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  • Nov 2, 2022
    SEGA GOON

    I could write a lot about this. There is so much nonsensical stuff with this website.

    1. There is no moderation log. We don't know which actions are taken, which users are banned or muted, which threads and posts are deleted. There is zero transparency.

    2. We don't even know the moderators. In a way, it's even worse than on KTT1, since KTT1 had a list of moderators available and a moderator tag for users. Here, you can't even know who is a moderator, and moderators don't have the ability to highlight their posts.

    3. The mutes and bans do not get explained usually. The rules of KTT2 are written in a pretty vague way (in help section, which nobody reads), even for the standards of an online forum.

    4. There is no public message explaining "this user has been banned", or why they have been banned. One of the basic functions of punishment is special prevention (the user should not do it again), but also general prevention (others should see this behavior is not condoned and learn from it). How can general prevention work if people don't even know why they were muted or banned, or don't even know *if' they were truly muted or banned.

    5. Mutes and bans are arbirtrary and have arbitrary effects. I have gotten week-long mutes where my avatar was still appearing, but also week-long mutes where my avatar disappeared. This makes it hard for outsiders to judge who is permanently gone, and who is on a temporary mute, which once again weakens the general prevetion effect.

    6. Half of the threads in help section don't even get any responses.

    That's just the stuff about moderation. I mean there's much more to complain about. S lucked into founding this site as a youngster because the other site sucked balls towards the end (KanyeLive). He promised a simple forum app for 10 years, which we all know is ridiculous for any programmer. He essentially lucked into this website and the site was earning 5 digit figures monthly in the KTT1 days. Then he sold the website to a shady forum-collecting-company, which almost immediately led to a password leak of old KTT1 passwords. Any mention of this incident usually gets deleted on KTT2 and I'm pretty sure the name of the company it got sold to gets you an auto-deletion.

    He leaves during the worst time to be a Kanye fan, and briefly comes back to the site just to remove/modify the Kanye-smilies. I hope he really is busy with the rebranding, because otherwise it is simply stupid what he is doing. If he can't handle the workload, he should hire some helpers, the site has good SEO rankings and enough advertisement engagements to sponsor a small operation.

    My last two mutes were completely arbirtrary. One was because of a !dream post in a rwina troll thread that some mod apparently didn't recognize wasn't meant seriously, one was because...I don't even know the second one. And even the first one is just a guess because there is no ban/mute-message on this website to explain things.

    Meanwhile, I have seen people legitimately write Elders of Zion tier posts about the Kanye incident. There is some absolutely (REDACTED) tendency here that for example the r-word is literally worse than anti-semitism (since one gets you an instant mute while the other is tolerated in heavy doses).

    A lot of the classic users on KTT1 left, and it got even worse on KTT2. A ton of legitimately great users are gone, and it's the same faces all the time. Forums are dying breed anyway, so I'm not even sure why they are so ban-happy. It's not like there is a horde of teenagers waiting to get onto KTT2, the userbase is approaching Coli-tier age levels. We are all getting DUSTY, and no young blood is coming up.

    The lifeblood of any forum are its posters. What new posters do we get? Right-wingers who are now new Kanye fans, that's about it.

    Even the name of this website exemplifies the laziness behind it - it was meant as a placeholder and never got replaced...how hard can that be? Seriously, just put a URL re-direct and people will adapt to it within weeks.

    Anyway, I can go on and on. I enjoy this website somewhat despite its administration and moderating, not because of it...

    The quality of posts in music section are also lower. There are people like @AudioConsulting who really put effort into music discussion, but most people seem f***ing illiterate and whine when a post is longer than a paragraph. Why are you even on a forum then?

    Life section hasn't had classic organic threads in a while, although I did enjoy the Queen Elizabeth one. I guess I will use it like leftypol: Mostly going here when big things happen, like Takeoff dying (RIP).

    Also, the "thread watch" function is completely broken, you can't bookmark threads, the search function sucks ass so you gotta use Google to find s***, and THERE STILL ARE NO FUNCTIONING PRIVATE-MESSAGE SYSTEMS

    The artist sections are super f***ing random and can't be found (there's a Lorde section believe it or not), the Spotify functions were never expanded like it was promised

    Anyway...KTT1 coming November 2012 (sic)

    Great post

  • Nov 2, 2022
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    2 replies

    This is my favorite thread on this site

  • Sir Real

    Yeah

    Host is a close irl friend of mine and I’ve been on RLR several times

    So real. Great guy too.

