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

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

D-40 is a prominent poster! For better or worse. And I've got much love for the ~poster in question~ but are we really gonna get precious about ppl saying "jd"

ban (The Other) J.D. for his cutesy allusion to somebody's ACTUAL NAME already

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1484956/faq.png

lol otm

lol

hahaha

Okay fine - I don't remember seeing him outside the Gawker thread. Is he mostly ILM?

I'm not in favour of being precious about it, but in context it's a gun flash - hey here's a thing I could do again if I'm pissed off.

just search for his name

deej writes and argues about rap, he's been here forever

the search button is at the top of the screen. you might have to scroll up

So ILM, that's fine.

were there a thread of missing him on a secret board, it would be a stillborn thread, sadly

"Who the fuck are you?" is such an awful, bad faith rhetorical tactic

When we ask people who they are, it should be in a spirit of openness and curiosity.

you tell em

darragh that's political impulses as in instincts re: power not economic policy or w/e

were there a thread of missing him on a secret board, it would be a stillborn thread, sadly

― Hi, my name's David and I quit (wins), Sunday, August 23, 2015 10:51 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Damn tell me how u really feel

If I cared that much I would have emailed but I'm ok w shaming idiots for their incoherently applied "principles" which amount to little more than ilx popularity contest bullshit

he said he feels sadly. you got a problem with that?

I want to note that I went and changed my dname to d-jerk reactions this am but changed it without using it cos why be a dick I don't dislike deej I just think he's eh a guy i dont have any ilx interaction with who veers towards trollish challops and brattish tantrums and we've all been that soldier.

but with that in mind, constantly referring to ilx popularity contests as the reason why he's just out of chokey as opposed to the behaviours that might be losing him ilx popularity contests also lending weight to mod decisions to tempban is nagl

these are mods that have gone en masse to bat for far more loathed posters than himself iirc and imo

here's a clue, deej. look at your current dn and ask yourself, what does this say about me to the rest of ilx?

if your answer is 'this is the dn of a bold, forthright man of integrity who proudly defies a world too timid, shallow and conventional to accept his vision of truth,' then perhaps you should think again.

I think it's just a metaphor.

deej might be mistaking ILX mods for 'the man'. He might think that he's 'fighting the power'. But no.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1484956/deejologies.png

deep thoughts itt

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e = m(ods)c(hickenshit)^2

e equals m times ods times c times hickenshit squared?

nyah fuckit

"Who the fuck are you?" is such an awful, bad faith rhetorical tactic

― Treeship, Sunday, August 23, 2015 1:02 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

When we ask people who they are, it should be in a spirit of openness and curiosity.

― Treeship, Sunday, August 23, 2015 1:03 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:)

Deej

sarcasm

i died

Hoos the fuck are you?