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  • 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
  • Ianbolton16

    Graf, why are you lecturing us on how to have a decent forum, how to post and how you feel sorry for people who still come here, while posting vacuously inane shit yourself?

    I've been using QBN for around 13 years and having a Toilet of the Day thread is sometimes the creative thread making that weaves its magic into this website. I think, bar a few people, we have good discussion, valid opinions, often creative inspirations, fixes/tutorials and stunning work which we all love to share.

    Don't sit there and think 'if everyone thought like me, everything would be much better' as I think you know exactly what that means.

    There are websites to go check out porn so happy not to have it here. Maybe Simon should have his own thread after all these years? Keep on QBNing

    • Yeah man, who am I to judge you for getting inspired by toilets or porn and the lot in your creative endeavours.grafician
    • Just because u think it's cool doesn't make it so.

      The rest you said, makes no sense, so I'll pass.

      I'm out anyway with work
      grafician
    • You're no the final word on what is or isn't good, acceptable or "cool," graf. And it comes off as if you think you are. I hope that makes sense.monospaced
    • Right, then why even start this thread or ask the "community" about what to remove or not? I hope that makes sense.grafician
    • I said my piece over this, I give no fucks if you agree or not. Just like everybody else should do too.grafician
    • @Ianbolton Do whatever you want mate, I have no issues with you now or ever
      @mono you keep popping up up everywhere I write, you're embarrassing
      grafician
    • Also monospaced you don't get to play the victim here, you had plenty of fights over the years, while I still have no clue why you're mad about or why u caregrafician
    • exactly, who are you to judge? There's no virtue in being cool Graf. Keep up the good work thoughIanbolton
    • right ... I'M embarrassing, good luck with thismonospaced
    • Again: You don't do yourself any favours, graf. This is just about the crypto thread, eh? <Ian's pretty fucking sublime, so if you've got his back up.. well.Nairn
    • *isn't just about the crypto thread, fffs.Nairn
    • Still don't get how am I at fault here, Nairn? Did I ever mentioned Ianbolton in any of my posts ever?
      Again, there is no quarrel here, stop with these posts!
      grafician
    • Also Nairn, excuse me what's with "do yourself any favours" sorry I was on trial here and I didn't knew about it?grafician
    • I said as much to you a few weeks ago in some side thread somewhere.Nairn
    • the complete lack of self awareness is remarkablefadein11
    • Yep, he needs therapy.i_was
    • calm down, grafician is a bold guy...the heart at the right place... stop chasing him playing some blame game... the crypto thread is def. a building blockneverscared
    • of this whole attack... since anti-eco friendly crypto they have no moral compass to begin with..neverscared
    • what attack? his attacks?fadein11
    • there this stoopid graphic _me_ and aqute made out of anger or better hate...... u have to enjoy his david vs. goliath spirit ..neverscared
    • *cringeNairn
  • sted12

    Here is a little story what made me think that one day this could happen to QBN:

    In the last 3-4 years a bunch of adult sites got slowly flooded with illegal content, these sites have an insane amount of professional and user-generated content from 3-5 min trailers to multiple hours of webcam recordings with semi-KYC.
    Therefore it was easy to hide these materials and built a case against them. The crackdown was swift and fast, for example one of these providers got banned form various payment services despite the fact that their paid services were 100% legal and clear, others got an "easier" pass but still had to put a lot of $ on finding/filtering/removing these things and legal fees. But the damage is far more bigger than it looks.

    Sooo I would lobby against any type of porn/adult content on this site what doesn't falls to the budoar/erotic photography category (no penetration, no body fluids) because it opens the gates to opportunities like the one described previously.

    And yeah think like an adult: you really need this shit here when the entire internet is loaded with porn?

