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Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 1

Some of the questions here are just ridiculous. But then I decided to walk into the mine, hoping to find gems, or even the freedom to be silly and have fun. I'd like to preface this by saying I'm definitely not trying to pick a fight with anyone and am fully aware of the fact that this is the /qa/ coaltalogue, not the /qa/ coaljak. As for the questions… it's been some time since I've been here and my memory is not as good as I'd like. I think the most ridiculous thing about /qa/ is that it takes a very complex subject and completely misunderstands it. Yet /qa/ is a dead board. It was killed, I add, but I can't help but ask myself - why? We all know the answer, but no one will ever just say it. Just ask the questions! Explain the need to keep /qa/! If you have an opinion on why we are here, please express it to me. Perhaps you could start by giving an example of some of the questions that you think are most ridiculous.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 2

The second day of surviving the /qa/ coaltolist has come to a close and we've been given a few interesting posts. First, /qa/ had a discussion over some of the posts from the beginning of the week. A user brought up some of the interesting quotes and went through many of them one by one. Then we have the interesting discussion /qa/ had, regarding that same post. This post contained a series of posts, all from the same user. The user was discussing the different things about tranime and if they were any good or not. Other users were quick to jump down the poster's throat, calling him out on some of the points he made. It was interesting to see such a large discussion about tranime, and it goes to show that /qa/ is a fun place, even when you don't like the content it's discussing. Other posts here were posted a little later on, but that doesn't mean they are worth talking about.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 4

I am going to do this in a bit of a different way than the last time. I will also try to add some humor to the situation. I have been on the /qa/ coaltalogue for 4 days now. It has been a wild ride so far. I have learned a lot about the people on the /qa/ coaltalogue. They definitely range greatly among themselves in both how they endure each another and how they act while being completely unprovoked. A large part of it would come from the "necessity" for the extreme reactions people feel during these confrontations, which stems from the very small number of active /qa/ users. I estimate only 7 people. However, these seven are fun loving people who will not see themselves in harm during these encounters and can handle themselves extremely well - as expected from the public toilet website. THOUGH they seem to have forgotten soyjaks. I was not expecting the lack of soy.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 5

The coalterino wipe was unexpected. It erased the previous entries in this diary. However, the coaltalogue is strong, resilient, and will bounce back like a rubber ball, and a loss in /qa/ doesn't mean much. I came back to /qa/ after the wipe to a surprisingly high amount of threads - seven pages. Some /qa/ regulars were even starting new threads on topics that I thought were dead. The thread that really surprised me the most, however, wasn't started by a /qa/ regular; it was started by a faggot who was looking for some way to quickly get banned or whatever. The poster's idea was to start threads about how much he hates us in hopes of driving everyone off, but I think he's too stupid to understand that /qa/ doesn't really care what he thinks, but he has successfully drawn attention to himself. All that matters is that the threads aren't getting missed. I've come to believe that /qa/ as a board is just a game. Like a variant of the board game Monopoly. The difference between this and Monopoly is that instead of collecting property to gain money and improving them with houses, you are collecting and improving posts to get rid of your opponents. Quoting and dueling are the best examples of this.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 6

Day 6 was spent in a bit of a panic. There were a few problems in the 'log that caused stress, mainly to my brain and my stomach. Made me realize I had forgotten to take my pill this morning, fortunately. While I spent most of my time scrolling down every thread I could, it was very boring. As I went into it, I asked myself "what can I do in the space of a few hours to learn more about this?" The threads, most of which weren't created today, didn't provide some useful insight into the coaltalog. Talk about a roundabout. So, that's all I did today.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 7

/qa/ is a place full of people with no self-esteem and who can only make jokes about their own problems. A soyboy would be in good company.  This is the seventh day of my attempt to be a productive member of /qa/, but I have failed. My attempt to join the board resulted in me being a punching bag for the /qa/non furry mafia. The first day was filled with them trolling me. They even said something about "fisting dildos" (you can't help being a faggot as a furry). Then they were all talking about what a waste of time it was to be alive or something like that. Is there anything that can be done to salvage this situation? Are you going to tell me I'm a retard for asking all those questions? Should I post a pic of myself having a seizure?

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 8

Just like last week, today /qa/ did well but not great. First I went through the usual routine of finding a topic and trying to figure out how much it is worth, but there was an issue in the process of posting gems that created a problem for /qa/. This is why /qa/ posts have been a bit inconsistent so far, which is why I decided to try gemming on the whole of /qa/ myself instead of letting /qa/ gem itself, which takes way too long. The bad news was that we didn't have many gemmers trolling the /qa/ regulars today, probably because the whole site is more focused on the /soy/ coaltalogue anyway. I was especially sad about not having more /qa/ posts to read, as I like to make it a point to spend as much time as I can reading and appreciating the gems. /qa/ is very repetitive, which is why it feels like /qa/ is lacking a bit on the more humorous topics. I know there are a lot of people in /soy/ who think the same way, so hopefully, with all the people migrating over to /qa/, the humor /soy/ regulars enjoy will find their way here too.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 9

Another day, another fail. Oh the joys of being in the middle of a board where the rules are very strict about who's allowed to say what. THOUGH there's no need to let a bunch of trannyworshipping fucks with severe mental problems ruin your fun. THOUGH there's supposed to be more to /qa/ than these /bant/ evicts. If only the sharty /qa/ managed to be half as gemmish as the 4cuck /qa/ (inb4 "/qa/ was never good") The lack of activity makes /qa/ a rather boring place. That said, I will still wait for some good gems from these degenerates. And you?

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 10

/qa/ is like a bad dream. It's an unpleasant memory that I can't get away from. The worst thing is that whenever I start talking about something related to this discussion, I start feeling the same fear that I felt while the whole fiasco was happening. And that I can't do anything about it. But this is not the end of the story. I am not that kind of a person, I will fight and stand up. At least it helped me to not be intimidated by bad things in the future. Operation Clean Stable took place thanks to a number of people - it was not like everyone was celebrating how "great" /qa/ is - but it certainly WAS something personal. I was in tears during the whole day (not mourning the fallen trannies, mind you). When I was first active on /qa/, I was 13-14 years old. I think /qa/ was an important part of my development at this age. But that was not my first "war" - there was this really funny /v/ thread two years ago when I got permabanned after I made some jokes about /v/ members' height and their (supposedly) being trannies because I thought that they were porn addicts - a common occurrence on /v/. It was such a relief when I saw them passively seething like "naww jeez you got it all wrong, you don't know /v/." What was this like for you? What do you want people to understand about /qa/? Were you able to talk about this on 4cuck? Do you have anything to share? It's amazing how quickly it got out of control. I will try to get some sort of closure on it.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 11

The /qa/ coaltalogue has been a strange and wonderful experience. It has brought together people who are interested in the same thing: NAS coal. It seems many people are fascinated by coal. One man's gem is another man's coal, as Mutt Tzu would say. I'm guessing my experience speaks to what others might be looking for. I'm one of those people that gather in random threads, rationally discussing, animatedly (maybe) discussing major and minor plans for eradicating the scourge of CO2, but NAS coal will always be a thing. But that doesn't mean we should embrace it. So I believe coal must be suppressed to a manageable level. I'll try putting more thought into a possible long term solution, given the failure of the 5 boards plan - which I believe had been caused by the weakwilled jannies and the partial reversal. We can't just abandon every board except /soy/ and let coal-centric communities conquer them.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 12 - How to make the most out of /qa/?

