Freddit caught breaking his own rules again: The "first come first serve" board claim policy was a lie and was not followed, by his own admission.
>>>/operate/27367
Then Freddit gave this response to his global moderator sekrit IRC ~
11:42:43 copypaste fuck /intl/ and their idiotic ideas
11:43:01 copypaste you know that they actually want this place to close, right?
11:43:07 copypaste they admit on their board that they work against its interests
11:43:20 copypaste yet you take what they say at face value
11:43:36 copypaste i would rather ammend the claim page then change anything.
11:44:31 copypaste if you don't want to handle the claims anymore i can find someone else, but there is absolutely no reason to be destroying boards people use because some sperg claims it for that express purpose.
11:45:04 copypaste the claims are one of the most difficult jobs, which is why i used to handle it all alone, but there were too many for me to deal with
11:45:34 copypaste https://www.reddit.com/r/redditrequest
11:45:39 copypaste this is what it's based on anyway.
11:45:51 copypaste the old "first come first serve" wording was copied from the automated system without being read
11:46:09 copypaste you [and they] forget how old 8ch is, and how many changes it's gone through in its two years
11:46:18 copypaste i rest my case
11:47:35 copypaste one other thing…
11:47:50 copypaste "Any competent board staff should be able to deal with that sort of stuff"
11:47:56 copypaste 8ch is not exactly the pinnacle of user friendly design
11:48:06 copypaste no one knew how the site worked in september, all of that was learned
11:48:27 copypaste and you weren't here during the old system which almost closed 8ch in may 2014, six months before everything
11:48:47 copypaste i really onoly noticed something was wrong by all the email i received
11:49:13 copypaste i didn't even know the site had so many users, but it sure did once every board abandoned for a certain timescale became up for claims
11:49:29 copypaste and then the automated process allowed the claim to be processed, 1 per IP per 72 hours
11:49:57 copypaste of course they had many IP and used proxies, what a naive stupid system, but let's continue. so every board had its CSS completely wrecked like /tex/
11:50:13 copypaste except in those days it was this pink thing that somehow involved Comic Sans but my memory fades as to what it actually looked like
11:51:08 copypaste https://github.com/ctrlcctrlv/infinity/blob/master/claim-old.php#L106
11:51:21 copypaste old system, i saved it on github in case i ever revive it, but i don't think i ever will
11:51:33 copypaste No more automatic claiming
11:51:33 copypaste ctrlcctrlv authored on Jul 20, 2014
11:52:23 copypaste so in any case. the pink comic sans took over most boards
11:52:48 copypaste except a few that had seen logins. every CSS was wrecked for the most part, and no one could even figure out if boards were sitll open due to this
11:53:00 copypaste most people emailing me thought that the site had been hacked, wihch wasn't expressly true
11:53:50 copypaste i deleted every board's CSS except a few i knew to be clean, and shut down board claiming.
11:54:12 copypaste for a long time we went to "just expiration"
11:54:43 copypaste in july i described the failure of the system on a /meta/ post, and apologized to anoyne who had been inconvenicenced. of course in those days the site had few users and the topic itself