FP: Should 31 be the new 51 y/n

display the number of FPs next to the posts that draw them imo

^^this system works on the football forum i post to. also offers a chance for lolz

hey, i'm only thinking of the lolz

colour coding of display names for every 10 FPs, goes to flashing red and black when you reach 50

also anybody who reaches 31 has to go to an "Are You Sure You Want To Post This?" confirmation page before every subsequent post is accepted.

^this page is adorned with floating gifs of previous much-flagged posts

ban no longer lasts for 30 days but is over as soon as the culprit handwrites 51 letters of apology to the relevant ilxors

how do you know who is relevant?

What is FP?

flag post. i've only ever done it for one person & one post

ban no longer lasts for 30 days but is over as soon as the culprit handwrites 51 letters of apology to the relevant ilxors

― Pope Urban the Legend (Noodle Vague), Sunday, October 29, 2017 9:45 PM (fifty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is an idea I can embrace

I don't want any email from gabbneb or larry appleton, thanks

abolish the cowardly system altogether plz

another important question would be how many times a poster has FP'd

Fuck me, Twitter and FB are click for like type meritocracies, and look at the fucking state of them for goodness sake. And 99% of football forum "content" is enough to drive you to ending it for good. I'd say do not change anything ILX.

Yeah I'm not into public display of which posts have been FP'd and how many times, way too much like FB

has the board really had an issue with abusive or seriously disruptive posters recently?

remarkable how prevalent the cop mindset is tbh

we're all cops

I think it's just one example that caused this post

and that individual has now been banned, for hitting 51

Good Gulags are needed in these difficult times, the type that Solzhenitsyn + Shalamov would approve of imo.

write 51 times i will not be a bad poster

i like the new party atmosphere on the Admin Log

Fuck me, Twitter and FB are click for like type meritocracies, and look at the fucking state of them for goodness sake. And 99% of football forum "content" is enough to drive you to ending it for good. I'd say do not change anything ILX.

― calzino, Sunday, October 29, 2017 7:04 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wisdom

Aw whaddi miss whaddi miss

we're all cops

― ogmor, Sunday, October 29, 2017 11:16 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes.

I think it's just one example that caused this post

― El Tomboto, Sunday, October 29, 2017 11:20 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not really. A bit though yeah, def.

Lots of people otm here, some a bit too eager even to my own liking but that comes with the territory.

Feels like the ilx massive wants to exclude a person or two for quite some time. And it's not happening. Fine by me, but the system seems flawed for 2017 realness. Which is why I asked 31 for 51.

Shoulder to the wheel etc

i think we need more posters

is advertising in the budget?

21 imo

1

11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUFSB2plwzM

Don't Cry vs November Rain has new answers

so that was not a useful lead for finding out who you want iced

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3DllvVSsLc

Guys. I was going to wait but

I found the perfect venue for this year's ILX reunion

http://www.311cruise.com/

So wait... we're complaining because there are less dickheads needing/getting flagged/banhammered because theres less of us now, and this is a problem why exactly?

I think that brings up a good point - we might dislike certain posters more than we ever would have in, say, peak noize dude era, because there are less of us, and so the, uh, noize floor is more noticeable

39, because I just rewatched the 39 Steps

i support bernard snowy's proposal, seems sound.

if it's true that there are fewer of us, that makes us more vulnerable to assholes hanging around forever, never to reach 51 but able to really derail every thread at their whim. i always thought 51 was kind of shockingly high but i guess people used to do a lot more lol-SBing and you had to compensate for that.

btw at first glance I assumed this was a thread about flagging anyone who posted some lifestyle article about how age 31 is "the new 51"

would support that flag policy btw

why are we proposing a solution to a problem we do not have, is the question

^^^^^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6U-TGahwvs

why are we proposing a solution to a problem we do not have, is the question

― k3vin k., Monday, 30 October 2017 02:57 (forty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There aren't any fp's. Try to keep up.

I just flag the really bad posts with each of my 27 sock accounts

I suspect this poll was prompted by a particular poster who may have been 51'ed under a different username, but came back and is still a frequent irritant. My sense is that if any poster rises to the level of unacceptability requiring ejection, ILX will muster the necessary 51 FPs.

I personally doubt that there have been many posters who accumulated more than 31 active FPs who did not also pass the 51 threshold soon afterwards, but that is merely a guess on my part. Picking the 'right' number is not a science, but a fairly inexact heuristic. I'm fine with any number, as long as it is high enough that it cannot be driven by relatively small cabal. 51 has been adequately functional so far, imo.

