is banning posters for beefing with mods really what we want to do?

*n

Ok that's not true. I really hate two people but that's not a lot in the whole scheme of things.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, July 23, 2015 11:59 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

who?

Ha no way I'm saying I just didn't want it to seem like I was all sunshine and rainbows and love for everyone because that's absolutely not true.

lol

like if we were starting the site today would people be like 'that jj is so calm and rational, he never gets in beefs w/ people and would never, say, start a thread for the purpose of calling out individual ilxors for doing their acutual irl job poorly, he should be put in a position of power'

― iatee, Thursday, July 23, 2015 10:42 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol tom was given his modship specifically because he was successfully mean to a poster who doesnt like their gov name used on this site

redacted

is that another autocorrect

need stet to ban everyone in turn until enbb reveals the terrible two

otm

xp autocuntact

^ rudeacting

lagoon I dreamed last night you came to Chicago and decided to eat at every fast food place in the food court of the State of Illinois building and post about it on ILX.

thats weird because... i had the same dream

i had a dream wherein legume's sheaf of corn turned and bowed to mine

what if were all dead

I had a dream where I went to see an apartment I saw on craigslist but when I got there the prospective roommates were embittered ilxors and they kidnapped me

They looked kind of like gremlins and their usernames weren't ones I recognized. Wasn't any of you fine people

lmao

what if were all dead

― lag∞n, Thursday, July 23, 2015 12:24 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seems reasonable tbrr

xxp was there a single furry poster?

that wrote for gizmodo?

my only contribution to this thread is does anybody have the version of the homer simpson bushes gif htat shows him both entering from the bushes and then exiting back into the bushes

all the ones on the internet just show him exiting back into the bushes

r u sure he came out of the bushes

this will get lost in the onrush of clusterfuck soon enough, but it seems obvious to me that the mods are holding back from justifiably banning some of the more vociferous, scornful, and blockheaded posters on this thread, for fear of 'proving them right' by exercising their power. it looks bad when the provocation is being horse's asses in the mods' faces.

we can help the mods out of their dilemma by the simple expedient of FP'ing those we think have earned it. if the board speaks in this way, the mods have back up. I think they (especially stet) deserve our support. as for those who have said that they deserve 'no respect' or have 'stolen' the board, let them eat reddit cake.

ban aimless tho

i'll take that chance

i apologized to stet off board btw seems like were cool, planning to steal some message boards together

stet is a very forbearing person

but srsly what if we expanded the banning guidelines to include sanctimonious irrelevant posts or terrible jokes wldnt that in some ways be good

like aimlesses constant judging of everyone on the planet is really just as mean as outright agression, and in a lot of ways its worse because it attempts to cloth itself in virtue

he also impersonates a mod all the time, if impersonating a police officer is a crime impersonating a mod should be too

http://i61.tinypic.com/10qdu8w.png

he also impersonates a mod all the time, if impersonating a police officer is a crime impersonating a mod should be too

― iatee, Thursday, July 23, 2015 12:59 PM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

arrest him def

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wow aimlesses "mask is really sliding off"

For real, though, I am 100% on board with Mordy's characterization of the ILX ideal as a benevolent dictatorship in which posters get to bitch for days about mod decisions on threads that I can happily ignore unless I'm in the mood to watch a clusterfuck unfold.

I think it's totally reasonable to tempban someone for being a total asshole to the mods (and I think starting a thread calling someone a chickenshit counts but 1) I'm way not into the zinghole goon (or whatever Whiney said that one time) approach to human interaction generally and 2) I really like how's life), although I don't think it's reasonable to ban someone for disagreeing with a mod, even vociferously, as long as the disagreement is relatively civil and doesn't devolve into straight up nastiness.

In other words, let's just be nice to each other, okey doke? This has been your Midwestern Mom Hot Take on the last ILX clusterfuck.

last - ha yeah right. Latest, I meant.

Midwestern Mom Hot Take is like Hot Dish but with twice as much cream of mushroom soup.

'midwestern hot moms' is a disappointing gis

I hardcore second carl's Hot Take except for the part I am not a mom.

calls for civility can be p problematic in the context of power dynamics, not that theres anything of any irl gravity going on here but human social patterns tend to repeat themselves regardless of the stakes

honestly im glad to see that banning posters for beefing with mods is not what we want to do

and within the ongoing greater discussion of online v irl niceness i do think that the space to be confrontational online in a way one wldnt feel comfortable irl has value, tho it is also def pretty dicey

genuinely don't feel like 'hey gawker dudes. what the fuck is wrong with you?' is a less offensive thread title than deej's

I mean obv history justified it eventually but j0rd and max were not newsworthy figures at the time

The 'dudes' was deleted from the title at some point and then reinstated amid the recent clusterfuck by unknown parties.

calls for civility can be p problematic in the context of power dynamics, not that theres anything of any irl gravity going on here but human social patterns tend to repeat themselves regardless of the stakes

Yeah of course but I'm not asking tone policing Black Lives Matter activists, here. I'm telling a bunch of (mostly white and straight - thanks recent poll) dudes on a message board to quit being overly dramatic assholes to each other about what is pretty objectively petty bullshit.

Also just ftr by not naming every instance of what I think is objectionable assholery I'm not condoning it.

oh wow whos being overly dramatic now

Hush you.

loll

am kinda saddened by everyones reaction to lagoons mostly reasonable stance here also what it says about how a lot of ppl conceive of ilx

also i will give stet a thousand pounds if i get to temp ban whoever i want for a month or two