/hypno/ - Hypnochan

will comply

maybe

I (and many more) would, if you could do us a solid and stop this sub garbage, scaring away the newcomers and regulars alike with a bombardment of sissy domme filth.

>>27923

I agree

>>27923

This

>>27923 >>28060 >>28213

If you want to see other types of hypno, you're free to post it yourself. The place could do with a little variety.

>>28857

It's hard to have variety when nobody replies and your topic just get drowned out by.. the 'majority' in an hour.

>>28888

True, but you can't help what's popular. Trying to push out popular content in order to prop up unpopular stuff is nonsensical. It might work better if the less popular content was all kept in one thread so it would be bumped more and thus have more visibility, or perhaps mods could encourage the sissy/sub crowd to consolidate their threads a little more.

>>28888

THE QUADS HAVE SPOKEN

>>28949

Easier said than done, without interference from the mods. All these fag threads multiply, since they scare visitors away, and because of that they stop getting replies, and a new thread on that topic is created, sometimes on the same page. Not to mention there is a thread for each stupid whore with a God complex that dips their tits into this cancer.

>>28997

Yeah, the mods may have to get involved to make it happen. People are pretty retarded with how many threads they make on the same topic.

I'd love to post more often and make OC, but we're drowning in shit-tier newfags and namefags, and the moderators do jack shit about it. The only sign we have moderators at all is this newly pinned thread and the fact that CP spam gets deleted.

Thanks bro

>>27085

Glad someone decided to.

>>27085

>Op is fellow /hypno/fag

One question…

Are you from the sub/sissy side of the board or are we not totally fucked?

>>28888

>>28857

While it's up to the BO, what might have been a great idea would have been to split the board into two boards: Hypno, and Erotic Hypno.

>>29813

I'm a switch with sub leanings. I take it that you're asking about Rule 3, and their tendency to create redundant threads. I do think that Rule 3 is poorly followed over the entire board, and that something should probably be done about it. But as stated before, I'm not allowing myself to act too quickly on anything that could have a significant impact on the board's health immediately after getting the reigns. At the very least, I thought I'd introduce myself before fucking with anything. I'm open to suggestions on how it could be handled.

>>29814

Splitting boards is tricky. One of the major lessons learned back on halfchan was that splitting boards always fractures the userbase. Given that /hypno/ only has 66 unique IPs, and 99% of its posts are NSFW content, I don't think that there's enough interest in SFW hypno content to sustain a board for it just yet. I would consider this if enough people demand it, but I don't think it's a good idea right now. Furthermore, I would first want to see if the issue could be resolved as a side effect of stemming the tide of redundant threads. What do you think?

>>29821

Also, don't split the board. We can afford to lose the more cancerous posters in exchange for post quality, they'll just drift back to reddit, but /hypno/'s usercount came from its original reputation of having the best hypnosis discussion on the internet. Splitting the board into SFW and NSFW would be a fracture too great, so just enforce the rules + good posting quality and the better anons will come out of the woods to post here again.

>>29829

>I saw /hypno/ fall off the claims and was afraid the old BO logged back in just to keep his board without touching anything.

I was worried that would happen during the claims process. It took an oddly long time.

>the board needs help quickly if you want anything close to old /hypno/.

I get that things aren't doing so well, but please don't misinterpret my predisposition towards slow and methodical change for hesitance. Rather, I'm making sure that I myself do not become the problem, which is exactly what happens to nearly every hypnosis community. I could go full authoritarian and immediately "fix" the board to my personal liking, but then it's a toss-up if anybody else would be happy with it. The more input I receive, the faster I am likely to act.

>Start by…

I have a similar set of proposals to yours that I'll post shortly. Unfortunately, while removing /hypno/ from Google would likely help post quality, it might be a worse idea than you realize, since it's coupled with other setting changes. I'll explain that in another post about board settings after we get some of the more basic things about policy squared away.

>Spoiler

That's harsh. I understand your frustration, but I'm going to at least try to make it work.

Alright. I've written up some points and proposed changes that I'd like people to read over.

Cleanup regarding the current report queue:

>Changing names

A number of reports in the queue are requests to obfuscate the names of hypnotists in various posts, both by the Anon who made the post, and others. This is probably the best way to catch names that have not been obfuscated, and reduce the number of outside eyes, but it relies on whether or not I'm online, and I have a job. I have not yet reached a conclusion on whether or not that should be my responsibility, but have obliged on the ones which it was already requested for. I did not bother to change the ones which had already been DMCA'd.

>Blank reports

A large number of reports in the queue are blank. I'm not sure if this is the work of a bot, or just lazy people, but I'm guessing it's a bot. Assuming it's people, it goes without saying that unless the problem is obvious, if there's not a description, I might not catch what's wrong with a post or take action on it. Please include a description with your reports.

