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No. 67909
Hellweek is over. In the next day or so we will update this thread with some statistics about moderator actions over the last 2 weeks, as well summary of what we have learned and any changes for the future.
The core of this community is (and always has been) discussing and documenting lolcows. This site exists to serve farmers. Part of the reason that board culture has degraded as much as it has is due to the number of posters who are not here for the milk, but instead to use /ot/ and /g/ like a chatroom and without any attempt to integrate or use the site as intended.
The quality of posting has also dropped significantly in recent weeks, particularly in relation to blatant bait being posted in /ot/, /g/, and in milk threads that attract a certain crowd (such as Tradthots). A lot of this traffic is from ban-evading spammers and tourists posting in bad faith, but they are only able to disrupt threads as much as they do because of how many users keep taking the bait. We have noticed that many long-term users see this for what it is and have been calling it out, but the number of other users who continue to engage with it have been exacerbating this problem significantly.
If you are not a farmer, you are merely a guest here. You are a welcome guest as long as you integrate and follow the rules. If you continuously post without regard for the rules or board etiquette and culture, that privilege can and will be revoked. Frequent rule-breaking, infighting and trolling will be met with a permanent ban. You can screech as much as you want about how the site will die without your low effort shitposts, but we do not care. Slower boards with better quality posts is preferable over the current state of the site.
During this Hellweek, we want to get the site health and quality of posting back on track, and we will be facilitating this in a number of ways:
- All topicless, chat-style/shitposting threads will be locked for the duration. Do not make new threads to replace them. Do not try to cicumvent this by giving them new titles.
- The cooldown required between making posts will be increased to 2 minutes (it is currently 30 seconds)
- As it has been a particular problem, all posts breaking global rule 7 (racebaiting) will receive 3 day unappealable bans. Users with very little else in their post history will be assumed to be posting in bad faith and be permanently banned
- Blackpill posting outside of /2X/ will be treated as bait and banned accordingly
- Every response to blatant bait will receive a ban. Report bait and do not respond
- Every post accusing someone of being a scrote/tranny will receive a ban. Report suspected males and do not respond
- Reporting someone you disagree with for being a moid/tranny will receive a ban. The vast majority of reports we receive accusing a user of being male are incorrect. Women are not a monolith and can have opinions that you do not like
- Reporting posts for retarded reasons will receive a ban, e.g. an anon posting an unpopular opinion in the Unpopular Opinion thread is not bait, please use your brain
As always, please use this thread to provide feedback on moderation decisions throughout the week!
No. 67914
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Oh hell yeah! Thank you Cerbmin!
No. 67919
>>67917please just report them as bait as
>>67918 has said. Generally, if the post is very clearly a moid EG 'as a man…', 'my dick/balls…' report them as a moid. It has to be extremely obvious and/or there is proof and evidence of the accusation that goes beyond 'they use moidspeak!'.
No. 67921
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at risk of being a cringe bootlicker, this is honestly pretty based. this website getting infested with twitter "radfems" and discordfags was the kiss of death, I hope clamping down on those posters makes a difference
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Baller.
No. 67928
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Fuck yeah, this is excellent news
No. 67930
>>67927>lolcow is an imageboard for femalesBut technically, according to the rules, it isn’t, right? It’s a gossip site that has a rule firbidding moids attention whoring by mentioning they are a man. I don’t think ”you can’t use this site if you are a man!!” rule could be reliably enforced though.
>our feminine intuitionThat’s pretty hard based on a single post though. Like think about how many tradthots there are in the world? You disagree with them and they have opinions men would have but they are still women.
No. 67953
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>If you are not a farmer, you are merely a guest here.
No. 67957
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>>67948kiwicows are equally milky. In fact, there was some drama because a super boring cow thats their equivalent of shayna won cow of the year. The only milky kf cow i follow is bossmanjack, but he doesnt seem like the type of cow farmers would like to follow.
No. 67986
>>67954>>67974The farmhands themselves type in lowercase
>>67912 (there's many more examples in the off topic boards) so that would be hypocritical
No. 67987
>>67954yes, please report those as 'integrate' or 'twitter lingo'.
>>67978>>67986no we aren't going to enforce that, as the other farmer said our own staff type that way (myself included). However, if a person's typing pattern is egregious enough that it starts looking like personalityfagging, please report them as such and we will take a look.
No. 67994
>>67993Nta but there was someone in the vent thread posting them today, and I think like last week in the dumbass shit thread.
The dumbass shit thread one kind of made me cringe because anons were egging on the anon posting them by saying it was funny and cute iirc. I feel like not to long ago anons would've been told to stop being retarded and fuck off if they posted vocaroos.
No. 68001
>>68000Samefag, but also notice how males posted back then and they weren't banned. Because despite what the retards who post these days say, lolcow did not used to be a female only website, we just banned males who identified themselves. If you see old Hellweek threads, it was never about erradicating males completely but forcing them to integrate and stop attentionwhoreing:
>>>/meta/4265I don't have a problem with the site being female only because I'd rather not interact with males either, but to act as if this has always been the way is just pure newfaggotry
No. 68008
>>67919>>67988>>67998Just to clarify, posts that are obviously male should still be reported even if they haven't literally mentioned they have a dick, e.g. the ban evading scrote that keeps thirstposting in the pro-ana scumbags thread. The issue we have is that anons' intuition is really not as good as they think. The vast majority of posts reported for being a scrote/tranny are regular board users posting in a way that another anon does not like, having an opinion they feel a woman should not have, etc. Any user reporting a post for being male where it is actually a scrote will never be banned or punished for it.
>>67990Please report any instance of anons posting like this if it doesn't make sense in the context of the thread and/or is clearly for attention. Attentionwhoring does not belong on an anonymous imageboard.
No. 68013
>>68008This is kind of confusing. So what separates the male posts from regular anons who have misogynistic opinions? Like the example in the spoiler here
>>67917 and similar things like that, how would anyone know the difference?
No. 68022
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>>68013As the other farmhand mentioned, that post is rulebreaking either way, so you can just report it as the rule it's breaking (bait in this case). However, anons reporting posts like that for being male aren't the ones causing problems, it's the ones like picrel that we're ultimately trying to stamp out. We get hundreds of reports a day, it makes our jobs harder when we have to sift through frivolous reports. False moid/tranny accusations make up the bulk of the pointless reports, which is why we're targeting them during Hellweek.
No. 68030
>>68023a
banner if you will
No. 68051
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>>68050Click the animated fire
No. 68056
>>68028>But what if they just continue as usual after the week is over?ideally we would just have more hellweeks like we used to in the past, but honestly i was thinking the same thing. no one seems to have the balls to just come out and say it but the board has been infested with fucking normies like
>>67938 pointed out. i know people get mad when you use terms like that but it's the absolute truth, i am not just saying it to be an asshole or offend people. things wouldn't be so bad here if a lot of the oldfag posters hadn't left/been bullied off the boards, and tbh sometimes it's hard to continue to post here with my own personal responsibilities but also trying not to get into it too much with the people who have come here now.
people do not want to admit that it's more than just twitterfags/discordfags/etc. posting on the boards…they've done a lot to try to change the board culture in the 2 years since we've seen the decline of the boards and imho done a pretty good job of erasing the history of lolcow. i've been here for a long time; we've always had groups of curious cruisers coming in from places like youtube, instagram, tik tok, twitter, but it's never been this bad where they've completely taken over and there's a definite split between the site. i've never been a big /ot/ user but i definitely enjoyed going there when i needed to cool down or just wanted to take a break from gossiping. these groups usually leave after a couple of months because most of them don't like the anonymity of imageboards as they can't obsessively target and harass specific users. i know too we've always had personalityfags but apart of the reason why they've gotten so bad recently is because the normies keep feeding into it. before we all knew just to ignore them and they would eventually, go away and find somewhere else to haunt.
i've also watched these people terrorize older posters who have been here for years in the hopes that they could totally rewrite the history of lolcow. it's become obvious now as whenever you bring up staminarose or early lolcow culture in any capacity, you'll get accused of being a "scrote" or trying to "bait" people because early lolcow was apparently full of scrotes. i've also seen these people say things like "lolcow TO ME is xyz thing that is totally not what this site about". just totally ignoring years and years of history to fit within their own personal narratives, it's bizarre. so to me these people definitely know what they are doing and even if they weren't necessarily all colluding with one another to change the board culture to what they want, their end goal was to gentrify and astroturf the boards and turn it into facebook 2.0.
i don't want to go on too long because i am probably going to get jumped for even posting this but…idk what to think anymore. i like cerbmin, and i've been happy with the moderation so far so i don't blame them for it at all and i hope they can continue to keep lolcow alive as best as they can. but i think this is just a wider net issue as other communities are complaining about the same thing. ever since covid, things online haven't been the same. too much mental illness, too much paranoia from hate watch groups who want to herd everyone onto the big platforms because apparently posting on imageboards makes you a literal terrorist.
No. 68058
>>68051Bless you, nona, that was hard on my eyes.
Godspeed, admin.
No. 68061
Thank you for this. In the past month, I've noticed a sharp decline in quality on /g/ to the point where it's nearly unreadable, and honestly I gave up on /ot/ two years ago. I wondered if I was just too sensitive, so I feel relieved to know that it's not just me. I hope that this Hell Week will discourage bait posters and bait takers alike, and that overall we'll see more effortposting across the site.
>>68056I think you're right that this issue goes beyond lcf. it's a cultural problem with complicated roots that I'm not sure any of us can adequately address… but all change starts with the individual. Speaking your mind and sharing your perspective as a genuine oldfag brings us one post closer to a healthy and thriving imageboard. I hope that more people will offer commentary on their hopes and fears for the future of the site. Whatever the results of this Hell Week, at least we can say that we tried.
No. 68067
>>67931Since when? There’s always been a culture of “women only” here, and i don’t give a fuck what you say, you CAN tell when a poster is male. They make blatant threats toward posters over nothing and they use misogynistic language that women don’t use. We can tell.
For other anons concerned about this i guess just report it as bait instead of as scrote unless they specifically mention their dick. RIP to all the real ones who don’t do this and suffer a ban for trying to keep the place scrote-free.
No. 68068
>>68042Its just arbitrary clearly and up to the farmhands personal opinion and whoever recently gets their panties in a twist lurking. Black pill posts are also considered bannable outside the dead hidden board so that should tell you the whole "women are not a monolith claim is true up until women say something un-befitting of the monolith.
Also this forced theme is an eyesore, please enable the option for other ones back again.
No. 68069
>>67909I am a little confused about these two rules and how they work with each other:
>Report suspected males and do not respond>Reporting someone you disagree with for being a moid/tranny will receive a ban. The vast majority of reports we receive accusing a user of being male are incorrect. Women are not a monolith and can have opinions that you do not likeSo, we’re supposed to report posts that we suspect are moids (makes sense), but also if we happen to be wrong, we get banned? This doesn’t make any sense to me, seems like it will just lead to nobody reporting unless a moid is actually posting his literal penis in the thread.
No. 68070
>>68061I think the decline began with the absolutely retarded shitposting threads in /ot/. The posting style took over dumbass shit and other threads as well.
And then the worst happened, we got the newfags who think this is their chatroom and then they don't want to integrate.
Putting some sort of effort in your post should definitely be encouraged now, that is one way to combat it.
No. 68076
>>68072I think so too, but farmhands say now that “most of us are wrong” so will start banning us for reporting moidy posts. This really seems like a mistake to me because in my opinion, as a female-only site, having farmhands check if someone posting moid like takes is a man should be a
basic function of their duties, not an “annoyance” to be clamped down on.
No. 68085
>>68056I completely agree.
>>68067>There’s always been a culture of “women only” hereNo there hasn't. LC was made because flan shut down Stamina Rose over pt getting accused of being a pedo. LC was not made to be a female only image board, both LC and SR were made to catalog cows from /cgl/ because moot banned the threads. The first admin of LC was male. LC becoming a female image board happened over time. It was always a female majority site because the original userbase was from /cgl/ which was a majority female board on 4chan. I'm not complaining that LC is now a woman only IB, I prefer men not being here, it's that denying the sites history and trying to revise it into being something it never was is exactly what
>>68056 is referring to.
>>68076As has already been suggested, report it as bait. If the farmhand also suspects that the poster is a moid, they will check their post history and come to far more accurate conclusion than an ordinary farmer ever will. I don't know why this is hard to understand.
>>68083Report and ignore. Responding to male posters is responding to bait which is bannable regardless of if it's a moid or woman posting the bait.
No. 68088
>>68067>There’s always been a culture of “women only” hereUuhh anon you're wrong. Yes by now the majority of LC's history has been women-only but it definitely didn't start out as women-only. Anon's also right it's technically not women-only but -don't identify and attentionwhore as a male-
>Any posters with a phallus, do not come here for validation or to announce yourselves.lolcow.farm/rules
No. 68094
>>68082Agreed, I feel like everyone has gotten accused of being a scrote on here at least once at this point.
>>68056Agreed 100%
>>67948I feel like the milk collecting farmers have also been leaving over the years, or getting lazy. In snow I’ve noticed a lot of screenshots of videos instead of them just posting the video they’re talking about. In the scumbags thread especially, I saw an anon request someone post a cows IG story and three anons said they didn’t know how too. I’ve posted sites that download IG stories and conversion sites at least 3 times before but they don’t bother learning, one of them even said “I don’t care.” I honestly think the majority of the good farmers are gone and now we just have TikTok zoomies left.
No. 68099
>>68079> it seems obvious to me and anyone who's been both here and on 4chankekkk do newfags really not know how lc started? the idea that women aren't capable of being hostile or having "wrong" opinions is so absolutely retarded. women are varied and some of them can be mean, misogynist, etc. look at the website you are on. some anons main "gotcha" during infights is scrotefoiling and it's getting tired. farmhands are making the right decision for hellweek imo.
one thing I do agree on is that anons seem to be extremely hostile lately. whether it's frustration over newfags, or newfags trying to adopt edgy imageboard/chan attitude it really ruins threads when they devolve into retarded infighting.
No. 68117
>>68115> personally i’ve yet to banned for reporting a plausible male,Yes, because until now it was not bannable unless extremely egregious.
I also said “in good faith” for a reason, which your bootlicking response conveniently ignores. My entire concern is that farmhands don’t seem to acknowledge in the rules that there is a clear difference between “good faith yet incorrect analysis” and the examples you cite, and that they will be banned in the same way, leading anons to not attempt to report males at all anymore.
