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

also i have to say i think deej getting 51'd is particularly mean-spirited because his obtuse efforts at understanding just why he annoyed so many other posters was so sad & charming & authentic

reminding ILXors that ILX is the internet, and not say, COMPARABLE TO THE GOVERNMENT

^^^ talks democracy but favours the jackboot of STFU

The 90-day figure is one of the reasons why these threads can be so exapserating - what actually happened is that someone said "he's gone for 90 days now, right?" which wasn't actually confirmed or suggested by any of the mods, and before you know it there are people going "90 day ban is some bullshit" when it was never on the table in the first place.

what's this i hear about rob lowe being new celebrity guest mod and that all old posters are hereby IP banned forever? an outrage i tell you

yeah what matt dc is saying is that whiney is not going to be banned for 90 days

and will be promoted to Duke

so 30, then?

xp lamp -- agree but altho i didn't & would never sb deej i imagine many ppl's motivations were of the "this guy needs a break" variety rather than just wanting him to fuck off forever bc they think he totally sucks. deej contributes positively to ilx a lot & he seemed honestly hurt that ppl weren't acknowledging it as a result of the extent that the ilx universe had begun to revolve around his conflicts w/ other posters -- which obv he brought onto himself. whiney otoh contributes almost nothing but snark & thrives on conflict, altho often in a v funny & entertaining way--feels it's more just him fulfilling a regular obligation of his function on the board

last & i think only time i ever sb'd whiney was like 8 months ago or something & altho it's too soon the synergy is beautiful & it's perfect the way this worked out

hey san te sorry i alienated you from the start

by all means keep using the sb system as is your god given right, i'm ok

It might be longer than 30 given that he's been SBed so many times, but there's no hard-and-fast rule for multiple SBs, it's on a case-by-case basis.

From what I can see bans tend not to bother Whiney too much, which is fine in a way but not in another because he doesn't have any apparent interest in modifying his posting style to avoid them. So maybe it should be longer this time, but it's not really my call (and certainly not exclusively mine
).

lol well ill repeat - why even bother letting him back then?

got to, this america man

maybe when you guys thread ban someone you should nix the sb's accumulated in that thread, otherwise ppl are getting punished twice

snot whiney

THERE IS ALREADY A KILLFILE SYSTEM.

i guess i shouldnt expect anyone to read 300 posts on this but what i was advocating was replacing a SB system that is written into the code and works on all browsers and has an option to vote for a poster's removal next to every post on the board w/ a killfile system that had those same qualities

the current killfile system is "complicated to install" compared to SBing, and only works on firefox anyway.

Yes but most other forums on the internet are fucking terrible - ILX should be BETTER than other internet forums, it's the whole point. I think it was Noodle Vague who said that the primary job of mods should be to prevent ILX becoming like the rest of the internet.

agree w/ this for the most part but the current SB system is still nagl. this is totally anecdotal, (as is "the rest of the internet sucks!") but the board most regular/former ILXors post/lurk on in a similar way is board.crewcial.org which has practically no modding and a killfile system built in to the code

i feel like being permanently banned from multiple threads would be worse than being banned outright for 30 days

many xposts

gr8080 - wasn't solely directed at your thread, or even you at all, actually so far this thread has been a bit more civil than some of the other "Get Rid of SB" threads, mostly due to the absence of a certain person from this thread. It's just at times in this thread, and in the others, it seems to always reach a point where someone (not even necessarily the OP) going "PPL WHO BANNED (NAME) ARE ASSHOLES AND SHAME ON THEM FOR BEING BUTTHURT BY WHAT (NAME) SAID ON (DATE)."

But I'm actually on your side, I am not really in favor of SB system, just saying in general, those who make the argument draw more flies with honey.

what if the SB system was like Yellow Card in which every time you got SBed, a little yellow tag showed up at the top of your screen, along with a personal message. and then for every new SB, it adds another yellow tag.

eventually when you accumulate enough it'll take up the entire screen, and be an entire yellow screen and you can't post. at all. until some roll off.

like the whole logic behind this 'bro needs a break' sb thing is fucking patronzing & lame. i can understand ppl that h8 whiney - i mean man i h8 whiney - but no amount of 'breaks' from ilx is going to change who he is. all it means that for a 1/3 of every year he get to hear his opinions about rap music via goon squaders posting aim transcripts instead of directly or w/e

k8 was right that sb doesnt provide any real incentive to be a 'better poster' - deej was trying in his way to do this already - it just punishes ppl for being unlikeable. & if whiney's antagonistic hipster oracle steez was that terrible - & i think we can all agree it was p terrible - than fine, ban him from ilx if thats what ppl want

get ovr it man

alright, this fucking guy http://twitter.com/#!/WhineyArea51

honest question, because i can't remember: were bans/talk of bans/fear of bans/300+ threads on bans ever this big a part of ILX culture before nu-code/TOMBOT era?

bring back ILX where most bans were from specific threads or boards and done by sub board mods unless for shit on the big 2 and a 3-day ban was the norm not 30

new rule, ppl shd be nice

ok xposts nm perma-ban whiney

― fear of a wack banning (J0rdan S.), Saturday, November 7, 2009 3:38 PM (1 year ago)

^prophetic

ugh can you imagine an ILX where everyone was "nice" 100% of the time it would be the worst

turn that frown upside down, friend!!!!

there's a lot of unclaimed territory between 'nice' and 'whiney g'

whiney was just A PRODUCT OF HIS ENVIRONMENT, man. look at what he was before ILX and what he is now.

ultimately we as a people are responsible :(

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

I'm positive people shouldn't always be nice #KIP

# Location banned
# Bio clearly the 77 autogoon keepin' it negative dickhole zing posse should run ILX

why is a hyperlink allowing you to "killfile" a poster less gross than one to "suggest ban"

suggest murder

http://blog.wibeets.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/youtube-like.png

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/533869/garnett_biting_gif_medium.gif

l-r: whiney, ilx

Suggestban is the War on Drugs to Killfile's Pass on Grass.

fwiw it's no big deal to get killfile up on Safari 5

these threads have pretty much reduced the art of writing IMP threads to a huge unreadable mass.

people just gravitate to the "get rid of SB threads" that they want to read about and don't find other threads, because they're staring at a webpage with 2000 words of text on it.

what sb'd do is, you know, little "critical punches." little "smacks in the face."

hahaha

what if the SB system was like Yellow Card in which every time you got SBed, a little yellow tag showed up at the top of your screen, along with a personal message.

― r0b /via/ orl (San Te), Sunday, February 6, 2011 1:43 PM (1 hour ago)

yeah i know it's A LOT OF WORK and everything but can whoever is in charge work on improving the SB experience in ways like this if this godawful system is never going to be taken away

or they can't because it's a waste of time to cater to the ten fucking people who blab on about it incessantly.

the thing where the notifications take up your screen or whatever is kinda cheesy but yeah, real-timeish notifications of when and for what posts for which you've been SB'd would be an improvement

Total SBs received and issued should be on a users profile page. And every time you issue or receive 25 or so, you should get a little symbol after your username after each post... like football helmet reward decals. In general, we need a points systems so we know who the real winners are.

a post's background colors should get increasingly redder the more SBs that post earns.

looool

blacker imo, so eventually it will vanish

now we're cookin'

better option:

instead of colors, add brick JPGs from the bottom to the top of the post until it's entirely covered.

the SB of amontillado