Flag Post

"GOD WHAT THE SHIT ANONYMOUS ILXOR?!?!?!"

>>.clicks "Flag Post".<<

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actually wait jjj is otm dibsys

I haven't FP'ed anyone posts since the switch from SBs, but I half decided that if I did, I would post here why I did it.

i really think this idea of everyone getting their own flags is crucial

Je55e, I admire your openness. I'll follow your lead (although I haven't FPd anyone yet either).

Mods aren't arbitrarily deciding some posts are valid and others not... There are obviously some posts that're just made in error i.e. flagged innocuous posts by non controversial posters on innocuous threads who haven't been involved in a throw down or dispute or CF thread and I was pointing these out as not really contributing to the number of "true" FPs in any way

just flagged this post^^^

remy if we're given the right to gang up and remove a poster, we should be able to do that to any poster, not just ones the mod cabal have deemed as "controversial"

yeah p sure my flag posts could be read a innocuous or accidental or w/e but theyre not

i mean im not under the delusion that certain users will be removed but i would like my complaints to be filed under 'serious stuff'

^^flag

that was an accident by mr que mods fyi

I mentioned upthread but it seems to have been lost: I would like to know if I have been flagged at all.

i think what remy is saying is that these are flags that prob wont really add up/matter in the long run. none of them are getting removed.

yeah but i want acknowledgment, and a lil flag

yeah it would be cool to see a wineybomb have like 13 little waving flags lined up next to it

yes they r animated gifs of course

should only take 5 mins

Wild Flag Post

feel like public flags turns the system from a way to direct the mods' attention to troublesome posts/posters into like a reified system of public opprobrium. would really just increase the potential for jokeyness.

you've won me over, let's do it

I haven't FP'ed anyone posts since the switch from SBs, but I half decided that if I did, I would post here why I did it.

fyi there is a thread for this: who have you sb'd recently?

I have to say that personally I'm just sort of sad that I never really got to get rolling with the SB system before it was gone, because I'm the kind of weird, narrow-topic nerd ILXor that never gets into the like 4,000-post clusterfuck threads and is sort of left feeling left out and confused when y'all start reminiscing about all the great times that (name) ruined ILX and you all SBed him and I'm like, man...I wish I'd been a part of that.

I think I probably SBed Geir once and that might be it. But it seems like the new system is really missing the angle of "I want it registered, not necessarily to any specific human who has to go through and look at these stupid things, that such-and-such poster is being a really tedious pain in the ass whose one-sided, attention-seeking trolling is derailing good conversation and just kind of crashing the party of a thread that was really groovy until they showed up." Like, you don't want the site to become this echo chamber of always-agreeing sameness, sure, but that's never going to happen, and in the meantime it'd be nice for the small, delicate threads to be able to do their thing without the Morbses of the world coming in and sucking up all the air.

iow, sb'ing FP

I FP'd once and regretted it. I'd take it back if I could. A couple posts, too. Could mods set up a "regret post" option

Never mind it seems already to be working

What precisely is the scenario where someone would be racking up the SBs but not providing any posts worth FPing? I mean, other than "the name of this scenario is ILX".

But it seems like the new system is really missing the angle of "I want it registered, not necessarily to any specific human who has to go through and look at these stupid things, that such-and-such poster is being a really tedious pain in the ass whose one-sided, attention-seeking trolling is derailing good conversation and just kind of crashing the party of a thread that was really groovy until they showed up."

I believe the procedure is to go off to the riverbank, cut down a reed, yell your grievances into it, and let the river carry away around the bend.

What precisely is the scenario where someone would be racking up the SBs but not providing any posts worth FPing?

Under SB, you did not necessarily have to click SB on an offending post. As I understand it, part of the whole FP thing is closer mod scrutiny for aspects of actual offensiveness, whereas people definitely got sb'd in the past just for being annoying.

Right, but how is this a bad thing?

It isn't. People shouldn't be banned "just for being annoying". FP should, ideally, make sure that people are banned only for an actual reason.

being annoying is an actual reason. you may not like the actual reason. but.

It isn't an actual reason, because there's no one definition of "annoying" in the first place.

it's when you have a crush on somebody and don't want to say it, iirc

hey... I uh...flagged your post... *grins sheepishly, toes the ground*

Do you want to flag my post?
Please tick:

( ) Yes
( ) No

If that's what it is, why would you want to ban him then?

(xx-post)

oh great, now RHCP's 'Suck My Kiss' is playing in my mind with the lyrics "your mouse was made to flag my post"...

baby, i'll ban you any time of day or night

wearing a sexy new pair of banderpants

'banderpants' sound like something the Jabberwocky would wear.

Frumious Banderpants. A new jam band iirc.

annoy verb (annoyed, annoying) 1 to anger or distress. 2 to harass or pester. annoyed adj. annoying adj. annoyingly adverb.
ETYMOLOGY: 13c: from Latin inodiare to cause aversion.

Dr C, love you the most to say the least

annoy verb (annoyed, annoying) 1 to anger or distress. 2 to harass or pester.

See, even the dictionary can't settle on just one definition.

is there no word for annoying in Finnish?

"speedo"