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The VPN ban is now in effect on /ot/, see this update post for more information

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No. 92419[Reply]

Previous thread: >>90723
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No. 92519

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cannot post without getting this message

No. 92520

>>92519
I had this recently too. I managed to post from a different device, could you try that? I'm sorry I don't have a genuine fix, but it could work in the meantime while you wait for an answer.

No. 92521

Regarding the jessica thread in snow I think the thread should really be locked now because shes openly distributing cp in discord servers and she has proven to be a attention whore cow anyways and probably should be tipped off to the FBI for consuming and distributing cp

No. 92523

>>92508
check gender ideology thread on ot

No. 92525

>>92503
Kek never heard of him but based on what i read up on him, his entire life since 2015 has been being an edgelord troll. Sad.



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No. 6821[Reply]

Post all technical help questions and technical/feature suggestions here. This is the place to go if you're having some problem with the site or want to request a new feature.

If you have some non-technical issue, like wanting mods to do something or a suggesting a change in policy, please use >>1134

If you want to email me: admin@lolcow.farm



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No. 91023

I'm trying to post this video in the chuckle thread:
https://www.tiktok.com/@der.gute.content/video/7412022190461226273
But it's not being accepted. I copied it straight from tiktok and the format seems correct. What's going on?

No. 91031

>>91023
I think it's their username. I had an issue trying to post a tiktok from someone whose username started with a symbol.

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No. 91611

test test

No. 92516

test



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No. 65391[Reply]

This is a containment thread for meta discussion that doesn't fall into complaints and suggestions. Feel free to tinfoil or talk about the state of the site but try to avoid being too autistic.

If cerbmin needs to hear it, post it here.

NEW /meta/ THREAD: Site Updates Thread
>>63266

Previous responses to anons:
>>62774, >>62928 regarding moovie thread
>>62963 accusing other users of being moids
>>63136 explaining infighting from a handful of users

Previous threads, newest to oldest:
>>62751
>>60569
>>56933
>>53472
>>51182
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No. 92416

>>>/ot/2475349 belongs on /2X/.

No. 92418

>>92416
Sorry, anon, didn't realize complaints and suggestions was full!
It's weird because my post went through but when I refreshed it disappeared. THEN I got the notice thread was full when I tried reposting.

No. 92507

How long should go by before you dont need to report a post anymore? I just reported one from like 3 days ago without realizing, but I dont really know where the cutoff point is.

No. 92509

>>92507
For serious offences: doxxing, posting about underaged subjects, suspecting the user is a scrote, etc. if you see it please report it regardless of how old it is. For run of the mill rule breaking: not saging, infighting, baiting, etc. 3 days or so is the cutoff point.

No. 92510

>>92404
i would also love this, if one was made. though I do see the personalityfagging risks too.



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No. 63266[Reply]

This thread will be used by staff to post general site updates and will remain locked to keep those updates easily visible. If you'd like to discuss any of these announcements, please use the General Meta Discussion and Complaints and Suggestions threads.
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No. 88649

The site will be in read-only mode for approximately 12 hours between 8:00 and 20:00 GMT on the 14th of January. This is for necessary maintenance, as we are moving the site to a new server.

We have made the decision to transition from a virtual private server (VPS) to a dedicated server. There are several reasons for this, the main one being improved stability. In recent months there have been several extended periods of downtime and performance degradation caused by issues with the shared hosting our current VPS uses, and moving to a dedicated server will prevent this. It should also slightly improve the site's performance, and allow us to use a RAID configuration for the site’s drives which comes with its own benefits.

We have spent the last while working on this, which has delayed other updates to the site. Shortly after the site is back up, we will be moving forward with other necessary updates (e.g. the VPN ban and the Lolcow Awards). With regards to the VPN ban, we are implementing a way to host polls on-site to prevent anyone from being able to interfere with the results.

No. 88777

The site maintenance has been completed a little ahead of schedule, we have successfully moved to the new server! There may be some teething issues over the next few days, please report any bugs or other issues here:
>>>/meta/73959

No. 92331

We are glad that many of you enjoyed yesterday's April Fool's prank! It was a collaboration between the admins and farmhands and we had a lot of fun creating it.

As requested, we have made it available as a theme. At some point we'd like to update the scripts to make it less laggy, but for now we recommend only using it on desktop. Because it relies heavily on JS, you will need to refresh after selecting or deselecting the theme for now - we will automate this in the future.

