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@Spast1c No, I mean your assumption that MAL with less moderation is basically 4chan is right. Was here ten years ago, we had daily hate threads onwomen, gays, trans...

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@Spast1c No, I mean your assumption that MAL with less moderation is basically 4chan is right. Was here ten years ago, we had daily hate threads onwomen, gays, trans...

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@Deathko Ah alright I understand now.

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To that gesture, I am honored.


To be fair though, your account being so new means you never experienced the internet over a decade ago. Some people will never realize what they never had.

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I like the moderation, especially rule 7, since it limits politics. This is good, means I don't have to argue anymore. Preventing toxicity from entering the anime community is good, this should be a comfy space.
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I like the moderation, especially rule 7, since it limits politics. This is good, means I don't have to argue anymore. Preventing toxicity from entering the anime community is good, this should be a comfy space.
@RuneRem You mean the arguments you start with your racist viewpoints. Thank you God.
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@RuneRem You mean the arguments you start with your racist viewpoints. Thank you God.
@AmityBlight I never started them, I only countered other arguments.

when your position is x thing causes institutional problems, well a counter-argument is mentioning the other factors.
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To that gesture, I am honored.


To be fair though, your account being so new means you never experienced the internet over a decade ago. Some people will never realize what they never had.

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@rohan121 let me add another one then lolll if u respect freedom of speech u should accept from other people perspective despite u dislike regarding their statement instead of abuse power to remove its existence instead lmaoooo


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@fleurbleue
I don't know, it was kinda surprising to me to see a bunch of people accusing the mods that they were responsible for the place getting a little less active. It wasn't even among the explanations that came to my mind when I made that thread. And from most of the regulars' answers, it was pretty obvious they were less active because of things going on in their lives, not because of the site moderation.

But let's suppose the mods removed most of the rules. If anyone remembers what the forums looked like a decade ago, then you have a good idea of what it would look like. It would be endless political/culture war stuff all day long. Is that what you would honestly want CD to be? Don't you already have some sketchy no-moderation imageboard for that kind of stuff if you want?

So, what do you think? And please, no need to be meanies with the mods. Honestly, they have always been pretty nice with me even though I've probably given them more job than most of the regulars.


"And please, no need to be meanies with the mods." LMAO

Defending (or more like championing in this case) the mods (& the rules they enforce) is hilarious work, is this MAL's version of a pick-me?
The majority of people here would disagree with you.
What's the point of online anonymous forums if you cant have fun with heated debates? I'm obviously not advocating for no mods at all (pretty sure nobody else is), but the current system they have isn't great. We already have to walk on eggshells and be pushovers, be afraid of being cancelled/fired/hated ect. irl. People's livelihood irl depends on these things. If you cant go online and let lose to some degree what the hell is the point? aren't you tired of already controlling yourself in person all the time? Mods on here lock threads for the dumbest reasons, and dont even get me started on the "thread cleaning" shit, this wasnt a thing a couple of months ago, I find it hilarious whenever I see that message inserted in the middle of a random thread. They already permanently locked the current events forum, I dont understand why they couldn't be content with that. CD is now just full of topics that a family of right-wingers and left-wingers would stick to at their Christmas dinner party out of the irrational fear of even remembering that the other person has different views.

@deg
also lower the minimum character limit to 10-15 characters

please stop, why do you even want to comment on a thread if you're not going to say more than two words, you mention meaningful discussion but you dont even want to participate in it yourself

@Daemon
Yes, because the only two options are no moderation and complete lawlessness or severe over-moderation. Certainly there's no in-between ground, right?

I'm not sure what the point of this thread is other than your desire to suck up to the mods and show how much of a goody-two-shoes you are.

This lol

@Sweetsheen
In general, any reduction in freedom of speech is bad. That being said, to keep things actually functioning, the mods on any forum should have very few responsibilities IMO. Removing spam, keeping things somewhat organized, stopping illegal content, adds, and paid shills/bots. Nothing else should be touched.

That’s basically it. Just have a sub forum where ppl can say and do what ever they want. What do you care if there is a bunch of lunatic anime freaks in there talking about lord only knows? Don’t go in, it’s that simple. Is it right for CD to be flooded with random hate or super pervy crap? No I don’t think so, hence why there should be a dedicated area for more “fringe” topics.

But it fosters hate! Do you really think hate is that easy to stop? I just don’t get the logic. Because you don’t want to be exposed to it? You are that weak? Why do you care what some total cum sock says or thinks? Because you think that venomous people will corrupt the youth? Lul. All of this shit just seems so shallow and short sighted. Someone just tell me the actual reason why you care if morons are arguing with each other. Is it because you think that trolls will ruin legit conversations? But you aren’t allowed to have legit conversations. You preemptively struck yourself down by removing all topics that could wind up being “of concern”. Can’t you see that?

