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0ae7eb No.668

Does /tech/ mod team not care about blatant b8 threads?

Why are threads like >>253441 allowed? Yes, I do report these, so it's not that nothing is on the queue.

They contribute nothing, encourage retarded shouting matches, and bump good threads off the board. Even a minority of shitposters will be able to post at a very rapid rate (because typing formulaic insults and stale memes is zero effort) and give people the impression that such "discussion" is or should be the norm for /tech/.

The rules say:

>No spamming, shitposting or starting threads advertising or requesting any kind of currency (bitcoin, altcoin, USD, etc), referrals, boards, products, and/or services. (Shitposting is defined as a post or thread that doesn't have any meaningful content within the given context of discussion. It does NOT mean "anything you don't personally like.")

What exactly does this include? Are blatantly shitty b8 opinions (like "macs are a great product lol ur just poor" - note the issue is not supporting macs but the low quality of the claim) admissible simply because it's conceivable someone somewhere out there might be retarded enough to hold that opinion? Is that what "you don't personally like" is supposed to telegraph?

Is /tech/ actually serious about punishing low-quality content? I understand if the policy is to delete only the bottom 1% of posts, and leave all the bad but not awful content alone. There are many valid reasons for this (laziness, fear of dealing with grey area/subjective, being scared of losing PPH and dropping in rankings, an obsession with equal rights of everyone to express an opinion no matter how stupid, etc). Boards like /b/ for instance are explicitly low-moderation in terms of content quality.

Such shitty threads are far from the majority on /tech/, but almost every day I see one or two. I report them, but nothing ever comes of it (I watch the threads for several hours to make sure). It's your board and I'm not about to tell how to run it, but moderation is a cooperative activity between users (who supply reports) and mods. If you are going to be lax about shitposting, just come out and say it so we don't waste our times submitting these reports (and so you don't waste yours by reading them).

0ae7eb No.669

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Here's a picture of the /tech/ thread in question because it will doubtless be outlived by this one.

Just to explain my thinking - I consider this pretty obvious shitposting.

>the claim is inane (mac/windows have better security than linux) and everyone knows it is false

>ridiculous reasoning (the point is to have security while being connected to the internet)

>acts as if the same "security" can be obtained with linux

>(small nitpick: offline windows is still less secure than linux because of autorun malware and poor support for disk encryption)

>challenges board users to prove him wrong

Because of how idiotic the whole thread is, I refuse to believe it could be a genuine opinion. Anyone sufficiently retarded would not be able to type properly, would not know about /tech/, would not be able to pick an appropriate image, would not find out about /tech/. This person is clearly a troll who just wants guaranteed replies.

These replies have not been long in arriving either: As of now, the thread was made 45 mins ago and already has 20 replies. Compare to the reply rate of valuable threads like the DPT. I see no reason why you would not delete this thread, it is utterly irredeemable.

Just to be clear, I'm not trying to say mods should delete it. I'm just saying that as I understand the term, this is 100% shitposting (well, maybe 99.9% but the 0.1% isn't worth saving). I don't think it's simply because "I don't like it", even if being annoyed by very poor quality counts as "don't like it" (my understanding is that it's meant to pre-empt complaints based on taste, such as vi vs. emacs, but no one could possibly prefer low quality and stupidity). Since these threads are rarely deleted, I conclude that my understanding of things is very different from the moderation team.

Assuming I'm not alone in this, perhaps it's time to clarify what you consider shitposting, and how shitty a post has to be before you will do anything about the reports, hmm, mods?


817128 No.670

theres like, two mods, including the owner

i agree, i wish more was done to moderate this board, the b8/shill threads are really annoying


0ae7eb No.671

>>670

I don't particularly mind if they don't moderate. I understand not everyone has the time (I've moderated a few boards myself).

I would really appreciate it if they were more transparent about it though. Either remove rules you won't enforce or enforce those that you have, and if the rules are vague at least make some effort to explain what you meant.


d6fa25 No.672

>>668

>>669

>>671

The rule mainly covers posts with little to no meaningful content (ie. stuff that generates discussion) and "lol u tk him 2da bar|?" tier posts.

Just because it has "Prove me wrong." attached to the end of it doesn't make it a shitpost.


0ae7eb No.673

>>672

Thanks for the explanation (where's your capcode tho?)

So you don't consider the linked thread, as a whole, "little to no meaningful content"?


d6fa25 No.674

>>673

>Thanks for the explanation (where's your capcode tho?)

I can't be bothered to log into my metatech account, and I can't use my board owner cap on /tech/ ever since it got promoted to a global volunteer account. Was using a board volunteer cap as a BO cap for the longest time since there wasn't anyone else who could use it, but since I've added our new volunteer, I can't really do that anymore.

>So you don't consider the linked thread, as a whole, "little to no meaningful content"?

Nope. There's decent discussion going on there. No reason to delete it.


df6f35 No.676

and what's up with all the 'help me' /techsupport/ threads popping up?

even more so: what's up with all the faggots helping them instead of guiding them to the sticky?

and why are those threads up for so long?


40b657 No.677

Shitposting is now encouraged!


0ae7eb No.678

>>674

>There's decent discussion going on there.

So your logic is "because replies to a thread are good the thread is automatically acceptable"?

Do you consider OPs responsible for replies made to their threads by other people, then?

If I post "lol u tk him 2da bar|?" as my OP, but somehow anons end up having /tech/ related discussion in the thread, will you leave my thread alone?

If I post a perfectly /tech/ related quality thread, but anons end up only calling each other names and not discussing anything, will the thread be deleted even though I did nothing wrong?

>>676

You should post examples, I think


d6fa25 No.679

>>678

No.

I mean if the discussion is on topic with the OP. Generally speaking, I'm not gonna delete supposed "shitposts". 2da bar|? posts, however, are a different story.

>>676

Been a bit busy. I should be able to pay more attention now, though. Taken care of some things, and all that.

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000000 No.689

>>676

I delete tech support threads when I see them, but it can take a while. I get a notification of new reports (really simple script with w3m), but I don't refresh the catalog all day.

Sometimes three people will redirect someone to the sticky, but nobody reports the thread. Redirecting something to the sticky is good, but don't forget to report. It really helps.


6075f3 No.694

>>668

IT'S HABBENING

1)find some political topic that mentions the word computer, server, ...

2)??????

3)profit, you are discussing something /tech/ related and totally not politics

:^)


6075f3 No.695

>>694

the /pol/ /v/ raid has fucked it up

-two merchants on the front page (a nice indicator of things)

-multiple political threads discussing SJW's (ok but not on /tech/)

-constant shill namecalling

-people bumping shit threads just in order to maintain a pointless flamewar

-people helping /techsupport/ threads

-an increase in buzzwords and people parroting 'X is bad' without knowing what they're talking about or taking the effort to look into it.

well, I'll be looking for a new place now, I hope I find some of you sensible faggots in there.


6075f3 No.696

>>694

>>695

yes that was samefagging btw


cf6200 No.698

>>694

>tech threads are not tech threads because I don't like the discussion

Just ignore it.


c528aa No.717

>>669

>Because of how idiotic the whole thread is, I refuse to believe it could be a genuine opinion

lol


0ae7eb No.720

>>717

Anti-sage.


a1b184 No.754

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>>677

>>695

well this is fucking fantastic

too bad all the other tech related boards on 8channel are dead in the water moreso


d0ed1f No.783

Mods prefer removing threads they don't like rather than removing bad threads, thanks /tech/, last bastion of non-redditation on 8chan. Guess it's time to go back to 4chan.



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