Why does this thread exist?

I wanted to ask how do I delete my posts?

>>11393
bump

>>11393
Click on the anonymous. Also if you want to report a post click the anonymous on the post you want to report.

>>11394

Click on the 'Anonymous' or whatever nonsense that happens to be there in the top right corner of the post.

If you are browsing from the computer you posted from, the passwords should match.

>>11395
Thanks a lot anon.

>>11395>>11396
why doesn't it work for OP?

Did anyone save the best posts from 2012 from that thread?
I'd like to get a copy if possible.

>>11399
http://britfa.gs/b/arch/res/332405.html

Why was .gs made?

>>11401
I thought it would be fun. It is, most of the time.

>>11400

I enjoyed this post the most.

>>11402

How much time do you spend on this site and what was the longest period of time you spent away from it?

Assuming you are who that post implies you are... Simon? Simone? Nina Simone? I hope you're still feeling good ladm8.

>>11403
I liked this reply to that post.

>>11405
I too think that reply was worth saving.

>>11404
I once spent a week away from the site, whilst camping in Cornwall. No signal. It was hell tbh. It was one of the few times something bad happened and it went down for about 12 hours because a disk filled up. Nowadays maroon does all the good coding work and I love her for it. But I still visit at least 5 times a day (it's still the first thing I look at every morning and the last thing I look at night) but I probably argue with people for fun a lot, lot less. I used to be able to identify patterns of people and who was posting, but I can't nowadays, it's all got a lot more RANDUM.

>>11407
I can.do without this site for or lengths.at a.time.easily, on the short tun I'd struggle more without krautchan, but over time.I'd definitely Moss this place more
loo

>>11407

>I used to be able to identify patterns of people and who was posting, but I can't nowadays

I'd always assumed that mods and admins had the ability to identify people fairly easily anyway? Does that mean bans are given on a post by post basis? Have you locked yourself out of the system to prevent abuse, are you like Finch from Person of Interest?

>>11407
>It was one of the few times something bad happened and it went down for about 12 hours because a disk filled up.

I remember this, when everyone in the IRC was shitting their pants and the enlightened ones just said "yeah it'll get fixed when purple finally runs out of weed". That was an amusing day.

>>11409
Purp lives a Fight Club/Flow My Tears The Policeman Said existence. He has multiple personalities, most of which are shitposters. He bans himself all the time, then in a fugue state unbans himself, never remembering having done so.

>>11408
I think this was me.

>>11412
Oh, maybe it wasn't.

>>11412
We've all been there lad.

>>11407

I remember this as well.

As soon as the site went live again I posted a mock dairy entry about it.

Day 1 of ITZ - .gs goes down! Or something like that. I remember thinking after I wrote it that I wasn't as funny as I previously thought I was.

>>11415

>mock dairy

I can't believe it's not better.

>>11416

My phone likes to rib me in this way, I'd steak my life on it hating me. I only skimmed the post before clicking submit.

It is clear I'm not the cream of the crop.

>>11417
The post you're talking about is featured in >>11400.

>>11420

Haha, cheers lad.

Why can't I access /A/, /x/ or /y/?

>>11488
What happens? Those are the boards hidden from /sfw/, but that's not done in such a way that could possibly prevent you from visiting them individually.

>>11489

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /A/ on this server.

(I get the exact same message for x and y in /place/ accordingly).

>>11488
Because you're in France.

>>11493
Where do you /geofag/ to?

>>11494
>>11495

Yes, I'm in France. I can access all other boards, was just wondering why those aren't available?

I do get to glimmer at these other boards through /*/ and can post via that medium as well, seeing the entire thread though remains a no go.

Just curious.

>>11496
Only UK IP addresses can access those boards, I think it was originally to prevent dodgy porn being posted but I'm not certain.

>>11497
In that case, there's either a glitch or some good cookies.
When I'm on my German VPN I can access those boards.

>>11498
It doesn't really matter - we won't be tightening any restrictions - but where does the geodatabase place you?
http://britfa.gs/geofag

>>11497

Thanks. I'm only interested in /A/ but guess I'll just have to wait until I'm back in Blighty. Sacrebleu!

>>11499
Never mind, I can't access them. It must have been a cached page or something last time.

My box of muesli says the following:

best enjoyed

Serve with milk, yoghurt or fruit juice for a delicious and nutritious breakfast.

Do people seriously fill up their bowl with muesli and then pour apple juice on it?

>>11515

It's only a suggestion lad, you don't have to obey the box.

Why do the IDs here periodically change?

