Could you please delete this post?

I'm not sure it is the job of the moderators to enforce whatever prohibitions the starter of a thread tries to impose. It's enough of a job already just trying to keep up with the usual ruckus.

Delete mine too, but I had to.

btw, I've no prob fp'ing whiney on that thread.

xp - that was def worth it

boy posts, both malicious and inadvertent, have been deleted from that thread for 12 years. I'm not sure that the one dedicated no-dude thread out of tens of thousands here should be made a brospace now that the threadstarter is no longer around w/ mod powers.

better solution: petition for a board mod who will commit to enforce the "no boys" rule on that thread so the other mods don't have to deal with that. It's not a small commitment whenever that thread is active to monitor it for dude posts, whether or not "boys" are actively posting.

afaict men haven't posted on that thread for years prior to this weekend's clusterfuck but you don't seem busy so maybe you could take one for the team and do it

Sic: "boy posts, both malicious and inadvertent, have been deleted from that thread for 12 years."

So how could you tell?

This isn't me advocating for that thread to be overrun by men. It's me pointing out that ilx isn't set up to make that an easy job to enforce that prohibition and the mods should not be expected to take on that level of oversight on a single thread unless one or more would like to volunteer to take that on.

I mod on two other message boards already, cad, so I respectfully decline to take on a third mod position, but maybe you'd like to step up?

i can tell because i pay attention to what goes on here. so yes i could do it because it would take no effort whatsoever, as could the existing mods for the reason i just explained.

so yes i could do it

Is this a request?

i don't think either of us has any authority around here so no it is not

Aimless, this is like if someone were to ask to have a poll thread title changed to reflect when ballots are due ... as in it is a routine thing that "comes with the territory" ... and you suddenly are coming along making it into "a thing" ... except instead of complaining about ilx being serious about polls, you are sounding condescending and considering the context of the thread ...

the mods should not be expected to take on that level of oversight on a single thread

have you read the title of the thread you are posting in

xp

btw, a mod has complied with sahahell's and pplains wishes. the posts are gone. so, this has been resolved for now.

the flowchart is literally bookmark thread > check bookmark > did a man post in the thread > if so, delete --- but maybe that is complicated for some.

how dare someone make a request on the mod request board

deleting a post in a thread, if you have the link to the post in question is very quick and easy to do.

idk, some posters say "it is not a small commitment"

in the minute since my last post, I have deleted a post of my own in an ILAFL thread and updated the Admin Log with a reason ...

Aimless, sic was pointing out that there's been a long-standing tacit agreement that we do clean up that thread, even before we had any non-boy moderators. We don't have the person-power to clean up every thread, it's true, but "not boys" are a significant minority on the boards and having a space is important. I mean, in theory I'm not super-into the idea of people making up rules for participation in threads and then expecting the mods to enforce those rules, but in practice there are plenty of times when that's needed, and that's cool by me.

(several xposts, sorry)

thank you emil.y and other mods!

in the minute since my last post, I have deleted a post of my own in an ILAFL thread and updated the Admin Log with a reason ...

― sarahell, Sunday, February 21, 2021 11:42 PM (thirty-five seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

i hope you feel ok and that this was not terribly onerous for you

Also, yeah, I kind of wasn't even thinking about the fact that this was a request made on the request forum - that's even less work for the mods because we're given the links straight up. For some reason I was thinking about the work involved in monitoring a thread for boy-intrusion.

xps again

xp CAD - I might need a deep tissue massage and a long bath because of the intensive labor required

did a man post in the thread > if so, delete --- but maybe that is complicated for some

gender is already complicated, but it can get more complicated in a space where no one has a corporeal presence and is only identified by such labels as

masthead

goombah

but one or more of the mods has acted in this specific case, so now we are only discussing what sort of policy the mods might want to follow in future cases such as this. imo, that is for the mods to decide among themselves, if they wish.

