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Nah, society can suck my cock.I'm not going to reproduce just to feed into the machine.
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All in favor of a complete board wipe say
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those against say
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Going to try and keep this thread updated with my writing experiments/projects, if anyone else wants to post their writings go ahead.
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Delete everything
/secret/ vers. 4
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¥Site Statement

¥Kissu.moe is a forum that blends modern design with the traditional imageboard format. The content is geared towards the Japanese Otaku audience, but discussing events which occur on the internet is never out of the question. If there's ever real world discussion on Kissu, it in some way loops back to the internet. Hopefully you can enjoy your time reading the content of others or discussing your thoughts in a thread. We like to keep it friendly, but if you disagree with something then you can respectfully speak your mind. Much of the unique features on this site are derived from popular boorus and technology from a variety of contemporary sources.

¥Don't know where to start? The featured section shows off some of the best threads while the active section is what was last bumped. The board groups categorize the many boards kissu has and provide a specific place for certain types of content to thrive. The friends section contains both tools kissu uses and some other sites Kissu is affiliated with. There's always a place in the /qa/-sphere.

¥If you ever need to get in contact with the staff your best bet is >>>/b/, but we can be found on irc.rizon.org#kissu or irc.rizon.org#qa. Leaving a message in irc.sageru.org#qa will probably be read by someone important, but it's never guaranteed.

¥> All yours, Verniy
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more than any political side, I hate chinks above all else
fuck chinks and I hope they divorce from Japanese culture so they stop sinking their slimy chink tentacles into it
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yay this is cool
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Haha, I'm so fucking done with this craphole that is /secret/. I hate /secret/ and what it stands for. There's no concessions to be made, the internet doesn't have to work in a manner like this. Fuck this gay tolerance.
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do you think kubota miyu gets some sick pleasure out of doing this to her fans...? i'm not sure if i'd do it...
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black english is chinese to my ears
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Is baltimore clean
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wow
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/secret3/ !!!
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now mexico's doing it
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I'd like that too but then everyone COMPLAINS
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LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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OMFG /SECRET/ LOOK!
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Plot hole in Utawarerumono
Kuon is too fat to fit through a gap.
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naturia cherries
naturia cherries
check the heck out of these chubby cherries
the chubbiest cherries around
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This is where being a Dominions pro gets you.
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InThisThread, WeTalkLikeThisToAvoidUnnecessarySpacesWhileEnsuringReadabilityAndSuccinctness. ProgrammersAreAlreadyUsedToPascalCaseSoThereShouldBeNoProblem.
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great song
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die isps
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WUHHHHHHH
POPULAR GENRE ANIME MADE BY WOMAN APPEALS TO WOMEN?????
HOW DIS?????
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Should parents and teachers let little kids use generative AI based search engines? I'm speaking of kids young enough that they don't understand where the information is coming from and consider the search engine an omniscient being. I've watched one elementary schooler in particular continuously ask Google's AI mode which comic book character is more powerful, and although it isn't important that he gets the "right" answers to these questions, his tendency to treat Google's answers as authoritative is concerning.

Also, do you know any examples of questions Google's AI does terribly on which are obvious even to young children? I know about counting letters in a word, but usually I have to ask it several times before it gives an incorrect answer.
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It just dawned on me that horses are just self driving cars
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Halo is moving to the Unreal engine. Halo is not important enough to post about on /qa/ or /jp/ so I will post about it here. The announcement video they made isn't important enough to post either so I will post this nice song instead.

I'm not sure what the point of the thread is if the topic isn't important at all but I hope people appreciate the song that I posted and I hope people appreciate the time and effort I spent watching the Halo Unreal engine announcement video and the time and effort I spent in making this thread. I hope people appreciate the effort I went to in selecting this song as well, I wasn't sure what song I was going to choose to post but I thought long and hard about it and in the end I felt that this song was the best song to post. I hope that the people of this board appreciate this thread that I have made.
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Fuck AI.
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>/secret/
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I could just be imagining things but hasn't there been more kuso posts on kissu after /maho/ was made? Sometimes it feels like every other post I see on that board reads like something you'd see in a typical 4chan thread.
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Someone posted it but I have to make a thread about it because it is my culture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BOKkWdNrJE
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posting some banned /qa/ music
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People will make analog horror out of anything these days, won't they
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This is the new 'China's economy will crash in two weeks'
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Using AI to identify music genres, as I'm searching for better music recommendations than what SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube algorithms are giving me. There are two I've found to perform well.