Proposed policy changes:

These are potential changes that I would like to try, or think warrant further discussion. I will likely at least do a trial run on these unless I meet serious objection. I will wait on doing so until it has been discussed.

>One thread per topic

One of the biggest complaints about /hypno/ is that we have too many redundant threads about too narrow a set of topics. It's not uncommon to see two, three, or more threads for the same genre or hypnotist, and this isn't even taking shilling into account. We could significantly reduce clutter by enforcing Rule 3 in conjunction with a policy of one thread per topic. Obviously, there's still going to be some overlap between threads, such as discussion of a particular hypnotist in a genre-centric thread where that hypnotist does work within that genre. Significant wiggle room will be necessary just for the drifting nature of conversational topics. The focus of this policy is primarily on removing obvious and pointless dupes. Similar policies, either cultural or enforced, exist on every other board to prevent exactly the same thing, and it seems strange that this is not practiced on /hypno/.

>Request consolidation

Many threads are short-lived, and by design become clutter the moment they're not in use. "Hey, anyone have [single specific file]?" is not a good thread, and is just taking up space, to the point that deleting the thread may be of a greater benefit than someone actually delivering that one file. I propose that we test a system where all such threads are consolidated into a single, long-term request thread, and all one-and-done request threads are deleted. A "Requests That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread" Thread. Under this system, requests could still also be made within the thread for the specific hypnotist that made the file, but there would be no more odds-and-ends requests strewn about the catalog. I'm aware that this has been tried by individuals before, but I'd like to see how it works as a policy, as it would leave newfags with no excuse to make "gib file pls" threads, and would establish a reason for deleting those threads.

>Enforce standard imageboard anonymity

Many of the newfags here have understandably mistaken this board as somewhere you use a name and email all the time. It is not. This is a proposition to enforce the normal use of imageboard anonymity. That is, identities are never used unless the identity is directly relevant to the specific thread or post that the identity is being used in. This would be made an official rule, and it would then be up to my discretion whether to remove names and emails from posts if they are used incorrectly. What is "correct" would have to be very carefully spelled out. I'm not sure if it's pointless to explain to our newfags why things are done the way they are around here. Given where they come from and their goal, some of them may adapt and join us, but I expect that most would just ignore it. I don't want an Eternal September kind of situation here. I would rather not implement Forced Anon unless absolutely necessary, as it stifles content creators, which is one of the few instances where names have a valid use.

There are several other, less immediately pressing points I'd like to bring up, but I think these are the most important ones at the moment, and think they deserve total focus. Please critique them and offer up any alternatives. Thank you.

This kind of feels like a city hall meeting, and were all your advisers giving you ideas.

>>29821

>Splitting boards is tricky. One of the major lessons learned back on halfchan was that splitting boards always fractures the userbase. Given that /hypno/ only has 66 unique IPs, and 99% of its posts are NSFW content, I don't think that there's enough interest in SFW hypno content to sustain a board for it just yet. I would consider this if enough people demand it, but I don't think it's a good idea right now. Furthermore, I would first want to see if the issue could be resolved as a side effect of stemming the tide of redundant threads. What do you think?

Hmm, I had not thought about it that way. Sounds good to me. One other idea, since SFW Hypnosis is so low and ends up getting pushed down the catalog where no one looks, is it possible to have one pinned topic for it? I don't know if that would bring in more people looking for that or just be cluttered, just an idea I had.

>>29829

Agreed. Unless a thread is related to it somehow, they need to stay in their containment threads.

>>29832

>I could go full authoritarian and immediately "fix" the board to my personal liking, but then it's a toss-up if anybody else would be happy with it. The more input I receive, the faster I am likely to act.

Discussion is important. Otherwise the board will infinitely split smaller and smaller and we'll having nothing but splinters. Sub communities are okay, but like you said above, we don't have the numbers for it.

>>29834

> Eternal September

The fact that you know what that Eternal September is, is very reassuring. We are really in good hands. Good luck to you BO!

>>29834

Sounds good to me.

>I'm not sure if it's pointless to explain to our newfags why things are done the way they are around here

If you develop the right board culture, anons will take care of that themselves. The problem with old /hypno/ is that as great as the board culture was, they weren't being backed up by the moderation and eventually they gave up after being overwhelmed with newfags (mostly redditors).

Right now the board culture is nearly dead so this responsibility falls on your shoulders. Be patient, nurture it, and it will grow back in time.

>>29821

Exactly, thank you.

>Snuffing namefags

I understand that for the vast majority of threads, but there are some exceptions I haven't heard a defense for.

I've been answering questions on a topic for a file system not many people are familiar with. It's why I made a whole thread for that topic and questions new users might need answers to.

