Yeah thats the ambiguity here. Can we hold congressional style hearings? Like the old days?
― treeship., Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
Their four-month anniversary on the site would have been tomorrow. Don't know if they were here in a previous incarnation.
― Scampos Runamuck (WmC), Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:25 (three years ago) link
They had one day left till retirement. Fuck
― agent brodie canks (wins), Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
shrug at the entanglement of living in the here and now, which is ok a dark joke but not nasty enough to warrant a ban imo
that is how I understood the post.
― sarahell, Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link
Knowing nothing about boring I'm also inclined to read it as a badly landed commiseration joke rather than an actual suggestion that the other poster commit suicide
Is there some sort of history between the two
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
If it's okay for Aimless to mordantly joke about silby escaping the suffering of the current hellscape by deliberately drinking bleach, it probably should be okay for someone else to mordantly joke about Aimless escaping the hellscape by suicide
not that I'm arguing for precedential modding in all cases
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:37 (three years ago) link
Huh I'd seem boring posting here and there and they didn't seem real aggro or edgy ...did not see the post in question
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:38 (three years ago) link
Oh, the second season of Admin Log Watch? It’s tops, man
― calstars, Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:41 (three years ago) link
to be clear, as far as i'm concerned intent doesn't matter. behavior matters, and that behavior is unacceptable.
having said that this is a small forum, a tightly knit community, and for moderation to be disproportionately used against the left tends to have a chilling effect.
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:43 (three years ago) link
used against the what
― imago, Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:46 (three years ago) link
the history of extremely lightweight moderator activity on these boards would seem to argue strongly against any accusation that it is “disproportionately used against the left”
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:47 (three years ago) link
fucking absurd
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:48 (three years ago) link
these recent posts of yours sound counter-revolutionary, comrade
― treeship., Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:51 (three years ago) link
I'm not trying to lawyer this case, but I don't understand the logic of banning the poster because of an isolated egregious post, but then not deleting the post -- why leave it up?
― rob, Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
I wouldn't have posted it but I laughed :shrug:
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
Suggest the mods introduce a “it’s time to stop posting” timeout, cos some of you are really spending too much time here.
― beef stannin’ (gyac), Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:59 (three years ago) link
agreed but aimed at myself
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Thursday, 20 August 2020 21:03 (three years ago) link
― agent brodie canks (wins), Thursday, August 20, 2020 4:27 PM (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
lollll
― syphilitic wolf prose errata (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 20 August 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
for moderation to be disproportionately used against the left tends to have a chilling effect.
Just looked at this user's posts and... they don't seem notably left wing to me. I am an actual communist, mind you, maybe my standards are different.
― emil.y, Thursday, 20 August 2020 21:18 (three years ago) link
Anyway, I've just seen the other thread too, checked out the context and conferred with WmC - I'm in favour of shortening it to a normal length temp ban rather than a permaban. I'm definitely lobbying stet to remove "permanently" from the admin log wording, though, this comes up every time.
― emil.y, Thursday, 20 August 2020 21:29 (three years ago) link
thanks emil.y!
― sarahell, Thursday, 20 August 2020 21:30 (three years ago) link
― emil.y
ok, sounds good. i'm not terribly super informed about this case and i definitely don't want to jump to conclusions. i only say what i do because i have seen boards where there _is_ a hostile relationship between the socialist posters and the mods, and a lot of that is down to actions which are justified and proper taken individually.
y'all want to go ahead and laugh at me, be my guest, but i am committed to continuing to be willing to make myself look stupid in other people's eyes.
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 20 August 2020 21:50 (three years ago) link
I wasn't "laughing at you" Kate, I was just confounded.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 20 August 2020 21:59 (three years ago) link
Ah, shit, rushomancy, I didn't mean to make you feel like I thought you were stupid, you're an excellent poster and contribute lots of thoughtful stuff and I greatly appreciate your presence here. I think I'm personally just over-sensitive about potentially being considered a centrist when inside I'm like "I'M MORE FUCKING LEFT-WING THAN MOST OF YOU PEOPLE DO YOU WANT TO SEE MY PHOTOS OF ME AT MARX'S GRAVE EH????"
― emil.y, Thursday, 20 August 2020 21:59 (three years ago) link
I am not a melt! I am a free mod!