At what point, does someone telling you what you can or cannot say become a problem for you? Because it should be the very first sign of censorship that raises your hackles. You best hope that it never ends up being someone you disagree with that tells you what you cannot say, think or do. But hey, what are the chances that’s gonna happen……..

Even if you do not go the route of almost no moderation, the restriction on almost all controversial topics removes so much meat from the bone, that you are left with what MAL clearly has been reduced to. But then again, what right do I have to say anything about it. My response will be removed from the sounds of things.

Pretty much agree with this
Hydre_ItoDec 12, 1:48 AM
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Volunteering to become an unpaid mod is so utterly sad that I can't help but agree that people shouldn't be overtly mean to them. I think it makes more sense to treat them as you would a patient from a mental institution.

I can't imagine these forums being "toxic and hate-filled" would be worse than what they currently are, i.e. the same several dozen people spamming the same dull, mind-numbingly safe slop every day, while anyone interesting, funny or even mildly controversial gets immediately permabanned. But I am basically a lurker, so what do I know.
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@fleurbleue
I don't know, it was kinda surprising to me to see a bunch of people accusing the mods that they were responsible for the place getting a little less active. It wasn't even among the explanations that came to my mind when I made that thread. And from most of the regulars' answers, it was pretty obvious they were less active because of things going on in their lives, not because of the site moderation.

But let's suppose the mods removed most of the rules. If anyone remembers what the forums looked like a decade ago, then you have a good idea of what it would look like. It would be endless political/culture war stuff all day long. Is that what you would honestly want CD to be? Don't you already have some sketchy no-moderation imageboard for that kind of stuff if you want?

So, what do you think? And please, no need to be meanies with the mods. Honestly, they have always been pretty nice with me even though I've probably given them more job than most of the regulars.


"And please, no need to be meanies with the mods." LMAO

Defending (or more like championing in this case) the mods (& the rules they enforce) is hilarious work, is this MAL's version of a pick-me?
The majority of people here would disagree with you.
What's the point of online anonymous forums if you cant have fun with heated debates? I'm obviously not advocating for no mods at all (pretty sure nobody else is), but the current system they have isn't great. We already have to walk on eggshells and be pushovers, be afraid of being cancelled/fired/hated ect. irl. People's livelihood irl depends on these things. If you cant go online and let lose to some degree what the hell is the point? aren't you tired of already controlling yourself in person all the time? Mods on here lock threads for the dumbest reasons, and dont even get me started on the "thread cleaning" shit, this wasnt a thing a couple of months ago, I find it hilarious whenever I see that message inserted in the middle of a random thread. They already permanently locked the current events forum, I dont understand why they couldn't be content with that. CD is now just full of topics that a family of right-wingers and left-wingers would stick to at their Christmas dinner party out of the irrational fear of even remembering that the other person has different views.

@deg
also lower the minimum character limit to 10-15 characters

please stop, why do you even want to comment on a thread if you're not going to say more than two words, you mention meaningful discussion but you dont even want to participate in it yourself

@Daemon
Yes, because the only two options are no moderation and complete lawlessness or severe over-moderation. Certainly there's no in-between ground, right?

I'm not sure what the point of this thread is other than your desire to suck up to the mods and show how much of a goody-two-shoes you are.

This lol

@Sweetsheen
In general, any reduction in freedom of speech is bad. That being said, to keep things actually functioning, the mods on any forum should have very few responsibilities IMO. Removing spam, keeping things somewhat organized, stopping illegal content, adds, and paid shills/bots. Nothing else should be touched.

That’s basically it. Just have a sub forum where ppl can say and do what ever they want. What do you care if there is a bunch of lunatic anime freaks in there talking about lord only knows? Don’t go in, it’s that simple. Is it right for CD to be flooded with random hate or super pervy crap? No I don’t think so, hence why there should be a dedicated area for more “fringe” topics.

But it fosters hate! Do you really think hate is that easy to stop? I just don’t get the logic. Because you don’t want to be exposed to it? You are that weak? Why do you care what some total cum sock says or thinks? Because you think that venomous people will corrupt the youth? Lul. All of this shit just seems so shallow and short sighted. Someone just tell me the actual reason why you care if morons are arguing with each other. Is it because you think that trolls will ruin legit conversations? But you aren’t allowed to have legit conversations. You preemptively struck yourself down by removing all topics that could wind up being “of concern”. Can’t you see that?

At what point, does someone telling you what you can or cannot say become a problem for you? Because it should be the very first sign of censorship that raises your hackles. You best hope that it never ends up being someone you disagree with that tells you what you cannot say, think or do. But hey, what are the chances that’s gonna happen……..

Even if you do not go the route of almost no moderation, the restriction on almost all controversial topics removes so much meat from the bone, that you are left with what MAL clearly has been reduced to. But then again, what right do I have to say anything about it. My response will be removed from the sounds of things.