I also note that 51 has deeply entered ILX lore. Changing it would render that lore illegible.

Bloody colonials.

Your people use 'cunt' where a civilized gentleman such as yours truly might utter 'jolly good morning' though

and how much is 'my posting style' the issue vs 'my ideological pov'

― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Saturday, 18 August 2018 21:18 (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ask them i guess

insofar as defensiveness is an ideology they're indistinguishable

hasn't sacked ours yet and I literally can't imagine how yours is any worse

well, last time it was because we had just abolished conscription, withdrawn from Vietnam, made university free, abolished the death penalty, released Papua New Guinea to be an independent country under the UN, brought in universal health care, instituted laws against racial discrimination, returned land rights to native people, set up arts grants and community radio licences, lowered the voting age to 18, allowed our third largest state-equivalent to elect senators, federally funded the connecting of homes to sewers, cut international tariffs, funded state schools, allowed single mothers to receive welfare for the first time, and brought in both equal pay and a minimum wage for women.

so I guess you guys still have a way to sink before Betty needs to step in again, yeah

Good to see sarahell

I like deej, Katherine and turrican - in fighting is sad but what can you do

would sack our government again

be careful what you wish for, folks

bring it down to one and the last person left can just agree with themselves all day long

seriously tho

11

5

stet is usually kind enough to provide figures showing that activity isnt rly down as much as we might perceive iirc

If we were to attempt this poll again today, would there even be a turnout of 31?

I have a dream.

Here's a thing about FPs that y'all may not realize: your most recent FP doesn't take the place of an older FP you gave to the same poster. Let's say you flagged Poster Z six months ago and again last week; the details page only shows the older one from you, and when a moderator clears out FPs that are six months old or older, your flag against that poster disappears even though you flagged them again just last week.

So if you're serious about using FP as a tool for policing ILXor behavior, it behooves you to flag every post you object to. For instance, I just looked at one particular poster's FP details and cleaned out their older FPs, dropping them from 26 to 13. If any of those 13 flaggers whose FPs got cleared out flagged that same poster AGAIN in the past six months, there's no record of it.

Maybe stet can tweak the code so that the most recent FP from a poster overwrites an older one, I don't know.

It seems like you are effectively saying that one should flag the poster, not the post.

I feel like something is off in your syntax there

it behooves you to flag every post you object to.

how does this square with "removing old FPs clears new ones as well"?

So sorry WmC but I object to that post, it simply had to be done

how does this square with "removing old FPs clears new ones as well"?

my understanding is that the old FP never gets overwritten by the new one. if you flag a post and an old one still exists, no FP will be added. if you flag a post after the old one has been cleared out, a new FP will be added.

I don't know what I'm saying, except that a poster can only flag one post by another poster at a time, and only the oldest one registers, and when old ones get cleared out, any newer ones that may have existed get cleared out as well. I have muddied the water, ugh.

xp -- yes, crüt has it

hmm I would def prefer it if the 6-month clock reset with each new FP

I agree. Honestly, it hadn't occurred to me to ask stet about this until today, duhhhh

easy remedied by flagging the poster at every conceivable reconfirmation of the behaviour that required banning

guys it’s rude to just talk about fred like this without him here

I am everywhere, so it's ok

lol

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CTt0afiVAAAXcB9.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-D2VeuWsAE7js5.jpg

We could also make 1 the new 51, at least for a while? It'll be fun!

Wonder how many silby picked up.

i kind of want to FP silby for the lolz but i absolutely don't want him banned, can we institute a button for that pls

yeah its the fp button

for as long as the number is 51 and not 11

xp - FP-ed you for that

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Seriously how has this clown not hit 20 yet

too “Big”

too "Big" to flag

^^ not stopping me from fp'ing furiously

oh i've done my part for this effort, believe me

big don aka the fp driver

Lads the individual campaigning has long been an explicit no-no iirc, back to the very first sb-wars threads

(Which everyone should read they are good reading)

This isn't individual campaigning, this is humanity begging god "why have u forsaken us lol" etc

Look its not holier than thou beseeching from meself ye understand, i fp as a tai-chi exercise

tai-chi cpt otm

Lads the individual campaigning has long been an explicit no-no iirc, back to the very first sb-wars threads

(Which everyone should read they are good reading)

And you should say it!

The links are easy searched i am *working* dyou mind

Seriously how has this clown not hit 20 yet

i noticed :)

When you saw only one set of footprints, it was them that Big Don was enjoying a two-week vacation