Flag Post

the system is working^^

anyone close to being fp'd? been too long imo.

agreed; going to be doing my part to speed it up

let me confirm that you just did

anyone close to being fp'd?

no

name change as an exercise in behavioral psychology

I think what I miss is just the clarity of someone saying "just sb'ed (poster)," as opposed to the notion that anyone would look at the SBs, count to 51, or actually ban anybody. It filled a valuable niche in the ILXicon. Maybe I'll just start saying it without FPing anyone.

Maybe I'll just start saying it without FPing anyone.

word magic

say it dont fpay it

otm

in 6.5 months of flag post, exactly 0 posters have been banned, right?

seems like maybe time for talk about whether this means "flag post" (as opposed to "suggest ban") is working

or possibly not working

Flagged your post to get the moderators' attention. Hope it helps.

otm. suggest ban was working. i used to think rebranding didn't work.

I kinda didn't get the point of Suggest Ban either though. People would behave badly, take a break, and then come back and behave badly again. I guess it was better because there were breaks?

precisely

Also people behaved better.

I have to say I feel like the religious anti-SB crew have been kinda vindicated by "Flag Post" - fewer people get banned, but ilx feels more self-regulated, chill-er than it was under SB. When people reach the "no, seriously, stfu" stage the mods have issued temp-bans and they've worked out fine imo. There are a bunch of other factors that could possibly be in play but it seems to me like removing the threat of getting kicked out by one's fellow posters has resulted in a more civil board to some extent - how great an extent is hard for me to say, I don't post as much as I used to & there's probably plenty of clusterfuck-y stuff I don't give enough of a shit about now to click on the thread. But I feel like I ought to say, anti-SB crew, you seem to have been kind of otm to me, your kvetching was not in vain

seems to be working great?

who has been temp banned?

personally ilx does not feel more chill to me

it is weird, though, how the same group of people can use something completely differently just because its label has changed

aero: it takes a big man to admit when you're wrong.

http://i.imgur.com/E7sHt.gif

fewer people get banned, but ilx feels more self-regulated, chill-er than it was under SB

i completely disagree! i actually disagree with everything after this as well but even using c&p exhausts me this late at night/this far into the bottle of glenfiddich

ilx def feels more boring than ever, i'll concede that

I keep wandering in to threads where people are arguing about the posting histories of posters who aren't in the thread instead of things that are on topic; idk if that's been on the uptick but it's pretty much the worst thing to read on the internet.

(And yet I keep reading because I have to bookmark the last post honestly.)

Despite my carping yesterday, I think that FP works reasonably well.

I certainly use it more, and it enables me to be a lot more chilled than I used to be. Because it no longer feels like "I am voting to have this person removed from our community" (which is an awful thing to feel the weight of that decision) and more like "I find this behaviour utterly unacceptable." And once I've pushed that flag, I can walk away. Like I no longer feel obligated to reply to a person whose post I find objectionable, I have shifted the decision of acceptability onto someone else, and it's a (hopefully neutral) moderator's call.

ILX has veered from "mostly boring" in the past few weeks to "abominable shithole" today specifically but I don't think that's down to FlagPost, I think that's down to today's most popular topic.

Wouldn’t it be funny if you got flagged by like, 5 posters right now? Like right now?

sigh

It's downright hilarious to reference a rape joke directly at a rape survivor, isn't it, Grady? It's one of those things that is done so specifically to wind a person up and upset them that I can't even give you the satisfaction of telling you that you've upset me. You've just disappointed me that you chose to use that gambit, knowing that it would deliberately cause pain to a human being. Because causing pain to human beings for LOLs is never not funny!

And I'm going to go to bed now. Because I don't want to do this any more.

that was in p poor taste and i regretted it immediately. not that it matters but i did not know you were a rape survivor.

i apologize, wcc.

too late

(And yet I keep reading because I have to bookmark the last post honestly.)

glad i'm not the only one who does this

i try, honest to god i do, but every now and again i raze my bookmarks to the ground in a frenzy of fuckit

i've done it on the football thread if i've missed a few days but that's sisyphean tbh

what i don't get is that the shift from SB to FP was framed as mainly a semantic shift, not a procedural shift. so why have we gone from regular temp-bans based on user feedback to 0 temp-bans based on user feedback?

Because the semantic shift led to a behavioural shift and nobody's hit 50 since, interestingly.

huh weird

People often reach a "oh fuck OFF" level of annoyance without a single "And this is why I punched him, officer" exemplary post.

Because the semantic shift led to a behavioural shift and nobody's hit 50 since, interestingly.

^^^it is actually really really interesting - when the word "ban" was taken off the table literally everybody starting acting different, or at least 1) the regular bannees did & 2) the people who used to ban them did

big win for critical theory imo

If we're going to formalise it I'd say (1) or (2) rather than (1) and (2)

i'd say it was 2, if we're goin to be otm

ilx def feels more boring than ever, i'll concede that

― ♆ (gr8080), Thursday, July 12, 2012 6:01 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's summer tho

i'd say it was 2, if we're goin to be otm

not so sure abt this!

ilx def feels more boring than ever, i'll concede that

this is mostly tosh.0's fault

anyone close to being fp'd? been too long imo.

― diafiyhm (darraghmac), Saturday, 21 April 2012 20:31 (4 months ago)

otm

i, gr8080 would like to let the ILX community know that i used the Flag Post function for the first time today.

if you flag a post and no mod notices, did it happen?

same xp

I could likely count the collective number of SBs & FPs I've used on the fingers of one hand. One of those fingers was used today.