Discussion thread for possible FP/moderation changes to ILX

bet that one slays at the Chuckle Hut

Get a room you two

yeah I'm just gonna go ahead and uh, get my own if that's cool. Gotta get up early tomorrow. Thanks though.

I assume it's out of the question to change the name to something that actually describes what it does, e.g., "vote to ban"

It used to be called “suggest ban” (or “SB” in the parlance) but people pointed out that the problem was the posts, not the posters, so it was changed, and then it turned out the department of pre-crime wasn’t up to preventing bad posts in real time, so we’re back to how the world works: temporarily suspending people from posting due to bad behavior.

also be sure to spread them out geographically. here are some sock suggestion names to help get you started based on what I know of the area from looking at google maps for 45 seconds, and from my research into the most popular male baby names from British Columbia, Canada, 1970: michael in coquitlam, david in squamish, robert in tsawwassen, jason in chilliwack.

you could also be super sneaky and change up the pattern, like, instead of these, you could go with coquitlammichael23, squamishdave81, tsawwassenbob69, and chilliwackjason420

what happened in 2012-2013? 2012 was the year of Twitter's explosive growth iirc, and it's when mobile browsing got really big, they could be factors. Can't remember the board drama of that year.

― stet, Friday, 28 August 2020 21:13 (three weeks ago) link

ahhh...the kitty pryde thread was around that time...

why did Left get banned? i like his posts lol

but then i also think some ppl deserve to be condescended to sometimes which is apparently fp-able so what do i know. some of my fav ilx posts were condescending

going to assume Left was banned for posting "Dud" in the New Order thread

As mentioned elsewhere, the fastest way to collect FPs is to insult fellow posters with a broad brush, which Fred, Left and gabbneb all demonstrated with aplomb.

Allowing any single poster to veto a temp ban based on “this poster I occasionally skimmed over didn’t seem so bad to me” is how we got here. The new social experiment is “let’s use democratically determined temporary time-outs to see if we can put some brakes on the attrition rate.”

yea im just wondering what he did, i didnt see any insults in his recent posts aside from calling a politician the c-word in a britishers politics thread i dont read

going to assume Left was banned for posting "Dud" in the New Order thread

― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, September 22, 2020 5:42 AM (fifty-two minutes ago)

missed this but i'm guessing left thinks they're fascists because of their name

Left did a "kamala is a cop" post shortly before the ban and it is likely that that did it

I know this is posts VMIC and likely to get me clusterfucked, but...

Get a room you two

― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 03:14

^^^Tombot, can you not do this? Understanding that you are a mod, can you try to avoid framing beefing between posters as 'flirtation'?

I say this as someone who was told repeatedly by mods during the dom-and-jon years, that long-term, overly personal harassment was 'just flirtation' and told to 'get a room' with men who were eventually banned for their behaviour.

If you are going to be a mod, and hold other people to account, maybe you should start by holding yourself to a higher level of account, and think through what subjects you consider 'jokes'?

'Get a room' is a perfectly fine and harmless joke in this context, and I know for a fact Tombot holds himself to a high enough account as a mod to consider his jokes. It's not all about you or what happened 10+ years ago.

It’s great how there’s always a man around, to tell me what ‘jokes’ are!

You're phrase-policing in the worst possible way.

Left did a "kamala is a cop" post shortly before the ban and it is likely that that did it

― despacito ergo sum (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 bookmarkflaglink

It was his hatred of popular group "The Beatles" that did it

Didn't he have a go at national treasure Ali G too?

(also do we know Left is a he? apologies if not)

A fun data point is that nearly 8% of all posts Left has ever posted to ILX were flagged. Sorry to disappoint you but none of them were about Ali G.

It's like Fred on steroids

xpost Thus demonstrating that regularly taking reasonable assertions that most people 'round here can hang with and wrapping them in a 'you sheeple (derisive snort)' construction is a pretty efficient way to get the boot.

Left is a poisonous shit and shouldn’t come back

sorry if answered upthread but can mods see who has flagged a post?

^^^Tombot, can you not do this? Understanding that you are a mod, can you try to avoid framing beefing between posters as 'flirtation'?

I say this as someone who was told repeatedly by mods during the dom-and-jon years, that long-term, overly personal harassment was 'just flirtation' and told to 'get a room' with men who were eventually banned for their behaviour.

If you are going to be a mod, and hold other people to account, maybe you should start by holding yourself to a higher level of account, and think through what subjects you consider 'jokes'?

― Masonic Lockdown (Branwell with an N), Tuesday, September 22, 2020 2:23 AM

I'm not Tombot but I am a mod, so I'll say thanks for letting us know that you don't like this, and I promise I won't ever do it in beefs you are involved with. I'm not extending that promise past that.

kinder, yes

ta

I personally thought Tombot's reply was fine, being on receiving end of it.

lol i had no idea left was banned. very incendiary poster, would often start off with a reasonable argument and then push it until it became unreasonable

Tbh I was going to post something similar to "get a room" last night, but then I realised that what I actually meant by that was more like "hey, you guys - do you in fact enjoy this back-and-forth to the extent that you've become friends in beefing, or is this a multi-thread-spanning beef that neither of you enjoy but you've got trapped in?"

would often start off with a reasonable argument and then push it until it became unreasonable

New board description.

(I know I keep saying this, but really, a new board description is long overdue. New board description.)

I think it really rolled into a flirtation with that burrito post on wdyll, which I laughed at

This whole board should get a room. After all, isn't that what we're really here for?

Remember when the board decided meetups would be called FAPs as an acronym for "Fancy A Pint?" while the rest of the Internet decided "fap" would mean... something else?

that was one of the first, weirdest conundrums upon visiting ILX the first few times

Indeed. And it's doubly abstruse when you're North American.

Imagine my disappointment when I turned up at a pub and got a lager shandy rather than a hand shandy

In these trying times, it's either FAP on zoom or get a room.

I think I once tried to get people to call them WABs for Want A Beer but man fetch really didn't happen on that one

Tracer veered so close to a WAP joke there

FAPs and POOs, all over mid-2000s ILX

For 2020, may I propose 'Relax, Enjoy a Cold Hefeweizen, and Rock Out Until Nearly Dawn!'

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Stet has wiped your FPs, kids. Now please behave or you'll have to go sit on the naughty step.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqV7DB8Iwg

the webcomic that created the onomatopoeic fap only started a year before ILX, so Tom"s FAP may have been in use first

Afraid to post

fp'd for timidity

FUCK