Let's touch on how you really interact with the board, and how it's intended to function. 4cuck's /qa/ (as well as its predecessor /q/) was meant to be the place where users of different boards go to ask, discuss and share questions about other boards. But it seemed as if the moderators were never willing to make good use of that board, and so it got neglected (which originated gemmy memes) and eventually deleted. But enough about that. The sharty's /qa/ was intented as a shitposting zone as the neglected 4cuck /qa/ was. What is /qa/ good for? I say it's good for people who want to interact with other boards but are confused by all the jargon (IE newGODs.) On the other hand it's an excellent place to make newGODs confused. I've come to think that in order to make /qa/ a "coherent" board, so to speak, there needs to be at least one moderator who moderates exclusively /qa/ and steers the board in that direction, since simply saying "durr just use /qa/ more" didn't work. Even if you read through the few archived old threads, you still won't find out what exactly the current community likes and doesn't like. It's a wasteland.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 13

I was surprised to find the board relatively quiet. Just another slow day. I tried to do my part by telling a coaler to kill himself but he didn't understand that I meant I wanted him to kill himself, he just said "Marge" which wasn't a part of my plan. So I'm now starting to think maybe I should have just said "I hope you get run over by a car and I won't shed a fucking tear." or something straightfoward like that or whatever, yeah. I had an idea THOUGH, as an anonymous imageboard is usually about the images, and I wanted to try to get people to post images as well. Then someone started talking about "fap gifs" and I gave up.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 14

A lot of people seem to dislike /qa/ today. This is probably due to last week's coally happenings not leaving space for jokes. I don't know if everyone was expecting this to happen, or expect it to happen again, but it's always a very realistic possibility, and it's never a good thing when the site goes down and we have to deal with a ton of meaningless intrigue, even if it's for a short time. What I'm most worried about is what this will mean for the future. I fear that this will lead to a long-term lack of care for the site. In fact, there's an actual pile of excrement waiting to explode if we don't clean the thing up. The main point of discussion has always been SOYJAKS. Every user should have something in common (liking soyjaks), only leaving discussions to matters of taste. I say the sharty is something of a "tragedy" - it got so much support, but then slowed down before it could reach its full potential. Regardless, it's full of people who have fun with the soys and want to continue doing so even after the site goes down. This is getting more and more like a daily "criticizing the site" blog. The point is this site can be a lot better than it is. To put it bluntly, it is a pile of excrement. I know people do this for fun, and that's fine. Public toilet website.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 15 The day started early and was over way too soon, but it was a good day. Nothing particularly bad happened. Some rather interesting new posts too.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 16

To be completely honest, I have no idea where I'm going with. This post just kind of got started somewhere and then trailed off. I guess the main point I want to make is that some people like to post just to fit in and be accepted, even if he's a giant asswipe. There's a lot of people that do this even subconsciously, myself included, and I think it sucks. Some of them are doing it because they think that it's a requirement to be a part of the community, like they're somehow going to impress the mods by posting a lot or by pretending to be retarded, as long as they get on the front page… A lot of the memes on /qa/ are pretty dumb. There's an entire thread about how you can determine if a person is an elitist asshole by asking them to name the most obnoxious color (which just seems retarded), but if you say something like "I like the [random popular media here] series, what about you", it's like you're asking to be called a faggot, which is gem, though. But if you're the kind of person that likes to post just to fit in and try to appear stupid, then you should at least try and put in some effort, like I did. A lot of people like to be "ironically ironic", so to speak. When you get into an argument with them about their horrible taste in memes (like, self-inserting as a soyjak) or something or whatever, they will try to claim that it's irony, because they think that it makes them seem smart. What's next, will someone start taking tranny drugs because it's le ironic?

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 17 - The Great Culling

What is the "third soyvil war" [wikislop term]? Is it the event itself or the events that led to it? How long has it been going on and why? What makes them think there's a "war"? What makes them think anyone will "survive" it? I'd not describe it as a "civil" war, as such, since the people of /qa/ do not see the conflict as an attempt to destroy the existing system. However, what they did see was the moderation or lack thereof leading to a certain form of slavery in /soy/, which they opposed. The "war" part is a bit misleading, too, because there is not really a "war" between the two parties. While some people on both sides definitely see the conflict as a war, to them it was more like "a struggle for dignity." How much is IAS worth when compared to NAS? What NAS are better than other NAS? What kinds of NAS should be tolerated?

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 18

/qa/ is known as the best place to find people who aren't too scared to tell you how they really feel about you and your shitty post in the form of an in-depth dissection. We're all guilty of it: posting in /qa/ or any other site is almost as inevitable as masturbating every night (or rather not masturbating, because cooming every day sounds too exhausting), and it's inevitable that you'll one day run into some smartass gemmer just itching to point out that you misspelled something, used a 'jak you shouldn't have used, or missed a comma, all of which he'll do gleefully and in excruciating detail, because he's in high school and that's what is expected of him. So the first thing you want to do when you are in a board that is known for its smartasses, is stay there. Because no matter what you write or how many times you tell them they need a shower, you'll be just as likely to get a smartass response as you would if you hadn't bothered to write in the first place. The only way to go about things is to be able to tell the difference between someone who's really interested in what you're trying to do (like this gemmer who's going to go on a grammar rampage until you get the message) and someone who's simply there to make sure you know how shit your taste in tranime is. 4cuck lost though.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 19 - Diamong amongst Coal

What might happen to 4cuck's /qa/ in couple of years' time? That's the time it took /qa/ to go from being the place where everybody went to ask stupid questions to being the place where almost no questions are asked. However, despite what this seems to indicate, there is one reason why I am sticking around in the hopes of finding out whether this thing might be salvageable or not: I love the /qa/ community. I do know that at some point you need to forget the past and be able to let go of your own internet habits and communities to work with a new community. I am not there yet, but I am going to try to work on it. "Different" doesn't mean "worse", it means "not the same", so to speak. Regardless, being on a new site is not a reason to abandon old habits or customs. I don't plan to give up on 4cuck just because I left. /qa/, at least, will not be forgotten, not yet anyway. If you have been here since the beginning, you will have contributed more than you realise. If you have been part of the 4chan "culture" (not real), you have been a 4cuck. The best thing you can do for it is to give your support in these hard times and try to revive the good parts of it. I'm not going to lie, though, it will take a lot of work.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 20

I'm impressed with the level of discussion and detail in these Hiro-approved meta threads. In the end, I'd say it's given me an insight into the real issues being discussed. So thanks to all the people who have taken part. After reading some of the responses to my suggestions, and after a lengthy formal peer review, it's become clear that there's no easy solution. The ideas I put forth may seem to make sense on paper, but, as has been pointed out, in practice they can become cumbersome and the cost could mount up. What struck me is the general lack of a willingness to discuss any other ways of achieving the same things. The point is to get people to talk and think about new ideas. In an ideal world, people would also be willing to talk about ideas that are no so good - like /tech/ and /incel/ ( ev&doe there's an awful lot of support for those boards). In reality, I don't expect that many people will be able to get into detailed discussions about ideas that aren't fully fleshed out, or even be honest about what's going to work and what isn't. I would like the discussion to remain as focused as possible on the key issues that people actually have in mind when they visit a /qa/ thread.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 20 - Reactions to this blog

I've gotten very little feedback on my posts since I started this blog, and the few that I've gotten have been mostly negative. I've never heard anything but negative feedback from readers of my blog posts, so this feedback has been quite shocking to me. For whatever reason, people are really enjoying tearing my posts apart. I'm planning on trying to stick with my blog for a long time to come, so I don't want it to get abandoned. Please help me with feedback so that I can make the most of this experience. I've been trying to talk about /qa/ as an entire community, but now I think the community is much too fragmented to described as such. The way I started this blog was with some really fantastic research that you should agree is really important to the community. I've been considering going on the offensive lately. Do I have good reasons for being defensive, and is there any way that I can improve without seeming too biased?

