5 owner rule...

We need new site mods

We need Dylan wenzlau to come back

Dylan didn't go anywhere he's always here!.
All the site mods are in constant contact with him. when there's a new rule or feature it has his OK first.

You're right you know.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

If you were site mod for a day what would you do? Serious question.

Here’s some of the things I’d do:

Actually moderate with decency (Aka not giving timers without doing prior research or giving it to both sides of the argument)

Listen to community feedback

Actually enforce the 13+ rule

Thanks for the reply. We try to do all those things although the 13+rule is difficult to enforce unless you have ideas. There no way to verify age without requiring a credit card or parent authorization.

If someone says they're under 13, shouldn't that count as proof enough?

You all do realize that strictly enforcing the 13+ rule would entail deleting the MSMG stream right? Since middle school includes 6, 7, and 8th grades that means kids age 11-13. Occasionally depending on when your birthday falls you might be 14 when you graduate from middle school. So we can go ahead and delete that stream just to be on the safe side?

I mean, I’m 14, and I sometimes have people who think I’m an adult before I actually tell them.

Some people are more mature than others so age is nearly impossible to verify unless we ask users to provide some sort of photo ID. Even then, people can game the system.

Exactly, that’s what I think

maybe a "maturity test" would work; ask them things only a 13 y/o would know
this may have some flaws, so id keep this idea as a backup

i thought u were 16, ngl

Exactly

YOUR 14

Yes? And?

i thought u were like 16

That’s the point that I was just making to Kate, so many people think I’m an adult. Or 16+ I’m just mature for my age on here.

First, the ms in MSMG stands stands for mildly small, not middle school

Second, what I said still makes sense. If someone says they're under 13 in a non-satire way, they should be banned.

And that MSMG roast is going to m/rareinsults

(Actually just making sure you know, the owners are raising the maturity level of msmg and enforcing the 13+ rule)

maybe lower 13 to 11 or 12?

Because of some of the content on imgflip we cannot lower the age legally. Maybe an ImgflipJr is a possibility?

YouTube Kids is a disaster, I would not endorse a junior version of Imgflip mostly because memes aren’t really for the younger children anyway most of the time

maybe upon account creation, u ask the user for their age, with the minimum option of 11
if they chose 11 or 12, block certain streams(horny, sex stream, all that shit) and disable the ability to remove nsfw filter(this'll allow new users to use msmg, which is how I, along with most others, got more views, ups, and points).

That's not a bad idea, might be doable. Thanks!

np, this place has a lot of room for improvement

Kids can easily lie about the age

true, but a backup could be my idea of a "maturity test"

Just make NSFW target things unsuitable for 11/12 year olds

can users be reported?

If you think a certain user is not following TOS flag the proof and/or message a site mod and we will look into it.

so im not gonna be a little pissbaby over the 5 owner rule. but if i were site mod i would ban danny for obvoius reasons. make repost not allowed in fun stream and add a 24hour post ban if they repost in official streams or some political shit thats not allowed. so basicly make the fun strea a bit more... fun? i would ala add like 5 months of experince or 40k points to mod a stream. i would also make it so if you make a new stream it has to be verified by a site mod or something. also the 5 owner rule is good. i like it

Thanks for the ideas:

If you have a complaint about a specific user best to contact a site mod directly, this isn't really the platform for that.

Reposts are tricky because basically every meme is a repost in one way or another. We're looking for blatant someone just downloaded an image without modifying it in any way by adding a text or picture and posted it. Using similar words or pictures would be allowed.

5 months experience or 40k points requirement to be a mod would also disable anyone new from making a stream. Perhaps experience and point limit could be applied only to larger streams?

I like the idea of being notified about new streams but I think there's just too many it would add too much to our already large load. It's hard as it is getting memes approved I doubt people want to wait to get their stream approved also. We trust the community to report streams that are against TOS.

Thanks for your input!

yw. also maybe you could find a way so the notif for a new stream went somewhere else. lime in the my streams area for u guys

I agree with most of that but changing the limits on the mod and requiring 5 months of experience would hurt streams like MSMG quite a bit.

more than you 💀

That's really nonspecific, care to elaborate? What would you do to change the site besides have more steam owners?

- Make upvote begging illegal on the fun stream
- Create an official imgflip upvote begging stream (other than the ones that already exist)
- Repeal the “insulting other users rule” because of how vague it is
- Ban people who are obviously below the age limit.
- Not allow the flagging system to be abused by people who flag memes that mention them all day.

Just to name a few

So we should allow insulting other users?
How do we verify someone is under 13?
If people don't want to be mentioned in a meme then I don't see why they shouldn't have a say in if the meme is featured or not but if we allow unlimited insulting of others then I guess flagging would be pretty useless. Right?

Any other ideas? I'm all ears when it comes to hearing you guys out so we can make positive changes to the site

ight im bored so im going to jump in
no we shouldnt allow insulting of users at all
its almost impossible but we could also be on the lookout for it easily
yes ppl should have a say in what you just mentioned
i also think we should allow group messages
add more customizations to streams for example
custom roles
custom stream profile
stream pfp
stream banners
and for profiles on imgflip
allow pfp
customize your profiles page so when someone looks at it
it's just not the same old background could be a custom banner custom fonts and coloring etc
its mainly cosmetic changes most ppl want to the site is all

About insulting users.

