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.
The current crop of mods don’t seem to deserve “the benefit of the doubt,” tbh. They’ve done one super hasty thing and now this questionable shit just in the past few days!
― markers, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:44 (eight years ago) link
calling ppl - mods or not - names on the internet is glorious its not cool for this site to become the sort of wienerland where calling someone a chickenshit idiot gets a tempban like were some reddit-reading pissbabies
anyways have 2 peace got a hot production meeting waiting for me in another conference room
― affluent white (Lamp), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:44 (eight years ago) link
FFS guys.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:45 (eight years ago) link
loving all the drama on ilx these days guys, keep up the good work
― Rave Van Donk (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:46 (eight years ago) link
i support the banning if it was done to provoke drama
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:46 (eight years ago) link
i do support banning posters if it's for ratings or as a cliffhanger like when [redacted] was killed in game of thrones last month.
― nomar, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:49 (eight years ago) link
There is no rule about being nice to people on ILX that I am aware of. People have always been rude to each other here, and people have always been nice to each other here. If you want to put that rule in place, I think that’s a whole other debate, but it seems pretty clear to me from how things have gone for the past many years I’ve been here is that most things are tolerated between posters short of shit that is obviously beyond the pale. Calling someone a “chickenshit idiot” or whatever is totally not beyond the pale in the context of many other things that have been said here and allowed to stand w/o someone getting hit with a ban.
― markers, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:49 (eight years ago) link
cosign
― Possibly Fingers (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:50 (eight years ago) link
admittedly there has been more excitement during the last week than the last 51 weeks combined, even if it's of the ffs variety (not the band)
― 1992 ball boy (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:52 (eight years ago) link
hot gross summer is prime ilx clusterfuck time ime
― Mordy, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:53 (eight years ago) link
I am supposed to be reading.
― markers, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:53 (eight years ago) link
wtf unban deej
― tpp, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link
my prediction deej will be unbanned shortly
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:56 (eight years ago) link
http://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=100687
― Treeship, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:56 (eight years ago) link
Heh.
― markers, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
ban
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
hows life shd follow his cant handle the extremely slight heat, vauge warmth really, predecessors and hang it up too
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
i've found how's life to be a decent mod generally, certainly an improvement over a few of the other ones that have been run out of mod office. and it should be noted in his defense that it was not he but stet who banned deej
― usic ally (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:01 (eight years ago) link
deej ban hasty, my favourite can album
― feargal czukay (NickB), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:02 (eight years ago) link
lol really stet what the heck man
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:02 (eight years ago) link
"chickenshit" lol do u read this board ever
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:03 (eight years ago) link
Can't find the list of "words that are OK to say to mods" and "words that are not" Tom must have it.
The rule is "don't be a dick" and that was a dick thread.
― stet, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:08 (eight years ago) link
if you don't like it go start your own message board! jk wtf this is lame deej is a treasure.
― Cory Sklar, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
There’s no such fucking rule, man.
― markers, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:10 (eight years ago) link
really lagoon was super otm upthread when he said that deems & old lunch are the infantile ones for genuinely wanting to think admin staff are our mothers, a more adult environment is clearly one where they are our peers and we can say omg cusswords to them when their bullshit caprice causes issues, & I thought that was what we had
― wins, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link
soz shouldn't have said "staff" I know they're volunteers
― wins, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:14 (eight years ago) link
even i'm not dumb enough to insult mods
― a (waterface), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:15 (eight years ago) link
Yes, I genuinely think mods are meant to be our mothers, good read.
― Something Called Fudge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:16 (eight years ago) link
seems to me you can't have it both ways -- i.e. if jjustin wants to be treated like all the other posters even when he weighs in on mod stuff and be taken no differently, then you can't also say "we expect a different standard from posters when arguing about mod stuff to mods vs. other posters".
― where the sterls have no name (s.clover), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:16 (eight years ago) link
i'm fine either way tbh but pick one
Yeah, there is. Can't find the first place from my phone, but we've used it for years ega specific complaint
An open letter to ILX & mods re: an alternative to the current system
― stet, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:17 (eight years ago) link
That’s insane. Seriously? People here are dicks all the time!
― markers, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:19 (eight years ago) link
Good luck enforcing that rule!
― markers, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link
this site is like 25-50% ppl being dicks
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
i don't think this needed a separate thread, but while we're here, i think demanding a different standard of civility for dealing with mods as opposed to other posters is a new idea and a poor precedent. with respect, like.
This is an untrue assertion. One of the reasons I quit modding is because the posting community overturned to the point where the budget-Doms who take any level of call for civility as an attack on their inailiable rights as human beings on a privately-owned message board outnumbered the people who are capable of being adults.
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:22 (eight years ago) link
being a mod turned u into a rageaholic too tho
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:23 (eight years ago) link
Hah confirmation bias much?
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link
i mean its natural for ppl once given power however meager will begin to identify with that power but some ppl r prob a lil more cut out for it than others
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link
if sarahell becomes a mod out of all of this clusterfucking it'll have been worth it imho
― Mordy, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:27 (eight years ago) link
like for instance obvs the mod dynamic causes jj a lot of personal consternation and identity crisis but he has been almost entirely a very nice boy in his modding actions since the mod wars knocked out his more daring role models
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link
Still hurt that I called you out on the fact that your chill cuddly stoner teen facade is slipping huh?
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link
i'd smoke a bowl w/ lag∞n
― Mordy, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:33 (eight years ago) link
I would watch you two doing that.
― markers, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:33 (eight years ago) link
It's disingenuous here to pretend that Stet is "a mod", and not, like the guy who devotes a fuckload of his own time and I believe also some of his money to keep this place going. I think this was possibly a straw-that-broke-the-camels-back moment after what's been quite a stressful few days when it comes to admin-ing this place. Possibly you guys underestimate quite how wearying it is to have to deal with pointlessly petulant little tantrums like this for a prolonged period of time. Personally I just walk away for a while when I get into that state but everyone has their personal sanity threshold and that is sometimes exceeded.
At the end of the day, it's a privilege and not a right to post here and Stet can ban who he wants IMO, because it's very likely that the site literally wouldn't exist without him. That he pretty much never does so is because of the general patience and tolerance that makes him the right person to keep it going, considering previous site runners like Andrew an Graham have pretty much decided to kick the whole thing over whenever it got too much.
FWIW How's Life was absolutely right to come down on Deej on that thread, at a time when everyone is justifiably nervy about privacy.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:33 (eight years ago) link
I mean call me a boy as much as you want, at least I'm not hanging out here embodying Matt Dillon in Singles when I am in reality a middle aged dude.
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:34 (eight years ago) link
Stet can ban who he wants IMO
lol
― markers, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:34 (eight years ago) link
he didn't "have to deal with" anything!
― wins, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:35 (eight years ago) link
I didn't use j0hn's name intentionally to get him caught up or whatever, I was typing on my phone in the moment and didn't think it throughThere's no reason I should have been banned from that thread― supreme problematics (D-40), Tuesday, July 21, 2015 6:11 PM
There's no reason I should have been banned from that thread
― supreme problematics (D-40), Tuesday, July 21, 2015 6:11 PM
― markers, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Wednesday, July 22, 2015 2:32 PM (21 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol other ppl have attempted to use this attack against me too but like i get mad all the time on this website?
i feel like the whole "i totally nailed yr online persona" line of zinging is pretty overrated amongst its practitioners who generally just dont have the insight to pull it off
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link
Oh fuck you
― stet, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link