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actually I'm just kidding, I dgaf

my spinning instructor said that if her ufc boyfriend tatted up w/ dgaf and south bay shit friends ever found out that he was born in san diego they would fuck him up, and I mean although I feel for him I dunno I dunno

she's not really my spinning instructor really I've only spun one handful of times I think

I guess where I get really pro-SB is like the people who get repeatedly SB'd are old enough to know better. At their age, they should not need somebody to say "yo, man, check it out, you're really bugging a lot of people & carrying out battles & vendettas long after there's any conceivable value, even entertainment value, in doing so." these are dudes in their thirties. they're not wild kids who just need people to understand their energy levels. they're grownups who think if they can find somebody to be uncool to, that'll be great for them, for whatever reason. I say fuck that; flag post on any motherfucker who can't be, bare minimum, respectful to the people he's arguing with. it's not even that hard. I have permanent beef with deej but he knows I respect him and even when I'm needling him I try to stay aware that he's a person and it's gotta suck to have somebody in your community who pretty much always thinks you're dead wrong. this sort of shit has gotta be worse when it's not just asshole old dude aero but several guys in their thirties who think they're teenagers pokin' & pokin' & pokin'. recourse must be made available against that shit imo.

on a side note it's always weird to me gr80 that you're so anti-ban, you're a chill dude who doesn't ride people & I don't get why you think people need the absolute right to be total dicks to others within a community.

that post was in response to k3vin's suggestion that a mod start a thread when a poster is over 40

― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, February 1, 2012 12:29 AM (5 minutes ago)

you don't think this would be preferable to what we have now?

haha wouldn't that just be like, a party for their upcoming ban

also & maybe this is just me but it'd be rad if like when a poster is accumulating SBs a mod starts a thread and is like "hey man what's your deal?" and the person can defend himself and decisions can be made from there, it'd feel more open, idk

I think anyone who made it to 40 is the kind of person who would just love and wallow in this sort of attention.

when a poster is accumulating SBs a mod starts a thread and is like "hey man what's your deal?" and the person can defend himself

Mods have enough to do without arguing over whether or not you really deserve a temp ban because you can board lawyer really well. If ilx means that much to you, just learn to be civil enough you aren't upsetting large numbers of people. It isn't rocket science.

basically i like fun, so that's how it fits with my chill dude vibe. its really fun watching frogbs be so dumb and wrong all the time. its really fun watching whiney find new and adventurous ways to be a dick. l0u1s jagg3r was like the funnest dude ever to watch post-- why would you want to stop a dude from doing that like nine times?? i am 100% aware that i am in the minority on this.

k3v, i was agreeing w/ u-- i just framed it as "bullying the bullies"

i do kinda miss gabbneb

also & maybe this is just me but it'd be rad if like when a poster is accumulating SBs a mod starts a thread and is like "hey man what's your deal?" and the person can defend himself and decisions can be made from there, it'd feel more open, idk

I think anyone who made it to 40 is the kind of person who would just love and wallow in this sort of attention.

― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Wednesday, February 1, 2012 12:38 AM (2 minutes ago)

i think that's kind of judgmental! but i don't see the harm in it either way, i don't think it's like a big burden or anything for the mods, lol

on the real though i would feel 10000x less sympathetic for someone banned for 30 days if that person was told face to face by ppl on the board like this to quit it and kept doing it anyway

lol k3v even i'll admit that that basically happens already

the problem with sb - and i have sd this time and again - is the wrong posters consistently got b& by it

the good thing abt sb were the lulz

otm as much as i h8 SB in principle, i wont deny how funny it is almost every time

its really fun watching frogbs be so dumb and wrong all the time. its really fun watching whiney find new and adventurous ways to be a dick.

lol yeah we're into some heavy "agree to disagree" territory here. I consider whiney a friend but every time he gets banned I'm like "yeah, whiney needs his quarterly ban or he'll just intentionally make as many people feel bad as possible all day"

slightly changing the topic here: i think The dave cool Experimenthttp://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif has been a wild success.

i propose that during any poster's 30-day ban, they be permitted to post under a different name given that they assume a character that is the polar opposite of the behavior they were banned for.

mods do a good job for a board this big I think

dave cool is a p mediocre gimmick tbh in large part because he wont/cant commit to the character fully

plus I think all the people who have been banned by this system, even if they may have been better posters about opinions on things than most of the board on their good days, honestly, they didn't really help me find music to listen to so I don't really care in the end maybe, probably

man be cool to dave cool, he's workin imo

lol k3v even i'll admit that that basically happens already

― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, February 1, 2012 12:46 AM (4 minutes ago)

on the board, kind of. this is basically true to an extent with the emailing after 40 thanks to actually decent mods like wmc, forks, and remy, i just don't see why we don't make it into like an open, interactive intervention

xxpost: speak for yrself, deej, whiney. LJ & even frogbs have turned me on to tons of new music