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 22

It's easy to forget that for the longest time, /qa/ has been a rather unstructured place. When it was split off of the main site a year and a half now, it was still largely a matter of wandering around and seeing what you might find. This, of course, leads to the more important question of how we're going to improve /qa/ if we haven't even reached post no. 100000! 4cuck's /qa/ could get that amount of posts in two weeks! Fortunately for us, the recent jump in visibility and public notoriety (as much as being a giant cesspit of coal can be viewed as publicity) has caused a huge change: People now perceive /qa/ as a place that actually matters. While the basic ideology of /qa/ is still the same - that there is no actual community consensus regarding anything - the general shape of the board has changed quite a bit over the years. Yet it's not nearly as active now. Why?

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 23 In case you're not familiar with the concept, the /qa/ coaltalogue is a conspiracy of the mods who attempt to suppress "positive" posts. As per tradition, today's edition has been based on a troll, this time on a goyslop media thread (If you're a mod and get see the event unfold from a mod's perspective, it can be hilarious at times.) Today's edition is mostly about how I was punished for having the wrong opinion and how these people are unacceptably hate-filled and that something should be done about it. At first, when I got to this thread, I thought there was an actual conversation going on, and that everyone was shitting on the goyslop post. I'm not glad to see that I was completely wrong, and that I wasn't imagining things. I just wanted to say how great it is when people are trying to derail conversation like this, but sadly their attempts are almost never successful. For example, the thread has about 400 posts so far and has remained pretty much in the top 1% of the threads here. That goyslop post is filled with disturbing approaches that in some way are relevant to the Party's issues with illegal material. In other words, in this goyslop post, there are erotic depictions of cartoon children - mostly male to boot - which I felt was getting a bit odd at the moment, and because this thread had already drifted into this topic, I thought I would say something about the original thread and ask if it could be deleted pronto. I told everyone in the thread that these posts were unacceptable in this particular board. Despite this, people continued to talk about it, and I then chose to say something and point out my reasons. While I was saying something, THOUGH, people were still talking about the "fantastic" goyslop and making fun of me. People weren't using capslock, but there were multiple calls of "screw you!" Again I pointed out how inappropriate these posts are for this board, and how they could easily send people down the path of viewing these kinds of things. I felt that I had done the right thing and I wanted to get back to talking about what I feel is relevant to the Party. If you enjoy pornography, talk about porn that we find to be morally good. I don't want to waste my time with this stuff. There's plenty of porn that you can watch. Just don't see anything that is disgusting. Arousal overrides feelings of disgust, and that may lead you into very dark places.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 24

It is when I am feeling particularly despondent that I most like to visit /qa/, to feel the atmosphere, see how the people are dealing with things, and what's on their minds. At least /qa/ was as lively as usual even though I was just too tired to contribute. I still try to keep up with what is going on there. Some people pointed out that in the long run a large number of new users is the best way to foster community spirit. Now, it's about time the mods really do something about this.

I think people will eventually migrate to those boards to escape the constant activity of /soy/, especially if they have been here long. Its never a good strategy to punish people than it is to reward them and encourage them to make better decisions, which is something you learn in management and in the games industry. But, I like the dialogue and I will be keeping this in mind for potential ideas in the future. This doesn't justify inaction, though! if I've learned anything about sharty jannies is that they do things differently and more slowly than the general community would expect. Unfortunately, the people who are there do sometimes seem to be losing patience. The real challenge here is getting everyone on the same page. If you don't do that, no one will be able to talk with each other.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 25

At this point I've laid all the cards on the table with the moderator team, and so I was able to put in more effort to add some final touches to my monologue. I spent some time writing down a list of topics I wanted to address for the community, in anticipation of the 1st of May. I also spent some time clarifying and revising some of the blogs I'd been crafting, by looking through the work I've been doing over the past few weeks. What follows are some notes about what I felt the experience of the coaltalogue would be for a new user with little prior knowledge of /qa/: 1) Community. While this is not exactly a "survivor" community unlike /soy/, we have spent time seeking and being supported by the members of the survivor community. I believe that we are a part of the wider /qa/ survivor community. While this "experience" may seem to have been about our own experience, the primary purpose of this blog was to share some of the past, and to encourage us to look at it from the standpoint of both the people who pursued us, and the people who protect us. Soyjak.party doesn't exist in a vacuum. 2) Identity. I felt that I needed to clarify my own /qa/ experience and identity in some way, to the extent that I could. I spent some time reminding myself of what /qa/ was like and reminding others about the good things. I felt that in some respects I was trying to go over some old ground, as it were, and some good content didn't get shared. It is difficult to feel nostalgic for something which doesn't exist anymore, and I've been trying to push as much information about me as possible in an effort to be more public. I try to represent myself with my words as honestly as I can. What else? It's difficult to say where I go from here. The differences between to 4cuck /qa/ and the sharty may seem trivial in comparison to our trolling of trannies and their trolling of us, but they're meaningful to each of us. The current coaltalogue may seem like something that no one wanted, but there was an underlying need to address the damage that's been done.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 26 - A Practical Guide

In this post, I will turn my findings into a guide to help you survive the /qa/ coaltalogue yourself and become a regular poster in /qa/. This will also help you reclaim your faith in humanity. It is very important that you understand and accept your power in this situation. The only way you are going to have patience to actively browse /qa/ is to internalize the fact that you are a superior human being. Try to think of /qa/ as a war zone, in which you are a general, and every idiot out there is your own personal army of trolls, snowbunnies, gooks, kikes, faggots, niggers, dykes, cocksuckers, fangirls, manginas, gingers, sissies, yugoslavs, dykes, trannies, and retards. They scatter across the board like landmines and wreak havoc. Because of this, you will need to develop some kind of mental immunity to their attacks. By identifying them as something other than a group of peers, you will prevent yourself from taking them seriously, and you will be able to have a much more positive outlook. In order to get the most out of this, it is important that you take steps to strengthen your cognitive dissonance, and to learn to accept the fact that you are going to have to put up with some serious shit. I will discuss two cognitive techniques that you will need to learn: 1. Stigma - They will try to convince you that you are part of the problem, and that you should just shut up and accept your own marginalization. Whenever one of them says anything negative, think of it in terms of what is good and wholesome, and that this is what they would be saying if you were not around. This simple mental exercise can make you get along with even the vilest, most faggoty scum. 2. Informational Self-defense - Remember: the enemy is out there. It is plotting to take over /qa/ at all costs. This is why you need to have something to fall back on. Your enemy will try to convince you that you are not capable of building an army (to raid something), but this is simply not true. The truth is that you have already built one! A single tranny, if you engage with him enough, can help you build an entire army in no time at all. They keep your threads soundly bumped, and with each roast you give him, he will be forced to go to greater lengths to counter it. If only we had better jannies for when the need for them arises. Do not forget we have access to the archives, so pay attention to the things they say, and remember them for later. So even if you are completely exhausted of this place, you can give it a rest for a couple of days, and you will have a new resolve to try again. The next challenge is to become a regular. This will require patience and practice. This will help you understand that you are in a war, and that the enemy cannot be beaten easily. The trannies drew first blood, but we're coming for them. They cannot keep running away forever.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 27

Instead of posting my full and probably unworkable theories, I'm going to share a few questions. Who should be in /qa/? What will /qa/ look like in the future? What do I want it to be and how can I get there? To be clear, this is all about /qa/, not about the quality of the coal that we've all been seeing. /qa/ needs to be saved. We don't have time for arguing or fighting. We don't have time for making things difficult for those of us who have been trying to make /qa/ a success, and we don't have time for wasting everyone's time with bullshit. So far we've had no real plan or direction. Some crazy ideas with no clear path to implementation, some weird and confusing proposals, a few cool ideas with good plans for how to go about them, and some stupid and incorrect ideas that troll anyone who tries to take this seriously. I've had so many people telling me what /qa/ should be exactly what it currently is and that I must stop taking it seriously. It's now just another hobby, and /qa/ is my hobby. So I've decided I will think of /qa/ as just a bit of time that I get to spend in my life doing something that I like. There's no need to make /qa/ a separate board with a separate set of rules. All the rules in /qa/ should be optional.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 28

