s.b.

xposts yah, but if ppl find themselves stifling their posting habits in other ways b/c they are trying to avoid ppl's whimsical sb's, then i don't think that's a good thing

i don't think that most of the posters who have been s.b.'d were consistently irritating/disruptive. in any case, when the mods get shit for banning people it usually seems to be from the same small group of posters. i feel confident based on past actions that mods don't ban people at whim. however posters anonymously hitting s.b. is a different story

52 ppl in the period of six months having the exact same whim?

i don't think that most of the posters who have been s.b.'d were consistently irritating/disruptive

we differ.

'whimsical' is a fairly large assumption on your part.

well, i'm just saying that i was shocked to read names of ppl who had been sb'd or who are running fairly high counts at this point. if i had a big problem with someone harassing me i would take it to the mods. attempting to iron out annoyances from a msg board seems almost to defeat the purpose of an open-ended discussion forum like ilx

i mean, i guess i will go ahead and name names. if ppl here can't deal with TUOMAS' posts here, who is like the most good-natured, innocuous poster ever, then i can't even imagine how they make it through the course of a day irl. good grief, etc...it just seems insane to me.

you would almost have to have read tuomas on the numerous sb threads to understand that one, yes. i wouldn't have been a fan of that banning, but

aw fuck spurs

that was solely as the result of making ridiculous, repetitive arguments ad nauseum on the one subject, aying no regard to any responses peope were giving him.

afair, anyway.

only been actively posting for a year or so but haven't really had a problem with any of the 51'd people being 51'd so far

don't 51 LJ again though :(

xposts
i recall reading those and yeah, i agree that he argued to a sort of ridiculous extent. but at the same time, ppl have different arguing styles and i think sometimes ppl are quick to call someone a troll if they disagree w/someone both in the substance of the argument and the manner in which they put it forth

but, yeah, when it comes down to it i guess i just differ in my views w/o many other people here as far as what constitutes chronically annoying or how best to deal w/it.

no biggie, just thought it warranted discussing again in light of the weininggarden thread

i was surprised to learn that other perfectly reasonable personalities here had somehow accrued an alarming number of them

That doesn't look good, but none of those people have yet been banned. And in the case of ilxor frinstance, while I'm not sure his infractions deserved a lengthy ban, he had been clearly warned and didn't desist.

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yeah i don't get ppl's problem with lj either. at least, don't get why they would have him banned.

oh well.

And in the case of ilxor frinstance, while I'm not sure his infractions deserved a lengthy ban, he had been clearly warned and didn't desist.

i don't recall what he was doing that people found issue with, but yeah, that seems fair enough if ppl are warned not to do x but they persist anyhow

30 days isn't a lengthy ban

del, i accept you're arguing froma position of sincerity, but you seem to be forgetting just about anything irritating any banned poster might ever have done. ilxor was banned only a few weeks back, cmon.

fair enough, i guess i don't follow stuff closely enough at times

also early-onset dementia is a possibility

maybe you've sb'd loads people and just forgotten

how about every time you sb someone, you yourself get a sb

finite no of sb's that can e given in a 6 month period. no more than 20, maybe less?

how about all posters can only sb darraghmac

seems a little off topic

sb'd u

how about all posters can only sb darraghmac

― whiney trollins vs. hipsters (dayo), Saturday, 6 November 2010 14:27 (3 minutes ago)

maybe not ~only~ but yeah

the man's a fucking disgrace

feeling slightly victimised, but i cant mount a coherent argument against tbh

what if everybody sb's all the mods and then the mods have to ban themselves and then there are no mods and then we have no mods and

wouldn't that be great

maybe you've sb'd loads people and just forgotten

yes i "forgot"! D

has dmac ever mounted anything coherent? conscious would be a start

i assumed mods were immune to sb's

mods are basically dm's, their posting personas essentially npc's

who i've mounted and how i've mounted them is my own business, tyvm

gd why are u even here when yr failing to mount a last ditch rescue vs bolton

from now on as a rule i'm shitbanning all of you with extreme prejudice.

we've managed to forget, but in ILX's more contentious past, there were far MORE bannings. they were board bannings (noize, 1p3) not site bans, but were far more common than now. i liked it. you never knew when a ban was coming gour way, wouldn't know why, no one/no way to argue it. kept posters on their toes imo. it was quality control, and those boards were better for it.

now it's all one big board. site new answers. it's too bad.

more like 51 51 666

honestly, i think that if the posters who get 51-ed have no idea why they're accumulating so many sb's, they must to some extent have their fingers in their ears going "la lalalala i can't hear you." While I'm sure that some posters just press the button as their only means of registering a complaint, there are always several posters who will be more public with their criticism.

temporary timeouts can be great. i've basically suggest-banned myself a few times and then come back after some months. my favorite posters are the ones that come and go: amon, estela, roxy. go out in the world, do your thing, then come back to us. del, you're like this and i appreciate it. imo we all need time off from here, self-imposed or not.

there is the danger of TAKING UR BAN 2 SRSLY, and i feel for those people, but then i look at jordan and whiney and even morbius: ok u guyz got me, i'll take my month off and respect that, but sure as hell i'm coming back. can't keep those dudes down, and i get that.

we make too big a deal of what should be a good thing. whoever was last banned should personally thank each of the 51.

Thread of missing dell

"it doesn't happen that often" is a terrible justification for any policy

if its for low level irritation then we need an offset button where we can vote up posts of value.

that works well on youtube, anyway

i think what it comes down to is the spitballin smokin in the boys room motherfuckers in the back of the room don't like the idea that the rest of their classmates can have them kicked out for being disruptive

'u r taking my right to be disruptive'

of course this idea presupposes that we're all here 'for' something, that there's a something to be disrupted, when a lot of people are just here to bullshit and be internet loudmouths and have fun. i am one of these.

we're here for different reasons i guess and we'll never see sb the same way imo

<3 u so much right now hoos (/aero)

hey, here's a thought: every so often i get particularly annoyed by _______'s--usually one of the same half-dozen or so posters, iirc--acting like an asshole and punch SB. and, somehow, i imagine they likewise do the same when fed up with my more asinine behavior here. end result: we end up with somewhat less than a dozen SBs at any given 6 month time period, i'd imagine. big fucking deal. life goes on.

otm

not sure there's been a single 'comedy' sb yet, unless ppl were sbannin lj for the lols one of the times.

forget 'post your sb number' -- i wanna see who's handing them all out.

i think i may have hit it four times? maybe a couple more that i've forgotten durnk.

how baout just having an ignore list? has it been discussed? seems like a less obtrusive way for ppl who get annoyed by certain posters to not have to deal w/em

would that be the same as the whatchoocallit code

killfile

oh i suppose it's very possible that that's already implemented and i just don't know about it or how to use it. there's a lot i don't know about this board tho

check it out at the bottom of the 'boards' page. seems like a lot of hassle imo.

this was a v reasonable sb discussion imo tip of the cap to del

^

when are we bringing this back btw

we raised the money for it, stop holding out on us

Money?

No ban for your buck.

^^^punning scared

punning up that hill (...) make a deal with mods

sb5 needs to be implemented to take advantage of html5 imo

otm

Obv