post here if you favor replacing our Suggest Ban system with a Killfile system

everytime you click "suggest ban" a milquetoast poster gets its wings

max got his wings!!

http://www.britposters.com/images/the%20blue%20max%20320x240.jpg

you should at least have to visit a user's profile to SB them

its fucking gross that its next to EVERY SINGLE POST

I agree with this 100% BUT a killfile only blocks the user, not all the responses to that user. So you'd still get all of the clusterfuck but none of the context.

seems like the ppl who get all up in arms abt sb are the real killjoys. i mean this was a p good punchline u have to admit.

the ppl who want one of the funniest posters on ilx banned are the real killjoys tbh

yeah but Dom's not coming back so hey

hmm idk i am still laughing what are u doing markers? hmm?

like, u are killing my joy right now

sorry bro ;_;

*killing* my *joy*

i guess we know who the real killjoy is

maybe people should only be able to have their sb against a poster count once, so it they are instrumental in a banning any future sb they give them doesn't count. this would help thwart unprovoked new sbs being dished out as soon as someone returns from a ban.

Jesus. I just wanted to say hello. For the love of God.

― from The ends of your fingers (prosper.strummer.), Sunday, 30 July 2006 17:48 (4 years ago)

I agree with this 100% BUT a killfile only blocks the user, not all the responses to that user. So you'd still get all of the clusterfuck but none of the context.

― sexy Santa cosplay (Autumn Almanac), Friday, February 4, 2011 3:09 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark

right i get this.

would still rather live in an ILX where ppl have to deal w/ that vs one where that trumps my right to post

maybe people should only be able to have their sb against a poster count once, so it they are instrumental in a banning any future sb they give them doesn't count. this would help thwart unprovoked new sbs being dished out as soon as someone returns from a ban.

a modest proposal but the time for modest proposals is behind us

damn why do i always get awesome ideas late on fridays when no one is posting

urban deeznuts

unban everyone

^^^

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so for every SB'ed poster, we get a new thread about abolishing SB.

that's like getting a bottle of cyanide with every box of Cheerios

if you consider awesome posters being banned a box of cheerios

WHICH THEY CERTAINLY ARE NOT MY FRIEND

uh, which their being banned certainly is not, rather

it's night and i'm not making sense, so later

no shit, you called whiney one of the funniest posters

hey plax i know you're still kind of new here but he is

markers, thank you for offering your snaxpert opinion.

whiney is funny but it's like even though deej should just know when to let it go, there is something pretty annoying about somebody who knows he's going to provoke a clusterfuck response that shits up a thread continuing to do so just for his own amusement.

admittedly it was funny at first but it got to the point where I didn't wanna open up rap threads anymore.

http://i645.photobucket.com/albums/uu176/msladee06/Shaking-My-Head.gif

whiney is nowhere near as funny or as big a board asshole as ethan (whom i sb'd, i'll admit) was.

yet we carry on, however poorer for their absence.

http://threadbombing.com/data/media/2/G.smh1.gif

whiney is funny but it's like even though deej should just know when to let it go, there is something pretty annoying about somebody who knows he's going to provoke a clusterfuck response that shits up a thread continuing to do so just for his own amusement.

admittedly it was funny at first but it got to the point where I didn't wanna open up rap threads anymore.

― i pl0p bombs like hiroshima (San Te), Friday, February 4, 2011 4:05 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

i wont argue this.

i still think its stupid to ban someone for so long for behaving that way. grow a pair and engage them or just learn to ignore it.

i don't really like the SB system either fwiw, i'm used to message board mods determining my fate on other boards

oh we have plenty of that here too

I know, I've suffered the fates several times, and one SBing!

but I deserved them all

echoing gr80, markers, etc. etc. & missing whiney so throwing my opinion in the hat

Imo suggest unban would allow for trolly hateables to get the boot while divisive but lovable rogues will be free to be gangster

agree with gr80 that ban unbar should be profile and not post based

UNBAN

http://www.thedailyrock.com/wp-content/uploads/killswitch-engage-cd-cover.jpg

or maybe when you hit 51 you have to beat a benchmark score on Arkanoid to stay

maybe we could just have a system where you could mysteriously be sent sent to boarding school/bootcamp/juvie/who knows after your mum reads your posts?

Maybe if you get 51 you get to have an avatar?

maybe the suggest tool could be turned into something absolutely helpful, like if someone posts an ugly pic of themselves in the WDYLL thread, you can 'suggest haircut'

30 day ban is for low level dickishness, 90 day is for low level dickishness repeated to the point of cluelessness

― plax (ico), Friday, February 4, 2011 7:56 PM (1 hour ago)

lol he really got under your skin huh

i'd be *shocked* if modship makes a retarded call like banning a sometimes annoying but ultimately harmless poster for 90 days over some bullshit

maybe we should only ban people who are blatantly racist, abusive, posting other ppl's personal info, or non-funny spammers

~re-think banning w/ me~

What happened to Alex?

he posts every once in a while.

I'm not gonna defend his frequent trips over the line into plain bad taste but if ever a poster was picking up SBs for what people thought he'd said, or based on his persona, then Dom was that poster

Hahaha no I'm pretty sure it was what he actually said rather than what "people thought he'd said". It's not like he didn't give haters plenty of ammunition.

The central issue here when talking about people like Dom and Ethan is how much of their shit people are prepared to tolerate or overlook for the sake of the good/interesting/funny stuff, and in all the defenders' views that threshold is pretty high.

Otoh you can't blame people for having a much lower threshold, and "deal with it and stop being so easily butthurt" is not really a sustainable way to keep a message board running. In any case it was getting hugely unpleasant and more than a little creepy around the height of meta-bitching circa 2008. The problem with complete laissez-faire where no one ever gets banned is that while it's great in theory but in reality it becomes a place where everyone can be as much of a cunt to other people as they want and that'd kill the inflow of new posters pretty quickly. It's about striking a balance really.

Personally I find it a much more enjoyable place to post now - maybe less funny on occasion, but it's still very funny and hey, we'll get new funny posters. For all the suggest ban clusterfucks, there are fewer clusterfucks about other things. And for every one poster who's been unwilling to or incapable of moderating their own posting style to avoid the SB there are two or three who have.

FWIW Ethan as explained can come back whenever he wants, maybe he just likes his life more without ILX in it, I dunno. I still prefer his posts to all the sub-Trifes.

i pretty much enjoyed ethan 95% of the time and often wish i could set him on some of the indie losers on ilm these days, like an attack dog.

dom was NOT REMOTELY FUNNY - as plax says it was just really mundane auto-misanthrope humour. and his awful "debating" "tactic" of pretending that his opponent was saying something completely different and then just running with that for entire threads ughhhh. you can't really separate out the asshole aspects of his character from the rest because his entire schtick was about being a malicious little cunt. "oh but dom was always nice to me" is the lamest defence tho - like all wannabe bullies he obviously didn't target everyone, and i find it hard to believe that any regular poster could've failed to notice how creepy, bullying and just plain poisonous he could be to his targets.

Miss the hell out of Ethan, and I didn't appreciate him enough when he was here. Dom...I sometimes wonder about his childhood.

This thread has moved into general meta about people who aren't around any more so I'm going to lock it.