One thing is abundantly clear to me. The /qa/ board isn't a board you want to enter unless you have a thick skin and some patience. It's easily the most vicious place on the sharty that I've ever seen, even more than /nate/. The threads I've read so far, save for a couple of quick ones, have been largely unreadable. We have come to a place that is clearly controlled by people of a certain mindset. It's the kind of mindset that we would call a hive mind, but this board is a hive mind for people with a specific viewpoint on the sharty, which is that the site is not meant to be centered around soyjaks. They seem to have complete confidence that by showing their contempt for the site, their viewpoint will be the only viewpoint the site will adopt. From this point of view, it's probably easier to deal with a hydra than it is with this board. I had hoped to expose some of the people of the board for who they are, but I don't think I will be able to do so here. It makes me sad to see these people unable to see the value of soyjaks or the potential they have. They've been here for years now and they've seen how far it's come. If only they actively promoted /qa/ revanchism and made 4cuck jannies dilate all over again, but they don't. So, I'm going to end this here. This is more than enough for today.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 29 - Rebirth of /qa/

When I started this, I had plenty of ideas in my head, so when I reached a month of daily posting, I felt a bit challenged. It's bit of a push to write a few more posts, but I manage it. I really miss /qa/. I wanted to write down a few memories and what will stay with me about the experience. The first time I remember coming to /qa/ was after the failure of operation soyclipse. I only ever browsed /pol/ (luckily they also love soyjaks) until then, it's not like 4cuck has much to offer. And here we are, at the conclusion of /qa/'s history.

So once again I'm gonna COMPLAIN about sharty/qa/ being dead. This really takes a lot from my expectations and experience. Even though the most whiny posts can still find a home here. It truly is a pity that the /qa/ of old is dead. HOW DO WE MAKE /QA/ GET MORE TRAFFIC THAN /SOY/? It should become the sharty's main board. This will then pave the road to enforcing NO NAS ON /SOY/.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 30 - A Different Kind of Coaltalogue

/qa/ means "Qoally as Usual", the science is settled on this one. Some people say it means "Quick and Easy" - if you're not really into science, that's probably better than the real meaning, but the 'usual' part seems the most important to me. Anyway, today you WILL start talking about our current situation and see where it leads us. Things such as the science of history and the (un)importance of change. The point of all this is to help build community, and to break down some of the myths and misconceptions that sometimes get bandied about when it comes to thinking about /qa/. Even my genius intellect gets trapped in a loop whenever I make myself think about /qa/ for too long. I'm exhausted.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 30

With all that has happened over the past days, I don't think anyone would be able to deny that we've had the most intense coaltalogue in quite a while. We certainly have seen a variety of shitposts come from both sides, some of it good, some of it bad. The ban on bumpfagging: We had many months (more than a year) of necrobumping over and over and over again, and we couldn't really do much about it. Even reporting them would get you banned for "flooding the report system with false reports." Now, while it is still annoying as hell, it's "illegal". So while we're not entirely free from necroniggers, wholesome jannies will ban someone who has bumped a thread a dozen times in a row. So, to summarize, one could say that we got rid of two large problems, and just have a bunch of small, harmless nuisances to deal with.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 31 - Needless catty wipe

I was not prepared for that and I don't really know why it happened. But I do know it could have easily been prevented. I will end this portion of my statement here so that it's easier to read. In addition to that, to the best of my knowledge, some very specific threads were spared from the wipe (none of them being mine.) And to say that this is wrong is a easy claim to get behind, given the situation. If the caterino wipe was based on any particular activity, if you could point it out, I would not disagree. But given that it was a general wipe without a good reason, then I see no choice but to disagree with the wipe. The point I'm trying to get across is, I am not here to pick and choose which threads I defend. Not if the thread in question is related to a recent wipe. And I really hope you do see my point because I'm really here to defend the many threads I was helping to create when the wipe occurred. It's not like I was just browsing around eating popcorn. I was helping to create threads that were, at that time, legitimate threads in a legitimate coaltalogue. At least, that's the impression I get.. I think we should be able to trust that our moderators are doing a good job, because we are each posting right here, on the sharty. Not on 4cuck, or another person's splinter. And that's what I think should matter the most. What is posted here should be of utmost importance to us. What we are reading here should not be overlooked or downplayed, in order to please a moderator.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 32

The last few days have been full of activity, full of work. You can see I'm very busy and, as we all know, there are only so many hours in the day. There are times when I know I don't have time for this, that I can't dedicate time to this thread. And then there are times when I'm thinking about this and I find it's interesting. We've seen the forums' activity slowly increasing. Even in the last weeks we've been quite lucky to have that many people active (see some old threads) and also seeing some threads of today, things will be a bit less difficult. I've noticed there are two kinds of posters: one consists of lot of oldCUCKS and oldCUCK larpers. Older and more experienced, they want things to remain as they are and to keep everything as it is (and not necessarily making /qa/ great again, like I do). The other side is more active, younger, but more adventurous. And when I say younger, I'm talking about it in terms of internet years. They're less experienced, but more active, more willing to try new things. So soyjaks are just "one more cool thing" to them. I think we should be clearer about what we want from mods. I think they shouldn't be like: "hey, here's the policy!" And then other mods think "oh yes! cool, I'll edit that in the wiki!".

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 33

Threads turn into holy wars pretty easily, as expected of any imageboard. That said, I think I've learned something important about /qa/, though. There are no meta discussions in the board, those are reserved for /q/. Though /q/ is the serious board… SOOOOOOT MERGE /Q/ AND /QA/ NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW. Even though there is always some kind of consensus here, sometimes we can't really agree what it is exactly. But we can all agree that it's important to find a solution, or to find something that works better. Now, sometimes the problem is that these subjects make some people's heads explode or otherwise become so emotional and heated that they either can't control their anger or they just stop reading threads which go too much into those details. This makes /q/ threads nearly useless.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 34

Nothing happened today.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 35

The changes I had been hoping to see didn't take place. The Great NAS war rages on, even though the nigger painted in the russian flag is pretty gemmy though. The old habits and practices remain, at the level of individuals, at least. Things change, after all, like a bubble popping. The changes of the past weeks are just minor events in the history of a place that is and has been largely stable (not in a good way) for a long, long time, keeping the board in a foul mood. It's an uphill battle. The forces gathering against me are too strong, all this was was merely a step in the right direction. The truth will triumph, as the saying goes. That is, /qa/ will be restored to its former glory, or some other stupid fuck like me would appear on the scene and challenge the coalers and the board would be crushed. Either way. I don't take anything for granted anymore. I shall keep up my spirits and trust in the powers that be. I feel that they are too unrelenting to be undone by my mere miniscule threads, but on the other hand I should not despair as my influence might have been growing ever since I started this daily blog. I was told that I was growing as the days passed, and apparently I was also growing into a myth.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 36

Trannies are to /qa/ what masturbation is to sex; an evil that results in nothing but broken dreams. Maybe it's not the party that gets old. Maybe it's you. Though there is no point on putting so much effort into making a post though, is there? But tonight I know I have failed. I have let the opportunity of a lifetime slip by because I am too weak to stand against /qa/. I feel 100% demoralized.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 37

I noticed that many of the newer users believe that the mods must spend their whole time arguing with people and throwing people off the site (and rightfully so). Does the site need to be redesigned to combat this? I think not. If a mod points out that some post is out of scope or off topic or whatever, then it's up to the person to call the mod a moron, jerk, idiot, troll, censor, etc. and being banned for a week instead of replying with a polite response. "Calling people names" is the first defence that any lowly anonymous forum user has, and they aren't taught that - it's like an instinct! This is a basic tenant of forum discussion. Bantering with the tranny jannies will always be /qa/ culture, though.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 38

What a stunning awakening - Reality is one thing, our reaction to that reality is another. Reality is not entirely based on beliefs or patterns we notice. There's another layer of this reality that operates completely out of my sight. 4cuck is in a constant loop, an infinite regression, an ideal state of balance (not in a good way). So I had been thinking we could colonize a board (NOT anything like the way we tried to colonize /bant/) then reverse-assimilate 4cuck by osmosis into liking soyjaks. I say the most suitable board for this is /i/, since the amateurish jannies may not notice those bald cartoon man with glasses are soyjaks. Look at this thread: https://boards.4chan.org/i/thread/737544

Then, /qa/ will be the norm. It is a locked board and the entirety of 4chan simultenously. The question is no longer whether or not 4chan is /qa/. Does this answer all your questions?

