ADMIN LOG WATCH 2

there's a whole thread dedicated to posting about updates to it (this one)

Did you not get your yellowcard?

lol did jaymc seriously get banned from the 'Ideas for ILX' thread after asking 'Is there a way to killfile a thread instead of a poster?'

it's been that way for 10+ years

Why though?

Disappointing. Then again, getting threadbanned doesn't prevent you from reading said thread, which is the root of the problem here.

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True. I suspect I know which thread it is, a good idea to avoid seeing it imo is to not post there, and to post in other threads to bump it down.

Why though?

transparency?

And how is that any different from Tombot warning silby in the middle of a thread how many FPs he's got?

Tom i say this with love but who caaaaaaares, it’s too hot for this shit

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yeah i didn't see whatever you're talking about, but also i am not one of the people involved so...*backs toward door*

I think there's a good argument for making yellow cards private, or at least the contents of them? But it did come out of the general board demand for logging all mod actions back in the day, not sure if other people would push back against making them private.

Well, I think they should be private because I can honestly see no reason why they shouldn't be. In this particular case, all it needs is for some malicious individual(s) who can't stand the poster in question to hammer in a few FPs and they're out.

Good work there, mods!

you'd still need 30 such individuals

and if there are 30 people on ILX who want you banned on top of the 20 who've already fp'd you then i daresay you're doing something wrong

I think if you get such a note on the admin log, it’s probably not a huge mystery to you that you’re pissing off that many people, no?

(xp) Yes but I don't know how many FPs I'd had before I called Tombot a dick do I?

Well, I think they should be private because I can honestly see no reason why they shouldn't be. In this particular case, all it needs is for some malicious individual(s) who can't stand the poster in question to hammer in a few FPs and they're out.

i would presume very few indeed xp

but you can ask

That's my assumption as well.

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I have no idea.

One FP per person is how it works.

Tombot telling silby "you are generally disliked" is the action that seemed inappropriate for a mod, particularly the likely element of personal projection. Plenty of ppl may have felt warmly toward silby as a poster and person, while also thinking that many of their posts while in an agitated streak were out of line.

Tom you have to acknowledge that it is extremely funny, over three thousand posts into the thread of (ppl but especially sarahel) c+p-ing updates from the Admin Log, to suddenly be surprised that someone (in this case sarahel) c+p'ed an update from the Admin Log

How many FPs did Tombot garner for that threat?

(xp) I have never visited the Admin Log, didn't even know where it was!

lol xp

here tom rolling FP number request thread

Fairly sure I fped you but not for calling Tombot a dick, it was for being a penis in some other thread.

(xp) Fuck that, who am I, Oliver Fucking Twist?

Oliver Twist was famously young

aw, was gonna come in with "yes, you may have some more"

I'm not going to make a big deal about it but it strikes me as a bit weird, especially as I gave Tombot pelters for doing much the same thing, i.e., letting everybody on the board know someone else's business.

It has a tinge of irony, I'll give you that.

FPs are everyone's business! haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-4WeOqSXSc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYsMjEeEg4g

In this particular case, all it needs is for some malicious individual(s) who can't stand the poster in question to hammer in a few FPs and they're out.

I don't think this has ever happened, but I understand the worry. Stet's working on some updates and making yellow cards private is definitely on the list now.

I have no idea how much work is involved with the stuff stet does or how much spare time he has, so it might not happen straight away, though. Don't get too excited.

Anyway, no worries, I get the message, I'll be a good boy and stick to Album Cover threads in future.

I don't think this has ever happened, but I understand the worry.

it has never happened because it is not possible tbf

I have never visited the Admin Log, didn't even know where it was!

*gestures broadly around the thread though, shrugs at the title*

not possible

ie someone could register 32 socks with different email addresses but this would also be visible to mods

Yeah it seems a really weird choice to have yellow card messages be public; I think it dates from the time when the admin log was admin-only.

I’ll take out the message and leave the fact of the yellow card in the log (mainly because that’s easiest, all the admin code is here be dragons)

*gestures broadly around the thread though, shrugs at the title*

Sorry?

I'm not going to make a big deal about it but

lol

Yeah it seems a really weird choice to have yellow card messages be public

The "comedy" yellow card with the zingy comment was a thing with a few board level mods for a while. The joke is lost if no-one sees it.

There are probably a few copied and pasted here somewhere if you load all messages.

Sorry?

The two-part thread has been running for 12 years (less one month) and is titled Admin Log Watch and is entirely premised on c+p'd posts from the admin log, and discussion thereof. It's hilariously incongruous to suddenly be startled that a post from the admin log was pasted into the Admin Log Watch.

Also the second thing ever copied into it was

Thursday, September 11, 2008 9:55 AM I Love Everything User (name redacted in 2020) has been Yellow Carded
change to a different username or you will be banned tomorrow

― King Boy Pato, Thursday, September 11, 2008

I've never taken any notice of this thread either though, so why the hilarity?

I literally don't think I'd ever opened it till, what, three days ago?

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I Love Hoops yellow cards are strictly lol aiui. But serious ones being private makes sense

No malice intended but the slow dawning on Tom D that there is an Admin Log, on the Admin Log Watch thread, is what is funny here
Do you never look at the 'boards' index page?