an open letter to the mods from Whiney G. Weingarten

if someone gets banned immediately after mouthing off to one mod, and the other mods back that mod up later, it looks like one person made a decision and everyone else kinda shrugged and went well let's just stand together on this, as opposed to the mods all having a conversation and deciding together to ban the sassmouth. that's not a conspiracy theory, I'm just telling you how it looks logically to anyone paying attention.

but i do really appreciate you admitting that the namecalling in the admin log was wrong, that's definitely one of the major points of contention here.

i.e. i banned princess tamtam

― J0rdan S., Thursday, November 4, 2010 2:04 AM

:-(

there are huge gaps btwn what sb deals with and some other banworthy behaviours.

― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Thursday, November 4, 2010 9:59 AM (21 minutes ago)

yeah but dan decided that because he's a mod he got to have two or three SB's for the one time whiney pissed him off instead of one SB like everyone else on the site. seems fair to me

the "he was gonna get 51'd anyway" line is irrelevant - dan perry was out of line, it's not the first time this has happened, own up to it

what fuckin 2 or 3 sb's? Jeez this discussion can happen without shit-talk like this, cmon.

No it can't, and that is the problem with these conversations.

stfu dan you like granny weatherwax ffs.

ur on shaky ground as it is

k3vin k. using posters real names when shit gets heated

oh hey look everyone i just told brute mod hi dere to stfu guess i'm about to be permabanned, cos that's what this dude is like, right?

Rmde

this is a good one to let go, send buffy dvds

ban darraghmac

wondering where some dude is taking this w/ his dn tbh

That display name is at least a couple of days old, I assume it has nothing to do with anything happening here.

yeah it's due for a change anyway

better?

peritonitis wd be better i think

If Whiney comes back and continues to be an abusive ass with a secret "oh but it's hust jokes, I really love you guys FUCK YOU haha I'm a scamp!" thread on 77, I will permaban him. ILX does not need that shit.

― lol tea partiers and their fat fingers (HI DERE), Thursday, November 4, 2010 9:44 AM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark

feeling the futility of all this now that the ultimate verdict has been cast

i don't think whiney is the biggest asshole on the board, imo there are much bigger and more gaping assholes, he's just the most visible because he posts a lot and often in all caps

I "like" whiney fine but surely part of being a big asshole is related to the frequency of yr posts?

I raise this in a philosophical, probing-at-definitions fashion, not cos I've got a pony in this race.

i'd say visibility is the "big" part of "big asshole"

whineys problem imho is mostly that he has no taste

Anyway, caek and some dude have a point; their distrust in me and my judgment is going to make whatever I do as a moderator seem suspect and making mistakes like letting someone who is actively attempting to frustrate me succeed reinforces that.

I am, for better or worse, firmly of the opinion that actively attempting to frustrate and annoy a moderator (Note: not a poster; in this particular instance, I was, as a site mod, asking a poster to change a display name that others, including Whiney, had found offensive, and Whiney was spending his time derailing his own thread and making the situation worse than the offensive display name was. I have not and have never used moderation powers against someone who was arguing with me poster to poster and, aside from the entirely unlikely case of people suddenly deciding to drop n-bombs at me, I never will.) opens you to having moderation action taken against you. If you disagree with that and feel you have a better way, I offer you my moderation powers (pending approval from the other site mods).

the g. stood for goatse all along

an open letter to the mob from hi dere imo.

Personally can't think of anyone i'd want to take over, as well to say that as i'm sure there'll be plenty naysayers with 2c each

Dear Roxy,

Why did you lock the diarrhea diarrhea thread on 1p3 iirc?

~Whiney

Suggest rolling "ILXor's Top Mod" competition.

caek 4 mod!

maybe there should be a rotating monthly mod spot, just to see what it 'feels like'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribune

make caek and al shipley mods

^^^^^

http://rtfitch.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/fireworks.jpg

GOOD LUCK ILXORA

I just wanna say that in about 90% of cases I completely agree with Dan's mod decisions. While I don't necessarily agree with him in this case, apparently 51+ people did. This kinda astounds me because I don't really see anything offensive about WGW's style of posting, but there have been loud protests in the past against SBeanings that I thought were completely justified. Guess it takes all kinds to make this community. I don't have a conclusion for this thought. Peace.

ice cr?m for mod

we all scr?m for ice cr?m

no no come on u guys we all know i would make dan look like *attempting to think of a well known reasonable politician*

think of an attractive one, plz

I don't want to be ugly

http://i36.tinypic.com/wbvxv5.gif

lol xp

jjjusten for mod

fuck you man I aint no screw

i think i should be mod mod not mod

we should have a knockout poll tournament after a nominations thread.

if modding's gonna be an arbitrary popularity contest then fuckit, lets get real on dis ting

I do love how people nominations for mod are "let's have a mod who would never ban an awesome bro no matter what he said" -- great look, that

i think we would all ban whiney permanently given the chance. no one is disagreeing with that.

lol

aerosmith for mod

yeah see dan acknowledging that you're gonna send people to their rooms if they annoy mod-hat hi dere is the kind of paternalistic bs that ppl legitimately have beef with - adopt a more even-handed perspective or please stop being a mod

xp aero no one is saying that, and most of the noms are jokes. al would be an excellent mod I think