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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.

Does flag post even accomplish anything? It doesn't seem to.

lol @ you guys

you complained about SB because it was an automatic 30 day for 51 SBs and you wanted something with more discretion

now that you have something that doesn't force action, you guys want to go back to SBs since it doesn't seem to 'do anything'

maybe the mods should just ban when necessary rather than treating posters differently whilst temp banning some and not others despite the circumstances being the same.

and im not just talking about recent things

you complained about SB because it was an automatic 30 day for 51 SBs and you wanted something with more discretion

now that you have something that doesn't force action, you guys want to go back to SBs since it doesn't seem to 'do anything'

read the thread moran- FP works exactly the same as SB

666 messages

has anyone been banned via fp? Only ban I've seen recently was requested by a poster.

well even in the old days it was pretty rare for a poster to catch 51 SBs over a single post, rite?

like maybe u guys just want the # lowered to 26

I'm sure it must have happened.

answers upthread

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

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, October 19, 2012 10:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me too

i think that 51 fp's over different posts could still lead to a ban, iirc?

i thought it was arbitrary and on a post by post basis

"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."

which finger did you use?

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

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, October 19, 2012 10:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me too

― caek, Saturday, October 20, 2012 12:10 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you guys should hold hands. and then do it. on a big pile of flags.

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/004/MI0002004944.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

who are you all fp'ing i want in, too

It's funny w/ all the beefing recently, the only ban is for a single post the brunt of which clearly rolled off its target's back exactly as the person posting it knew it would. If an 'effective' ban is one that improves the quality of the board by telling a chronically toxic poster to stop being that way or not come back, this wasn't one of them.

just because the target took it well doesn't make it acceptable

yeah, it's almost like I was the First Lady and he called me a bitch

the guy is a tumor, btw

i just looked at the admin log and saw someone was banned. I guess that's what you were all talking about.