Discussion thread for possible FP/moderation changes to ILX

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

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, September 22, 2020 2:01 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

This ... seems like a bad reason for someone to get a ban? Lol kamala is a cop. I’ll vote for her but

Left didn't get a ban for that. Left got a ban because 51 ILXors flagged Left posts.

I mean whether it's a bad reason or not is irrelevant, no one FP'd that post.

oh, I'm surprised. was the last left post I saw and at the time I remember thinking "left is flying too close to the sun"

wait lol what is so transgressive about calling Kamala Harris a cop

probably one of the *least* controversial things Left posted tbh

how is it even remotely controversial for anyone to say?

why are we still talking about it?

you got something better to do?

I've got my own album to do

I can't believe Left got banned because of that post he wrote about disliking shiba inu puppies, it just seemed so innocuous?

Left u left 2 soon

much post very ban?

someone set us up the ban

Just a fyi I wasn't unbanned on Sunday as the admin log states -- which was going to be an earlier end to my 7-day ban period (today).

wb

👍

can't wait to see your new approach to ilxing

tbh it's always thrilling when someone gets made more reckless by a tempban, and ramps up the style that rankled people upon their return. whatever doesn't kill me makes my posts stronger!

Stronger but more short lived.

20 is too low a bar for that to really get going xp

That burrito fellow managed it.

tbh it's always thrilling when someone gets made more reckless by a tempban, and ramps up the style that rankled people upon their return. whatever doesn't kill me makes my posts stronger!

― @oneposter (⛰️) (sic), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Planning to post as I always do

Welcome back comrade