Pretty much agree with this
Hydre_Ito said:
"And please, no need to be meanies with the mods." LMAO
Well, good thing you necroed this thread without any context. This very thread was a follow-up to another thread I made where users were trashing the mods, and I just wanted things to remain civil in this one. But dare I say people should not insult other people, right? Whatever.

Hydre_Ito said:
The majority of people here would disagree with you.
Is that supposed to make me reconsider my position or something? I wouldn't have made this very thread if that wasn't something I took for granted... Though most of time mods aren't even lurking around and only enforce the rules whenever other users snitch on rule-breaking stuff.
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Though most of time mods aren't even lurking around and only enforce the rules whenever other users snitch on rule-breaking stuff.


IS THIS TRUE?!

Holy shit.

With the number of threads getting locked high or frequent, I literally thought MODS DO LURK.

But in reality, it's just reporting?! Who is doing the most reporting?! Why?!

I literally thought mods check the forums regularly because of the frequency of threads getting locked. XD
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This question is invalid because this site is absolutely filled with moderation, just saying......
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Ehh I feel like the sites a tad bit over moderated as of now, but do I want it to reach 8chan or kiwifarms level? Hell no!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Like my personal thing with the moderation system is all the dumb rules... Like I know a bunch of that "don't encourage discussion" may be a bit annoying getting posted a lot, but are they REALLY bad enough to get the same treatment as racist, sexist, nazi, white supremacist threads???? Tf's wrong with them and why are they against the rules? If you're annoyed with there being too much of those threads just scroll past them!!!!
And what even constitutes as something that doesn't encourage discussion...? Stuff that mods don't like? Literally anything can spark discussion!!!!

I honestly get the civil discussion rule though, bc I mean, that stuff can get out of hand pretty quickly... But I also feel like (CERTAIN) mods tend to just lock threads they don't like, and also leave multiple obvious rule-breaking threads up...

Also do they not do backgrounds checks AT ALL for mods? bc I was just looking through some random 2009 thread and saw some former mod saying the n-word like 1000 times.... -_-






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Fluffygreygrass said:
Yes, we do check the forums regularly


I guess Fleur-senpai was wrong. O.O
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Fluffygreygrass said:
Yes, we do check the forums regularly


I guess Fleur-senpai was wrong. O.O
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@thepotatoprince I'm never wrong, only slightly not right.
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Ehh I feel like the sites a tad bit over moderated as of now, but do I want it to reach 8chan or kiwifarms level? Hell no!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Like my personal thing with the moderation system is all the dumb rules... Like I know a bunch of that "don't encourage discussion" may be a bit annoying getting posted a lot, but are they REALLY bad enough to get the same treatment as racist, sexist, nazi, white supremacist threads???? Tf's wrong with them and why are they against the rules? If you're annoyed with there being too much of those threads just scroll past them!!!!
And what even constitutes as something that doesn't encourage discussion...? Stuff that mods don't like? Literally anything can spark discussion!!!!

I honestly get the civil discussion rule though, bc I mean, that stuff can get out of hand pretty quickly... But I also feel like (CERTAIN) mods tend to just lock threads they don't like, and also leave multiple obvious rule-breaking threads up...

Also do they not do backgrounds checks AT ALL for mods? bc I was just looking through some random 2009 thread and saw some former mod saying the n-word like 1000 times.... -_-






@waferish

waferish said:
And what even constitutes as something that doesn't encourage discussion...? Stuff that mods don't like? Literally anything can spark discussion!!!!

I've been wondering the same thing

waferish said:
I honestly get the civil discussion rule though, bc I mean, that stuff can get out of hand pretty quickly... But I also feel like (CERTAIN) mods tend to just lock threads they don't like, and also leave multiple obvious rule-breaking threads up...

yep

waferish said:
Also do they not do backgrounds checks AT ALL for mods? bc I was just looking through some random 2009 thread and saw some former mod saying the n-word like 1000 times.... -_-

what like, with the hard r? I dont think someone using the n word on here should necessarily be a reason to not consider them as a mod (not that I care either way) but that's funny af


fleurbleue said:
Hydre_Ito said:

The majority of people here would disagree with you.
Is that supposed to make me reconsider my position or something? I wouldn't have made this very thread if that wasn't something I took for granted... Though most of time mods aren't even lurking around and only enforce the rules whenever other users snitch on rule-breaking stuff.

I love how you had to cope by further acting like a pick-me and give the mods the complete benefit of the doubt when its always been pretty clear that forum mods at large engage in the pathetic behaviour of constantly lurking to give meaning to their "jobs" and feel important, do you think they wouldve ever been chosen as mods if they werent active in the first place? lol. There you have it, its been confirmed by Mr Fluffygreygrass himself. So no, there isnt enough users who agree with you to the point of facilitating the majority of thread locks through reporting.
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@waferish

waferish said:
And what even constitutes as something that doesn't encourage discussion...? Stuff that mods don't like? Literally anything can spark discussion!!!!

