Has anyone ever been banned from ILX?

One of the pics that HH posted on that thread, it took me ages to find where he'd got it from. It wasn't just me he pulled that kind of shit on either, you know? Plus, he got asked to cut it out repeatedly, and didn't.

Likewise the s.e.o. spammer thing that he kept doing on HTML playground for ages, he got repeatedly asked/told to quit, but he wouldn't fucking leave it alone. Weird, weird dude.

don't use ILX to sit and trade gossip about other posters, former posters, speculation re: sex lives, criminal records, or other personal details and rumormongering. Use AIM or IdeaTree or whatever but keep it off these boards. When I or another moderator remind you of this for the umpteenth fucking time (kind of like we had to do with Heave Ho when he posted your ex-girlfriend's pics from flickr, or Pash's family portraits, or stalked jergins, etc.) don't play fucking dumb.

Tom is completely, 100% on the money here. Some of the more recent ocd gossip/scandal-mongering (to pinch a phrase from jhoshea) has been a bit OTT to say the least, especially w/r/2 people who don't even post here anymore. Some of it has actually creeped me out somewhat.

I have been banned from the Off The Telly mailing list

specifically which scandals (go into detail) should we avoid discussing

;)

ha!

im of the opinion that tom has been overly heavy handed in his war on gossip.

i absolutely respect his right (and everyones) to object to gossip abt his own personal life. but hes been flying into misanthropic rage at the slightest hint of any scandal-tracking at all. which in a lot of forms isnt really gossip and certainly isnt malicious. im not sure why some cant come to grips w/the reality that in every community a certain amount of energy will be expended towards keeping track of whats going on socially. yr never going to have some rarefied situation thats completely abt ideas.

tom should consider easing back w/his critique and picking his spots more carefully. banning those nice young ringsnap men was just inexcusable. might want to think abt relinquishing the modship altogether - just for sanity sake. if its not enjoyable - if yr starting to take this shit too serious - whats the point?

i like tom more as a revolutionary than a despot.

can i ask why darramous was banned, seeing as it's assumed that we're the same person a lot of the time?

are you asking me?

darramouss was banned for being a troll on I Love Games, he never posted anywhere else as I recall.
the immortal Whiney G was banned not so much for being really a troll as being the most readily inflamed poster ever on any board in ILX history.

ha you banned whiney g?????

like sitewide?

wait when was whiney g banned like yesterday? i just saw him post.

oh wait not whiney G, what was his name? shit. Something really close to that, he changed usernames a lot. this was all on ILX 1.

I agree that my temp ban on those two was probably a step too far but I'll reiterate that it was a temp ban and over a frickin' weekend even so the butthurtedness here still strikes me as also OTT

it mainly came about because AFAIC everybody involved ought to know by now that meta rumor mongering is not approved and am quite sick and tired of people claiming to not have any understanding whatsoever of this or what it could possibly mean

can we ban thirdalternative?

anytime deej and jordan s are banned for whatever reason is a WIN in my book! :-D

and I could care less abt any gossip about my own personal life TBH since everybody basically knows or thinks they know the whole story anyway. Shit was on blogs. It's the fact that we have lost a laundry list of reasonably innocent, perfectly less-annoying-than-average posters because chatter about their IRL bidness started showing up here and/or they started getting harassed about IRL perceived drama, it's entirely unpleasant for everyone (and yes I've been guilty myself I'm not claiming to be a frickin' paragon here)

lastly I'm not the only mod and I do this strictly at the behest of stet and pash, so really pash's word upstairs is basically the last one on this subject

can we see this laundry list you speak of?

Just posting to say that I completely support Tom on this.

