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> fucks with the overboard
The overboard just shows the threads that have been most recently posted in on the site regardless of which board they're on or how many people are on said board. The frontpage of endchan does this too but on a much smaller scale.
It's entirely possible for one determined autist to make their own board and using just ctrl+c/ctrl+v and their browser's back button to manually create trash threads at a high rate of speed. Due entirely to how the overboard functions those trash threads show up on it because there's no filters or limits in place on the overboard that can keep those trash threads from popping up there.
The people complaining that the spam "fucked with the overboard" have no idea how the overboard works or how badly the entire site needs more anti-spam and anti-flooding measures. Right now the only features available to help reduce spam are board options to enable r9k posting rules, enabling captcha and enabling hourly thread limits. Even those don't completely eliminate the problem.