No. 68121
>>68112>>68113>>68115>>68117Please read the OP.
>Reporting someone you disagree with for being a moid/tranny will receive a banNOT that any report that isn't correct will receive a ban. 9/10 tranny/moid reports we get are not in good faith. If the post you report is very plausibly male you will not get a ban regardless of whether you were right. However, the userbase as a whole is not as good at identifying male posters as they think they are. Additionally, many users abuse the report system to try and silence any dissenting female voice by accusing her of being male. We get reports like "this has to be a tranny because a woman wouldn't have taste this bad!!" pretty much daily, or users reporting posters they had a disagreement with for being male because their feelings got hurt
>>68077Perfect example above. The poster you are referring to was not a scrote. Telling yourself that they have to be male because a woman can't possibly act that way is part of the problem. They were still breaking the rules and they were banned, but not for being a male
>>68059For those of you concerned about the theme, we're having it sitewide for one day and only on /meta/ thereafter. A lot of anons don't read the announcements or check /meta/, so we're getting the message through to them another way.
No. 68139
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I love how the hell week theme looks on /shay/
No. 68142
>>68133Personally I don't think so since it's a southern accent thing but might be depending on the context (like if the rest of the post is also twitter-ish) though I don't really see anons using y'all and I think it's been mocked in the past so it might cause a fuss if you use it, so be careful
>>68140Please make it at least a week and a half, two weeks if you feel generous, and three if you want to be based as fuck
No. 68154
For lack of a better example, should posts like the one
>>68077 was talking about be reported? Even when trying to post milk in certain threads, some anons will randomly treat it as a personal attack against them and pick up the most condescending attitude with me. Should those be reported or does it not matter? I get people disagreeing with you, but what's the difference between that and people just calling you retarded and telling you to "go back" over and over again?
No. 68159
>>68104I see a lot of unprompted sperging over the same buzzwords, "pick me" "zoomer" "twitterfag" "tradthot" etc. This isn't to say that I disagree with the sentiment and that I approve of twitter stan lingo or whatever, it's just that the reactionary retaliation gets old really fast. Wish more people would just ignore and not give the offender any attention (or report if it's dubious) rather than dropping an essay about how so and so is ruining things. Sometimes there isn't even an offender and it's just some anon randomly dropping to the floor and losing it over the mere possibility that there could be [insert label]s around.
And this is in reference to times where it's totally irrelevant or uncontributive, so don't take this the wrong way and assume I'm picking on feedback posts
No. 68161
>>68102tbh I kind of agree with this but only because the board splits make so many threads slower and multiple anons have admitted that they purposely don't use the correct threads for certain topics in /m/ because of how dead some threads are, so they put it in /ot/ instead since they're more likely to get a reply there.
>>68160nta but on /ot/ (mostly around last week, i think it's cleaned up by now?) there were many posters blatantly bragging about being racist, like identifying as such, and how much they hate black people. there were also other types of baiters going "black women all do [whatever stereotype]". currently the most recent racebaiting is in the tradthots thread about brown women.
No. 68164
>>68163I know a lot of people here use CC but I just don't want to touch that website at all. I prefer lc so much more
>>68162I agree but what I'm afraid of is that the image dump board would be even slower than /m/. I still think there needs to be a reform though, and take some of the current threads in /ot/ and /g/ over there
>>68159Tbh this is just my opinion but when I see those posts with buzzwords in them I simply ignore them because it's useless to argue with them about it. Someone calling someone else a pickme or handmaiden isn't as bad as the stupid twitterspeak or the constant shitposting, attention whoring and racebait that we've seen increasing in the past months
>>68161I've seen people being openly racist a lot too. I wonder if they're tradthots themselves
No. 68173
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>>68157using terms, phrases or stereotypes in political or social discussions to otherwise hide the fact that what you're saying is bigoted. they can range from stealthy and what are considered "inside gags" in particular, but some are more overt like comparing groups of races to animals or well known channer alt right phrases like "goy" or "goyim".
as another anon said I've see a lot of hatred for black and non white women, hatred of lesbians and the asinine larp bitching about how someone's husbands gonna catch aids from a gay. as well as some blatant antisemitism in the tinfoil thread. don't blame anons who are black/overall non white/jewish/bisexual/lesbian for finding the increase in hate off putting
No. 68175
>>68174You're not wrong anon, we don't need to hug in a circle and sing happy tunes to have civil discussion. But the rage baiting is also annoying as hell. I just wish these tards responding to shit like that got banned as well because they always are the ones who start never ending shit flinging infights and lower the overall quality of threads.
>>68165I wish some anons went back to CC where they belong yeah.
No. 68177
>>68174The thing is majority of anons these days are too spergy to be funny. i love some icecold snark as much as the next person, but you gotta have the iq of a neandertal to find
>>68077 funny
No. 68200
>>68197and
>>>/ot/1863680>>>/ot/1863707also in the dumbass thread several other anons joined in after that one
No. 68201
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can i finally report these retards for zoomer speak?
No. 68208
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>>68207they also use
sus unironically. I am so tired of it. Whats the point of redtexting words anymore if they arent going to stop using them?
No. 68212
>>68208"
sus" was slang long before among us came out. do you never go outside or are you gen alpha?
No. 68216
>>68215and where do you think the newfags baiting there come from???? Everyone wants to talk about newfags but no one wants to discuss from which threads they get brought onto the site. Probably because anons don't want their favorite shitty threads to get locked. It's always 2-3 threads on this site that cause a newfag stampede.
In 2022 I remember it was the russ VS Ukraine threads that lead to a huge number of newfags joining (many of which were male) and the user base changing along with which threads were active in ot.
The tranny threads are also a cancer to this site and there is a reason that the past admin and mod team banned tyranny topics. so something like this wouldn't happen.
No. 68219
>>68212No one used
sus before the amongus memes made it popular.
>>68216Most of the unpopular opinion bait comes from looksperging males/kpopies. I dont understand why terfs who frequent the tranny threads would go to the unpopular opinion threads to post about how cosmetic surgery is good, actually and how x popular celebrity is fat.
No. 68220
>>68216haven't the troon hreads been around for a while though? i don't post in he mtf one much but i don't se that much infighhtig in the ftm one (aside from the occasional antifujo sperg)
i get they're different from regular individual coww threads but i don't think they accout for the amount of tradthottery and bait we get in /ot/
also i bet the troon threads attacr mor /2X/ posters ssince 2X itelf got overrun by rightwingers
No. 68227
>>68219>No one used sus before the amongus memes made it popular.This is not true anon. Even on here you can find posts using
sus before 2020.
No. 68230
>>68227weird because oldest
sus post i can find is from 2022
No. 68246
>>68244Why are you asking me? The only thing I said was that
sus did exist and was used before Among Us. I never contested it being red texted, I don't really care.
No. 68251
>>68216The MTF threads on /snow/ were a compromise after a previous admin shutdown the GC threads on /ot/. They've always been out of place on /snow/ as they're not just used for laughing at troons, they also contain political discussion that belongs on /2X/. Several other threads on /snow/ suffer from this issue of becoming political when cow threads are not the place for it.
However if cerbmin and the farmhands ever tried to do anyting about it, they would face the same problem that the admin before Shaymin did.
No. 68255
>>68248Jesus Christ anon, wtf are you talking about? Maybe you're confusing me for a different anon but I was never angry. I don't even personally use
sus, and like I said I don't mind it being redtexted.
>Then it has nothing to do with my original pointI directly responded to something that was said
>>68227>just like how y'all was also appropiated by zoomersThis I have to disagree with. Saying "y'all" is zoomerspeak doesn't work when there are regions where people of all ages say y'all and have been doing so for decades. Regions that some of us are actually from.
No. 68256
>>68249Some of you are obsessed with zoomers, and the whining is way more annoying than any of the examples posted, and I'm saying this as a millenial who doesn't use social media and grew up on image boards.
>>68254Imo policing certain words or phrases seems very difficult and time consuming for the mods. Is there a list of "forbidden" words? Where do you draw the line? What time period of intenet slang is acceptable and what is not? Unless it's very obnoxious and makes the poster identifiable, banning based on a single word or phrase is not a good idea. What is and isn't "zoomerspeak" is very subjective too. Like "y'all" is a good example - some anons say it's zoomerspeak, some don't.
No. 68257
>>68256sus is redtexted for a reason, so i dont know why you are fighting so hard over a word that has been recognized by admins themselves as zoomer speak. This post is not only zoomer speak, but also extremely low quality
>>68201 which is what most of these stupid zoomer speech patterns achieve, extremely low quality posts that add nothing to the conversation.
No. 68259
>>68257I'm not the anon you discussed "
sus " with, I was talking about what is and isn's zoomer speak generally
No. 68260
>>68259well,
sus IS zoomer speak. As well as ''not the x''. I honestly wish we could report low effort social media tier posts.
No. 68261
>>68256Didn't
nonny/
nonnie use to be considered obnoxious tumblrfag speak to the point of redtexting? Also it's so funny how people are now rebranding infamous tumblrisms like stimming and kinning as "tiktok zoomer" words, it's actually making them sound like turbozoomers who do not remember tumblr at its worst. They sure are obnoxious words used by obnoxious people but every annoying word is not "zoomerspeak".
No. 68264
>>68262Still they are tumblrspeak that migrated to other platforms, not twitterspeak or tiktokspeak.
Nonny is also tumblrspeak, so if you ban some tumblrspeak might as well ban it all.
No. 68266
>>68263zoomer speak isnt imageboard speech. What are you not getting? no one is redtexting inb4 or implying, because that's appropiate image board lingo.
>>68264I am all for it, i hate
nonny. It makes this site sound so corny.
No. 68270
>>68265Kek also used to be considered a WoWfag newfag word.
>>68266Again, how do we properly differentiate between "appropriate imageboard lingo" and "inappropriate newfag speak" other than "I do not like these words"? Resistance to change is inevitable but still so is change. I bet in 5 years or so it will be zoomers hating on alphas and whatever obnoxious platform they will congregate on.
No. 68271
>>68260What's the fun in discussing cows if you need to write a well thought our essay just to make fun of someone's bad fat roll editing? The post in
>>68201 is fine imo
No. 68287
>>68234So you mention how the fakeboi threads have been around since 2015 but you don't mention how they served a totally different purpose then and trannys were allowed to post on that thread and the purpose of that thread was to call out "people who weren't really trans".
I don't know why you newfag radfems keep on omitting info.
No. 68293
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>>68281We need to bring back roflcopter, lulz, asking people if they liek mudkipz, spamming threads with desu and checking dubs because this is high level oldfag culture.
No. 68294
People whining about radfems will always be suspicious to me. Just what is the problem with them?
>>68293God the flashbacks. Some things should just stay in the past.
No. 68303
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Farmhands when you don't wanna discuss a washed out e girl whos milk extends to having a fucked up pussy with over 100 threads who hasn't had an internet presence since 2015:
No. 68310
>>68294it's because they're annoying and they make every thread revolve around their personal stance on feminism. You can't lol at a cow having manly shoulders without one barging in and being like "akshually she looks like a biological woman with wide shoulders, it is unfair to wide shouldered women to say she does not look her sex!!1!", or on the trad threads where it should be about loling at crazy trads it turns into manifestos about how if you even look at a man your vagina will get 10 miles wide and your husband will fuck other women and laugh at you and your career will disappear. They're annoying and they seem like they're constantly looking for a fight, it's made posting anywhere quite hard because they jump down other user's throats. Nobody should even be aware of a radfem userbase here, because it's a site to lol about cows (loling at trannies included) not to spread your ideology on political and gender issues. The fact people are bothered by the radfem userbase here in itself says that they're a problem on the site.
The tranny threads evolution led to this imo with the explosion of
terf users coming here (once again before anyone jumps on me, it's fine to dislike trannies. Most women do) and seeing it as a safe space at a time when there were few safe spaces to shit on trannies when the internet was at peak I LOVE TRANNIES, but they stayed and changed the board culture to a point where most discussion is about men, just how much they dislike them but nevertheless mainly about men. I want to laugh about cows and talk about average woman things with other women, the site is just an angry wasps nest of blackpill in alot of areas now.
No. 68312
>>68308agreed. yeah ban off topic comments and the blackpill personalityfags for sure, but if you purpolsely run off the gc users and ban any mention of manhate ouside /2x/, it's going to turn into tradthot central real fast. it's already in the way
gc users have been here for years. Yeah some blackpill spergs go overbeard but i don't think it's the terves responsible for the bait and infoghting in the past few months.
No. 68313
>>68303>lolcow.farm>I wonder this site is focused on lolcows?This is like not liking Italians or pizza and then going to Naples and complaining that it's full of Italians and pizza.
>>68308Telling an anon to leave her boyfriend if he's treating her like shit is not radical feminism, it's good advice and common sense. Attacking someone for living their life in a way that does not align with the radfem ideal of the month does not need to happen on /ot/. I'm not against radfems, I generally enjoy feminist based discussion and post on /2X/, it becomes a problem when it takes over threads on other boards.
No. 68314
>>68305i'd kill someone for a witch-chan (that didn't look like shit – get a good codebase to use)
also the typos are going to be horrific this week mods i hope you know that
No. 68317
>>68310>akshually she looks like a biological woman with wide shoulders, it is unfair to wide shouldered women to say she does not look her sex!!1!but it is kek. how is a woman having ""manly shoulders"" remotely funny, why not focus on her behavior rather than her appearance. plus aren't those sorts of comments nitpicking? that's against the rules, it's boring and tedious to read.
and:
>just how much they dislike them but nevertheless mainly about men>talk about average woman things with other women (what are "average woman things"?) see now this is a post i'd say is possibly written by a scrote. they love to claim actual criticism of males is "too much" and "maybe we should focus on other things (i do not want to read about male hatred)"
No. 68320
>>68317because said thread is a woman who calls herself a baby and larps as a toddler and she's built like a linebacker and wears illfitting clothes (a behavioural choice) so it's funny to mock her appearance. Talking about someone like pixyteri having manly shoulders I would class as nitpicking, because it's not something that makes her lulzy.
Average women things are things that have multiple threads on here and there always have been - beauty threads, female fitness threads, menstrual talk, fashion threads, dating threads, and ofcourse general threads which can exist without a man talking about what he likes to wank over or joking about things that make his dick hard in the middle of a civilised conversation.