A bunch of the gossip/scandal-mongering recently has started to make me feel really uncomfortable. I've got to wonder if some of you guys realise just how this looks from the outside. I mean, I took a look at that thread that Tom deleted, and among the entries in Roxy's ideatree was a bunch of shit about this or that poster being embroiled in one of the "canonical ilx scandals", or embroiled in lunagate, then later on, this or that poster also being described as "creepy". There's a bit of a massive fucking irony there, don't you think? You might want to consider that I've been posting here for 7yrs, that I sort of know some of these ppl IRL, that I used to be on AIM a lot back in the day, nevertheless, a couple of pieces of gossip I've seen raked up in the last few weeks are news to me. Not very classy, eh.

Tomboto, are you thinking about "the Gzeus" re: banned whiny G. xpost

Man I wish I had seen that deleted thread.

I'm hoping there's a secret version of it out there somewhere, like the second hidden launching pad that Jodie Foster used in Contact.

Just posting to say that I completely support Tom on this.

A bunch of the gossip/scandal-mongering recently has started to make me feel really uncomfortable. I've got to wonder if some of you guys realise just how this looks from the outside. I mean, I took a look at that thread that Tom deleted, and among the entries in Roxy's ideatree was a bunch of shit about this or that poster being embroiled in one of the "canonical ilx scandals", or embroiled in lunagate, then later on, this or that poster also being described as "creepy". There's a bit of a massive fucking irony there, don't you think? You might want to consider that I've been posting here for 7yrs, that I sort of know some of these ppl IRL, that I used to be on AIM a lot back in the day, nevertheless, a couple of pieces of gossip I've seen raked up in the last few weeks are news to me. Not very classy, eh.

-- Pashmina, Wednesday, May 7, 2008 5:03 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

This was of course, on a secret borad

dude there wasnt shit in the deleted thread. what pash and tom are referring to is my c/p of the off-board chart which was stupid on my part bcuz i had only glanced over it. i pasted it in the thread bcuz there were like 85 posts of people bitching about not being able to see it. it was a stupid thing but not totally banworthy, and spilled a shit ton less gossip in like 1,000 words than tom's post in there bringing up date rape.

jesus fucking christ

PP, i have the feeling that if you stick around, you might get a chance to see round two

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/ncfv-cnivf/familyviolence/html/gfx/decision_making/sectio4.gif

yeah guys who date raped who? who date raped who? this shit's important and fun

you might get a chance to see round two

this time, it's bannable

i don't drink beer with yuppies and date rapists.

-- ian, Tuesday, May 6, 2008 4:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

^this is gossip and on a total different level than saying shit about a fucking fake woman who tricked dudes into becoming her boyfriend

who should i be mad at? I was out when this all happened

you know, when a guy who mods something called "the idiot thread repository" and posts nonsensical shit in capslock most of the time is trying for the second time in a week to get you to be reasonable and hush up about something before you get banhammered, you might want to give it a go. xxpost

should i delete any of this

im going to delete some of this

that thing i c/p from ian was already in this thread so you might wanna start from the top

lol @ deleting my lame joek

oops undeleted. it was genuine lol.

Man I wish I had seen that deleted thread.

-- Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, May 7, 2008 5:12 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

ha none of the offending info was on the thread - those who were banned were completely not responsible - and there was a new thread w/a link to the offending info created the next day!

also it was a completely boring thread on a secret bord detailing things thatve been said 1mx on public ilx

the moderator of i love cricket has spoekn

tell it like it is

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I still want to know if you were talking about Gzeus/Windy G. Moisture/Lukewarm Watery Tornado upthread tom xxpost

i think the "indecent proposal" was what got pash all hot & bothered

So which ILX posters are wifebeaters then?

i think the "indecent proposal" was what got pash all hot & bothered

what the fuck are you even on about?

the moderator of i love cricket has spoekn

-- El Tomboto, Wednesday, May 7, 2008 5:46 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

my bordz the best u jealous

a particular scandal mentioned in the roxy ideetree thing

i was just following up on what jhoshea said about all that stuff being mentioned already on the board, that was the one thing i didn't really know about

indecent proposal is a movie where robert redford offers demi moore $1m to get some