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

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gah "assumed mane" = "assumed name"!

Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 21 April 2003 18:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

I almost threw up over something that was posted about me over the weekend. Between that and this I'm genuinely bothered.

Haha I will post to ILX with a fabulous wig, I have a really nice black one I could wear.

Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 21 April 2003 18:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

I hope you don't get driven away, Ally. We'd miss you terribly.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 21 April 2003 18:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes, don't let a stupid impostercon scare you away.

Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 21 April 2003 18:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

This place has gotten really depressing lately.

Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 21 April 2003 18:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

I know - can anything be done abt it? Ally, moderators are here to deal w/any creepy shit that is thrown in your direction. Stick around, please!

Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 21 April 2003 18:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes indeed! Don't leave, we will track down the evil.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 April 2003 18:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

Reading the start of a rape fantasy about yourself = not condusive to staying on a message board.

Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 21 April 2003 18:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

That's the depressing bit, the mass defection from ilxor. Some people foolishly believe that a few trolls and psychopaths don't affect the board, but stuff like this points to the fact that it does.

Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 21 April 2003 18:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

rape fantasy? wtf? who pulled that shit?

gareth (gareth), Monday, 21 April 2003 18:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have no idea who is pulling it, and that's why it's freaking me out.

Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 21 April 2003 18:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's just a wee bit too graphic to be even remotely considered "funny" and/or "harmless."

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Agreed. Time to circle the wagons me thinks.... I feel mad too.

Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mm, now I remember the post. I'm not surprised at Ally for feeling the way she does at all.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Did anyone check the IP address before deleting it?

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

where the hell is it? whats the ip of the poster?

gareth (gareth), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

time to take some muthafukkas out me thinks

James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes, it's the same person who posted a picture of me in the "Show your visage" thread or whatever, the one that was a really old pic of me and was captioned "THis is who I'd like to be...or rock the casbah with" something like that. I've got a psycho net stalker, charming. That was for the ones pretending to be me, I don't know who the rape guy was.

Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

ps: Ally - please don't go, so saith Londonbeat. You know we totally gotyer back girl.

James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes, listen to Londonbeat. James speaks wise words.

Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Man, who'd ever have thought Londonbeat would come in handy for, well, anything. Yes, echoing the above, thrice times more.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

well thank you guys, I appreciate it.

Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

Grrrr... Between Ally's psycho net stalker and Ant getting beat up I'm ready to organize a ILx posse.

Er, IP address?

Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

We're trying to determine again which thread this was on. This sounds like something the moderators need to discuss for future reference should something similar arise, since we'll need that info.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

It was on the THINGS TO BE SAID IN ALL CAPS thread. *shrugs* it was deleted, don't worry about it.

Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Some people foolishly believe that a few trolls and psychopaths don't affect the board, but stuff like this points to the fact that it does.

Trolls are one thing. They're a fact of life. But when you read something that just makes you feel gross inside... that's altogether different. We gotta get rid of this shit not just for Ally's mental health (although that's the biggest thing), but for everyone's.

Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 21 April 2003 20:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Discussion on this is kicking in on the ilx-moderators list. All moderators not on this list might want to join.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 April 2003 20:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

(Moderators who lost the invite to the mod email list, or *gasp* never got one, should email me and I'll make it happen.)

Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 21 April 2003 20:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Secret discussion of ME! It's so scandalous.

Seriously, guys, I appreciate it, you are the men who will fight for my honor, etc, but it's really ok, just delete the stuff and I might go away for a while if it keeps up, it's not really anything you can do anything about.

Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 21 April 2003 22:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

more calum-ny

Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

actually the argument about being shot in the nuts bears some weight

James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

blount you want this deleted?

jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

you guys have taken over half of the recent threads. c'mon now.

Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

hell yeah - take em out brutha!

James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sigh. A mod who can look at stuff at work please visit:

British groups storm the American charts. Not.

Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

(done, aaron.)

jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

James, you should register your name.

Ed (dali), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

hey James i took out the offending post as well as "wtf?" style follow-ups

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thanks Jess.

Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

he pulled the same on "geir hongro classic or dud" and i X'd em there too.

jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

That was clearly Mr. C@lum Robert W@ddell posing as James, btw. If you want to give credit where credit is due.

Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

yeah I registered my name like Michael Jordan or something. sigh. on the other hand, swans.

James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 17:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

The operators of this forum know what I object to and I'd ask them to respect it.

I also object to the post I recently made on ILE asking for feedback about a creative endeavour, the thread was hi-jacked by James Blount and I'd ask the moderators to delete most of the posts there as I was wanting serious and considerate feedback. I'd like to see evidence that Mr Blount is producing anything in his pitiful life.

If ILM/ ILE wants me to post serious threads then it should really think about the reaction to said attempts. Whenever I try (recent examples include White Stripes thread on ILM, my other thread on ILE) James hijacks it and acts like the inbred, redneck idiot he is. I have no problem with people voting Bush - it's up to them, but that doesn't mean I need to have their idiocy all over my own threads.

Calum, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 17:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

where did I say I voted for Bush?

James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 17:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

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


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