is banning posters for beefing with mods really what we want to do?

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If you think their modding sucks, you should be able to say it sucks. And sometimes being mean about it might be justified too.

Can someone sum up in like a sentence or two what happened?

― markers, Wednesday, July 22, 2015 9:25 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ask Beeves

I joined this site because I believed it was a place we could get in online arguments w/ people in positions of power. I feel like banning deej is ilx's reichstag fire...mods are redesigning the site to go after the google adsense money.

Ha clearly I am a living example of "yes, you can insult mods on ILX"

stfu jjj this isnt about u

Haha

the ban is some 'resisting arrest' nonsense

I think, rather than banning posters for beefing with mods qua mods, the beefing posters should be punished with temporary mod powers.

wait so you joined the site so you could fight w/mods iatee?

As for the adsense jibe, it would be nice not to have the only options be a) pay for this all myself, b) deal with the huge currency/tax/fees/logistics/stress ball-ache of a yearly fundraiser. But just ftr, whenever it has ever come down to a call between adsense money and the site, the site has always won. The only exceptions are when posts are edited to remove images that have become malware, or posts that would have been nixed anyway.

There are hardly any ads left on the site because everytime Google complains I reduce the areas ads are shown rather than change the content.

He was making a joke wrt the Gawker situation.

oh shit, also, deej is not a permaban, it's 30 days.

Was c word username banned for doing the exact same thing and then becoming mrf village idiot for like a month, cause I don't remember it if so and I think I would remember, that while episode was lols

*whole

If you think their modding sucks, you should be able to say it sucks. And sometimes being mean about it might be justified too.

markers reveals himself as a deep-dyed idealist and romantic itt. of course, his ideal is being able to call anyone a chickenshit idiot any time and anywhere he feels like and his romance is the romance of tantrums.

Your posting is the posting of badness.

30 days seems a bit excessive for essentially calling a mod a name. i mean we can't really be serious about this

i can't believe everyone is this upset about deej getting banned. it must just be the principle of the thing.

it is!

30 day ban for calling anyone including a mod a "chickenshit idiot" seems pretty harsh. that's not even a personal insult.

hey j0rd, how's it going?

woah wb

shoutout to the mods sincerely but i think if you take on the responsibility of authority you have to recognize that people are going to get mad at you and sometimes lash out, and this instance is really very benign. the ban is spiteful.

ppl reserving the right to lash out at mods are children

it does seem excessive, even if he was being a dick (which he was) but otoh I don't care that much, I cut the mods some slack given how well this place is run in general, and I'm sure D-40 can find something else useful to do for 30 days besides defend Gawker to a bunch of prickly jerks on a msg board soooo ... yeah I'm not too fired up about this.

honestly deej gets on everyone's nerves but "don't ban valuable members of the community over personal vendettas" doesn't seem like it's a lot to ask

i think another thing that is rubbing people the wrong way is the timing. how's life originally threadbanned him, then yellow cards him. dude seems like he has thick enough skin to handle being called a chickenshit idiot. everything seems cool until the next morning when someone else decides to ban him

hey j0rd, how's it going?

ban hows life what a giagantic chickenshit

xp lol

ppl reserving the right to lash out at mods are children

― irl lol (darraghmac), Wednesday, July 22, 2015 1:23 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

actually the teachers pet routine is childish?

ppl reserving the right to lash out at mods are children

― irl lol (darraghmac), Wednesday, July 22, 2015 1:23 PM

There should be consistency. If we are allowed to lash out at each other, we should also be allowed to lash out at mods. They don’t deserve special treatment just because they chose to take on extra responsibility.

why not?

hows life also preemptively banned jord and max then had to roll it back when everyone disagreed lol might not be cut out for the mod life

I always thought we were joking when we lashed out at the mods

thought it was a goof

ah v good wins. if i could have my time over

They don’t deserve special treatment just because they chose to take on extra responsibility.

