Self-banning: what is ilx policy on this?

i lolled @ 'timeboom'

I love the mods though!

Matt DC's policy on self-bans has certainly evolved since april.

bottom line basically is forks should resign over this farrago

I loled at timeboom too, darragh.

forks is the best mod imo!

also matt_DC is the mr miyagi of mods and needs you to show him that you're gonna work for it

forks is the best mod imo!

― sarahel, Sunday, August 28, 2011 6:15 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

just as i'm sure there's a best chillwave band

anyway self-banning is pretty stupid imo, just don't post ifyou don't want to post

my vote for ilx policy i guess is 'who cares'

just don't post ifyou don't want to post

if only it were that easy

Yeah, it's not that easy and if it were, a shit-ton of people wouldn't have elected to be self-banned.

i tried self ban once but it made it weirdly harder not to look at ilx whereas now i just try to take a couple of days a week off every week seems to work ok

really tho i think trolling to get the 51 is the answer here

my vote for ilx policy i guess is 'who cares'

scrambled my password once, done the job

I scrambled my password and it made it so I can't log back into ilx using explorer at work unless I delete all my cookies or something, which means I'll have to contact some people who I'd rather not contact about re-logging me in to LexisNexis.

I've gotten around this by downloading Firefox specifically to use ilx at work, which is fine because i hear it's a better browser. I should just transfer all my important bookmarks to there anyway.

itt post about all the ways you've successfully stopped yourself from posting itt

I once went ten months with only eight posts.

The trick, I learned, is that when you read something and feel the need to post, you don't.

truth bomb

wait, shit

people talk about not-posting to this worthless hole where people wring hands about "The Weeknd" and big-up "Girl Wut Slugs" like its quitting smoking

welll i guess were not all lucky enough to have our doctors forcibly prescribing us the patch every couple of months like some ppl

longest i have gone w/out posting to ilx since i started = 4 months
longest i have gone w/out a cigarette since i started smoking = 20 hrs

I don't begrudge or judge people who self-ban but I don't get it myself. I've had a few "fuck this shit I'm leaving ilx" moments but I just stop posting quietly. idk, maybe I just have a super capacity for self-discipline.

if someone can develop a sb system that will keep me from smoking for 30 days, i would probably be a much healthier person

people talk about not-posting to this worthless hole where people wring hands about "The Weeknd" and big-up "Girl Wut Slugs" like its quitting smoking

― brrr-icane aye-rene (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, August 28, 2011 7:43 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the difference is that i'm not allowed to smoke while using my computer

kkvgz

it's cool that zvookster posted itt

http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

; )

I have self-banned by not posting and self-banned by requesting to be actually banned from the site. I relied on the latter when part of the reason for my self ban was that I was about to embark on some deadline-heavy, stressful, boring bullshit at work and I knew there was no way I could just not post because ILX, for better or worse, is often the antidote to my stressful, boring job.

I love the mods though!

― Aalexah (kkvgz), Sunday, August 28, 2011 11:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

sorry mane i think i confused you w/ zvoosbter maybe?

i self-ban on a regular basis thru the medium of "disliking most of ilx". ironically ur not included: if u only had some erudite, interesting, but entirely rong opinions on rap then one of us would be the other's evil twin. this is something u just have to face up to.

lol
i gave up on music c. 1999 -- i like rap, but it was better when based on huge effing samples imo

The ENBB thing is nothing to do with me, I still think people who self-request bans should get one self-control but that's just me and not official mod policy.

Basically as long as ur not being a jerk about it or waffling, i am glad to ban u, just ilxmail me.

people talk about not-posting to this worthless hole where people wring hands about "The Weeknd" and big-up "Girl Wut Slugs" like its quitting smoking

umm lol I seem to remember a deleted tweet that said "when my ban expires, I won't be back"

my official mod policy on everything re: ilx self-banning is people should stop giving a shit what other people do all the time

I agree, tbh I found the hand-wriging when E asked for one to be more than a little ... it made me squirm slightly.

iirc the hand-wringing had nothing to do with E - everyone likes her

everyone likes her

otm

Um, that wasnt what I meant, but never mind.