There is more Cloak Room in Daily Texan than there is in Cloak Room.

[workswithseed 2088]

1 hour ago, immamac said:

Report this shit so I can put them in the no rep group. 

So you didn't do anything for EMAW, but this is not okay?

[fuck 2020 16]

2 hours ago, immamac said:

Report this shit so I can put them in the no rep group. 

you already banned me dude, no need

and for the record, i neg bombed capitainantifa and js1 not beau vine

Edited July 24, 2020 by fuck 2020

[fuck 2020 16]

1 hour ago, workswithseed said:

So you didn't do anything for EMAW, but this is not okay?

EMAW wasn't part of the "super woke" cabal that runs this site. If they don't agree with you, you're fucked.

 

 

[DDD Dad 14325]

On 7/16/2020 at 4:33 PM, Dr. Beeper said:

My Dad was a SigEp and my grandfather founded them at Texas. I was not one. Dad was born in Austin.  Granddaddy was born in Tennessee.  I was raised in Austin. 

Both hate Charlie Strong Apologists  

 

Regale us with one of those great songs about SAE.  You know, like the one the OU guy sang on the bus last year.

[immortal13 4059]

On 7/24/2020 at 2:42 PM, fuck 2020 said:

 

poor CaptainAntifa 

lulz

[Celery Man 20931]

2 minutes ago, Pasken said:

Is the "no politics" part a joke? If so, very funny. If not, what the fuck is the point of this then?

[Pasken 1309]

3 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

 

So is the DT just a trap now where right trolls pretend they aren't being political so the mods ban anyone who points out how dumb that is? Is that what you are doing right now, telling on me to a mod so I get banned? It's a Monday, man. Who has time for that bs?

[Celery Man 20931]

1) apparently that's debatable

2) the source of my joke is that there was a post above by Blacklab, weighing in that the thread is not political if people are merely documenting and talking about news or whatever, and that anyone discussing politics or moderation or etc etc would be subject to a timeout. Not trying to tell on you to get banned although I see how.... obviously I'm highlighting your post here (and posting it in this thread rather than the other so as to abide).

I think it's extremely difficult to do any kind of "documenting" of that without it being political, and of course that is not what is going on there, and also yours is not the first post since the ruling to go against it, although I think yours is the first to talk about moderation (rather than the first to talk about politics).

[Pasken 1309]

The thread is just so stupidly transparent. It's like when Fox used to call themselves "Fair and Balanced" and they did it with a straight face. 

[Js1 85275]

I’m sure our moderators will get right on the warnings and timeouts for the right wing trolls too embarrassed to post in CR so they go all “no politics” with their antifa tweets and unsourced right wing twitter propaganda.

Must be working in shifts, that’s why it’s taking so long! 

[Teddy KGB 1]

@blacklab is banning posters for shitposting in a shitpost thread.

[blacklab 11926]

Is there not posts from both sides of the political spectrum on that thread?

Is a cop beating the crap out of a 14 year old girl libertarian, conservative or liberal?

Are pictures of graffiti  libertarian, conservative or liberal?

Frankly I don't give a fuck where on the political spectrum the posters of the videos are from, I find them interesting. If you don't, and feel it's all right wing shit then fucking go to another thread.

[Teddy KGB 1]

19 minutes ago, blacklab said:

Is there not posts from both sides of the political spectrum on that thread?

Is a cop beating the crap out of a 14 year old girl libertarian, conservative or liberal?

Are pictures of graffiti  libertarian, conservative or liberal?

Frankly I don't give a fuck where on the political spectrum the posters of the videos are from, I find them interesting. If you don't, and feel it's all right wing shit then fucking go to another thread.

That you think it’s a legit thread to put in DT is hilarious.

You banned me for basically making the same post as another poster earlier in the thread but slanted the other direction, fucking fascist.

[blacklab 11926]

so who's sock are you?

[Teddy KGB 1]

*whose

[DDD Dad 14325]

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

26 minutes ago, blacklab said:

so who's sock are you?

He *might* be a sock but that username has been around, on the old site I believe.