― markers, Wednesday, July 22, 2015 11:27 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kinda think they do tbh!

They don’t deserve special treatment just because they chose to take on extra responsibility.

actually yes they do

No.

lagoon otm

teachers pet lol cmon man

I always thought we were joking when we lashed out at the mods

― an asteroid could hit the planet (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, July 22, 2015 1:29 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thought it was a goof

― an asteroid could hit the planet (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, July 22, 2015 1:29 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no reason to limit ourselves to this sort of binary thinking

i like the symmetry here in that deej is the ilxor equivalent of the gawker piece max quit over

i heard you can get unbanned if you buy the mods stuff from their amazon wishlist

dumbass board drama RULES

i like the symmetry here in that deej is the ilxor equivalent of the gawker piece max quit over

― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, July 22, 2015 11:32 AM (17 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

i always thought there was a firewall between the mods and any actual decisions that happen on the website.

I can't defend the substance of his insult but I'm willing to die for the right to insult mods

Oh good iatee is here

ppl should not have free license to be disrespectful to mods but they also should not have free license to be disrespectful to other posters in general! i'm just not sure how, given the level of discourse around here, "chickenshit idiots" is taken as some kind of unspeakable insult.

I can't defend the substance of his insult but I'm willing to die for the right to insult mods

― iatee, Wednesday, July 22, 2015 1:34 PM (34 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah srsly thats a weak ass insult for ilx and yet deej was banned because it was directed as some boohoo baby ass mod smh what herb

deej writes and argues about rap, he's been here forever

the search button is at the top of the screen. you might have to scroll up

So ILM, that's fine.

were there a thread of missing him on a secret board, it would be a stillborn thread, sadly

"Who the fuck are you?" is such an awful, bad faith rhetorical tactic

When we ask people who they are, it should be in a spirit of openness and curiosity.

you tell em

darragh that's political impulses as in instincts re: power not economic policy or w/e

were there a thread of missing him on a secret board, it would be a stillborn thread, sadly

― Hi, my name's David and I quit (wins), Sunday, August 23, 2015 10:51 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Damn tell me how u really feel

If I cared that much I would have emailed but I'm ok w shaming idiots for their incoherently applied "principles" which amount to little more than ilx popularity contest bullshit

he said he feels sadly. you got a problem with that?

I want to note that I went and changed my dname to d-jerk reactions this am but changed it without using it cos why be a dick I don't dislike deej I just think he's eh a guy i dont have any ilx interaction with who veers towards trollish challops and brattish tantrums and we've all been that soldier.

but with that in mind, constantly referring to ilx popularity contests as the reason why he's just out of chokey as opposed to the behaviours that might be losing him ilx popularity contests also lending weight to mod decisions to tempban is nagl

these are mods that have gone en masse to bat for far more loathed posters than himself iirc and imo

here's a clue, deej. look at your current dn and ask yourself, what does this say about me to the rest of ilx?

if your answer is 'this is the dn of a bold, forthright man of integrity who proudly defies a world too timid, shallow and conventional to accept his vision of truth,' then perhaps you should think again.

I think it's just a metaphor.

deej might be mistaking ILX mods for 'the man'. He might think that he's 'fighting the power'. But no.

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deep thoughts itt

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1484956/sarcasm.png

e = m(ods)c(hickenshit)^2

e equals m times ods times c times hickenshit squared?

nyah fuckit

"Who the fuck are you?" is such an awful, bad faith rhetorical tactic

― Treeship, Sunday, August 23, 2015 1:02 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

When we ask people who they are, it should be in a spirit of openness and curiosity.

― Treeship, Sunday, August 23, 2015 1:03 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:)

Deej

sarcasm

i died

Hoos the fuck are you?

hoos hoos

hoos hoos

all this over deej threatening to k.o. a chickenshit hillbilly

lmao am0n

I CHALLENGE THIS BAN

wait no i don't