Mod request

“randos”

I usually try to indicate that the change is new - for threads that become RIP threads I'll often add that with the date but I don't think I've ever added a date for anything else, it's more likely to be a parenthetical or a 'now featuring' addition. Honestly, I'm with sic on disliking the change to context of the first posts in a thread, and I'd rather people started new threads if the topic veers off wildly, but I understand why that doesn't always happen. I'll definitely consider adding a moderator comment in either the title or first post from now on.

As for only changing when the original poster requests it, I think that depends on the age of the thread. If it's a new thread then absolutely, but if it's over a decade old and has been used regularly for discussion of an additional topic, I kind of feel like it's fair to change it for search/usability purposes. I was happy to add Only Connect to the University Challenge thread title, for example, because that's where the discussion happens - I have no idea if it was the threadstarter who asked for it but it was definitely for the benefit of the regular users of that thread.

yes, threads adding "[RIP June 2022]" or "[now also featuring Keith Sweat solo material]" is a clear contextual change! - I originally cited RIP additions as a fine precedent but lost the post on zing

(brimstead: not suggesting that trishy is not a poster in fine standing - if I came onto a Roxy thread seventeen years after it started and then asked for and immediately received an alteration to Roxy's words, I would also be a rando in that circ)

so are we adding RIP 2023 to the Does This Dog Look Like David Crosby thread? y or n?

Did the dog die? ;_;

David Crosby did. I want to think the dog is immortal

but seriously -- would it be possible for a mod to add hidden text tags to this post and the subsequent post by the same poster around the content referring to #metoo stuff?

Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here

I've sent soref an email and hidden the first post with a content note. I'm a bit unsure about the second as it doesn't seem any more explicit in its analysis than treeship's post. Should I hide one, both or neither?

I am definitely in favour of people using the spoiler tags to hide potentially upsetting discussions (though please anyone reading this remember that you have to do new tags for every paragraph!) and I am willing to do it as a mod intervention when people think it's needed, but it can be tricky to know exactly where the lines should be drawn. So yeah, let me know what you reckon about the other posts before I go forward with anything else. I don't want to be seen as punishing soref, but I do want everyone to feel comfortable.

Yeah this is a totally unnecessary request IMO.

I get why the first one might be a bit too upsetting to want to just casually read, which is why I went with the request - it absolutely isn't a condemnation of the post itself but just a note of caution. I personally feel like the second post and several other comments on the same topic don't really hit the level of needing a warning. However, I know my level of comfort isn't the same as everyone else's so I'm open to suggestions.

Also, I'm commenting as myself and not as 'mod' because I want to be open about my thought processes as a moderator here, and as the mod decisions I'm making aren't ones that we have a specific ruleset for I'd appreciate feedback on/criticism of those decisions coming to me rather than the other mods. I don't know if that matters to anyone but me, but that's how I'm thinking about it.

Please can you lock this thread to new posts, I made a new regular one: like the queen this thread will never die: in which we ALL resign (ourselves to disgusting miseries to post-boris politics 2022)

Got it.

Thank you!

would've been good to link to the new one but...

Unlocked it, added a link, locked it again. Bish bash bosh.

because i am embarrassed by my code failures, i could use, should you be so inclined, deletions of 8544981, 8544982 & 8544983

here! ILM Ballot Polls: where to find the results threads

xoxo

ok

<3

thanks mod. thod.

Ugh... I'm just so embarrassed and feel even worse admitting that I f'ed something up, but I forgot the leading bracket in the closing URL tag after "Active SETI's Wikipedia" on this post:

We Are Bugs in this thread for The Three-Body Problem 三体 and its various adaptations

It's a complicated post filled with links, but folks are posting to the thread and it would be nice to clean the code anarchy. Thanks in advance!

Got it.

thank you!

I guess this is a request for guidance and consideration -- should there be some kind of "CW" on the lostprophets thread on ILM?

*cracks knuckles*

William Friedkin

Could someone put some spoiler tags around this post? I know at least one person on the thread mentioned they were interested in seeing the movie and probably should have hidden most of that.

fixed

Thx 🙏🏻

Can you fix the image in the original post? Add .jpg to image to correct.

The Bridesmaids Poll - 106.7 KROQ: THE ROQ OF THE 80s

Thanks mods!

The only thing that can be changed in a poll thread is its title.

hi sorry to ask, any chance you could delete this post? it is a matter of public record but prob ill advised for me personally to mention it

Berkeley

ok

howdy! i have 2 requests!

any other phoebe bridgers haters out there?

would you be able to delete this thread? i think it's pretty immature and reflects badly on me as a person.

the other request is on behalf of my partner - she made an account yesterday under the name Banjo but has been denied a password because she's "not sufficiently human". i think this is probs because she gave a very generic answer in the "why do you want to join" field. i promise she's real! would you be able to send her a password?

embrace evil, poll your 50 least favourite pop artists

the other request is on behalf of my partner - she made an account yesterday under the name Banjo but has been denied a password because she's "not sufficiently human". i think this is probs because she gave a very generic answer in the "why do you want to join" field

No it’s because she’s a banjo

it's not her fault :(

You should actually do what imago said. Lean into the bit

hi hospital radio

under no circumstances take pointers for early posting habits from user imago

I think the banjo account was rejected yesterday because there were two attempts to register showing on the page. I tried again just now and it went through.

I'm not going to delete that thread, maybe another mod will be more sympathetic. It's a good reminder of what not to do, so I don't want to memory-hole it. I would like to know which login you'd like to post from — Hospital Radio, milo, or tremolo — so I can permaban the other two. One account is plenty.

thanks for that, i'll let her know.

yeah, fair enough that you don't wanna delete it. i should have thought harder before posting inflammatory stuff and i've definitely learned my lesson. hopefully the thread can serve as a caution for others.

i'd like to keep tremolo, thank you for asking - i didn't intend to use the other two anymore anyway and only used HR in this thread to verify it was the original poster asking for the thread to be deleted.

cheers for getting back to me so quickly!

I am also against deleting the thread - we tend to be a bit more "live with your mistakes" here unless there's a good reason to get rid of something, and a) I don't think you said anything wildly offensive, just kinda snide, and b) it'll probably get lost in searches amidst the actual hospital radio stations clogging up people searching for your name.

I am, however, happy to lock the thread if you'd like? That'll stop people bumping it and forever reminding you of your introduction to the board.

hopefully the thread can serve as a caution for others.

you'd hope so and yet read the history of ilm lol

anyway there's been far worse and i'm pretty sure we've all got threads/posts we pray will rest in oblivion forever

that would be great if it's not too much trouble! yeah, i'm probably just being paranoid about the potential of this coming back to bite me in the future - the odds of me even getting anything you could call a fanbase, let alone one which spends its time googling my band's name next to pb's, are obviously pretty small. but yeah, locking the thread would be great - thanks a ton emil.y!

Alright, locked!

A dark day for the beleaguered Phoebe Bridgers haters.

RIP to Ryan Adam's last safe space on ilx

and welcome, tremolo. I'm sure you aren't Ryan Adams.

thanks Sufjan! yeah not to my knowledge but i'll get back to you x

welcome tremolo! i didn't read the phoebe bridgers thread but i have more than my fair share of threads i regret. i think what you've done here -- acknowledge it, apologize and show that's not how you'd like to be, and move on rather than obsessing about it self-loathing -- is a good example