I think it was a mistake

Well not really. I don't like anything being off limits. This is all about freedom and randomness.

If they are that much of a issue okay give them a board to make them stop ruining everything else but if your going to do that you going to have to give pedofags a board for their shit if the posts are legal.

Restricting shit and saying something thats legal is off limits because muh morals is cuckchan turf.

I kind of agree. But it was/is pretty funny anyway.

the MODs didn't do it arbitrarily. Common consensus was that they should leave. So Holla Forums Holla Forums might already 4chan-worthy.

Holla Forums hasn't been like what 4chan used to be since jim took over, now its just what 4chan is now except with a lot less people in it and webms that have sound.

You anons can keep blaming Jim but without him this site would be long gone.

Posting the same goddamned thing over and over again with no end in sight is not random. It's being an intrusive asshole who thinks everyone should always cater to what they want, no matter what.
These people are guilty for the SAME FUCKING THINGS. They want everything to be for them. And if there isn't one pony thread in the catalog, then dammit, there will be one.
Telling them to fuck off isn't rulecuckery, it's getting rid of the attentionwhores and faggots.

How's your pig farm going Jim?

Way to waste trips on such a lie, there were other alternatives to selling out Holla Forums to the pig king

like?

crowdfunding, changing hosts, selling out to someone that ISN'T notorious for data mining imageboards maybe?

What about the pedofags? I have a great distaste for them and their mental illness but thats not making me want Holla Forums to go down the slippery slope authoritarian thinking and moralfaggotree.

What after the pedofags, yes they will find something else to demand a ban of.

There's barely anyone here.

I doubt Hotwheels didn't consider changing, user. I mean, that would be the first thing that comes to someone's mind facing high cost.

true, but who would want a site with persons even too extreme for 4chan.

Leave.

Holla Forums was at its peak popularity when it was getting DDOS'd because of gamergate, there was more than enough people to donate.
If jim never showed up theres not a doubt in my mind that Holla Forums would have changed hosts on a new domain and continued running and not just shut down.
Well jim did and hes the biggest normalfag ever so whats your point exactly?

I fucking hate that bitch, I have always said that we should find her and ruin her but no one ever wanted to do it, not even /baph/

EVERY SINGLE TOPIC AND GROUP ON Holla Forums HAS IT'S OWN BOARD

How are you not even aware what this site is.

This is the answer OP, literal 4chan faggot right here with zero fucking clue as to what is going on. Fucking confused as fuck just asking for more rules to ban everything that's confusing him, hoping that what is left will make sense to him.

Hey look, it's a faggot who doesn't understand the concept of Holla Forums. Thinking it's actually xD so randumb!

Go back to 4chan.

I don't have any powerful connections or friends in the cuckoldry business.

Why can't Muslims be given the materials to make bombs? It's not like they're GOING to make bombs if you give them the ingredients and instructions to do so with.

Exactly.
I never very much toleration for spam.

A community that posts repetitious threads and bumps them frequently enough that many users want it gone should not merit any special privilege. The fact that the early moderation of Holla Forums allowed such a group instead of removing it to begin with is what created the paradox though.

Spam from a cancerous community should be dealt with effectively; e.g. pedophiles, goons, furries, pony.

This is supposed to be our board owner?

isn't this website supposed to work now?

Thanks for giving me an idea by the way.

testing. ¶

There is no paradox, what the fuck are you even talking about?

And thus, the special thread only existed so we can hide and never see it because if we let them post outside of it they'll spam the board to death and if we got rid of them they would also spam the board to death.

somehow doing that is within the interest of freedom of speech…
Yeah, that sure makes sense, pic related.

I miss cripplekike…

People did come to this site for free speech, this board in particular people came to due to the very limited moderation. 8/b/ was always about allowing anything that wasn't illegal and didn't cause the site to no longer work (AKA actual spam that gets in the way of actually using the board). You can't just change this by creating a fucking boogey man, even if the boogey man existed and did infact say what you claim they said, it doesn't change the fact that that was the truth.

There is no paradox here, you are straight up fucking retarded.

Also
What privilege did the circlejerk threads have over others? At most it was that they were cyclical at one point, in which case the answer is to remove their cyclical nature or allow all users to create cyclical threads. And that privilege was granted by shit mods like yourself listening to retards begging for moderation was it not?

I doubt this is even the "privilege" you are even talking about, and instead it's just something stupid like "they aren't getting banned despite people not liking them", which isn't a privilege over anything else if you fucking kept to the original goal of this place and never catering to users crying for you to ban what they don't like.

You're fucking garbage.

and this is why this site is owned by a jew.

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Go back to 4chan rulecuck.

YES! That is what I mean.
And people like this justify it by saying "WHALE Holla Forums IS 2SLOW4ME XDDDDDD LOLZERZ".

Make me, rulecuck.

