Can you please lock this thread?

This has taken a really unpleasant turn, and Mordy seems determined to turn this into yet another clusterfuck of personal unpleasantness. Can you just lock the thread, please?

If you could push a button and simply cease to exist, would you press it?

I won't be checking ILX for the rest of the evening, so I will not be contributing to this thread or checking its progress, but please can you just nip this in the bud before it blows up again. Thanks.

Mods, can you lock this thread? It's pretty big and I've started a new thread.

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whoops

got it

hay wmc i sent u a webmail fyi

I got it, thank you for your mail.

Regarding the original threadlock request: my opinion is that the "cease to exist button" thread turned into a very good discussion of existential angst, arguments for and against existence, etc etc, so I didn't see a good enough reason to lock it. Threadstarters aren't thread-owners, imo, and these things will organically go where they will after an initial period of -- what? personality-flexing? territorial pissing? -- whatever. And then they live or die on their merits, and the button thread has lots of merit.

Threadstarters aren't thread-owners, imo

this seems to be a *controversial issue* on ilx

My opinion on that is merely my own.

wmc for mod

If nominated, I will not scrum; if elected, I will not swerve.

Threadstarters aren't thread-owners, imo

THANK YOU. I have seen this come up over and over on ILX in the 10 years ive been here and Ive never agreed with it.

(never agreed with thread starters owning/controlling threads, that is)

Meta - Thread/Topic Ownership

Yeah I was thinking we'd touched on this before. Probably 8927483495 times tbh.

Some are, some aren't.

if an ilx beef threatens to take over a perfectly innocent thread you can politely direct people here.

since no one is actually going to stfu could you please stop this

whats the explication for locking that thread

Will lock every attempt to keep this shit pipe flowing in other threads as well.

anyone it bothers should just ignore it and not engage, is my understanding of ilx5 mod practice

just explain yrself

x-post are you serious?

save us from ourselves !!

you know what, I think that thread went out on top.

Oh and pls delete my last post on that thread too. I shouldn't have hit send an I'm an idiot.

No you were 100% totally otm.

nonsense dl

Explanation: that thread had devolved into zero value except prurience, zing-merchantry and potential for real hurt.

I applaud K3vin K. doing the terrier work and exposing the connection to jon/via/chi's abominable race war remarks.

STOP PLEASE

Explanation: that thread had devolved into zero value except prurience, zing-merchantry and potential for real hurt.

― WmC, Tuesday, October 16, 2012 12:25 PM (12 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

while there may have been potential for real hurt, the first two descriptions are so off base as to be non sensical - would you really describe enbb sor dog latins posts as zings

okay seriously can we stop with the fucking race war thing? i'm irl getting irritated with this completely unfunny "zing". i'm not beefing or anything else, just politley requesting that it ends.

idk wmc the thread would genuinely have had more value with a little more mod input than 'ignore everything from poster x' *lock*

and if youre gonna police 'prurience, zing-merchantry' you better get busy locking a bunch of threads

k3vin had absoltely no reason to bring it up again other than trying to stir shit up with me and part of me would really want to request the mods to do something about his shit, but i know that isn't going to happen. so all i'm doing is registering my polite request that he knocks it off.

jon - tbf that was actually hilarious

and I don't think anyone thought even for a nanosecond that you were calling for race war

okay seriously can we stop with the fucking race war thing? i'm irl getting irritated with this completely unfunny "zing". i'm not beefing or anything else, just politley requesting that it ends.

― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, October 16, 2012 12:28 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jon/via/chi, i'm sorry dude. I thought at the end of the whole thing last time we all sort of tacitly agreed to be lighthearted about the whole thing. I'll knock it off though, since you asked.

as for potential for real hurt mods better come up w/a better policy than locking threads, ignoring warning signs/cries for help, and praying everything turns out ok

its def not hilarious. my point is more that idg why there is an entire thread about how we shouldn't let posters pile on each other etc etc but k3vin's bullshit is excused and overlooked because its somehow "hilarious".

