Mission statements are gay, so here's the quick and dirty of where we stand: rdfrn has apparently bit the big one (or soon will) and we need a place to shitpost. Hopefully we've learned something from the last three dead communities and this one will hang around for a little longer but every autist who has shat out some webspace has said the same thing, so you're rolling the dice here just like we all did on each site that came before. On the last three sites (rdfrn, sanc, zoklet) a lot of time and effort was spent on deciding what the rules were and how they were going to be enforced but so far no one has been hurt by overly permissive rules and three sites have died at the intersection of autism, admin burnout, and doxxing. In light of this fact I want to try something different, namely the minimal set of rules that are necessary for a forum to operate because I just don't have the energy to police a bunch of man-children on the internet. With that let's look at:
[SIZE=26px]The Rules[/SIZE]
1.
No content which will get Lanny arrested. I'm not a fucking lawyer so I don't know what the fuck that really boils down to but we're going to play it by ear. When the cops show up at my door or I wake up with a C&D notice in my mail I'm going to be mad. When I see things which will obviously land me in jail (like child porn (the real kind)) I'll delete it.
2.
No intentionally disrupting discussion. This one is, admittedly, fuzzy. The site is here so people can have a place to talk about shit they want to talk about. If you spam incoherent shit in a thread about something technical or specific then allowing that would just be defeating the point of the site. If you call someone a faggot for making a dumb thread, well that's probably alright. Listen, it's not a clear line when shitposting in good faith becomes intentional disruption but my pledge to you, gentle posters, is that I really don't give a fuck and will alway err on the site of not doing shit.
[SIZE=26px]FAQ[/SIZE]
Isn't there a personal info rule?[SIZE=12px] No, there isn't. Reg an account under a different name or man the fuck up. Why in the fuck would I waste my free time cleaning up your fuckups in maintaining anonymity? Besides, niggers who see your PI posted on the open forums are the absolute least of your concerns if your info is out there.[/SIZE]
What's up with the shitty layout and broken features.[SIZE=12px] Idio didn't exactly give us a ton of time to arrange alternatives. On the up side I'm a professional programmer and the first admin who's actually qualified to operate a site since Zok (and his coding skills were a bit shaky, you should look at the zb3 source some time). On the down side I'm a professional programmer and work, sometimes crazy hours. If something is fucked up open a thread about it in the support forum and it will go on the list (below) and I'll get around to it as soon as I can be fucked to burn some time.[/SIZE]
Who are the mods/Can I be one? There are none and no. I am the only person who has elevated privileges and I have to log into a different account to get them. I was a mod on zoklet for a while and while doing that it occurred to me that the best mods didn't need to have additional privileges on the site to do well and the worst mods only abused the mod tools. You just read the rules, if enforcing them ever becomes more than a one-person job then it's obvious they've been stretched well beyond what's intended. I may appoint another admin at the point that I decide to stop participating in the site but I have no intention of having more than one person making moderator decisions at a time.
[SIZE=26px]Site Features
[SIZE=12px]This is really mostly just for me, to keep track of the technical things I need to do when I have time to. If you have an issue make a thread and make sure it ends up on this list. If I put it in bold (strikethrough once I get around to that...) and it still isn't fixed feel free to bitch at me.[/SIZE][/SIZE]
- [SIZE=26px][SIZE=12px]Fix avatars[/SIZE][/SIZE]
- [SIZE=26px][SIZE=12px]faggy "comment" feature (as distinct from replies) remove[/SIZE][/SIZE]
- [SIZE=26px][SIZE=12px]add flora and fauna forum[/SIZE][/SIZE]
- [SIZE=26px][SIZE=12px]back to top link at bottom of the page[/SIZE][/SIZE]
- [SIZE=26px][SIZE=12px]add OI, DIY, and a money forum[/SIZE][/SIZE]
- [SIZE=26px][SIZE=12px]
add strikethrough[/SIZE][/SIZE] - [SIZE=26px][SIZE=12px]
make new-topics show your own posts (read threads)[/SIZE][/SIZE] - [SIZE=26px][SIZE=12px]noscript compatible login[/SIZE][/SIZE]
- [SIZE=26px][SIZE=12px]
auto-subscriptions[/SIZE][/SIZE] - [SIZE=26px][SIZE=12px]
add totse theme[/SIZE][/SIZE] - [SIZE=26px][SIZE=12px]thanks (likes are for fags)[/SIZE][/SIZE]
- [SIZE=26px][SIZE=12px]add zoklet (newschool) theme[/SIZE][/SIZE]
- [SIZE=26px][SIZE=12px]banlist (or figure out where the banlist is)[/SIZE][/SIZE]
- [SIZE=26px][SIZE=12px][SIZE=26px][SIZE=12px]
remove photo uploading[/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE] - [SIZE=12px]auto-links[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=12px][SIZE=26px][SIZE=12px]get rid of tags[/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE]
- [SIZE=12px][SIZE=26px][SIZE=12px]make sure move-to-top gets propagated to other themes[/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE]
- [SIZE=12px]making a new thread subscribes you to the forum you make it in, which is dumb[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=12px]Hot topics bar[/SIZE]
