It's Happening. -

[Unog]

All threads in this board are valid examples of what I have in mind.

Looking at the other topics on the board, it would seem "ongoing crises that may not be contained to a single event/news outlet" is a good general guideline.

Problem being that there's a ton of shit that belongs in "Articles" that would qualify, as well as the whole thing just seems kind of unnecessary and clunky.

 

[Wendy Carter]

Mod @OwO What's This?, fifth time's the charm.

 

[Spedestrian]

Does this mean we'll need a new epithet to replace "A&H poster"? Maybe something like "Tardicle" or "Happer"? I'm fine with whatever, I just need to know how to continue being disrespectful and prejudiced towards total strangers.

 

[Looney Troons]

I like this idea and am curious how it’ll pan out over the course of the next few weeks. I do believe you’ll be doing a lot of manual sorting for a fair bit.

 

[whatever I feel like]

I like this, wars, bombings, shootings and ou girl.

 

[An Ghost]

I dunno. I kinda loved the ongoing user commentary mixed with articles in the Iraq WWIII thread. A “no articles” board is feelings without facts but why not both?

 

[IrishGuy088]

I dunno. I kinda loved the ongoing user commentary mixed with articles in the Iraq WWIII thread. A “no articles” board is feelings without facts but why not both?

I don't think "no articles" is the order of the day here. You just need to find a way to get your information posted without jacking some journo's article wholesale and fucking up Null's search engine optimization (SEO).

 

[Twinkie]

I don't think "no articles" is the order of the day here. You just need to find a way to get your information posted without jacking some journo's article wholesale and fucking up Null's search engine optimization (SEO).

A similar thing happened to a gossip blog I used to read but it wasn't SEO, they were getting takedown notices from the various sources (TMZ.com, etc.). The users just had to stop copypasting articles in their OPs. But I thought null already tried that and it didn't help? Maybe I'm thinking of something else.

I wonder how much new traffic the wuhan thread was pulling in or if it's same people F5ing it every day
like I was for a time
I also wonder which thread on kiwi farms was the fastest to hit a million views.

 

[SIGSEGV]

This happening thread is shit, faggot.

Does this mean we'll need a new epithet to replace "A&H poster"? Maybe something like "Tardicle" or "Happer"? I'm fine with whatever, I just need to know how to continue being disrespectful and prejudiced towards total strangers.

Happooner

 

[Meat Pickle]

Shootings still count as a happening right?

 

[Arctic Fox]

Will this mean that posts with articles in threads added to this board will be purged? There are hundreds of posts with articles copy and pasted for discussion in just the Coronavirus Megathread alone. Could cause some SEO issues.

As a side note, will the prepper thread be added to the happenings board? It's basically a spin off of the main Covid-19/Coronavirus Megathread. And will there be new mods for it, or mostly self regulated like A&H was?

 

[Elaine Benes]

Will this board also be invisible to guests?

 

[Bill The Fucker]

I actually don't know. I'm not sure how I want to do this but people want a space to shit up with a dozen Coronavirus threads. Let me think. I liked the hard and fast rule of "one death or imminent risk of death" but that's not going to work for the elections.

Sure it could, just make a "Suicide Watch" tag.

 

[sasazuka]

So, if there is a happening where there is no risk of death, like elections, it should be posted in Articles, yes?

Expected, regularly scheduled political events like non-snap elections probably don't qualify as "Happenings". If the leader of a major country is either forced to resign or calls an unexpected snap election, I think it should count as a "Happening".

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

Posting a link to an archived article doesn't hurt SEO, right? We could do that and post 1-2 paragraph excerpt if necessary.

 

[Null]

Posting a link to an archived article doesn't hurt SEO, right? We could do that and post 1-2 paragraph excerpt if necessary.

I've suggested that.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

I've suggested that.

Maybe I'm just being a tard, but I didn't see anything definite on external archive links.

 

[the autist of dojima]

Berlin has been split, well just like berlin i expect it to not last long

 

[Tealeaf]

Expected, regularly scheduled political events like non-snap elections probably don't qualify as "Happenings". If the leader of a major country is either forced to resign or calls an unexpected snap election, I think it should count as a "Happening".

Pulling in political habbedigs is always fuzzy. One way to approach is considering unexpectedness and high impact for the prevailing political order.

Neither of these has any hard definition. In the end, you’ll know a happening when you see one.

 

[Sam Losco]

What about setting it up like this:
News article posted to the Articles section and that thread is only for articles and updates.
A thread is made (can it be automated?) in this section with the same title as the article threads but is only for discussion about the issue. If that can be automated, then you can disallow new thread creation by users like how lolcow used to be.