If I didn't have a consistent level attached it would become a cluster fuck. A simple

"Op here"

wouldn't do (and would completely ruin the whole point of anonymity, since I'm identifying myself anyway) either, as it is both a place of answering questions and recalling my experiences with the file system.

Just… Don't totally force anonfagging, if you decide to at all. It'll just make shit more tedious for no fucking reason.

>>29847

>answering questions about a file system

You can ask or answer questions without a temporary username, it's not like people have to know who you are if you're giving instructions. Also, that excuse is abused by pretty much every namefag who think they have a special reason for attaching a name to their posts (like the time Shibby's ex namefagged just because he was her ex).

>>29839

>This kind of feels like a city hall meeting, and were all your advisers giving you ideas.

>Discussion is important.

That's the idea. If I just do whatever I want, I'm likely to make more missteps. Maintaining something like this is only worthwhile and lasting if other people are enjoying it too.

>is it possible to have one pinned topic for it?

I worry that this leads down a slippery slope. I think it'd be wrong to give any one kind of content preferential treatment that supersedes the bump/purge system, at least in our current structure. I'm open to hearing if the userbase would want broad-topic type discussion threads stickied. SFW thread, Request thread, Chatlogs thread, etc. It could be beneficial, but might change the way the board works significantly. It could also just become clutter.

>>29845

>If you develop the right board culture, anons will take care of that themselves.

I know that well. My concern is that the type of newfags we have right now might not be ones who care to hear it, which could cause complications.

>Right now the board culture is nearly dead so this responsibility falls on your shoulders. Be patient, nurture it, and it will grow back in time.

Expand on this, please. Culture is a difficult issue, as I think there's very little that administration can directly do for it. I think most of what it can do is in setting the tone and making the conditions right for others to express themselves. You can't force culture, you can only give it fertile soil.

>>29847

>I've been answering questions

A knowledgeable individual using a name to provide a service or repeated assistance within a specific thread could fall under proper usage, as long as the name somehow directly benefits the thread and the name is removed outside of that thread. I'd have to see it myself to make a call. But >>29850 raises a good point.

>Just… Don't totally force anonfagging, if you decide to at all. It'll just make shit more tedious for no fucking reason.

I don't want to do Forced Anon as anything but a last resort. I'm also considering enabling IDs, which could make things a lot easier for cases like yours, but that was going to be in the to-be-made post about board settings, so I hadn't mentioned it yet.

>Have to use a proxy to post.

T-thanks, Codemonkey.

>>29863

I thought you meant that I would somehow have to spark the culture myself, and I gave my take on that. I didn't expect it to be the same as yours.

Also, I'm sure that the posting errors going on right now aren't helping this discussion any. Or maybe the board is its usual level of slow and I'm expecting something that's not coming.

http://www.strawpoll.me/14100166

>>29948

Thank you for that categorization, Anon.

I'd consider all gay/demasculunating hypnosis "sissy" (despite feminization being the biggest annoyance), but don't believe it should be all deleted. Simply because there is so fucking much of it in relation to other genres of hypnosis.

I do believe it should be in a much lower ratio than it is now, and even then, lower in relation to other genres of hypnosis.

Luckily we have somewhat weeded most of the sissy shit out, as you have mentioned.

>>29948

Not sure about a dedicated request thread. Every request thread I've ever seen (not just related to hypno) just ends up being hundreds/thousands of posts long with 90% of requests being ignored. Pretty much the only people who open request threads are people who are requesting stuff. There is no incentive for people with content to scan the entire thread and then respond with what they have.

I also don't think trying to influence the ratios of posts, especially the ratio of a specific genre, is a good idea (other than deleting duplicate topics for example). The ratio exists because that's the ratio of what the people on this board are interested in. Trying to control that would just end up driving people away. The content that people complain about, mainly sissy/feminization stuff, is obviously popular and a large part of the erotic hypno scene. Why try and artificially reduce that? If someone is not interested in that content, they don't need to listen to it. Just scroll past it. This board is slow enough that it's incredibly easy to find a specific thread, a large amount of a particular content type doesn't change that.

Also, lumping together all those things under the umbrella of "sissy" just seems completely arbitrary. Sissy/feminization content might potentially include aspects of penis shrinkage/forced gay/humiliation etc, but it's perfectly possible for those things to exist completely separately from each other.

>>29948

It's also worth mentioning that although Red threads make up only 2.4 per page, that's not counting Orange threads, which are essentially the same category. If Orange is counted normally among the Red, Red reaches 3.4 threads per page, making Drive-By Requests the single largest category. Previously, it was tied between Green and Blue, at 3.2. There are more throw-away request threads than there are discussions or genre generals.

