there are 3 places to discuss british politics with rael human beans and they are as follows 8chan.moe/brit : a collection of highly insular autists and schizos 4chan brit/pol/: full of glown%(@#)$ and retards reddit badunitedkingdom: higher signal to noise ratio but hobbled by being reddit (naturally) maybe this place can be better?

erm muslims are invading our shit what are we gonna do?

@OP Be honest, what do you think about the thread moderation system? Do you think it will deter bad faith actors or just create echo chambers? I want people to be able to get rid of schizos / bots / thread derailers / spammers easily.

@1 my personal belief is the country is fucked and i am actively planning to get the fuck out @2 i have thoughts on this, but the brief version is yes, it will help deter shitters by letting people that actually care about discussion moderate and remove shitters. if someone abuses that power and silences dissent, and the users dont want that, then they can go to other threads where that doesnt happen. my longer thoughts on it are that the key ingredients to any good internet discussion are 1) high signal-to-noise ratio 2) relatively uncensored discourse 3) diverse ranges of thought. lots of things need to come together for a medium to be good and effective but fundamentally shit userbases make for shit discussions and good userbases make for good discussions. once you have something good, keeping it going well can be surprisingly easy if the user base remains consistent, which is why e.g i have participated in smallish discords that are highly productive because they're well managed and well pruned. it only takes one bad actor who isn't well constrained to ruin things in such an environment, so it's good to give powers to users to remove such shitters, but its even better to keep them from getting there in the first place. if i were to create something like this i would be strongly considering rangebans from any non-western nations. good moderation is needed to keep the signal to noise ratio high, and wise moderation is needed to keep the discourse uncensored. you can't do anything to necessarily bring diverse ranges of thought other than being a high quality channel for discussion and hoping you attract the right people. so if you want to be a high quality channel, you can't just think about things in terms of "how do i resolve moderation" but "how do i attract good posters, how do i deter bad posters" in a holistic sense. rangebans would be a good first step, but i imagine there is more you could do.

@3 I was thinking about rangebanning VPN and TOR users, but I'll wait until a problem arises that actually calls for that option. I couldn't bring myself to rangeban entire nations simply because I've encountered high quality posters from nations an informed anon would usually write off. I think I will just enable country names in moshpits that request it so it becomes easier to sniff out potential problems. I broke the country abbreviations in #global, so I will add isocodes to this moshpit after I find the problem.

@4 i understand where you are coming from but you need to think of things in terms of a signal to noise ratio. if range banning e.g indian posters keeps away 10 good posters and 10 thousand bad ones then it's nearly essential that you do it. all it takes is one or two dedicated shitters for the endeavour to become impossible. if you ever used omegle post 2020 it was just endless indians and it became strictly necessary to block them to use the site. i would suggest giving the option to moshpits to implement a rangeban if they so wish. anyway, its time for some brit/pol/ does anyone have a read on what the fuck happened at fairford? the blob appear to be losing their shit and the conflicting information reads like a chaos op on behalf of the glowies. my read is that the whole story with the farmer etc was entirely made up and intelligence had been on them for weeks, like trump said (i dont trust zion don at all but you can generally tell when he's lying pretty easily), and british intelligence wanted to keep things quiet because they were terrified of saying "look a foreign power has commissioned attacks on our soil and we will do nothing about it", but the cat's out of the bag so they had to commit to a disinfo campaign to muddy the waters.

@4 You rangeban India and Israel and you're golden.

@5 @6 I'll sleep on it. I don't think we will have a problem anytime soon when it comes to demographics but it is best to get ahead of potential problems. Can one of you post so I can see if the ISOcodes work?

@7 Forewarned is forearmed, frater...

@8 Okay cool it works. Now time to figure out why the admin panel won't let me log in.

@9 perhaps something of note is that i'm OP but i have lost my based OP powers of spanking people for being naughty