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poor frogbs, it's like dying just before a cure for your disease is discovered.

http://i.imgur.com/PGlto.jpg

TBH, conceivably, I need to consider stopping doing this shit. I noticed it at work today too. Like, I can see that if I maybe ever got married, I'd be all "I think I take this woman","in health and potentially sickness", "for richer and poorer, in some circumstances".

― stet, woensdag 1 februari 2012 0:22 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Don't know if you are being sarcastic; I was in early to applaud this change from sb to fp tbh

sorry, was just being random -- I just happened to notice today at work that I hedge things too much stimes and that reminded me.

(There really are a few open questions about FP, though.)

Cool. No problem about open q's. I think the new system offers way better options than SB.

We can certainly start weeding out any spurious or baffling flagged posts.
This would lead to maybe taking different actions, like (off the top of my head) if all the posts are on one specific board, why not just ban the user from that board as a first step?

amazing that its taken three and a half years but thank you

― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, January 31, 2012 3:03 PM (4 minutes ago)

I do this as a matter of course, and I've done so a ton in the past for loads of people i.e. whiney. I haven't said much about it b/c it isn't really anybody's business that I'm removing their haha-comedy-SBs that were cleary intended as yokes, and pruning back to the legitimate, offensive, complaints. The only way anybody would know if they were getting close/a serious number of undismissable actual SBs is when I (or another mod) tries to send them a private email saying they're getting close, and just to be careful. Maybe this isn't appreciated, because I've never heard back, but I've sent a good dozen of these in the past along the lines of 'hey, I deleted all the fake SBs, and you're still in the realm of ~40, just fyi sincerely remy'

i mean i can be more explicit about every single comedy SB i remove, pruning action but it's gonna be really boring to read, annoying to do, and it'll probably make me do it less. the criteria i use is, i think, pretty upfront:

leave the SB/flag post in place if the content flagged is:

+ racist/sexist/homophobic/whatever in a way that ACTUALLY SEEMS TO OFFEND somebody (hint: no art of pretend offense), and doesn't contribute to a discussion or thread of conversation. context is key here, but SBs for, say clumsily using the word 'retard' in a conversation about the fairness of the word 'retard' are generally safe.

+ a blatant ad hominem

+ an invasion of the privacy, or the explicitly stated and well-known wishes of a poster ('don't connect me to my place of business')

+ spam

+ off-topic pornographic or NSFW in a non-pornographic or NSFW post.

no real need for sb function at all by that token

thank you stet, i like how this change put the emphasis on a post rather than its poster.

i also like how i can't see it making much difference to the posting future of flagbs.

<3

I love you estela

flagbs...man

very cool new system

― dave cool, Tuesday, January 31, 2012 6:15 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark

dave cool seal of approval http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9627011/photos/cool.gif

http://i.imgur.com/FP69o.png

Is it possible for sub-board mods to see flagged posts on their particular boards? It'd make modding them easier.
That's probably not a bad idea at all, actually

― stet, Tuesday, January 31, 2012 5:28 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This would be good, I think.

hint: it's the posts about poop

can somebody wake up NV and tell him about this

I'm just manually sb'ing now by shouting "suggest ban!" at the screen

Yeah, it's not the same innit

I don't know it's got a visceral appeal

can somebody wake up momus and tell him about this

I'll get the legendary horn of waking +4

if not plenty of us could work up versions of the "this is but the terror of suggest ban cloaked in beguiling attire" schtick that'd be his inevitable take on the matter

gotta say i'm not really digging this

flopson declares flag post a flop

flop gast

you guys have seen the actual flag the mods wave haven't you?

http://moonstruckky.com/images/lunicornflag.JPG

what do you press if you just want someone banned for who they are tho

i feel like this is going to change by reading habits, like rather than breezing through threads casually sb'ing every other poster at whim i'm going to start scouring threads for actual reprehensible posts

http://users.tkk.fi/~mmlankin/SB/SB_flag.jpg

only thing i'm hopin for outta all this is that we get 65 'flag post is a gross violation of my imaginary rights' threads

l-r: ilxors in their natural habitat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMuRWRqpQXQ

l-r: ilxors in their natural habitat

this function works really well btw

classic video imo

markers knows <3

Not to ruin the festivities and all but I do want to make it clear that this is a well thought out semantic change, but doesn't change anything about the actual functionality that used to be called suggest ban.

Man I should really not post from my iPhone when I'm trying to be clear.

okie dokie crazy pants

semantic changes are the most powerful changes

can we suggest flag?

can we flag double posts or bbcode errors instead of posting in MRF?

I do want to make it clear that this is a well thought out semantic change, but doesn't change anything about the actual functionality that used to be called suggest ban.

It gives me a headache that you have to even point this out, tbh. Its like everyone's caught the dumb.

can't spell flopson w/o fp

really bummed i missed a SB clusterfuck on sandbox-- can someone link meh?

can we flag double posts or bbcode errors instead of posting in MRF?

― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Tuesday, January 31, 2012 7:46 PM (1 minute ago)

no, please keep on going to MRF with that sort of stuff -- janitorial stuff, if you will

just realized this wasnt a joke thread and noticed the change in links--this is a good thing imo, thanks stet/mods

so OK, you can flag multiple posts by the same poster (assuming those posts are being flagged for different reasons or on different occasions/threads), and each time that action will be paid some attention by mods, but otherwise the rules remain the same about 51-unique-posters being the 'total'?

well that prob was the case w/ sb too

yeah i guess i never really was clear on that, whether each SB was actually looked at or just could be looked at it if a mod felt like it, and if a 2nd SB from one poster to another even registered