Also, there are no image dump threads as there once were on the original Hypnochan, 4/d/, and earlier in /hypno/'s life. Is this the result of Hypnohub existing, or is that just not what our current users are looking for?

>>29951

I don't believe it should be deleted either, as long as it's not breaking any rules. For now, I think all that should be done is enforce the same rules that apply to everyone. Were it as bad as it once was, where every other thread is sissy/demasculinization-related, I'd probably do something more about it, but that's not the case right now.

>>29953

>Every request thread I've ever seen…

You raise a good point. I do think such threads can be effective, as /v/ has decent share threads, but it's not very common. The goal of the proposition is removing clutter from the board, as they make up the bulk of threads at the moment despite not contributing anything. It might be sufficient to say that requests must be put in a thread for that tist/genre, and if there's no thread for that tist/genre, then you have to be the one to make it. It's true that this is still less visibility than the request being directly in the index/catalog, but I think it's a fairly reasonable expectation that people who have files of a given tist, or in a specific genre, would likely be in the thread of that tist/genre to see the request and share them.

>1. Do nothing, leave it all in the index.

>2. Central Request Thread

>3. Requests go in tist/genre threads only.

What do you think? Do you have an alternative? Keep in mind that I'm open to doing test runs on these and rolling them back. I'm looking for the correct solution here, not the easiest one.

>I also don't think trying to influence the ratios of posts…is a good idea

I agree. I don't intend to touch anything that isn't a direct detriment to the board, for exactly the reasons you gave. However, there can come points where the genre ratio is so out of whack that it becomes a detriment to anyone not represented by the king in that ratio, and intervention is needed. This is not the case right now, and the current amount of sissy threads can easily be hidden/ignored by users.

>Also, lumping together all those things under the umbrella of "sissy" just seems completely arbitrary. Sissy/feminization content might potentially include aspects of penis shrinkage/forced gay/humiliation etc, but it's perfectly possible for those things to exist completely separately from each other.

I was wondering when I'd hear someone argue in these genres' favor. No policy about them could be well-rounded unless they themselves are represented. It's strange that there hasn't been any before this point. I mostly agree, and I said myself that I wasn't happy with the ambiguity of the category, but I also wouldn't say that grouping them all together is wholly arbitrary, either. It all falls under demasculinization, or things that straight men may find disgusting, which seems to be the core of the complaint.

>sissy/feminization stuff, is obviously popular and a large part of the erotic hypno scene.

I wish we had data on who was into this fetish, and from what angles. Unless someone can demonstrate otherwise, I'm going to assume that straight men are the majority of users here, as that makes the most statistical sense. Without further data, the logical conclusion is that sissy content does not represent the majority of users, but is voraciously consumed by those who do consume it. That said, I'm not about to create a safe space from specific genres here, so for now, unless they cause problems and start breaking rules, it stays and can be hidden by those who don't like it. If it's hypno, it stays.

>>29956

I definitely think trying to keep requests in the specific hypnotist/genre thread is the best idea. Makes sense that the people posting in that specific thread would be the ones most likely to have the requested file.

re your last point, I think you'd be surprised at the amount of people who are into sissy stuff and would consider themselves straight.

>>29958

>I definitely think trying to keep requests in the specific hypnotist/genre thread is the best idea.

That does seems like the least drastic option with the least amount of risk. It's probably worth testing it before testing the central request thread option. I'll wait until more people have weighed in on the idea.

>I think you'd be surprised at the amount of people who are into sissy stuff and would consider themselves straight.

I'm aware there are a lot, but the numbers for us are uncertain. The terminology of this discussion is also poorly defined, because of the aforementioned poorly defined categories. It's less like "straight" vs "sissy," and more like "straightness coupled with traditional views on masculinity" vs "other." But probably not exactly that, either.

>>29834

Is it possible to make a filter and use that to automatically obfuscate the names when they're posted?

>>29973 (ID Checked)

It is. It's in my to-be-posted list of proposed board setting changes. It may not be necessary, since 8ch has been blacklisted by Google, which I'd forgotten. That also means that there is little benefit in changing the board setting to remove us from search engines, which also removes us from the board index. It would only make us invisible to 8ch, forfeit our Top 50 spot, and make us impossible to get to without either clicking a direct link or typing the URL manually. Yahoo and Bing traffic still exists, but is small.

There has been no further input on the proposed test changes for over 24 hours. Does anyone object to implementing them?

>>30008

Not 100% true, sometimes 8ch's IP shows up in Google results with this board.

>>29948

>Please define what you consider to be Sissy.

Feminization/Trans is what I consider to be sissy. I would say demasculinization isn't necessarily sissy since it could just be a regular guy into being degraded, maybe even femdom.

