Missin U <3 - lamentations for those felled by the SB

hey look it's tuortis

never mind

who did you SB curt1s?

I don't even remember!

lols.

we need a big public information campaign to get users to use SB properly. that's the only solution, if it's going to stick around in its current form. posters, adverts, the lot.

we have a warning lol

Old Era Tombot is irrelevant to Right This Minute ILX.

The problem is many of us have stayed on the board for 6 years or more w/out paying thorough attention to all this micromanagement, and we didn't get the memo that a cadre of reformers was changing the ILX cultcha.

i remember it were all fields around here

Not sure about that. If the motivation among users hadn't been there, SB wouldn't have made a difference. It's not so much a gang of reformers as previously unheard posters getting a voice.

where was this outcry for SBs? I never saw it. I didn't even remember there were moderator election, apparently. Cuz really, I try to have a life.

Mods aren't elected. ILX has never been a democracy. This was often pointed out during controversial bannings. SBs are much more democratic than ones given by mod fiat, at least.

WHAT? EXPLAIN THAT TO ME. Really, how is 51 out of thousands anything but the tyranny of a sect?

it's always a different sect, morbius

ok, there were NOMINATIONS for moderators. Like petitioning Louis XIV.

This is futile too, huh? Bye.

you over-estimate the size of the active posting community. 50 has proved to be far too high a number for any ILX clique to manage to get someone banned, though some gave it a good try in the early days. xp

Louis LI probably no good as a display name

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can someone with better memory state the full list of those who have been SB'd?

gabbneb
morbs
tuomas
LJ
deeznuts
burt stanton
capn lorax
ade

right?

ethan

plus ethan who opted to not return xp

and dom sort of

o rite

dom (controversial...)

xps

surely stanton has returned tho, under a new name?

3 suspected trolls, 1 occasional concern troll, 1 nudge nudge wink wink brit, 4 controversial yet beloved regs, 1 controversial and unloved reg

Bimble?

bimble was mod-banned iirc

yes but the concept is that suggest bans are suppose to reduce board drama. but they don't; they just deprive interesting people of the privilege to post because some people can't take their personalities for some weird reason.

I disagree with this - I think people are a lot less aggro with each other now than they were a year ago. You're kind of painting everything in a very favorable light - "people can't take their personalities" = "people don't like being called names and spoken to abusively & hounded from threads & trolled relentlessly" etc. I understand that your position is "if a person can't stand the heat, he should get out of the kitchen," but you have got to understand, don't you, that not everyone shares your survival-of-the-most-aggro view?

Not trying to be combative with you, I dig you & respect your position, it just seems like your vision of how ilx ought to work is distinctively yours - for me, it seems clear that things are less unwelcoming than they were, and I view this as a positive development

1 nudge nudge wink wink brit

why single out from contro-beloved regs?

Dom could have been banned without the suggest ban system.

if that's who you're talking about, j0hn

who are you talking about Crut among the SBd that you can only see "weird reasons" for not wanting them to behave the way they did?

I mean there are always exceptional cases, but:

gabbneb
morbs
tuomas
LJ
deeznuts
burt stanton
capn lorax
ade

these people were never really abusive

xpost!

The problem is many of us have stayed on the board for 6 years or more w/out paying thorough attention to all this micromanagement, and we didn't get the memo that a cadre of reformers was changing the ILX cultcha.

Dude how can you be a place SIX YEARS and not notice any changes?

Crut deeznuts was abusive and a pervy fuck to me on and off board.

half of them had it coming and the other half, well, i disagree but i can see why people might click SB

these people were never really abusive

ok lol get the fuck out

Crut deeznuts was abusive and a pervy fuck to me on and off board.

oh

lorax has done his share of pervertalizing posts that got deleted too

gabbneb
morbs
tuomas
LJ
deeznuts
burt stanton
capn lorax
ade

And Jesus how many people from this list are back right now!

Answer = ALMOST ALL OF THEM.

tuomas still probably the least abusive ilxor (along with ned i guess)

Abbott, did i say ANY changes?! i meant formal, decided-upon, here's-how-we're-running-things changes.

The bulk of the unbanned people didn't show up immediately banging pans with conspiratorial complaints of some six-year coup that has been boiling in the underbelly of ILX h8rdom behind everyone's backs.

Morbs all the threads about new mods, SB systems, whatevs were classic clusterfucks that wld be pretty damn hard not to notice!

why was ethan suggest banned exactly

Ask 52 people!

I just did.