Submithub is the most popular on the two reddit threads about this topic. Interestingly enough, 4/mu/ gets very emotional about this place. It is apparently a place to get harsh criticism as a music maker, where being approved is difficult and costs money. Which is also probably where it gets its income. It requires a free account to use the AI genre identifier.

Audioaidynamics showed up at the top of Google search results. It has a pretty real-time graph and has some lesser known subgenres like Berlin-School and Illbient. No one has heard of this site and it only accepts donations in cryptocurrency. If you're uploading audio, it does NOT require an account and the FAQ says it supports analyzing multiple files simultaneously (batch processing). There's a review tab on the right with three reviews, two of which are awful. I don't think it's that bad.

Apologies for mentioning reddit and 4/mu/ and AI and the advertisement-like tone, but that's why I'm putting this in /secret/. Below will be screenshots of both sites in action.
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>/xmas/
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I guess I'll say a bit here, since it would get mods angry elsewhere. You see the situation online and think that the internet is too dangerous to be left alone with all the big careless corpos that let 'dangers' fester on their gigantic platforms that huddle people into algorithmically separated echo chamber, and then you conclude that we should ruin the experience of the web for everyone because of it. No more of this glorious platform that allows for less neurotypical people to enjoy each others' company from across the globe without the need for expensive trips. No, we can't have our little corners of comfort because of your political angst. I reject this completely, and instead I take the position that even if the political divide is bad for society, the way the internet allows our communications now is a much preferable alternative to allowing a retarded oligarchical feudalist society to develop because we can't be allowed to think for ourselves. I don't think there's anyone qualified enough for it, and even if there were I would use every ounce of power within me in such a system to make sure I kill that person just for trapping me within the confines I wish not to be contained by.

No, the proper response to the net developing the way it has is proper countermeasures against the giant corporations that control and allow these mainstream platforms to fester. Why should ordinary pleasant people like my /qa/ friends have their communications stripped away from them for these scumbags? That's something I'll never accept no matter how bad things get. We need to return to a net that's not dictated by algorithms, and instead directed by human-lead platforms.
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ITT: your favorite 2hu characters and why you hate kikes.

My favorite Touhou character is Flandre Scarlet and I hate kikes because of their shameless exploitation of the Holohoax, which they blew out of proportion thanks to the falsified reports that they forged in many of the post-war kangaroo courts. It has been over 60 years ago, yet you're still using it as an excuse to get a free pass on EVERYTHING: the insane manipulation of media, the lobbying, the atrocities you're committing against the Palestinians in the lands you STOLE thanks to your Jew friends in the United Kingdom.
Everyone knows what you're doing and you've been doing in these 50 years, the only reason this spiral of silence still exists today is because you'd be called a Nazi, an anti-semite, you'de be ostracized from society.
Can you imagine a Kurd terrorist being excused because 90 years ago the Ottomans attempted to kill his people? It would be inexcusable, but then again Jews have their friends in Hollywood who love to line their pockets by tugging at goyim's heartstrings.
I'm fucking sick and tired of your slimeball tactics. If you really have the support of people in the western hemisphere then are you still wasting no effort to influence and manipulate public opinions, kikes?
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I like how formal YouTube's autodubbing is
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I think we are in a recession because I didn't spend $5 on a chocolate bar
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lolololololoololololoollolloooloolololololololol
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Biboo is too cute
My beautiful brainrotted daughter
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I randomly remembered /secret/
How have you been holding up?
I declare, there's not enough SPH on /secret/ now
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these are the most odd people in existence
i refuse to believe they are people
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lel
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[Great News] [Amazing News] DLSite taking on the CC kikes directly

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japanese-game-and-comic-platform-dlsite-launches-its-own-payment-alternative-following-visa-and-mastercard-suspensions/

It seems great that DLSite's taking measures to counteract the influence of American corporate influence, but I have to wonder how much this effort differs from the already available JCB payment option? It doesn't appear as though it's got any availability to foreigners as of yet.
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Feel like this channel is going to be the spark that kills corporate America if it gets big enough, and it seems like it is getting big.
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post on a wheel IB
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Crazy how the UK exists as a dysfunctional nation and not a pool of blood where all of its politicians are hanging from the gallows. You'd think abusing the populace would have its limits at some point, but no.
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Since this board has turned into youtube posts I'm going to post new uploads from my favorite comfy researcher.

