BO here. Here's more or less a progrss report and ideas for the future re QR.

QR Past

QR has been in the hands of FastJack for almost 3 years.

At best, his leadership was benignly neglectful.

At worst, it has been diametrically opposed to the goals and values espoused by Q.

When OSS arrived after refplatformig, the two joined forces to kill the kitchen, which almost destroyed the QR board.

ALMOST- but not quite.

Because against all odds, anons refused to let this board die.

Despite the chaos, the bans, the attacks, and the incredibly crappy doughs, they carried on.

AND STILL CARRY ON.

Eventually, the level of incompetance became unsustainable -

FJ plain forget to check into the board for almost 3 weeks, all the BVs except OSS left, and all OSS did was ban anons on a whim.

That is how they lost "their" board.

QR Now

News admin has been in place for 12 days.

Had to scramble at first, because this situation was not anticipated.

But here is what has been done so far -

• all bans made for no reason for the last 17 weeks have been lifted by 8kun admin

• a board is being set up that will allow anons to request ban lists for earlier dates

• the same board has a thread for bug fixes and other technical issues noticed by anons

• the catalog has been cleaned and updated; BVs monitor daily

• staff is monitoring bakes to help alert bakers to wrong breads numbers or split bakes

• staff locks breads in favor of signed in baker, unless it is OSS

• Staff has banned OSS from baking and made his notes subject to editing by anons/bakers

• New threads are under development for newfags, new bakers, and diggers doing research

• Working on an in-house pastebin/control C that is powerfull, secure and easy o uuse.

• Anons alerted to heavy CP presence and asked to actively look for it and make global reports

QR Goals

Overall: to create a board that "neat and tidy" for Q

Whether or not Q returns to post, the board should be a place that supports the honors the work)

• Promote greater anon awareness and responsibility

• Support bakers and build a good working relationship with them

• Work with agreegators like Qresear.ch so we know how to "feed" their sutsl

• Ensure that CP is detected early and cleaned up right away

• Develop policies (like content policies) that allow for the great possible freedom of expression but that also make is harder for for shills to attack w/impunity

• ( what have i left out?)

Four mai roles for admins: nmj1- keep board/breads neat and tidy

2 - provide resources or links to support the work

3 - to develops policies and rules of thumb that support out work

4 - to help anons to be more aware of what goes on here (situational awarenss)

Thoughts?

Please reply in META, i have to leave for a few hours..