(xpost)

jon i know the race war jibe irks you but srsly man i wish you'd own that shit like a badge, shakey mo drowny style.

regardless of whether anyone believes what he says or not, like, is it really that hard for people to understand why i wouldn't want someone going on and on in thread after thread trying to tie my display name to something like that?

kind of reminds me of a mean-spirited "truth or dare" game I was on, on a bus in high school. I had to simulate a sex act with a chair, and was known as a chair-humper

it annoyed the shit out of me, but there were moments over the next few years where it'd be a funny punchline, so... whatever

so whenever you feel like getting pissed off at the race war comments, jon, just take this bit of advice from a chair-humper:

it gets better, and people forget the dumb joke if you ignore it

I thought RS was responsible for that comment which I thought was funny at the time. If there's a whole thing around it and it's been following you around then I don't know about any of that.

i don't know this thing just reminds me of the cliques that evolve on here. even wcc has a handful of defenders and speaking up for when she goes on a tear about something. but i've repeatedly asked to not have to deal with this bullshit with k3vin and not one fucking person is willing to come to my defense. like, ugh, fuck this place lately.

lol chair humper

Jon did not advocate for a race war #gotyourback

i thought furniture was forks thing

I leave the furniture alone these days, I mostly am into starting race wars

p sure mh's employer will be interested to hear they've got a chair-humper on the payroll

ha i thought this was the DOX thread who can keep the top three straight this week

like seriously i cannot believe that more people are coming to k3vin's defense than trying to understand why i'm uncomfortable with his stupid schtick. i've long suspected it but i am now 100% convinced that there is not one single poster on ilx that thinks well of me. and that a good 3/4ths of ilx would be nonplussed to thrilled if i were to just push the button.

no one is coming to k3v's defense, jon. the only reason he mentioned the race thing is bc he saw you posting on this other thread and he saw an opportunity to do some troll-dmg. he was successful as you can see bc the thread was shortly locked thereafter. it has nothing to do w/ you. no one thinks him mentioning you was praiseworthy or excellent in any way.

ah jon ffs, who's defending kev? I'm not, i heard his middle initial is k and he's just tryin to start a rac- uh wait no

tbh I keep wondering wtf k3vin is talking about, then you respond and I remember he's being a dick to get a reaction?

it's one of his few defining things other than being gay and also an Archie comics character

god, whatever it is, it jumped from kate into jon. ffs dude, we all like you very much! but I don't think anyone likes when you get all upset about things like this. you aren't like this most of the time, so just relax.

like seriously i cannot believe that more people are coming to k3vin's defense than trying to understand why i'm uncomfortable with his stupid schtick. i've long suspected it but i am now 100% convinced that there is not one single poster on ilx that thinks well of me. and that a good 3/4ths of ilx would be nonplussed to thrilled if i were to just push the button.

― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, October 16, 2012 12:41 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Jon, fwiw, which I realize is probably not much coming from me, I do not think ill of you all the time. I think you're mostly like a well meaning guy who sometimes gets a little heated up over things that are more lol internet than anything else.

Which is to say, you ain't that bad.

i'm not going to drag anyone else into this bullshit, but i guarantee that if a significant number of well-regarded ilxors politely asked for someone else to stop equating their name with a race war - something would be done about it by a mod. but since its just me, i'm the one being told to lighten up. its ridiculous.

ffs

race war is a metaphor

and gee, this is the exact same thing i've gotten "heated up" over before. so its obviously is something that bothers me. we're all asked to tread lightly around other posters for fear of upsetting them, but i'm being very specific about something i'd like to stop and still my wishes aren't being respected. it may seem ridiculous to you, but it really makes me uncomfortable and makes me not want to contribute to ilx.

mods i woud like you to take action to further prevent my good name being associated with the inclusion of the potato farl in the traditional fryup.

and that a good 3/4ths of ilx would be nonplussed to thrilled if i were to just push the button.

― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, October 16, 2012 5:41 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nonplussed doesn't mean what you think it means.

and i know i'm going to get the response of "then don't contribute to ilx" but how about maybe instead the response is "k3vin, don't be a dick"

yeah i used the wrong word there, sorry.

http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/jon-and-kate-gosselin.jpg

lol emil.y

Nonplussed doesn't mean what you think it means.