No. 92455

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The VPN ban has now gone live on /ot/. Any thread where VPN posting is blocked will have a small shield icon in the same area where the sticky/locked icons appear, picrel is how this icon looks. There is a description of what the icon means if you hover it. We have made exceptions for the Ex-Muslim and Gender Ideology Hate Threads in /ot/. The exception will apply automatically to newly created threads on those topics. If you believe there are other threads in /ot/ which need this exception, please post about it in the General Meta Discussion thread:
>>>/meta/65391

We have also made the decision to remove the autosage from the Dumbass Shit Thread, as we should now have more control over ban evasion on /ot/ and it attracting unintegrated/rulebreaking users will be less of a problem.

If you need a way around the VPN ban for any reason, e.g due to government censorship, or you are in a situation where posting without a VPN may put you in danger, please email us at admin@lolcow.farm and we will set up an exception for you.

No. 92487

Small VPN quality of life update: the maximum length for a ban on a VPN IP is now 1 week, and all previously permabanned VPN IPs are now unbanned.



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No. 90723[Reply]

Previous thread: >>>/meta/89037
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No. 92408

The autism and adhd thread should be separated. Autism and adhd aren't the same or related. They are 2 different disorders and shouldn't be combined simply because they have similar social consequences.

No. 92409

>>92408
Seconded

No. 92411

>>92408
Thirded

No. 92412

>>92408
It's been the Autism & ADHD thread since 2020. What's the point of making a thread specifically for anons with ADHD when they've already been using the Autism & ADHD thread for 4 years? Sometimes I swear you ADHD anons act more autistic than the actual autists

No. 92413

>>92412
What's the point of having a wagie thread when there's already an employment thread? Isn't the whole point of threads to make it so we can talk about different subjects in different places? Very few anons with ADHD are using the autism thread and whenever they try they get no replies because there's always active conversation about autism going on. The ADHD thread will likely be much slower than the autism thread but that's fine, at least we will be able to find each other's posts without having to wade through hundreds of autism posts. I genuinely do not understand the pushback here. Why do autistics need us nonautistics to use their thread instead of letting us have our own? I would think they'd rather we talked about things that have nothing to do with autism somewhere else.



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No. 92031[Reply]

We present to you... the winners of the Lolcow Awards 2024!

'Twas the eve of Shitposting, and all through the Farm,
Not a newfag was stirring, safe from all harm;
The threads were bumped nightly with meticulous care,
In hopes that fresh drama soon would be there;
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No. 92238

It's so great to see big Shaynus take the crown again. I fear with the state of her current milk she will be dry by the time the next awards roll around.

No. 92309

Fuck I didn't win…

No. 92350

>>92238
at least if she ever hits the 27 club she has one last hurrah to her name before falling to irrelevancy

No. 92360

>>92077
Lord you bitches are so bitter over that thread, kek. It's easily the most fun thread on this site, of course it won. You're just mad that you're missing out. Plus you are missing out on making fun of the more delusional weegee wives of reddit who think he is some kind of scholar. There's layers to that thread.

No. 92361

>>92360
Nta but it was more fun in the beginning, now it's complete garbage. I'm saying this as a former weeweefag, she's really not missing out on anything.



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No. 87485[Reply]

Voting is now closed! We will announce the winner in a new thread in the next few days.

2024 has been quite the year, let's celebrate it coming to an end with the Lolcow Awards! Nominate in the following categories:

Best Milk
Worst Milk
Favorite Cow
Worst Cow
Biggest Plot Twist
Horrorcow
Bleakest Cow
Best Comeback
Best Thread
Worst Thread
Best Comment
Most Cursed Comment
Most Retarded Infight
Best Shitpost
Best Cow Fanart
Best Drawing
Best Picmix

>greentext your category

And write your nominations below

Linking post numbers is appreciated but not required, and you can make multiple nominations within one post. Nominations will close on the 20th of December and voting will begin!
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No. 91230

but where is it actually?

No. 91296

I hope to see the results soon! As long as they eventually come out I'm fine with patiently waiting.

No. 91544

results pls, i see you with the vpn poll

No. 91572

Its been 3 months now come on

No. 92051

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The results are finally out!
>>>/meta/92031

We apologize for the delay. A number of things came up that had to take higher priority, and each admin went through busy periods over the last few months that made us hard for us to collaborate on stuff like this.

Additionally, we had to go through all of the votes as there were clear attempts to rig the outcome of the awards. We discounted votes that were obviously dishonest, e.g. 10 made in a short span of time and all for one option (picrel is a screenshot of some of these so you can see what we mean). This changed the outcome of Favorite Cow and Best Picmix. In total, we had to discount 43 votes, leaving 426 genuine ones.

For the Lolcow Awards 2025 we will use the on site polling system we implemented so it won't happen again!