Yes, we should focus on other things, it's boring reading posts by women who have men on the brain. I don't care when it's on reddit hate threads where it has a place, or the man hate thread if that even still exists, but it's annoying when it's barged into things like relationship threads as
>>68313 said when it can be talked about without an ideological tinge added.
No. 68328
>>68327Yes and thats fine, again as
>>68313 said, and taking the piss out of men for not wiping their ass and things like that isn't the issue, it's the weird manifesto way of speaking on it and it's disingenuous to pretend the obsession with men hasn't gotten way out of hand. How alot of these posts about normal heterosexual behaviour like having children, being with a man and being disappointed, and dating at all are not at all true to how women have talked about men for centuries and anyone who isn't chronically online in radfem spaces can see it.
No. 68338
>>68317most cow threads make fun of womens' apparence and always have. IT's a lolcow staple.
>>68335Yup.
>racebait, homophobic and mysogynsitic bait all over /ot/>retards replying to bait>the REAL problem is the feminsit hag who told me to dump my nigel!!imageboards are NEET heaven so of course normies talking about their husband and kids aregoing to be made fun of. Of course off topic rants in cow threads shiuld be deleted but if you really can't stand the occasional manhate maybe go back to reddit.
No. 68339
>>68312>but if you purpolsely run off the gc users and ban any mention of manhate ouside /2x/, it's going to turn into tradthot central real fast. it's already in the wayDefinitely agree. I prefer the radfems over tradthots, they're the ones bringing racebait over. I also never cared about radfem manifestos or radfem theory talk in /ot/ and even in cow threads it's so easy to just dismiss, unless they're retarded blackpillers that never shut the fuck up.
This is just my theory but just how in 2016 it was trendy to be a libfem, in 2020 it was trendy to be a radfem, and now women as a whole on the internet are moving into tradwife territory. I guess this is why
No. 68347
>>68341>Every response to blatant bait will receive a ban. Report bait and do not respondwasn't that already a rule anyway? plus
>Reporting someone you disagree with for being a moid/tranny will receive a ban.how are you being censored for randomly reporting someone you don't agree with?
No. 68349
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>>68329It's not the job of users to speech police other posters. If you think a post breaks the rules then report it. The arbiters of what is and isn't permissible are the admins and farmhands.
This also highlights another problem with the "radfems" on LC. The majority of them aren't actual radfems. They are former SJWs and libfems that changed their minds when troonshit took over and
TERF became the new counter culture. They don't read radfem literature, don't want to talk about radfem theory or have any form of discussion about the deeper implications of radical feminism. They only identify as radfems because they couldn't cope with cognative dissonance required to tolerate trannies while still wearing a "leftist" label. Their behaviour is the same as it always was. "Everyone that doesn't agree with me is man" is no different to "anyone that doesn't think a man is a woman is a nazi". The purpose of the accusation is also the same.
This has been happening for years and it's always the same excuse from the posters claiming to radfems. They're not the problem, everyone else is or some imagined group is invading lolcow such as 4chan moids, troons, kiwi scrotes, LSA, Brazilians or tradthots. It's all deflection, so they don't have to address their own obnoxious behaviour.
To really prove the point here's a huge collection of posts from 4-3 years ago that deal with the exact same issue.
No. 68364
>>68334If only. Lolcow should stay focused on being a lolcow board. /ot/ is fun, I will admit to getting carried away in the DAS thread but if CC didn’t suck I would be using it. Downside is that 4chan always finds this sort of thing and ruins it like
>>68330 said. I just want to shit post sometimes but I want here to be lolcow orientated. Discords related to here aren’t a a stellar but not a bad idea. It would be likely taboo to openly spread them around tho. Also would be raided in a heartbeat.
No. 68369
>>68364Males from sites like 4chan and kiwifarms would still come here even if it was just the cow boards though.
I agree that this site is becoming less milk oriented and it shouldn't be that way, but honestly the reason why that's happening is because all the current cows suck ass and even a lot of the /pt/ cows have dried up. That literal who Rita getting a post reveal is proof that cows suck now. It's not anyone's fault though, it's everyone's job to contribute to posting about cows and the staff can't exactly make milky cows appear out of thin air. Another anon mentioned that kf still has a lot of cows, maybe we could steal some of theirs. I don't think the solution is to get rid of the off topic boards though. Then we are just stuck with repetitive convo about boring cows (not to say the other boards can't be repetitive) and we lose a large chunk of the userbase, plus some actually interesting and good threads. At least that's my perspective as someone who used to love the cow boards but now only uses the off topic ones.
Anyway I hate all this off-topic vs. cow boards nonsense anons have been trying to push for a while now. It's all a part of lolcow. We don't need to remove anything, we just need improvements.
No. 68372
>>68369>all the current cows suck ass and even a lot of the /pt/ cows have dried upSadly, I agree. It's not only that, but due to the nature of the Internet being so connected nowadays it's much easier for a cow to stumble upon their thread and go into hiding if you even mention them. The Internet feels a lot smaller, and lc gets mentioned everywhere. Finding actually silly and obscure cows is hard and once you post about them they'll get notified by someone soon, especially if they're not boomers that don't know how to google themselves.
The only people that can be cows in this environment are crazy narcs that love being
victims and martyrs (like jill, for example) so they thrive off people gossiping about them.
Kf does have a lot of cows but frankly I find a lot of them uninteresting. Most of them seem like crazy podcaster scrotes. It's true that they cultivated a better cow observing environment than we have at the moment, though.
No. 68376
>>68369I agree. Milky cow revival when?
>>68374Genuinely curious how you know who most of the people complaining are this oddly specific kek?
No. 68377
>>68372Kiwifarm's cow threads are extremely uninteresting to read, quantity doesn't mean quality. They're filled with endless blogposting, armchairing, nitpicking and infighting, even the "highlights" function that allows you to supposedly skip through the most relevant posts is useless because it's just le epic funny zingers mods wanted to be pinned. Trying to read a cow thread is like pulling teeth because all the drama gets buried under tens of pages of a-logging and someone bragging about how they're actually diagnosed autists living in their parents' basement themselves while studying the blade but at least THEIR sonic the hedgehog OC wasn't a simple Sonic recolor. And of course the amount of incels and chronically online NLOGs complaining about women and feminism is even worse of a problem than these supposed radfems on lolcow.
>>68376They make their presence known all the time in threads by whining out loud about how nobody is interested in spoonfeeding them drama and entertainment but "only want to sperg about feminism that's boring!!!".
No. 68381
>>68370>>68365This.
>Fandom drama>Artsalt>Genshin>Vtuber>Animation cowsHell, even some of the recent fujos and husbandofags feel underage and they congegrate in the chat-like threads too
No. 68383
>>68382faggot? hentai? yaoi?
What's the "h-word" supposed to mean?
No. 68388
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>>68342>Very cringe tho.Agreed, but I don't get why admins don't just delete the boards if they think they are the problem and I say this as someone who migrated from mainly using snow to using the off topic boards almost exclusively. If they are what is degrading the site culture, just get rid of them, it's one thing when random anons say they shouldn't exist, but admins actually have the power to do it. This supposed problem is very simple to solve, just pull the
trigger, no one has the power to stop you.
No. 68391
Mods can you stop the "read the rules" rain or add back the fire button that stops it in this thread please?
>>68389It's still retarded to censor yourself like that
No. 68393
>>68388It's been only days but I've noticed that /ot/ has gotten better without the dumbass shit and retarded shit thread though. It's too bad because they were fine at some point but perhaps the site is better without them. The Unpopular opinions thread should also be shut down since it always brings infighting as well.
I'll say this again but I liked the idea of the "stuff only you care about" thread or whatever it was called. It had more interesting discussion and less retarded chat-like posts. I wouldn't mind that thread but only if people don't use it as a gay ass successor to the dumbass one.
No. 68396
>>68393it!/ sad about absoluetky retarded shitposting bc it used to be fun when people actually used it just to shitpost. but if it helps the board quality then it's worth the sacrifice
dumbass shit and unpop opinions are just infight central now. i make thread OPs often and usually see the infighting start over about 5 seconds after the new thread is made. sad!
No. 68398
>>68350Someone needed to stop this thread from repeating the same cycle that's been going for four years. It was 2:30AM and couldn't sleep so I did it.
>>68355>>68356You neither read my post nor the screen cap. The admin at the time specifically called out posters that were acting like radfems for calling anyone that disagreed with them men and posting racebait. She herself was on the receiving end of it. Do all radfems call other anons men and post racebait? No. It's not the subject matter that's the problem. No shit there's feminist discussion on a women's website. It's the continued obnoxious behaviour, failure to take any accountability and using the radfem label to break the site rules and ignore warnings from admins and farmhands. Men, anachans and kpop were banned from the site for the same reasons.
>>68354>>68387Brazilians were one of the groups of people that were singled out for supposedly shitting up lolcow in the old meta threads. I was on LC while this was happening and they weren't.
No. 68401
>>68349>It's not the job of users to speech police other posters. Yes it partly is and has been since the dawn of imageboards. When users stop trying to enforce newfags to integrate, boards start to go downhill fast.
>imagined group is invading lolcow such as 4chan moids, troons, kiwi scrotes, LSA, Brazilians or tradthots. >imagined groupMoids and trannies have been banned, redtexted and cought bragging on kiwifarms, 4chan and other places about baiting and raiding here for years now. I don't know who you're trying to convince.
No. 68402
>>68398>Brazilians were one of the groups of people that were singled out for supposedly shitting up lolcow in the old meta threads.Kekkkk sorry this is funny to me, but no hate to Brazilians though. It's so retarded they became the scapegoat at the time.
For what I've heard, there was a Finnish imageboard that shit down and it attracted a lot of newfags to this site. Didn't choachan shut down as well?
No. 68403
>>68349How are you saying that all these groups are "imaginary" when they've been proven time and time again to raid Lolcow? Do you think it's radfems who spammed child porn and gore in here or something?
>>68402During the big shitstorm from last September the admin confirmed that it's choachan schizos who were intentionally baiting infight in as many threads as possible and it was obvious to anyone who had ever visited that site. As for the Finnish imageboard, they paywalled like 80% of the content on their site and someone started linking Lolcow there so some of the ESL-esque scrotes definitely come from there. It was a huge site with lots of active users.
No. 68404
>>68369I am with stealing kiwi cows. They don’t cover a lot of milk with some of them and just end up on other topics instead until someone brings in milk to get back into the cow. I think there’s a good few candidates for it. There’s been mentions of a husbandofag thread here and there in personal lolcow thread but has never come to fruition. It would also be a horror show so. Prob the best idea
>>68388 you hit the nail on the head tbh. If they aren’t needed just get rid ya know. Make it a hidden board even. Newfags don’t understand the concept anyway. My whole move to /ot/ has been lack of milk from cows. /pt/ cows are basically dry. /w/ only really has two active threads and one is mostly infighting from the Lolita anons. Not sorry about that one. /snow/ is meh now. I think moving around cows should be an idea. I know Shayna in /pt/ has been a push for years but I think may be time. Jill too. I really don’t see the point for /w/ at this point. /m/ I can’t comment on but it’s all husbando faggotry. /g/ can be a god send tho
No. 68405
>>68399Again you are either not reading my post or are misunderstanding. The problem is not radical feminism or radfems. The problem is posters claiming to be radfems and then using that as an excuse to infight and police other users.
>>68403>How are you saying that all these groups are "imaginary" when they've been proven time and time again to raid Lolcow? Do you think it's radfems who spammed child porn and gore in here or somethingI'm not denying that the site gets raided by malicious actors such as troons or sharty posters. What I'm suggesting is that it doesn't happen on the scale that is assumed by some posters. Men, troons and whoever else aren't coming here in massive numbers in a targeted effort to subvert LC. If it were happening, the mods would be aware of it and it would be obvious to posters. The paranoia over some imagined out group infiltrating LC does more damage than the raid itself because the result is anons accusing each other of being from said out group for stupid reasons, which then leaves more clean up for the mods. We have competent admins now who are on top of the raid issue, I haven't seen CP for months. The biggest issues on LC right now are internal.
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I don't see the animated fire to deactivate the falling read the rules texts…
No. 68410
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it's a temp solution but you can remove the snowflakes by going into "inspect element" and searching for
> <div id="snowflakes">
just delete it
No. 68411
>>68405It's not "infiltration" per se, you're misunderstanding the issue. It's that during these raids we get the residue from the original raid group that sticks around either because they find the site fascinating, enraging or they have no other life than to be chronically online. These are the people who bring in retardation since they have their other leg in a community that's inherently damaging to Lolcow. For example I'm pretty sure we have
a lot of male posters who initially came in to troll and gawk at the dumb girlchan but got addicted and stayed because a lot of the cows being discussed are thots that they have a parasocial relationship with and because you can actually have a conversation in various threads without someone sperging about jews and black people in every other post. A lot of male commentary channels brought Lolcow to the mainstream when they made videos about creepshowart and their audience definitely got curious, whether it be men or women who have been accustomed to a moidbrained environment.
>If it were happening, the mods would be aware of it and it would be obvious to posters.But they
did make announcements about schizos from Choachan camping the site and baiting the threads, they specifically asked people to be on the lookout and report whatever they find.
No. 68421
>>68411I'm not saying that there aren't men or troons posting on lolcow. My point is that the userbase perceives this to be a more widespread problem than it is and the reaction to it makes the situation worse not better. Numerous admins have now said that the majority of reports for moids are false. There is gap in perception of how many men are posting here and how many actually are.
>>68411>But they did make announcements about schizos from ChoachanExactly, the admins are aware of who is and isn't posting on the site. There's no need for the userbase to do anything other than be vigilant and report and ignore suspicious posts. The admins and farmhands are able to see post history and make a judgement on if someone is a genuine farmer or if someone has malicious intent.
>>68417This is my point. The farmhands were able to correctly identify someone as being a certain banned poster because it was reported and they are able to look through the poster's history. Replying to bait, making accusations and starting infights does nothing except make the situation worse.
No. 68422
>>68393Yeah I've also noticed /ot/ improving just in these few days. Maybe those threads should stay locked.
>>68395We definitely need to have a townhall again if cerbmin wants us to vote on changes.
No. 68424
>>68407Meh if it were up to me Shayna’s threads would go into /shay/ just to keep the board away from the scum her thread anons can be. I feel like a lot of her anons that are actively on the thread are some of the biggest problem anons. It almost needs its own hell week or years. Also more than one mod actively checking. Not for the same reasons other anons say but because it gets out of hand quickly and badly. I understand it’s hard to keep with Shay’s thread but the sensei Ricky shit got out of hand quick and was ignored. Tho I will give them props for nipping the bud of someone doxxing Shayna’s dad’s cabin at a quick pace. Same for the most part with the random schizo spam posting while she was in Aruba.
