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

We need not one, not two, not three, but four stickies. In fact, we need more stickies. Fuck it, make half the threads stickies. Free stickies for anyone!
>The body was too short or empty.
Site is run by idiots, I swear.

Just taking a poll of the users here. There always seems to be contradictory feedback on whether the mods are too strict, too lenient, or too inconsistent. So I'd like to make an unofficial poll to judge the userbase's opinions on the issue - and yes, VPNs are banned.

survey link: https://strawpoll.com/NMnQNpDBBg6

Poll closes on 2024-01-19.

ORDINANCES:
1. H*z is banned. Any mention of, depiction of, video, audio, or image (including memes) of, or related to, the individual known as Adam Tahir (more commonly known as Haz Al-Din), including associated projects such as the media collective "Infrared", or the US-based "American Communist Party" founded in 2024, etc. are BANNED.

2. No non O.C. Wojaks, Pepes, or Groypers. Any Wojaks, pepes, groypers, etc. which are not /leftypol/ original content are considered spam.

3. The Wojakifcation/wojak script is banned. This is a bit of javascript, commonly used on bunkerchan, which takes a post one is replying to and posts a greentext version of it in a pre-made wojak template, which is used as a reaction image.

4. 'Real Proletarian' rhetoric which implies a large percentage of wage workers are not proletarians is banned - per modocracy vote passed on 2024-12-25

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is leftypol only slowing down here or is it running on a dora the explorer laptop?

would it be liberal corruption to run ads in here to keep the lights on?

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Proposing adding to /leftypol a new general - /sciat (scientific atheism general) - for discussing all things religion and religion-adjascent. Would greatly help in keeping the rest of the board materialist, which I think majority of anons here wants.

Since the drama over the Elon/h1b meltdown thread, I've noticed some people would like an opportunity to provide more generalized feedback. Most of the time mods would prefer to stay behind the scenes and not engage with the userbase due to the numerous bad faith actors, crossposters, and others who would take advantage of that. The downside is that moderation is often really opaque to users which is a frustrating experience.

Just note, this thread is for general site governance and policy, not specific ban decisions for example, which still goes to the relevant /meta/ thread or tech feedback, unless you really feel you can't get ahold of those people for whatever reason. I would like to continue the type of conversations that we've had in threads like >>>/meta/37778

I'm not terminally online and obviously I need to eat, sleep, go to work, and do other stuff so I won't always respond here instantly, but when I'm online I will try and respond to the queries in relatively timely manner.

Also note while I take suggestions, the website isn't a dictatorship, its a modocracy so any ideas I take from this thread still have to be put to a vote for 1-2 weeks or more before, for example, it can become an ordinance. Same for repealing ordinances or any other major decision. Normally, this sort of thing would go in /meta/ but some users have expressed that /meta/ doesn't get enough traffic for it to be truly representative of the userbase (not that anything ever could be).

This thread will be cyclical - also note that this is feedback to ME, specifically, not the whole mod team. For that use /meta/. Not to say they can't also chime in but it isn't a requirement.

TLDR: this is a suggestions/complaints + AMA thread.

why are racebait threads like >>>/leftypol/2093144 and the blatant racism in them allowed?
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/leftypol/ is just /siberia/ now. A general purpose random/b board for retard stoners to post the first thought they had in their head that day.
How did we get here? How do we improve it?
For one i propose we bring back character limits in OPs and demand the jannies actually do their job in cleaning up the main board, pushing things to /siberia/, generals, deleting them and actively banning people who make such threads, as let's be real, it's probably the same two or three people who hang out in the Matrix with the jannies and think due to their bubble it's actually good content.

examples of the absolute trash you people are apparently pushing as good content:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/2046838.html#q2046838
https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/2046664.html
https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/2047125.html
https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/2047193.html
https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/2047415.html
https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/2048660.html
https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/2047163.html
Some of these were not even coherent, like the last one? it reads like a drunkanon got confused trying to send a text message to someone.
The Jannies are very resolutely refusing to take action or acknowledge they have a problem, what do we do?

If you can't call libshit faggots you're retarded
This board is so backwards that even when you bring the issue to the central point you have to add it some bullshit filler.
Enjoy yourselves
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This board is so backwards that even when you bring the issue to the central point you have to add it some bullshit filler.
This board is so backwards that even when you bring the issue to the central point you have to add it some bullshit filler.
This board is so backwards that even when you bring the issue to the central point you have to add it some bullshit filler.

Almost half the threads in /siberia/ are sex/idpol/incel shit
There's also an uptick in frog/jak OPs both on /siberia/ and /leftypol/

Please enforce the rules and clean it up (one sex general, one lgbt general, no jaks/frogs)
fixed the OP

/feminism/
/fem/
/mf/ (marxist feminism)
/women/
something like this

Would need a lot of moderation and would absolutely be an uphill battle but that's the point. No where else has a space to discuss feminism from an actual left, marxist angle. Yes the board would probably be overrun by chuds/chauvists/incels/terfs at first, but just making the space should attract people who fit the culture we want to build for this site better. Liberals so thoroughly control this space that even people here don't think of feminism as someone compatible with Marxism, despite the absolute wealth of works it has produced on the matter.

Also merge /games/ /hobby/ and /music