The board I janitor is /gif/... Quite frequently there are people /r/ing in gif... If they /r/ about gif animated images should I delete that post? Or should it stay? Also what about these constant traps that overload /gif/ everyday?
I (as an /r/ janitor) think you should delete those posts. There's no reason they can't request the GIFs in /r/, that's what it's for!
From the /r/ rules: "1. All requests, be they for content or reseeds, belong here."*Anything* that is a request belongs in /r/. The one exception is if somebody CONTRIBUTES while requesting. Example: "Hey anybody have more of 'x'?" and then the user proceeds to post a few example images to get the thread rolling. These tend to be harmless and are contributions to begin with so I let them slide.
Ok thanks guys.
I'll add something here. I janitor /f/ and a lot of requests pop up, but often people end up enjoying what gets posted in the request thread and I'm really not sure what to do.It's slow enough without me deleting all the request threads.
>>353i think that falls under the exception moot mentioned. if they post a good flash file and ask for another good flash file, i'd say leave it be since they're contributing to /f/. if they post something stupid (I'M AN FBI AGENT springs to mind) just so they can post to make a request, that's the same as doing "pic unrelated" on other boards and should be deleted.
Ok my board /gif/ allows the posting of porn. Well a good amount of times people post and say they don't want that much porn on /gif/.. I mean I know what they mean cause just about every page has some porn on it, and at times its really extreme porn and even sick, and tons of reposts... So many reposts of girls giving blow jobs... it's like it never leaves the board. I was thinking maybe I could delete some of the porn gif's that are posted every day. It might help bring in some people who post something besides porn. Please share your views on this.
There's nothing in the rules of /gif/ against porn, so deleting porn makes no sense. /gif/ just happens to be a non-worksafe board, so if people don't like it, I'm inclined to say "Tough".
>>418Well I don't mean to delete porn in general, just the porn gif's that are reposted the minute they leave the board. I dare to say some of these have been reposted for over a month lol. Oh, and some post "animal porn"... Now I heard once it was illegal but I never took that to be 100% true. But when other's do post it, people mark their post as illegal. I deleted the one's that were, well.... I would consider to much...
>>419Pornographic material depicting sex between humans and animals is in violation of US obscenity laws in most regions. In other words, yes, it's illegal.