[gail the snail 31]

You're a sock

[Homercles 10205]

I’m paid by some guy named HitBy

[high side 3 way 54]

[Guest Lobo]

Are there photos of her buttocks readily available?  

[JimmyJames 12271]

Johnny sack and the right wing trolls will only post in DT nowadays and avoid the cloak room like the plague. That should tell you all you need to know about what the DT has become. It’s the right wing safe space where they can post their crap unchallenged and when challenged on it, yell “cloak Room! No politics!” 

[DDD Dad 14325]

Johnny sack and the right wing trolls will only post in DT nowadays and avoid the cloak room like the plague. That should tell you all you need to know about what the DT has become. It’s the right wing safe space where they can post their crap unchallenged and when challenged on it, yell “cloak Room! No politics!” 

It’s Surly Facebook.

[JimmyJames 12271]

8 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

It’s Surly Facebook.

Pretty good analogy.

[Captainant 27636]

8 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

It’s Surly Facebook.

I get more of a fw:fw:fw:fw vibe tbh

[DDD Dad 14325]

I get more of a fw:fw:fw:fw vibe tbh

[BradInATX 9208]

2 hours ago, JimmyJames said:

Johnny sack and the right wing trolls will only post in DT nowadays and avoid the cloak room like the plague. That should tell you all you need to know about what the DT has become. It’s the right wing safe space where they can post their crap unchallenged and when challenged on it, yell “cloak Room! No politics!” 

I think the mac and lab and hayden have done pretty well moderating it. The obvious political posts, particularly the dumb ones, get caught. And there's some leeway in it if there's a conversation that involves politics but isn't obvious bait or go-nowhere bullshit. Common sense stuff.

You can't do anything about the guys who post "two weeks!" in the Covid threads or "BLM = Marxists" in the protest threads over and over. Despite them obviously coming from a partisan place, the posts themselves aren't overtly political. And as terrible as those posts are, I don't think the people running this site are looking to patrol for thoughtcrime. I think that's where you just have to use the ignore feature.

Edited July 29, 2020 by BradInATX

[Helobious 9450]

I actually don’t get why the mods police DT anymore. Seems like nothing but more time/energy/headaches for them. Just make the DT & CR the only boards for political talk, or combine the two. 

[immamac 42835]

Use the report button. I don't read every post on every thread and neither do the other mods. It's not tattling it's more of a pointer to something we potentially need to look at. 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

10 hours ago, immamac said:

Use the report button. I don't read every post on every thread and neither do the other mods. It's not tattling it's more of a pointer to something we potentially need to look at. 

Reported.

[hayden_horn 11362]

11 hours ago, immamac said:

Use the report button. I don't read every post on every thread and neither do the other mods. It's not tattling it's more of a pointer to something we potentially need to look at. 

i cannot emphasize this enough. yall bitch and moan, but you won't report the shit that you think is offside. take some initiative.

[Beau Vine 54207]

23 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

i cannot emphasize this enough. yall bitch and moan, but you won't report the shit that you think is offside. take some initiative.

And I cannot emphasize this enough -- people don't report because there is absolutely zero feedback to reporting.  I report people and later in the day, I still see them shit-posting like nothing happened, so what was the point of reporting them?

[Celery Man 20931]

in the specific instance, blacklab (as is his right, not bitching at blacklab) chimed in expressing frustration at the reporting of the topic/posts as political and stated something along the lines that it was for documentation, pictures, video, news (later, not news articles) about the protests. So, the feedback to report miscategorized discussion is mixed, or the interpretation of what constitutes political discussion is at least murky.

My assumption is that the software doesn't allow this, but I think a good solution would be for rep to not count in CR (and explicitly not count towards neg rep banning) and direct all explicit or overt political discussion to the appropriate forum.

[hayden_horn 11362]

1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:

And I cannot emphasize this enough -- people don't report because there is absolutely zero feedback to reporting.  I report people and later in the day, I still see them shit-posting like nothing happened, so what was the point of reporting them?

we can't be all the places all the time. if it gets reported, one of us will get to it. i promise i'll be more vigilant, but we don't know what we don't know.

[BradInATX 9208]

Snitches get stitches

[Captainant 27636]

23 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

we can't be all the places all the time. if it gets reported, one of us will get to it. i promise i'll be more vigilant, but we don't know what we don't know.

