This is SHOUTING-for-MODERATOR thread pt. III!! [derailed: go to thread IV]

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Calum like I said the mods shouldn't be deleting swans. However more reasonable requests, like keeping your full name out of posts, will probably get a better response.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

where did I say I voted for Bush?

Probably the same place where I pretended to be a womyn, which is most likely near the same place I advocated censorship, etc, etc.

I suppose thee only metaphor I can think of is this stand-up comic, who plays thee same club again & again & again, despite his act being med w/a response somewhere between indifference & open hostility. Under such circumSATANces, two options present themselves:

1/play at another club

2/modify yer act

But then if you repeatedly rip on the regulars at the club, in an obnoxious and personal manner far, far beyond what most people expect, then after a while people might feel a bit grudgey, like, and it might be a bit too late to modify yer act in any kind ov way that will work. (shrugs) It's a shame, yr obviously not actually stupid, but I find it hard to understand why you act the way you do. I just don't understand.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 18:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

I honestly respect that, but the point is that I feel I'm damned if I do anyway because my honest threads were hijacked as well...

― Calum, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 18:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Cal - I'll make a deal, I won't hijack your 'honest' threads if you don't start any more 'dishonest' thread - deal?

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 18:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

James,

I don't think many of my threads have been dis-honest.

To explain - I agree some strange ones have been posted and... well, I can see how they wound folks up - but recent threads such as the one about Emma Bunton and Nicky Wire on an airplane... I thought that might've been just a laugh rather than 'dishonest'. I mean, where do you/ I stop? - the Girls Aloud thread seemed fine to me whereas, yes I agree, a thread on Karen O's personal hygiene was inevitably going to make some folks think I was just being repugnant for the sake of it.

I guess it comes down to what you term 'dishonest'. The thread I once posted on Phil Collins the porn star never got any criticism, but the one on Emma Bunton's new video got loads. Yet which one was really more inappropriate for a music discussion forum?

― Calum, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 18:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

for dishonest read 'the ones who wound people up'. Think to yourself - could this thread be interpreted as trolling? If the answer is probably yes don't do it. We all know you like titties - EVERYBODY likes titties, and I really think if it had only been one thread that was 'so and so's is/isn't shaggable' instead of EVERY thread (initially) there wouldn't be any kind of conflagration - look at kate's Julian Casablancas thread which was almost as much of a yay for masturbation-athon as your threads but didn't spark half the outrage because 1) kate has been here awhile (a long while) and so people knew she wasn't being a troll and 2) she didn't start five or six similar threads every day and then whine about political correctness when someone called her a bore. Follow the model of your disney thread or your screenplay thread. Avoid image posting threads. Selfcensor diligently at first if need be.

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 18:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

(+ dare I say, if using certain language would cause a punch-up in real life, best not use it)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 18:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

(and your "treat me like a nice boy and I won't flood you with shit" line is pretty naked blackmail, and I'm sure you see how little real respect that will win you)

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 18:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Unable to connect to SQL server. TURN BACK YOU POXY FULE.

I WUV that message.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 19:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

it is great

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 19:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've done internet law and know that I'm perfectly within my rights to ask for the removal of my full name from the server.

Which is all I'm asking for.

― Calum, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 20:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

'internet law' = rubbish

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 22:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

'internet claws'=to be feared

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 23:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

internet coleslaw=tasty!

― hstencil, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 23:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

'internet slawdogs'=scrumptious

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 23:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

God I haven't had a slawdog in a long time

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 23:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

freedom coleslaw = even bettah!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 23:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

Calum has been Google-proofed in that thread. Sadly, some of the swans had to go before I could save the edit.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 01:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sadly - right

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 01:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dan = Swan Killah!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 01:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Daniel James Perry

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 02:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't see why everyone's so against getting rid of those swan pictures. One is pretty, several hundred are more than annoying. I, for one, find it very easy to skip over the stuff that Calum does, but it's more of a hassle to deal with the swans! I don't have any problem with you James B., but I think whatever it is you're trying to accomplish with the picture pollution couldn't be worth it. It's like you're covering your ears and shouting "LALALA" to not hear something that offends you, but in the process you're also shouting down all other conversation in the room.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 02:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Im not against it, I just find amusement in your new role as SWAN KILLAH!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 02:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

if I'm not against it I can't imagine anyone else is

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 03:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Conflating Dans: C/D Vs. doing the same with Nicks???"

