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

xpost to keith- that i understand the system? or that i'm much more pleasant all of a sudden?

BAN DARRAGHMAC

Maybe it's both, I'm not sure. I was kind of vaguely aware that you might've changed your approach, but not consciously sure... I think I meant the former, that you understand what I was trying to achieve with the system.

Áine is totes awesome btw and I can make a really long list of great things about her (that are 100% true) that will guarantee her victory

keep up, IKR. the SB function has rendered those calls obselete

lol

I'll think about it harder when I'm less completely drunk.

fwiw D-mac became an A+ poster a few months back. the change was barely perceptible but i think it involved channeling his energies slightly away from antagonism and slightly more towards lolz.

i was gonna say, i'm not sure either is true in any case, keith.

i think SB is a neat enough function, though rather than cheerleading for it i'm just bemused by the fact that mods/yourself get stick when a ban occurs as a result of people using it.

I wouldn't presume to second guess where your head's at, darraghmac, but in my opinion, right now, I'd be where Louis's take is...

tbh, i've merely acknowledged and welcomed our new mod overlords. life's better now.

soon crut will join and the circle will be complete

this is like the end of that novel

george orwell's 51

I think that one was banned at my school.

oooh explain the process of how in depth, please

ray bradbury's (searching) far and high for 51

that deserves banning tbh

You worked hard at that!

ends, means, justification

must try to catch this and report back, if possible. feel it might enlighten us as to what mod discussions are like once the 51 hammer drops on someone.

http://www.jeffreyweissman.com/images/current_events/51-flyer-front-300.jpg

The Crying of Lot 51

51 Angry Men

so, is the point of ilx so that ppl can make pynchon jks and everyone gets it?

The Taking Of Pelham 51-2-3

KNOW51NG

Congratulations, User: [Tiern@n]. You have now reached ILX: Level 2

Curtis' view is his view. It's entirely valid and I have plenty of respect for his view, I think I ideologically differ in that I don't think that 'freedom' means that anyone should always be able to do whatever they want, but that society rightly wants to put restraints on what people are and are not allowed to do. J0hn D describes it brilliantly upthread re: imagebombing. My view is that there needs to be a check on this sort of thing - that you should think before you post - that your rights don't eclipse the rights of others, which is quite different from your opinion, which you are entitled to. This is particularly difficult on the internet when you can pretty much get away with whatever you like, because it's so anonymous. However, this is not everyone's view. Some people's view is that freedom means that you ought to be able to do whatever you want, which is fine; that's their view, I just can't say I agree.

what gives me a kick is that this thread will be back to being a cluster when i wake up tomorrow, with this brief interval of crappy jokes based on an extremely thin premise hiding out somewhere in the skipping 13498 messages link

lol was just thinking that

51 Little Uncool Racist Epithets

can't remember who posted this above (maybe stet), but this is OTM-

I think it's one of the strengths of SB that you can't go all legitimacy-lawyer about it.

2051

although clearly the cluster rolls on. are these threads just inevitable around any form of enforcement (automatic or otherwise) on ILX ? they seem to have been a feature for as long as i can remember anyway, so perhaps any line of argument that says things ought to be changed to avoid them is missing the point.

ooh that's a good one IKR

I don't think SB has made anything better or worse re: clusterf***s. I didn't expect it to. But I think there is a bunch of better stuff as a result of it, nonetheless.

never mind that- fahrenheit 4 51

(5)1, robot

simpsons did it xp

I don't know who is and isn't American, but this thread is as good as a proof as anything of why there will never be a liberal party in the US.

"major" party of cawse

because of the gross displays of fundamentalist Christianity?

<3 u jesus!

i am american and i love the suggest ban

I am an American woman and I eat corn using the lathe method.

"To-morr-ow be-longs to meeeee...."

xp

Morbs reminding me that it's been too long since I listened to Siouxsie & the Banshees "The Lord's Prayer"

51 active users!

When I noticed the starting page now shows how many messages you've posted, that gave me an idea: the value of a suggest ban should be weighed according to how many posts the suggest banner has made. So, for example, a SB from a poster who's made 20000 posts should count for more than a SB from a poster with 20 posts. This would effectively cancel the possibility of sock puppets or lurkers getting someone banned, and the opinions of regular posters (who suffer more from trolling and dickery than some occasional poster who only reads, say, the techno bobbins threads on ILM) would be taken more seriously. For example, if Ned decides to click SB on someone, that person should be immediately banned.

would effectively cancel the possibility of sock puppets or lurkers getting someone banned

I think it was pretty clear in yesterdays discussion that this isn't happening anyway.