FP: Should 31 be the new 51 y/n

I just flag the really bad posts with each of my 27 sock accounts

I suspect this poll was prompted by a particular poster who may have been 51'ed under a different username, but came back and is still a frequent irritant. My sense is that if any poster rises to the level of unacceptability requiring ejection, ILX will muster the necessary 51 FPs.

I personally doubt that there have been many posters who accumulated more than 31 active FPs who did not also pass the 51 threshold soon afterwards, but that is merely a guess on my part. Picking the 'right' number is not a science, but a fairly inexact heuristic. I'm fine with any number, as long as it is high enough that it cannot be driven by relatively small cabal. 51 has been adequately functional so far, imo.

I also note that 51 has deeply entered ILX lore. Changing it would render that lore illegible.

52

the 51'd should be redirected to a false ilx full of bots

ERROR #36536424 SARCASTIC RESPONSE NOT FOUND

stet would probably add a tell to be sure that he himself never got trapped in fake ilx. something subtle but absurd. like mordy bot always posting about jenga in the boardgame thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixL_jmGRDXY

you can't just rename Area 51

BTW, the admin log is now flashing pink.

you say this like it's a bad thing

Thing is, on the rare occasions that a particularly obnoxious or abusive/racist/homophobic new poster appears, they tend to attract 10-20 FPs almost immediately which alerts us to them. Most of the time it's so obvious that we just ban them straight away, in the same way we would if we came across those posts by reading a thread normally.

As far as it goes for ILX regulars, the high threshold is kind of the point. You need to piss off a lot of people to get to that point. A lower threshold would be more open to abuse and as Kevin K says it's a solution to a problem we don't really have right now.

manufactured pop 'music' sucks, where's the fuckin rock

Capitalism is nuff fab.

donald trump is just a guy doing his best

pizza is best left to the British

ok, this started as a flaggable posts riff, but seriously, wouldn't the true ilx equivalent of likes/+1s be a tick.jpg link and an invisible tally of clicks until a post hits 51 and is then auto added to an aggregated excelsior page.

You can like an unfunny post tbf

I only FP for dumb revives. Revive with caution my Gs.

I'll take the risk

The football forum I post to has an interesting system that isn't without its flaws. There's a Like button AND a LOL button, as well as a FP button. Three buttons for every post! The biggest difficulty comes with LOLs, which are handed out both for genuinely humorous content and embarrassing nonsense. I've thought maybe a fourth button - LOL @ - to differentiate from 'LOL with' - and perhaps a fifth, a sort of 'super like', which you can dole out thrice per week to distinguish full hero-worship from the posts you vaguely concur with. A sixth button would be a 'dislike' - not as strong as a flag but nonetheless admonitory in nature. Other buttons for gratitude, shock or incomprehension suggest themselves. It really is limitless when you think about it

a good system would be one where -- right below where someone posts -- there's a space where you can put a follow-up comment, perhaps of approval or derision, perhaps a further joke, perhaps suggesting the thread steer more towards your own interests

that is sedition and you belong in a facility

instead of having options for how ppl express themselves, you want to force them to communicate in a box

what about if all threads were polls and answers could only be expressed as sub-polls?

I would like to cast my vote for a textless, all-button ILX.

I believe it’s called a field, technically
Xp

appreciate the explanation

appreciate the rewording of my joke

Something like FP has to scale, I think. After all, with a million posters 51 would be achieved too often to be useful, and with 50 posters it wouldn't be reached. If we have fewer posters now maybe it should be scaled down; I don't really care either way. I've only ever clicked the FP button by mistake on my phone, as far as I recall.

who says humanity ever scaled

greyscale punishment for 51 seems just

Fewer posters since when? When was FP introduced?

i thought pissing off each other was our raison d'etre

oh off? whew

I seriously doubt we have fewer posters due to FP/SB or anything like that. It is more likely its because we aged out, and also a lot of women left ILX for reasons I'm sure no one needs to go over for the enth time.

Going over things for the enth time ... on ILX ... where there are currently 200+ new posts arguing about the merits of Tusk vs. The White Album?

yeah but this time someone is totally wrong about the white album

i never thought a late night bump about the white album being scary would cause so much tsuris

scary is not a word I associate with anything about the Beatles, except for maybe the thought of contracting diseases from their rotting corpses

LBI

in lieu of lowering the cap, how about this: tell us who you want to banned, and i will FP them. sure many others would be happy to oblige

flappy w/ the surprise yiddish drop

killfile/ block poster on zing takes the edge off ilx’s worst (tusk white album thread is Swiss cheese chez moi) but maybe The System could auto fp the fools we’ve blocked since as it is I have to actually look at the trash to fp it o/w I’m not doing my part to purify ilx

The System could auto fp the fools we’ve blocked

Seems like there would be plenty of reasons to block someone you didn't particularly care for that don't rise to bannable offenses. The point of blocking/killfiling is precisely that it is personal to oneself and tailors ILX to your own predilections. Banning is universal and affects all ILX.

Yeah to FP and ban people is pretty serious & really only extends to personal attacks, thread stalking, and obviously if they're being openly racist/homophobic/misogynistic/etc etc etc.

I was going to say that people who post without actually engaging with others is the worst, but maybe the worst people just have every other poster killfiled

do you mean ignoring people or not engaging with people in good faith conversation?

Yeah to FP and ban people is pretty serious & really only extends to personal attacks, thread stalking, and obviously if they're being openly racist/homophobic/misogynistic/etc etc etc.

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 18:37 (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

100% wrong

Modban for that

Read the histories son

xp both seem fair?

imo some posts can only be engaged with in bad faith

ban turrican

i noticed :)

When you saw only one set of footprints, it was them that Big Don was enjoying a two-week vacation