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 03:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

(in the interest of Dan P. not taking any flack (flak?) for my own less moderate preferences)

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 03:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

your forgetting the various 'alex in _____'s!

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 03:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

although they're actually pretty easy to keep seperate

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 03:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

The swan pics, remember, are a scrolling problem, not a page size problem. It's just the one little pic, which is loaded once, and printed over and over.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 03:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

How do you use extraordinary powers?? Like precognition & remote vewing? Cause I have both powers but dont know how to use them. And I cant cast any GOOD spells to move me frome place to place.

― Shannon Nichole Keger, Wednesday, 23 April 2003 23:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

Would a moderator mind removing this post I made on the American Sports thread which contains a really stupid and pointless racist joke? It was made in the spirit of "hey let's be politically incorrect!" the thread momentarily took on, but is actually quite mean and I think would reflect badly on ILX for any newbies who happened upon it. Also I apologize to anyone who was offended by it (though I guess there's a whole other thread for that).

― chester (synkro), Thursday, 24 April 2003 00:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think I know the one you mean, so I changed one of your posts, but I'm even kind of in the group you may have been worried about offending and I wasn't even offended. :) Sorry if I got the wrong one.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 24 April 2003 02:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Can somebody delete the duplicate Nikki Taylor thread? It's hella-annoying.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 24 April 2003 13:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

Just curious... moderator type, could you please check if "Scott Kos" is really C*l*m?

I don't want to debate the issue any further. I find the thread creepy, but it's worrying me if this is either the work of C*l*m or the legacy of C*l*m.

― kate, Thursday, 24 April 2003 14:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

ILX: Creepier every day!

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 24 April 2003 14:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

If it's just C*l*m trying to "rearrange our sensibilities" or whatever his excuse for his trolling is, then fair enough, whatever. What I'm worried about is that random new people will wander in, see the C*l*m threads, and think that *that* is what ILX is about, thus lowering the tone of the entire board and making it totally creepy and hostile towards women. One troll is easy enough to ignore, but a whole influx of new people who don't understand what it's all about is rather more worrying.

― kate, Thursday, 24 April 2003 14:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

there is no way that is calum

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 24 April 2003 14:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't think it is either, actually.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 24 April 2003 14:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

AAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!

There's more than one of them, then? I'm feeling seriously creeped right now. Like I need a bath or something.

― kate, Thursday, 24 April 2003 14:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

link?

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 24 April 2003 15:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

it's the Nikki Taylor Girl thread.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 24 April 2003 15:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Nikki Taylor Girl

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 24 April 2003 15:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

That was the one, Felicity, thank you. Girlfriend (who is Korean) got mad over it, so she at least will be happy it's gone. I also agree that this place has had a stronger anti-social creep element recently and I didn't want to contribute to that. Plus leaving the beaneaters comment just makes me sound happy-stoner rather than Manson-stoner :)

― chester (synkro), Thursday, 24 April 2003 15:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

Was it necessary to delete the "Nikki Taylor Girl thread" after the poster in question had actually apologized? A thread containing the phrases "banal intercourse" and "masturbating geek" cannot be all bad.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 24 April 2003 15:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

Upthread I asked for one of the threads to be deleted because the asshat had originally posted not one but *two* identical threads on this topic.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 24 April 2003 15:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

- Offensive threads. At their discretion, moderators can delete entire threads which are likely to cause offence. It happens very rarely - threads which are racially or sexually abusive are the most likely. Even then moderators might not delete the thread, if an offensive question seems likely to provoke debate. If you find a thread offensive, please say on the thread or email a moderator about it.

I think that posting random rape fantasies to a public forum is pretty much the dictionary definition of sexually offensive. I didn't ask for the thread to be deleted, but I would defend the action as being within the realm of moderation.

― kate, Thursday, 24 April 2003 15:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

BANAL INTERCOURSE GOES AWAY?! FUCKING A.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 24 April 2003 16:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ally, the phrase remains as long as your libidinous imagination remains entact. ;-)

― kate (suzy), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

Are you saying my fantasies are banal, kate? ;)

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

One 'b' away from the truth

― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

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