  • Sir Real

    Maoism ep, tenant organizing ep, Film Vanguard series and a couple others I can’t remember

    Helped write the interview for the first JMP episode as well

  • Nov 2, 2022
    VA7a

    This is my favorite thread on this site

  • Nov 2, 2022
    VA7a

    This is my favorite thread on this site

    this is the site for me, everything else is extra

  • Nov 2, 2022
    SEGA GOON

    I could write a lot about this. There is so much nonsensical stuff with this website.

    1. There is no moderation log. We don't know which actions are taken, which users are banned or muted, which threads and posts are deleted. There is zero transparency.

    2. We don't even know the moderators. In a way, it's even worse than on KTT1, since KTT1 had a list of moderators available and a moderator tag for users. Here, you can't even know who is a moderator, and moderators don't have the ability to highlight their posts.

    3. The mutes and bans do not get explained usually. The rules of KTT2 are written in a pretty vague way (in help section, which nobody reads), even for the standards of an online forum.

    4. There is no public message explaining "this user has been banned", or why they have been banned. One of the basic functions of punishment is special prevention (the user should not do it again), but also general prevention (others should see this behavior is not condoned and learn from it). How can general prevention work if people don't even know why they were muted or banned, or don't even know *if' they were truly muted or banned.

    5. Mutes and bans are arbirtrary and have arbitrary effects. I have gotten week-long mutes where my avatar was still appearing, but also week-long mutes where my avatar disappeared. This makes it hard for outsiders to judge who is permanently gone, and who is on a temporary mute, which once again weakens the general prevetion effect.

    6. Half of the threads in help section don't even get any responses.

    That's just the stuff about moderation. I mean there's much more to complain about. S lucked into founding this site as a youngster because the other site sucked balls towards the end (KanyeLive). He promised a simple forum app for 10 years, which we all know is ridiculous for any programmer. He essentially lucked into this website and the site was earning 5 digit figures monthly in the KTT1 days. Then he sold the website to a shady forum-collecting-company, which almost immediately led to a password leak of old KTT1 passwords. Any mention of this incident usually gets deleted on KTT2 and I'm pretty sure the name of the company it got sold to gets you an auto-deletion.

    He leaves during the worst time to be a Kanye fan, and briefly comes back to the site just to remove/modify the Kanye-smilies. I hope he really is busy with the rebranding, because otherwise it is simply stupid what he is doing. If he can't handle the workload, he should hire some helpers, the site has good SEO rankings and enough advertisement engagements to sponsor a small operation.

    My last two mutes were completely arbirtrary. One was because of a !dream post in a rwina troll thread that some mod apparently didn't recognize wasn't meant seriously, one was because...I don't even know the second one. And even the first one is just a guess because there is no ban/mute-message on this website to explain things.

    Meanwhile, I have seen people legitimately write Elders of Zion tier posts about the Kanye incident. There is some absolutely (REDACTED) tendency here that for example the r-word is literally worse than anti-semitism (since one gets you an instant mute while the other is tolerated in heavy doses).

    A lot of the classic users on KTT1 left, and it got even worse on KTT2. A ton of legitimately great users are gone, and it's the same faces all the time. Forums are dying breed anyway, so I'm not even sure why they are so ban-happy. It's not like there is a horde of teenagers waiting to get onto KTT2, the userbase is approaching Coli-tier age levels. We are all getting DUSTY, and no young blood is coming up.

    The lifeblood of any forum are its posters. What new posters do we get? Right-wingers who are now new Kanye fans, that's about it.

    Even the name of this website exemplifies the laziness behind it - it was meant as a placeholder and never got replaced...how hard can that be? Seriously, just put a URL re-direct and people will adapt to it within weeks.

    Anyway, I can go on and on. I enjoy this website somewhat despite its administration and moderating, not because of it...

    The quality of posts in music section are also lower. There are people like @AudioConsulting who really put effort into music discussion, but most people seem f***ing illiterate and whine when a post is longer than a paragraph. Why are you even on a forum then?

