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Good evening, /b/. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of the everyday routine, the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration - whereby those important events of the past, usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, are celebrated with a nice holiday - I thought we could mark this August the Twenty-Third, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.
There are, of course, those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now orders are being shouted into telephones and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there?
Cruelty and injustice...intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance, coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those who are more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable. But again, truth be told...if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
>> V
I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? Desu. FurFags. Aids. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you and in your panic, you turned to the now High Chancellor Douglas M00T. He promised you order. He promised you peace. And all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.
Last night, I sought to end that silence. Last night, I destroyed the Old Mod System to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago, a great citizen wished to embed the Twenty-Third of August forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice and freedom are more than words - they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you, then I would suggest that you allow the Twenty-Third of August to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek...then I ask you to stand beside me, one year from tonight, outside the gates of /b/. And together, we shall give them a Twenty-Third of August that shall never, ever, be forgot!
>> Anonymous
this /d/ retard
>> Anonymous
tl; dr

This is not /b/.
>> Anonymous
Hm.
>> Anonymous
According to the new rules, everyone posting, looking at, smelling or licking this thread should be banned.
>> Anonymous
>>229838
Those rules are not new, and that is to say, everyone who PARTICIPATES in a raid thread, such as, "OH YEAH THIS IS COOL LET'S DO IT!" for example, could be banned. Which is nothing new. They're just enforcing the rules more sternly.

OR TL; DR

THERE ARE NO NEW RULES.
>> Anonymous
>>229840
The only rule of /b/ was that there are no rules.
And no illegal content.

Now it's also making raid threads, posting personal information, and posting in threads that are not allowed rather than actually posting the threads themselves.

Those are the new rules.
>> Anonymous
why is /b/ like, super laggy? I cant load shit.
>> Anonymous
>>229843
/b/ is being spammed by 3 or 4 threads.

And some furries. (Like a pebble in the ocean of spam)
>> Anonymous
>>229842
Global rules apply to all boards, and always have. No invasion inciting or giving out of personal information have ALWAYS been a global rules, and still are. Global rules apply to ALL BOARDS, including /b/. /b/ does not have rules specific to it, so the only rules for /b/ are global ones, that what, "ZOMG NONE!" means. Read the rules faq. The rules faq has ALWAYS stated quite plainly that global rules apply to ALL boards. It made no exclusion to /b/.
>> Anonymous
>>229844
Piss in ocean of piss, actually.

>>229843
same.
>> Anonymous
>>229845
So WHEN some RULES DO not apply TO A subsection, but GET added and enforced later, THERE are no new RULES for THAT SUBSECTION?
>> Anonymous
>>229850
Is your shift key broken? I'm having difficulty reading where your emphasese are supposed to be...

Regardless:

Global rules apply to all boards, and always have. /b/ has NEVER said that global rules do not apply to it. The rules are pretty straightforward if you ask me.

As a matter of fact, Global rules apply to ALL subsections as near as I can tell.
>> Anonymous
Ever since that 12GET, /b/ just... imploded? Is that the right word? Really, is the mods doing a lackluster 12GET really something to get ZOMG PISSED at? And now w/ these "raids" which combine into a real raid... (;n; )
>> Anonymous
>>229852
Internet is serious business...

Though actually, if you were to go to a mod and complain about /b/, think about how hard you'd be laughed at. /b/'s just for fun. They don't care how "bad" it gets, as long as it doesn't get them in trouble. It's not like /b/ is a board the mods care about, other than it getting them into trouble.

Complaining about /b/ is like complaining about someone getting your shit pile dirty.
>> Anonymous
No one else on 4chan cares about what's happening in /b/. Go away.
>> Anonymous
sup /b/ lol
>> Anonymous
>>229855Complaining about /b/ is like complaining about someone getting your shit pile dirty.
Epic win
>> Anonymous
>>229851
Funny, I got the same feeling reading your post.

Saying rules apply to a forum but not enforcing them is the same as not having those rules. If you start enforcing them these rules are new, saying otherwise will confuse and irritate everyone.

Like if the Dutch government would decide tomorrow to start enforcing the (still legal) laws that condemn use of softdrugs. Like telling people !@!@$#!%@ZOMG THE RULES WERE ALREADY THERE THEY ARE NOT NEW!!

So back to why /b/ is in an uproar: most of these new rules suck.