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

Quick bleeding sprint to 51 in some cases.

Temp bans get longer the more times you get banned Tuomas. The first is two or three days.

Both temp bans and SBs are really intended as a deterrant rather than a punishment - and SBs are usually across a very broad range of posts, as in the case of Cankles. It's highly unlikely they're going to be banned twice for the same offence, because in one category there is no one "offence".

Okay, here's a simple arithmetic to determine the punishment in a case where someone gets both temp banned and SBed due to the same post(s):

* First count the percentage of SBs that came from the same post(s) that got this person temp banned. Let's say he has 51 SBs, and 17 of them came from the same post(s) the mods temp banned him for. In this case the percentage would be 33,3%.

* Using that percentage, count how many days of his temp ban overlaps with the suggest ban. In our example, let's say this person was temp banned for 18 days. 33,3% of 18 days would be 6 days.

* Subtract this overlap from the total length of his suggest ban. If the suggest ban is 30 days, you can subtract 6 days from it, making his actual suggest ban 24 days long.

Voila! A just punishment!

You, my friend, are an inSBiration.

can we also start referring to time off-board as 'exile'

in SiBeria

Thank you Tuomas, we will certainly bear that in mind when exercising moderator discretion in future. A graph would be nice though, if you have time.

it's like when you're arrested and put in jail (temp ban), your time in jail is applied to your eventual time in prison (suggest ban)

it's admittedly not a lot like that, though

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Thank you Tuomas, we will certainly bear that in mind when exercising moderator discretion in future. A graph would be nice though, if you have time.

I'm sure coding a program that automatically counts the number of days to subtract from the SB should be pretty easy. All it requires is that a mod marks the post(s) he's temp banning someone for, and the rest should happen automatically.

If no one has the time to program that sort of thing, I can volunteer to count the number myself every time a SB and a temp ban overlap. Just email me the relevant information, and I'll do it.

Matt I was actually just making a funny because it was clear that the whole "a person can still acquire SBs while banned" deal would almost surely be something that would inspire our leading researcher in the field of Suggest Ban Theory to possible new heights of accomplishment

if yr SBed & sum1 lands on 1 of ur properties do u still get rent

i must be completely worn down because i ghoulishly enjoyed the simple arithmetic and the voila! which i don't think i would normally.

your SBs are deposited in escrow and tallied upon your return

Okay, here's a simple arithmetic to determine the punishment in a case where someone gets both temp banned and SBed due to the same post(s):

I can't decide if this is self-parody, or if you're serious about Chapter XI Section 3 of the ILX Penal Code, and that we should do everything possible to ensure that people who have, in one way or another, been dickish enough to earn themselves bans don't have to spend a second more off the boards than required to mete out just enough "punishment" so that they'll never change.

dude, it's self-parody

more like self-parroty

more like self-sbanny amirite

I have this vision of a Finnish socialist paradise where all of our actions are determined by complex and yet efficient mathematics that control and shape every aspect of our lives.

(I do not apologise for being one of the people who banhammered Cankles in the 72 hours before his Suggest Ban - for his utterly infantile and gross interjections on the Cosmetic Surgery thread, IIRC.)

if tuomas exists, i'm pretty sure he's serious.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a clog stamping on a human face... forever.

a clog?

surely a nokia ringing out in interminable silence

into silence

http://www.giftsfromholland.com/catalog/images/klomp_blank_punt.png

i think we all know what the footwear emblem of dutch culture looks like

i know he's finnish, not dutch, but the joke works better if you just follow me on this

maybe the joke is that i'm confused. it's like an unscripted homage to our mutual friend.

perhaps cankles greatest contribution to ilx not on a sports board:
For example, I've noticed many girls tend to treat the penis a bit too gently, which can be a problem if you want to make the guy come.
this is actually the central point of my thesis on gender relations, which is that ppl project their needs onto their partners and u end up w/women all tenderly makin love to your dong when u just want it to get beat the fuck up, and meanwhile dudes are all trying to jackhammer cervixes and fingerblast a broad with a hand covered in superbowl rings

― a narwhal done gored my sister nell (cankles), Thursday, August 6, 2009 2:48 PM

trying to jackhammer cervixes and fingerblast a broad with a hand covered in superbowl rings

as lamentations go, uh

otoh, the moderator-imposed temp ban could actually prevent a poster from accruing more sb's, or at least accruing them at a slower rate.

isn't a mod ban normally imposed for one-off way over the line behaviour? doesn't overlap with sb low level irritation quotient at all in my opinion.

wasn't that what cankles' most recent temp ban for? The racist display name thing?

if he hadn't been temp-banned, he could have posted more with that display name and gotten more sb's out of it.

what a disaster for london

was louis sb'd too??

spellbanned

on this magical day

what the fuck

is louis our first 153?

whoa

:(

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jason-meyer-funeral-photo-02.jpg

is there any good reason for lj's ban or is it just 51 more people doing it cause they thought it was funny?

adjectives fail me.

lj should be unbannable

i think i sb'ed him last winter because i didn't know he had a new name. i thought "country matters" was a sock. oops.

unlike harbl i don't have any blood on my hands

i am reckless :(((((