I think the point is moreso that it's completely opaque if/when/why action was taken. Both when reporting and having action taken against yourself. Some feedback mechanism for mods to drop a notification with at least a reference to the post that was reported/actioned and ideally with a word or two of why that post was bad. Currently, you'll just get a red banner across the top of the page that says "shitposting", as if that's not the whole point of this site lol

[Beau Vine 54207]

What I'm saying (and lots of us have been saying) is that it would be helpful to have kind of a surly police blotter published daily or weekly.  

 

[Beau Vine 54207]

2 minutes ago, Captainant said:

I think the point is moreso that it's completely opaque if/when/why action was taken. Both when reporting and having action taken against yourself. Some feedback mechanism for mods to drop a notification with at least a reference to the post that was reported/actioned and ideally with a word or two of why that post was bad. Currently, you'll just get a red banner across the top of the page that says "shitposting", as if that's not the whole point of this site lol

Exactly!  I can't believe I'm saying this, but this site could take a clue from texags, where I've seen moderators clear out someone's text in an offending post and leave a note saying, "You're taking a week off for this post."

[Beau Vine 54207]

41 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

Snitches get stitches

Reported.

[RPM 26317]

43 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

this site could take a clue from texags

negged

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

3 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

And I cannot emphasize this enough -- people don't report because there is absolutely zero feedback to reporting.  I report people and later in the day, I still see them shit-posting like nothing happened, so what was the point of reporting them?

Jesus, man. Grow a pair and learn to ignore people. 

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

5 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

i cannot emphasize this enough. yall bitch and moan, but you won't report the shit that you think is offside. take some initiative.

GOD!!!!!! I neg repped the post and then went to 16 of the guy's OTHER posts and neg repped those TOO. What more am I supposed to do. 

[workswithseed 2088]

6 hours ago, BradInATX said:

Snitches get stitches

This is why I don't decry people who post cr stuff on dt.

[Guest]

LOLz at the notion that people don't know what they posted that crossed the line.

You fucking know...

[atomheartbevo 89628]

10 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

i cannot emphasize this enough. yall bitch and moan, but you won't report the shit that you think is offside. take some initiative.

Nor will they use the 'ignore poster' feature for those posters who trigger them.

[atomheartbevo 89628]

7 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

What I'm saying (and lots of us have been saying) is that it would be helpful to have kind of a surly police blotter published daily or weekly.  

Change their avatar to somebody behind bars.

[atomheartbevo 89628]

7 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

Exactly!  I can't believe I'm saying this, but this site could take a clue from texags, where I've seen moderators clear out someone's text in an offending post and leave a note saying, "You're taking a week off for this post."

Don't need to use TexAgs as an example, no way in hell should we ever do that - TexAgs  is the ultimate in thought police.  They love to delete posts/threads that are too critical of aggy administration and coaches.  Want to make a thread about Jimbo Fisher's new girlfriend being seen hanging around some tennis players?  Thread deleted and posters warned.  etc.

[Hate 20106]

I really don't see the CR bullshit that is being whined about here.  The summer riots thread has been a pretty good discussion with a lot of different view points.  There have been several posts by people from either side. The only difference is that it hasn't gotten to the point where posters are throwing out petulant insults at each other...yet.  That includes several CR posters that have been on that thread and it hasn't gotten out of control.  I don't know why y'all are whining other than y'all tend to whine a lot.

[Bash Riprock 1695]

Oh NO! an actual discussion between two different sides on a touchy subject is occurring in DT without whiny negg'ing and threats and name-calling! don't let the cloakroom chicks know, those bitches are crazy.

Edited July 30, 2020 by Bash Riprock

[Tom 2959]

10 hours ago, Bash Riprock said:

Oh NO! an actual discussion between two different sides on a touchy subject is occurring in DT without whiny negg'ing and threats and name-calling! don't let the cloakroom chicks know, those bitches are crazy.

 

Is this sarcasm?  On the last two pages of that thread alone there are 7 cloak room posters.  Was the point of this post to complain about name calling while also name calling in the very same post?