    • This. No interest in the soft/porn, but I do want to see artistic nudes, including more erotic ones.formed
    • It seems QBN website doesn't host any content besides our words. so perhaps that's a get out of jail ticket ?shapesalad
    • It seems you can't post behance hosted content here... so why not expand that to a blacklist of porn / trash sites?shapesalad
    • Sted, this makes about as much sense as the renaming of streets that is happening all over the USA. First the politically correct cunts had a prob with statues,cherub
    • now they've grown tired of tearing down statues and have moved on to street names. Graffiti some street signs, tell the community that street was 'racist' thencherub
    • have the street named removed. "Racism" cured. Idiots.cherub
    • @cherublook please do some research about the European and Asian laws regarding internet user contributed content.
      you're going to end up somewhere here:
      sted
    • https://www.openglob…sted
    • if it doesn't solve all problem, do nothing.
      End segregation. racism cured? nope
      Black president. racism cured? nope
      let's do nothing cuz nothing works!
      pango
    • hey nazi erected a nazi monument when they occupied your town. let's just leave it there, cuz nothing works!
      STOP DOING ANYTHING!
      pango
    • sup up Pango your weekend date didn't worked out? just try to deal with the local problems, don't try to save the world at once. we all get lost easy in that.sted
    • *fuck auto-correct as always.sted
    • sup!pango
    • my weekend sucks btw! im sweating balls!
      FUCKEN HEAT WAVE!
      pango
    • 'let's do nothing cuz nothing works!' You know what DOES work? Stop being a woke lemming riding a stupid woke bandwagon off a cliff. Stop going along with selfcherub
    • censorship. Stop being a slave to the judgement of your peers(on social media). Start thinking independently. Start questioning this propaganda train beingcherub
    • shoved in people's faces 24/7. Question who benefits from that, and why.cherub
    • Or just scream black lives matter into the void and hope it's all better when you wake up tomorrow, pango.cherub
    • You missed something. "Fucken sheeple!"
      Ya who benefits from it?
      Also who benefits from posting borderline kitty porn?
      pango
    • Next thing you know someone's gonna say kitty porn is a form of expression and free speech!pango
    • Or an less outrageous question. Who benefits from porn on qbn?pango
    • Wtf does the renaming of streets signs and the tearing down of statues have to do with porn? Lol. You commented 'do nothing' and I gave you a critique of whycherub
    • that stance is stupid. But don't let me stop you from riding any bandwagons you woke social justice warrior you. BLACK LIVES MATTER!!! lolololcherub
    • cuz this entire thread is about removing NSFW contents?
      wtf does renaming street signs have to do with NSFW?!?!? lolol
      pango
    • There is only gloryautoflavour
    • I made the analogy bcuz the methodology is the same in both cases. 1)find something the woke crowd wants war with 2)send in goons to deface (spray graffitti)cherub
    • the offending street signs 3)go to city council with tears streaming down yer face about slavery/racism 4)hope nobody noticescherub
    • In sted's post, only difference is you replace spraying graffitti with sending in people to upload illegal porn. Manufactured crisis, then a ban on all porn.cherub
    • In both cases, the obvious thing to do is just remove tiny portion of the population causing the problem to begin with but you woke crowd find that too sensiblecherub
    • Changing the names of streets and removing those statues does help the future. If you can’t grasp that then you’re a narrow minded fool.monospaced
    • And the idea that removing porn is akin to changing ehat we choose to represent in American streets is stupid AF. No offense.monospaced
    • . o O ( kinda curious about kitty porn )Nairn
    • “kiddie”monospaced
    • Yeah, I know. This was at about my threshold for making an inappropriate paedo-related joke now that I have a daughter.Nairn
    • "Changing the names of streets and removing those statues does help the future." Puts hand on heart, gosh mono, you've converted me. I'm woke now.cherub
    • @mono lol
      @chuerub. you can make analogy and i cant? at least i'm more on subject being discussed on this thread.
      pango
    • now tell me, who benefits from porn on qbn?
      ok screw analogy. how about this. would you agree the existence of NSFW and related thread invites NSFW content?
      pango
    • also can't exactly remove someone when they simply posting what the threads asks for. Even if you do remove them, another mofo's just gonna pop up tmr.pango
    • "would you agree the existence of NSFW and related thread invites NSFW content?" yes it does, and I already stated my opinion elsewhere in the thread. I told emcherub
    • to delete it, in case you are too lazy to read english. I voted delete.cherub
    • ya not gonna read every notes. i'm not that miserable yet.
      oh good. i thought you were another one of those "protect our trashy porn" people
      pango
    • I wasn't trying to convert you. Just letting you know that your interpretation isn't really reflective of reality.monospaced
  • nb9

    Say what you will about Family Values but QBN censored out all the sex and suddenly two weeks later Simon took up the wholesome sport of skateboarding!