I've been wondering the same thing

waferish said:
I honestly get the civil discussion rule though, bc I mean, that stuff can get out of hand pretty quickly... But I also feel like (CERTAIN) mods tend to just lock threads they don't like, and also leave multiple obvious rule-breaking threads up...

yep

waferish said:
Also do they not do backgrounds checks AT ALL for mods? bc I was just looking through some random 2009 thread and saw some former mod saying the n-word like 1000 times.... -_-

what like, with the hard r? I dont think someone using the n word on here should necessarily be a reason to not consider them as a mod (not that I care either way) but that's funny af


fleurbleue said:
Hydre_Ito said:

The majority of people here would disagree with you.
Is that supposed to make me reconsider my position or something? I wouldn't have made this very thread if that wasn't something I took for granted... Though most of time mods aren't even lurking around and only enforce the rules whenever other users snitch on rule-breaking stuff.

I love how you had to cope by further acting like a pick-me and give the mods the complete benefit of the doubt when its always been pretty clear that forum mods at large engage in the pathetic behaviour of constantly lurking to give meaning to their "jobs" and feel important, do you think they wouldve ever been chosen as mods if they werent active in the first place? lol. There you have it, its been confirmed by Mr Fluffygreygrass himself. So no, there isnt enough users who agree with you to the point of facilitating the majority of thread locks through reporting.
@Hydre_Ito Yes, I am of course a pick-me for the mods if I say they literally don't do their job properly... (not that you could expect a mod to say that either). And yes, there are snitches around. A thread of mine got locked like last week from several people reporting it (confirmed by a mod) since it apparently went against the rules. Do all threads that got locked happen this way? Hell if I know. Does it happen? Well duh, it happened just last week. And no, lots of mods who get chosen are users you've never heard of before and never saw around the forums like ever. Most of the mods you never ever see them around. But I'm sure they are still all here lurking in the shadows waiting to lock threads...
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I don't have a strong opinion on this. But I did want to say that when that one guy recently posted a rambling delusional manifesto about gender and then used anime and manga as the basis for his argument and then had his thread locked .. I had a good lol. And then I had a bigger lol when I went to the dude's profile and saw he had his comments disabled
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@Hydre_Ito Yes, I am of course a pick-me for the mods if I say they literally don't do their job properly... (not that you could expect a mod to say that either). And yes, there are snitches around. A thread of mine got locked like last week from several people reporting it (confirmed by a mod) since it apparently went against the rules. Do all threads that got locked happen this way? Hell if I know. Does it happen? Well duh, it happened just last week. And no, lots of mods who get chosen are users you've never heard of before and never saw around the forums like ever. Most of the mods you never ever see them around. But I'm sure they are still all here lurking in the shadows waiting to lock threads...
@fleurbleue If your thread didn't break rules there be nothing to report so STFU stop crying about this 3rd time I seen you complaining. I had thread with 112 replies few years it got deleted. I read the rule yes it did break the rules I wasn't going to cry about.

Make your own website don't so follow no one rules.
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@fleurbleue If your thread didn't break rules there be nothing to report so STFU stop crying about this 3rd time I seen you complaining. I had thread with 112 replies few years it got deleted. I read the rule yes it did break the rules I wasn't going to cry about.

Make your own website don't so follow no one rules.
@MissHeed They say no one side with the mods and I merely pointed out they are snitches around (or what, are you one of them?). If it happened to someone's else thread I would be speaking about someone's else thread. I don't feel sorry for bringing my own experience yet again and I'll do it again if there's a reason for it. You can flip at me again next time too, I won't mind and still won't change anything.
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@MissHeed They say no one side with the mods and I merely pointed out they are snitches around (or what, are you one of them?). If it happened to someone's else thread I would be speaking about someone's else thread. I don't feel sorry for bringing my own experience yet again and I'll do it again if there's a reason for it. You can flip at me again next time too, I won't mind and still won't change anything.
@fleurbleue Who cares it's just a internet thread lol. You have no clue what snitch means xD

Flip at you lol? What?
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@fleurbleue Who cares it's just a internet thread lol. You have no clue what snitch means xD

Flip at you lol? What?
MissHeed said:
Who cares it's just a internet thread lol.
This never was about the thread, though? I make them all the times, so of course a few aren't gonna survive.

MissHeed said:
You have no clue what snitch means xD
Snitch is an insulting name for a person who informs the police or other authorities when others break the law or the rules
That's how I see it (definition taken from Dictionary.com) but I'm willing to learn if I'm wrong. Please share your wisdom with us.

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Flip at you lol? What?
Well yes. I rarely see telling someone to STFU as anything else but hostile behavior.
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