Today we have Proof Academia is hiding proof of giants.
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bad to be scammed, but lol
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天使と
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poop
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the video they don't want you to see
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悪魔と
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天使と
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We found the kissuer posting all the kuso YouTube links and restrained her
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門が開く
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chinese century can eat my ass unless it looks like this
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>>38607
for me to post this
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I have no one to talk to.
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their gender
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Is that supposed new guy just another one of Verniy's "It's been me all along" gags?
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Trust nobody.
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hey wait a minute this is the same as the last one
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>tfw Free market capitalism
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Where should I get my news?
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hey pissman, fuck you. sending lots of valid reports isn't spam, nor is it ban-worthy.
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funny pics

funny pics in this itt
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and vermin said he didn't want to move to france...
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heh it's true
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dokkoishoo~ dokkoisho.
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Wonders of AI

I need a thread for posting funny AI mishaps. I should stop deleting them and instead archive them. Although, I'll spare you guys from seeing the disturbing stuff without using spoilers
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I saw the deleted thread.
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Who is the /secret/ idol? Bumps = votes!
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Money Thread

Money is best saved and never used
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I saw the deleted thread.
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Complimentary ninas for every nina voter! Take one and pass the box along
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Who is the /secret/ idol? Bumps = votes!
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Kuon will make her return...
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If only Kuon was here...
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hey
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/secret/ then
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cursed higurashi images

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Kuon will keep your secret, because that's the kind of girl she is
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Secret Club

I know I've mentioned this a few places tonight so I wanted to post a thread to gauge interest and get some opinions on the matter. I don't mean to be all doom and gloom here I'm trying to be proactive. I've discussed this with some people through e-mail already but not I'm seeking other opinions as I value anon's input in all matters.

With that in mind I'm going to copy/paste something I wrote in an email a few months ago. I'd love to hear your opinions. I'd like to work together with some like minded people to make this a reality. It's a long email so I'll need to break this over multiple posts are usual.


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The <TBA> Media Club Proposal. Requesting input from all possible
founding members. Please share with your friends that you think would
make good founding members!

Goal of this project is to replicate the feeling of the early comfy
anime/manga college clubs I participated in while living in America in
the 90s. Along with very early digisub community that spawned on IRC
in the late 90s-early 2000s before it went "mainstream".

In addition the goal is to merge the English speaking
and Japanese speaking otaku communities. Which I feel
is more possible now than in the past due to good on-the-fly translation software and so many people eager
to learn Japanese or English as a second language. As such all parts of the website will be bi-lingual.

cont.
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In this thread I post updates about fansub projects I'm working on and beg for free labor.

We started working on MahoAko yesterday. We thought the Chihiro TL would be good enough to use but we're going to end up making a lot of modifications and removing most of the styling they used (karaoke is awful). They did make some impressive signs. The 2nd episode's .ass file is 44.5MB.

Transformation scenes in episode 1 have bloated up file size to 900MB-1.4GB. We may attempt to make it smaller but right now we're more concerned with timing and the translation.

Will post public QC version soon if anyone wants to help. x265+Opus as usual. Anything beyond that can be done by request (like FLAC). Last time I asked no one spoke up so I've not been doing lossless audio or x264 releases anymore.

We had to slightly bump up requirements for play back devices to 4.1 high profile because transformation scenes kept running up against bitrate buffer. Will probably use that profile going forward. Since it gives us a little more head room and most modern devices support it just fine.

If anything bothers you about existing TLs of anime speak up now or forever hold your peace. We'll be back to working on older stuff soon™. Thanks to whomever provided some good raws for older stuff like BPS I haven't forgotten you. Just been busy.

Encoding notes: The JPBD for MahoAko is really bad. Horrible upscale by studio. Lots of banding. Did what I could to fix it. Can't descale to native resolution because it's a hodgepodge of different resolutions even within the same scene. Went with mild AA+minimal line darkening instead. That's it.
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I have zombie'd the few /secret/ threads that aren't related to youtube(rs) or rude and/or ugly things. Let me know if I missed any
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Post your /secret/s!