    Life section hasn't had classic organic threads in a while, although I did enjoy the Queen Elizabeth one. I guess I will use it like leftypol: Mostly going here when big things happen, like Takeoff dying (RIP).

    Also, the "thread watch" function is completely broken, you can't bookmark threads, the search function sucks ass so you gotta use Google to find s***, and THERE STILL ARE NO FUNCTIONING PRIVATE-MESSAGE SYSTEMS

    The artist sections are super f***ing random and can't be found (there's a Lorde section believe it or not), the Spotify functions were never expanded like it was promised

    Anyway...KTT1 coming November 2012 (sic)

    Talk that s*** king

  • Nov 2, 2022
    SEGA GOON

    I could write a lot about this. There is so much nonsensical stuff with this website.

    1. There is no moderation log. We don't know which actions are taken, which users are banned or muted, which threads and posts are deleted. There is zero transparency.

    2. We don't even know the moderators. In a way, it's even worse than on KTT1, since KTT1 had a list of moderators available and a moderator tag for users. Here, you can't even know who is a moderator, and moderators don't have the ability to highlight their posts.

    3. The mutes and bans do not get explained usually. The rules of KTT2 are written in a pretty vague way (in help section, which nobody reads), even for the standards of an online forum.

    4. There is no public message explaining "this user has been banned", or why they have been banned. One of the basic functions of punishment is special prevention (the user should not do it again), but also general prevention (others should see this behavior is not condoned and learn from it). How can general prevention work if people don't even know why they were muted or banned, or don't even know *if' they were truly muted or banned.

    5. Mutes and bans are arbirtrary and have arbitrary effects. I have gotten week-long mutes where my avatar was still appearing, but also week-long mutes where my avatar disappeared. This makes it hard for outsiders to judge who is permanently gone, and who is on a temporary mute, which once again weakens the general prevetion effect.

    6. Half of the threads in help section don't even get any responses.

    That's just the stuff about moderation. I mean there's much more to complain about. S lucked into founding this site as a youngster because the other site sucked balls towards the end (KanyeLive). He promised a simple forum app for 10 years, which we all know is ridiculous for any programmer. He essentially lucked into this website and the site was earning 5 digit figures monthly in the KTT1 days. Then he sold the website to a shady forum-collecting-company, which almost immediately led to a password leak of old KTT1 passwords. Any mention of this incident usually gets deleted on KTT2 and I'm pretty sure the name of the company it got sold to gets you an auto-deletion.

    He leaves during the worst time to be a Kanye fan, and briefly comes back to the site just to remove/modify the Kanye-smilies. I hope he really is busy with the rebranding, because otherwise it is simply stupid what he is doing. If he can't handle the workload, he should hire some helpers, the site has good SEO rankings and enough advertisement engagements to sponsor a small operation.

    My last two mutes were completely arbirtrary. One was because of a !dream post in a rwina troll thread that some mod apparently didn't recognize wasn't meant seriously, one was because...I don't even know the second one. And even the first one is just a guess because there is no ban/mute-message on this website to explain things.

    Meanwhile, I have seen people legitimately write Elders of Zion tier posts about the Kanye incident. There is some absolutely (REDACTED) tendency here that for example the r-word is literally worse than anti-semitism (since one gets you an instant mute while the other is tolerated in heavy doses).

    A lot of the classic users on KTT1 left, and it got even worse on KTT2. A ton of legitimately great users are gone, and it's the same faces all the time. Forums are dying breed anyway, so I'm not even sure why they are so ban-happy. It's not like there is a horde of teenagers waiting to get onto KTT2, the userbase is approaching Coli-tier age levels. We are all getting DUSTY, and no young blood is coming up.

    The lifeblood of any forum are its posters. What new posters do we get? Right-wingers who are now new Kanye fans, that's about it.

    Even the name of this website exemplifies the laziness behind it - it was meant as a placeholder and never got replaced...how hard can that be? Seriously, just put a URL re-direct and people will adapt to it within weeks.

    Anyway, I can go on and on. I enjoy this website somewhat despite its administration and moderating, not because of it...