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No. 91747[Reply]

See the last thread for outcome of the first poll and for a description of how voting works.

60% of users have voted for some kind of persistent VPN ban and the purpose of this runoff poll is to determine how that should be implemented. We have limited the voting options to the 3 that had the most votes from those in favour of a persistent ban.

If a VPN ban is put in place we will:
- Create exceptions for sensitive/legally risky threads (e.g. ex-muslim thread, TERF/anti-trans threads)
- Create a way for users in countries that block lolcow.farm (e.g. Russia, China) to bypass the ban
- Monitor the health of the site and consider removing the ban if it is detrimental to it

Threads on boards that are not subject to a VPN ban may have a thread-specific ban implemented if they have a problem with ban evaders or being raided by scrotes.

The poll will automatically close in one week on the 26th of March and the option with the most votes will be implemented ASAP.

How should VPN banning work?

This poll is closed.

  • Banned on all boards: 91 votes (35.3%)
  • Banned on /ot/, /g/ and /m/: 65 votes (25.2%)
  • Banned only on /ot/: 102 votes (39.5%)

Total votes: 258

No. 91948

"Banned only on /ot/" is the winning poll option, and that is how we intend to implement the VPN ban. We are aware that once again 60% of users voted for a wider ban, but any further runoff polls would be ridiculous, especially as 200 fewer users voted in this one.

If the rulebreaking users on /ot/ just shit up other boards then we will consider expanding the ban, but hopefully that is not the case.

We will create a follow up post in a few days when the ban goes live with more details on how it will work and how users who need a VPN to access the site can contact us to get a workaround.



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No. 70855[Reply]

How many admins do we have left? Communication admin is obviously gone. What about the other two?

No. 70856

Kek we have one admin and 3 staff members? If I'm not mistaken

No. 70897

Did you really need to create a whole new post for something that could have gone in the meta discussion thread?

No. 91856

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>>70855
Has anyone seen proof of life from the “other two” admins because I’ve only seen the admin with the teal tag.



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No. 1706[Reply]

Excuse my autism, but I've noticed posters sometimes seem to mix up the following terms. I see this on other websites, too. This is understandable, since the terms are vague and not widely known.

These are subjective to some degree, but here is how I personally define them.

Samefagging

This is a general term for deceptive posting. It can mean the following things:

- Taking on more than one persona in a thread to make it seem like your view has wider support than it actually does. This is also called sockpuppeting. May involve replying to your own posts agreeing with yourself, or significantly changing writing style to make it seem like a different person is also giving similar positive or negative remarks. Particularly dedicated samefags may try to use a different IP address as well.

- Making multiple posts back-to-back, without obvious indication they were all made by you. This is not always deceptive, though is often annoying.

- May also apply to general false or omitted self-identification. For example, if the subject of a /pt/ thread started secretly and anonymously posting in her own thread to disagree with people or defend herself, this may also be called samefagging. There may be a better term for this, but if there is, I'm not yet aware of it.


Self-posting

Posting about yourself in any way, whether anonymous or self-identifying. For example: posting a picture of yourself, linking to your own profiles, giving excessive details about your life, etc. Self-posts are completely acceptable in some threads and some contexts, but they usually are frowned upon otherwise. You shouldn't try to make yourself stand out on an anonymous board. Valid spellings also include self posting and selfposting.


Vendetta / vendettafag / vendetta-posting

Posting about someone as if you are a random person who happens to dislike them, when in reality you have some sort of personal connection or grudge. Often involves samefagging. Generally has no relation to self-posting, except in cases of self-victimization. In cases where you present the chan with an implicit or explicit "call to action", to further your vendetta, this is also called a personal army (PA) request. It often involves misleading or deceptive information.

An example of a vendetta post would be arguing with a girl on social media, and later posting a thread calling her a whore. Asking people to send things to her parents, or falsely claiming she's violated some site's terms of service and requesting people report her, or including her address and phone number in the post, would be a vendetta post as well as a personal army request.
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No. 91442

>>91423
>>91417
I'm so tired

No. 91490

>>91423
It's for "funny" content about the cow, not just any content. E.g. a selfie is not milk.

No. 91496

>>91490
it depends on the selfie. but milk is just anycl cringy actions of cows. doesn't need to be funny. the definition is broad and we need to post random selfies as part of archiving. admin is just pushing the milk and "don't post x" shit because it tips the bandwidth when in reality we should be posting as much as possible incase things get deleted and brought up later in a different context.

No. 91643

what's a munchie

No. 91644

>>91643
Person who has Munchausen. Fakes diseases for attention



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