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

haha yeah I don't think it'd work like that exactly; my guess is that the same small group of people would be killfiled...which is why thinking that sb & killfile could play a similar functional role in ~improving the board~ is reasonable imo

xp to nv

the comedy prospects of that are intriguing but I wd want some sort of inverted site view where you could visit the valley of the killfiled and see what it looks like

y'all know that you can set up which boards show up on your Site New Answers view, right?

i dunno, i've used sb more as a "u need a break" thing than a "i actually dislike u" thing--in some cases it's been posters whose posts i oftentimes like but they've kind of gone off the rails w/r/t signal:noise ratio. i don't think there's anyone on this board today who i've found so awful that i never, ever want to read what they have to say.

(many xposts)

comedy response would be ILM but it's not what I think & anyway your q is butthurt catnip so I'm gonna stay away

xp to nv again

i mean there've been some o_O SBs but like why is it every time a completely obvious one happens, there's an ILX tribunal? Like it's the damning evidence that finally exposes the fatal flaw in the system?

I mean I like Whiney and deej both and would never vote for them to be excommunicated, but I mean asking "why?" is like saying "How come Michael Hutchence doesn't answer the phone when I call?"

imo, give whiney and deej 30 days off -- and when they come back, as a permanent punishment, ban Whiney from 'based god' nicknames, and deej from 'kl0p' nicknames as a permanent reminder of the ramifications of thread-shitting-up

I think the best solution is when whiney and deej come back, permanently killfile them from each other

won't stop them. then we'll get the 'hypothetical' beef

"if whiney just made a sarcastic dismissal of a Gucci mixtape TELL HIM TO FUCK OFF"

I don't think a killfile function would be like reading a thread with one of the stereo channels turned off or that there would be these gaping holes in the conversation. Users would likely not killfile anyone they want to engage with on a regular basis, and when you think about it really, this whole board sometimes sounds like a bunch of Sixth Sense ghosts talking about similar topics inside a thread.

For example, though I think I make some pretty good points, if you were to have me killfile and couldn't read this, your posting experience wouldn't be much different in all likelihood.

Putting the SB button on the profile and adding that extra step would be as effective as only selling alcohol from state-owned liquor stores. People are still going to get fucked up, even if they have to drive to the county line or walk the extra block.

I feel like liberal use of the killfile would turn ILX into the message board equivalent of those garfield cartoons w/ the captions removed

killfile paranoia, unbearable

killfile to me = "just put up with AssholePosterA's really irritating behavior and ignore them", which kind of means let people be dicks without repercussion.

yea, if someone is merely annoying to you, I don't think that's grounds for SB at all. there's always people we don't like. however, in many cases, pedantic and frequent derailing personal arguments/insults and/or all-out dickheaded behavior really clusterfuck up threads and ruin them for everybody.

A distinction between these two types of behavior is important, and kind of illustrates why neither killfile or SB are the real answer. People should have to deal with the fact that they'll find some people annoying, and if they wanna killfile em, so be it...but there is behavior that goes beyond "annoying" and into "disruptive", and those people should be dealt with.

--spoken as a man who has been banned from more message boards then I can count on 7 hands.

And everybody's profile should have the user's baby picture on it, to drive home the fact that they too once were innocent.
― Catsupppppp Grind (kkvgz), Saturday, February 5, 2011 2:42 PM

^A+ post imo btw

peron! peron! peron!

I was sick and tired of deej and whiney fucking up every thread too but I chose to be an adult and engage them when it was an option and ignore them when it wasn't.

your SB vote should be made public, not be a chickenshit anonymous move.

also re: how weird threads would get with killfile: it's a pretty standard function on lots of other message boards who don't seem to have that problem at all whereas ILX is the only board to give you an option to kick off another poster next to every post.

problem is no matter how often some of us said "knock off the beef", it...kept...on....going.

no disrespect to either of em cuz they're valid contributors, and I want em back, but...I think both of em need time off

i wd like a killfile system

mods are manipulating suggest ban totals fyi

classic thread, classic closing post

keep it negative dickhole 77 zing posse

clearly!