>>11516
Oh, I know that. I just want to know if there really are people out there who pour fruit juice onto cereal.

>>11517
Mine just changed because I'm posting from a phone and I turned the mobile internet off and on again. I guess other posters do that with their routers.

>>11518

I'm sure there are, if you look at: http://richkidsofinstagram.tumblr.com/ you'll occasionally see some cunt pouring champagne in theirs.

>>11519

I'm pretty sure I don't have a Dynamic IP and I'm always posting from the same computer, yet it changes. Maybe it's a daily thing. I shall experiment.

>>11520

The majority of people have dynamic IP addresses these days. If you require a static IP you have to pay for it.

Why can't people from other Anglo Saxon protestant common law countries with extradition treaties and comparably efficient law enforcement have access to the good boards like in the good old days?

>>11522
because fuck you

>>11525

All the other Anglos would do it.

>>11517 >>11519 >>11520
Your ID is just the first six characters of your IP's MD5 hash.

What happened to the site for the past few days?

>>11545

You are going to have to be a lot more specific than that, lad.

Have you been having problems accessing the site?

>>11546
My guess would be the 50% reduction in posts.

>>11547
It could be the dramatic improvement in the weather, which has meant that everyone other than you, me and the other guy has been out enjoying it.

>>11546
Yeah I just got a white screen and I couldn't see any of the boards. I thought everyone had the same issue, I guess not.

when you delete your own post on .gs, do the powers that be still have them and how long do they have them for and is this cache kept for nefarious purposes?

>>11604
Yes.

Why did you let the /x/ banner look like this, with the right stroke dragged over? I remember it, it was a completely fucking stupid request, now it's getting on my tits and having a considerable toll on my masturbatathon, please revert it.

>>11606
Some men just want to watch the world burn.

What's the address to the IRC? I remember it had 'jam' and 'britfa.gs' in it.

Why did Purpz rape a baby? And how did he not hide dispose of the "evidence"? For fuck's sake, it can't be hard.

>>11659
>>/shed/9873

You can also use "site:britfa.gs/shed/ jam" as a string in Google and follow that pattern for anything you vaguely remember being mentioned in a post.

Was the site down earlier? isitdownrightnow.com said so but it also said the site had been down for over 16 thousand days.

It made me wonder if I was in some sort of Life On Mars style comma. Is this real? Am I real?

>>11738

I seem to remember downforeveryoneorjustme always used to report the other place as down because 4chan was set up to not respond to pings.

>>11738
Yes I was having some problems earlier today briefly. Needless to say I started packing my rice. I have since unpacked it.

>>11738
The site technically remained online but was unreachable via the domain for a little while. purple forgot to put some coins in the meter.

>>11742

Well he is serving 32 years m7. Maroon needs to pull her finger out.

This has probably been asked before, hence this thread to ask it again, but how come the appeal box in the ban section was removed? Did it not appeal to you?

>>11746
It was apparently because it didn't actually work.

>>11515

I tried it. It was repugnant. Quite nice with a smoothie though.

>>11746
Well thatll teach you not to make grammar and punctuation errors now wont it silly boy?

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>11749

Here, take this: '

You'll need it on your journey.

I'm getting 403 errors when I try and access the NSFW boards. Is there a site-wide problem, or have I angered the gods in some way?

>>11797
Works for me, are you posting from somewhere foreign?

>>11798

Nope.

>>11799

Never mind, realised that /sentry/ is badly mis-locating my IP. I don't know how you confuse Sheffield with California, but there you go.

>>11800

Must be the similar accents.

Does /sentry/ show the last 100 people to go on .gs or everyone that's ever been on here?

Purp, why did you join the Gurkhas and not the SAS, like the other webmaster?

>>11805
Neither. It shows the last 100 cities to post (without repetition) although some are excluded. The list would be 11 times larger if it were not shortened.

>>11805
It's the most recent distinct locations. I think if two of us geofag to the same place, it'll only appear once, and when you post your location gets bumped to the top of the list.

>>11807

Excluded means Croydon.

>>11808
Disregard that. I defer to the ninja keyboard skills of His purpleness.

Can Mods ban other Mods?

Have Purps and Maroon ever hooked up?

>>11845

I think Father/Daughter incest is beyond .gs's remit, lad.

>>11845
Wait, Purps and Maroon are separate people now?

The flashing /*/ has all the colours of the mods except for red, lilac and magenta. Is there a reason for that?

>>11848
Not really. Some inactive mods were included; the ones you name weren't.

