>>69025 thats a lot of projecting youre doing there, tourist

>>69028 Thanks you, admin, the voice of reason >>69025 >They're like LGBT/BLM activists Just say it, they are a bunch of nigger faggots.

I've deployed an improved proxy detection mechanism, so some anons might suddenly be hit with the block. As usual /site/ is exempt from it, so go there to grab a bypass or let me know if a non VPN/proxy/tor IP got blocked too.

Rule 3 seems to be being enforced rather arbitrarily, could I get some clarification? Seems to me some one can fuck with you but telling them to fuck off gets you whacked for derailing.

>>69778 Post number?

>>69784 uhh 69744 - it was a whole chain. I kinda get the namefag thing if naming and shaming isn't a behavior you want to cultivate. But if I responded to, say, 69766 it'd be really no different to what happened before. So you would assume I'd get whacked again for "derailing", despite not instigating anything. Just want some clarification on if that's the go or if there was some other reason for the moderation response.

>>69787 >But if I responded to, say, 69766 it'd be really no different to what happened before. I don't follow.

>>69789 Well lets say I told him to fuck off, in not as many words, it'd likely end up in a back and forth. Namefag thing aside, thats really all I did the first time around I got warned for "derailing". So you'd assume that, all things being equal I'd get warned again (or banned). Meanwhile the instigating post 69744 is still up. I don't really care, I just want to know if when it comes to moderation you look more at the posts that continue shit, rather than start shit. That's what I meant by it seeming arbitrary.

>>69792 >69744 meant 69766

>>69023 While I will admit that it was unfortunate people wanted to try and derail the topic with the idea of casual sex and “XD only Unicorns are virgins!!1!!” despite the lore directly contradicting their claims, I am not going to apologize for mentioning how brothels are more or less boarding schools to be a good housewife or an easy way for monsters to find a spouse. I just wish people would fuck off with bait people shouldn’t be biting.

>>69792 If you told him to fuck off, in that many words, without any further interaction, i wouldn't bat an eye. I intervened harshly this time because i don't want yet another named poster going in back an forths with other people derailing the thread, and i think you did understand that(I kinda get the namefag thing) About 69766, think you are taking it a bit too seriously. To me it seems like a tongue-in-cheek thing, rather than malicious. I don't like getting involved unless strictly necessary. Someone calling someone else a retard once is standard for these kinds of boards. I intervened to prevent a second frenchfag from forming. The best response for those kind of posts is to pass the vibe test, and the second best is to ignore them. If i see it's not a joke, and it's malicious, i will intervene. Hope you understand.

>>69795 Thanks for the clarification, I understand your response. I understand why you'd think I'm taking that post too seriously and perhaps I am. At the end of the day though, I know who posted it, I had a name for him, and I know it wasn't intended as a joke. Obviously, that doesn't mean I have to take the bait, I get it, part and parcel of a chan. I was just wondering what was at the heart of this particular decision.

>>69796 >At the end of the day though, I know who posted it, I had a name for him, That's the thing, that's not who you think it is. The second consequence of these kinds of thing is that people start seeing posters they hate everywhere. Don't let people live rent free in your head.

>>69797 kek, alright then >Don't let people live rent free in your head. I'll leave it to the flayers

>>69795 >a second frenchfag What?

>>69835 Lurk moar.

>>69836 I think that I'm the anon you're referring to; that's why I was asking for more intel. I don't know if this is the place, or if I can ask this, but I would like to know if I messed up since the move to Capy. If yes, can you tell me where (if possible) and what I should not do? (I know that it sounds stupid, but until now I thought that it was all good.) I can guess that this post is part of it but I rather ask now than get ban later because I'm retarded

>>69837 I meant the frog, not the anti-frog

>>69837 I'd hazard a guess that mod was talking about general emergence of the thread persona and the ensuing drama than him being against (You). Your anti- schizo stalking you caused orders of magnitudes more damage than you ever did.

>>69840 I see but I'm uncertain. It could also be me, I fucked up bad. I will wait for his answer

>>69837 As anon >>69840 said, i'm not talking about anything you've done. I'm talking about preventing a situation forming where another person gets harassed because of his posts, meaning, preventing your situation from forming again.

>>69797 But then how will we truly live out the good old days without dumb as fuck meta drama and namefags? /s

>>69856 Understood, thanks a lot. Please tell me if I fuck up again.

Is there any way to find out if somebody's abusing the report function? I believe there's a certain poster who tries to police the board by reporting everything that isn't to his tastes.

>>72191 >reports I don't think anyone actually looks at them, given that they keep piling up and nobody closes them. In our case it's banal to simply follow all the new posts. I guess you are talking about the posts deleted from /mge/ today, you can discuss it here if there is something wrong with with how the mod operates, but from what I'm observing he's doing a good job keeping both shitposting troublemakers and spergs at bay. Or at least better at it than I was. You can also follow the logs https://capybarachan.org/logs.js?boardUri=mg to see if there is something fishy going on.