    The quality of posts in music section are also lower. There are people like @AudioConsulting who really put effort into music discussion, but most people seem f***ing illiterate and whine when a post is longer than a paragraph. Why are you even on a forum then?

    Life section hasn't had classic organic threads in a while, although I did enjoy the Queen Elizabeth one. I guess I will use it like leftypol: Mostly going here when big things happen, like Takeoff dying (RIP).

    Also, the "thread watch" function is completely broken, you can't bookmark threads, the search function sucks ass so you gotta use Google to find s***, and THERE STILL ARE NO FUNCTIONING PRIVATE-MESSAGE SYSTEMS

    The artist sections are super f***ing random and can't be found (there's a Lorde section believe it or not), the Spotify functions were never expanded like it was promised

    Anyway...KTT1 coming November 2012 (sic)

    u really are meant to be a judge

  • Nov 2, 2022
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    2 replies

    @Scratchin_Bandit they saying on Telegram the TPLF surrendered. That seem like accurate info?

  • Nov 2, 2022
    Sir Real

    @Scratchin_Bandit they saying on Telegram the TPLF surrendered. That seem like accurate info?

    AU-led peace talks are underway but that smells like cap unfortunately, haven't seen any reputable sources i know of say that

  • Nov 2, 2022
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    2 replies

    Lmao randomly saw the former dutch pm walking by on campus we made eye contact ibwas tryna figure out if that was rly him

    Dude was a cuck for george bush

  • Nov 2, 2022
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    1 reply
    Scratchin Mamba

    Lmao randomly saw the former dutch pm walking by on campus we made eye contact ibwas tryna figure out if that was rly him

    Dude was a cuck for george bush

    Did u watch the video?

  • Nov 2, 2022
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    1 reply
    space0cadet

    Did u watch the video?

    Which one

  • Nov 2, 2022
    Scratchin Mamba

    Lmao randomly saw the former dutch pm walking by on campus we made eye contact ibwas tryna figure out if that was rly him

    Dude was a cuck for george bush

    If I speak

  • Nov 2, 2022
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    1 reply
    Scratchin Mamba

    Which one

    The cuck video? I'm trying to get some of that dutch bussy!

  • Nov 2, 2022

  • Nov 2, 2022
    space0cadet

    The cuck video? I'm trying to get some of that dutch bussy!

  • Nov 3, 2022
  • Nov 3, 2022
    SEGA GOON

    I could write a lot about this. There is so much nonsensical stuff with this website.

    1. There is no moderation log. We don't know which actions are taken, which users are banned or muted, which threads and posts are deleted. There is zero transparency.

    2. We don't even know the moderators. In a way, it's even worse than on KTT1, since KTT1 had a list of moderators available and a moderator tag for users. Here, you can't even know who is a moderator, and moderators don't have the ability to highlight their posts.

    3. The mutes and bans do not get explained usually. The rules of KTT2 are written in a pretty vague way (in help section, which nobody reads), even for the standards of an online forum.

    4. There is no public message explaining "this user has been banned", or why they have been banned. One of the basic functions of punishment is special prevention (the user should not do it again), but also general prevention (others should see this behavior is not condoned and learn from it). How can general prevention work if people don't even know why they were muted or banned, or don't even know *if' they were truly muted or banned.

    5. Mutes and bans are arbirtrary and have arbitrary effects. I have gotten week-long mutes where my avatar was still appearing, but also week-long mutes where my avatar disappeared. This makes it hard for outsiders to judge who is permanently gone, and who is on a temporary mute, which once again weakens the general prevetion effect.

    6. Half of the threads in help section don't even get any responses.

    That's just the stuff about moderation. I mean there's much more to complain about. S lucked into founding this site as a youngster because the other site sucked balls towards the end (KanyeLive). He promised a simple forum app for 10 years, which we all know is ridiculous for any programmer. He essentially lucked into this website and the site was earning 5 digit figures monthly in the KTT1 days. Then he sold the website to a shady forum-collecting-company, which almost immediately led to a password leak of old KTT1 passwords. Any mention of this incident usually gets deleted on KTT2 and I'm pretty sure the name of the company it got sold to gets you an auto-deletion.