    ;)

    • Not all.of it. We still have dude of the day.lemmy_k
    • ^ That's not helping Simon.CyBrainX
    • FFS....Simon just joined a Pokémon Meetup.utopian
    • lolz, its funny because its trueinstrmntl
    • I have a nude shoot tomorrow. And I won't bring my skateboard. Take it easy!SimonFFM
    • You’re never too old to skate nudenb
    • Eat his shorts!scarabin
  • scarabin11

    ‘Family, I’ve called you all here to have an important meeting.”

    *leaves immediately, never to be seen again*

    • Just like real family.DRIFTMONKEY
    • He'll be back, just went for smokes.i_monk
    • Hahaha monk_niko
    • This "meeting" could have been an email.zarkonite
    • “Billy, you’re here because we found your hidden stash of” ... mom cries, dad makes two fists and winces in pain ...monospaced
    • “Billy, your mother can’t even look at you. Look what you did. Damnit. I’ll be right back, before she does something drastic.”monospaced
    • Billy never sees them again.monospaced
  • cherub6

    I think a much more serious problem is people mispronouncing nairn's name.

    I had always imagined he was born out of a CS Lewis novel. Or his parents got confused, or something like that.

    Come to think of it, how do you pronounce it? Don't tell me it rhymes with Erin?!!

    • ...with an Irish accent?grafician
    • I mean

      Smh

      https://www.youtube.…
      grafician
    • Also learn to pronounce the "r" with the always lovely Gill
      https://www.youtube.…
      grafician
    • "NAY-ern"sarahfailin
    • "NAY-m" toografician
    • "IRN-Bru"dorf
    • Not Irishmonospaced
    • Tastes like bubblegum.garbage
    • Naaaaaaaaaasarnnnnnn...thumb_screws
    • Rhymes with Cairn, cherub.
      @graf - Not Irish. Not really that first video (wtf?). Also, that second video is.. not wholly correct either.
      Nairn
    • Sound like she's more pronouncing English English, rather than British English - up North Rs are indeed often pronounced towards the end of words. eg. 'Bark'.Nairn
    • ..in Southern Inglish is more like 'Bahk', but I enunciate the R. Perhaps it's because I went to elocution and am not a pleb, mind.
      /joke
      Nairn
    • Actually - the more I watch of her video, as nice as she is, the more i disagree with it. She seems to have quite a narrow perspective.Nairn
    • lol dorf :)Nairn
    • As someone from the states, Cairn is a word that doesn't occur here. As a word it doesn't exist here, you wouldn't see it unless you left an went to aussielandcherub
    • Therefore thats two words I've never heard pronounced. I googled an I thought I read Nairn sorta rhymed with aaron but I guess I misread.cherub
    • “Noya”maquito
    • You don't have these in the states, cherub?
      https://en.wikipedia…
      Nairn
    • No, not that I've ever seen. Piles of rocks sure, but never knew it had a name.cherub
    • Yeah you can find cairns here. They're usually just markers left by hippies on trails. Sidenote: Proud to say I have a stone on Maeve's Cairn in Sligo.garbage
    • In the US, I don't think we have words that rhyme with Nairn. Weird.monospaced
  • uan9

    - instead of bumping nsfw threads to page 1,
    bump only to page 3.

    and something like this:

    - css opacity or blur filter on posted images. every downvote increases the filter.

    - default filter setting is on.

    - toggle switch on/off filter in personal profile settings.

    • We need to be thinking about solutions within existing constraints/possibil...Nairn
    • we don't have access to the source code or do we?uan
    • ..ities.Nairn
    • Nope. We don't. Mostly.
      Thankfully.
      Nairn
    • There goes Naim with his reason again.garbage
    • Sorry, Narin.garbage
    • ok, I'm off to find a good movie recommendation from stoned GuyFawkes then.uan
    • hah, that blur filter isn't actually a bad idea, and not that hard to execute.sted
    • +1 blur filter. Sounds easy and effective.monNom
  • scarabin7

    What if we set the nsfw threads so they don’t bump in the left menu when posts are made? Anyone interested in participating in these threads would just bookmark them and carry on as usual, they would just essentially be invisible threads. No history would be lost and new users looking for design content won’t be scared off.