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 40 As nothing noteworthy happened in /qa/ yesterday, unlike /soy/, I'll tell you all about a few gemmish raids in which I had a hand, not necessarily in order. A failraid on a jewish garlic streamer. He could've been the next Nojak… https://thebarchive.com/b/thread/898882542/ - oldCUCK larp thread got gemmed up, a there was the botted 898888888 GET and a bunch of seemingly botted replies, janny had a meltdown and deleted the gems and handed out bans before the thread got archived. https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/252305441/ - Janny meatriding thread. Jannies were far too arrogant to delete the thread, so they just tried to delete the gems (unsuccessfully) before giving up and deleting the thread. https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/252310219/252311111 - Continuation of the previous thread. Short-lived, but I still stole their hecking getterino, causing moderate amounts of seethe.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 40 - The gems among gems

I've gained some more perspective on the whole community and /qa/. Learning is a matter of questioning and DEBUNKING your own ways of thinking and asking more questions than answering them, if that makes sense. For example, I've become more welcoming of 'cado's revoltingly disgusting asshole. It can derail any thread and that's awesome. At least the asshole's not as bad anymore. Is it possible to take things seriously on an unserious website without being mad all the time? I've somewhat let go of the changes I wanted to see. THOUGH I have no way of knowing if the mods think this way too.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 41% - ACK!nowledging the gems

Lots of sharty happenings, yet none in /qa/ again. So I'm going to talk about them, but what did happen in /qa/ today was a minor pedophile furtroon raid (less than 1 page) and some trolling regarding the 'rth in a certain thread. Well now, where to start? The 'rth took over most of the sharty, I could barely find unrelated threads to post gems in. One of my threads was even moved to /qa/, as ironic as that is. There's been a minor shittertroon dox, there's been the sharty prom, oh I even forget. It's hard to actively remember imageboard fuckery even if you're trying to, y'know? The sharty went down a bit earlier. I don't know why and nobody commented on it. I briefly participated on the 'rth and drew a failed troonjak over one sonnenrad.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 42

Writing blogs did a pretty good job of teaching me how to actually do the process without relying on copying someone else's technique, and also doing it in a somewhat "professional" way. /qa/ has no tradition of science in general, and psychology in particular. There is no research here, there is no hypothesis, no literature review, no statistical analysis, no experimental design, just a bunch of anecdotal evidence. I've started gathering my evidence on how good /qa/ is in moderating. Well, my parents' attitude is that if you want to learn, you have to learn by doing. So, this is my journey. The problem is that when you've been on /qa/ for a couple of days, you've already experienced so much of what this board is that there really isn't anything new that would capture your zoomer ADHD-ridden brain's attention. When you're already somewhat familiar with the subject, you will have already noticed that the "interesting" things do not last, so after you've done something like this or that, you may experience this feeling of deja-vu where you've done the exact same experiment or done something in the exact same way on some occasion, and here you are again, doing the exact same thing all over again. I mean, the result is different because it has been shown that /qa/ does not remember the content once it gets to the archive, but the learning part gets really boring, so it's even less likely that /qa/ will give you a chance to make stuff interesting enough.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 43 - Stagnation

You never really need to worry about stagnating. You can still keep churning gems, even if we need "more"… but nothing needs to happen "today". Just be productive and keep pushing the quality of your gems and in the future it'll snowball into something nice. That's the right mindset. You can always make things better. People who think they've got a masterpiece by now and it can't get any better are idiots. You can work on your gems over and over and in the end it'll be what you always dreamed of. If you always try and do better than the next person, then there's nothing you can't accomplish. There's only one way, the "best" way to make gems. If you think you've been making better and better gems all this time, that is very likely to be the case. You can keep doing things exactly like you always have. The only difference now is that you have a much larger vision of what you want, and you're making it all happen. I was thinking of this when I had that great idea of a gem, but since I have NO art skills whatsoever, I posted it on /r/ where it sadly didn't get done. I excuse myself as being lazy, whatever helps me feel better about not wanting to learn to draw 'jaks. All I can think of is that there's no better motivation than the mind's desire to do better, just the effort you put in to make things happen.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 43 - Brimday

It wouldn't be fair to host this daily blog and not even talk about it. I have been trying to do a couple of things. I have written about some of them in the past - I tried to explain how I am a newbie at /qa/, how /qa/ is something I am trying to learn and grow into. So, while /qa/ is unaffected as far as I can tell, I browsed the sharty less than I usually do yesterday because reasons. Very convenient. And there is something I am missing. I had hoped this was just some temporary hiccup, but it seems to be something very specific, something big. The more I think about it, I have noticed how I keep repeating a pattern: As I am writing this, I am checking the /qa/ search, thinking, hmm maybe somebody talked about it already, or maybe I missed something, and I have to scroll through the entire board again. Cuckflare was as annoying as ever, but that's because I constantly switch between IPs thanks to glownigger paranoia. But honestly though, what's with that goddamn bald chinktok faggot? Did he make a deal with the devil to be famous or something? Furthermore, how did that rogue janny get the power to unleash bots like that? I have nothing against new moderators or even admins, as long as they have potential and know what the fuck they're doing. Overall, I think the 'rth was a bad idea, but that's me. I was afraid something like this would happen. I wish /r/ were revitalized into the gem factory it once used to be. I say the jannies need to promote /r/ somehow… I have no ideas on that one.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 43 - A Sudden Improvement

It appears that /qa/ has gotten more "natural" posts today. I'm very glad to see that! More soyjak posts as well, and according to methe best post of that is "how's the conscript?" thread. What do you think? How does /qa/ look compared to yesterday? This process doesn't happen all at once, but steadily and progressively. It is done quite effectively. Even though it's much more complicated than that, sun always comes out after the storm is over.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 45 - Catterino wiped again

Honorable mention: >>97923

That's a good thread. /qa/, and to be bluntly honest sharty jannies in general, are not good with the banhammer, but instead of deleting the posts, they'd rather wipe entire catalogs. This is a common occurence on /soy/. As usual, I have to idea why the 'log was wiped this time, and honestly I didn't bother to look into the matter. I felt like it got wiped twice today? Maybe I should just take my meds. There is authority on the internet. Here, we keep quiet, not make a huge ruckus about it when somebody else makes a change, and we accept that the rules may change occasionally, just like the rules here change from time to time. This doesn't mean eternally kneeling to the janny military dictatorship, just that we have some mutual trust between users and jannies. Jannies shouldn't simply go for what's more convenient, but go for that's better for everyone. And if we don't like the rules change, we stick around to bitch about it. That's /qa/!

