simplest answer to your original question is: NO. Just because the site is less active than you would like it to be, this does not grant you license to resume flooding it with low-quality grandpa memes. You've been warned multiple times about this behavior, and if it starts up again, you will be banned again, simple as. This is not a subject I'm interested in re-litigating.

>>9200
>I'm oppressed for some kind of sadistic Mods, they accuse of low quality posting, to which I don't agree, but, they have the last word about what is low quality and what it is not.
This has to be some kind of autism thing, because I swear to God I've had this exact same conversation with Nigel at least ten times in the past year. The issue is not that you are being unfairly picked on or "oppressed," the issue is that people find your behavior obnoxious and respond to you accordingly. This is not merely the opinion of mods, this is the nigh-unanimous reaction of the community at large. You are free to disagree with this assessment as much as you like, but I'm afraid the tribe has spoken.

If this site moves too slowly for your tastes, and if you absolutely, positively cannot live without sharing your massive collection of unfunny facebook-tier content with the world, there are any number of Discord servers out there that cater to retards with short attention spans. I suggest you take your business there; you may get a warmer reception.

4chan babyduck refugee here. Do you guys have anything similar to 4chanx's functionality where
a) opening a thread you had already partially scrolled through immediately scrolls down to your last read point, and
b) the unread post count updates dynamically as you scroll down the thread, rather than requiring scrolling all the way down to the bottom of the page?

As a userscript or option or something.

Everything else on the site feels perfect otherwise and it's a pleasure to use and post in compared to some other altchans.

>>9215
Henlo!
The closest as far as functionality is the Overboard (which displays the last 4 posts of the most recently engaged threads) or the "last 50 posts" of whichever thread. There is no functional automatic setting like you describe (possibly doable through custom prompts in options, but I don't fuck with that shit), there's never been sufficient demand

>>9216
Darn.
I might try to look into some sort of mini-"mlpolx" extension then, if I ever get the time and motivation. (Realistically not very likely because I'm terrible at both of those, but I really do miss this feature from 4/mlp/.)

>>9215
Sadly it is not as advanced as 4chanX, and there might be some quirks currently that is not 100%. I try to strive to make it better but have been preoccupied with irl stuff so have not had the time or energy to fine tune the current code for a while. But I will put it on a to-do list, but sadly can't make promises for any eta.

>>9218
Understandable, thank you. I love the site so far like I said, and I really appreciate you guys existing now in our time of need.

>>7990
Is there a way to have a thread-watcher here?
This is one thing I miss from 4chan.

A flood of refugees. I'm speechless.
Well faggots, for the time being my wish has been fulfilled. Let us see how you handle it, because it looks like you hooves are full.

Why is >>/poner/988 allowed to stay up when it's breaking the global rules? Isn't staff supposed to remove threads such as these?

>>9264
In essence,

Ponies are allowed. No exceptions

And furthermore, it is not against the rules

>But race mixing! Blacked threads!
Read the actual rule

> 5. No race-mixing.
>"blacked", "how can white men even compete", etc, threads ruined many parts of /pol/ turning large portions of the board into a wasteland of distracting rageposts while the mods did nothing
>As such posts that do nothing but attempt to elicit rage based on white race hatred are a bannable offense, thus sayeth the community
You don't even need to know the context that the rule was created in in order to know what it's about, because it explicitly tells you. This is a /pol/ rule concerning a specific kind of bait post that was common on that board. Rules 4 and 6 are of a similar nature, concerning posts made to /pol/ that were intended to be disruptive.

These rules aren't so much a per se ban on specific types of threads as they are bans of intentionally disruptive threads from posters outside of the community.

So what is "striped"? First of all, it isn't any of that. There are no black people, no humans, just my little pony characters and my little pony zebras, which are themselves basically grey or white ponies with black stripes on them. If you think rule 5 is a per se rule against blackened threads, well, these are literally not that. As for race mixing, ponies and zebras are different species. And are you suggesting that human male on mare should be banned as "race-mixing"?

No, what matters is if it's just a disruptive thread. Striped threads definitely can be intended to be as such. But not necessarily. For one, it's a joke. For another, we quite a few genuine coomers here.

Then there's also the fact that that set of rules was written eight years ago and not even for this website, and they are not specified as global rules as opposed to /mlpol/ rules, but that's a whole other issue

>>9264
That entire thread is breaking rules in pic related. Also, an actual honest to god BBC thread went up just now(/poner/1736). What is /mlpol/ staff thinking by allowing such threads to exist anywhere on their site? Why is no one following the policy?