    This kind of thinking already has a precedent here with our “prevent this reply from appearing on the cover” box (keeping things nice for visitors), we’re just extending the most extreme of it to include not appearing in the menu as well.

    • OR delete them all and give us one invisible thread strictly for trash. The backroom or basement of QBNscarabin
    • Then people would put dead bodies in the basement.cherub
    • that's not a bad idea, QBN already has a basement :)sted
    • Yes, this is exactly the suggestion I've been making for yonks now. Some threads already have this functionality.Nairn
    • That would require working on the site. Easier to just delete and sip latte.ESKEMA
    • @ESK - there are shitloads of threads that can be posted in that don't bump into the sidebar already. It wasn't intentional, but it's happened.Nairn
    • Is there still a lift from the moderator team with this approach? this thread started with that seemingly being the concern. couldn't pay me enough to mod nsfwSteveJobs
    • I think we’re largely a self-moderated place these days. We’re really good at categorizing and keeping stuff in the appropriate threadsscarabin
    • Even our nsfw stuff is already neatly organized. We just don’t know what to do with itscarabin
    • I think the issue is trying to appear credible to outsiders with boxes of smut in the living room. Let’s just put it in the basement so we can have visitorsscarabin
    • With no visitors it’s just us sitting in our smut yelling at each other over the same shit we’ve been arguing about for two decadesscarabin
    • NSFW is lamecanoe
  • sarahfailin5

    • https://panopticon.p…sarahfailin
    • uhm...why not click on other days?grafician
    • but sure, it's cool it seems to pick on me these days lol
      what a bunch of bullshit
      grafician
    • next time you cherry pick something - like kingsteven tried also to do - make sure it's valid lol

      GrAfiCAN POStinG tOO MuCH

      < day earlier PhanLo dropped 12
      grafician
    • oh i thought this was for today. i guess it stopped running the data past 6.24sarahfailin
    • < 2 days earlier Gardener dropped 13

      and so on...

      Again if you're trying to make a point, make it true not based on bullshit

      Bye
      grafician
    • https://media.tenor.…sted
    • lolcannonball1978
    • btw where is palimpsest?grafician
    • Calm downmonospaced
    • When I read that list I thought I was slipping!PhanLo
    • @PhanLo Bro guess you and Krassy and Gardener and drgs and Nairn post a lot more than me hahaa
      thanks for the numbers @palimpsest
      grafician
    • Keep posting Grafician!PhanLo
    • Nah, but I'll keep upvoting all your posts alwaysgrafician
    • the numbers don't lie, just like downvotes.fadein11
    • @fadein11 the numbers are here https://panopticon.p… click and see for yourself dumbassgrafician
    • Not to mention downvotes mean nothing to me, if you can't discuss clearly your ideas and intentions fuck off buddygrafician
    • There you go again. Triggered to the point of nonsensically insulting people’s intelligence. Does it make you feel better?monospaced
    • You are taking this way too seriously. And personally it seems.monospaced
    • @graf "the numbers don't lie" read again dumbass.fadein11
    • YOU have a problem with me, I don't even know even half of you idiots. Stop already, you're not some militia, fuck off.grafician
    • Do you see me posting about you?
      Admins should remove your ass for harassment. Oh wait, mono already said he was harassed here in the past, wonder why
      grafician
    • IF YOU Don't like me, MOVE ALONG! There is literally zero motives to engage with me on this forum unless you want to start fights and shit. Go. Home.grafician
    • eh, I was saying the numbers on your link don't lie, just like all your downvotes. Stop playing the victim when you piss lots of people off round here.fadein11
    • lol, don't make me screengrab your treatment of various people on here. you muppet. go home you're drunk!fadein11
    • you had a problem with me because I pointed out how false your statements were twice (and I was 100% right about that). Get back to all those agencies you runfadein11
    • Exhibit A:
      https://www.qbn.com/…
      fadein11
    • Victim?! Lol that'd be monospaced!
      I literally don't take shit from you or anybody, and the numbers tell a different story, one that I'm not posting a lot
      grafician
    • Not to mention the situation with that canoe guy, who I called out for being a leech and then he insulting me and shellie for trying to HELP!grafician
    • But sure, go ahead, continue this animosity 'cuz you really have nothing better to do with your life...grafician
    • deluded toolfadein11
    • lol, deluded.fadein11
    • So you're insulting me right now for exactly no reasons but when I call you an idiot for good reasons the entire forum jumps me?
      Wow bro, double standards much
      grafician
    • don't try to blame me for why many on this forum jump on you. like I said deluded.
      you can prob turn it all around though.
      fadein11
    • Actually by no means the entire forum, just the crypto bros and the regular trolls that always jump ready to cause a scene.
      Oh well...
      grafician
    • mehfadein11
    • not this guy againcanoe
  • 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
  • scarabin10

