>>103659025
>A mixed male and female vtubing branch
Into the trash it goes.

We've been seeing a lot of inappropriate use of the Global 3 - Garbage outside of /b/ template, and it's not hard to see why. The rule is a giant paragraph with all sorts of little clauses and a lot of subjectivity. So this thread should give you a better idea of the sorts of situations in which you'd use this template, and in what situations you shouldn't use it.

You should use Global 3 for:

1. Furry, guro, loli, and shota content on NWS boards, other than /b/. This content is allowed NOWHERE except for /b/. However, when this sort of porn being posted on work-safe boards, then it is more instructive to the user if you just use Global 5; porn is porn after all. That way they can be sure they are getting banned for the image they posted, and not some other reason.

2. Troll posts and trolling. This is where the majority of the misuse of this template comes in. Just because a post in a heated discussion gets reported, it doesn't necessarily mean that the user is trolling, or that you have to do anything at all. Remember: people are allowed to argue, people are allowed to disagree, and people are allowed to have contentious opinions. Be lenient and give people the benefit of the doubt. People come to 4chan because they want to post in a relaxed and permissive environment and because of this it's natural for people to be a little abrasive and in-your-face here. This is the internet hate machine we're talking about after all; people are probably going to be jerks to one another from time to time. But if we banned everyone who was being a bit of a jerk, there'd be no one left.

So try to reserve ban requests for trolling for the very worst examples of trolling, like when someone starts a new thread to insult all of the posters on the board, or to post some horribly obvious bait in a really inflamatory way, such that the board's posters can't resist replying to it. For replies to an otherwise OK thread, be very hesitant to ban request for trolling. Often when someone is losing an argument, or their butt gets a little hurt, they'll report the other person out of spite. We don't want to accidentally reward this behaviour. However, if it's clear that the only goal of the person is to derail and destroy a thread by posting a bunch of insulting and inflammatory garbage, and not to actually present their real thoughts on the topic, then you can consider ban requesting them for global 3.

3. Gore or shock images/gifs. Sometimes people will post this sort of crap in threads they don't like just to ruin them for everyone else. If it's clear that the poster's goal is simply to ruin the thread, this counts as a form of trolling. An example might be someone posting a torture gif in a fetish thread on /soc/, along with comments insulting people who are posting in the thread, or perhaps posting images of dead cats in a cat thread on /an/. Of course, most gore and shock images/gifs count as NWS, so it goes without saying they should be removed from work-safe boards.

4. Indecipherable text. This DOES NOT deserve a ban, merely deletion. If someone is posting with extreme overuse of texting shortcuts, abbreviations, etc, to the point of it being completely indecipherable to the average person, then all you need to do is to delete the post. The person can try again in English. I want to make it clear that we don't expect perfect Oxford English or anything of the sort; using abbreviations and common internet shortcuts is fine (mfw, tfw, lol, kek, etc), and we don't expect people to use proper spelling, punctuation, capitalization, etc, at all times. All we ask is that their posts be legible to the average person, so that's a pretty low bar. If you can understand what they're saying, leave it alone.

5. Racism & /pol/ outside of /pol/. When targeting racism, you need to target the intent of the poster, and not merely the words that are being used. For instance, someone saying "aww yeah my nigger" or "fuck you nigger. asuka a shit." is not being racist, whereas someone saying "niggers are inferior and need to be exterminated" is being racist. They're both using the same word, but with very different meanings. If we wanted to target words, we'd just use a filter. We need you to use your judgement as to whether it is the poster's intent to insult, denegrate, or incite hatred or violence against a group of people. If it isn't, then leave it alone.

There are also some common misuses of this template:

1. Ironic shitposting. For example:

A LE EPIC LE FACES OF LE REACTING
LE xDDDDDDDDDDDDD
XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
SOMPLY EEEEBBINNNNNNNNNNNNNN
FUGGGGGGGINNNNGGGG XDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
SSSSSSSOOOOOOOO EEEEEEEEPPPPPPPIIIBBBBBBBBBBB
AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMFG
OMGOGMOFMOGMOFMGOMFGGGGGGG XDDDDDDDDDDD
xddddd
XDD
XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

This should be ban requested for Global 6 - Quality of Posts, not Global 3. It's a less severe ban (one day local instead of three days global), and the person can understand exactly why they were banned more easily.

2. Discussions with possible socio-political nature. The phrase '/pol/ outside of /pol/' doesn't mean that people aren't allowed to discuss on-topic things that happen to have some sort of sociopolitical aspect. For instance, this rule doesn't mean people can't discuss the controversy surrounding the Sorceress in Dragon's Crown, or visible minorities in comics, or most recently Nintendo's Tomadachi Life patch and the fallout. People are going to want to discuss these things not because they are trolling, but because they are interesting current events that effect their hobbies and interests. We do not want to prevent people from having legitimate on-topic discussion just because the topics are controversial. That's censorship, and the userbase will react to any perceived censorship with extreme hostility.

Please use this thread to ask any questions/post relevant discussion.