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

Respect to Treeship for answering my post on the wrong damn thread as if I hadn't posted on the wrong damn thread.

One problem with sitewide bannings is that they are always listed on the Admin Log as "x has been banned permanently", even when they are intended to be the shorter stints, so unless a mod puts in a qualifier it looks more dramatic than it is. This could maybe be changed to just "x has been banned"?

^^ I'm not entirely sure how this is relevant to the current discussion, but people sometimes seem confused about it. Obv difficult to tell actual reactions from the OMGDRAMAOPPORTUNITY reactions, though.

xposts thanks for posting that drash, i'd never seen it! even though i've been posting since 2006-ish or so i totally missed some of the things he discusses. like the influx of posters from the matador board. when was that? did anyone that posts now come during that wave?

nm - there was a footnote that linked to a representative thread (indie guilt c/d)

lol

feel like I asked a pertinent question right at the beginning of this thread that could have been illuminating if answered

chaki walked right back in the front door

― D-30 (gr8080), Friday, July 24, 2015 1:37 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dude don't blow up my spot jeeze

did we ever sort this out btw

we ended up all being good with it

did any mods resign

Why would any mods resign?

because 2015 ilx wasn't accepting enough of a dated, anything goes mod-culture

all the mods resigned

and the sky is grey

XD

xp lol

pickle bar dreamin'

smh

lol @ me being scapegoated for the board's collective anger at gawker

i know that's not why the ban happened but it's why the collective ilx will could not undo such an unjust ban

maybe the collective ilx will just doesn't care that much about you

does a modban reset fp count

maybe the collective ilx will just doesn't care that much about you

― mookieproof, Saturday, August 22, 2015 5:25 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this seems like a good way to go about deciding who is & isn't banned...how well loved someone is by essential posters like mookieproof & mattresslessness

did you achieve a level of productivity self-ban requesters only dream of?

lol @ me being scapegoated

good on you. allow me to lol with you, comrade, and if I don't manage an actual lol, then perhaps i'll manage a throaty chuckle and a shake of the head in wonderment at your comradely good nature.

oh, i don't think people would care or even notice if i were banned, let alone campaign for my reinstatement

it's sad that no one boycotted ilx to protest such injustice tho! if i were you i'd never post here again just on principle

you have it all wrong. deej was so far from protesting his tempban or harboring feelings of bitterness that the very instant he knew his tempban had expired he came straight to this thread to let us know he enjoyed a good laugh about the whole episode.

wtf mookie we'd riot if you were banned for something like this

but you wouldn't get banned for doing something like this

it's a real logical puzzle so tis

is a cyber riot much like a clusterfuck? bcz I know what a clusterfuck looks like, but the look of other one rather escapes me.

I'd imagine it to be a clusterfuck that breaches the parent thread if that helps

wtf mookie we'd riot if you were banned for something like this

but you wouldn't get banned for doing something like this

it's a real logical puzzle so tis

― irl lol (darraghmac), Saturday, August 22, 2015 6:15 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

see

think abt it toots

xxpost to mookie: OH THERE WOULD BE A PROTEST

http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/13/00/22/2884794/6/628x471.jpg

more like

http://i.imgur.com/IgHwLKy.jpg

amirite

:D

It's disingenuous here to pretend that Stet is "a mod", and not, like the guy who devotes a fuckload of his own time and I believe also some of his money to keep this place going. I think this was possibly a straw-that-broke-the-camels-back moment after what's been quite a stressful few days when it comes to admin-ing this place. Possibly you guys underestimate quite how wearying it is to have to deal with pointlessly petulant little tantrums like this for a prolonged period of time. Personally I just walk away for a while when I get into that state but everyone has their personal sanity threshold and that is sometimes exceeded.

At the end of the day, it's a privilege and not a right to post here and Stet can ban who he wants IMO, because it's very likely that the site literally wouldn't exist without him. That he pretty much never does so is because of the general patience and tolerance that makes him the right person to keep it going, considering previous site runners like Andrew an Graham have pretty much decided to kick the whole thing over whenever it got too much.

FWIW How's Life was absolutely right to come down on Deej on that thread, at a time when everyone is justifiably nervy about privacy.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, July 22, 2015 7:33 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I mean call me a boy as much as you want, at least I'm not hanging out here embodying Matt Dillon in Singles when I am in reality a middle aged dude.

― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Wednesday, July 22, 2015 7:34 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

These posts remain just so booming and oh my ilx is packed to the gills with exactly the sort of whining libertarian manbabies we like to mock on other sites.

no bc this part is bullshit:

FWIW How's Life was absolutely right to come down on Deej on that thread, at a time when everyone is justifiably nervy about privacy.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, July 22, 2015 7:33 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nobody came in and told me 'oh btw if you use j___ d____'s real name you'll be banned from the thread', that's never been a publicly stated rule as far as I know, it's not in the fucking FAQ

& ffs when it's happened to me in the past & i've had to personally email stet & ask him to edit my own name i figure its equally laissez faire for everyone, but nooo

this thread is a good litmus test of ilxor's political impulses

ya me and Stevie agree on all things political alright

kinda feel like everyone said their piece on this and then it turned out that fundamentally nobody gave a shit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

my important opinion on this fwiw is I still think both the thread- and tempban were bs and I don't think it's bad form to say so, I mean the mods to their credit continue to maintain a board called "I must protest", good on them, <3 mods

really not sure what deej is trying to achieve here tho

in fairness to deej, by unilaterally banning him without allowing him to defend himself first, you almost ask for the issue to be brought up again in 30 days

or email at some point within the last month? That seems to me to be a more respectful & grown-up way to go about things idk

an edible arrangement with a note exactly 1 week after the incident

this seems like a good way to go about deciding who is & isn't banned...how well loved someone is by essential posters like mookieproof & mattresslessness

― mods = chickenshit idiots (D-40), Saturday, August 22, 2015 11:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

But they are regular posters at least - they have views that I recognise and can assign to them. Who the fuck are you?

probly best if people only use that line if they follow ILX

Taking Sides : that idiot dn vs not realising why real naming certain posters might be on another level than real naming whoever you are vs starting your post-ban career with a cutesy half-real naming of the guy in question.

xp - I follow a fair amount of it, I'm not the mythical poster who reads all the threads, because they're mythical.

come the fuck on andrew