is banning posters for beefing with mods really what we want to do?

i like deej hes nice

i like your bass your deej is nice

the thomas paine routine is so absurd for like 5 reasons

top 5 reasons the thomas paine routine is so absurd when i got to number 4 i laughed but when i read number 5 i cried

is this really the hill y'all want to die on?

I don't want to die

deej got banned on purpose so that lag∞n would grow as a poster and basketball coach

i dont want to die but i want to be on a hill

https://www.facebook.com/deej.hill1

had deej accrued much in the way of FPs in the last week from the gawker thread?

deez hills

https://youtu.be/zoNGRoTo-rE

fuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoNGRoTo-rE

ha wow

banburger hill

hey guys did i mention i was on a boat tour today

wonder what they'd have done if i'd demanded to catch a gannet

take it to rolling avian issues

Oh good, we havent had an endless circular crywank over mods and rules for *so* long, I was beginning to miss it.

unban deej

https://i.imgur.com/KGYbQv4.jpg

lol

This thread is not funny but I keep reading the thread title with the other meaning of "beefing" and it makes me laugh.

"beefing with mods" LOL

http://i.imgur.com/NQXO3aF.jpg

I do feel like it was an unnaturally long time between the last big clusterfuck and this one. I was just thinking last week how uncharacteristically quiet it had been.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, July 22, 2015 3:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

this week has been like when wrestling gets boring and they bring the rock and stone cold back to pump the crowd up

beeves

stet can ban whoever he wants for whatever reason and anyone irritated about it can go start a successor board or complain in slack or subtweet stet bc stet runs the dumb thing and this is how the internet works, if you own and run the thing you have every right to manage it with outright caprice and even vindictiveness if you want to.

If I were a site mod I'd be a terror that's for sure, honestly the unyielding tolerance for mansplainy derailing on certain threads is annoying a f and making good posters waste their time re-explaining why bad things are bad to ppl whose only point is ~makes u think~

I support the municipality is what I'm saying, the great thing about Internet is you can stop coming around if you don't like how things are, email your friends, whatever, it's all fine.

ILX doesn't have a big red RULES READ FIRST thread stickied everywhere or special text for mods nobody even knows there are mods 95% of the time and afaict all the notoriously run out of town on a rail posters of the past trickle back on their own time and don't get in trouble so I mean what even

If I were a site mod I'd be a terror that's for sure

lmao

Thank God that will never happen.

Anyway, I’m peacing out of this whole deal. Have fun.

stet can ban whoever he wants for whatever reason and anyone irritated about it can go start a successor board or complain in slack or subtweet stet bc stet runs the dumb thing and this is how the internet works, if you own and run the thing you have every right to manage it with outright caprice and even vindictiveness if you want to.

― go hang a salami I'm a canal, adam (silby), Thursday, July 23, 2015 12:22 AM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is stupid as heck no offense stet just stole the board anyway and doesnt even really read or understand it particularly, which is not to say i dont appreciate the work hes done, but everyone w yr toady ass authority worship can get the bozack

I wouldn't say it's "authority worship" per se just that like this is literally what running and moderating internet messageboards is for, messageboards are governed by fiat not the rule of law bc they aren't polities.

argue about community norms sure but it's not like the mods are vested with power by the demos they're vested with it by whoever has the root passwd to the EC2 instance

none of that is "literally" true actually its just yr bad idea abt it

i mean like stet aint start ilx, he doesnt pay for it, it doesnt belong to him

doesn't belong to him like he's not its legal proprietor or in some sort of spiritual sense

he has some login info, he does work that no one else wants to or can (thank u!) but this idea that he has absolute power and thats just that i dont think particularly reflects the reality of the situation, nor is it particularly desirable

Well he could pull the plug, as eneff did back in the day. Go ahead, I say.

none of that is "literally" true actually its just yr bad idea abt it

― lag∞n, Wednesday, July 22, 2015 10:25 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is good tho, I think this is how my messageboard posting generally works b/c whenever I get riled up I just post shit I don't necc "mean" or "believe"

can't believe lag∞n invoked the bozack, shit poppin off

I don't know what that is honestly assume it's some sort of third-rate polearm that doesn't even show up in the player's handbook

"this is stupid as heck no offense stet just stole the board anyway and doesnt even really read or understand it particularly, which is not to say i dont appreciate the work hes done, but everyone w yr toady ass authority worship can get the bozack"

Are you fucking kidding me

Yeah cmon guys what has stet done for us (other than deal with the server, pay for it sometimes, keep the code running, basically fix all the behind scenes stuff nobody else knows how to do, run every contribution thread and deal with the taxes involved)? What a non contributing out of touch dick.

Honestly I'm just imagining lagoon sitting at home hoping his shitposting at stet will finally get him the ban that will finally earn him some hard posting cred. Grow the fuck up.

Stole it? Who from? The guy who owned the box and was going to shut it all down? The volunteers who spent six months trying to write new code and gave up six lines in? The people who I brought together to save it and who later all quit? (Some of those people also people who wanted to ban you years ago and who I saved you from, btw)

FWIW, ILX is about £900 in the hole to me rn too.

Anyway, I don't think I "own" this place but I do feel responsible for it and admin it -- have done for nearly a decade, far longer than anyone else, and for the most part on my own. One of the things I've always said as part of that deal is that there will be mods and I will have their backs. This is not a democracy.

Also FTR though, I have defrocked more mods for abuse of power than I have banned posters for abuse of mods. Maybe that was the wrong way around.

That's not to pretend that I admin in a way that everyone agrees with tho. But since the days of the drama in the LBZC I've offered to set the disenfranchised people up with their own sites: I'll set them up, give them the code, and help their admin out. All they have to do is pay their own bills.

Sure it's not quite giving you the reins of this place, but still, if you want to steal it back just take me up on that and get the users you care about to go with you.

I know we're dealing with the famed Lagoon self-awareness here but let's not pretend he's speaking for anyone other than a relatively small group of people. Everyone has a skewed perspective of what the culture of ILX is based on the threads they read and who they interact with but it would be a mistake for anyone to assume that encapsulates all of it.

this is stupid as heck no offense stet just stole the board anyway and doesnt even really read or understand it particularly, which is not to say i dont appreciate the work hes done, but everyone w yr toady ass authority worship can get the bozack

― lag∞n, Thursday, July 23, 2015 6:20 AM (4 hours ago)

holy fucking shit @ this and the rest of your insane entitlement issues.

Exhibit A for matt's point is how terrible a high % of the solitary posts are at effortlessly summarising the spirit of ilx

Look, guys, if you don't like the moderation here: remember that board Dommy P created post-ban and nobody posted on? It's possibly still there.