>>68406You got me there. The /w/ and /snow/ separation was a sketchy play in the first place but it seems that honestly merging them back together is a better idea. The only threads with active updates are the jill thread, the Lolita thread which is mostly infighting and then the mana knight one. The merge of those two again and the axing of /m/ would be a good idea. Even if they hide /m/. There’s a lot of ways they could choose to go about it. I hope whatever they choose actually helps the problem.
What cows would be good to move to /pt/ anyhow?
>>68420 yeah they need to stay dead or at least a hiatus until the board can be whipped back into shape. Dead is better tho. I am glad the topic of a town hall has come up. It’s been a long time and I think may be more helpful than speaking on this thread. 100% up to mods and admin tho.
No. 68427
>>68423Agreed, remove unpopular and dumbass threads forever. Too bad but the improvement is very obvious
>>68424I also think the Shayna thread could be migrated to /shay/ but she's the only real active cow at the moment so I'm not sure
No. 68429
>>68421I don't think it really matters if someone is a genuine XY male, there are plenty of women who have rotted their brain away in male dominated spaces with minimal contact with normal women so of course their opinions will sound male-like and are equally retarded and destructive to the board culture even if they were born female before they unlearn all the damage done to them.
>>68426Even though it's true, it just doesn't have a place in the tradthot thread because it attracts debate and draws the discussion away from the cow. This is why most milk goes into /ot/ and /m/ these days, people do enjoy discussing how they process these issues and talking about related topics but they'll be hit with a ban if they do it in /snow/. Less people are really interested in strictly documenting a cow because being a weirdo on the internet is so normalized these days that laughing at retards like people did during the Encyclopedia Dramatica era just doesn't work anymore.
No. 68431
>>68419nah 2x is better hidden else it attracts males. too bad it's infested by rightoids tho
>>68427Agreed, unpopular and dumbass need to go as well as zoomer hitspots like animationcows , genshit impact, fandom drama Etc. I also propose anyone posting about vivziepop should be banned on sight
No. 68433
>>68424Shayna's threads are wild and that is part of the appeal. However I do agree that it gets out of control and I wouldn't mind if her threads were confined to /shay/.
I'm indifferent to /w/. /m/ is different because it serves a purpose as a dedicated media board. I don't see a purpose merging these topics back into /ot/ where the slower media threads would be buried by the existing popular threads.
>>68426>Posters in the tradthots thread explaining how men use race to pit women against each other isn’t derailing or racebait/snow/ is not for politics, it is for cows. The tradthot thread is for discussing tradthot cows. Any other discussion belongs on /2X/ or /ot/. The tradthot thread is a perfect example of this, the subject matter has the potential to be extremely milky yet there is no milk because the thread is being used for political preaching.
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Off-topic but is it possible for the Admin or Mods to make a post at the end of Hellweek announcing the number of bans made during Hellweek and the reason for each ban summarized in percentages formatted into either a list or piechart? I'm genuinely curious as to what makes up most of our bans on lolcow.
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I've only been here for a year or so, so this is probably stupid but could we get a random style thread on /ot/ with less regulation on staying on topic and using vocaroo and stuff. That way that shit can stay there and be contained and keep vent and dumbass shit safe.
No. 68452
>>68450why would you even want to post vocaroo here?
>>68449agreed. i think the new op rules in the ftm thread are wayy to restrictive, it's going to kill discussion entirely if all we can post is "look at this ugly tif" over and over with nothing beyond thay. thread quality is going to devolve. unless the goal is to kill off troon threads
No. 68457
>>68453gotcha, so either newfaggotry or attention whoring. Should be a ban either way imo
>>68455we've had cow threads for whole communities forever. i don't see why we couldn't have /snow/ threads for ftm and mtf when they both produce plenty of snowflakes
2x is nigh unusable for gc discussion with the rightwing invasion anyway
No. 68475
>>68461Didn't the fandom drama threads start only last year?
>>68467Other than what the other posts said, dumbass shit also attracted too many newfags compared to some other threads, and unpopular opinions is the go-to thread for the same regurgitated baits about prostitutes, black people, gay people, groomed teenagers, abused women etc. Idk if it changed recently but one time I checked in there they were arguing about prostitutes for several days in a row even the second a new thread was made, and it kept getting maxed out within hours.
No. 68479
>>68478Not only tranny janny but the whole
>don't report scrotes even if its an obvious moidpathetic kek
No. 68499
>>68495>The same happens with /g/ and their endless X I want to fuck threads. Those threads are such a plague tbh, especially the fact that the straights and the lesbians need to be catered to that they have their own goddamn separate threads instead of just one, and lc thread users having to just live with the fact that it's different strokes for different folks, like IRL.
InB4 "Herpderp hide the threads then dumbass", I already do. 'Still buries the other threads that are not hornyposting 4 pages deep.
I realize LC is not structured like a forum, but as an oldfag who grew up on internet forums, I miss the organized structure of em. So many threads could be compartimentalized in whatever main theme they're about (sexuality/intimacy/NSFW, fangirling, casual talk, pic spam, whatever other theme there are). Not just the /g/ ones that I mentioned, same with the picspam on /m/. It might not directly solve the current problems, newfags and other weirdos will still come here to blogpost/not integrate/troll or be agro. But it would make things feel less cluttered with crap, which doesn't make you want to engage in any reading or discussing.
No. 68501
>>68500Compartimentalize =/= centralize
Technically my opinion is putting more compartments/categories to separate and declutter /m/ /ot/ and /g/.
How would that centralize lc, pray tell? It's a genuine question.
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>>68501They arent cluttered though. the image board format exists so people can easily make generals to share and discuss different kinds of stuff, merging them all together into a mega-thread would make it messier and would centralize this site, which is the opposite of what imageboards are supposed to do. I do think a good addition would be to be able to pin threads like in 4chan.
No. 68506
>>68449agreed.
>>68454>Generalized vents don't belong here, nor do your personal experiences. Use the appropriate threads on our off-topic boards for this. farmhands say to use the “appropriate off-topic boards” and meanwhile they’ve banned all GC discussion outside of one dead and hidden board
>>68473 rather than bring /2X back, since it’s already dead and rotten, I think there should simply be a GC/terfposting thread allowed on /ot or even /g. one thread is not going to ruin the entire board. why is this kind of speech so censored here? this will help us keep /snow more milk focused. the mtf and ftm are easily some of the most active but also, outside of derailing and newfaggotry, milky threads on /snow
No. 68508
>>68506>meanwhile they’ve banned all GC discussion outside of one dead and hidden board Wow farmhands are literally hitler for asking posters to post a subject on a board dedicated to that subject.
>I think there should simply be a GC/terfposting thread allowed on /ot or even /gThe last time this was allowed, /ot/ became so bad that the admin locked /ot/. GC and pinkpill threads were removed from /ot/ for a reason.
>why is this kind of speech so censored here?Being told to post GC and feminism discussion on the GC and feminism board is not censorship. The persecution complex is unreal.
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Whoever wrote this is totally a woman btw and if you say otherwise you’ll be banned for “scrotefoiling”. Some women are just unhinged!
No. 68515
>>68505> merging them all together into a mega-thread would make it messier and would centralize this siteSo that's what you misunderstood. You probably don't know forum structure but you have a main page with different categories A, B, C however many the forum needs, with thread subcategories under A, B, C, named 1,2 and 3 each for example. And underneath 1, 2 and 3, when someone clicks on one of those, there come all the threads that are relevant in that subcategory.
So for instance if one did like my example "A"/ "NSFW/Sexuality/Intimacy" category, one could still have compartments 1, 2 and 3 under that, 1 named Sexuality (the masturbation thread could be there along with the bisexuality and lesbian one, probably others too like the not my type type), 2 for NSFW (where all the threads for men/women you find attractive, the weird kinks stuff etc.), 3 for Intimacy (the bathroom thread, the breasts, the vagina, the Nigel/GF treads could go there). They wouldn't be merged in one, but put in their compartment where all that stuff belongs and not jumbled together in a general /g/ thing where the horny meets the skin care and crochet threads.
That's not centralized, that's compartmentalized. Hope that's clearer. Not that the suggestion will be taken by the farmhands, but it's an idea for a solution.
No. 68519
>>68393>>68422same, nonas. i like the way /ot/ has been since hellweek has started. feels more comfy.
i don't have a strong opinion on dumbass shit thread but i hide it often, however i really like the retarded shitposting thread because it genuinely makes me laugh and is slower and feels way more (fun)-unhinged than the dumbass chatroom. i never post in them except for maybe once or twice, but part of me wishes we could have a retarded shitposting thread without everyone from the dumbass shit thread flocking over. i think it would probably be better for /ot/ overall for those threads to be banned, just by what it's been in the past few days, but i was glad to see other nonas noticed a change in /ot/ as well
>>68499>>68501i agree with you nona (also an oldfag who misses forums)
No. 68520
>>68505>merging them all together into a mega-threadIt's called a board. This might seem news but /ot/, /m/ /g/ /snow/ and /w/ didn't always exist on this site. One day admins created them because there was demand or a necessity. Even on 4chan boards are created and retired even to this day. It's what keeps an imageboard fresh and thriving.
The needs of lc users have simply changed. There is no need to keep holding onto legacy boards when creating something like /img/ for picspam threads would revitalize /m/ and /g/ and get some people out of /ot/ and into those boards.
As things stand now they're stagnating rapidly and bringing down the level of discussion across the whole site.
The same can be said for reintegrating /w/ into /snow/ where in my opinion they always belonged. Anime is now mainstream and simply being a weeb or into a weeb subculture like lolita doesn't guarantee fresh cringe milk as it did before.
No. 68525
>>68524c.c was literally made by other farmers to serve these specific needs.
>inb4 "it's full of trannies and moids"so is this place and their moderation has improved lately
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>>68513WE ARE NOT A MONOLITH
No. 68528
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>>68520>Even on 4chan boards are created and retired even to this day. It's what keeps an imageboard fresh and thriving. But this is straight up false. The newest boards on 4chan are the /v/ splinters created in 2020, and before that was /bant/ in 2017. I've never seen a board on 4chan retired, the last time I know that happened (if you can count it as retiring) was the april fool's event where certain boards were merged together, and before that when the /con/ boards were made for those panels in 2009 or whenever that was.
Gookmoot is also nowhere to be seen. The last site change was the removal of the 4channel domain a few weeks ago and it wasn't even announced.
(racebaiting) No. 68533
>>68521>>68525>>68526CC doesn't scrub exif data from posted images which is crazy irresponsible for an anonymous image board.
By the way there is CP on the crystal.cafe front page right now. Cursed ass website.
No. 68534
>>68521>If you don't like it just leave Just because c.c. has done it, does it necessarily mean that it's a bad idea? I think we are all on lolcow because we want to use lolcow. We are in this thread because we wish to make lolcow a better imageboard.
Nobody cares about crystal cafe or what they might have done right or wrong. On the contrary if another imageboard has had a good idea there is no reason not to consider it for its merits. Hell even ITT people have been discussing whether we should steal some kiwifarms cows or not.
No. 68536
>>68531/q/ is another example but this was 10 years ago.
4chan is stagnant and might as well be dead. Anything redeeming about it as a site for discussing hobbies was smothered by the leaking of /pol/ and /r9k/.
No. 68537
>>68528only retired board is the loli one
>>68515You have actual autism. Go back to forums if you like the autistic cluttered format. Bet you love kiwifarms and how 90% of the threads are unrelated offtopic ramblings rather than on topic discussion. On top of that masturbation has nothing to do with sexual orientation, and husbandofags and waifufags dont mix with eachother, and anons who are into attractive men dont want to get jumpscared by uggos and nerds. Genuinely one of the most retarded ideas i have ever read.
No. 68544
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>>68537You misunderstand her, she wasn't suggesting merging the threads she was suggesting categorizing them. It probably confused you because you're not familiar with forums (?) but in imageboard terms she was essentially suggesting adding more boards and putting certain threads in separate boards (if I understood kek) which would actually result in you seeing much LESS of what you didn't want to unlike now where you see all that together on /g/.
>>68539>>68517you shouldn't comment on it if you've never used the 4chan catalog features. picrel, you can "pin" a thread to the top of the catalog. It just saves you from scrolling or having to use ctrl+f, it's kind of useful but not as useful as threadwatch on newer imageboards because it only pins it in catalog view.
No. 68554
>>68547Oh my god you're right, kek. Nevermind. Why did I assume it was better here? Not that many nonas are posting pictures they took themselves with gps data but there are definitely some…
Admins can you please fix this? Jesus christ the site upgrade can not come fast enough.
No. 68562
>>68556It's not exactly well known is it? Most sites strip the data, and an anonymous image board should definitely strip it. 4chan made that change over 15 years ago.
>>68558on cc? interesting. that would make it better than here actually.
No. 68569
>>68543>>68545>>68553agreed. why is the tif thread being targeted when most if the i fighting comes from /ot/ and /w/ is a redtext hell? why is dicussion banned in the trans thread when it's remevant to the topic? it's not the terves creating issues it's the baitposters and newfags.
>in b4 just go to 2Xthe board is not a cow board and it's nigh unusable with all the rightoids now. it's no longer much of a gc board.
>>68551you again. go stroke your radfem hateboner somewhere else. we have a right to speak up in /meta/ about site changes when the mods specifically single out gc/radfem posters.
>>68567seconded, the picspam and horny threads are very active and good for them. but it drowns out discussion in both /g/ and /m/. even hiding the threads isn't enough since the discussion threads quickly end up being buried backs several pages.
No. 68573
>>68570honestly i think the best soluion would be to have one img board to get all the picspam/horny threads off /m/ and /g/. that's just one extra
there's also the possibility of getting rid of /w/ since it's low on milk and high on shitty posts. proper weeb cow threads like jill's can jsut be moved back to /snow/
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>>68578NTA but it depends on the laws and regulations where you live. it definitely happens to burgers.
screenshot from
https://cybernews.com/privacy/isp-selling-data-why-you-should-actually-care/ No. 68583
>>68582Welcome to the 21st century. Sorry
nonnie.
No. 68585
>>68582If anyone ever asks you just blame the
problematic site visits on a roommate. kek
No. 68592
>>68567I actually think this is a good idea.