>>9266
It is absolutely against the rules. Striped is explicitly BBC and thus shouldn't exist. Racemixing rule and no cuckoldry rules exist to prevent such threads from existing. That set of rules has been made for this site explicitly or have you forgotten that over the years?
>human male on mare
It shouldn't be. Even human male on zebra mare. Male Zebra on anything, other than another zebra, however, should be removed, because one: it's essentially BBC, two: it's cuckoldry or based on it.

>>9266
I have a question why are you such a nigger loving faggot?

>>9269
I get it, most/all striped pics ARE trying to ragebait about race-mixing and shit. But guess what, it only works if you let it. Instead of associating 'striped' with BBC, associate 'striped' with how niggers can't obsess about anything but their dicks and fucking things (often against their will) and then robbing and killing them.
Zebras unironically did nothing wrong, other than being associated with blacks.

>>9269
Who else will pick the cotton?

>>9268
We're not so obsessed with racial imagery that we have to interpret a fictional non-human character as representative of real-life races.

Zebras can be cute, actually

>>9271
So you are just going to allow blatant BBC threads to stay up, if they're wearing a pony disguise?! Are you out of your mind?!

>>9273
That's pretty fair. That EQG thread needs to be deleted

>>9273
>are you out of your mind
where do you think you are

>>9274
The other thread needs to be deleted as well.

>>9276
You were told to stop spamming. You continued to spam.

The 999 year CP bans are because that's what the ban form is set to as default, and your spam isn't worth the 5 seconds it takes to change those values on the form.

You could have responded in any other way, but you just want to spam.

>>9278
More like you're being a niggerfaggot by showing support to BBCfags.

I feel like Naruto and Sasuke right now, at the end of the Boruto movie.
"I remember when I thought that way,"

>>9277
When you have a child that you keep away from any kind of bacteria, dirt, or contagion, that child's immune system doesn't develop properly, but instead overreacts to small stimuli in such a way that the immune system is as harmful as a disease. That's how allergies form.

In that thread, so many people are bitching about the subject, but they kept fucking bumping the thread like they don't know how to sage. They kept feeding the trolls. No one had any idea to brush off the posts, or respond in a humorous way. Only one person thought to post the death to zebras copy pasta.

If you can't help yourselves, I think that just giving in to deleting every type of post or thread a vocal minority wants deleted is doing a disservice to everyone. Learn to use an imageboard, and then come back to me about deleting threads.

There's another reason why the striped thread must go. It's doing an enormous damage on this site's reputation and if you won't take stand against it you will chase the good anons away and you'll be left with pure cancer.
>>9283
Regardless, it(the striped thread) must not be allowed to stay. It doesn't matter that you feel otherwise. What matters is that you'd be very, VERY hard pressed to find anyone who will not equate striped threads with bbcfaggotry. You might be the only one who thinks this way. Everyone else does not.

>>9284
And at Mlpol, we have a long-standing history of our actual reputation having little-to-nothing to do with the reality of what goes on here, who we are, what we represent, etc.
In cases such as this, what happens is one or more posters start sperging about the "acceptable line" - and before I continue, I've been that guy - for certain types of posts. What ends up happening is that the dissatisfied poster(s) start being a bigger problem than the alleged problem, and then get censured, reasonably.
They then sperg out with all sorts of allegations - much like you are displaying - of nigger-loving, or what the fuck ever. NGL, its alot funnier when the topic is GlimmyGlam, but whatever.
We don't like ziggers, we don't like striped shit, we don't like the mentality behind it, and we only tolerate it because there is a line for free speech - especially as pertains to ponies - that we will not cross.
>I know, I'll just reset my IP
Son, he hasn't even started using the staff features.

>>9288
So you'd rather have a dead site on your hands? Is this what you really want? Striped cancer shouldn't be tolerated nor is it free speech in any way. It really should have no place to exist, anywhere. By allowing these threads to stay, you signal that you support these people, not merely tolerate them. Are you really sure this is the right thing to do?

>>9290
Thats an awfully disingenuous framing. An honest framing would be to say that this is a difficult situation, and given the choices we would prefer to err on a standard that is less immediately censorial. If the striped posting had or does start spreading to other threads, well stricter measures will be taken. And yes, there's technically 2 zeeb threads last checked, but one is dead as shit and the other has become the de-facto shitposting thread du juor.

>>9291
What's awfully disingenous is allowing that thread to stay at all. I can 200% guarantee that this will spread to other threads if you won't delete and ban them immediately. You cannot afford to allow them to take an inch. This situation is honestly not difficult at all, unless you happen to enjoy this kind of content.