At times I used to say that I didn't get any satisfaction out of cleaning /qa/, but in actuality I did like to post a bunch of threads at once and see all the bad ones disappear after perfectly lining them up like dominoes.
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what's the point of a secret board that's mostly used for meta. why not just make /meta/?
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saw a lot of this being posted everywhere and even saw a bunch of antifans on /co/ thought to myself "huh guess this is a series that's really taking off" but i looked at the pilot and it's not even 2 weeks old and has 40M+ views holy shit it's moving through the popularity cycle at warp speed (good for the creators though for making something original people liked)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwAPLk_sQ3w&t=1s
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The loud mayodog
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Bide your time wastrels and scoundrels! An army ordained by Kuon approaches to wash away the blight upon the degenerate and desecrated land of /secret/! >>8907
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New Rule

All Kuon Culture threads will be made permanent
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i can see it
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I've been waiting YEARS to post this, and I think it's finally time to do so:
April 2003, A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy
https://web.archive.org/web/20110807032541/http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
Phenomenal title, wouldn't you agree?

>Now, this story has been written many times. It's actually frustrating to see how many times it's been written. You'd hope that at some point that someone would write it down, and they often do, but what then doesn't happen is other people don't read it.

Shirky's speech draws from a book called Experiences in Groups by W. R. Bion. He starts off by comparing the internet to a group of neurotics that Bion was taking care of, which were "conspiring to defeat therapy," spontaneously and without obvious coordination. You see, dear >>19472, the topics of /r9k/, politics and youtubers are actually part of a basic group of topics that groups naturally drift towards. It's, I would say, a mixture of salacious talk and an attack on the outsider, two of the three topics Shirky brings up.
But you know what? Today I don't feel like writing an essay, I simply don't. So, I'm just gonna leave here some of its beautiful quotes (without green):


The first is sex talk, what he called, in his mid-century prose, "A group met for pairing off." And what that means is, the group conceives of its purpose as the hosting of flirtatious or salacious talk or emotions passing between pairs of members.
You go on IRC and you scan the channel list, and you say "Oh, I know what that group is about, because I see the channel label." And you go into the group, you will also almost invariably find that it's about sex talk as well. Not necessarily overt. But that is always in scope in human conversations, according to Bion. That is one basic pattern that groups can always devolve into, away from the sophisticated purpose and towards one of these basic purposes.


The third pattern Bion identified: Religious veneration. The nomination and worship of a religious icon or a set of religious tenets. The religious pattern is, essentially, we have nominated something that's beyond critique. You can see this pattern on the Internet any day you like. Go onto a Tolkien newsgroup or discussion forum, and try saying "You know, The Two Towers is a little dull. I mean loooong. We didn't need that much description about the forest, because it's pretty much the same forest all the way."
Try having that discussion. On the door of the group it will say: "This is for discussing the works of Tolkien." Go in and try and have that discussion.
Now, in some places people say "Yes, but it needed to, because it had to convey the sense of lassitude," or whatever. But in most places you'll simply be flamed to high heaven, because you're interfering with the religious text.


And then, as time sets in, difficulties emerge. In this case, one of the difficulties was occasioned by the fact that one of the institutions that got hold of some modems was a high school. And who, in 1978, was hanging out in the room with the computer and the modems in it, but the boys of that high school. And the boys weren't terribly interested in sophisticated adult conversation. They were interested in fart jokes. They were interested in salacious talk. They were interested in running amok and posting four-letter words and nyah-nyah-nyah, all over the bulletin board.
And the adults who had set up Communitree were horrified, and overrun by these students. The place that was founded on open access had too much open access, too much openness. They couldn't defend themselves against their own users. The place that was founded on free speech had too much freedom. They had no way of saying "No, that's not the kind of free speech we meant."


Geoff Cohen has a great observation about this. He said "The likelihood that any unmoderated group will eventually get into a flame-war about whether or not to have a moderator approaches one as time increases." As a group commits to its existence as a group, and begins to think that the group is good or important, the chance that they will begin to call for additional structure, in order to defend themselves from themselves, gets very, very high.


The web turned us all into size queens for six or eight years there. It was loosely coupled, it was stateless, it scaled like crazy, and everything became about How big can you get? "How many users does Yahoo have? How many customers does Amazon have? How many readers does MSNBC have?" And the answer could be "Really a lot!" But it could only be really a lot if you didn't require MSNBC to be answering those readers, and you didn't require those readers to be talking to one another.
The downside of going for size and scale above all else is that the dense, interconnected pattern that drives group conversation and collaboration isn't supportable at any large scale. Less is different -- small groups of people can engage in kinds of interaction that large groups can't. And so we blew past that interesting scale of small groups. Larger than a dozen, smaller than a few hundred, where people can actually have these conversational forms that can't be supported when you're talking about tens of thousands or millions of users, at least in a single group.
R:79 / I:24
Do you think it's possible for a lifelong NEET to have a romantic relationship? How does one even find a partner with aligned interests?

