Who here has gotten any and if so what for?

I've recently got a warning for posting http://swfchan.net/36/RA51QF3.shtml which looks like it was deleted within a few hours from posting.
I also got banned on all boards for 24 hours for posting http://swfchan.net/36/FJI3SMT.shtml

Both for global rule #3.

I'm pretty surprised about that, since people post bait and switches often enough; at least I have posted You Just Fell For The Trap.swf and other ones changed to something else with no consequence. Maybe there's some new mod or janitor on /f/. I'm going to try again with a different one, maybe a screamer will solicit the same reaction.

It's worth noting that /f/'s banning behavior isn't up to date, so none of my other posts outside the thread were deleted. Anywhere else if you're banned on all boards they delete any posts you've made in the last 7 days.

Apparently one person a while ago was banned for posting that fake CP flash that turns into Bel-Air.

You can't have a board for 15 years that doesn't enforce rules and suddenly expect regulars to not be upset when some noob that doesn't belong on /f/ comes along and starts fucking up why we like the board in the first place.

These are the only three rules /f/ should have:

1. Don't upload anything that violates copyright or US law.
2. Don't upload redirectors or exploits such as popup spawners.
3. All other flash content is allowed, including loli/shota, furry and guro.

It's not like we can go upload flashes on /b/ or any other board, /f/ must have relaxed rules.

http://boards.4tan.org/f/thread/3214305/
http://bans.4tan.org/?page=4 <- it's archived on that page right now but will move to a higher page number as newer bans move in; new bans are grabbed every hour.
Banned for being furry.

I don't know how I feel about this one. Take this, the activity on /trash/, the numerous amount of flashes on swfchan and the fact that only 30 threads can be up at a time; if /f/ was being spread around to those sort of places as a furry haven, they'd flood the board with nothing but furry porn. I'm not saying there shouldn't be any and certainly there are some very well made flashes, even recently, however moderation is the key here. Maybe the mod/janitor would be justified if there were around +10 - 6 furry flashes at one time but seeing as whoever is handing out moderation recently doesn't know much about /f/, I'd say they're unjustified.

>>44109
I'm sure most people would like most of the youtube rips to be gone. I especially hate the ones that are just reply bait, usually /pol/ or /lgbt/ material. They would have made better threads in those boards and all the OP had to do was post a youtube link in their first post. Recent examples I can think of that are semi-regular are whyIlefttheleft.swf, berniesandersexposed.swf and not as recently but manchildren.swf and the other series made from Gavin's segment on The Rebel. Also Maddox, who has a whole website (and probably youtube channel) where you can watch him complain about pizza and self-checkout lanes.

Consider letter-to-my-sister.swf, which was an old SNL skit and posted as a rip quite far back and then recently got put on youtube, I wouldn't think that's run of the mill but what say you?

I think there is an argument to be said about the current rule #1, I noticed in the past month or so that there was at least one person, I guess I missed a lot of those posts, it's more like 90 or so posts in total, on /f/ saying something about "weebshit" http://eye.swfchan.net/search.asp?q=weebshit I'd say that there's a reason that /f/ in is the Japanese section of 4chan, even if it's evolved past its original intent. Maybe something could be kept in the rules to reflect that? I know that the whole "weebshit" stuff is bogus, but I don't really want a whole section of those idiots on either side (anime only vs no anime content) to materialize due to rule changes.

>>44115
>is that the last bit that says "including loli/shota, furry and guro." is too explicit
The reason why I put that in there is because the global rules still applies to /f/, they won't make them "global except for /f/". Therefore you need to explicitly state exceptions for /f/ to make sure no future mod comes and fuck it up.

I'd love for the third rule to be just "All other flash content is allowed." but then some mod would come in sometime in the future and start referring to global rule #3 again. My first rule ("Don't upload anything that violates copyright or US law.") could be skipped entirely because it's covered by the global rules anyway, I just put it there because otherwise "all other flash content is allowed" might be misleading to people that don't think about the global rules.

Honestly all this about banning youtube videos or to make exceptions for X and Y... it's nonsense. Just allow all swf files and let the people of /f/ sort them out by replying or not replying. Converting a movie to a flash has been around forever and it takes dedication to convert the video, if someone uploads shit videos it happens once or twice but then he will stop because he gets zero replies and it's too much effort for no feedback.

The only reward for all that work to upload a video to /f/ is the replies. Flash is only allowed on one board on 4chan so of course all flash files need to be allowed there.

Global rule 3 on 4chan is garbage btw:
+ You will not post any of the following outside of /b/: Trolls, flames, racism, off-topic replies, uncalled for catchphrases, macro image replies, indecipherable text (example: "lol u tk him 2da bar|?"), anthropomorphic ("furry") or grotesque ("guro") images, post number GETs ("dubs"), or loli/shota pornography.
It's way, way to broad and is way, way too open to interpretation (in other words its used "reasonably"). Being told that "you've been banned due to global rule #3" might as well be replaced with "you've been banned due to your ugly face". I mean it even says that "macro image replies" are banned ffs, something that happens all the time outside /b/.

And how screwed up is global rule 8?
+ Complaining about 4chan (its policies, moderation, etc) on the imageboards may result in post deletion and a ban.
I love the "may" in there, again completely up to each "reasonable" mod to freely decide whether or not your reply is whiny enough to warrant a ban.

>>44135
Shouldn't a mod, or at least the janitor BE a person from /f/ or at least with a lot of /f/ experience?
Or like, make it some every now and then, but when bait is posted all the time (howling.swf frequency f.e.), then just remove all following ones, until it calmed down? Needs a lot of insight though.
But yeah, I know it's basically unforable and unforseeable, but SWF videos from youtube are also swf files. Guess the community going down the drain just has to be accepted by now.

