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

Morbs! his film challops ranged from the 'ooh, that's an interesting point' to the 'lol what a curmudgeon', and that's why we loved him.

wait, am I going to get banned for this?

no looking back

suggukbe ban

damn the torpedoes!

what is this

morbs could not have upset anyone that much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mudlXF3MA8Q

sugg banned u for this, btw

morbs is nothing but challops, u need some sincerity to counter-point

et tu, cozwn?

morbs being virtually nothing but challops is WHY we need him to counter-point the sincerity.

what are the sound and reasoned opinions of slock1 and omar and matt dc without Morbs?

2nd sugg ban

did u dilute the HP, coz that's weak sauce bro

sugg banning myself to weigh 2nd one out

never sb'd morbs

never learn not to love

seriously though this suggest ban system is a nightmare

http://roddysrockinreviews.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/30-days-of-night-poster.jpg

Suggest bans should work like petitions where upon accumulating 51 of them, a poll asking whether or not the accumulatee should be banned is automatically generated and appears on a separate board where arguments for and against banning are heard, and fates are ultimately decided. Suggested names for the board include Purgatory, Civil Court, or I Love Bans.

Propose I Love Popcorn

These celebrity deaths just keep coming, each one more shocking than the last.

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/en/images/8/87/Spock_funeral.jpg

morbs could not have upset anyone that much

^^ I thought this about dom, cankles, ethan, et al

SBs come in threes

suggest props is actually a good idea, especially if it cancels out sb's 1 for 1, that way people who post things that are valued by the community receive some benefit. right now the system is solely about punishment and negativity and the only counter we have to someone getting sb'd that we like is gay meta threads like this.

but for serious, and i'm sure this would be way too much work, but a great idea imo would be "suggest ban this user from thread". if s/he gets 5 in one thread, he's banned from that thread for a week, and so on.

― there's a blapp for that (k3vin k.), Friday, June 26, 2009 11:00 PM (1 week ago)

i still think this is a good idea. imo the best way to deal w/ morbs is just to ban him from any politix thread and let him post to baseball and film threads where his opinions might actually be relevant/valuable

guys there is gonna be like an endless string of "suggest" links after everyone's posts

"suggest hotdog/taco"

suggest new type of suggestion

well i think we all agree that "suggest props" is retarded

suggest fries with that

suggest props is actually a good idea, especially if it cancels out sb's 1 for 1, that way people who post things that are valued by the community receive some benefit. right now the system is solely about punishment and negativity and the only counter we have to someone getting sb'd that we like is gay meta threads like this.

mega-ranted about this some time ago, although "suggest unban" was my name for it.

well i think we all agree that "suggest props" is retarded

sugbanned u for this btw fyi iirc sry.

I have no comment

http://imgur.com/Pr4vA.gif

^ That is awesome.

I love Flying Dawkins squirrel...

I think Viking Funerals are the way to go.

http://www.cp-tel.net/pasqualy/kingmole/242F.jpg

well i think we all agree that "suggest props" is retarded

― Nabisco™ (k3vin k.), Friday, July 3, 2009 9:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark'

not cool man

http://i41.tinypic.com/sw9r4n.gif

morbs could not have upset anyone that much

^^ I thought this about dom, cankles, ethan, et al

u thought people who went around stirring shit and insulting people wouldn't upset anyone? morbs was stubborn and trollish but never made a habit of attacking other posters personally

um you must never read US political threads...

not that I think he should have been banned.

um you must never read US political threads...

Exactly. Spending a significant amount of your time stalking one particular type of thread so that you can childishly insult everyone on it and then petulantly refuse any attempt to converse about the topic at hand or explain what your positions are goes beyond annoying to flat-out trolling, something you can get banned for. It is patently obvious that mods banning him flat-out for this would inspire a gigantic meta clusterfuck even though he deserves it, so we decided to let the posting community get sick of him. Now that you've spoken, he now has a month off to figure out how to express his hatred of American politicians and the people who vote for them without being an offensive asshole about it.

And "I was just blowing off steam," which he has trotted out in the past, doesn't cut it.

why i don't go on the political threads no. 7543, i guess.

ok i just read that morbs iraq thread--way to get baited you goofs.

It is patently obvious that mods banning him flat-out for this would inspire a gigantic meta clusterfuck even though he deserves it, so we decided to let the posting community get sick of him. Now that you've spoken,

I see your point here, but at the same time it's a little unfair to be like "hey this is what you want" when lots of people in this thread are saying that this isn't what we want and we think the current SB system is a bad thing.

completely otm. morbs would troll a bit, but i think he also added a lot of value in other areas to justify it. if we let everybody who was offended get their way, then k-punk wins! say NO to grey vampires!

Ny sb against morbs was for his pissing on ethan's grave.

It is patently obvious that mods banning him flat-out for this would inspire a gigantic meta clusterfuck even though he deserves it, so we decided to let the posting community get sick of him. Now that you've spoken, he now has a month off to figure out how to express his hatred of American politicians and the people who vote for them without being an offensive asshole about it.

^^awed by the Solomonic fairmindedness and total absence of personal animus here^^

"Now that you've spoken" is loltastic, though! Sounds like Ollie North's lawyer at the Iran-contra hearings -- "THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN!" All 52 of them.