Maybe when someone gets sb'ed their posts can be displayed only in WingDings font

understand people getting annoyed with snipe fest but it still holds that you need to post in the way you want the board to be. Sitting idly by with your arms crossed is just passive-aggressive worthlessness.

Sitting idly by with your arms crossed is just passive-aggressive worthlessness.

except when that's the way we want the board to be: quieter.

Bnw like 70 people gave them direct feedback in the threads geez

At least 51 people each have offered direct feedback in the last 6 months.

i mean some dude gave deej several "come on, cool out w/ it" posts in the new Diddy album thread a few months ago, and they were all otm comments

and by few months ago I mean more like one, geez January felt long

a bold suggestion: imprison all sb'd posters to I LOVE CRICKET: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX for three months
--Favourite Song, Album and Band? Icehouse. (King Boy Pato)

i would like to enthusiastically endorse this idea

^^^

The current killfile script thingo only works if you only ever use Firefox. These days a lot of us spend most of our ilx time ON IPHONE and therefore have stuff-all access to scripts &c.

One thing that strikes me about this particular 51 is the sheer number of people (inc. me) who were fed up with wgw's dickishness but didn't sb him. Clearly waaaaaay more than 51 people had had enough.

That's not to say that I support the sb system btw but I'm not prepared to argue my point yet again because it makes no difference.

I would fully endorse getting rid of the suggest ban system if I could be allowed to permanently ban a list of people from the boards.

I am pretty sure I can guess one of the people on that list.

One thing that strikes me about this particular 51 is the sheer number of people (inc. me) who were fed up with wgw's dickishness but didn't sb him.

Yeah, this has been particularly noticeable this time.

I'm pretty stoked DJP gave up on being a site mod!

i feel like it might be a nice to have suggest bans be executed on single boards only

gr80, you normally one of the board's most relaxed people, but sbanning discussions bring out the apoplectic PTA mom in you.

I'll take that as a compliment!

sometimes fighting for what u believe in is nagl :-(

posting

is the ILX source code still available? i kinda wanna poke around and see how difficult it would be to implement some stuff..

http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/0901-relay.jpg/8568626-1-eng-US/0901-relay.jpg_full_600.jpg

I used to think the sb system was pretty ridiculous but I feel like mods should be given props for making it more reasonable w/ clearing out old sbs + turning it into a 1 month break instead of a permaban. anyone who posts here enough to get 51 sbs could use a 1 month break from this site once in a while. whereas a easy-to-use killfile system would be pretty disruptive and unpleasant.

anyone who posts here enough to get 51 sbs could use a 1 month break from this site once in a while.

i hate when ppl cop this 'tude. even when some of my favorite posters cop it. fuck you i'll leave ILX when i want to thanks.

look, you're coming at this from the perspective of someone who was banned for a ridiculous reason and I could understand having a kneejerk reaction towards mods and bannings, I might too if I were in your position. but I dunno how many times a day you refresh ilx but I can say for me the number is 'probably too many'. this is one website among millions and a month without being able to say something is such a lol punishment that it's not even worth arguing about anymore. (it was worth arguing about when it was a permaban.)

in conclusion no man ever sits in his deathbed and thinks "I wish I had spent more time reading whiney and deej beef with each other"

I'm pretty stoked DJP gave up on being a site mod

Me too, because now I can tell you what a useless waste of space you are without having a chorus of people screaming that I'm abusing mod powers.

Fuck off, you useless shit-stirrer.

iatee i agree w/ what yr saying but imo ppl need to make that decision for themselves. fwiw i was against sb's before by stupid 60-day ban, and i was against it before i took a self-imposed hiatus for over a year.

DJP stay on topic, please.