>>11848
How did you figure that out?

>>11850

Right clicked and inspected the element. Then watched for the words that didn't flash up.

gif related

Just freshed /*/ and the attached picture popped up. Using Firefox on Win OS with Flash removed. Has happened last 3 times in a row, including opening a new tab and heading there directly. Have obviously not saved nor opened it.

>>11853
That's the YouTube ID of the Chatback video some arse put on repeat in /iq/. Clearly your browser's not interpreting it correctly.

>>11853
probably something to do with the autoplaying flash video some annoying sod posted because it wasn't BRILLIANT enough the first umpteen times.

The page 9, 'Marked For Deletion' is that entirely automated or does a human make the final decision to actually delete it?

>>11876
Automated.

If Purpz and Maroon had a kid, would they name it Prune?

>>11912

Poon, surely?

Also, can .gs madmins see who I am based on my gmail/facebook cookies? I realise it's too late for me now, but I suppose it's worth knowing if you haven't crossed your streams or had the two of you reversing the polarity yet.

>>11915
No. Theoretically it could be done using tracking cookie-things but we don't use any of those. If you want to install something like Lightbeam which shows you which websites do track you, you'll see .gs is clean.

How is .gs funded?

>>11918
By GCHQ.

>>11918
Maroonlighting.

>>11918
Marketers pay us millions of pounds for details of your viewing habits.

>>11921
And yet still no urine enema ads offered up.

>>11918

How much do you think a decent VPS costs these days?

Non-rhetorically, why is britfa.gs hosted in the US?

>>11919

How much do they pay you / how much funding does this project get?

inb4DrEvil

>>11926

They don't, the trick is that purple is actually GCHQlad. Meet me behind the /boo/ bike sheds in 30 minutes if you want more information. Come alone.

>>11926
Enough to keep the .gs moon laser project on track.

>>11927

Definite pozload trap.

Avoid.

>>11928
I want us to have a space programme now.

>>11930

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJdrlWR-yFM

Nepal? Simon? The Timpsons man? Quiggins?

I've been here about 2 years and yet the origins of these things are unknown to me.

>>11932
I've been here a lot longer than that and have no idea what quiggins is.

>>11932
>>11933

If you want to imagine what Quiggins was like, think of a building inspired by /iq/ where the people actually think and act like they are /iq/ posters. I can't get the link below to work for me because of some java issues, but it might work for you.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/in_pictures/360_panoramas/quiggins/

And now.......

Something completely different

>>11931
I think I might make one of those weather balloons with a camera attached and send it up.

Hmm.

>>11934

That's slightly unfair.

Quiggins was an old warehouse on the edge of Liverpool town centre that rented out cheap retail units, filled with broadly "alternative" shops - places that sold Slipknot hoodies and Wiccan sundries, vintage clothing shops, piercing and tattoo places, and a variety of odd antique and junk shops. It was the preferred hangout of Liverpool's goths and weirdos who were too young to get into the Krazyhouse.

It was broadly similar in spirit to Affleck's Palace in Manchester or Camden Lock back in the day. Quiggins was demolished in 2006 to make way for the Liverpool One shopping centre; Most of the traders subsequently moved to the old Grand Central Hall on Renshaw Street.

Bizarrely, the owner (Pete Tierney) turned out to be a fascist - he was a big BNP supporter, was convicted of assaulting an anti-fascist protester in 2009 and ran for mayor as a National Front candidate in 2012.

>>11936

James May's assgape is this wide.

I assure you that the banter, for lack of a better word, that was used in and around the Quiggins area by large goth girls and stick thin emo boys was /iq/ level at best with no hint of irony or self awareness. Sage because I'm cringing remembering my teens.

CASE CLOSED

>>11939
>large goth girls and stick thin emo boys

They nearly always are, too.

>>11937
Sounds a lot like Leeds' Corn Exchange, before it was converted into nice boutiques and restaurants.

I'm feeling rather nostalgic about being a skinny emo boy with eyeliner and those stripy fingerless gloves, hanging around with fat goth lasses. Those were the days.

>>11942

>I'm feeling rather nostalgic about being a skinny emo boy with eyeliner and those stripy fingerless gloves, hanging around with fat goth lasses.

Well, what are you waiting for? Put on your eyeliner, pull on your skinniest jeans and go chat up a sixth-former with self esteem issues.

>>11943

Is that still possible? I thought emo had been phased out. I haven't seen many around lately.

What 'sub cultures' are there these days? Everyone seems pretty regular now, even the chavs have faded away/become less obvious over the last ten years.

