I believe this has brought up enough times to have a separate discussion for.
First, a little Heyuri history: >>61043
When kuz was still the admin, our moderation (me) always had to follow a set of written rules for my actions. It's not because he wasn't trusting in my verdicts, but wanted users to have a reference of "not to do"s so they wouldn't end up receiving a warn/ban despite trying to follow rules. So he gave me permission to modify the rules (by this time, I was responsible for almost all moderation actions anyway) as I wanted. I then edited the rules in a way that allowed me to act by "tips" page when I wanted, while modifying it as well.

Since then, kuz resigned and entrusted me with Heyuri. I didn't do any major changes (...I think?) afterwards, but my approach to moderation isn't strictly by written rules.... There is no point in explaining our moderation in depth, now so I will keep it short: I am for modifying the tips page

Starting by the very old "TOP TIPS" part:
I think this part was just put up when kuz was having fun lol, but there are two points I can slightly disagree with:
>OLDER IS BETTER, OLD GIFS, OLD ANIME, OLD IMAGE MACROS, OLD EVERYTHING. USE THEM HERE!
Anyone can understand they are more than welcome to post about old stuff on Heyuri just by lurking a little, but telling it this way may make newcomers mistaken Heyuri for some kind of a retirement house rather than a website for creating tons of new stuff.

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i can't find any proper irl people to talk to. everyone seems so normal. they talk about normal stuff. i can't start conversations. when i attempt to start conversations people just freeze and don't know how to answer.

もう我慢でひなぁいよぉ～

Good evening Heyuri.I've had a minor epiphany about myself, and maybe about human psychology in general. You be the judge.

Earlier today I was arrested. It was a minor infraction, and I was out in an hour.In that hour I conducted myself the same way I usually do when I'm in trouble. I glared, I folded my arms, I was forthright, exceedingly so--I was even a little bit funny. It was my first time being arrested, so I was kind of freaking out, but generally I think I projected an air of being at ease, even a bit dismissive of the whole thing.

Contrast this with my usual behaviour. Let's say talking to girls. In that case I'm a pansy. I avoid their gazes, I fidget around, I stumble over my words trying to say the right thing. My jokes are shit, assuming I even attempt any.Sometimes I even break into a nervous sweat.

Now why is this? That I can be so bullheaded in the former situation but so cowardly in the latter one. Well I was thinking that there must be two types of confidence used in different situations. Offensive confidence vs Defensive confidence.

Offensive confidence to me is that confidence you use in pursuing your own goals, things you don't strictly have to do but can if you like; liek the example I gave of talking to girls, though it can include stuff like making friends or pursuing business deals or something.


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It sounds like Rule 8d can easily be abused to censor light hearted and valid banter in order to protect the feelings of an individual rather than being used to develop an environment that provides funny random posts like /b/ is supposed to be. If Heyuri is about replicating the old internet landscape, i dont see how this rule helps nurture that.

>without even having the decency to provide LOLs

'LOLs' are subjective, a mod's sense of humor shouldn't be the barometer that constitutes whether or not something is funny.
This is also specifically about the Rule 8d, all other subsections of Rule 8 are understandable.

Would like to revive discussion on the SAGE! message.
It looks very aggressive

An old Irish farmer's dog goes missing and he's inconsolable.(;´Д`)
His wife says "Why don't you put an advert in the paper?"(´ー`)
He does, but two weeks later the dog is still missing.（ ’～’）
"What did you put in the paper?" his wife asks.(・∀・)
"Here boy" he replies.( ´ω`)

Two aboriginals, Lionel and Cedric were walking down their local shopping centre when they came across a sign on a shop front which read "Turn white for $10.00"

Amazed on how cheap it was, Cedric said to Lionel, "But I've only got $20.00(;´Д`)"
"That's easy" was the reply. "I'll go in first and when I come out, I'll give you the $10.00 change.( ´ω`)" So he goes into the shop and comes out after 15 minutes.