    He leaves during the worst time to be a Kanye fan, and briefly comes back to the site just to remove/modify the Kanye-smilies. I hope he really is busy with the rebranding, because otherwise it is simply stupid what he is doing. If he can't handle the workload, he should hire some helpers, the site has good SEO rankings and enough advertisement engagements to sponsor a small operation.

    My last two mutes were completely arbirtrary. One was because of a !dream post in a rwina troll thread that some mod apparently didn't recognize wasn't meant seriously, one was because...I don't even know the second one. And even the first one is just a guess because there is no ban/mute-message on this website to explain things.

    Meanwhile, I have seen people legitimately write Elders of Zion tier posts about the Kanye incident. There is some absolutely (REDACTED) tendency here that for example the r-word is literally worse than anti-semitism (since one gets you an instant mute while the other is tolerated in heavy doses).

    A lot of the classic users on KTT1 left, and it got even worse on KTT2. A ton of legitimately great users are gone, and it's the same faces all the time. Forums are dying breed anyway, so I'm not even sure why they are so ban-happy. It's not like there is a horde of teenagers waiting to get onto KTT2, the userbase is approaching Coli-tier age levels. We are all getting DUSTY, and no young blood is coming up.

    The lifeblood of any forum are its posters. What new posters do we get? Right-wingers who are now new Kanye fans, that's about it.

    Even the name of this website exemplifies the laziness behind it - it was meant as a placeholder and never got replaced...how hard can that be? Seriously, just put a URL re-direct and people will adapt to it within weeks.

    Anyway, I can go on and on. I enjoy this website somewhat despite its administration and moderating, not because of it...

    The quality of posts in music section are also lower. There are people like @AudioConsulting who really put effort into music discussion, but most people seem f***ing illiterate and whine when a post is longer than a paragraph. Why are you even on a forum then?

    Life section hasn't had classic organic threads in a while, although I did enjoy the Queen Elizabeth one. I guess I will use it like leftypol: Mostly going here when big things happen, like Takeoff dying (RIP).

    Also, the "thread watch" function is completely broken, you can't bookmark threads, the search function sucks ass so you gotta use Google to find s***, and THERE STILL ARE NO FUNCTIONING PRIVATE-MESSAGE SYSTEMS

    The artist sections are super f***ing random and can't be found (there's a Lorde section believe it or not), the Spotify functions were never expanded like it was promised

    Anyway...KTT1 coming November 2012 (sic)

    This s*** might've officially ended ktt for me

  • Nov 3, 2022
    SEGA GOON

    I could write a lot about this. There is so much nonsensical stuff with this website.

    1. There is no moderation log. We don't know which actions are taken, which users are banned or muted, which threads and posts are deleted. There is zero transparency.

    2. We don't even know the moderators. In a way, it's even worse than on KTT1, since KTT1 had a list of moderators available and a moderator tag for users. Here, you can't even know who is a moderator, and moderators don't have the ability to highlight their posts.

    3. The mutes and bans do not get explained usually. The rules of KTT2 are written in a pretty vague way (in help section, which nobody reads), even for the standards of an online forum.

    4. There is no public message explaining "this user has been banned", or why they have been banned. One of the basic functions of punishment is special prevention (the user should not do it again), but also general prevention (others should see this behavior is not condoned and learn from it). How can general prevention work if people don't even know why they were muted or banned, or don't even know *if' they were truly muted or banned.

    5. Mutes and bans are arbirtrary and have arbitrary effects. I have gotten week-long mutes where my avatar was still appearing, but also week-long mutes where my avatar disappeared. This makes it hard for outsiders to judge who is permanently gone, and who is on a temporary mute, which once again weakens the general prevetion effect.

    6. Half of the threads in help section don't even get any responses.

    That's just the stuff about moderation. I mean there's much more to complain about. S lucked into founding this site as a youngster because the other site sucked balls towards the end (KanyeLive). He promised a simple forum app for 10 years, which we all know is ridiculous for any programmer. He essentially lucked into this website and the site was earning 5 digit figures monthly in the KTT1 days. Then he sold the website to a shady forum-collecting-company, which almost immediately led to a password leak of old KTT1 passwords. Any mention of this incident usually gets deleted on KTT2 and I'm pretty sure the name of the company it got sold to gets you an auto-deletion.