I'm halfway to wizard age and I've been thinking about at least trying to turn things around for myself, but actually doing so seems incredibly difficult. I can financially support myself and fulfill boyfriendl-y duties, but I can't drive because of a disability. I'm not even sure how someone like me would find a partner.
R:79 / I:17
Hmm, why was the blog thread brought back?
R:10 / I:2

Say this ten times fast

Smash some shabs. Smash some shabs. Smash some shabs. Smash some shabs. Smash some shabs. Smash some shabs. Smash some shabs. Smash some shabs. Smash some shabs. Smash some shabs.
R:26 / I:7
hi
R:22 / I:4
I tried to tell you cars were the problem and that the lack of walkability in cities leads to worse health outcomes, but you didn't listen. Do you really think people would still be obese if they had lived somewhere where they could get in a healthy amount of walking or biking, or otherwise take public transportation to get where they need to go? I'm sure the fact that most Americans get in their 4000 lbs vehicle to go to their local Walmart that is 1 mile away, and work in a job that is completely sedentary, and then come home and live a sedentary life in from of their computer has absolutely no impact on anything~.

>The number of U.S. adults who died of heart disease and whose death record cited obesity as a contributing factor was three times greater in 2020 than in 1999, according to research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/09/18/obesity-heart-disease-cardiac-death/
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/epub/10.1161/JAHA.122.028409
R:7 / I:0

Brains and Consciousness

>>>/sum/2723
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I think the research thus far has been overly focused on subjects who have had surgical intervention to split the hemispheres of the brain, rather than subjects that have had no connections between the hemispheres from birth. To my knowledge, and very cursory searching, no similar studies have ever been attempted to be replicated in these persons. I'm personally inclined to believe that in absence of any direct connection between the hemispheres, the hemispheres are still able to communicate effectively, but at lower bandwidth through obscured pathways which might result in difficulties with more abstract perception. I'm personally acquainted with one person who has this condition and they're pretty normal, albeit with the caveats mentioned in the links below. The concept of "split consciousness" has always been questionable to me.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100717064852/http://www.travisinstitute.org/neuroscience/agenesis.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenesis_of_the_corpus_callosum
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>Anonymous
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blog thread

I made a thread here a few months ago in which I said the blog thread was teetering on the precipice of my tolerance levels due to the harm it was doing to kissu. People were beginning to treat it as an all-purpose general thread as if this were one of those /a/ boards with one active thread at a time.
Well, how have things gone since then?

Going back 50 posts (may have messed up counting) starting with >>>/qa/112367
Number of blog posts: 4.
Because of the following posts I did not lock that thread immediately, so good work on using the blog thread as a blog: >>>/qa/112384 >>>/qa/112428 >>>/qa/112459 >>>/qa/112534

It is my opinion as a mod/demi-admin/whatever that the time has come for kissu to spend some time without the blog thread again. And yes, we've done it before, although I can't remember when.
There are multiple discussions that could have been new threads and multiple posts that would have been good additions to existing topical threads. I don't want to fight against people and spend each day moving a dozen posts into existing or new threads. Contrary what you may think, your new thought or opinion of something does deserve a new thread. Don't sell yourself short. You can even make a new thread on /jp/ with no comment at all if you want, or no file at all.

The blog thread persists so long as it is not actively detrimental to kissu's functionality as a site with multiple boards dependent on people creating new threads, and people seeing them and commenting in them. Once people start congregating into one thread the rest of the site starts to atrophy. The sooner action is taken to curb this behavior the less betrayed people will feel when it's gone. I already worry that people have become accustomed to creating non-blogs in it because they think it's better than making a thread.
So, at some point in the near future I think kissu will be spending some time without the board-within-a-board thing known as the blog general.
R:147 / I:69

word of the day

today's kissu word is: cunny
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>>16237
clap that ass
R:19 / I:5

Extravermined

I'm on Threads as @echibiki. Install the app to follow my threads and replies. https://www.threads.net/@echibiki
R:22 / I:9
Kuon has left and the rule is gone. Perhaps she'll return one day...
R:24 / I:5
I expect to see it on 4chan and other sites with close cultural ties to it, but kinda sucks to see the /qa/ name depicted this way on a "retro anime" imageboard: https://wapchan.org/meta/res/866.html
Is this something to "correct" or do we just accept that /qa/ is forever associated with the stuff that we would have spammed off the board back in the day
R:5 / I:2
Q: Who is the /secret/ idol?
A: The cutest idol, of course!

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