>>72195 Oh, logs. Thanks a lot, I think I was able to trace a timeline of all those recent flamewars :) but, there are two things I don't quite understand. First, I've found a bunch of unexplained file deletions, such as >>71693 >>69696, what's wrong with them? It's just images deleted, the posts themselves stay. Second, why are bans for mundane reasons like "offtopic" "trolling" "unnecessary politics" etc. permanent while "cp spam" usually has a month-long ban?

>>72206 >I've found a bunch of unexplained file deletions AFAIK it's the local "no off-topic pics" unwritten rule derived from their thread culture. The mod himself can weigh in on this, I don't moderate /mge/ except for very specific circumstances like repeated ban evasion or other shit that affects the whole board >Second, why are bans for mundane reasons like "offtopic" "trolling" "unnecessary politics" etc. permanent Those are not bans, logs show them as "Ban" type but then it says >User REDACTED warned the posters A few times people got permabanned instead of warned by accident (the way you apply warn or ban on LynxChan is... peculiar), but I quickly lifted such accidental bans. Generally it's hard to get banned here, we use warnings to communicate if something is not desired. >while "cp spam" usually has a month-long ban? I don't permaban spammers because it's futile, they are cycling through a seemingly infinite pool of IPs and someone innocent could end up sharing the IP at one point.

>>72208 Far as I know /mge/ has their own mod, right? Does his authority spread over onto other threads (e.g. General Monstergirl Thread)?

>>72210 No, rest of the board goes on as before.

>>72206 >First, I've found a bunch of unexplained file deletions, Off topic images. Stuff like pieces of futurama episodes, which i consider to be avatarfagging in the current situation, and images not to do with monstergirls in general. It's not a hard rule, but >>31197 explains well what the policy more or less it. >Second, why are bans for mundane reasons like "offtopic" "trolling" "unnecessary politics" etc. Like the board owner said, the way you give warnings is by accessing the ban UI, which defaults to a permaban if you forget to change it to a warning because not specifying a duration means "indefinite".

>>72210 Thankfully no.

>>72208 Wait, so all this deletefaggotry is only in the mge thread? I can still funpost on the rest of the board and not have my shit randomly deleted for no reason?

>>72489 >I can still funpost on the rest of the board More or less, I do delete posts but mainly when it's autistic derailing with arguments or unironic /pol/ shizoposting.

You writers might want to start looking for alternatives for AO3 to post your stories. Looks like they've joined the crusade against privacy/anonymity. Now they're blocking "VPNs" (which apparently includes Tor access) for no good reason.

>>79188 Not saying it's a bad idea to avoid putting all eggs in one basket, but looks like it's a temporary message. I checked the site in Tor and it's not consistent whether it loads properly or I get an error.

>>79192 >message *measure

>>79192 I'm also using Tor. For me, it loaded the site just fine on the first try, but after a very short period of usage, it redirected me to "Down for maintenance" page. Which is BS, since it loads normally again 50% of times when I change the Tor circuit, but refreshing the page on the same IP/circuit returns you to the "maintenance" page indefinitely. New Tor circuit -> It loads and works normally for a while, from a few seconds to a couple minutes -> Get redirected to "maintenance" which reverts to normal after IP address change. The "VPN/Tor" block is suspicious, though. Reported problems included "slowness" and "website reporting being down" (had this issue for a couple weeks already, accidental 525 page for a short time). Seems to be more of a server issue, since it began happening after their last maintenance cycle. Why ban anonymous access and why does it so conveniently happen when everybody else is on to tightening the Internet control? Also, while looking for alternatives, I've just realized that Squidgeworld (aka the other/smaller AO3) is no longer anonymous-friendly, requiring users to submit their ID (through fingerpinting) to even access the site. At the moment of writing this, AO3 is still fucked, only allowing about 10 seconds of browsing before redirecting to the "maintenance" page. The rate of successful access to the site (w/o redirect) is about 33%. I'm starting to think about moving to the darknet.

>>79209 Anon, I strongly suggest loosening up your tinfoil hat before you go off the deep end. If ao3 wanted to block vpn/tor, they would use the usual security excuse and claim they have to do it because of abuse and everyone would accept it without question. There is zero point in doing such convoluted schemes when only a tiny handful of internet schizos (and political activists, who are obviously not ao3's userbase) care about tor.

>>79217 >they would use the usual security excuse But this looks like the case right now. Although the way they block Tor users looks more like a shadowban (directing to the "under maintenance" page to confuse crawlers and AI maybe?) rather than a "Show ur papers plz" like Cloudflare does. >only a tiny handful of internet schizos (and political activists, who are obviously not ao3's userbase) care about tor. That's a very idiotic claim. Anyone who is concerned with self-preservation is concerned about privacy and anonymity. Anyway, the point was, we should probably look around for alternatives. It might be a "temporary" measure "until things stabilize" or it might be a big middle finger from AO3 on behalf of the True Government, but having a backup refuge or two never hurt anybody. Shit happens. Might hit the fan any time.