I would also say anything heavily focused on Black men is probably sissy since my understanding of sissy culture is they really like black men because it's taboo.

Best catch all? Anything that sounds like MTF roleplay, since to me that is what a sissy seems to be. Maybe a few of the sissy posters here could weigh in?

>This category exists because of the frequent complaints about these types of content. Interestingly, there aren't that many of them on the first five pages anymore.

I think it's more that some of the sissy posters tend to bleed out into topics unrelated to sissies, especially the Bambi ones, but they've been behaving lately.

>Why do the Orange threads exist?

I suppose because the file is in more demand than the red files. I made a drive by request because I was curious if anyone had any files pertaining to a specific genre, but it got one or two replies simply because the content matter is not popular.

>>30036

Have to disagree with you. Feminization and sissy are actually not the same. The latter generally reminds you that you are a man being forced to dress like a woman, and thst you are a man made to behave like a girly man. The former makes you believe that you are female.

I like the former. Sadly, there are WAY more of the latter, like 95%.

>>29834

>>29973

>>30008

Filter would be awesome, but you'd still have to deal with idiots requesting files without editing the names first.

Starting today, a prototype tist wordfilter list has been implemented. In order to ensure that it is thorough, please report any names that you find to not be wordfiltered here. Remember that this change is not retroactive, so don't begin reporting every name that you see uncensored as missing from the filter. Only report them if they were posted after today, and were not censored.

This wordfilter does not absolve people of the responsibility of following Rule 5, it is only an assistant for that purpose. There is not a simple way to introduce file names to the filter without creating extreme amounts of work, and bloating the list to an unmanageable size. Therefore, following Rule 5 is still critical.

In addition, please report any flaws in the filter, such as injecting words where they don't belong. Currently known problems are 4||y, 5t4r, and M4ry.

>>30320

Thank you for your hard work.

PROPOSED RULES REWRITE:

This is a proposed rules rewrite based primarily on the discussions that we've had in this thread, as well as common complaints throughout the board. These are important choices, so please read through carefully, and criticize it thoroughly. If anything should be added, reworded, restructured, or removed, please do not hesitate to say so.

>1) No real life Child Porn please. For the time being, hentai, such as lolicon and shota are okay. The global 8chan rule applies. See: https://8ch.net/faq.html#are-there-any-global-rules-regarding-content

>2) OP posts must be primarily about hypnosis. There are currently no limits on what hypnosis content may be posted here unless otherwise forbidden by the previous rule. Copyrighted content is currently allowed. Torrents, download links, gifs, videos, mp3s, photos, stories, games, etc. are all allowed.

>3) One thread per topic. Duplicate threads are not allowed and will be deleted. If you want to make a new thread, first check the catalog to see if there is already a thread for what you want to post about. If so, use it, and if not, make one. If an existing thread has reached page 13, or is within 20 posts of its post limit, a replacement thread may be created. Content must be posted in its appropriate thread. Content which falls under multiple categories may go in any thread that it is appropriate for, but is encouraged to be posted in the thread designated for its primary focus, if it has one. Please use discretion in doing so.

>4) This board enforces the normal imageboard rules of anonymity. Names and emails are not to be used unless they are directly relevant to the topic of the specific thread or post which they are being used in. Examples would be a content creator discussing their own content, or two individuals exchanging contact information. As there is no hard and fast method to determine relevance, this rule has a degree of leniency. However, persistently using identities in circumstances where they are in no way relevant will likely result in moderator action. No leaking or posting personal information of other people. You may post information of your own, but only when it is relevant. When it is relevant, it is recommended that you only share what is absolutely necessary, for safety reasons.

>5) Names of hypnotists and files must be obscured via n33t speak, oekaki, or other methods. As our board is indexed by search engines, if you use the given name for the files or file maker, /hypno/ will appear in their related search results, which attracts both unwanted attention and DMCAs.

>6) If you wish to request a file, you may request it in the thread for the hypnotist who made the file, or the thread for the genre that the file belongs to. If no suitable hypnotist or genre thread exists, make it. Otherwise, you may post your request in a general request thread. Threads made only to request files will be deleted. This rule does not apply if a file is brought up naturally in conversation. Trading is not permitted.

>7) Shills will be banned. Original content creators discussing their content are not considered shills, unless they are shilling by its literal definition.

Please let me know what you think. If there is not significant objection, I intend to begin enforcing these rules on a week-long trial basis in 48 hours.

Hi. I'm looking for Goddess H31d1 clips. Specially the following:

-[A Bunch Of File Names]

And actually any other (except the ones easily obtainable, which I already have), or others not from her but in the same style.

Thanks a lot to anyone who can help me =)

EDIT: Managed to break 4 out of 7 rules in one post. Good job.

