I think, rather than banning posters for beefing with mods qua mods, the beefing posters should be punished with temporary mod powers.
― Something Called Fudge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 16:45 (eight years ago) link
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.
― stet, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 16:45 (eight years ago) link
He was making a joke wrt the Gawker situation.
― markers, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 16:46 (eight years ago) link
oh shit, also, deej is not a permaban, it's 30 days.
― stet, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 16:46 (eight years ago) link
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
― wins, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 16:47 (eight years ago) link
*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.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:08 (eight years ago) link
Your posting is the posting of badness.
― markers, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:15 (eight years ago) link
30 days seems a bit excessive for essentially calling a mod a name. i mean we can't really be serious about this
― usic ally (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
i can't believe everyone is this upset about deej getting banned. it must just be the principle of the thing.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
it is!
― usic ally (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:20 (eight years ago) link
30 day ban for calling anyone including a mod a "chickenshit idiot" seems pretty harsh. that's not even a personal insult.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:20 (eight years ago) link
hey j0rd, how's it going?
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:20 (eight years ago) link
woah wb
― Mordy, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:20 (eight years ago) link
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.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:21 (eight years ago) link
ppl reserving the right to lash out at mods are children
― irl lol (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:23 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:23 (eight years ago) link
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
― usic ally (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:25 (eight years ago) link
― wins, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:25 (eight years ago) link
ban hows life what a giagantic chickenshit
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:26 (eight years ago) link
xp lol
― an asteroid could hit the planet (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:27 (eight years ago) link
― irl lol (darraghmac), Wednesday, July 22, 2015 1:23 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
actually the teachers pet routine is childish?
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:27 (eight years ago) link
ppl reserving the right to lash out at mods are children― irl lol (darraghmac), Wednesday, July 22, 2015 1:23 PM
― 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.
― markers, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:27 (eight years ago) link
why not?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:28 (eight years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:29 (eight years ago) link
I always thought we were joking when we lashed out at the mods
― an asteroid could hit the planet (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:29 (eight years ago) link
thought it was a goof
ah v good wins. if i could have my time over
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:29 (eight years ago) link
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!
― slumpingbag (sleepingbag), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:29 (eight years ago) link
actually yes they do
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:29 (eight years ago) link
No.
― markers, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:29 (eight years ago) link
lagoon otm
― wins, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:30 (eight years ago) link
teachers pet lol cmon man
― irl lol (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:31 (eight years ago) link
― 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
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:32 (eight years ago) link
i like the symmetry here in that deej is the ilxor equivalent of the gawker piece max quit over
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:32 (eight years ago) link
i heard you can get unbanned if you buy the mods stuff from their amazon wishlist
― where the sterls have no name (s.clover), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:33 (eight years ago) link
dumbass board drama RULES
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, July 22, 2015 11:32 AM (17 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lmao
― slumpingbag (sleepingbag), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:33 (eight years ago) link
i always thought there was a firewall between the mods and any actual decisions that happen on the website.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:33 (eight years ago) link
I can't defend the substance of his insult but I'm willing to die for the right to insult mods
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:34 (eight years ago) link
Oh good iatee is here
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:35 (eight years ago) link
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.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:37 (eight years ago) link
― 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
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:37 (eight years ago) link
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!
disagree strongly
― affluent white (Lamp), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
― iatee, Wednesday, July 22, 2015 1:34 PM (2 minutes ago)
^^^
― usic ally (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
we could ban everyone who successfully executes an 8th-grade or higher-level diss on another poster maybe
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
lol
― markers, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:39 (eight years ago) link
i find the jokey wordy thread titles of all the ppl on here w terrible senses of humor extremely insulting tbh plz ban them ty
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:39 (eight years ago) link
Name names
― wins, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:40 (eight years ago) link
Markers: I'm more likely to want to ban lashing out at one another (fuck, some sites literally do this!) than I am to agree that mods (who do the site and me a solid) don't deserve a bit of courtesy and the benefit of the doubt when modding.
I mean I'm not asking they get the awful fawning adulation that eg the metafilter mods get, but an out-the-gate combative stance adopted for anything beyond a title fix — on what is really a pretty lightly modded site! — has to go.
Sod one xposts bug am posting blind
― stet, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:40 (eight years ago) link
I would insult you back jj but I can't without fearing for my safety
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:41 (eight years ago) link
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
― mods = chickenshit idiots (D-40), Sunday, 23 August 2015 17:32 (eight years ago) link
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
― mods = chickenshit idiots (D-40), Sunday, 23 August 2015 17:33 (eight years ago) link
he said he feels sadly. you got a problem with that?
― Aimless, Sunday, 23 August 2015 17:35 (eight years ago) link
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
― minute thoughts about (darraghmac), Sunday, 23 August 2015 17:59 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Aimless, Sunday, 23 August 2015 18:51 (eight years ago) link
I think it's just a metaphor.
― Jeff, Sunday, 23 August 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
deej might be mistaking ILX mods for 'the man'. He might think that he's 'fighting the power'. But no.
― One Wittle Wee-Wee (Old Lunch), Sunday, 23 August 2015 19:27 (eight years ago) link
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1484956/deejologies.png
― oh, i am a lonlely poster. i live in a box of posts. (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 23 August 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link
deep thoughts itt
― mods = chickenshit idiots (D-40), Sunday, 23 August 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1484956/sarcasm.png
― oh, i am a lonlely poster. i live in a box of posts. (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 23 August 2015 20:10 (eight years ago) link
e = m(ods)c(hickenshit)^2
― flopson, Sunday, 23 August 2015 20:39 (eight years ago) link
e equals m times ods times c times hickenshit squared?
― oh, i am a lonlely poster. i live in a box of posts. (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 23 August 2015 20:43 (eight years ago) link
nyah fuckit
― deejerk reactions (darraghmac), Sunday, 23 August 2015 20:57 (eight years ago) link
"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 PermalinkWhen 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
― 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
:)
― drash, Sunday, 23 August 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
Deej
sarcasm
i died
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 24 August 2015 00:32 (eight years ago) link
Hoos the fuck are you?
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Monday, 24 August 2015 02:31 (eight years ago) link
hoos hoos
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 27 August 2015 15:18 (eight years ago) link
all this over deej threatening to k.o. a chickenshit hillbilly
― am0n, Wednesday, 16 September 2015 15:33 (eight years ago) link
lmao am0n
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 02:32 (eight years ago) link
I CHALLENGE THIS BAN
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 22:08 (three years ago) link
wait no i don't