>>79244 >having a backup refuge or two never hurt anybody. Ask /monster/ about Slash and then get back to us about that.

>>79247 Be more direct, will you?

>>79248 Point being, have you heard of Slash? It was /monster/'s story archive. Keyword here is was, because in their infinite wisdom, they had one guy running the show. He went AWOL, the site went permanently down, and now there's a ton of stories that got lost because people were paranoid about uploading their work on anywhere else online. Remember, fans of MGE and Monster Girls are a small fraction of a drop, and that is only one drop in the bucket of the internet. We are all nobodies. There are bigger fish to fry as far as online communities and the government go. I know they're legitimately more concerned with the War Thunder forums because of all the confidential leaks regarding military crafts.

>>79279 >in their infinite wisdom, they had one guy running the show That's not really a /monster/ exclusive issue. If the guy running monster girl games collection here disappears, same thing happens. Wikifag goes MIA? Most likely same scenario. The monster girl fandom simply shrunk so much that those initiatives are generally a one man's circus. Hell, if this site goes down I have a hard time imagining someone stepping up to create another safe heaven.

>>79280 You are asking authors to ditch an established website and have their works uploaded elsewhere, which, as you mentioned with our community, is going to be one dude doing it cause he feels like it, because a couple TOR users (less than 5% of the Monster Girl community) can't access the site, due to a nebulous feeling that the government is doing something to specifically fuck with our community. I don't know if you are aware, but online communities like ours fall under Bread and Circus. We are far more likely to have some bored spook lurking and taking notes than anything else. As far as anonymity is concerned, we're you born in a hospital? Have you gone to a doctor for any illness, or have had your blood drawn for tests? Went to public school? Filed taxes? In many instances like these, the government has all the info on you they need, and have been tracking you since day one, regardless of what honeypot web browser you are using. Once again, let me reiterate, we are nobodies in the grand scheme of things. Unless you happen to be Edward Snowden or figured out a backdoor into some NSA servers, the government doesn't give two shits about what you whack off to, as long as you're entertained and not paying attention to what's going on in their world.

Stepping back from the schizoposting and concentrating on the origianal topic, if anyone is really worried about sites blocking/deleting content, redundancy is key. If it's something that concerns you, there is no better way to make sure that it stays available than to have copy of the archives/content yourself. For example, the complete MGE gallery, including fanart and fanstories, is 58GB(pretty small). If you care, download the stories that are posted in the general thread, and encourage others to do similar archiving.

>>79283 Anon, ao3 isn't just a monster girl website. It's a fan work archive for nearly every fandom out there. I'm just going to ignore your fallacious "You have no anonymity" rant and say that you should possibly do a good research before making stupid ass statements like this, >TOR users (less than 5% of the Monster Girl community) Unless you have run a good statistical analysis (which is impossible unless you're the B.O., a Cloudflare employee, or a hacker with access to mg communities' userbase), you can't know how many people from mg community use tor or some other anonymity tool. As for the whole government debate, these guys want to control everything you see, read, think etc. and they have the technology that allows them to get fairly close to this goal. So yes, they do care what you whack off to. As well as what you buy, what you post, what you watch, play, who you talk to, etcetcetcetc. That's why personalized ads and similar things exist.

As for ao3 itself, from what I see from the status reports here https://www.otwstatus.org/ the archive managers have likely fucked up with the last upgrade. I've ran into this issues too, the site reporting being down every now and then and then coming back to normal after a short while. I'm not sure, but it might have started since their last maintenance cycle, they do these from time to time. My guess is they have screwed up with their latest upgrade and are now trying to fix it. Someone should probably tell them to revert to the software and setting they've been using before the last maintenance cycle until they can figure out what's wrong with their latest update, and run thorough diagnostics of their newest software (which is giving users outages, slowness etc.)

>>79300 >I'm just going to ignore your fallacious "You have no anonymity" Not the same anon. Just saying what you personally can do. At this point, if you want to keep rambling, do as you wish. If you care about preservation, access and getting around possible censorship, follow my advice. If you want to not be tracked by absolutely no one, disconnect from the internet entirely.

>>79283 >You are asking authors to ditch an established website and have their works uploaded elsewhere Did you reply to wrong post or got me mixed up with someone else? Because I am absolutely not demanding for authors to move to some obscure service, even if they actually do block vpn and tor completely.

>>79335 It's called "Strawman fallacy". When a jackass intentionally distorts someone else's words and presents them as what smeone else has said. Nobody in this thread advocated for the authors to "move to another platform", the talk was about "considering alternatives for backup". You know, like, having an account on ao3 and on another place. Guess it's just the shitty human nature manifesting itself, the urge to shit on someone just for the fuck of it even if you have no valid grounds for that.