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Handbook for wiseguys

NOTE! THIS PAGE, WHILE NOT OUTDATED AS IN NO LONGER ACCURATE, NEEDS TO ONCE AGAIN BE REWRITTEN COMPLETELY BECAUSE OF THE SOMEWHAT RECENT CHANGE FROM POST MODERATION TO PRE MODERATION! READ IT IF YOU WANT TO, BUT IT DOESN'T REALLY REFLECT THE AVERAGE DAY OF A WISEGUY ANYMORE! ("Known troll crap" still is important.)

(This guide is incomplete and probably needs to be polished quite a bit, but it hopefully explains the basics decently.)

I hope that you'll enjoy removing trolls and spam in order to keep this place of super high quality. I also hope that you aren't going to become yet another rogue wiseguy who "goes postal"... Only time will tell. At the first sign of fuck-up, you are likely to get unmade and banned immediately. Your position as a moderator here is never "safe". You are expected to be a "good example". Please don't force me to remove you.

"Must knows" and "must dos"

Wiseguys must always use the HTTPS version of AT. This is forced because if your account is compromised, it affects not only your own privacy, but the board will get a malicious person with (limited) powers, free to roam until I come around and detect it, and your account will be unmade and permanently banned, completely regardless of how this happened. You have the responsibility to keep it secure. You probably will want to read the "privacy" page.
Tell me which "nickname" you would like in a private as soon as possible. This is only used internally and has nothing to do with posting in public or anything to do with "HFAP".
As a wiseguy, you must NOT attempt to contact other wiseguys via the chat feature, exchange external communication details in the round table or otherwise conspire outside of the round table. This is a HUGE security risk and will be seen as a very strong sign of all participants being trolls/spies/fuckheads. Never, ever use your wiseguy nickname anywhere outside of AT!
Wiseguys should harden their cookie jars. If you have used the HTTP version up until now, you must also regenerate a new password.
A yellow-like "border" to the left is shown whenever you are recognized as a wiseguy.
Wiseguys primarily are limited to dealing with so-called "fresh" posters. A fresh poster, according to the board, is any poster whose first post (reply or topic) is younger than a certain time. That time is called the "wiseguy action span" and may vary, but rarely changes. It is currently set to 24 hours.
You primarily control posters within the "poster profiles" and these are accessed (primarily) by following the "Anonymous X" hyperlinks in topics. If a poster lacks such a hyperlink, it means that he/she is "too established" and cannot be handled directly by wiseguys. This, naturally, is done because I don't trust anyone enough to allow "free" moderation. That would also be a major privacy hazard.
If you find spam/total junk posted by a poster who is too established, you may still use the "exterminator" to remove it if the post itself isn't too old.
The exterminator and various other tools are found under "Administration" in "Stuff". A recommended bookmark for wiseguys is this: https://www.anontalk.se/stuff#administration
There is no "undo" feature, not even for Sysop. Please don't make mistakes or abuse your powers. Don't feel the need to nuke innocent/borderline posters just to "show that you are active" — wait until there are real trolls instead (you will most likely not have to wait very long). A major problem is that wiseguys tend to ignore (deliberately or not) the real trolls and instead pester very borderline ones. This is extremely frustrating, especially when I end up getting surprised PMs from those posters and then am faced with explaining it and coming up with what to do about the wiseguy.
If possible, always read any new round table posts before doing anything else. (There could be some important message about not rejecting certain posts or whatever.)
Wiseguys should probably enable "Proxy mode", "Hawk mode" and "Whistleblower mode" in the dashboard. They definitely should not use any of the censorship features! Also, it is not recommended that you use a "HFAP".
You may refer to Sysop simply as "S" internally in order to save time (if you want to).

Poster profile tools explained

Feature	Description
Stock PM	Send a private message to a newbie using this feature. You can select from a list of pre-written ones.
Edit comments	A way to help other moderators (and the board as a whole) and maybe even save yourself for being labeled a rogue wiseguy in some cases.
Report	A convenient way to report a poster by its ID. Same as doing it from the links in a topic.
Acquit	"Acquits" the poster by removing all its abuse reports. Only available when the poster has one or more abuse report filed. This is to be used when people have incorrectly reported a poster.
Ban	The poster is banned (and unwhitelisted if whitelisted) and is notified about this via a PM.
Evil Ban	The poster is banned (and unwhitelisted if whitelisted) and the last used IP address is shitlisted for three days.
Nuke Light	Removes all the posts by the poster (excluding any secured ones) and sends a PM explaining what has happened and that he/she should stop posting garbage.
Evil Nuke Light	Removes all the posts by the poster (excluding any secured ones), bans the poster (and unwhitelists it if whitelisted), shitlists the last used IP address for three days and temporarily bans the last hostname used for about 24 hours. All poll votes, pending polls, wishes, PMs, etc. by the poster are also removed.
The checkboxes and the "secure/unsecure" button	"Secures" or "unsecures" one/several/many/all post(s) from getting deleted in nukes, etc. Check the ones you want to secure (or uncheck the ones you want to unsecure) and then submit the form using the button (which appears after the replies). Useful when the poster has posted one or a few quality posts and then started trolling (or vice versa). This way, we can keep what is worth keeping. (The "master checkbox" will uncheck/check all boxes in both the "topics" and "replies" tables.)

Known troll crap

Here, known troll patterns/phrases are listed. Many are set to automatically ban the poster, but they are often "disguised" or obscured, making this impossible to do automatically. Humans are required for this. They can be seen by reading the first letter of each word, each row, or by looking at what is emphasized, and many, many other ways. They are often indirectly referenced, sometimes very subtly. This list is of course not anywhere near complete and new ones are seen regularly. New wiseguys may find this useful to know, and old wiseguys could also be "filled in".

Anything related to "fat nigger cock in my cum filled throat", "backtrace", "r04r" as a nickname, "bus puppy", calling "pizza" "pizz", "You sophist!", "Depressionman", "X in my Y? It's more likely than you think.", "I was going to donate, but...", "I get all my posts deleted and IP banned each time I do it.", "go fuck a shit up your ass", "what is a troll?", "X Y is X", "no, a taste test", "cool story, bro", "u mad", "why so serious", "We are anonymous. We are legion. We are blabla" (maybe wrong order), "kimbo", "kimberly", "kimblow", "kimm0", "chemo", "mr elm", "gun log", "gunlog" (and a billion variations of those), "pizza pizza haegersten", "Know of any good pizzerias in Stockholm, Sweden?", "swedish pedophile", "fat pedophile from stockholm", "My son never goes out but just sits in his room and fails at everything he does. He tries to run a forum blablabla", "I am a failure. I try to run this forum blablabla", "Can you crack this secret code?" (such as "95573f377a24013635a0c22aaefd1bcb", mainly if first topic), "We got the domain back!! Check it out!", ANY "short URL" service (let me know about it and I will ban it), "Why bully X?", "Why do you bully X?", "I've been a member for a long time but I'm posting this from a fresh ID becaue I will soon get censored", "I will probably get banned for this, but...", "I used to be a wiseguy", "I'm a wiseguy on a different ID on a different IP address range", "I'm Sysop who is posting away from home", "you fucking IDIOT!", "psychotic fucktards", basically any term that I've introduced or used in bulletins…