Mentioning a user's name and insulting them unironically is plain bad, but it kills humor when jokes like "Danish" are disapproved. It's saying that the mods aren't allowing inside jokes in a community, that aren't even offensive in a general context.

And we do need a more indifferent approach with moderation, as suited to a meme site. People know what they're here for and should know what to expect.

Positively.

Yes. We should allow insulting other users. That is something that should be on the site.

If you're dumb enough to admit that you're under 13, and you still hold true to that admission even after the rules are shown to your face, then it's fair to say you should be banned (ex. Kawaii, who has not been banned yet)

You don't flag memes just because you were personally insulted by them. That's something children do. The reason we have flags is for reposts, political memes, legitimate harassment (not petty insults, but actual raids and extensive slander), and NSFW/nudity.

Undo the owner limit, and replace it with a 30 day experience AND a 10k point requirement

Make the harrassment rule more specific, and put racism in there, to condense ToS a bit

Implement flag banning

Add a rule against upvote begging in tos

Disapprove reposts, even if a word or two or a different temp is used (has the same message)

This is very helpful. Thanks for the reply. How would you reword the harassment rule?

Alright, gimme a bit, gotta reword this to be peak

(this may take until tommorow actually, I have irl stuff to do, I might just reply with it in this thread tommorow)

I'll be here when you're ready

ngl kate u just got ratioed by actually good ideas

bruh you think these ideas are good? these ideas are flawed and impossible to use.

i guess there is not way too really put too use, one solution could be to have more site mods, and they should be voted by us users

Who's a user you would vote to be a moderator? And what qualities do they have that you feel would benefit the site? We are certainly up for suggestions provided they have a good history here and are the required age.

I know this unpopular user that I think should be a site mod.

His name is Tangre, he's an imgflip OG that joined in 2016, he points out real reposts and isn't a mean user.

dont ask me: I havent even been here for 6 months
id ask some vets who know their ppl

and we have idea's, not running the site

a ratio is when somebody gets a lot of downvotes
kate doesn't have 0 ups

upvotes*

well when i posted this she had none

stop banning people for making little jokes

Little jokes are fine if they follow TOS.

little jokes are fine if you aren’t sensitive

And they folliw TOS :)

the thing is they do follow tos
you just go apeshit over it

Show me a recent comment of yours that was deleted with a timer which you feel was unjustified. Feel free to PM me with complaints.

I’m not talking about myself right now
I’m talking about other users
I know a user that was banned for talking about their autism

GUESS WHAT
Just now an alt I made was deleted BECAUSE I MENTIONED A USER

i’d actually handle bad situations and look at both sides before giving the wrong person a 24 hour comment timer 😭💀

here's some of the things i would do (most of these came from others):

Listen to feedback

disapprove reposts (varies on severity; if it's word for word, disapprove it; and if there's a couple of word changes, that'll depend)

create an OFFICIAL point/upvote/downvote begging stream (not the ones we have/made)

have "no racism" rule in the official streams

have a flag ban, like if someone posted extreme NSFW/nudity or a p0rn bot and it starts posting p0rn, ban it indefinitely

MAYBE make a hobbies stream

that's about all i can think of as of now

could ypu please look at what i sad.

said

And maybe finally add the image backround thing? (With moderation)

Hmmm, well, instead of muting both parties, I'd have them DM me their stories, and then cross reference them with the comments.

delete msmg, hornystream and etc
ngl
imgflip becomes more health

Moderate better, duh

Remove the 5 owner limit and make it that so after you get 5 owners it says something like "Hey! You already have 5 owners, are you really sure you want more?" and a yes and no answer, oh yeah and add a co-owner thing which is just owner but slightly worse

Be on the lookout for people who are obviously under 13 (either by personality or by literally saying it) an example for "personality" is if they just scream amogus memes every like 1 second or just obnoxious that they sound like they're under 13, but it has to be something like a warn like "Hello, we've reviewed your comments and it appears that your comments are really obnoxious and spammy, this leads us to think that you are under 13. So we'll give you 1 month to prove that you are over the age of 13, though if you fail, we will interview you to determine if you are really over 13 or not" the interview should just ask stuff that mostly teenagers know instead of under 13's, it should clear out some under 13's but there's a chance that one is just that mature that they just somehow know the answers, oh yeah and for the people who literally just say their underage just ask their age and threaten ban if they don't, then proceed to ban them until their age is 13+, for example

mod: "whats your age"
underage: "9"
mod: *ip bans (to ensure alts don't exist) underage until they are about 13, possibly 12 but about 13*

And for users who aren't entirely honest about their age?

well nothing i guess

IP banning is dangerous if a Reddit power mod gets a mod here

uhh i dont get it but ok

Promote the site

refresh the top memes (that you scroll through without searching) with new hot templates

Alt-checker (to verify if alt or not)

More power to mods and or owners
Ability to change stream name (every 30 days) or use same name as a stram that has been deleted

i would also give ThLarge pig a bigger mod or something. hed be i rly god site mod or smthing

I'd have to see his profile and history before I could give an opinion.

Its imo that he would not be a good mod.

He is... controversial...

Kate, i have a certain opinion about TheLargePig if you would like to hear an opinion from a regular user on the site.

Feel free to to PM me

Actually evaluate an argument before banning people.

that’s what I’ve been saying