As I posted in the hours before I was muzzled, i am done done done with the politics threads, as my Most Unpopular Opinion re The Slick "Centrist" clearly is not permitted there. Also, it's a waste of time. As far as "expressing hatred of American politicians and the people who vote for them without being an offensive asshole" goes, this has never been applied to folks who do that when it involves the Green Party, Nader, McKinney, Paul, etc.

Really, you can't chasten a man in his late 40s who's entering his fifth month of unemployment by anonymously telling him to go stand in the corner for a month on a messageboard. This largely unexplained policing procedure (nearly all I know about it comes from 77) is some bullshit, even for ILX, and I'm sadder and more pissed off about this place than ever.

I'm not going to use this cowardly Suggest Ban feature anymore, and I think someone more detached from the issue than I should start a thread demanding it be shitcanned.

Now I'm going to prepare for a job interview, and clean the crackers out of my bed.

So this is really how you want to come back?

"more detached than ME," shit.

xp

what can I say? I'm not fond of tribunals, even in sandboxes. Ever the maverick!

xpost HI DERE, you're an awful mod who exacerbates problems, that comment being one example of many, and i wish you'd follow up on your own offer to step down.

Yeah it is you insensitive bastard.

No, can't you see the first and the last letters are the same, it's BELLYFAB.

tbh HELLYEAH are my new favourite band. I don't wanna spoil that by listening to them.

OK I didn't spoil that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYEuWctr5no&feature=channel

bellyfab! Suddenly, I want a tattoo.

Part of the problem is that Louis came back after his second banning and carried on with business as usual, and racked himself up another ton of SBs. Once he'd reformed he had such a high SB count and still made people mad from time to time so it was inevitable that he was going to hit a ban again.

I'm not sure what's the right thing to do about it; there's pretty good arguments on both sides: one is that he earned this ban and should have to take it anyway (the SBs he got wasn't just the usual BAN LOUIS types clicking on them, btw); the other is that he's obviously reformed and should be given leeway. I sympathise with both.

I can imagine it would be way too complicated to have a mod look at who has been given a ban, having to take the time to look at why or how could x poster have become so annoying to some and then wanting to reverse the decision, outweighing the 50 others who have decided they had enough. Maybe there should be an appeals committee :-) What a mess.

But lets say if a mod was banned, could he/she reverse that decision themselves?

I guess no one has ever been SB-ed had their ban reversed. Can anyone confirm?

LJ really distorts any arguments for or against SBs, seems a real one-off. I can't see NRQ (were he to come back) ever reforming or becoming nicer or whatever. If SBs were introduced back in 2002 I doubt that, I dunno, Momus/Doomie/Ethan/Dave Q/Blount (just some who I think might have gotten a ban) would have had a good look at themselves. And Ethan was SB-ed right, just decided not to come back 'reformed' as far as I understand it.

SBs seem like a bizarre way of overcompensating for all the times an ILXer who didn't behave all nice wasn't talked to in the past by a mod.

Just a few more lamentations, like...

i wonder if heave ho is reformed yet

can't we unban J0n W1lliams already?

uhh were you here yet when jw posted?

no

i just wanted to add to the litany of rehashed lamentations

oh boy is that ever helpful, tyvm

sorry, i'll lament more helpfully next time.

can't we unban J0n W1lliams already?

― sarahel, Saturday, October 10, 2009 1:54 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I tried to sb system for an ILTMI post but I got an error.

my sb of "System" for the results of a Pitchfork poll on ILM apparently went through!

ilx's biggest troll is going down

It's On!

i will never understand u ilx

ilx system can you please unban LJ? i pledge not to sb you if you do this 1 thing.

just curious how many people complaining about him being banned actually sb-ed him at some point.

Not me.

I have probably SBed him 50 times, but not for a year at least.

The SB function has been here only for a year.

you sound regretful.

I think this thread was started soon after the suggest ban function was an installed, so it was probably installed September 11th, 2008. Seems like a fitting date.

oh lord

think i sb'd him once before his first ban, if i'm honest. if i rescind it now would it make a difference?

tuomas, did you really just

I'm sorry, my point was not to compare SB with 9/11. I just wanted to say that the date was fitting, as September 11th has become quite an ominous date.

why?

Why what?

The twin towers of LJ and NRQ have fallen.

the tuo tuowers

I'll have to do some sarahel type digging

:(

you will always be the master of ilx research, jaymc.

suggestion for sb system - an admin log of how many sbs everyone has used (and since when) :)

or maybe just how many over the last 6 months

Have you checked your number recently? You could very well be ILX's Patrick Swayze.

BOOM

captainlorax would only be ilx's patrick swayze if patrick swayze died of cancer, came back to life, and then died of cancer again

he did according to the National Enquirer

http://obit-mag.com/media/image/patrickswayze_ghost_gallery__533x400(1).jpg

above: (l-r) lorax, ilx

top 12 sbanners revealed! think of the headlines
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captainlorax would only be ilx's patrick swayze if patrick swayze died of cancer, came back to life, and then died of cancer again

if you use that logic, Lj would be some sort of Buddhist saint.

what woudl that make Mr. Que?

lj should be unbannable
― pariah carey (Mr. Que)

guys cut it out w/ the swayze stuff.
too soon.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 9:20 AM Site Whiney G. Weingarten has been banned permanently. 51 suggest bans

hugged. out.

squeezed to death. RIP.

okay seriously, enough of this