Can you please lock this thread?

This has taken a really unpleasant turn, and Mordy seems determined to turn this into yet another clusterfuck of personal unpleasantness. Can you just lock the thread, please?

If you could push a button and simply cease to exist, would you press it?

I won't be checking ILX for the rest of the evening, so I will not be contributing to this thread or checking its progress, but please can you just nip this in the bud before it blows up again. Thanks.

Mods, can you lock this thread? It's pretty big and I've started a new thread.

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whoops

got it

hay wmc i sent u a webmail fyi

I got it, thank you for your mail.

Regarding the original threadlock request: my opinion is that the "cease to exist button" thread turned into a very good discussion of existential angst, arguments for and against existence, etc etc, so I didn't see a good enough reason to lock it. Threadstarters aren't thread-owners, imo, and these things will organically go where they will after an initial period of -- what? personality-flexing? territorial pissing? -- whatever. And then they live or die on their merits, and the button thread has lots of merit.

Threadstarters aren't thread-owners, imo

this seems to be a *controversial issue* on ilx

My opinion on that is merely my own.

wmc for mod

If nominated, I will not scrum; if elected, I will not swerve.

Threadstarters aren't thread-owners, imo

THANK YOU. I have seen this come up over and over on ILX in the 10 years ive been here and Ive never agreed with it.

(never agreed with thread starters owning/controlling threads, that is)

Meta - Thread/Topic Ownership

Yeah I was thinking we'd touched on this before. Probably 8927483495 times tbh.

Some are, some aren't.

if an ilx beef threatens to take over a perfectly innocent thread you can politely direct people here.

since no one is actually going to stfu could you please stop this

whats the explication for locking that thread

Will lock every attempt to keep this shit pipe flowing in other threads as well.

anyone it bothers should just ignore it and not engage, is my understanding of ilx5 mod practice

just explain yrself

x-post are you serious?

save us from ourselves !!

you know what, I think that thread went out on top.

Oh and pls delete my last post on that thread too. I shouldn't have hit send an I'm an idiot.

No you were 100% totally otm.

nonsense dl

Explanation: that thread had devolved into zero value except prurience, zing-merchantry and potential for real hurt.

I applaud K3vin K. doing the terrier work and exposing the connection to jon/via/chi's abominable race war remarks.

STOP PLEASE

Explanation: that thread had devolved into zero value except prurience, zing-merchantry and potential for real hurt.

― WmC, Tuesday, October 16, 2012 12:25 PM (12 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

while there may have been potential for real hurt, the first two descriptions are so off base as to be non sensical - would you really describe enbb sor dog latins posts as zings

okay seriously can we stop with the fucking race war thing? i'm irl getting irritated with this completely unfunny "zing". i'm not beefing or anything else, just politley requesting that it ends.

idk wmc the thread would genuinely have had more value with a little more mod input than 'ignore everything from poster x' *lock*

and if youre gonna police 'prurience, zing-merchantry' you better get busy locking a bunch of threads

k3vin had absoltely no reason to bring it up again other than trying to stir shit up with me and part of me would really want to request the mods to do something about his shit, but i know that isn't going to happen. so all i'm doing is registering my polite request that he knocks it off.

jon - tbf that was actually hilarious

and I don't think anyone thought even for a nanosecond that you were calling for race war

okay seriously can we stop with the fucking race war thing? i'm irl getting irritated with this completely unfunny "zing". i'm not beefing or anything else, just politley requesting that it ends.

― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, October 16, 2012 12:28 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jon/via/chi, i'm sorry dude. I thought at the end of the whole thing last time we all sort of tacitly agreed to be lighthearted about the whole thing. I'll knock it off though, since you asked.

as for potential for real hurt mods better come up w/a better policy than locking threads, ignoring warning signs/cries for help, and praying everything turns out ok

its def not hilarious. my point is more that idg why there is an entire thread about how we shouldn't let posters pile on each other etc etc but k3vin's bullshit is excused and overlooked because its somehow "hilarious".