― emil.y, Tuesday, October 16, 2012 12:52 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

We figured out on another thread recently that i can actually be used in the way he mentioned!

non·plussed/nänˈpləst/
Adjective:
(of a person) Surprised and confused so much that they are unsure how to react.
(of a person) Unperturbed.

i'm not going to drag anyone else into this bullshit, but i guarantee that if a significant number of well-regarded ilxors politely asked for someone else to stop equating their name with a burrito stall - something would be done about it by a mod. but since its just me, i'm the one being told to lighten up. its ridiculous.

I've weighed in in this before, but no.

Goddamnit forks

It begs the question

literally!

jon, i am sad that a poster who is regularly unpleasant is being unpleasant to you. he is being a dick, and i too would like him to stop.

however, there is not an ilx clique in the way you are thinking of it? it is true that posters who post more often and more conversationally on specific threads tend to be conversed with more on threads with a similar profile. this isn't cos there's some selective inner group, it's cos people feel like they know each other and can therefore talk with each other more readily. i regularly feel outside of it too! but it's not a clique, it's not a gang, it's not planned, it's just people.

in this thread the reactions to kk's failure of a forced meme have been:

one person has called it hilarious
one person has apologised and said he won't do it again
one person has said 'i know it annoys you but i wish you'd make it a running joke'
one person has said 'if you ignore it he will forget, here is a story about when this thing happened to me'

one full apology out of four responses is not a good ratio but it's also not people massed against you.

one person has called it hilarious

tbf I also then said I wasn't aware it was an ongoing thing. I just remembered the og comment and haven't seen anything about it since.

pretty lame of wmc to lock that one thread and tell ppl to go outside i mean how dare we post on a messageboard

None of the other three are of course actually good responses to something that makes you feel victimised, but ILX will have its fun.

Xxxposts OTM. Ilx can sometimes feel like a hivemind, or just one person that suffers from manic switches in opinion, but it's not as oppressive as that - it's lots of people with many many different thoughts and opinions and senses of humour they're either expressing or choosing not to express. fwiw I have no idea of the background behind this but as far as I'm concerned you're one of the better posters, particularly on ilm, so I'd protest against you not posting here.

lol chair humper

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 13:35 (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

irl lol

that was classic, in context

idk wmc the thread would genuinely have had more value with a little more mod input than 'ignore everything from poster x' *lock*

― the oft-posited third fisherman (darraghmac), Tuesday, October 16, 2012 12:28 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH D-MAC

None of the other three are of course actually good responses to something that makes you feel victimised, but ILX will have its fun.

― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, October 16, 2012 1:16 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Jesus Christ, this is the fucking internet and I say that as a pretty thin-skinned person with easily hurt feelings who has cried (yeah, you read that right) over ILX comments/threads a handful of times. While I agree that people shouldn't be dicks as a general rule and, more specifically, that Kev should maybe be told off if this is really a repeated thing that Jon has been vocal about, I also think that as adults we should be able to take a deep breath, step away from the computer and realize that none of this actually matters or is worth getting upset about in any major way. If your mental health is not in a state that allows you to do that then perhaps you should be asking yourself whether or not an internet message board is the best place for you to spend your time hanging around.

I'd prefer it if you didn't blaspheme

._.

xxp This one used to be.

? Sorry, I don't get what that's in response to. I might be missing something.

no offence, but

This thread is everything that's wrong about ILX's relationship with itself and with the rest of the world.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, May 30, 2004 10:38 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark

where are you locating this 'used to be' again?

realize that none of this actually matters or is worth getting upset about in any major way.

lighten the fuck up, it's a friday on the internet

― goole, Friday, July 23, 2010 3:22 PM (2 years ago)

wonder what the reason for this thread getting locked will be

get off the internet and clean yr room

Jesus Christ, this is the fucking internet and I say that as a pretty thin-skinned person with easily hurt feelings who has cried (yeah, you read that right) over ILX comments/threads a handful of times. While I agree that people shouldn't be dicks as a general rule and, more specifically, that Kev should maybe be told off if this is really a repeated thing that Jon has been vocal about, I also think that as adults we should be able to take a deep breath, step away from the computer and realize that none of this actually matters or is worth getting upset about in any major way. If your mental health is not in a state that allows you to do that then perhaps you should be asking yourself whether or not an internet message board is the best place for you to spend your time hanging around.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, October 16, 2012 1:22 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^

Haha that is some fine paleopolicing, and a fair cop!