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4 u ;)

The board has no definite aim in regards to the topic, that's what random means. It doesn't mean all the posts in it have to be

WOW XD SO RANDUMB LOL :DDDDD

Fucking retard.

You leave ponyfag. I was pointing out– why am I explaining myself. You are null.

Please. This site is filled with neets. They have nothing to contribute. We would have to ask Reddit for donations. lel.

Guess I'll have to take your word for it.

What the hell are you spewing? You are probably the normie.

Well what's the fucking point of this place then if your gonna post your fap folder over and over again in your mother's basement, fucking retard?

the pedos ruined that by constantly crossing the barrier of legality.

You mean like pony posters in every single thread derailing and attentionwhoring, or what about the 10+ pony threads in the catalog each hour, one right after the other as soon as they hti bump limit.

You obviously weren't on 4chan during the furry menace, or in 4chan when the ponies first started spamming it.

The cyclical existed for spam containment. There is no sense in containing spam.
This is the stupidest idea I have ever heard of and I'm glad you don't write the code for this website.

Seriously though if you want a good look at what a spammy group of idiots does to a board left unchecked, take a look at masterchan. It's what Holla Forums would look like here without having exiled/contained the pedos. Ponies are no different in this matter.

If you want to argue semantics I could pull the double edged sword out. If Holla Forums is supposed to be completely random and anyone can do anything they want save for breaking US law, why should mods have to follow an invisible rule and not be able to do anything they want as well?

If there aren't rules it should apply to everyone, that's how It was on 4/b/ for a very long time. It kept Holla Forums sporadic and fun without limiting what mods could or couldn't do.

To have an ongoing pony presense here is stupid. It is random and perpetual ponies isn't random. Now stop acting like an oldfag. You know just as well as I do you just came from reddit.

ponies were the cuckchanners all along.

Changing the goalposts, huh?

Except CP gets posted even more often now that posting any picture of a kid is bannable.
People are going to break the rules regardless of what the rules are, thats why moderators exist.
That doesn't mean we should just ban all the people we don't like because fuck it who wants to fill the freedom of speech niche anyways fuck having a userbase.

The point is among all the garbage you might find a good thread sometime that you wouldn't find on any other specific board because most other boards will have a designated topic or mods enforcing how they think things should be. You could find threads that you would never search for because either you didn't think to search for them or you didn't think they would interest you. There are issues of the board succumbing to porn dumps in theory, but the board was never active enough for that to even be a problem yet.

Yeah I can understand the issue with the pedos, in a way I am thankful their presence is a lot smaller than what it used to be, I still don't think they should be should be banned for posting anything that isn't illegal though. Hotwheels had all sources of crowdfunding taken down and had to deal with a lot of shit because he felt they deserved to be able to post as long as they weren't breaking the law and that was commendable to me. I'm pretty confident the site would have taken off better if he just banned them entirely, however then he would have been going back entirely on what he set out to do.
I only saw this happening a few times, I barely saw them posting outside of their own threads (at least in a way that made it obvious they were horsefuckers)
Do you mean the user vs furry "war" of ~06/07 or do you mean when they resurfaced over time to eventually have what seemed to be 3? threads up at any given time in 2012? And I did see the pony faggots spamming on 4chan, but the biggest problem was the pony faggots posting outside of their containment thread and on other boards like Holla Forums and /vg/ etc, and I might be wrong, but I don't think they were the same ones from the Holla Forums threads, which I'm pretty sure were the ones that came here.

As for the cyclical threads topic, I am definitely against all users being able to make cyclical threads, and I do think the containment threads being cyclical was the optimal solution, being able to filter the pedo threads when they were cyclical and contained was great. I was only bringing up the cyclical issue as I believed it was the only "privilege" the circlejerks had over the rest of us users.

I kinda liked the idea of the "No rules applies to mods too" thing on 4chan, I always took it more as a mods can fuck around with the settings and randomly ban people for whatever reason, it isn't quite the same as creating rules, but I guess it's technically that would be allowed.

The difference is that Holla Forums was started by an extremely libertarian person in an attempt to create a libertarian website, Hotwheels believed in minimum moderation that was needed to keep the site functioning. However if the users wanted more moderation, they could create their own private boards.

I guess that makes plenty of sense. You are allowed to post whatever you want.
Enforcing rules though is a way to get rid of the garbage that is spammed constantly, in my opinion.
We had absolutely no problem with ponyfags and tripfags until they were up in everyones face and acting like obnoxious attention whores.
They wanted ALL discussion to only be about ponies, and that is what warranted them a ban.

It may be because I payed little attention to them, but I never saw this happening?

spam is important

Doesn't matter, closing your eyes to the problem doesn't make it go away.
They derailed threads with their bullshit, so out the door they went.

This did not happen at any significant levels, I come to this board pretty much everyday and have not seen this at all, I saw them circlejerking in a single thread which I just looked over.

Stop trying to gaslight you fucking faggot.

I agree :.)