/gentoo/ - Technology

No,there's already a good board with nice moderation: >>>/tech/

Making a board because in the first days there were 3 shill threads is non-sense.
I invite you to participate in /tech/, there's a nice number of users and we hope that it will keep growing.

>>333
You're joking, m8?

>>333
>No,there's already a good board
>/tech/ is a good board

Anon, they have fucking doubles threads.


>>325
>This board needs to be resurrected.

But how?

We need a revival now more than ever. However, we need to come up with a good way to do so.
The thing about /tech/ is that it has become mostly a discussion of consumer electronics, which in turn is complete cancer.
The problem is that if we link directly, shills and idiots will say that it's worthless to have such a board, and that we're just being hipsters.
Some communities that are amazing and not watered-down are IRC channels. These communities are intact because they are lightly advertised and have guidelines for discussion. We are already saying no consumer electronics. That way, we will get people who mostly know about technology rather than people who read shill hardware sites and think that they know technology.

One method that I can think of is that we talk about it in some IRC channels, or impose /gentoo/ into some images that are posted on the actual technology and computer science discussion threads on /tech/.

If anybody has any suggestions, it may be helpful to stick this thread, and I have the email gentoo@8chan.co, so you can contact me there.

>>631
I think you shouldn't allow logical fallacies to happen. Try to do what old /pol/ did. Other wise you will get shitty threads like in /tech/

>>333
You forgot to sage or some shit like that.

>>641
I think that a simple ban on consumer electronics would be enough. I don't think that an outright ban on politics would be warranted, but maybe a ban on politics specifically designed to be sensationalist (the whole sjw shitfest, in particular).

Before any of this can be tested, however, we need to get some more traffic. I'm still not sure what the best way to do this is. I don't necessarily want to get stickied on the /tech/ related boards, but I suppose it wouldn't hurt. Maybe I could reach out to the current owner of /tech/ and have it put up as "actual technology discussions".

The problem is that not all of /tech/ is cancer, and some of it is worth saving. The other problem is getting only the non-cancerous people to start discussion over here.

>>656
You should ban consumer electronics their are already other places for them to discuss them. like youtube etc. If you notice a shitfest happening then you should ban it in my opinion especially when it not really logical thought maybe try to do what /polpol/ does? I don't think advertising on /tech/ is a good idea not until you get good rules set in place. To stop what we dislike on /tech/

>>657
Okay, I updated the sticky to reflect this. However, the issue still remains of getting posters.

>>683
Advertise to good people on /tech/ that how you will bring people in

>>684
But with the good comes the bad as there's no way to selectively show something in public. Unless if we did some pgp messages, or instead of going to /tech/, go to the /tech/ IRC.

>>685
If the bad people come then we make their life a living hell as a community.

>>685
Also we could do gnupg as well but that will be harder for newcomers

>>685
>But with the good comes the bad as there's no way to selectively show something in public

It'll probably start out that way, but once they discover /gentoo/ is not a place for
>muh gaems
>muh desktop thread #222919119
they'll leave. Probably.

/prog/ advertises on /tech/, and they seem to be able to keep shitposting to a minimum. Mostly.

>>703
I say we advertise freely and ban all the trash. There's a difference between banning people who don't contribute and Mooting.

>>704
Woops. Didn't mean to sage... Not like it matters...

>>703
Their was an older thread like this and people wanted to make this the hacker space. I like the idea itll leave the trash out. For the most part

In light of some recent threads, I think that we really need to set a clear and applicable definition of what can and can't be allowed.

This will make both moderation easier, and it will make quality higher as there will be certain standards that threads must apply to. (This will also prevent that faggot who goes into every thread saying to go to /tech/, and the other faggot who says that the first guy is a faggot).

If anybody has any ideas, give it a shout. Tech support is obviously not allowed, but asking for suggestions on what to do in a genuinely tricky situation where search engines have no defined answer is in the ambiguous area.

This thread can be used for /meta/, or if you have any great ideas, feel free to send me an e-mail at gentoo@8chan.co.

>>720
I personally see nothing wrong with this having similar rules to tech, just with a hard anti-shilling policy. The issue I see with tech is that threads like
http://www.8ch.net/tech/res/189361.html#190181
are allowed to exist. This would obviously have to go both ways, though, and requires an explicit definition of what "shilling" is, which could lead to bigger issues down the road.

>>721
I think we should define shilling as not arguing based on facts. So as long it is fact based it should be fine

>>720
>>721
>>723
>that /tech/ thread
Maybe just auto-ban anyone who brings up Windows?
...oh wait

In all seriousness though, it might be better not to try and anticipate problems, rather, just react to things as they come up. Wikipedia does something similar:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_stuff_beans_up_your_nose

>>724
You know how well that did wikipedia. So many shills on their team.