You know I'm going to squish those goombahs.

xp CAD - I might need a deep tissue massage and a long bath because of the intensive labor required

― sarahell, Sunday, February 21, 2021 11:46 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

fair; wishing the best for your recovery

xp dude, pretty much the "policy" has been that a non-male will alert the mods, often with a post to the mod request forum, notifying them that a boy has posted to the thread. I think in the past 10 years, it has either been WGW-style lol action or someone like sic, treeship, or crut accidentally responding to something and forgetting which thread it was.

For some reason I decided to check that goombahs were indeed the Mario guys who we all love to squish, and now I've found out that "goombah" with an h is actually a slur against Italians, and that "goomba" (the Mario guys who we all love to squish) is probably derived from that slur. Well, shit.

Mario is a great Italian-American, so it's all good

sarahell otm. Aimless, the idea that the no-boys thread needs a special mod so that "the other mods don't have to deal with that" is weird. no one is actually asking for mods to sit around clicking refresh on that thread to police it - they're asking, in the "delete this post" thread, for a mod to "delete this post." they've additionally provided justification by invoking the longstanding precedent for mods to delete threads by boys barging into the "no boys allowed" thread, which i gather has been done for ages, for good reason. are you actually looking to have a discussion of "what sort of policy the mods might want to follow in future cases such as this"? why?

Every single “delete this post” request requires discussion among moderators, and then the appointment of a new sitewide moderator, to handle this and any future post deletion requests regarding that one specific thread. This will eliminate the difficulties involved in reading and reacting to a linked post, freeing up more time for managing ruckus.

Hi there - could someone delete my two recent posts on the Popeye thread - I've inadvertently posted my civilian name in a mangled link. Thank you.

Got them. (I say this every time but if people could include links to the posts they want deleted that would be very good for us mods)

Thank you, I will try better in future.

uh has there been a specific Popeye mod appointed to the Popeye thread or what, why is there no transparency around this

there's an entire Popeye board can u not see it oh sh-

not if it's on the right hand side of SNA

Last (x) movies you saw (II)

Please delete my premature first post.

ok

i got 2 excited to post a dumb matt yglesias tweet and didn't see milo had just posted it can you delete my duplicate post and my apology so no one knows thanks EZRA KLEIN v MATT YGLESIAS

while we're placing requests for completely innocuous admin-type clear-ups, if a mod could replace the long quote from me in j/v/c's post here with [accidental paste deleted] or similar, it would only make the thread more readable.

dude, you posted about Happy Feet and penguins ... readability really doesn't matter

pwnged

Harbl, got yours.

Sic, even though j/v/c posted in the thread that the paste was a mistake, I'd still rather not get into the habit of cleaning up posts when the request doesn't come directly from the poster (unless it's something properly bad that needs squishing).

thanks <3

emily - understood, but I thought the combo of jvc expressing that it was a mistake, plus having pulled all that out of hide tags, was a different context.

(I'm loath to create additional obligations for the mods, per se, but the advent of hide tags might prompt further precedential discussion generally: just as pulling 77 content onto the public board is frowned upon, it might be a bad idea to normalise open-posting content that other posters had hidden.)

Ah, I hadn't realised it was all pulled from hide tags. I think that is a different context, so I've just edited to your suggestion. Agree that people generally shouldn't take stuff out of hiding if they can avoid it. My reluctance was partly a "no editing without permission of the original poster" thing and partly a "there aren't enough mods to always clean up your innocuous mistakes so learn to live with them" thing, and I realise the latter sounds a bit lazy but we are very very few these days.

if the pawn reaches the 15-year final rank, promotion to mod imo

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Thanks, appreciate that.

Would you please delete this post – I accidentally linked to a private image file whose path may have someone's confidential info. Thx

ok

this seems to have jacked up my ability to update the bookmark on that thread

can you guys delete this thread? we already have one that i missed

PinkPantheress

got it

For security, please delete the search results link I posted here:
Lady G Shook the Covid Tree - August 2021 US Politics Thread

Oops, thought that would link post, sorry---it's ― dow, Friday, 20 August 2021 19:37

Forgot how to do this---also flagged it just now

got it

Thanks!