/sugg/ - Suggestions / Meta

So we removed and combined boards, and while I agree less is more in this case, what if we came up with one or two new boards? If we did, what could they be?

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So, upon further investigation, it turns out that the spam bots are using countermeasures to thwart the less intensive anti-spam measures we could use. Unfortunately this means that there is no easy solution. Currently I can see three possible remedies.

1) Use captchas. (Once-a-day captchas are a feature that is specific to 8chan and I don't know if we can implement them.)

2) Use an automated spam-detection service like Akismet. The con here is that we'd have to share every post's content with Akismet's servers in order to check it for spam, including the user's IP address.

3) Hire a ridiculous number of Janitors and try to manage them all.

Word/phrase filters are impossible because the bots are too smart. Any comments or alternative suggestions are welcome.

Could we please address the rampant namefagging / borderling camwhoring infesting /cos/? It's not what chans are for.

I fixed the contrast on the main theme. Tell me I'm blind and that it sucks.

Have you considered using lynxchan?
It is much faster and got more features than vichan and there are already some pretty good front-ends, like the one over http://endchan.xyz and http://penumbra.network

Original Thread: >>2690
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Based on feedback in the first thread, here is the second draft for the board restructuring. At the conclusion of this thread, we will begin implementing changes.

Yume Nikki:
/yn/ - YN General
/c/ - Characters
/fg/ - Fangames
/yume/ - Dreams

Arts & Entertainment:
/o/ - Oekaki / Art
/co/ - Comics / Cartoons / Anime
/cos/ - Cosplay / Conventions
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I said in the news post that we're going to be merging and restructuring boards, and that we'd be getting user input during this process.

Here is a first draft plan for the new board list. Please read and comment. (We will also have a process for moving threads from annexed boards to the relevant new boards.)

First Category:
/yn/ - yn general
/c/ - characters
/fg/ - fangames
/cos/ - cosplay/conventions
/yume/ - dreams

Second Category:
/o/ - oekaki/art
/co/ - comics/cartoons
/lit/ - lit
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STOP DELETEING MY POSTS YOU IDIOT

i posted a on /hikki/ and it was valid discussion but it was removed my? i used very civil language to address a point that had to be raised because of a misleading advertisement by malicious individuals but no! the mod deletes MY POST? not theirs? well good luck to whomever ventures over to that particular voip server of theirs because they will make fun of you!!!

THE MODS SUCKS NEW MODS

Happy belated New Year Uboachan! And also, happy belated Birthday!

It may not look like much yet, but the staff have been busy devising new ways to make Uboachan great again this year. This has included subtle changes to the board rules, and reenvisioning of the policies by which the moderation staff operate. And behind the scenes, we've been working on bugfixes and new software to help us battle the rising tides of CP spam. Some shitty pedo won't be the death of us, and neither will negativity or bad vibes. We're stepping up our game in the background to clean this place up.

First off, the wordings of the rules have been altered to reflect a major change in the goals of the moderation staff. We're going to be tougher on shitposting this year. Let this be a warning: destructive posters and poisonous sentiments will be leeched from Uboachan like venom from a wound. If you are a total dickwad, you will first be warned generously to clean up your act, and then you will be banned. Let's all take this opportunity to be awesome and helpful people – the kind of people who build up a community rather than tearing it down. We could use some community-building right about now.

The CP spam remains a problem this year, but we've got people working behind the scenes to make the spammer's job harder. Every new countermeasure we develop incites an almost immediate change in the way the bot operates to nullify that countermeasure. We are being watched, so we're going to watch right back. Please welcome Jove, our new Janitor and Countermeasures Developer, who has been writing us software to help the board and the staff do their jobs more quickly and efficiently. Among these new developments is a bot that notifies the staff of new posts and suspected floods. We'll also be hiring additional Janitors to help us out! If you'd like to help us keep Uboachan clean of spam, shoot me an email at seisatsu@uboachan.net and tell me why you would be a valuable addition to the team.

And last on the docket, we've got way too many boards! It's not my fault, I didn't do it, it was like this when I got here. :(

We're finally going to be working on merging and restructuring boards. Don't worry, the staff will be accepting requests to move threads from retired boards to their new and consolidated replacements so that good content isn't buried and lost. And of course, we will be relying on input from the userbase during this process to ensure that ePost too long. Click here to view the full text.