>actually such a board would be perfect for those who have overly specific tastes so that there aren't a dozen of those all over other boards.This would also make it easier if the anons that insist on posting actually vile men keep it to one thread and then anons can just hide the thread and be done with it. Although even without a new board I think those types of anons need to take it somewhere else because they are beyond unconventional.
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If You Get Rid Of The Off Topic Boards I Will Do Something Drastic Admin. So I Hope You Do Not Get Rid Of Them. I Hope .
No. 68605
>>68599kek
>>68575Oh no, are they going to break in my house and arrest me for posting? Anon please kek, it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme and would be a very small sacrifice for getting rid of the worst posters or at least calm them down considerably, plus samefagging would also be much more obvious. But that's just my opinion, there might be nonnas in countries where vpns are required but I doubt those browse lolcow in the first place.
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>>68606Guess I'm going to see all of my nonnies in prison then.
No. 68612
>>68484The troon tranny/schizo hangs out on all these imageboards from moidy ones like 4chan and soyjak party to female ones like here and cc. He has a particular hateboner for Koreans because an Asian moid rejected him. So I’m not surprised he follows nonas onto heolkek and harasses them there too. Not surprised at all.
>>68533It became cursed because the troon is on there 20 hours a day posting that garbage. As well as here, but the mods here are much better and quicker to delete CP compared to cc where it can stay up all day. Either way I’ve reported him to the authorities and given his full name. He can’t keep getting away with it.
No. 68617
>>68567AYRT and agreed, as well as with with
>>68573 - although I kind of want to see hornyposting banned in the site as a whole, or at least see the casualfag cancer best known as Husbando Hornyposting and the 2453 specific actors I don't care about threads be contained to their own /coom/ board. A /coom/ board would make /g/ usable in a way that hasn't been for at the very least the past 2 years.
>>68570Remove /w/ as
>>68573 said, create /img/ and/or /coom/ in it's place.
I'll accept this as the trade offer for being able to actually discuss shit other than frankendick surgeries in the TiF threads.
No. 68620
>>68617>>68619I suggest
>/degen/>/hus/>/horn/maybe /h/ for both the above but someone might confuse it for hentai
No. 68624
>>68621>>68620we should be just doing a general purpose spam board and callit somehhing like /img/ imho. that way we can herd all he thirst threads ut also the non-coom picspam threads that nonetheless clutter /m/. threads like AI pics, random gifs, picrews etc. have 0 discussion going on but constantly occupy the first pages
i think if we made a specific thirst board it'd just turn into porn central or at least attract shitty postsers
No. 68630
>>68626Samefag but in general, making a new board for thirst AND picture spam threads makes no sense. What's the theme there? It just sounds like you guys want threads you personally don't care for to be in a different board.
Also, /m/ is the picture spam board. That's been one of it's purposes since it's creation, to hoard and discuss media. I don't mind a new board but all of this just isn't making sense to me.
No. 68631
>>68630read the upthread discussion. the issue is that there are a lot of threads that are very active and get bumped a lot but where little to no discussion takes place. And tehse threads take up a lot of space in /m/ and g/ while psuhing back discussion threads. both thirst threads and regular picspam threads are like that.
hence why people are floating the idea of collating these threads into a separate board or two.
No. 68634
>>68630Anons want 4chan threads, rhey can go to 4chan. I agree, its pointless threads.
>>68618Unrpove. Stop trying to get anons to believe your stupid Josh shit, anon. It's been debunked several times.
>>68566They are workinv on a new site. For all we know, new admin and coders will integrate boards disappearing.
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Just wanna say thanks for cleaning up the animation cows thread. It was starting to sound underage in there ngl
No. 68639
>>68544Thanks nona, I thought my example and explanation was clear enough.
I feel like unless you would draw your ideas out on here, some people are just bent on misunderstanding everything you write and then flinging insults and assumptions
the Kiwifarm assumption kek, kind of embarrassing >>68537
, assuming makes an ass out of you and me at you like chimpanzees flinging shit at people just out of principle. It cuts any attempt of understanding one another and thinking of actual solutions to bring back some level of quality of life on the board for LC users.
The decisions don't lie in our hands in the end, the farmhands and admins decide, but I ain't about to complain without offering solutions to things I don't enjoy here. That's how functioning adults solve problems.
No. 68640
>>68440A tribunal system(a la League of Legends) for appealed bans would actually be pretty cool. No chance it will actually happen, but it would be nice to see what the community thinks is just.
>>68365>>68381This is obvious to anyone with half a brain, so I hope they will at least consider this. They're almost /sty/-tier at this point
No. 68641
>>68630>Also, /m/ is the picture spam board. That's been one of it's purposes since it's creationWrong, it was created to get things like anime, video games, books, series and movie discussion threads out of /ot/, which was already very crowded. It was a very comfy and productive discussion board for a few years before nonnies started making picspam threads.
Now they're all back on /ot/ discussing it in the fandom, artist and celebricows thread because /m/ is near unusuable due to the picspam. We need an /img/ yesterday.
No. 68645
>>68643Fair. Yet I argue it has gotten out of hand and the image threads have largely swallowed the media discussion threads. In the current state of the board, of course slower, discussion-oriented threads can't compete with threads purely about picspamming which get bumped 100 times more frequently. Even if you hide all of the picspam threads, sometimes you have to go to page 2 or 3 to find a discussion thread. If both aspects of /m/ can't coexist, something needs to be done about it.
>>68644Of course it wouldn't, the problem is that nonnies in those threads discuss media all the time as well as snarking and posting artist milk, the same with celebricows. There's been multiple instances of nonnies discussing Poor Things in the celebricows threads, which is straight-up a movie and not a milk/cow discussion. Artist, fandom and animation threads suffer from the same problem which is why they're constantly catching bans for not posting milk.
No. 68648
>>68645agreed with everything. people discuss films in celebricows and boiks in authorcows because the repective /m/ threads are getting cinstantly buried under active discussion-less threads
i'm not against picspam, i'm posting in these threads too and it originally made sense to have them in /m/. but i support separating them so that actual discussion threads can be used without having to scroll back 3 pahes every time
>>68633the issue isn't with ond particular thread imo it's just that the husbando/waifu, "ppl you're attracted" to and actor cintainment zone threadds in both /m/ and /g/ are multiplying. but making two extra boards seems a lot hence the suggestion to just make one all purpose spam/thirst one even of it's not super thematically coherent. having 5 off topic boards would be a lot
>>68640mods should just ban all vivzieposting like they did kpop. it's newfag cancer and they just won't stay contained, look how many threads have vivzie op pics now.
No. 68658
>>68653This board is already slow. You want it dead.
>>68654Adding the ability to pin threads is a better solution. You can hid the threads you dont like and pin the ones you do.
No. 68668
>>68660it's not just about finding threads it's that discussion threads become way less active when they get buried far down the catalog by picspam.
>>68658pinning threads sounds good but i don't think it's a bad idea to have discussion-focused boards. hiding threads only does so much when the first 2-3 pages are nothing but threads you hid
No. 68672
>>68620I hate all of these. /m/ is just fine for thirst posting about celebs and husbandos. in fact, I think we should move all such threads to /m/ and out of /g/ because it’s still media discussion. /m/ should continue to encompass media discussion and img spam
now onto more pressing proposals for farmhands:
>nuke /2X/ because it’s become retarded and allow at least one feminism thread in /ot/ or /g/ (I actually would prefer it to be on /g/ to help prevent moid infestation) >merge /w/ with /snow/ to weed out stale milklolcow.farm saved!
No. 68678
>>68677>the line between discussion and img spam isn’t always that clearOf course it is,
nonny. Compare the AI pic thread to the video game thread. Or the gif thread to the anime thread. Or the dress up games thread to the movie thread.
This is what we're talking about. The only type of thread that might blur the line is actor hornyposting threads, but they're clearly annoying to most users and have brought down the quality of posting on /g/ and /m/ significantly.
No. 68680
>>68669Sorry
nonnie but I just don't believe that there are women managing the boards. Especially when their behavior is glaringly masculine that they then have to fall back upon "W-WOMEN ARE NOT A MONOLITH", but why would a female owner of the board feel the need to tell us not to report male behavior?
No. 68687
>>68685Okay nta but if YOU think someone saying 'managing an imageboard is an autistic male thing' is some kind of knock on other women then that sounds more like your own idea of how women act if they're not a total internetfag. If
you read that and the first thing you thought to yourself was "Oh so women are just supposed to be tradthots in the kitchen?" thats your own mental delay. I'm pretty sure
nonnie was saying that women are well adjusted and don't have any desire to manage or moderate an imageboard, because why the fuck would they want to spend all day hunched over a computer reading comments of painfully retarded infights, child porn, gore, regular porn, the way scrotes love to? And before you try to pull a
>ugh they are women who are choosing to be brave enough to expose themselves to graphic content for the purpose of moderating a safe space for other womenBecause that isn't what is happening.
No. 68694
>>68677ayrt and like
>>68678 said, there's a defintie difference between threads where discussions happens along with images and the ones like random gifs, funny memes or ai pics where virtually no text is posted at all.
also it's a fact that discussion does sometime take place in thrist threads but they have a tendency ti get constantly bumped and drown oit the rest, especially in /m/.
sure having too many boards could be bad for activity but it's a measure of quality control. too many spam and thirst threads would kill all discussion in /m/.
No. 68699
>>68696no one is 'killing trans discussions'. The tranny cows threads were always about tranny online cows, not your own personal troon interaction that you want to vent about. That was never the point of the thread. That specific thread has some of the most newfags in the whole site that aren't integrating even after repeatedly banned, and it's very clear they're coming from outside imageboards (tiktok/twitter etc). There is also literally a 2X thread to vent about it as it is.
>>>/2X/21342As well, you were always able to make your own thread on an offtopic board instead of whining about it. But we won't ignore you breaking the rules because you're too lazy or retarded to discuss it in the right place.
No. 68707
>>68706>enjoy the attention of posting your grievancesI apologize if you have comprehension issues but I don't really post about crimes committed against other women for the purpose of attention. To bring attention to what happens to real female
victims? Definitely, if thats what you're referring to
No. 68720
>>68719nta but she said 'you guys', cerbmin is not the only moderator, and there are other mods who have been 'caring'
barely for the website for longer than cerbmin has been the superintendant. Try to relax with all the
newfag this and
newfag that because TA made a correct statement, shitflinging over it looks pathetic.
No. 68722
>>68719We've had farmhands before that though, they didn't completely overhaul the staff. Admins don't enforce rules anyway.
>>68721That's only the dumbass shit and shit post threads
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>>68721Are you retarded…when hellweek started he did not lock the thread. He allowed it to be used until it filled up, and then when the new UO threads were made he locked them both but verbatim asked for someone to make a new unpopular opinions thread. Pretty sure he wouldn't have done that if they were supposed to be locked for the duration of hellweek, but nice try. If he has changed his mind and would like to lock unpopular opinions, he can communicate that like a grown up instead of deleting every single new thread and being completely silent.
No. 68729
>>68727Why did the thread I made get deleted if you were trying to crack down on one specific anon? I really fail to believe that every single thread was made by the same
nonnie, especially because none of the threads were redtexted/banned before being deleted.
No. 68730
>>68712Aside from the fact that the MTF thread is on /snow/, you're not fighting the patriarchy by posting on lolcow.farm. It's a small independent website and you're not engaging in some epic battle against a huge corporation like Facebook or twitter, you're wasting the time of a group of volunteers. You're also preaching to the choir, the site already hates troons and trannies have been considered contemptible lolcows since before LC existed.
If you're aim is to peak more people, you would be better off posting just about anywhere else.
No. 68739
>>68730>you're not fighting the patriarchy by posting on lolcow.farm.Imagine thinking people actually come to this website for this reason kek. I think you might be autistic for thinking the radfems are actually having thoughts like these instead of simply coming here and hating like everyone else does. Just because they post their retarded manifestos doesn't mean they're coming here for the purpose of "fighting the patriarchy" lmao
What's next, unironically calling them feminazis? Kekk
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will farmers ever change the ib software? or at least add the ability to hide and filter posts? if we could hide and filter things in fighting would go way down
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Yeah I’m team moid admin now
No. 68770
>>68767Males having fetishes isn’t “blackpill”, males rarely being
victims of rape isn’t “black pill” either, it’s basic statistics. Admins are moids for sure. What the hell.
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Finally got off work to start my weekend with my favorite thread just to learn it was shut down.
No. 68791
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I was looking through the MtF threads in /snow/ and when I came across some from 6, 7, 8 months ago I noticed that back then there were no specific ‘cows’ that were followed on the board; at least not in the thread descriptions. So I went all the way back to the first one and it seems as thought MtF never followed specific group of male cows, just troons online and irl, in general. This was perfectly acceptable for the last 4 years, including our most recent Hellweek prior to the current one. May I please ask Cerbmin, what exactly changed in the last 6 months that made you decide that this wasn’t acceptable anymore and now we need to pluck out specific troon cows from corners of the internet to follow?
No. 68796
>>68741this is exactly why we need to revive and move the gc thread from /2X/ to /ot/. most nonnas are not going to hunt down a dead thread on a hidden board to continue their meta discussions, so they drown the genuine milk in the mtf and ftm /snow/ threads instead, which is a shame because those threads have so much milk potential. this is simply a waste of a good thread topic. furthermore, like
>>68757 said, quarantining this kind of discussion to /2X/ only causes it to spill out everywhere else
>>68730>You're also preaching to the choir, the site already hates troons>If you're aim is to peak more people, you would be better off posting just about anywhere elseunironically though, I do think these kinds of discussions are beneficial to creating “social change.” there are a lot of lurkers on LC who were linked here from somewhere else because they heard this was a gc site in which women can talk freely about TRA retardation honestly. I know because this peaked me. besides, what massively used site lets women do this without censorship and social repercussions?
No. 68797
>>68791Obviously not a a farmhand but I’ve been here since like 2016
less and less in recent years due to people acting like this is twitter and while the thread never really followed specific people it did consist of a lot of one off posts (screenshots! imageboard!) about random internet trannies and farmers updating about the cows they personally followed. Obviously people commented or added additional information on what was posted but this isn’t boomerbook and responding with pointless reactions is totally unnecessary and shits up threads. For at least the last year it’s been mostly boring ass text posts and ancient milk that tourists were too dumb to realize they’d sourced it from right here on lolcow. Perhaps you anons who just want to reeee and not laugh at weirdos online can make a general tranny discussion thread, idk.