Did you rike it?

>>30677

Cool. Joges aside, I was fairly pleased with the results. I will think about implementing these as the official rules (possibly reworded for brevity), but want more feedback before doing so.

During the test, four bans and one warning were given for improper file requests, one ban was given for shitposting, and one warning was given for regular identity/email use across threads. In order to demonstrate the test in progress, these threads were not deleted until they left Page 1. The test rules did not have any affect on posts made before the start date of 10/22. Posts made prior to that date were subject to the normal rules.

I was intentionally extra lenient with the identity rule, as I thought the results would be too harsh if it was immediately enforced at full effect. Because of the rule's ambiguity, and because it is the most drastic change to the rules, users were not given ban time for it unless they were also breaking other rules. Identities causing direct problems, such as attention whoring and avatarfagging, would have also received bans, but no users did so. This rule would likely be enforced more strictly if made part of the official rules, and that level of enforcement may deserve a test period on its own, unaffected by other, simultaneous tests.

A number users failed to obscure tist and file names, but no user did so often enough that it was worth taking action against them. Finding non-obscured names is still valuable for building the wordfilter, so I have only edited them as I have come across them. Manual editing and collection were viable with the combination of the wordfilter and our low PPH, but if there was ever a large influx of users here, it may no longer be viable. Please remember to report unfiltered names, everyone.

There were two conflicts in which I filtered the names of tists who produce only free files, which I was unaware of, Bambi and Vive. For the time being, I have removed those filters, but it raises a question about whether an exception list should be created, or if they should be filtered regardless. Because they are free, there is no direct reason to filter them, but not filtering them will still lead to outside traffic of uncertain quality.

I also took the liberty of adding a forced spoiler to http via wordfilter, which breaks all direct links on the board. This will prevent the owners of those sites from seeing traffic from us directly, and draw less attention. This may be mildly annoying, but the annoyance of copy/pasting is far less than the annoyance of direct attention.

As always, I eagerly await feedback.

>>30689

Seems great to me. Happy with you breaking the links and filtering names/files, and trying to consolidate requests.

I wouldn't worry about removing things from the filter or creating exceptions because A) there's really no negative effect to having the names scrambled and B) you never know when someone's going to pull an 3113ch3my.

It has now been two weeks since we have returned to the normal rules. I think that, at this point, it is safe to say that the test rules did have an overall positive effect on the quality of the board. Although there has not been much feedback, it has been positive. Returning to the original rules gave another glimpse at the norm, and it is my opinion that the quality of the board has somewhat diminished since doing so.

With this in mind, I have decided to implement the proposed rules as the official rules in 48 hours.

I have a fair degree of confidence that this is the correct decision, but I encourage everyone to raise any criticisms, concerns, or objections that you might have. Ideally, please do so before the switch is made, for simplicity's sake. Thank you.

Can we write a rule that lets you ban the conspiracy theorist idiot?

Did you ask your mommy's permission?

>>31191

Why bother? It's a hypnosis board and his stuff is on-topic, even if he's an autist. A rule about banning conspiracy theories/anything remotely political would be abused to hell and back by the nuttier sissyposters.

>>31227

Fair enough, I'll just filter his dumb ass. Some of his spam is off topic for individual threads too but I guess that's not the end of the world.

Good timing on the new rules. Namefags have been out of control recently.

>>31521

What is this "namefag" business? I use the name I prefer to use , but I'm not one of those trolls…I know which poster you're talking about, though I'm nothing like that person!

Maybe it was suggested before, but is there a way we can do an identifier of some sort like the kind nfc uses? It would help to prevent the same poster replies.

Just a suggestion.

>>31586

In *chan culture it's generally frowned upon to use the name field unless your identity is relevant to your post in some way, and people generally prefer that everyone remain anonymous the majority of the time, as the content of any given post is therefore judged only on the content of the post, and not, for example, how long someone's been a part of the community etc.

"namefag" is, somewhat obviously, a derogatory term for people who ignore this and wear a name with every post as if it were a different type of forum, as these posters are seen as trying to draw attention to themselves for no good reason or trying to acquire some sort of social status on the board.

>>31597

Gotcha. Honestly I'm not familiar with the whole Chan thing…I came here to share files including ones I've made, but primarily to discuss hypnosis. Old habits die hard…I'm used to posting/modding at forums where registration is required to avoid the whole same person replying multiple times in response to his/her/itself.

>>31600

>>31586

>Old habits die hard

>I'm used to posting/modding at forums

Lurk for a while and you'll get the right idea eventually.

