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- omer1
I vote removal.
Thanks for asking
- nb2
This reminds me of when industrial workplaces started making their workers remove nude calendars and sexual posters from their workstations. It was such a common thing when I started working, at around age 15 in the mid 90s. I remember a guy who ran a drill press or something and he had a grid of like 200 bikini girls cut from the local paper.
A lot of the men complained when the company finally made him take them down. They grumbled about women coming in and ruining the workplace. Sounds a lot like some of the people here.
Grow up.
- So he didn’t post gaping vagina on a teenager?monospaced
- Morning_star4
This place is rather like one of those villages with increasingly elderly residents. A place that acknowledges that without new blood it will descend even further into a community of olympic standard bin shouters and dirty, but ultimately impotent, old bastards. Removing the T&A is like giving a new lick of paint to an unused bus stop.
What we need is a new discoteque.
- Why would any new users come here?PhanLo
- Why have any of us ended up here?Morning_star
- this place had a much bigger user base during the nt > qbn transition. the drama was epic, but so was the diversity and content.SteveJobs
- mort_7
Butt of the Day, boobs of the day, etc... it's like a forum for sex-starved teenage boys. I'm amazed there are any women who still log in here.
- <Nairn
- Ah yes the sex, Ive read all about itdrgs
- they are standing at the exit doors smoking , watchin the male monkeys goint at it...neverscared
- and drinking and giggeling of course.neverscared
- SteveJobs24
One vote here for removal.
Though not for reasons of moderation, but rather a community that's grown rather stale, closed off, and too singular-minded - in my so humble and likely unwanted opinion.
I don't care so much for the quality of the content as I do for new, interesting folks, which add to the diversity and dilute the hive mindedness I see around here all too often. (ie. I'm not particularly for or aginst grafician's posts, but why is he always downvoted?) Feels a bit like high school around here at times and I think a cleaner community would be more welcoming for would-be contributors on the lurk and any who happen upon the site in the future.
Personally I've been wondering if this site, even as a distraction, is a good investment of my time at this stage of my life, but there's my input nonetheless.
- +1mort_
- I think the environment has improved quite a bit since 2019-2020, during peak Trump hysteriaFNP14
- R.I.P. Simonutopian
- Simon is more than his vocation. He seems to be a genuinely nice guy who doesn't cause drama. I have no problem with his sparsely posted professional work.SteveJobs
- Agree. Simon is a gent.mort_
- Simon could post in show some recent work. It's his job after all.PhanLo
- drgs3
If this was real life politics, which side is liberal: pro-COTD or neo-puritans?
- Reducing everything to politics, sides, tribes and labels is the cause of many of this planets problems. It's not a political question FFS.Morning_star
- Its too late nowdrgs
- It's not too late if we decide to stop perpetuating it.CyBrainX
- neverscared3
bravo !
- monospaced5
The idea that if you remove them then that content will inevitably spill elsewhere implies that people cannot help themselves from posting it, which is nonsense. If you are compelled to post pornography and literally can’t stop yourself, that’s a different issue. Just my take.
- +1nb
- yep - maybe a little more potential for non-NSFW flagged posts to make it to the front-page (that might be counterproductive if the aim is to reduce moderation)kingsteven
- you think there's only reasonable people in here?ESKEMA
- I just think they can post/find that stuff anywhere else if they wanted. Never understood the NEED to have it on QBN. Just my opinion.monospaced
- ++GuyFawkes
- It's not just that they cannot help it. It's that they are not incentivized not to.cannonball1978
- ^ This. We have a handful of users that inexplicably stick around despite nobody liking them or their content. I think there will be spillover.garbage
- Childish contrarians are going to be contrarian.garbage
- Wordsworth4
QBN, I'm all for cleaning up old, irrelevant posts, broken links, personal attacks etc. Even removing posts from RIP users in the past. I do have the time and desire to do so because QBN has been good to me for almost 20 years. As long as QBN approves and get Aye on common round rules, I can start, whatever I can help with.
- nb-1
- face_melter2
Turning it into reddit with up and downvotes is a miserable pursuit - the dopey gonks with sock puppet accounts will just fuck about even more.
Just add an option to toggle to hide it in the user profiles and have it hidden by default if you are not logged in.
- kingsteven2
i've noticed a few roll backs on here recently so i imagine there's been more moderation going on than we've been aware of.
i never liked the idea of threads having their own userbase and being no-gos for other members - I have no issue with NSFW content but getting it out in the open for the whole community to moderate through upvotes downvotes seems worthwhile.
agree with some sort of -5 votes hides and flags the post functionality - would cut down on the endless discussions on free speech that dominated the sidenotes before COTD (and stop the inevitable sidenote discussions elevating a non NSFW flagged splayed fanny to the front page).
- Seeing as the question was raised, I'm guessing making changes to the site is also out of the question, despite agreeing with you that a system could be added.kalkal
- scruffics7
i am for the idea of being able to hide that type of content on demand. completely removing it is going to backfire, much like many people above have already mentioned it.
- Projectile0
I love the COTD thread.
OK there's one twat who keeps posting weird pics of questionably aged girls, but we can scroll past them can we not?NSFW thread can go, but please don't take away Chick / Butt / Boobs of the day
- Hayzilla4
Keep the dedicated NSFW & NSFL threads please as it will just end up everywhere else. Plus we are all big boys and girls, if we want to see a man lose his arm on a bike, we know where to go. Most don't though, so can avoid it.
- If you want nsfw content why do you need it on qbn?! Rubbish argument. NO OFFENSEmonospaced
- Nairn0
You said this months ago about CotD and yet..?
Others here are right though - shit'll just spill elsewhere, because wankers gotta wanker.
There's no way to keep the threads but have them not bump or ever appear in the side list? I mean, that functionality IS somehow possible, intended or not.
- Without even changing the code they could create a user named FapBank and people could post on the profile page without it ever showing up on the menu.palimpsest
- Why can’t that elsewhere be a different website? I still don’t see why we have a porn thread here at all.monospaced
- Cat of the Day?nb
- cannonball19785
Think of it as a steam valve, and you are a steam moderator. The steam will eventually go somewhere. Right now you have it concentrated in one place.
- BusterBoy0
But...but, there's nowhere else on the innernetz to view boobs is there?
- ThisOBBTKN
- Applies to everything else posted in here.
Close QBN altogetherdrgs - This.monospaced
- what drgs saidESKEMA
- But it's our boobs!riskunlogic
- drgs6
Remove NSFW threads and you will be moderating POTD instead