^for god's sake if nothing else think of the potential lols to be had there
xp to myself

I still don't like the system for same reasons as before but this seems like a small improvement. The magic number still ignores way too many factors like when the post was made, how many posts has the person made, were they already banned because of that post, what percentage of users does this represent, are the voters even contributors to the board, and on and on.

they didn't really help me find music to listen to so I don't really care in the end maybe, probably

i can think of at least one sb'd person whose taste in music you rated p highly at one point but i think its impossible to argue that sb hasnt made the board, as a whole, less entertaining even if u dont care abt specific sbd posters themselves

Whiney doesn't turn anybody onto shit gr80 come on, his whole deal is "this sucks" all day every day to eternity

whiney turned me on to the hauschka album and weve def had productive and interesting conversations abt music

well 'productive' but yknow

lamp who is this person

basically if jaxon (who doesn't even post now but whose threads in the archive have been p productive) or scott or a bunch of other people were sb'd I would be sad sad prob, but like even then, I don't know, you're probably right, you're definitely right about the entertaining part though

Whiney doesn't turn anybody onto shit gr80 come on, his whole deal is "this sucks" all day every day to eternity

― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 01:09 (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

such a bs post

oh i was scrolling too fast and i thought that your post was aerosmith's. i dont really know what kind of music u like tbh - metal? classic funk? - but i guess that doesnt matter i mean i think annoying but passionate posters make ilm better cuz theyre willing to really engage even if theyre stupid or bullying or w/e but i mean most ilm posters have p terrible taste i guess sure

i thought i saw jaxon posting recently??

Whiney doesn't turn anybody onto shit gr80 come on, his whole deal is "this sucks" all day every day to eternity

― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 01:09 (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

such a bs post

ya srsly

lamp while I have you on the line was there a poster named ledge who was exactly like you or were you ledge or something because I swear there used to be two of you

two lamps

theres a british poster w/the user name 'ledge' who well predates my posting here but we arent v similar he posts readable posts w/caps and punctuation and is one of those v literate london ilb posters who always seems to be reading something impressive whereas a like mangas and books abt elves

I say fuck that; flag post on any motherfucker who can't be, bare minimum, respectful to the people he's arguing with. it's not even that hard. I have permanent beef with deej but he knows I respect him and even when I'm needling him I try to stay aware that he's a person and it's gotta suck to have somebody in your community who pretty much always thinks you're dead wrong.

ime your tone is consistently patronizing when you argue with people and that is a lot worse than whineyesque rude hyperbole

now I know and will try not to forget

ありがとうございます, may yours ears be as pointy as the tips of your shoes.

xp

flopson!

i've had it buzza--i've HAD it

i got your back ; )

hahaha :D

fwiw uh oh im having a fantasy i have been reading albert cossery lately and i think it was because one of your ilb posts so its not all elves all the time

lamp i never read books abt elves, where should i start?

hey i'mjust glad we could all have another great sb conversation, wish we could all just vibe in peace but some ppl love ilx death penalties it's too bad, frogbs i miss u (i miss u)

well, so if this change is all semantics and cosmetics, then i'm kinda bummed because "flag post" is much less hilarious than "suggest ban". where from the suggesteban buttezes of tomorrow?

plus it's so innocuous-sounding. flag post? don't mind if i do! much easier to casually "flag" a gnatlike opinion than to straight-up recommend that the dickhole poster behind it be BAND, right?

everything should always be the way it was, imo

for real tho this whole mischaracterization of whiney as a worhtless, pervasively negative bully/ringleader of a cast of abusive posters (i) is hella outdated (ii) doesnt acknowledge that whiney's posts are almost exclusively just jokes. a lot of people like those jokes and find them hilarious, at least 51 people find them obnoxious and distasteful and think they shit up threads with dumb ott controversial opinions. there's no significant bullying anywhere on ilx anymore. i doubt more than a handful of ppl to have ever sb'd since like, 2009, have done so because they felt they were being personally attacked, or sb'd as a response to seeing someone else attacked. that shit doesn't fly anymore afaict

plus it's so innocuous-sounding. flag post? don't mind if i do! much easier to casually "flag" a gnatlike opinion than to straight-up recommend that the dickhole poster behind it be BAND, right?

really? i'm way more reluctant to flag than to sb--with flag i feel like a mod is actually going to have to, like, put on his glasses "...really? that's what you flagged me for?"

mods like to be flagged though. it's a gesture of deference to their authority and wisdom. hey, like, i could use your help here in the understanding of this thing here, if you don't mind...

yeah contenderizer otm f mods!