>>31600

The bans I've given for using names and emails so far are only warnings, hence their very short length. If you have received such a ban, please understand that you have not done anything particularly wrong, but that anonymous discussion is a part of imageboard culture, as previously mentioned. Nearly all sites use names, karma, and similar systems, and there is always a place to exercise their benefits, while there are relatively few places that allow users to exercise the benefits of anonymous discussion. As /hypno/ is the only hypnosis imageboard of significant size at the moment, I currently think it is important for us to manually maintain the environment of an imageboard for imageboard users, rather than allow an influx of outside traffic to disrupt the anonymous culture through volume, as has been happening. The extent to which this is enforced may change in the future, depending on what is or is not needed.

>including ones I've made

Discussing files that you have made is a case in which you would be encouraged to post using a name. Your identity is directly relevant in that case, it is more honest, and your posts would offer relevant information that others cannot provide. In the event you wish to secure your identity and prevent impersonation in such cases, you could use a tripcode, which is somewhat similar to registering an account. See the FAQ for more details: https://8ch.net/faq.html#what-is-a-tripcode

>the whole same person replying multiple times in response to his/her/itself.

This is referred to as "samefagging" on imageboards. It is an issue, but is largely preventable by moderators. Moderators can see an IP hash for each user, which also links all posts they have made across the entire board, to be easily viewable. In addition, mods can see thread-specific IDs which are assigned to each poster within that thread. It is an option to make these thread-specific IDs visible to all users, which helps prevent samefagging more immediately. However, this is a trade-off step between true anonymity and pseudonymity, which must be considered carefully. I have wanted to bring this up and test it, to see how it would be received, but not before ensuring that the other, more pressing changes go smoothly first.

>>31765

Whoever wrote this can't spell military or which, but I trust them completely.

Please start enforcing rule #4, the namefags are coming out in unrelated threads again.

>>32983

I'm okay with namefags as long as they don't shill paid files

>>33331

>namefags

>on an anonymous imageboard

If you want namefagging, go find a forum or some shit. Imageboards are supposed to be a break from all that shit, not more of the same.

>>33550

>Imageboards are supposed to be a break from all that shit, not more of the same.

Imageboards are anonymous by default, but that's not their primary purpose. If that were the case, there wouldn't be a name field at all. Forced anon settings were invented long after imageboards were. We have developed a culture which values anonymity, and therefore encourages and attempts to enforce it when applicable, but there are perfectly valid reasons to use names, such as OC creation. Attention-whoring namefaggotry should be kept in check, but not at the expense of stifling the rest of the userbase's valid uses, whenever possible.

>>33579

>there are perfectly valid reasons to use names, such as OC creation

Even then, it's customary to turn off your name field when you post in an unrelated thread. The namefags we're stuck with right now (like that TheOther fag) insist on dragging their identities into everything whether it's related to the thread's subject or not.

I wish this board was more active

How do I get people into this degenerate fetish?

>>29956

>It's strange that there hasn't been any before this point.

That's because we're sissies and we are super submissive from all the sissy hypno we listen to. I'm surprised that there's people that are so irrationally enraged over a genre of hypnosis. They're probably just insecure with their sexuality, I mean they're presumably coming here to hypnotize themselves into believing that their dick is big or whatever. Plus, letting yourself get hypnotized is inherently submissive, since you're giving up control to someone else.

>I wish we had data on who was into this fetish, and from what angles.

You could set up a poll about sex, gender, and fetish/genre/sexual orientation. But I think it's safe to assume that the amount of discussion on a topic is proportional to the amount of people in the community that are interested in it. It makes more sense to assume this which is generally true in every other situation, rather than assume that sissies (apparently defined as people who are not both heterosexual and male) are highly active compared to heterosexual males and then also assume that sissies are a minority. Even if a silent "straight" majority browses here, there's really nothing stopping them from posting and discussing straight hypno.

Anyway, the demographics shift over time so it doesn't make sense to set up a regime that specifically caters to a static demographic relation. Regardless of the demographics of the community, if it's hypnosis related it should be allowed. If a post is related to the thread in which it's posted, leave it alone. Off-topic stuff at any level should be removed of course.

Does the catalog need 15 fucking pages? A good chunk of the threads are duplicates anyways and with a board this slow and full of newfags we could really use something more conservative.

>>36175

>anyone who doesn't like my fetish is insecure about their sexuality

Nice one.

didnt want to make a thread for this

I jack off to the idea of hypnosis all the time, and even have related fetishes, but I have never listened to a hypnosis file

I am afraid, what if its too good and it changes me? what if it does nothing?

all of you here have taken the plunge at some point, was it worth it?

>>36274

It won't change you unless you want it to

If it does nothing, you wasted 30min, so what? It does take practice listening before it starts working really well anyways. Just sit back and enjoy it for what it is, most people ruin it when they start by worrying about if it's working or trying to "make" it work; just sit back and listen and enjoy the voice and it'll work the best anyways.

