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you do it, i'm tired

Appears as a colossal Deep One, with tentacles surrounding its one tietie.

sorry for custos

haha the first one said eye \(o_O)/

Ut'Ulls-Hr'Her, imo:

A huge faceless creature with various appendages sprouting from its head, a beard of oozing horns, and many reddish teats and fish-like fins sprouting from an egg-shaped body.

shub raggetrath

that is a point of view! xp to dan

one fine custos day all our display names should be replaced with those

good idea imo

Is there some reason why you couldn't see the number of your SBs all the time? For example, they could be displayed in your user profile. Of course they should be invisible to others, but being able to check the number any time you want to should function as a sufficient early warning system.

And taking that idea even further, is there some reason why shouldn't be able to see the list of posts that have made people SB you anytime you want to? Again, this information should be invisible to others, but your user profile could show the number of your SBs, and when you click that number, you would get a list of the posts which have caused those SBs. This way you would know what is it about your posting style that irritates people without needing to make wild guesses or ask a mod after you've been banned.

It the idea of the SB system is to (self-)regulate unwanted behaviour, these two things would make it easier, and they might avert some unecessary bans and the subsequent controversies.

"if the idea"

why do people keep coming up with "solutions" that obviously require someone to spend a ton of unpaid time writing a bunch of code? it's not going to happen.
1) if you want one of these solutions, write the code and donate it
2) if you can't, stfu

"it's a simple solution, someone just has to sit in front of a computer writing code for 40 hours and not getting any recognition or compensation of any kind"

seriously. "Is there some reason why you couldn't..." is not necessarily followed by a bad idea, but only tuomas could phrase it like that.

well, tbf, displaying yr total SBs in yr profile probably WOULDN'T take that long, given that it's information that mods already have access to. just pull it the same way they do

this is like when people ask me lay out some type for them, on the grounds that it should only take me ten minutes. (i) it will not take me ten minutes (ii) what about the 10 years i spent learning how to do that and the other stuff i could be doing with those skills? and my job?

ok if it wouldn't take that long, then program it and send it stet or keith or whoever

callin yr bluff

i offered to disable the SB feature using display:none and caek.css but that didn't fly

eh there's just this weird sense of entitlement from people who think just because they post here they can demand all kinds of technical changes and extra work

critics shouldn't judge unless they make music

more like critics shouldn't demand over and over and over that a musician go back and remix their album and then get all pouty and whiny when it doesn't happen

i give this thread a 5.1

get it?

when there are lots of people who are really happy with how the album already sounds

enh, i know what you mean, but some stuff (like tuomas' SB on yr profile thing) actually WOULD be easy for someone familiar with the code to implement, i'd wager.

i'm not, so i won't, and i'm not gonna whine if it doesn't happen, but given the fact that we have entire threads devoted to asking for your SB count, it doesn't seem totally out of line to suggest code the idea

nick is looking for something to be a sourpuss about

why do people keep coming up with "solutions" that obviously require someone to spend a ton of unpaid time writing a bunch of code? it's not going to happen.
1) if you want one of these solutions, write the code and donate it
2) if you can't, stfu

Well, somebody took the the time of coding the whole SB feature in the first place, and it's not like there was a huge demand for it.

But I have an even better proposition for you: get rid of the whole Suggest Ban feature. That should take virtually no coding time at all, and it would solve all the problems brought up in the numerous threads we've had about SB ever since it was installed. It's a win-win situation!

:/ i'm a happy guy :/
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It's a win-win situation!

please render your cliches in finnish

Se on tulos, jossa molemmat osapuolet hyötyvät!

hey, its n/a, the guy who doesn't give shit and repeatedly tells us so

not sure where that's coming from, if i didn't give a shit i wouldn't complain about all this stuff. i like suggest bans, think they work well, and so eliminating them would not be a "win-win" situation for me.

Is there some reason why you couldn't see the number of your SBs all the time? For example, they could be displayed in your user profile. Of course they should be invisible to others, but being able to check the number any time you want to should function as a sufficient early warning system.

And taking that idea even further, is there some reason why shouldn't be able to see the list of posts that have made people SB you anytime you want to? Again, this information should be invisible to others, but your user profile could show the number of your SBs, and when you click that number, you would get a list of the posts which have caused those SBs. This way you would know what is it about your posting style that irritates people without needing to make wild guesses or ask a mod after you've been banned.

dude sorry to be a dick to you but either code it yourself or shut up with all these "here, do all this work to satisfy me, the great Tuomas"

i honestly didn't realize i have been coming across as so consistently snarky/mean/whatever these days, but apparently i have. i've probably been on ilx too long, i'm pretty tired of all of these endless repetitive meta arguments but i find it really hard to stay out of them and also i want to make sure that the anti-sb crew doesn't "win" just because everyone gets tired of arguing with them.

hey guys is it out of the question to let the site admins say if theyre willing/able to code something or not?

dude sorry to be a dick to you but either code it yourself or shut up with all these "here, do all this work to satisfy me, the great Tuomas"

I don't know why you two keep bringing up this argument? If I knew how to code I would certainly help make those things possible, but I'm not a coder. However, it's not like the actual coders are against suggestions that might make ILX better: they've even started a thread asking for those kind of suggestions. I'm just making two more. If the coders say, it's too much work, we don't have the time to do it, that's fine by me. But you don't need to speak on their behalf.

kinda funny tbh how the pro-sb argument has morphed from "it's working fine!" to "it's too hard to code!" as it becomes more and more obvious that it's not working fine

it's working fine

it's not quite "babies have fingernails" yet but it's getting there

it's working fine

i think it's working fine

suggest poll

lol @ babies have fingernails

btw the correct answer is "it wasn't working fine, now that 6-month expiry is in it might be working fine, we won't know for another 6 months"

i dunno, people complaining about SB remind me about people who i grew up with who were always complaining that the cops were hassling them. maybe the cops were in fact hassling them but if they weren't occasionally crossing lines they wouldn't even ever have to deal with the cops. which is to say maybe there's something to be said for the fact that if you're closing in on 50, and you'd rather not be closing in on 50, maybe you should take a break before the break takes you (/ soviet russia). i know some people have pretty much gone for the 50 willingly and don't care, of course.

btw the correct answer is "it wasn't working fine, now that 6-month expiry is in it might be working fine, we won't know for another 6 months"

If that's the correct answer, why are people still talking about this?

this isn't about the cops, its about the snitches

that's the $64K question, jesus CHRIST some people like to whip on that dead horse
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xp tbf i am the first one who recognized the correct answer, a couple minutes ago

I don't know why you two keep bringing up this argument? If I knew how to code I would certainly help make those things possible, but I'm not a coder.

kinda funny tbh how the pro-sb argument has morphed from "it's working fine!" to "it's too hard to code!" as it becomes more and more obvious that it's not working fine

it is working fine for a lot of people. if I had a problem with it, I think I could probably put aside a little time/call some coding friend who'd help me throw something together instead of coming with this ultra-entitled "the system must be changed since I & others have a problem with it." it's not that "it's too hard to code" (which no-one said, at all, just that it takes time) -- it's that there is no reason to do the coding. there's a system in place. anybody who doesn't like it is free to contribute some actual code & I'm sure that if it's good code, it can be sandboxed.