IMO a good rule of thumb is to only post replies that are worth reading so threads aren’t full of worthless and dull commentary.
No. 68812
>>68810nta but are decisions about what is and isn't allowed on certain boards just made by individual farmhands?
I really thought cerbmin had to decide what changes were made in lolcow not random jannies wtf
No. 68816
>>68814Not likely. Farmhands exist to alert admin. That's why admin says to email them. They aren't moderating the site the same way as farmhands.
>>68812You can refute them.
No. 68825
>>68824There definitely is, that’s the whole reason why we’re not allowed to post the so-called
tranny grievances anymore after 4 years of it being no big deal and commonplace on this website
No. 68832
>>68824No one believes this besides samefags and the tranny.
>>68831Oh so now the MOD is also a tranny, not just admin? Kek
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Please extend hellweek for another week pretty please…?
No. 68840
>>68834im scared to go back to non-hellweek honestly. its been so peaceful aside from schizotroons/
blaine sperging in meta
No. 68843
>>68733Honestly considering how the whole internet coddles trannies and considers them absolute
victims that can do no wrong, I'm happy with all the scorn they get in this website. Troons are quite pathetic and sensitive and the way this shit already seeped into real life means it's increasingly harder for people to vent about it. I welcome those posts for this reason even if they're not necessarily funny to read
No. 68844
>>68840mentioning yourself does not make anyone else think that the other posters are you
>>68842If hellweek ended and cerbmin decided to shut down dumbass shit for good I have a feeling that there'd be a lot worse of a reaction than the mild moidfoiling thats been occurring over the last 6 days
No. 68854
>>68828NTA but it genuinely seems like most people whining in this thread about muh trannies and muh censorship are newfags and quite young.
>>68824I recall anons suspecting tranny farmhands but not a tranny admin. I’ll admit I might be wrong because even though I’ve been around for like 8 years now I leave for months at a time. Seems there’s been a lot of turnover the last few years and it has negatively affected site culture.
>>68837NTA but that thread is where I’ve always encountered the most
fellow? am I an oldfag now? does anyone else remember the year every other anon was 28? sorry I’ve actually really missed being here more regularly oldfags and it’s usually a great time.
>>68825Quit your conspiratorial shit. Vague whining and venting in threads simply isn’t content and global rule 4 says you need to CONTRIBUTE in a CONSTRUCTIVE way. You whiners fucked up the haha funny tranny thread. Go whine elsewhere.
>>68843Be bold and bitch IRL or on your twitter or whatever the fuck. If youre too afraid of pushback either get new friends or find a vent thread.
Sorry but I’ve been here infrequently since the shaymin fiasco and the shitty teen admin before that but somehow I wound up back here during hell week with yet ANOTHER new admin and this one actually seems promising. Imo global rule 4 needs to be enforced. Try contributing images to an imageboard sometime!
No. 68857
>>68854>Be bold and bitch IRL or on your twitter or whatever the fuck. If youre too afraid of pushback either get new friends or find a vent thread. Ayrt, before anything I also agree that I used to see more people being above 25 and now I see a lot of young early 20s or even that one underaged anon in the graduation thread posting their age. I am late 20s too and been here for 9 ish years.
I don't bitch about trannies irl or on social media because for one I don't have a twitter/instagram/etc and I am very private and careful with my general information. Lolcow was the one who made me more wary of what you post online and how it can be traced back to you. This is why image boards have always been appealing to me, I like to freely discuss things like this with others.
However. I also never bitch about trannies in this website, because in reality I don't really care, I simply want to point and laugh at the cows. That has never been an impediment to see and understand that a lot of anons do have legit reasons to vent and want to talk about them with scorn without the risk if being doxxed by those overreacting retards that hunt people like that just for disagreeing. I don't have a problem with the anons who do bitch about them. Like, why would I care if the comment is not directed towards me? I simply ignore it and let anons be. It's not a big deal, just a bunch of words on a screen and policing how others post in a tranny thread feels asinine and too sensitive to me.
No. 68858
>>68856being a newfag or oldfag isn't about how old you are if that's what you're implying byt saying you're in your mid 30s…. jfc. you could be 85 and still need to integrate.
you can post your tranny grievances in the vent thread, on 2X in those threads, any other non-cow threads where it's relevant basically… just not shitting up the cow threads with personal anecdotes and no milk. it's always been a rule.
No. 68860
>>68858That's not what I'm implying dumbass you said in your post you thought most of the people complaining were "quite young" can't believe you're so bad at reading comprehension you can't parse replies about your own comments.
Yes everyone knows about the dead hidden board 2x which gets no traffic you're so right let me just integrate and start posting where there's no traffic after years of being able to post freely in snow. God youre dumb
No. 68865
>>68860You’re talking to more than one person. Integrate better.
>>68857also ayrt and I’m also not on any social media because I won’t self-censor and have no use for it but I definitely let my views be known irl. You can’t possibly know who else around you might hold the same views if you don’t speak up. I’m not saying to be aggressive or vitriolic but I’ve found that it doesn’t take much to get real people to start questioning the absurdity trans shit. Just to be clear, I don’t necessarily have a problem with venting about trannies. My issue is with shitting up /snow/ threads with personal anecdotes. Some of these anons might be more at home in various KF tranny threads because they’ll be able to see who they’re responding to and forums are better for long form discussion.
No. 68866
>>68852Why am I getting accused of posting child porn? All because I was active, the same way many other people were when it was posted? That’s a real extreme accusation. Does everyone else on this website get the blame for posting child porn?
>>68851Oh nonna you are naive. You think the businesses that the conglomerate owners make money off of are going to be shut down by their government buddies? Obviously not, that’s not how the United States works. But a random website frequented by lesbians and tranny men, that they don’t make money off of? I wouldn’t be surprised if here and crystal cafe got shut down due to the excess of child porn posted here.
No. 68874
>>68868You don't understand how the site works and that's fine. Also ban evading exists. Pretending like the website is at fault shows how retarded you are.
>transvestite Yep. Every post of yours is bait.
No. 68876
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In regards to all the discussion around boards itt, I think this is a good time for the admins to hold their first townhall. Not a poll, but an actual meeting on cytube like previous admins did.
No. 68888
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>>68886>My point is nobody asked for it, certainly nobody voted for it.But they did. The response when /2X/ was first created was actually positive.
No. 68891
>>68870/2X/ is so full of rightwingers now, it's barely feminist anymore let alone gc.
anyway gotta love the people blaming everything on radfems and a couple trans threads while /w/ is a cesspool and autistic zoomers still post like this in cow threads.
i get banning venting in cow threads because it's not any more acceptable in the trans threads than anywhere else. but i don't see why there couldn't be discussion of the trans phenomenon in general. otherwise it's just going to devolve into nitpicking selfies.
>>68890aren't most of the "dump your nigel" posts in /ot/ not cow threads?
No. 68892
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>>68891This was the most recent blackpill esque post in the radfem cow thread that made me check /meta/ while scrolling through to get to the Heather Sparkles thread because the catalog is slow and my internet sucks. Just don't really want to see stuff like this while I'm scrolling tbh, I don't come here to have this shit put in my head.
No. 68895
>>68892just report if it seems off topic, bu honestly saying shit like
>it's not good for mental health to have to read this shit >I don't come here to have this shit put in my head.is stupid.
other posters are entitled to their opinions, you're always gonna see shit you disagree with. if reading takes you don't like is bad for your mental health this probably isn't the best place for you.
yeah blogging and derails in cow threads are annoying but i think it's honestly worrying to me that some people seem to be trying to remove any mention of manhate.
No. 68898
>>68876Agreed
>>68869We could try and move the MTF thread to /ot/ but idk I think everyone is too sensitive about this topic and need to grow thicker skin
No. 68899
>>68897I personally don't consider it blackpilling because it's just stating true facts. 4chan esque bLaCkPiLL posts are usually exaggerated self pitying blatantly anti-woman stattements such as
>reminder women have sex with an average of 24473 men over the course of their entire lives and all of the sperm lives inside their vaginal canal for the rest of her lifethat are obviously not true
No. 68904
>>68891>/2X/ is so full of rightwingers now,Newsflash: moving the threads you want to use to /ot/ will not fix that. You sound like you're afraid to use 2X because the rightwing posters make you feel unwelcome as you do not agree with them or align with them politically. That's your choice if you'd rather not post there but you won't be able to have similar discussions on another board on the same website and NOT have rightwingers comment there too. Think about it for two seconds. Do you think you'll get your hugbox (sorry) on /ot/? That's just not how it would shake out.
It's an anonymous imageboard, you wade around with the rightwing psychos and say your piece, it's always been that way.
No. 68909
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Can we please ban the word 'delulu'? I see too many newfags coming in from tiktok and twitter using that word.
No. 68910
>>67909The core of this site was everything else EXCEPT /ot/ and /g/
Who gives a fuck about them? They were always like that. The main boards should be the focus. Fucking newfags running the asylum. We didn't even notice hellweek last time and this time it's focussed on autism that should've been managed by the people who are apparently gonna clean shit up in a week. After a year of not being able to.
Most of the board's loss of culture happened because a lot of old fags left and the internet changed. It happens. Then we said hey, why don't we unban the cancer topics and let those posters go wild? And it turned out exactly how it would be expected. Since then it's been constant talk about The Culture and none of it resembles the old board. Not even close.
Maybe if you lot had spent the past fucking year actually communicating and getting the modding consistent, people would listen to your admonishment.
God I hate what has happened to this place. It was never going to last forever but it shouldn't be ending up like this.
No. 68913
>>68910>The core of this site was everything else EXCEPT /ot/ and /g/>Who gives a fuck about them?A lot of people do, they have existed for a big while now and they contain cow threads too. I don't want to argue with you but you can't ignore that the user base uses those boards too
Maybe being this passionate about a gossip website and wanting to stick only to ridiculing people isn't that healthy, you know? People want to discuss other things too. And I miss the oldfags too, I can't deal with the TikTok kids at all. I'm just on a more neutral stance when it comes to this website, I understand why people want to use the other boards too. I appreciate the opinions of anons on every board as well, you don't find that stuff just anywhere online.
No. 68918
>>68915What’s considered black pill wording though? Can I get an example because the redtexted post really does
not read as egregious blackpilling kek. It reads as an average fact about the male population. Just like saying that 99% of men are the committers of sexual crimes.
No. 68922
>the moderation team believes there is still benefit to be gained from it.the hellweek did feel more calm in ot but id like to know if there was anything actually getting better that admin can show, maybe like the amount of users banned or baiters that didn't seem to come back (unless thats going to be posted the 5 of feb)
>>68920PLEASE make tone indicators a redtext or bannable offense
No. 68926
>>68922I've seen people banned for using tone indicators multiple times.
>>68923>I don’t recall seeing any infighting, I don’t recall seeing any baitYou didn't look then.
>kind of unprofessional being an admin/mod/farmhand here is not a job and there are no professional requirements. like, I kinda want a message too but they're not going to submit a report with spreadsheets to you. wtf? lol
No. 68929
>>68928How do you even get that from what I said?
>>68927Why are you lying? search the Vent, Unpopular Opinions, Amerifag, Diet/fitness threads, etc. Tradthots literally got locked again this hellweek because people wouldn't stop.
No. 68931
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>>68930They said from the beginning this one could go longer than a week.
>It will continue for at least one week, but it may carry on longer No. 68932
>>68927You are bad at looking for infights then. The Amerifag one was just 2 days ago and lasted for hours.
>>68930It isn't really rocket science why they're extending Hellweek, and it was already clear from the get-go they were planned to extend Hellweek as long as they felt was necessary, which they announced in the OP and a farmhand confirmed here
>>68140. They wanted to curb certain behaviors (infighting, baiting, using /snow/ improperly), and those behaviors have not been sufficiently culled. I think it's obvious there's been improvement on the site, but there's room for improvement.
No. 68933
>>68931>couldMyself and others I'm sure would still be interested to know what exactly was the straw that broke the camels back, which isn't unreasonable or unwarranted at all
>>68929>>68932Uh do you wanna go ahead and post some screenshots of what you consider to be the little infights? I scroll those threads multiple times a day and yeah sometimes theres retarded spats and disagreements but I didn't see any aggressive infighting. Sorry.
No. 68938
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>>68935Maybe this is a "normal conversation" to you, but hours of racebait and derailing is bad for the site's health and turns it into a cesspool. You can complain about censorship all day long, no one wants to read this shit except for dopamine-deprived chronic infighters.
No. 68942
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>>68939What started the derail was racebait and anyone continuing the derail was engaging with and replying to racebait.
>>68941We did have a thread on /ot/ for the war in Gaza but as always, retards are unable to report and ignore.
No. 68944
>>68943Calling for genocide of a group is racebait.
>if this is how palestinians act, then they don't need to exist
>Barry KeoughI have no idea who that is and a internet search brings up seemingly unrelated results.
No. 68948
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>>68946Since when does parantheses = racebait? Also, yes the fuck it is?
No. 68952
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>>68948how is this not racebait? what fucking dimension do you live in? /pol/?
No. 68957
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>>68955I can’t even tell if you’re making a joke about the other nona being clueless kek
No. 68958
Please keep in mind that there are lost /pol/fags and tranny/schizoposting, ban-evading baiters that have been going out of their way to sabotage certain threads with infighting/baiting comments and fighting here. While everyone is free to comment and respond (within the rules), please be aware that many are in bad faith and have the intention to create baseless tinfoiling and drama.
>>68876Still digesting this. We'll keep everyone updated.
No. 68964
>>68939I'm the first post in that screenshot. I have no idea why supposedly we all of a sudden can't talk about politics on the site, nothing I said was racist or baiting in the slightest.
>>68941It seems like there's a massive gaslighting here where people are like "oh this site was NEVER meant for that topic" meanwhile discussions of any sort were not stymied before.I honestly think they're just trolling and getting a laugh out of everyone being confused and asking for accountability.
I'd argue this hellweek made the site worse than it was before.
