/meta/ - Ruthless criticism of all that exists (in leftypol.org)

06/05/21 revision:
Recreate the reading sticky
Various small UI corrections (e.g >>6189 , >>6125 , flag squashing)
Constitutional reworking (including a concrete policy for proposal of new features, requiring public announcement before actual consideration, and requiring any external offers/proposals/communications to be brought before the community prior to any engagement)
Review of character limit after a short period
Develop proper anti-spam measures
Filters for analrectal and thingnoticer
Custom captcha (only to be used during heavy raids)
J-SON integration
Determine future policy for banning standards on /leftypol/ and /b/

Come dispute bans, complain, and other such things related to /leftypol/ here.

Mod Logs: https://leftypol.org/log.php?board=leftypol

You can reach the leftypol team through the matrix chat
https://matrix.to/#/!vdWmErwFTxUwRiefpe:matrix.org?via=matrix.org

Technical suggestions or feedback should be posted for the time being in >>>/leftypol/30303

Updated: Dec.30 10:30PM UTC
This OP will (hopefully) remain updated with the latest information on voting. I won't be explaining too much about the process as it's currently only unofficially being used until a new constitution is written. The basics are that any staff member can create a [proposal]. Two other users approve this proposal for voting, this is not approval of the measure but of the clarity and purpose of the proposal. Once approved it can become a [vote]. Votes finish in 3 days or when a vote has majority approval/disapproval. There are also fast track votes, but we don't need to get into those. With that out of the way, here's the current view:

Ongoing Propositions:
* Proposal: Vote on whether we should use our public names in the mod meeting, if names should be up to moderator choice, or whether all mods should only be identified via numbers.

Votes:
* Vote: Extension of 3 days on board merger vote. – Vote ends Jan.3rd – 4 yay
* Vote: Have a conversation on switching staff rooms from matrix to another, self-hosted, FOSS software. Possible alternatives include, but not limited to: rocket.chat, session messenger, matterhorn, zulip, scuttlebutt, jabber. – 5 yay 2 abstain – Ends January 8th
* Vote: Merge /games/ and /anime/ into /hobby/ (while keeping a backup of the current threads of each for future use) Vote ends 31st Dec 10pm UTC – 6 yay 3 nay

Recently Completed:
* Get rid when possible of the side bar and the HTML frames in the home page. – PASSED 6 yay
* Vote: delete hidden boards from leftypol – PASSED 5 yay
* Make Dark Red the Default Theme for now. – PASSED 4 yay 3 nay
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ITT retrieve old and currently-missing /leftypol/ flags that would be good to add back.
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://8ch.net/leftypol/res/*
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://8ch.net/static/custom-flags/leftypol*
I found the Technocrat and snibetti snab flags. I know the Anarcho-Transhumanism flag is missing and I want to find it and have it added back if possible (t. anarcho transhumanist anon). Pics related

P.S. the "Athiesm" flag is misspelled, it's spelled Atheism.

There should be a 🍔 at the top of every post coming from the US.

Discuss.

I hereby respectfully request that porn should be banned from /b/. Porn has no place in a leftist forum. It is ridiculous that I might be subject to porn every time I click on /overboard/. I have filtered /b/, but it still shows up in the /overboard/ catalog. That said, even if I could filter /b/ from the catalog, it would still be unacceptable. New users looking for serious leftist discussion will be turned away when they open /overboard/ and it's full of porn from /b/ (and low quality shitposts for that matter, but I digress). Ever since /b/'s inception, there has regularly been a porn thread on /overboard/. Think of what impression this makes on new users. Imagine visiting this website for the first time and then seeing this thread on the top of /overboard/: https://leftypol.org/b/res/9485.html.

On another note, I respectfully request that /b/ should be completely deleted. /b/ promotes and only promotes low level discourse, and it has quickly become a cesspit that shits up /overboard/ ever since its inception. I see no point for the existence of /b/ except that it's a remnant of other general chans. However, this is /leftypol/, not a 4chan/8chan clone. This website should be focused on leftist discussion. The side boards (e.g., hobby, tech, edu, etc.) are fine since the thread in there are high quality discussions that are at the very least tangentially related to leftism. I cannot say the same about /b/.

Many rightoids come to visit this site and argue/converse with us, however most of them regurgitate old talking points and memes. So some of us write detailed responses to their oft repeated points and simply use that copy pasta to counter them.However in posting these pastas we spoil good threads. So could the mods create some sort of permanent thread on /Edu/ or some other board which we could store arguments in and link to them when in contention. We could have sections of detailed response for each rightoid argument and If we got good enough counter arguments we could even have an official Leftypol FAQ.

>ban posts with less than 200 characters
>people must now write a fucking essay to bitch about simple problems they have living under capitalism
>board slowly slides into tankies having arcane arguments about their respective ideologies and divorced from material reality
Who saw that coming? I didn't.

>effortposts are buried under dozens of generic memey one-liners
i hate having to dig through shit to strike gold

I wonder how many users have left thanks to the /pol/tard raids.