Also: sorting by replies is only a valid tatic with a well educated userbase (currently debatable, seen better and worse times), and won't help with replying ironically or shit-posting (see beef-curtains here) escpecially since you can't see the SAGE anymore (on /f/).

Don't underestimate to power of b8. They were deliberatly created to just stir controversy with zero effort.
If not replying would kill it, the video wouldn't even be so popular on the jewtubes. It's just bringing the same shit then to /f/. And conversion quality is oftentimes very low and uneducated as well.
ANTS tools helped to upp the quality, but also the frequency of use.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST
it's not like discussion here is changing rules on 4chan anyway.
It will probably never happen alltoghether.
A board will only ever be as good as the modbase.

As for the rules conflicting with the global ones, they could just say which ones are enforced like /b/, /s4s/ and /trash/ does. So they should look something like:
1. Don't upload redirectors or exploits such as popup spawners.
2. All other flash content is allowed.
3. Global rules 1, 2, 4, 5, maybe 6, 7, probably 8 but the other boards that do this also don't have it enforced, 9, 10, 11, 12, maybe 13 since you can't use avatars other than the OP, 14.

Most of them, even #17, are broken regularly on /f/.

I know for one fact that you can't deleted a post that old but I don't know if being banned from some other place can get your threads deleted from /f/. At any rate it seems that the janitor hates bait and switches. I wonder if he'll delete lolicon.swf?

I'm not exactly a fan of Jeff the Killer or any jump-scare flashes but I thought I'd post this as a warning to people that do intend to upload it. It is after all not against 4chan's rules to post them.

>You will not post any of the following outside of /b/: Trolls, flames, racism, off-topic replies, uncalled for catchphrases, macro image replies, indecipherable text (example: "lol u tk him 2da bar|?"), anthropomorphic ("furry") or grotesque ("guro") images, post number GETs ("dubs"), or loli/shota pornography.

A.k.a. the bullshit rule that allow mods to ban you for whatever the fuck they want. It's ridiculous to ban for this flash, it hasn't been seen on /f/ for 7 years now but is over 10 years old so this flash is part of classic /f/ by my measures. I didn't post it to "troll" either, it was because I haven't seen it for seven years and I smiled now that I came across it.

How am I supposed to see this, are we not allowed to poke a bit of fun on /f/ anymore? Is it the draw style, does everything have to be AAA quality? Or is today the day when loli flashes suddenly aren't allowed?

The last thing we need on /f/ these days is cancer mods that restrict what flashes we upload and push away users that have been around forever and that actually keep the place alive. Because of the ban's "short length" I may not appeal it either, which really annoys me. These newfag mods need to bugger of to some other board before they ruin everything.

>>57351
It's really inconsistent with that 3rd rule
Or maybe someone actually manually reported you and some mod or janitor wasn't lazy and felt like looking at reports at the time.

Also I don't know why janitors are not allowed to interact with the boards they're maintaining, it's fucking ridiculous. Either /f/ needs an overhaul and ban everyone who breaks the rules (which will be 99% of all /f/ users because the flashes they post are not "uniquely japanese") or change the rules to adapt more to the current state of /f/.

But nothing will ever change because /f/ is a board nobody knows about and the only actual way to get in touch with someone higher and get some answers is to bitch on /qa/ until they notice it.
And yes, I'm still mad about that 5 day range block on /f/ from last year
https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1305241/

Never forget that you're on an unsupervised ride where nothing is guaranteed and anything can get you off the ride.

>is to bitch on /qa/ until they notice it.
I'm from /qa/ as well and I'd like to point out that this almost never works, at least just the posting solely on /qa/ to get a response from a moderator part. What /qa/ can do is make more people aware of a problem and then more people will fill out feedback and or go to IRC. Of course building a consensus can be done on /f/ itself, it's fairly unlikely you'd get reported by making meta threads on /f/ and even then the mods might just move it to /qa/ instead of banning you.

Is there a chance you could help me get my hands on some Sleepy Gimp comics and artwork?

4chan has a problem with mods abusing global rule #3 and when you can't even appeal it you really feel like you've been treated unfairly. Mods being able to ban you globally is also a big problem, my behavior can be perfectly acceptable on blue board A but unacceptable on blue board B. Doesn't make sense to get a timeout from A if B was where I screwed up.

The mod that used the blanket rule on me probably don't even go to the other blue boards that I go to, so how could he possibly understand how justified it is to also ban me from those? Additionally, since global rule #3 specifically says it is okay to post "trolls" and so forth on /b/ I don't think it would be unreasonable if whoever gets banned for the blanket rule could at least still post on /b/.

Was in a thread with the subject "What other boards do you browse?" and I posted "/l/", a lolicon board that existed on 4chan in 2003 and 2004. I was clearly making a joke and got banned for it. I guess we can't make jokes anymore? Worst part is I received a global ban, if someone makes an inappropriate joke on a board they should get banned on only that board and not on other boards where that joke can be made all the time without anybody caring. And why not issue a warning instead of a ban for something as minor as this?

>Because of the short length of your ban, you may not appeal it. Please check back when your ban has expired.
Really hate this. When you feel that a ban is not justified you should have the ability to get a second opinion no matter how long the ban was. If one or two other mods disagree with the ban they should overrule it, such a system shouldn't be hard to implement.

Glad I have this thread to vent my frustration.