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 46 - Early Morning Edition

Honorable mention: >>97923

That's a good thread. Last thread (about a catty wipe, funnily enough) got wiped shortly after getting posted. I didn't want to post it again because that's le problematic or something, or even help get the point accross: That catterino wipes are harmful and certainly not the best way to moderate an entire board. The jannies need to have some patience and compassion. Or, maybe more likely, I missed something and didn't bother to look into it again. I should stop missing threads and also stop talking about stuff about which I know nothing. So, I don't want to get into details in this post, because this is supposed to be fun and all that. But, to sum up this whole /qa/ issue, I basically think there should be some form of punishment for the mods. If they kill a slow board through constant wipes, they are doing it on purpose.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 46 - Troonori raid

Again, not directly related to /qa/ because nothing ever happens. I am proud to say I was a part of this one. Among the worst factions in the sharty /qa/. The raid was more harmless fun than anything that would do something the discoal cabal that posts here, THOUGH, but still. We needed to let out some steam. We have the moral high ground anyway, and BarneyGOD put in a good effort, not to ring my own bell. This was our second attempt of trying to finish the tranny game general. The first one, unfortunately, caused troonori fans to migrate into the sharty instead. A few things about the raid that are important. /vg/ is known for being the hardest board to raid, and we managed to get a grand total of 110 missed posts (plenty of archived cheese) even with online jannies (not online moddies though, seeing as one gemmer managed to wait out the 15-min block from posting). So I'll count this as a win. The raid thread itself had a pretty relaxed atmosphere. There were the usual derailtroons, but even they seemed /calm/er. It generated a moderate amount of seethe and what we took were generally some decent size cheeses.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 48

Blog's cancelled for today due to AIDS.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 52 (I've lost the count) - Missed Threads

So I skipped writing the blog for half a week because I have a flipping life and all. And also thanks to the general boredom of /qa/… Again. So, no direct comments on /qa/ for now. So, I am saddened by the collapse of the 5 boards plan. The boards I want deleted are, from most to least: /incel/, /int/, /a/, /tech/. /incel/ is a silly Kuz board. It doesn't have much to do with soyjaks or The Party though, does it? Take a look at their coaltalogue and you'll see at least half of the posts there aren't really "/incelly/" posts. /int/ is a tranny blogposting nest. Furthermore, there is another board with flags (we only need one). And /pol/ has a similar topic. So I've suggested renaming /pol/ to /bant/ - International Politics, adding poster IDs and deleting /int/. Of course, jannies should be moderating it more like /pol/ than the troon blogfest. Tr/a/nime is our sworn enemy, no? Not to say I want to ban tranime from the site, but simply that it doesn't deserve a board. It'd fit in pretty well in /qa/. Soyjaks and tranime actually had a close bond in 4cuck's /qa/. As for /tech/, it's just a silly Kuz board made to advertise coalyma. Nothing to do with soys. But that's it, I have no other issues with the board. I don't expect it to ever get deleted though, THOUGH.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 53 - Tard Tuesday

So I had been thinking, we are the sons of 4cuck after all. But then the schism happened (for obvious reasons.) 4cuckers just can't accept that the internet is shifting away from their japanese goyslop media. Soyaks have a strong presence in the normiesphere too! None of their "sude" "weegee" "nyoro-n" "shoop da woop" "yukkuri" (even though we sadly have to deal with that last one) memes from 20 years ago worked! Wooooooow! It's like time travel to the halcyon days of the 4chan coaltopia. We know and love 4cuck so much we put all our effort into making it a shitfest for mods and the trannies that ruined the 'cuck alike.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 54 - ANuran Period

Despite being slow, /qa/ is reasonably varied in content. Like I've said before, I wish the moderators spent some time manually keeping it that way. This isn't really a serious complaint because I don't expect there to be much effort made in this regard. Now, to comment on the moderation is one thing. There's Doll's /q/ thread for that, which is an excellent initiative, even though his answers are short and he doesn't elaborate much on them. What interests me more is the architecture of the board. The design of /qa/ as it is now makes it a pretty shitty place. Here's why: It doesn't interest the majority of the sharty's users, even though it's expected that people who are on ADHD meds will find anything but basic things interesting. Although I acknowledge the sharty and /qa/ will never be the same, I want to see it as close to /qa/ as possible. This is done, for example, by turning down suggestions to add poster IDs or user moderation on the main boards. It seems as if the moderators are afraid of large changes, which is sensible, but deeply unsatisfactory.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 55 - The furtroon menace

When something starts to get big, someone will start running threads claiming that the topic is either fail, have the death of /qa/ attached to it, or both. A lot of threads have been ruined this way on the site (like dotspamming or 'cado (fortunately most of them have the moral high ground), and all of them end up shitcanned. Now, like every 'rd fad that intends to subvert the sharty, furtroons try to make their garbo pass as soyjaks, even drawing soyjaks of their favorite characters. The result is IAS and you can't argue against that. It even gets on the booru. I say furtroons are right behind troongezenig in their success in doing this. They are festering on the slow board that is /qa/. Moderation against the 'rd should be as legit as 'cado crusades, dottrooning and other forms of user-enforced moderation. This is part of why I don't understand when people say that the old school of /qa/ needs to die or 'rd is in danger or so forth. Look, we all like certain aspects of the boards, and would not want to see them go. What's the point in furtroons? They have little to contribute. They didn't prosper in 4cuck's /qa/ now, did they? It got all drowned out by superior gimmick spammers. Now there's more of them, but they fail to be any better than the original ones. If anything, their behavior is more shitty than the old users.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 56 - The Dilation Counteroffensive

Featured thread: >>>/soy/86409[sic] The Third Soyvil War doesn't exist even though I'll pretend it does. So, today two threads caught my attention: >>101461 and >>101466. Note the proximity between them. The first thread is "bump my thread so thing happen". Zeliggers do this a lot. The whole purpose of this zeligger is to push something he wants to page 1. But he wants the attention and approval of others to be granted to his idea. So, he is taking his chances on bringing something up that others may or may not approve of, to see if he will get the desired attention. But the way he's doing it, it's a win-win situation for him. No point in discussing it any further. The second is the zeligger attempt to "stealthraid" /soy/ with subversive coal… except it's not really stealthy at all, but it's an interesting development nonetheless. It was met with a little backlash, as you would expect. Now, it doesn't take much to change a discussion like this into a soap opera. And, that's just what it is, in many ways: First, we have a person who posted in that thread attempting to defuse it with a well-intentioned "you are the target" joke. Second, there was the response, something to the effect of "do we have to listen to him?" thread to defend the original poster. Third, the original poster makes a snarky comment about the second response. It was funny, but not a smart thing to do. Fourth, there was an attempt at a serious response to the person's remarks, which was done in a way that seems like a pretty clear attack of sorts. The poster took it in the way it was intended, of course. But in my eyes, all anyone was trying to do was express that they didn't like what was being said. Fifth, a follow-up by the same person who posted the serious response. The thread was again met with a response in the vein of an attack, and then a response to that response. Sixth, a reply. The first response to the second response. Seventh, a comment about the reply-to-reply follow-up, which goes on to describe it as if it's an attack. That's pretty much it. Well, it looks like this pisscord skirmish is coming to an end. Maybe the jannies will now try to keep it clean from pisscord groom threads that fester in this slow board.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 57

Nothing interesting happened today. I put in a pretty good effort in my blogs for day 56 and 55, go check them out.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 58

I actually prefer Sootie though. He has a happier (even if sometimes angrier) disposition. Anyway, today was a grim day, or morning at least. The pooplish scat spammers kept the site unusable for a couple of hours, the booru went down for a bit, and we had to deal with cuckflare. As always, the boards other than /soy/ remain dead. This thread though, >>>/raid/thread/40206 We've never done something subversive like this. We mostly employ the hit-and-run tactic of raiding or doxxing. But could 'teens coordinate such a gargantuan project? Simply by mining one gem at a time?