    I support qbn and whatever decision they make.

    You guys have already seen my glass-flattened penis collection and I have other sources for close-up butthole shots so there’s really nothin’ to lose

  • Krassy4

    Cool bio, QBN!

    • excitingKrassy
    • R.I.P. Omahadesignsutopian
    • Loading.....dbloc
    • QBN Pro yay!GuyFawkes
    • lol it's like that since the design change.sted
    • It was cool enough to give me sum lols. good enough in my book.cherub
  • 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
  • fadein115

    • https://www.qbn.com/…sted
    • Username always checks out.utopian
    • Weird how everyone has lotion on their desk. Computer users are very concerned about the health of their skin, apparentlyscarabin
    • In this instance, I think it's exactly for those ...*shudder*... fat folds, scar.Nairn
  • MHDC6

    So where are we posting our testicles?

  • i_monk5

    Good. Long overdue.

    I've said it before: I manage a small team of young female designers, and I would never, ever, direct them to join QBN because of the NSFW stuff.

    There are a billion porn sites out there and a thousand ways to share tit and ass pics (and NSFL shit) with strangers. Do it there.

    • I almost forgot this was a site for designersfooler
    • Make QBN Great Againi_monk
    • wait, there's porn on the internet??sarahfailin
    • same. I know a bunch of great female ADs and CDs that don't know about this place but don't want to point them here bc of the filth.shellie
  • capn_ron3

    this Family Meeting sucks, no one brought macaroni salad.

    • I brought CapriSun.i_was
    • wheres the deviled eggs at?GuyFawkes
    • I think pango brought his milkshake to the yardmonospaced
    • I brought plenty of ketchup to go with all of the harsh-browns!elahon
    • Harsh browns lolscarabin
  • uan2

    what about Simon :-)

    • the rest is useless crap and I'm for burning it from qbn.uan
    • and simon (or others) could do the pixel thingy on boobs for posting in Show Some Recent Work thread, even if annoying.uan
    • Better: Give him an Allowed to Post Nipples Badge.uan
    • I was never a fan of the NSFW thread. COTD used to be ok, but quality of posts decreased, so it can go (personal opinion).SimonFFM
    • Simons work is at least tasteful creative.monospaced
    • Don't pixel nips. We're all adults here.omahadesigns
    • it's not about adults omaha, it's about some gringos who like to oppress women to keep the power for themselves.uan
    • omaha's snuff-y porn pics are why these pages are being shut down. gross weirdo.sarahfailin
    • Why remove posts anyone can click on. Or not. Why? Just don't show updates on the home page. But killing all that history?riskunlogic
  • zarkonite7

    Before we had those threads we had NSFW/L content popping up randomly all over the place.

    I'm all for keeping it clean but what's the plan when that starts happening again?

    I also think forcing Simon to post in the NSFW thread was an insult to the quality of his work.

    • Agreed on the Simon thing. His work isn't smut for smut's sake.garbage
  • drgs4

    Whose problem is it/who is bothered by it?

    • the moderatormonospaced
    • & we've all hinted this for a long time nowGuyFawkes
    • I've literally never complained. I simply don't visit those pages, nor do I post in them. It's not hard to avoid, mostly.monospaced
    • Once a year I'll go through the Boobs one, because ... boobs. :)monospaced
    • exactly, and that's how it should beESKEMA