No. 68971
>>68970Yeah but what I'm saying is that most normies have not
seen ((())). They generally aren't using imageboards and they aren't regularly seeing /pol/tards on Xitter. They follow their favorite celebrities and their friends and that's about it. Maybe once in a while they catch a /pol/tard in the wild but most users will ignore the post and keep scrolling. They don't even know who the
Chris Chan is (and it always makes me feel like a weirdo that
I know kek), even on Reddit. Given the state of LC today it's not hard to see how a normie wound up here and wasn't up to speed on /pol/ lingo
No. 68978
>>68972Asking about triple parentheses isn't "not integrating" because it is not a part of lolcow.farm culture, like
>>68976 said. And if you want my opinion, anyone who joined LC in 2019 or later is a perpetual newfag.
No. 68985
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Having a debate about a movie is infighting. Farmhands are genuinely retarded. Where are admins even finding these ones?
No. 68987
>>68982I agree with that.
>>68986NTA but I think all newfags should know general imageboard slang, but the triple parentheses is not really 4chan slang ane only localized to a few boards.
>>68984That's what I said. Not every /pol/-esque poster is a scrote/tranny.
No. 68994
>>68991They've contained themselves in an /ot/ thread within these past few days, if anyone is still sperging about Vivzepop there it's dumb newfags who haven't got the memo.
>>68993NTA but when I was a newfag I didn't ask about board slang or culture, I just looked it up, have some initiative. Obviously you didn't catch on to it the first time you saw it and that's fine, but why are you still samefagging after anons told you what it meant?
No. 68998
>>68996im not sperging about anything i was responding to a comment that tagged me? you sound more like the fucking newfag kek
>>68997lurking the website would not have informed me on the triple parentheses though. Thats why that response doesnt apply to my original statements. I hope this makes sense for you so that this conversation can be over.
No. 69008
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>>68994ok nta but just googling ((())) doesn't bring up anything
No. 69009
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>>69008But this does, again use initiative.
No. 69013
>>69012>>69011Brackets are like socks, do you say three pairs of socks or do you say six socks?
You're twisting my argument into what it's not, which is that some anons are too lazy to learn board culture. Also funnily enough looking up "triple brackets" is the way I found out what that meant, so your point is lost on me.
No. 69022
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People responding to the non-integrated newfags who can't even google basic things is also an issue. Just tell them to lurk more and stop responding until they figure it out on their own.
If you can't be bothered to read up on old threads or expand your imageboard-culture knowledge why even bother posting here. There's other sites who will accept you with open arms.
Spoonfeeding is a huge issue that rewards laziness, which is a trait you generally don't want in farmers.
No. 69023
>>69022because im not here to be an imageboard savant im here to enjoy myself
nonnie. and i do everytime ♥
No. 69039
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Listen I love with website but it’s an imageboard, not harvard university. If i’m not getting incentivized to do so, I’m not gonna do research or use google just to make one-off posts. if you’re taking posting online this seriously then maybe you’re autistic? ‘board culture’ and ‘social media culture’ are not real things. it’s just the internet. the only rule is to follow the law and use it wisely.
No. 69041
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>>69039samefag but even lurking the site if you use the catalog and command + f random 4chan slang terms (like we were talking about yesterday) nothing comes up. Same with the terminology thread. Nothing about the bracket echo on there, either. So you might want to actually include these things on the website if you want to keep shouting LERK MOARR and actually have the user find the content you’re referring to.
>>69040Dilate isn’t even listed in the terminology thread though? That is administrations fault, not everyone else’s.
No. 69045
>>69041>>69039You do realize you can type "lolocow SUBJECT HERE" in to Google and see if threads pop up with answers you are looking for, like in old threads? Newfag, no one cares about your whining. You need to learn2integrate.
Pretty sure these two posts belong to the male /meta/ camper who went from complaints and suggestions to this hellweek thread. Most anons don't ask such dumb questions and I've been here since 2015, about terminology like dialate. Plus the constant quips about the website not being up to snuff.
No. 69046
>>69039Everyone dogpiling on each other about how you’re asking to be spoonfed is what is making the site culture worse actually. Why’s it so hard to just be chill and answer the question kek? Why can’t we be a
fingernail more friendly to each other? Do you think we’d be in a second week of hellweek if we didn’t infight over dumb shit like spoon feeding (which I actually was convinced only applied to asking questions in the cow threads…I was misinformed)? Is treating each other with decorum that much worse than this?
No. 69049
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>>69047What spoonfeeding policy? It would be wise for administration to put it in the rules because as of right now it’s not only not in the rules but
also not in terminology.
No. 69050
>>69048Farmhands don't ban in /meta/ usually and they've stated that as such. If that were the case, the tranny bait all over the multiple threads in /meta/ would be redtexted to high hell. Pointing out that the poster can't integrate and it using the same anti-lolcow rhetoric the resident scrote uses, isn't just some accusation. Newfag or male, doesn't matter. The poster clearly doesn't understand the website and admin and farmhands don't need to make things more clear. This is the same mentality of "Show me where it says you can refuse customer service" from boomers.
>>69049>whaaaa it's not written in plain sitehttps://lolcow.farm/info>6. LurkingDo you even know what links look like?
No. 69052
>>69049just what do you think 'adhere to board culture" means?
>>69039you might think board culture is stupid but it's in the site rules; if you don't like it, no one's making you post here.
>>69046because newfags posting here without integrating drag the quality down. read the admin posts itt, that's precisely what they're trying to change with hellweek
tl;dr no one's gonna change how this site operates just bc it hurt your feelings
No. 69065
>>69061I make
valid points and suddenly it’s
ugh move on because you have no real response. As per usual kek.
No. 69067
>>69057And anon couldn't Google search, why? Most people who don't know a word look it up. Not beg on an imageboard to know what it means. This isn't a chatroom for stupidity like that. Back and forth in normal threads wind up shitting up the thread and bringing it to max sooner.
>>69064 It is them.
No. 69068
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>>69053>the how to use the website page isn’t even linked onto the websitelearn to read
No. 69069
>>69063The problem is that they’re not posted at all in an area where I can access it on the website. the lolcow.farm/info is not linked next to the rules. The rules do not mention spoonfeeding, interestingly enough. And terminology does not include spoonfeeding or dilate. So even when I do the necessary research, how the fuck am I supposed to find shit that’s not even posted in a spot where everyone can find it?
>>69064Board Culture isn’t a real thing though. It’s not about tangibility, it’s about reality.
>>69066None of those photos were complaining about being banned? It was showing that the terminology that’s being referred to isn’t easily accessible. And if it’s not easily accessible, people obviously aren’t going to find it.
>>69067NTA but I’ve already said that I’m not going to research on google just to use a website, no thanks
No. 69071
>>69069Shut up, newfag. We all know you're just baiting as usual to try and get other anons to agree with you, and no one agrees with you kek Constantly berating the site over the most mundane and minuscule things is your MO
>>>/meta/68817 You are very easy to spot.
No. 69075
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>>69070literally on the front page lol
keep digging
No. 69086
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>>69083right because it doesn’t even exist anymore. how fascinating
No. 69087
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>this whole thread
No. 69094
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I hope bullied nonna isn't permabanned, I feel she needs to express to be herself but also learn how to stand up for herself
No. 69098
>>69097It shouldn’t matter if it’s an oldfag or newfag question. It’s a harmless general question that they answered. And you stated
>It has nothing to do with general questions But suddenly it does have to do with general questions when a question that is asked is one that you consider to be a ‘newfag question’, but I’ve been here for years and yeah I’ve seen the word dilate used but I never understood and also never saw it in the terminology thread, so I took the initiative to ask. Are you saying it would have not received a ban if it had been asked in stupid questions, because even though it’s a general question it’s considered ‘too newfag’ for you?
No. 69101
>>69098Are you
still arguing about this? Go do something with your life, drink water, eat something just shut up.
No. 69146
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>>69131>>69132>>69145Isn't this already intergrated into the site? I even get this option on mobile
No. 69173
>>68991they have their own thread. If you see them venture out, report as necessary. I understand the frustration that they can often take over a topic but they're self contained right now. The only threads they are currently allowed in outside of their own: the husbando thread (so long it doesn't take over) and the animation thread (when relevant to the topic and not just sperging).
>>69022this. We've had a very, very large influx of newfags coming from twitter/tiktok and refuse to integrate because people are relenting and responding to their spoonfeeding requests and being baited into responses. Let them sink or swim.
>>69053no we do not ban in meta. In the RARE times we do, we always redtext (unless it is a confirmed moid, in which case we also delete their comments.) We usually avoid responding to obvious baseless accusations and tinfoiling but I wanted to let all the farmers know that this is false.
>>69103No that's staying locked for the foreseeable future. It brings a lot of non lc regulars constantly racebaiting and infighting. Please just continue to report those posts and we will ban them as soon as we see them.
>>69108please just report them as they are unintegrated retards, regardless of it being a racebaiting connotation or not, it breaks our integrate rules.
>>69112thinking about this. Stay tuned.
>>69131you can change the theme of the site at the very bottom of the page, under the [Style] label input. Such as shown here
>>69146As well to clarify – 'spoonfeeding' is part of the rules. It's not explicitly said, but it is part of learning to integrate/lurk. Do not spoonfeed request, do your own lurking and research. There are a few other instances that are in the catch all of 'learn to integrate' such as correct space formatting when typing, not typing in all caps etc. Don't coddle newfags, report them if you see that behavior.
No. 69175
>>69174Don't need to see someone's browser history to know they're coming from tiktok/twitter by saying things like '
unalive' or 'r*pe' or 'delulu' or general newfaggy behavior. Regular farmers see it all the time and are able to report it. It's not rocket science.
No. 69181
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pls purge tradtards
shit like this should be in 4chan not lc
No. 69192
>>69191I never once said or even alluded to thinking that I'm against equality for women, I am not against equality at all. Why would I be? What I
did say is that inventing some brand new female worshipping religion at this point in history would not only be boring (its 2024. What woman are we going to worship? Hilary Swank?) but it would also end up being completely pornified by all of those who refuse Gods love, much like all of the other religions that already exist and are treated with disrespect. Inventing a new religion isn't going to magically make men respect us, in fact I really wouldn't be surprised if the creation of a new religion wasn't taken seriously at all, no matter what deity or being it is worhsipping. All of this inane twisting of what is actually spoken is very easily refutable when you take the time to read the statements in full. You're capable of reading comprehension. You're smart. I believe in you.
No. 69194
>>69192nice passive aggression but im not here to continue this infight.
just saying having trads and normie christfags is probably not gonna help board quality
No. 69200
>>69194Its the meta scrote trying to be inflammatory as usual.
>>69195>>69192You're at it again for another day, just posting to infight. So clockable.
No. 69248
>>69244Anon how do you think red words like
problematic poc terf oof etc. came to be?
No. 69259
>>69214you're right i worded myself badly.
It's just that that there is undeniably an increasing rate of people posting reactionary shit, especially in /ot/, and it's not helping board quality with all the infights. trad religious shit like what got posted on the infight i quoted isn't exactly what we're used to on this board and it causes frictions. i know women are not a monolith yadda yadda but there is such a thing as board culture.
No. 69262
>>69257And milennnials are like 40 years old now. If the vocabulary of younger users is upsetting them so bad they can go start a lolcow facebook group.
>>69261I read the full conversation I’m not sure what you’re expecting for me to see? Did they say they’re going to start a lolcow facebook group or something?
No. 69269
>>69248Not from bitching about it multiple times a day and throwing tantrums in every thread about it kek, just report and make a suggestion for a word to be red. The week long infights about one word is so pointless
>>69247Yes yes, everyone who says something you don’t like is brand new, all oldfags are a hive mind with the exact same vernacular. I’ve been here 8 years though minus a gap year or two.
>>69261First anon you tagged, I’m not going to read through an entire 900 or something posts of repetitive nothings when the conversation is basically just “Your a zoomer newfag!” “No your a zoomer newfag!” I’m jealous of the free time you have though
No. 69270
>>69269What I meant was that 'melty' is not a widely used term on lolcow the same with 'delulu'. I made one post and you are insinuating I've been following the conversation when I'm making fun of you. No one has said that slang shouldn't or can't be integrated over time into lolcow culture, but the sudden influx is not the same as it organically becoming a term that's seen on different boards and in multiple threads.
I already know I'm replying to the same anons who keeps going in circles on /meta/. I feel so sorry for the fact that you have nothing else to do with your life.
No. 69283
>>69273Yeah I'm sperging cause this other anon is putting random ass words in my mouth that not a single person ever stated
>>6927218 and 19 are teenagers. They're not the worlds most mature people. Sorry you had to find out this way.
No. 69284
>>69278Oldfag is interchangeable. It can mean you're either a long term lolcow user (an oldfag) or an old individual. (an
old .
fag .) Also if dumbass slang words is enough to make some 40 year old poster itchy in her Ross dress for less jeans, then yeah. That is some geriatric shit. Not gonna sugarcoat it
No. 69307
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>>69304NTA but how did you miss all this kek
No. 69322
>>69291>>69321Yeah, it's not like 18 year olds and 21 year olds can type and talk similarly if they're not too internet rotten, whereas anyone younger is going to be immediately obvious. Would we have to show our driver's licences every time we have to post, considering anons might be using different devices to access lolcow, among other things?
Why can't we just aggressively enforce newfags to intergrate?
No. 69349
>>69344yeah. and honestly if you wanna curb infighting maybe it's time to actually moderate unpopular opinions because that thread is infight central.
>in b4 "an anon posting an unpopular opinion in the Unpopular Opinion thread is not bait, please use your brain" some anons in that theread are clearly posting cobtroversial shit and being very aggressive in therir responses (e.g. homebody sperg)
i'm not sure there's even enough mods in /ot/ bc the place is crawling with bait, infighting, autistic newfags (look at the amount of kids cartoons and gachashit being posted) and gratuitous aggresion
No. 69352
>>69345I don't think admin realizes that one could extend Hellweek for a whole year and it still would not make up for the fact that the site is understaffed. You can't have a successful Hellweek if you don't have the force to back it up. All it seems is that the board is full of the same baiting and infight as always, but bans are doled out more liberally
after the fact.
No. 69354
>>69353I haven't a clue, but I know what
>>69349 says is right, so I could only assume that the website is still too short-staffed to have a successful Hellweek.
No. 69357
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whoever made the banner that's a tribute to that hall & oates post, i love you with all my heart
No. 69361
>>69360>started using LC in 2019>bitches about oldfagsIf you had been here, you'd know the difference between LC in 2018 and now. SR and then LC stayed culturally static for that many years.
