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

killfile has the benefit of comedy CAN ANYONE HEAR ME killfile paranoia too

ilx would be a total site of free play where the line btw author and utterance would be oblitarated

we would all be each others' socks, it would be so amazing.

there should be at least one board where this is possible

imo it's not hard for posters to be zingy without being perpetually annoying and thread-derailing. quietstorm zings are more effective than all caps eringrayslappedbyglennford.jpg

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ice cr?m, i hope this doesn't sound weird, but, there are things that i think i could only say, if i were you at the time

is it pronounced like "ghoul" or "jewel"

no man thats not weird *frantically clicks suggest ban*

my mind will be blown if he says anything other than "ghoul"

Sb and killfile are not the same thing at all and shouldn't serve the same purpose.

Killfiling is a personal choice -- if you want a certain voice to be gone, you can make it gone in your little world, just accept that some conversations will be missing certain elements, and so on. But using kf to "fix" how you experience ILX as a whole is really...passive. Fine if you are choosing the passive approach to improve your life by removing a really hated poster or two or three, and you don't want them to know/you don't want your choice to affect anyone else's ILX experience. Not so fine if the public atmosphere really IS getting "bad" or "worse" (by whatever definition) in one way or another and you are avoiding doing anything about it.

The efficacy of sb, whether everyone likes it or not, is to the public sphere. Kf cannot do the same job.

goulet

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CONGRATULATIONS GOOLE ON THE 10,000TH POST ON WHAT THE SB SYSTEM SHOULD REALLY BE LIKE!!!!

― and why?!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, March 5, 2009 1:05 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

ghoul, btw

:)

I've been wanting to make that post for three days, btw, but it was tl for phone typing!!

xp goolie?

honestly don't remember why i picked this name, don't think i like it even! oh well

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), Saturday, February 5, 2011 2:47 AM

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Difference between gabbnebb and dom is that Dom was mod banned

I don't think gabnb us actually going to come back btw

laurel, SB improves your experience of ILX, but also makes others' experience of ILX less enjoyable. why should the rearrangement of ILX to suit your taste deprive other folks of someone's presence?

I don't want to go all argument by analogy here, but it's like banning certain music or speech from the radio. wouldn't it be great if you could ban glenn beck from the airwaves? yeah, but you could also just change the channel. I'm just not that into silencing ppl I guess. that mindset doesn't compute for me.

I'm not anti-banning, btw, but the threshold seems to be getting pretty low.

Think it's still 51

lol

I wd favour raising it to 54 just so I can make the same crappy Sammy Hagar joke once every couple of months.

But 51 has kind of entered the Kaballah now with the whole Antimony thing so

raise it to 77 imo

How long does a SB last? Is it 6 months? (Someone upthread suggested that you might collect 51 sbs over the course of six moths) How long are you banned after you get 51? If you're banned do you return with a blank slate?

a blank slate, a potty mouth and a heart full of vengeance

I think it's 30 days, with an increasing number of days with each subsequent SB... 30/60/90

though the length of the ban is subject to mod discretion and I think has been bent before?

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SBs are 30 days. I think from here on in, we'll be opening with repeat SBs garnering 60 with the proviso that may be lengthened/shortened/permabanned based on case-by-case complications.

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Michael, to your first question, six months is correct.

so to clarify, deej and whiney are both out for 30 this go round.
so it is written so shall it be done
and now the dancing girls

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but the SB system is a social experiment in the taming of ILX of all negative expressions and behavior, I get it

this is such exaggerated bullshit, dude. i personally feel like i've had ample freedom to be curmudgeonly and antagonistic and argumentative, and have explored that freedom to my hearts' content without ever getting an especially high SB count. if there are people whose appetites for posting negativity is larger if not boundless, giving them a timeout probably isn't going to 'tame' them anyway, but it'll at least give other people a break from them.

can you unblock my work and home ip addresses?

I think there should be a SB thread that the banned alone can post to - a kind of ILX purgatory.

Voyage of the Banned

it's called THE REST OF THE INTERNET

Banned à part

haha forks otm

Actually from what I can see this would only overcomplicate the system it would have the added problem of moving the goalposts every day - the number of unique visitors fluctuates quite a lot and no one would ever know where they stood or how close they were to a ban.

― Matt DC, Monday, February 7, 2011 6:53 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

Then take average daily counts for a week and generate a number. Point is if sb is meant to be the majority opinion then you might want to figure out how many the majority actually is.

also i just do not get the appeal of killfile, especially as a replacement for SBs. just because i don't love a particular person's posts doesn't mean i necessarily want to look at the whole board through a filter that removes their posts and probably makes threads they participate in harder to follow or enjoy. and what if your issue with someone is that they like to say mean things to or about you? killfiling them just makes you ignorant of what they're saying and less able to do anything about it.

if people think 51 is just too low a number, why get complicated about it, just change it to 101. there are some people that will hit that goal easy anyway.

Suggest Ban Permalink
I think there should be a SB thread that the banned alone can post to - a kind of ILX purgatory.

― Le mépris vient de la tête, la haine vient du cœur (Michael White), Monday, February 7, 2011 1:16 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Think that's what Whiney was going for here, before he got bored.
http://twitter.com/WhineyArea51#

Point is if sb is meant to be the majority opinion then you might want to figure out how many the majority actually is.

I am pretty sure that it was not intended to be a majority opinion.

the sad truth is that the vast vast majority of ilx posters don't make much of an impression and don't differentiate themselves in my mind at all, good or bad. this is probably true of everyone and probably true of my writing to everyone else.

i've changed my mind on sb's in the past year (used to think was ok, now don't) but i can't find the post where i talked about it. it doesn't really matter, does it?

I don't like it either, but I s/b like a demon because it's there and I can't help myself.