― emil.y, Thursday, 20 August 2020 22:01 (three years ago) link
i am wearing a Prisoner t-shirt atm
― sarahell, Thursday, 20 August 2020 22:02 (three years ago) link
don't worry emily i would _never_ mistake you for a centrist :)
and i am glad you're a mod
i went as #6 for halloween once, it was fun. nobody recognized me. "the prisoner" has weirded me out ever since i realized how similar it was to "a man for all seasons" and realized how much weird Catholic stuff is in that show.
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 20 August 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
can mods see a history of every p you've f'd
― ||||||||, Friday, 21 August 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
i thought the thing is that all bans display as "banned permanently" due to some weird glitch...― Doctor Casino, Thursday, August 20, 2020 8:22 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
not sure this was the case in this instance. seemed like summary excommunication to me
Scampos Runamuck (WmC) wrote this on thread Rolling US Economy Into The Shitbin Thread on board I Love Everything on Aug 20, 2020
[redacted post]― Boring, Maryland, Thursday, August 20, 2020 1:44 PM
Banned, insta- and perma-.
― ||||||||, Friday, 21 August 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
I had a look at B,M's posting history after spotting this, and it seemed fairly innocuous... so suggested to me this post was just a poorly formed 'joke' and not e.g. that they were some edgelord
― ||||||||, Friday, 21 August 2020 20:18 (three years ago) link
This was all hashed out and changed to a temp ban yesterday.
― Scampos Runamuck (WmC), Friday, 21 August 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link
thanks!!!
― sarahell, Friday, 21 August 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link
I want to deeply apologize. It was a serious question, but barfed out without any thought. I’m a long time lurker and only registered in order to finally participate in discussion. Partially, I had worried that easy access to posting would result in me doing something thoughtless like that. In my defense I have paid attention long enough that I would never have responded like that to someone who has shared their experience of suicidal ideation, and as far as I can tell, Aimless has not had publicly shared experiences. I respect the norms of this group and respect all of you. Again, my heartfelt apologies.
― Boring, Maryland, Friday, 28 August 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link
All is forgiven. Be home in time for dinner. Love, Mother
― Scampos Runamuck (WmC), Friday, 28 August 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link
oh, so that's what the "m" stands for.
― peace, man, Friday, 28 August 2020 18:09 (three years ago) link
i know this is a weird place to say this but i'm sorry for your loss wmc
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 28 August 2020 18:11 (three years ago) link
Thanks, map -- everyone here has been terrific and supportive the past few days. I love this fussy old community, probably more than it deserves, but whaddaya gonna do.
― Scampos Runamuck (WmC), Friday, 28 August 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
:) me too tbh
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 28 August 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link
tbf 2 bm, we're only about five years removed from the briefly popular slang term "kill yo self" being shorthand for STFU
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 28 August 2020 18:33 (three years ago) link
My deepest condolences to WmC.
― Boring, Maryland, Friday, 28 August 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
Boring you’re ok
― syphilitic wolf prose errata (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 28 August 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
What Hadrian said, all is forgiven.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Saturday, 29 August 2020 00:15 (three years ago) link
Timestamp Board Action ReasonSunday, 30 August 2020 20:48 I Love AFL Thread: Remove One Post From An Almost Perfect Thread has been locked. perfection accomplishedSunday, 30 August 2020 20:44 I Love AFL User: pass the cur's dossier has been banned from thread: trenchant socal commentary temporarily No SoCal contentSunday, 30 August 2020 20:15 I Love AFL User Scampo No. 5 (wins) has been Yellow CardedHey there Hoss!490
― Scampo No. 5 (wins), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 13:35 (three years ago) link
lol
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 14:06 (three years ago) link
What hath we wrought???
― emil.y, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
i also marked a number of threads with disturbing images as non work-safe, so ...?
― sarahell, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
related to that, i was idly wondering the other day: if the images in a NSFW thread are hidden, does that make the thread SFW again?
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
like, if i'm contributing to a very serious thread and i want to post https://i.imgur.com/EmqTrSt.jpg, can i just post it and carry on? (you'll have to use your imagination and pretend there's a penis in that pic)
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link
lol, sarahell, I was only joking.
Karl, I think it'd be good form to warn about what's under the hidden text marker, and also consider if your NSFW image is really necessary. Personally I'd prefer an external link to NSFW images with an explanation of what you'll see if you click on it. To answer your actual question, though, I'm not sure if the thread would need a NSFW marker or not if you hide the image, I'd probably keep it there as a content warning but I'm not completely sure it'd be warranted.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
makes sense! thanks emil.y
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link