We're complaining because a lot of the issues the site has now were easily avoided. We're sitting in a hellweek thread where people are saying how ineffective it has been - again - and how understaffing seems to still be an issue. And most of us oldfags gave up, so yeah, those of us left are bitter af watching this place turn into twitter but anti-troon. It's normal to see anons talking about '
PoC' or using slang that doesn't fit here. We used chan-talk for culture and blending together.
And worst of all, we've got admins that are desperate people pleasers, so every retarded idea gets implemented and then rolled back. It's a whole clusterfuck. Hearing people talking about just get over it or whatever - you want this site to finally die? Cos that's how it's gonna happen.
/autism sperg
No. 69364
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>>69361Anon read my post again. I said before pandemic times. That phrase includes all years before 2019. Even if I had joined in 2019…
nonnie that was FIVE years ago. The internet is a different place today than it was 10+ years ago, nowadays even normies on Twitter know all about Chris-chan and other OG cows. Milk has largely dried up and no good contenders have risen to take the place of the OG cows that have since faded into obscurity. Since examples of milk are fewer and more far between now, it's natural that anons start using other boards like /ot and /g more frequently. I used to only use /snow and /w for many years, but eventually threads get stale. I liked the content I saw from different anons on those boards so I started to browse the /ot thread and post there a lot more frequently than I did in the past: besides, all the shit you cry about happening now happened back then too. Maybe at a lesser rate because the site's userbase was smaller, but I'm actually happy we have more people coming to use this site because I'm not 6 months old and got over my fear of strangers.
>We're sitting in hellweek thread where people are saying how ineffective it has beenYour idea of an effective hell week is time traveling back to 2015 because you can't deal with change, kek. We're never going to get rid of newfags, or people that don't speak in chan-talk, or people that don't integrate, or people that don't read the rules, just like we had them back before the pandemic.
>You want this site to finally die?Trust me when I say the inane amount of oldfags shilling about how shit moderation is, how shit 50% farmers are, how shit admin is, how shit everything is, that's gonna be the thing that kills this site. If you think this site is shit, why do you keep using it?
No. 69365
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>>69361>It's normal to see anons talking about "PoC"You mean a common phrase that's been used on this site since 2015? You sound fucking retarded going on about non-problems. Go back into old threads without relying on rose colored glasses and nostalgia and investigate your claims before spewing them in /meta and expecting to get asspats for wasting years of your life on a gossip site that you don't even like.
No. 69376
>>69365So now using the term
POC is an issue for you? jesus christ, maybe lolcow isn't the place for you.
No. 69378
>>69376I was replying to another anon that claimed only newfags used the term "
POC." Use your brain, please.
No. 69407
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>>69405please remove the cooldown farmhands!!!
No. 69408
it sucked, mods either took ages to ban infighters or never banned them. Why not move fucking celebritycows to /snow/? they clearly dont belong on /ot/ and normie celebrityspergs obviusly dont mix well with the more weeby, imageboard savy anons. They would fit really well alongside shaynafags, they all collectively share the same braincell.
>>69403yes, please.
No. 69415
>>69409Why do so many anons in meta hate fun? The unpopular opinions thread should be the place for arguing. Of course ban obvious actual male and race bait, but if you don’t like feigning outrage at retarded opinions then just stay out of the thread.
>>69414Art salt thread is definitely full of underage newfags, especially after creepshow. And celebricows is probably full of faggots and wine moms, idk why it’s not in snow anyway.
No. 69421
>>69419Samefag but also
>If you disagree with this, you are welcome to organise somewhere off-site to continue your dumbass ways.So are we just not expected to share if we disagree with their decision? Weird statement considering staff has made a big deal out of listening to the userbase since we got new admins.
No. 69425
>>69424farmhands literally said
>Fast moving threads like this one which have no topic or purpose attract a very different demographic to the rest of the site, which leads to friction when the different sets of users interactweebs have always been here, you are the one that refuses to integrate
No. 69428
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>>69427That's the burger inside of you yearning for freedom
nonnie…
No. 69449
>>69429This. I don't understand the obsession with her. Anons have some major mental illness to be putting this much effort into someone who is just what every thot is now. I don't understand where the laughability for some cows comes from when it's mostly nitpicking stupid as hell shit.
The milkiest shit to come from her in years is the boob thing and that was blown over quickly. I swear, some anons act just as insane as scrote 4channers.
No. 69456
>>69455we have tranny
threads not boards
No. 69469
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Autism kek
No. 69472
>>69469That quoted anon already got banned for another infraction. I added a redtext for this post too. Complaints about moderation always belong in /meta/ rather than the current thread and complaints about bans should be posted
after a ban expires or a ban appeal is accepted. These bans usually last a day at maximum.
No. 69475
>>69464They are nerfing it specially because it's an active thread. From farmhand's statements, they think it attracts posters who are only interested in chats and post short sentences like the one
>>69424 pointed out and thus are likely to be twitter/tiktokfags. But again, I don't understand why it's the first choice to get autosaged, as if dumbass shit is the biggest newfag and infighting magnet.
No. 69484
>>69483based, this is the attitude I have towards the term nona/
nonny etc too
No. 69509
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>>69506It's because genuine sub-cultures died and fandoms took over their places. In the same way, specific fandoms themselves have become lolcows, which is why the most active thread are about specific communities rather then one Induvial.
No. 69512
>>69506What value would a Kota or a Kiki have nowadays if they were only born later? None, because for each of them there are at least a hundred thousand other girls copying the exact same shtick on tiktok. Being a cosplay cow like Nigri or Momo isn't funny anymore when every single BDP attention-whore cosplayer on social media behaves in the same exact way while making insane amounts of money. OnlyFans now means that everyone is an e-prostitute so camgirls, nude cosplayers or even the likes of Shayna doing disgusting porn are just a boring dime-a-dozen now. Being a lolita or a weeb no longer guarantees fresh milk, being a weeb is normalized nowadays and lolita as a western subculture is only just a death rattle.
The most interesting "cows" are now in the off-topic boards. Consoom threads, fandom threads, celebricows threads (regrettably) among others. This is proven by the fact that they are the most active boards on the site and despite what farmhands think, no, nonnies are not wrong for wanting to use them.
The internet is simply a different place than it was in the 2010s and everything that lolcow was built around is simply no longer relevant. Admins trying to stubbornly hold on to the echoes of days past are only going to succeed in driving this place into the ground.
Start listening to some feedback from actual users of this site and adapt or die.
No. 69514
>>69512so, broadly speaking, tik tok is the cause of cow culture slowly dying? when is that goddamn shit going to shut down
I also agree with what you said
nonnie.
No. 69515
>>69474>you are here to enable it and make us all more comfortableWhat the fuck are you talking about? This is mental illness levels of entitlement. Cerbmin and the farmhands owe you nothing. Lolcow is a free site that's owned, moderated and paid for by volunteers who do it for fun and for free. The site isn't commercial and there is no benefit to having a large user base if it's full of retards that refuse to follow the rules. Even if Cerbmin takes the site in a direction that you don't like, you have no other option but to follow the rules or fuck off because it's privately owned site.
>>69486LC is not every other image board. It has it's own unique culture, referring to moderators as farmhands and still knowing how to use sage is part of that.
No. 69517
>>69496Where are all the anons who hate /ot/? I wonder how many of them there
actually are. If mods are keeping up strict modding on the cow boards then why do they need to give a fuck who posts what on ot? If they don’t want to see random discussion and “infighting” they can just stay off the fucking board. You don’t see ot anons screaming at admin to nuke pt and snow because it’s full of insufferable wine moms and kiwifags who are desperately coping by comparing themselves to cows, even though they are constantly coming into ot and shitting up threads with their whiny ass minimodding.
>>69515Although I do agree that saging non-new topics is still helpful on /ot/ unless the thread needs to be bumped
No. 69519
>>69517>Where all all the anons who hate /ot?At this point I think the /ot hate is contained to a group of mega autistic oldfags that can't understand why farmers would want to talk to each other sometimes instead of talking about cows that haven't given milk in over 5 years.
>You don't see ot anons screaming at admin to nuke pt and snowI agree with this 100%. I have not used /pt for actual years because there's just nothing interesting to me on that board at this point, but I don't feel the need to complain about /pt every second of every day because I'm not retarded. I don't know why everyone likes to pretend like /ot is destroying this website when in reality it's just another board for members to use. When I get on LC, I'll often browse /snow or /w for a while to catch up on any milk, and then after go on /ot or /g to talk to my fellow farmers and maybe get a kek or two in. It really isn't that deep and all the farmers saying otherwise are just coping with the fact their cows are long dried.
>>69509>Sub-cultures died and fandoms took over their place. Specific fandoms have become lolcows which is why the most active threads are about specific communities rather than one individual.This point ties into
>>69512 's point about:
>The most interesting cows are now in the off-topic boards: consoom, fandom, celebricows, etc..I think we should just make a new board for the larger "fandom" threads, like how /w was created later on from /pt and /w. I think /ot should be relegated to real off-topic discussions, like vent, unpopular opinion, confessions, etc., where there's less chance of infighting. I think a lot of "infights" are just certain farmers being too quick to report (e.g., I saw someone mention ancient semetic cultures in context of their religious pantheon and someone had reported them for "racebaiting" obviously not understanding that the ancient semites were a different group of people and it doesn't have relation to antisemitism of today).
>>69518>>69500Town hall is definitely needed at this point so we can actually see statistics of what farmers want to see in the future.
No. 69530
>>69510NTA but do you have any examples of farmers interacting with farmhands then and calling them mods or jannies? Because as someone who was around back then I agree with
>>69504 that it wasn't common then here, and has seen a massive uptake in use since Blaine's sad spamming
No. 69542
>>69530farmhands have been called janitors since the inception of lolcow since lolcow is from /cgl/. it was an actual position that you could apply for for years. it's obviously not a newfag or scrote thing like the other anon claimed. i already provided proof, do you think i'm going to make you a collage? i recommend learning how to use google and crtl+f.
>uptick in usagei agree it wasn't used as much, because obviously saying janny instead of farmhand expresses resentment towards the which wasn't as common. i noticed more people started using it in the 2019/2020 radfem period when "tranny janny" became popular. still does not newfag/scrote thing make.
saying the term janny is used because of blaine is just mouth breather-tier.
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>>69532Me too, those were the only two new cows I was interested in and they got basically immediately cowtipped and I will never stop being mad about it. Especially because homie was a personal cow of mine long before she ever got posted here, so it feels like a personal loss that she baleeted everything.
That's another reason it's misguided to force this site to be cow-oriented in this day and age– new cows do not last because everyone is cowtipping now. Koopa and homie were brand new extremely milky cows the like of which we hadn't seen in years and even they couldn't be maintained. The era of cows is over for all the reasons anons have pointed out and more. I'm not happy about it because I loved cows (nemu is forever my fav) but it just doesn't seem to work anymore. So at least let us have fun on /ot/. Please.
No. 69549
>>69545They were only flooding it because there was nowhere else to discuss it, the newfag who made the new thread too early was retarded and shouldn't have done that though.
>>69532Awww, that's what happened to the koopa guy? Now I'm doubly pissed off about cowtippers. Anyways, that's a really point- I feel like the only cows you'd be able to find nowdays are "Youtube Users" like DogsEatingDogs6 but honestly they're all the same flavour of autistic moid and immediately ruined by people touching the poop the moment they get more eyes on them.
No. 69550
>>69542OK anon fair enough I spent a little more time searching and found use of "mod" and "janitor" spanning from 2015 to now; I had to mess with the search a bit since the site's search results max at 10 pages and is sorted from newest to oldest by date which only gets you to like 2022 since they are such common terms, especially recently. "Janny" specifically I was able to find some early results for, 8 total from 2015-2017. I then can find this discussion from 2019, referring specifically to 4chan jannies
>>>/w/47547 and this post from a self-admitted male outsider
>>>/g/159799 who was banned for their post. The next results are from 2020 and grow in frequency from then but especially from 2022 on. This suggests this specific term was not particularly popular here as this site's culture evolved. I know where the terms came from and the origins of this site. It may not be a newfag thing but it can suggest the poster comes from other imageboards where the term never fell out of the vernacular.
No. 69557
>>69556Im not being edgy numbnut, and that's not what being an NLOG means. I know I can't be the only one that's been seeing the increase of anons being like "no you can't say that!" and generally trying to hard to police what people say on here. You can disagree with me all you want but in not too long anons will be complaining about retard and tranny and all the other words we use here.
>no one here is being banned for saying dyke.I said nothing about banning so I'm not even sure what you're talking about.
No. 69560
>>69558>nobody should be banned for saying it, but don't be surprised if others give you shit over it because it is braindead and low effort.Anons are giving shit for it because this site is becoming more sensitive and trying to police every word here, which coincides with all the newfags. And again, no one said anything about banning
>there's 1000s of ways to insult someone You can say this about any mean word used here. Newfags are already rewriting the culture here, maybe you'll only get what I mean when they start complaining about stuff like retard and sperg.
No. 69563
I think this is all a useless sperg, but yeah I don't see how in the context dyke was used by
>>69533 how that doesn't come off as misogynistic? It's not the words themselves it's the intent behind the words that should be taken account of
No. 69565
>>69434I didn't say meaner, I said inflammatory as in always seeking cheap thrills through infighting and TikTok/Twitter tier responses and commentary. It feels as if LC is baby's first image board to a lot of these new anons, unless they literally migrated from choachan and the like, which would not surprise me either since kpop is a mental illness by itself.
Anyway, LC was mentioned in a recent "YouTube criminals" iceberg video uploaded not too long ago, it's been making rounds. I wonder if that also attracted more new people to the site.
No. 69575
>>69561No, unfortunately previous admins did also give this shit a pass here on meta. Which is why these totally-not-moids got comfortable in the first place, to the point they're now getting cocky enough to openly call us by their usual misogynistic insults while complaining that we don't want moids here because they can just claim they're a woman with different opinions.
>>69567Honestly I like the increased redtexts, so we actually know when something is banned. Don't care about any snark in the text but sometimes it's funny.
No. 69597
>>69531Yeah we started saying variations of
nonny way before it got red texted just for fun. I use anon more and more recently because none of the newfags feel like my nonnies anymore.
No. 69626
>>69625Is it the insult Olympics retard?
Faggot is targeted towards men, bitch is nonspecific and broadly misogynistic, cunt has a variety of uses but is also nonspecific misogyny, nigga is a race-baiting term that actually could be targeted towards specific women and it is banned for race baiting for this reason. But yes, lets play insult Olympics to gauge what insults are most vile and targeted. Shit uncritical thought.