>>11945

NEETs.

>>11945

Styles have merged to the point where there doesn't seem to be an 'alternative'. Partially shaved and brightly coloured hairstyles, tattoos, piercings, they're all very common now. The high street is more effective than ever at snapping up new trends thanks to people more or less liveblogging their tastes online. I honestly don't think we'll see many countercultural movements since the main channels of communication for youth are so public. It's the same reason why a visual technique that appears in a popular YouTube clip or an obscure music video will be replicated on an advert only weeks later.

You could argue that youth trends have always been commercial and cynically coopted, but surely not quite so fast as it happens now.

>>11947
>brightly coloured hairstyles
These certainly seem to have been adopted by council estate women. Even that otherwise innocuous shade of maroon is worn by so many people when it doesn't go with any other aspect of their appearance.

>>11945
It's all about the norm core now.

>>11945
Not sure what sub-cultures are big now but I'd put money on an evolved version of scene coming back within 5 years. The music is starting to come back, we just need the style to show its roots.

Would it make sense to have threads over a certain size open to "Last 50 posts" by default?

>>11958
It really would.

>>11958
As long as the buttons were labelled correctly.

>>11960
It's particularly an issue when replying to a thread and finding it's trying to load the whole thing after you hit post. It only happens some times, I'm not sure what the setup is.

>>11958
That's a nice idea.

>>11958
Perhaps if a thread reaches a certain size, the [Last 50 posts] button could increase slightly in size and [b].

There was once a /euro/ but is no more. Are there any other boards that didn't stand the test of time?

>>11980
/bint/ and a male equivalent.

>>11981
The opening post on /bint/ was fantastic. I had it screenshotted, but apparently I've lost it.

>>11982
/bint/ still exists though. Is the post numbered 1 that's there not the original first post?

How much does .gs cost to run a month? How is it funded? Would you accept donations?

>>11984

It's funded by purple and is his autocracy. No.

>>11984

This. Not sure how much it costs to maintain a shed / server combo, but would be happy to donate some beer tokens.

>>11986

Your hands are probably clammy.

>>11987

You could have aimed that at literally any member of the userbase and been right. Did you have a point?

>>11988

>You could have aimed that at literally any member of the userbase and been right.

>>11989

Demographics ain't projection, kid.

>>11985

There's more than 1 purple....

>>11990

>demographics

Know your audience.

.gs is not your average imageboard.

>>11992

Even 30 year olds will have clammy hands if they're grasping a mouse for an hour or so, which is a likely scenario at 11PM on a Tuesday night.

>>11993

Considering the amount of people who browse here on mobile, tablet and laptop I think your argument becomes rather flimsy in that regard.

Again...

>>11994

I think you're just deflecting my points by implying that I'm projecting because you're upset that someone who wasn't your victim jumped in to defend your victim.

>>11995

Well you are certainly entitled to your opinion.

>>11996

Am I though? I've been posting my opinion throughout the last few posts and every time I have done so I've been met with images of projectors. It seems to me like you have been trying to dismiss and ridicule my opinion throughout, and have only at this moment decided that I am allowed to express myself because you are unable to keep using your stock response to mock me.

Thank you for allowing me such a wonderful opportunity, masser. Me sir won't disappoint again, masser.

Please try to keep the cunt-offs to the other boards, lads.

>>11998

>Am I though?

As you quite rightly deduced, I was mocking your post and was continuing to mock you with my last riposte because you took it upon yourself to take offence on the behalf of yourself and others on the basis of a relatively harmless bit of cuntery, you teary bumder.

I had hoped you might see the error of your ways and stop being indignant, but alas no.

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>12000

Well, you cunt. It looks like curtains for the both of us. I hope you're happy.

(A good day to you Sir!)

Seeing as it's the first I've heard of it, how many posts before a thread becomes undeletable by the OP?

Thanks for getting rid of that thread btw.

If a monk takes a vow of silence, can he still talk to people via electronic means?

>>12022
Reported to your abbot.

>>12002
9 replies. That almost seems niggardly on reflection.

>>12024

Tut, Nan...

>>11391

What's the difference between a Nepalese troll and a habitual moron?

There isn't one.

>>12037
You dun goofed, I can see your IP. I've already backtraced you using a GUI in Visual Basic and I'm rifling through your porn collection.

Can you permanently ban this IP address?

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>12041

RIP

Was anyone else getting 403 forbidden 2.5 hours ago?