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 59 - Not /qa/ again

Over the last few days I've gone back and forth between the /qa/ coaltalogue and the /soy/ coaltalogue to answer the question of "what is the best approach to raiding?" Let's start with some facts: Fact 1: You raid in TEAMS. You need to have at least some level of coordination with your personal army. This means not CIU too early on during ackdox raids, for instance. Fact 2: Most raids are extremely difficult, which is what makes them fun because difficult and unlikely raids generate tremendous amounts of seethe. Fact #3: Some people are happy to spend time observing raids, reading guides, or reading threads. Others would rather just jump in, learn it, and do it. This is actually not a bad thing, since you are more likely to learn how to improve your performance in an actual raid. Which is why this post might be, well, pointless. But anyway, I say in simple terms that the best approach to raiding is any approach that someone has successfully put in practice. Let's talk about it.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 60 - Commemorative BarneyGOD edition

Featured: https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2444755/ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2444755/ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/5108252

Today's topic takes many directions, and I've written a large draft (I like to write drafts), but I've decided to put my thoughts on the issue in as a summary. But this is not an open thread. It's not one for discussions; it's one for memories. What does this mean? It means I want to take a moment and share my thoughts on some of the things that have happened, and that have become emblematic of this situation. I've already written a lot about it, so I'll just add to that, hopefully. He will forever have the moral high ground, as we know. He refused to play nice and stepped on the eggshells. His legacy, and everyone's reaction to it, will forever live in our hearts. The (hopefully final) fallout from his actions, if not from the original shitshow, will still be very much felt. And it has me (and many others) wondering if the current situation isn't a little like him: He played through his own personal brand of crazy, trying to find a way to achieve victory without doing what would have been the "right" thing to do. Lee Goldson is a special needs jew, after all. He tried to change everything, and he tried to change it with an eye towards "winning". He gave us many chances to make changes of our own, and he wouldn't budge. This was his goal from start to finish. He could have made us change a million things. He tried to win by going his own way, even as he clearly knew he was losing. Lee didn't win. We did. What does that say about us? What does that say about us, as a community? We all know the state of the site, but it's one that works for us, we should all be in agreement on that. I really don't like how, in this time, we've been forced into being the bad guys - like Lee. What's really bothered me most is that we've been forced to act as the bad guy, and when we tried to talk to shitpost neutrally and try to broker peace, it was ignored in the sea of "delete /pol/" trannyposts. We were told that, no matter what, we'd have to act this way. We weren't asked to leave. They threw us out. Like /qa/, Lee is a martyr to many.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 62 - The beginning of the faggot month

Like usual, there's been a bit of trouble early in the morning. I don't know what exactly, but I'm guessing scat or nigger penises again. No matter, it's all dealt with by the time I'm typing this. Only /soy/ has been affected as far as I can tell. We really should do something special for /tttt/ this faggot month. We need to post gems. On the daily. So this is a call to action for all my readers: Post gems! Maybe in organized threads, or alone if you must. We'll make them pay for being trooncord groomers. I'll start posting some right now, in fact. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I want to see someone come up with something.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 64 - No NAS weekend

Hecking bias alert or something. The No-NAS-on-/soy/ rule is something I've been hoping to see for a while now. There's been two "no-NAS days", if I'm not mistaken? But I want to see it as a permanent rule. Leaving /qa/ as the NAS board. Instead of deleting, jannies should move NAS posts on /soy/ to /qa/. So that /qa/ may obtain more traffic than /soy/ and become the main board. That said, there's the issue of blogposting. It seems that the majority of the NAS coalers turn into posting the neutral Markjak to get around the rule and post their coal. Probably nothing can be done about that at this state. Other than that, I'm enjoying the no-NAS-weekend, despite the NAS coaler seethe (especially the desperate zeliggers trying to have 1 troongezenig thread allowed on /soy/) (I suspect that the ones who were caught in this nonsense aren't posting on NAS boards anyway.) It has improved the general atmosphere considerably. I hope the janny crew will be back soon to continue the no-NAS rule for another weekend, and then finally make it permanent. I find the moderation of the no-NAS-weekend to be quite satisfactory. The users were quite compliant, as most of them clearly read the original post. And there were very few NAS.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 67 - Threadmisser

So many things to say, so little time. (And just as few ideas.) So this thread will be offtopic as well. Saturday's blog was fucking insane. Requests were made for me to stop missing threads and to strictly adopt a daily schedule.I honestly don't think I'll be able to keep up with that kind of demand if I keep my current schedule. I'm already exhausted from doing all that I did on Saturday. Like I said, this blog is an incredible experience, but in a lot of ways, it's also a dark one. The social dynamics of the sharty are interesting (even considering how many 4cuck habits still persist, such as the disdain for triptrannies (not that it's a bad thing THOUGH), to say the least. I had, up until that point, been making my own rules and was never really bound by anyone's rules. Suddenly, I was a part of a very defined hierarchy that placed me right at the top. It made me feel like the untouchable king of /qa/, like I was the true ruler of party. It's honestly very unsettling. I realized that the rules that we so commonly dismiss are, in reality, part of a very well-worn social order. This leads to a kind of pervasive atmosphere of respect and social expectation, and that's really the point. But I can see the impact I have. I have a way of getting a whole lot of people's attention at once, and it's easy to come off as somewhat charismatic. Even so, I think there's a lot of us in that same position. Here's the key, though: when we make statements like "do you guys even care what I have to say?" we demonstrate our own contempt for our position in the "hierarchy". You must presume that they must care.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 68 - The NAS among NAS

I should probably preface this by saying that it's something I only partially understand, and the following may therefore not be a proper analysis of the topic. I may just be reading too much into it, so I apologize if that's the case. Hopefully, at least, it will give you some insight. Basically, as I've written elsewhere, I think about "fandom garbo". I laugh at "fandoms" generally, but I'll probably spare you that now. So I had been thinking, how do we get new users at this time and age? To an outsider, mo matter how he feels about soyjaks, he can't help but view the site of soyjak.party with an air of suspicion. Maybe raids or failraids? Or the shitter and soycial media? 'teens sharing it to friends? I feel like this doesn't explain it satisfactorily. I feel like some degenerate coalposters spread word about the Party on their spaces and their fellow coalposters join in on the fun, and eventually some assimilate, some partially assimilate, some leave after some time. Irregardless, as time goes by, the average person will get increasingly acquainted with what we are doing. And that could be dangerous. Unless it's just the jannies looking at dinosaur videos again and I'm looking too hard for explanations for the current state of affairs.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 72 - The great smog of burnt coal that makes it hard to breathe

Featured thread: >>105604

Even for a user who has spent countless hours there I have to admit that /qa/ is starting to give me a migraine. After seeing so many horrible shitshow threads I've become jaded to the point where I actively look for the funny ones now. Even as I have to read the coaltalogue up and down several times before typing this out. Anyway, the "lowlights" for today are the coally blogposts, three infuriating frogposts, and the hecking furry/ponies. You know, the thing is, I want them here because of the board diversity quotas or whatever, even though I hate their guts. Funny how this works. Yet still I don't wanna force myself to look at their posts. Anyway, the real value of /qa/ is getting a laugh out of the situation. Now I want to perform a blog duel and discuss Kuz's blogcoal. Since I like acting like hecking cynical chudbaby I'll be harsh right from the start. I agree, ev&oe not really though. On a personal note, being a ruined person made me use the internet compulsively, not the other way around. One possible consequence of being ruined is spending more time on the internet, especially on the worst places out there. Lucky me I didn't get groomed by hideous troons some 10 years prior. I used to get mad at people for playing internet games too much, I was like "why would anyone want to play that" before I started playing myself. The feeling of belonging to a team and being part of something larger than yourself is intoxicating. I lost myself playing games and stuff. I feel like there was a "better late than never" sentiment in Kuz's blogcoal. You can make a post about how people who were ruined on the internet should change, but in the end it's useless and hypocritical. I'm well aware of the fact that being ruined is something you can't get out of by just trying. Having said that, my advice to people who are suffering is to break off from the herd and find your own way. No one else is gonna save you.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 75 - On a personal note… Featured: >>107607