Start with some really vanilla stuff like N1kk1 F4t4|3, and go from there.

>>36282

I still have my trepidation, but you have soothed it some, thank you for replying and for the reccomendation

Only 21.1% of banned namefags are repeat offenders. The remaining 78.9% of banned namefags are not repeat offenders, but most never post again. Compared with the thread and post quality that this group tends to produce, it is obvious that most of the supposed namefag problem is actually a newfag problem, as suspected. Namefagging makes up 85.7% of the total bans, but repeat namefags are only 18.0% of the total bans.

Where are these newfags coming from? This data calls the long-term efficacy of current procedure into question.

The number of namefags who used names for valid purposes is estimated to be 5-10% the number of banned namefags, but the exact number is unclear. This group is not included in the calculations above. All percentages were rounded to the nearest tenth.

>>36521

I was adding a handle to my posts as me and annon were talking to each other as well as one other that joined in later in the discussion but seeing as I have been banned 2x for just adding a handle to my post I said screw it and made a new board for hypnosis.

which after the 2nd ban I decided to stop posting any of the files I would have gladdly shared on this board permenitly. As I see no need to contribute a board who punishes people who post not only files but people who are having a conversation OVER A HANDLE.

Anyway if people wanna have an actual discussion and not have to worrie about getting banned cause of a name that they choose to post as part of a conversation or even when they choose to post said name when they create a thread they can over on /Hypno2/. so if this gets me banned a gain because of some greef from the BO or their volenters well I ain't coming back and i'll just continue to use my board. enjoy the content here from those that post here anyway.

>>36648

>Don't follow rules

>Get banned

How could this happen

>>36655

the name rule is stupid to begin with (only names allowed from the content creator) the thread it self is content so that rule just contradicts it self. anyway i'm not complaining i'm just stating what i'm gonna do regardless of what happens on this board. sense the first ban was me having a conversation which led to me offering to get into contact with the person I was talking with ( so ya name was removed from that thread entirely). but i'm out of this board sense the whole not returning thing applies to be over a rule that contradicts it self.

Peace,

DD

ban me like I cared was trying to add to a board but w/e if you want people to post stuff they can i'm not

>>36657

git rekt lmao

>>36657

>>36648

Look man, this is an imageboard. The entire reason these exist is because people want to talk about subjects without attaching names to themselves. The only reason we have name and email fields at all is because we used to have quite a few hypnotists posting here until non-imageboard shitters heard this place was great and brought their cancer with them. The previous BO stopped giving a shit and let the board decay, so now the new guy has inherited a mess.

>>27085

please ban volafile

every thread is full of people asking people to repost stuff

I accidentally a double post, could you remove the Placebo post that is asking to be removed?

>>27085

Hi, could you please enable TOR users to create new threads on this board. Thank you.

Can we start banning people for request threads? So many dead threads with not replies pushing good threads off the catalog.

Dear BO:

thread 41123

reply 41402 Anonymous 18:31:40 today, 07th

I tried it. Looks like a bait, an ad linking to an "easy money" site or whatever.

>>40809

These are against the board rules in most cases and should be deleted if reported correctly.

I however feel like a little more initiative by the mod wouldn't hurt if whatever thread has no (meaningful) replies within a certain time frame of let's say 3 days.

It's sad to see quality threads go to the archives, when the majority of whatever replaces them, ends up falling through the catalog in a few weeks at best. And even there it is still junk preventing one from finding what may be a valuable piece of board history.

>>30343

Question: Would erotic age regression hypnosis break Rule 1?

>>48888

I'd think that it depends on the judge you get, but essentially it's fantasy (not "real life") just as loli hentai and such. If that's illegal where you live, you might get into trouble.

Additionally the hypnosis scripts are likely either protected as art and/or intellectual property in most countries, so the hypnotists reading it out doesn't do much different than someone producing an audio book, depicting a particularly gruesome scene, wherein a minor happens to get murdered in a very graphical way.

Apart from the obvious moral questions, which naturally arise, this should be covered by free speech in most countries with a reasonably working judicial system.

Two supposed lawyers on the topic:

https://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/is-reading-child-sex-stories–no-pictures–on-the–525523.html

Legal status of graphic (drawn) art depicting minors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_drawn_pornography_depicting_minors

>>48888

>>49581

I should add, that despite what the lawyers think, the last US case in the above wiki article explicitly mentions an extension of a sentence due to the possession of written stories by an inmate.

So, I guess, the US hasn't got the most dependable judges when it comes to this.

Thank you for the thread anon. It's helpful.

Was hoping this board would be less erotic when I stumbled upon it.

Might want to take a look at >>>hypno/res/50200.html

Some people spamming begs for re-uploads