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

is the .onion down or something? it hasn't been reachable for days. I tried both the old address ( http://76i2c3hn55fcj5nut3tqlboqqbbh23zvphv7lefk3vftpx6wketlanyd.onion/ ) and the new address ( http://ojzfy6mtnjkg4pbkf6fjnty22naczpek253skjm4crwftbohwgevbjyd.onion/ )
leftychan's .onion works fine

Can we bring back the weed flag? Before it existed only on siberia. Can we bring it back for all boards?
Drug user liberation seems to be in line with the broader sense of "leftism", flag could be used to ID users for single-issue politics.

Filter "lumpen" to "-oomer" pls

Not posting this in that dogshit meta board so the mods can ignore it and the userbase can not have a chance to discuss
If mods auto-remove this after leaving up a fucking race science thread they will have shown where their loyalties lie
At this point /leftypol/ has been turned into an even shittier version of siberia and siberia is indistinguishable from any other pathetic incel hole amongst the internet’s various chans
We went from threads where people wrote essays worth of discussion with each other to faggots spewing one liners and memes

This needs to end; this thread is for the few remaining communists to discuss if we can and how we can retake our forum

>Incel posts are banned site wide (i.e. incel talking points and making 9999 threads complaining about women, saying all women are bourgeoise/sluts/etc.) - per modocracy vote passed on 2025-01-02
This is way too vague.

For instance is stating that the state of dating under capitalism is fucked (which it is) an incel talking point? How about lamenting the difficulty of being a guy on dating apps? Is criticism of feminism still allowed (something which has always been present on /leftypol/)?

I'm concerned this motion was passed on vibes alone and will be applied inconsistently and arbitrarily depending on what individual mods consider an incel to be and the views they imagine them to have. The word 'incel' is essentially meaningless at this point (so often used as a liberal slur akin to the likes of "tankie") that you need to give a specific definition of your interpretation of the word. When half of the site meet the basic criteria of being an incel - that is being a sexually inactive male who wants to have sex with a woman but struggles to do so - the details really do start to matter.

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.