Amazed by the result, it turned Lionel pure white. "OK bro, hand over the $10.00 change so I can get done"

"Fuck off you black cuntヽ(`Д´)ノ" was the reply.

Let's speak in one way
We will see how far we get
With just haikus

what are some good irc channels? preferably on rizon.

One thing I especially love about anime is how it can transcend
political correctness, and touch certain taboo social issues that we
cannot touch over in America. Let me give an example of what I mean.
In the Ranma1/2 manga, Akane once takes a strength potion by accident.
Not surprisingly, she's loving every minute, being able to beat Ranma
in arm wrestling, but he keeps on trying to anyway. However, when she
finds that the potion is starting to turn her more masculine, and
starts growing facial hair, she picks staying feminine over strength.
It ends, though, with Ranma repeatedly beating Akane at arm wrestling,
and her still trying.

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Of course I'm not talking 4chan as a whole, but specifically the boards that form the outward face of 4chan. What a cesspool! Everyone is always screaming "NIGGER NIGGER FAGGOT FAGGOT TRANNNYYYYヽ(`Д´)ノ". They talk about black guys so much that I wonder if there isn't some sort of suppressed lust lurking just below the surface. Most of that crap isn't even half funny, are they even trying or have they just given up?(Sigh)
This is why normalfags think that sites need domineering moderation to be any good.(;´Д`)

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I would do it.

Would you?

/lounge/ preview makes double posts, kaguya-sama.

B-movies, VHS trash, Video Nasties,Grindhouse Movies, whatever. Which ones do you particularly like? My favourites are Blacula (1972), Lovely But Deadly (1981) and Hardbodies (1984). Which ones are yours?

how

This is a subtle tendency, so it will be hard to describe, but have you ever noticed the way that the Net has descended into endless flattery? Basically, have you ever noticed how much everyone is sucking up to each other? It seems like before, in an earlier era, people said what they felt pretty shortly and directly, and most of all confidently, without seeming to have taken others opinions into account before hand.

Nowadays a lot of internet posting seems to lumber around unsure of itself, afraid to be too harsh, too judgemental, or too definite at all. If you try and speak with authority you get cut down for being too strident. People are in a constant struggle to not "seem pretentious". The only exception seems to be for a few non-negotiable acceptable targets,like pedophiles. You can give whatever strident opinions you want in that case.

Basically, a person can no longer say a plain and simple "this sucks". If they say anything at all it's "I don't really like it" or something milquetoast like that. I think the greatest barometer of this shift is the reaction to various elements of the 2000s.You remember right? Nu Metal sucked , reality shows were awful, the music was garbage. People hated the celebrities back then, like Nickelback or Paris Hilton. Now, all of a sudden, all that stuff was just 'misunderstood' and no one can remember why they hated it. They speak with a certain horror about the times when people admitted that shitty things were shitty...
People wonder why Nickelback got hate, people wonder why that crappy Spiderman movie from '07 got hate, and Paris Hilton... It's so weird. I actually remember this weird trend of people mentioning her on Twitter and apologizing for thinking ill of her back in the day--how much of a suck-up can you be??(;´Д`)

Yes, I think music is where this shift is felt most strongly. You can't say ANYTHING about music without a caveat or a concession anymore. I remember watching this old movie, and in one scene, a guy is playing some music, but his buddy rips the album out of the music player and says "You shouldn't listen to this crap--it'll make you sterile." Very brief, very authoritative, with no caveats or concessions---EVERYONE used to talk about music like that.Everyone used to talk about ANYTHING they had an opinion about like that.

I'd say this is just another vagary of the mainstreaming and corporatization of the net; the Net is in use by everyone now, even the most intellectually fragile, who think a negative

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Good song by Run Nigger Run.( ´ω`)

I made a small script for scraping links to flashes from archives and I need some good archives for that.
I only tried scraping links from 4plebs's /f/ which works perfectly, but it only started saving stuff since 2014 which pretty late...
I thought about scraping from swfchan already but it's slow as fuck and 99% of the time you need to solve a captcha ヽ(`Д´)ノ