FP: Should 31 be the new 51 y/n

That's what they used to say about Germany.

There’s no way Americans are worse than British Islanders

obama era will be known in time as weimarica iml

lads lads take it to the disgusting savages thræd

Isn't a Denmark a kind of money?

(Internet Americans are definitely the worst nationality, I concur.)

You’re thinking of weregeld

Frætheræk - I think that's how they pronounce it in most of Scotland tbh.

I suppose it's called Jutland because it juts out. Has to be. Frætheræk?

― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), 17. august 2018 21:30 (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's because it's the land of the 'judes' or 'juthes' or 'iuthær' as it was spelled in the middle ages.

I was born in Jutland as well, and, true story, I used to think 'Hey Jude' was about people like me.

Frederik, check your email.

lol

lol what

Someone's done for Fred! Infamy!

i really liked jutland when i visited fwiw. aarhus was a fun city and the countryside was pretty surreal in terms of just how many acres of snow there was in all directions

want a fræth in the morning, trϵϵsh in the evening
just like meeee

Be careful what you wish for (FPs tlg for the fifteenth time this hour).

― Melted Belts, Priced To Move (Old Lunch)

i can think of at least one personal interaction i've had on ILX during the past week that would have played out very differently - for better or worse - if we had a cooling-off mechanism like this

That or fitting all users with some sort of genital-shocking contraption would really do wonders for this place, I feel.

keep your weird sexual fantasies to yrself please

it gets turned off if you get tok many FPs

Good to see that someone gets me.

Someones, I should say.

How many ppl is tlg

i contain multitudes

this thread is interesting because when I flag posts it is because I think the post itself is objectionable, contains objectionable language, etc., and then the expectation is that the individual post is deleted but the poster is not advanced up some kind of fifty-strikes-you're-out-no-questions-asked scale.

this seems very...unintuitive. especially since the flag post screen tells you are flagging the *post* for attention of the moderators

Yeah it’s a fiction unfortunately.

Used to be called suggest ban before my day. That seemed a clearer term.

I’m not sure we need that much more moderation though idk. My friend moderates a massive subreddit and she is constantly rooting out hateful, hateful stuff that ilx luckily doesn’t seem to have much of.

well a) we're an increasingly shrinking and insular circle, and b) really hateful stuff will almost always get modded and banned without FP coming into play

it's true

has someone checked on fred? that "check your email" message was p ominous

was that happening a lot when i was gone? ppl get that message from a mod and then vanish without a trace from ilx/irl?

yes

Usually, could be a warning that he's getting close to the limit.

darragh got emailed by the modsock and next thing we knew he’d been replaced with an exact replica

the mod aint been anointed yet that can @ this

flag posts can't stick to the wind

in all seriousness "let someone's posts stand unhindered without warning or action until 51 people dislike them" seems like an extremely dysfunctional way to moderate... anything

how long have you been posting to ilx?!

this is not how it works

if a post is actionable you get a mod to action it

if you want the poster banned for an accumulation of offences flag the post

this has been done in about forty threads

like

deej hasnt done anything bannable

but very soon hes likely going to be 51'd for i dunno the fourth time

its a good system

again, though, this seems very counterintuitive, because the link says Flag Post and the text says "Confirming this will flag the post for the attention of the moderators," so I guess I've been using this wrong for years

if you want a Referendum on Person button then the text should probably be changed to reflect that

yeah they fucked it up when they changed the wording without changing anything else

hilariously, ppl were delighted with the wallpaper change

im as confused as you about it

I'm at a loss as to what Fred did to get banned this time around...?

that was weird

I p much only fp for egregiously racist/anti-semitic stuff, it's not that often really

pretty sure Fred isn't banned and don't see why he'd be close altho i don't really read US politics threads tbf

i don't think posters like fred or deej should ever be banned

fred hasnt been banned

egregiously racist etc stuff is grounds for banning separately to the "you cant blame mods for this but you know you were shitacting" of fp

you ppl

(the system also makes me hesitant because I can easily see a situation where people decide to flag someone just because they personally don't like them. it's less likely with 51 people but that's only because of the scale of this place, 51 people is nothing for, say, twitter)

i take your point Treesh but let's not revive the whole "to SB or not to SB" debate here

Twitter also has this system and it's easily abused by hordes of extremely online nazis~ xp