(xpost)

jon i know the race war jibe irks you but srsly man i wish you'd own that shit like a badge, shakey mo drowny style.

regardless of whether anyone believes what he says or not, like, is it really that hard for people to understand why i wouldn't want someone going on and on in thread after thread trying to tie my display name to something like that?

kind of reminds me of a mean-spirited "truth or dare" game I was on, on a bus in high school. I had to simulate a sex act with a chair, and was known as a chair-humper

it annoyed the shit out of me, but there were moments over the next few years where it'd be a funny punchline, so... whatever

so whenever you feel like getting pissed off at the race war comments, jon, just take this bit of advice from a chair-humper:

it gets better, and people forget the dumb joke if you ignore it

I thought RS was responsible for that comment which I thought was funny at the time. If there's a whole thing around it and it's been following you around then I don't know about any of that.

i don't know this thing just reminds me of the cliques that evolve on here. even wcc has a handful of defenders and speaking up for when she goes on a tear about something. but i've repeatedly asked to not have to deal with this bullshit with k3vin and not one fucking person is willing to come to my defense. like, ugh, fuck this place lately.

lol chair humper

Jon did not advocate for a race war #gotyourback

i thought furniture was forks thing

I leave the furniture alone these days, I mostly am into starting race wars

p sure mh's employer will be interested to hear they've got a chair-humper on the payroll

Ahhh, I see. So that's an actual term? I've never heard it and google only turned up strict cavemen eaters.

no pretty sure Andrew made it up on the spot, I am just a viking at deduction

omg

holy shit you guys i only just escaped, wmc actually locked me in a cage

(removes joke about DJP's viking nature to avoid doxxing him)

God I wish I could tell you about the argument my o/h had with my crazy neighbour today, it made ILX look like a Utopian future with everyone wearing white robes and agreeing things

which we are, mainly!

except about the agreement

it included the phrase 'what's good for the goose is good for the gander' said in absolute fury. We're still not sure what she meant.

i use that phrase!

I think she meant she's a big fan of Ready For The World?

it means 'if you can do it so can i' etc

obv the classic turn of phrase is 'sauce' instead of 'good'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbL2lMn34Oo

a Utopian future with everyone wearing white robes and agreeing things
http://irenebrination.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55290e7c488330133ec9b73fd970b-500wi
The Shape of Zings to Come

Are you fucking serious? The mods refuse to do anything about an ilxor contiuning to harass me and the thread I make to publically shame him gets locked?

that thread was locked because ppl on it were being shitty towards you

ok, fair enough then, my fault for not really reading it. didn't really want to know how shitty ppl were being. i've learned enough about ilx today to last me for awhile.

see you in a few days dude. feel better.

it was low-level shitty from my point of view but I agree that, given the feelings you've expressed, you made the right call in not really reading it

Moved to I Must Protest.

... Why? There's little actual ongoing discussion here that shouldn't be broken out into its own thread and the original use for this, which was to request locking of a thread, is an unambiguous MRF topic.

discussion only moved over here bc the other thread got locked

can I be a mod of I Love Cars?

i just want to say that i really don't think it's a good idea to engage anyone in a certain fashion continuously if they react really negatively to it. either you believe someone is really sensitive or you believe they're acting irrationally, and whatever the case may be sometimes it's an indicator or IRL shit and we probably shouldn't push those buttons (speaking as someone who may have pushed a few in the past.) people are pretty easy to ignore or not act out towards. i realize this is lol-depriving but lols can be had elsewhere.

xp: when was the last time you changed your tranny fluid?

good question!

I feel like I Love Cars has so much unrealized potential

that's a great question, it could be asked on iltmi someday as well.

Dan, the answer to "can you lock this thread" was made, now the threads gone meta.

seriously though, who is the mod of I Love Cars?

Lightning McQueen iirc

sorry

*sigh*

jon, i like you, really - i know it's hard to tell by the completely impersonal, silly joke/memes i make toward you like once a month, but really, i have nothing against you. please just relax

"completely impersonal" - that's disingenuous, because you know exactly how he reacts to your prodding, so when you make that silly joke you know it's going to enrage him something serious. At least own your trolling if you're going to do it, quit with the faux-naive.

k3vin, you have, er, a little something, y'know, just there, just on, er, your display name.

haa

omg

facepalm

i don't get it, and i really want to get it

kev's username references jvc and wcc, as a play on the defunct reality show John & Kate Plus 8

oh, duh *facepalms for another reason*

i was looking at 8 like maybe it was a pair of balls and there was a penis somewhere in there

hahahahaha

that's totally something I would do, Z

haha omg

ya my display name is pretty good

Congratulations, now change it so ilx doesn't continue to be a shitshow for even longer

may i suggest

8=====D/--oo|..__

as a new display name, i mean

i'm sooooooo glad someone pushed a button and my long-ass rant on that thread that got locked ceased to exist! i am taking a vow of positivity.

Somebody should start a vow of positivity thread and then we can take bets on how long it takes to turn into a clusterfuck and get locked