>>12192 here

Just realised why it was happening. Was browsing using Opera mini on the phone which uses Opera Turbo. Opera servers are located abroad.

>>12193
I wish there was a way to get opera mini whitelisted. I agree with the great wall, it just means I can't browse gs in bed.

>>12194
Other browsers are available.

>>12195
Not for my old phone there aren't.

>>12196
Well surely you turn off the Opera Turbo?

>>12197
Surely he would if that were possible. Opera Turbo is baked into Mini on Android.

>>12199
Well that's just outrageous.

>>12201
Maybe. Opera proper is of course available on Android if not for >>12196's Fisher-Price phone.

I was watching the Red Riding trilogy, thinking about Savile and his ilk and looking to some of my employers who were coming up around about that time and I really have to ask any resident oldfags that might be here:

What the fuck happened in the 1970s?

My reading of the 60s was that they were full of hope and promise up until around May 68, then something went horribly awry. Culture didn't seem to make it back onto the right track until a brief spell in the early 90s which was swiftly disrupted.

What went wrong?

I fully accept a ban for use of the epithet 'oldfag' which I probably learnt from another chan site

Who the fuck is this and why do people keep posting him?

>>12196
Other phones are available.

>>12204

Looks like Richard E Grant playing Withnail. Withnail and I is a cult film. I haven't seen it since I was 15 in 1995 but I think it's the reason "resting actor" is a euphemism for alcoholic.

>>12203

>What the fuck happened in the 1970s?

Much of the baby boomer generation was leaving school and entering the real world by the 70s. That's what went wrong.

>>12203
"There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.…

And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.…

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."

>>12206

The reason it's the OP image here

>>/iq/51246

is because the film's most famous quote is

>He's climbing in the window. He's sharpening the fucking knife.

>>12211
>the film's most famous quote is
Give me a break. I've must have seen that film ten times and can't even remember that line.

More memorable lines include "I demand to have some booze" "I call it a camberwell carrot, because it was invented in camberwell and it looks like a carrot." and "I want cake, cake and the finest wines known to humanity."

Also the bit about not mixing your drinks. Also...fuck I could go on all night. Almost any line from that film is more famous than the one you quoted.

Sage for autism.

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>12197

As >>12200 says, you can't disable it.

>>12202
>Fisher-Price phone
I resent that. Symbian OS was the pinnacle of its day and if it were actively developed, it would wipe the floor with iOS and android.

>>12212

I remember Mark Radcliffe's mid-90's Radio 1 graveyard shift show and they had a cult film section and they were certainly fond of that line. I think that's where I got the notion from. That quote is how how it relates to the

>>/iq/51246

post, isn't it? Did I misunderstand? I haven't seen the film in a very, very long time.

>>12206
That can't be Richard E Grant.

>>12215
Why not?

Why is /iq/ shouty now? Did I miss something?

>>12219
NO.

>>12219
Are you new here?

>>12219
I'm really sorry, you won't hear any more shouting from us you MASSIVE GAY SHITE. FUCK OFF.

Why are you being suppressive?

[✓] Complain.

>>12368
Stop namefagging.

>>12369
Sorry, think I'll call it a day here then too. Should probably stop drinking so much, doesn't seem to bring out the best in me any more. Cheerio forever.

When you delete the image that you've uploaded but leave the post, does the image get completely removed from the system or does it stay on the server / in a trash can forever?

>>12706
The image is completely removed.

Is there any way of browsing /arch/ and how far back does it go?

>>12708
Thanks. So what's your favorite kind of pizza?

>>11391
"black
ministry of love

blue
ministry of transport

brown
ministry of propaganda

green
chief of police

grey
ministry of lies

lilac
ministry of exaggeration

magenta
ministry of broadcasting

maroon
ministry of research

pink
ministry of plenty

purple
final boss

red
foreign secretary

turquoise
ministry of peace

yellow
bodydouble for purple

white
ministry of truth"

What does this mean?

>>12711
Those are the nicknames of the moderators. Not all still exist. I think their titles are intended as humorous allusions to their roles on the site, personalities, lifestyles, jobs etc. But I'm not certain, and it's 'ours not to reason why' anyway.

green should be:
head of oak furniture sales and marketing ... bit of a mouthful though.

>>12714

>bit of a mouthful though.

I'll bet ;)

>>12714
"ministry of the interior"?

I hate to namefag but does anyone know if I2 is okay? He's been absent for quite some time, I'm worried about him.

>>12733

Is that Ruskie mod? Remember, the great wall of britfa.gs blocked Russia so maybe they were caught up inadvertently.