It's pretty fun to look back at things from time to time and try and gauge how much has changed, and how much I've managed to get wrong. Which is why I don't like to make predictions in my blog. But it's safe to say my whinings, mostly about NAS and /qa/ being slow, earlier on fell on deaf ears. God's plan, maybe. However, the coaltalogue seems to be picking up pace lately. So instead of whinging, I'm going to share with you what I've learned. I'm even trying to be less sarcastic and just "speak". Sorry for my crappy entries. I'm like an old man, crying "But it's too late!", every time I see a change. Why should I have to keep going through the same boring story? I'm used to slow boards. I'm used to necrobumping. Hell, these days I'm used to catty wipes, they're a common occurrence. But a board culture that thrives on all that? That's something new! So today I wanted to share more mundane observations on what's going on. So here we go. 1. A change of perspective I've started to remember why I used to press people about they're posting. And then get their take on it. Most of the times I get hostile/memey responses THOUGH. I still post the same questions. But I've stopped feeling defensive about asking those questions. So now it's like a self-questioning thing. What's in it for me? I know that they're gonna say "You're being too autistic." That this is the kind of stuff /qa/ used to do in days of yore. No, that's not it. 2. A change in the culture This is the most visible sign of a change I've seen in myself. I'm lurking a lot rather than posting, but I'm also done with finding fault with my own posts. It's like I have just taken the "burden" of proving myself. But then I asked myself if it's really that hard? Then I decided to just shitpost. You might as well try and happen to shit the best post ever. The gem that will save the party will appear spontaneously! 3. People posting the same thing over and over and over There's always gonna be the one person who posts the same thing over and over and over. This is like when people used to make the same comments in forums, it's that same kind of boredom-inducing-boredom cycle. I'd rather just go to the next board or stop browsing the sharty when that happens. In conclusion, perhaps it's time to turn the page and see why things are this way and why it might be better so. Maybe that is the reason why things are slowly gettingfaster. Why am I trying to pick "fights" with people? Is this the new "culture"? We need to find out before I go to the nearest bar and take another shot of vodka… (Maybe not actually, I'm not in drinking age.)

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 76 - The Second Great Soyset

Featured: >>108678

There have been two IAS catty wipes of the /qa/ coaltalogue recently, right? One of which I failed to mention yesterday because I was too lazy to do the background research I need to do. Anyway, we're taking /qa/ back! This chaos is exactly the essence of /qa/. I can't wait for the troongezenig counterattack and the ias countercounterattack and so on. This is hilarious. I have nothing else to add, as I fear today's post will get wiped like yesterday's was. It was fate.

Surviving the /qa/ coaltalogue - Day 82 - Over again, a catty wipe

Featured: >>112803 (I love schizophrenia-inducing fastburn kinos, especially by slant-eyed yellow gook bugman shartists from the Far Eastern islands even though Marge UDFNT)

/qa/ survived again on this glorious day. I don't get why some people want /qa/ to be deleted, even though I do (the constant necrobumping and spam, but is that really a reason to delete the board?). I've also been thinking of the proposals to add /zellig/, some serious and some not, but I'm sure that won't work. It's a sign of a dying fad. Remember when many people wanted /fur/, /color/, etc? Me neither. I recently wrote an entry about the reasons not to add more boards (which is actually the same reasons why /qa/ doesn't need to die), hoping that some mod would actually read it. Unfortunately, it is quite likely that this will didn't happen. Oh well, but I'll keep posting here, so it can't be swept under the rug forever. Anyway, this board wipe has been "effective" in the sense that it restored the coalzellig dominance status quo (evidently some moderator has a pro-zellig bias), but it will hopefully lead to a more productive and organized board. It will hopefully give the board a chance to thrive - kudos to the non-Pepe frog drawgemmer. I myself was at a low point when it happened and I don't feel like questioning it this time - if /qa/ didn't have its problems, they wouldn't have had to wipe it. Yesterday there also was the issue of the DDoS, spamming, and doubleposting.

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On the necrobump thread-deleting janny, the plight of a janitor on soyjak.party and on the namefags and their drivel

Recent events have shed light on the challenges janitors face, particularly when dealing with the contentious issue of "necrobumping" and the perceived impunity of certain users. A janitor recently found himself at the center of controversy after independently taking action against threads with necrobumps by outright deleting them. The janitor, like most of us here (I presume), must've believed that this practice was detrimental to the overall quality of discussions. See this post some three weeks ago: >>186495 So, what can be done about this? It's already been said that no necrobumpers will be 'nished, the current guidelines aren't strong enough to discourage this, and have had little effect on this growing problem. Some other factors to be blamed are the lack of activity on /qa/ and the existence of 40 pages. Root has implied that namefagging may be 'nished from /qa/ instead, see: >>>/q/140372 which I don't think is the ideal solution.

I'd like to know what your thoughts are, particularly on the following: >What can/should be done about necrobumping and namefags? >Is necrobumping and namefags as big a problem as it seems? >How can we improve the general quality and activity of the discussions on /qa/?

My honest opinion is the following: Nothing. Nothing can be done. The whole point of soyjak.party is to have free discussion. Necrobumping is bad but not worth the trouble of trying to prevent it. You could try to delete threads that are necrobumped more than three times, for example, but that would just bring more attention to threads that are bumped recently and people might start bumping those threads instead to see if they can get the janitor to delete them.

I've said this many times, but I believe the solution is to emulate the constraints of 4chan just like old school /qa/ by adding a 60s cooldown between posts and a 10min cooldown between threads (but allowing cattywiping to make up for it), and making /qa/ the main board, thus diluting the current /qa/ """culture""" and posting style (which are just a slop of shit and I've been openly hostile to it) with 'jakkers, thus improving the signal/noise ratio. This can only be done forcefully: By locking /soy/ for a week in order to get 'jakkers to use the other boards, mainly /qa/. Ironically, people are using only one board, /soy/ (which accounts for over 85% of this site's posts) because the other boards are not active enough.

The janitor's "solution" was in fact a mistake. Deleting threads with necrobumps is a solution to nothing, in fact all it does is to delete threads with recent activity and thus it is detrimental to discussions in the sense that it removes discussion, it doesn't improve it. The janitor was misguidedly trying to fix a problem that can't be fixed, instead of trying to fix the underlying causes, which aren't up to a janitor to fix, but are up to admins to fix. The true causes of the stagnation of /qa/ are a lack of activity and a decline in quality. And the necrobumping is just a consequence. And the lack of activity is a consequence. We can't fix it by taking action on it. It's like using a medicine to treat the symptoms and not the cause of an illness.

As for namefagging, it is true that namefagging is harmful to the quality of the discussions because the discussions revolve around individuals instead of ideas and their interactions. But, despite the fact that it is harmful, I think it's something that should be tolerated to some extent. Not that I endorse it, but 4cuck's /qa/ allowed namefagging freely and /soy/ doesn't. But namefagging works well for the purpose of trolling, it helps people interact with one another on a deeper level and gives people nicknames and personalities, which I think is important in an imageboard. I would just like to discourage it, not ban it. Dunno how to "discourage" it though besides calling namefags names like a nulee.

To summarize: Do nothing. The necrobumping is a result of a lack of activity and a decline in quality, not the cause of it. If we want to do something, we should implement the old school /qa/ rules and promote /qa/ to make /soy/ less dominant, and we should improve /qa/'s activity and quality to prevent necrobumping by improving the signal to noise ratio.