    He leaves during the worst time to be a Kanye fan, and briefly comes back to the site just to remove/modify the Kanye-smilies. I hope he really is busy with the rebranding, because otherwise it is simply stupid what he is doing. If he can't handle the workload, he should hire some helpers, the site has good SEO rankings and enough advertisement engagements to sponsor a small operation.

    My last two mutes were completely arbirtrary. One was because of a !dream post in a rwina troll thread that some mod apparently didn't recognize wasn't meant seriously, one was because...I don't even know the second one. And even the first one is just a guess because there is no ban/mute-message on this website to explain things.

    Meanwhile, I have seen people legitimately write Elders of Zion tier posts about the Kanye incident. There is some absolutely (REDACTED) tendency here that for example the r-word is literally worse than anti-semitism (since one gets you an instant mute while the other is tolerated in heavy doses).

    A lot of the classic users on KTT1 left, and it got even worse on KTT2. A ton of legitimately great users are gone, and it's the same faces all the time. Forums are dying breed anyway, so I'm not even sure why they are so ban-happy. It's not like there is a horde of teenagers waiting to get onto KTT2, the userbase is approaching Coli-tier age levels. We are all getting DUSTY, and no young blood is coming up.

    The lifeblood of any forum are its posters. What new posters do we get? Right-wingers who are now new Kanye fans, that's about it.

    Even the name of this website exemplifies the laziness behind it - it was meant as a placeholder and never got replaced...how hard can that be? Seriously, just put a URL re-direct and people will adapt to it within weeks.

    Anyway, I can go on and on. I enjoy this website somewhat despite its administration and moderating, not because of it...

    The quality of posts in music section are also lower. There are people like @AudioConsulting who really put effort into music discussion, but most people seem f***ing illiterate and whine when a post is longer than a paragraph. Why are you even on a forum then?

    Life section hasn't had classic organic threads in a while, although I did enjoy the Queen Elizabeth one. I guess I will use it like leftypol: Mostly going here when big things happen, like Takeoff dying (RIP).

    Also, the "thread watch" function is completely broken, you can't bookmark threads, the search function sucks ass so you gotta use Google to find s***, and THERE STILL ARE NO FUNCTIONING PRIVATE-MESSAGE SYSTEMS

    The artist sections are super f***ing random and can't be found (there's a Lorde section believe it or not), the Spotify functions were never expanded like it was promised

    Anyway...KTT1 coming November 2012 (sic)

    lowkey.is i think was supposed to be some snobby music discussion site that was invite only. its p much what theyve always wanted the site to be.

  • Nov 3, 2022
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    1 reply
    VA7a

    Marx‘s opinions on Women until he gets older (kinda) was
    But then Engels makes feminist writings but is a s***addict

    what he write about women?

  • Nov 3, 2022
    fun guy

    what he write about women?

    Throughout his writings, Marx aimed to abolish the hierarchical relations between oppositions, though the binaries were sure to remain. In Die Heilige Familie, he stated that
    ‘the general position of women in modern society is inhuman’. Though in his early writing in Kritische Randglossen, Marx refers to the working-class woman's ‘faded, shrunken flesh’ which reinforces hierarchal oppositions. In a speech in 1868, he declares: ‘I do not say with this, that it is bad when women and children participate in our societal production . . . but the ways in which children under current conditions are forced to work are horrible.’ In Capital I, he supports women in the workplace as ‘new economic basis for a higher form of family and the relations of both sexes’. and that this entry may ‘even become the fountain for human development’.

    Also Capital some Misogyny, disregarding women as merely wives who shouldn’t be in the labor force. But he developed overtime.

    My classmate, she went over it really well. Like she went off had me like

  • Nov 3, 2022

    About to write like two long ass papers: one on Law and the other on Marxist theory. Jeez my brain is gonna need some blunts for destressing.

  • Nov 3, 2022
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    1 reply
    Sir Real

    @Scratchin_Bandit they saying on Telegram the TPLF surrendered. That seem like accurate info?

    Seems like the streets were right it rly did happen damn that's amazing news fr

  • SEGA GOON

    I could write a lot about this. There is so much nonsensical stuff with this website.