What on earth is paleopolicing?!

yeah does that have something to do with poliopolice?

get off the internet and clean yr room

― --bob marley (lag∞n), Tuesday, October 16, 2012 1:31 PM

http://want2scrap.com/store/images/medium/Swish%20TS_MED.jpg

he meant "digging up old stuff to point out the unstable foundation of an argument"

"ILX was nicer years ago" is never true; it's almost always more accurate to say "ILX had more people I trusted on it years ago" when you're tempted to make that argument

ilx is way nicer now imo

Ahhh, I see. So that's an actual term? I've never heard it and google only turned up strict cavemen eaters.

no pretty sure Andrew made it up on the spot, I am just a viking at deduction

omg

holy shit you guys i only just escaped, wmc actually locked me in a cage

(removes joke about DJP's viking nature to avoid doxxing him)

God I wish I could tell you about the argument my o/h had with my crazy neighbour today, it made ILX look like a Utopian future with everyone wearing white robes and agreeing things

which we are, mainly!

except about the agreement

it included the phrase 'what's good for the goose is good for the gander' said in absolute fury. We're still not sure what she meant.

i use that phrase!

I think she meant she's a big fan of Ready For The World?

it means 'if you can do it so can i' etc

obv the classic turn of phrase is 'sauce' instead of 'good'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbL2lMn34Oo

a Utopian future with everyone wearing white robes and agreeing things
http://irenebrination.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55290e7c488330133ec9b73fd970b-500wi
The Shape of Zings to Come

Are you fucking serious? The mods refuse to do anything about an ilxor contiuning to harass me and the thread I make to publically shame him gets locked?

that thread was locked because ppl on it were being shitty towards you

ok, fair enough then, my fault for not really reading it. didn't really want to know how shitty ppl were being. i've learned enough about ilx today to last me for awhile.

see you in a few days dude. feel better.

it was low-level shitty from my point of view but I agree that, given the feelings you've expressed, you made the right call in not really reading it

Moved to I Must Protest.

... Why? There's little actual ongoing discussion here that shouldn't be broken out into its own thread and the original use for this, which was to request locking of a thread, is an unambiguous MRF topic.

discussion only moved over here bc the other thread got locked

can I be a mod of I Love Cars?

i just want to say that i really don't think it's a good idea to engage anyone in a certain fashion continuously if they react really negatively to it. either you believe someone is really sensitive or you believe they're acting irrationally, and whatever the case may be sometimes it's an indicator or IRL shit and we probably shouldn't push those buttons (speaking as someone who may have pushed a few in the past.) people are pretty easy to ignore or not act out towards. i realize this is lol-depriving but lols can be had elsewhere.

xp: when was the last time you changed your tranny fluid?

good question!

I feel like I Love Cars has so much unrealized potential

that's a great question, it could be asked on iltmi someday as well.

Dan, the answer to "can you lock this thread" was made, now the threads gone meta.

seriously though, who is the mod of I Love Cars?

Lightning McQueen iirc

sorry

*sigh*

jon, i like you, really - i know it's hard to tell by the completely impersonal, silly joke/memes i make toward you like once a month, but really, i have nothing against you. please just relax

"completely impersonal" - that's disingenuous, because you know exactly how he reacts to your prodding, so when you make that silly joke you know it's going to enrage him something serious. At least own your trolling if you're going to do it, quit with the faux-naive.

k3vin, you have, er, a little something, y'know, just there, just on, er, your display name.

haa

omg

facepalm

i don't get it, and i really want to get it

kev's username references jvc and wcc, as a play on the defunct reality show John & Kate Plus 8

oh, duh *facepalms for another reason*

i was looking at 8 like maybe it was a pair of balls and there was a penis somewhere in there

hahahahaha

that's totally something I would do, Z

haha omg

ya my display name is pretty good

Congratulations, now change it so ilx doesn't continue to be a shitshow for even longer

may i suggest

8=====D/--oo|..__

as a new display name, i mean

i'm sooooooo glad someone pushed a button and my long-ass rant on that thread that got locked ceased to exist! i am taking a vow of positivity.

Somebody should start a vow of positivity thread and then we can take bets on how long it takes to turn into a clusterfuck and get locked