    1. There is no moderation log. We don't know which actions are taken, which users are banned or muted, which threads and posts are deleted. There is zero transparency.

    2. We don't even know the moderators. In a way, it's even worse than on KTT1, since KTT1 had a list of moderators available and a moderator tag for users. Here, you can't even know who is a moderator, and moderators don't have the ability to highlight their posts.

    3. The mutes and bans do not get explained usually. The rules of KTT2 are written in a pretty vague way (in help section, which nobody reads), even for the standards of an online forum.

    4. There is no public message explaining "this user has been banned", or why they have been banned. One of the basic functions of punishment is special prevention (the user should not do it again), but also general prevention (others should see this behavior is not condoned and learn from it). How can general prevention work if people don't even know why they were muted or banned, or don't even know *if' they were truly muted or banned.

    5. Mutes and bans are arbirtrary and have arbitrary effects. I have gotten week-long mutes where my avatar was still appearing, but also week-long mutes where my avatar disappeared. This makes it hard for outsiders to judge who is permanently gone, and who is on a temporary mute, which once again weakens the general prevetion effect.

    6. Half of the threads in help section don't even get any responses.

    That's just the stuff about moderation. I mean there's much more to complain about. S lucked into founding this site as a youngster because the other site sucked balls towards the end (KanyeLive). He promised a simple forum app for 10 years, which we all know is ridiculous for any programmer. He essentially lucked into this website and the site was earning 5 digit figures monthly in the KTT1 days. Then he sold the website to a shady forum-collecting-company, which almost immediately led to a password leak of old KTT1 passwords. Any mention of this incident usually gets deleted on KTT2 and I'm pretty sure the name of the company it got sold to gets you an auto-deletion.

    He leaves during the worst time to be a Kanye fan, and briefly comes back to the site just to remove/modify the Kanye-smilies. I hope he really is busy with the rebranding, because otherwise it is simply stupid what he is doing. If he can't handle the workload, he should hire some helpers, the site has good SEO rankings and enough advertisement engagements to sponsor a small operation.

    My last two mutes were completely arbirtrary. One was because of a !dream post in a rwina troll thread that some mod apparently didn't recognize wasn't meant seriously, one was because...I don't even know the second one. And even the first one is just a guess because there is no ban/mute-message on this website to explain things.

    Meanwhile, I have seen people legitimately write Elders of Zion tier posts about the Kanye incident. There is some absolutely (REDACTED) tendency here that for example the r-word is literally worse than anti-semitism (since one gets you an instant mute while the other is tolerated in heavy doses).

    A lot of the classic users on KTT1 left, and it got even worse on KTT2. A ton of legitimately great users are gone, and it's the same faces all the time. Forums are dying breed anyway, so I'm not even sure why they are so ban-happy. It's not like there is a horde of teenagers waiting to get onto KTT2, the userbase is approaching Coli-tier age levels. We are all getting DUSTY, and no young blood is coming up.

    The lifeblood of any forum are its posters. What new posters do we get? Right-wingers who are now new Kanye fans, that's about it.

    Even the name of this website exemplifies the laziness behind it - it was meant as a placeholder and never got replaced...how hard can that be? Seriously, just put a URL re-direct and people will adapt to it within weeks.

    Anyway, I can go on and on. I enjoy this website somewhat despite its administration and moderating, not because of it...

    The quality of posts in music section are also lower. There are people like @AudioConsulting who really put effort into music discussion, but most people seem f***ing illiterate and whine when a post is longer than a paragraph. Why are you even on a forum then?

    Life section hasn't had classic organic threads in a while, although I did enjoy the Queen Elizabeth one. I guess I will use it like leftypol: Mostly going here when big things happen, like Takeoff dying (RIP).

    Also, the "thread watch" function is completely broken, you can't bookmark threads, the search function sucks ass so you gotta use Google to find s***, and THERE STILL ARE NO FUNCTIONING PRIVATE-MESSAGE SYSTEMS

    The artist sections are super f***ing random and can't be found (there's a Lorde section believe it or not), the Spotify functions were never expanded like it was promised

    Anyway...KTT1 coming November 2012 (sic)

    STFU

    You a whole ass rat