the mods should not be expected to take on that level of oversight on a single thread
have you read the title of the thread you are posting in
― stilt in the wings (sic), Monday, 22 February 2021 04:37 (three years ago) link
xp
btw, a mod has complied with sahahell's and pplains wishes. the posts are gone. so, this has been resolved for now.
― Judge Roi Behan (Aimless), Monday, 22 February 2021 04:38 (three years ago) link
the flowchart is literally bookmark thread > check bookmark > did a man post in the thread > if so, delete --- but maybe that is complicated for some.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 22 February 2021 04:38 (three years ago) link
how dare someone make a request on the mod request board
― stilt in the wings (sic), Monday, 22 February 2021 04:39 (three years ago) link
deleting a post in a thread, if you have the link to the post in question is very quick and easy to do.
― sarahell, Monday, 22 February 2021 04:40 (three years ago) link
idk, some posters say "it is not a small commitment"
― call all destroyer, Monday, 22 February 2021 04:42 (three years ago) link
in the minute since my last post, I have deleted a post of my own in an ILAFL thread and updated the Admin Log with a reason ...
― sarahell, Monday, 22 February 2021 04:42 (three years ago) link
Aimless, sic was pointing out that there's been a long-standing tacit agreement that we do clean up that thread, even before we had any non-boy moderators. We don't have the person-power to clean up every thread, it's true, but "not boys" are a significant minority on the boards and having a space is important. I mean, in theory I'm not super-into the idea of people making up rules for participation in threads and then expecting the mods to enforce those rules, but in practice there are plenty of times when that's needed, and that's cool by me.
(several xposts, sorry)
― emil.y, Monday, 22 February 2021 04:43 (three years ago) link
thank you emil.y and other mods!
― sarahell, Monday, 22 February 2021 04:43 (three years ago) link
― sarahell, Sunday, February 21, 2021 11:42 PM (thirty-five seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
i hope you feel ok and that this was not terribly onerous for you
― call all destroyer, Monday, 22 February 2021 04:44 (three years ago) link
Also, yeah, I kind of wasn't even thinking about the fact that this was a request made on the request forum - that's even less work for the mods because we're given the links straight up. For some reason I was thinking about the work involved in monitoring a thread for boy-intrusion.
xps again
― emil.y, Monday, 22 February 2021 04:45 (three years ago) link
xp CAD - I might need a deep tissue massage and a long bath because of the intensive labor required
― sarahell, Monday, 22 February 2021 04:46 (three years ago) link
did a man post in the thread > if so, delete --- but maybe that is complicated for some
gender is already complicated, but it can get more complicated in a space where no one has a corporeal presence and is only identified by such labels as
masthead
goombah
but one or more of the mods has acted in this specific case, so now we are only discussing what sort of policy the mods might want to follow in future cases such as this. imo, that is for the mods to decide among themselves, if they wish.
― Judge Roi Behan (Aimless), Monday, 22 February 2021 04:46 (three years ago) link
You know I'm going to squish those goombahs.
― emil.y, Monday, 22 February 2021 04:48 (three years ago) link
― sarahell, Sunday, February 21, 2021 11:46 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
fair; wishing the best for your recovery
― call all destroyer, Monday, 22 February 2021 04:49 (three years ago) link
xp dude, pretty much the "policy" has been that a non-male will alert the mods, often with a post to the mod request forum, notifying them that a boy has posted to the thread. I think in the past 10 years, it has either been WGW-style lol action or someone like sic, treeship, or crut accidentally responding to something and forgetting which thread it was.
― sarahell, Monday, 22 February 2021 04:51 (three years ago) link
For some reason I decided to check that goombahs were indeed the Mario guys who we all love to squish, and now I've found out that "goombah" with an h is actually a slur against Italians, and that "goomba" (the Mario guys who we all love to squish) is probably derived from that slur. Well, shit.
― emil.y, Monday, 22 February 2021 04:54 (three years ago) link
Mario is a great Italian-American, so it's all good
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 22 February 2021 04:55 (three years ago) link
sarahell otm. Aimless, the idea that the no-boys thread needs a special mod so that "the other mods don't have to deal with that" is weird. no one is actually asking for mods to sit around clicking refresh on that thread to police it - they're asking, in the "delete this post" thread, for a mod to "delete this post." they've additionally provided justification by invoking the longstanding precedent for mods to delete threads by boys barging into the "no boys allowed" thread, which i gather has been done for ages, for good reason. are you actually looking to have a discussion of "what sort of policy the mods might want to follow in future cases such as this"? why?
― honkin' on bobo, honkin' with my feet ten feet off of beale (Doctor Casino), Monday, 22 February 2021 16:36 (three years ago) link
Every single “delete this post” request requires discussion among moderators, and then the appointment of a new sitewide moderator, to handle this and any future post deletion requests regarding that one specific thread. This will eliminate the difficulties involved in reading and reacting to a linked post, freeing up more time for managing ruckus.
― stilt in the wings (sic), Monday, 22 February 2021 18:14 (three years ago) link
Hi there - could someone delete my two recent posts on the Popeye thread - I've inadvertently posted my civilian name in a mangled link. Thank you.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 19:57 (three years ago) link
Got them. (I say this every time but if people could include links to the posts they want deleted that would be very good for us mods)
― mod, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 20:01 (three years ago) link
Thank you, I will try better in future.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 20:04 (three years ago) link
uh has there been a specific Popeye mod appointed to the Popeye thread or what, why is there no transparency around this
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 21:08 (three years ago) link
there's an entire Popeye board can u not see it oh sh-
― "Salvation Army FUCK!" (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 March 2021 00:44 (three years ago) link
not if it's on the right hand side of SNA
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Wednesday, 17 March 2021 00:52 (three years ago) link
Last (x) movies you saw (II)
Please delete my premature first post.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Sunday, 4 April 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link
ok
― mod, Sunday, 4 April 2021 21:08 (three years ago) link
i got 2 excited to post a dumb matt yglesias tweet and didn't see milo had just posted it can you delete my duplicate post and my apology so no one knows thanks EZRA KLEIN v MATT YGLESIAS
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Monday, 5 April 2021 00:17 (three years ago) link
while we're placing requests for completely innocuous admin-type clear-ups, if a mod could replace the long quote from me in j/v/c's post here with [accidental paste deleted] or similar, it would only make the thread more readable.
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Monday, 5 April 2021 00:50 (three years ago) link
dude, you posted about Happy Feet and penguins ... readability really doesn't matter
― sarahell, Monday, 5 April 2021 03:09 (three years ago) link
pwnged
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Monday, 5 April 2021 03:43 (three years ago) link
Harbl, got yours.
Sic, even though j/v/c posted in the thread that the paste was a mistake, I'd still rather not get into the habit of cleaning up posts when the request doesn't come directly from the poster (unless it's something properly bad that needs squishing).
― emil.y, Monday, 5 April 2021 16:30 (three years ago) link
thanks <3
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Monday, 5 April 2021 16:32 (three years ago) link
emily - understood, but I thought the combo of jvc expressing that it was a mistake, plus having pulled all that out of hide tags, was a different context.
(I'm loath to create additional obligations for the mods, per se, but the advent of hide tags might prompt further precedential discussion generally: just as pulling 77 content onto the public board is frowned upon, it might be a bad idea to normalise open-posting content that other posters had hidden.)
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Monday, 5 April 2021 19:09 (three years ago) link
Ah, I hadn't realised it was all pulled from hide tags. I think that is a different context, so I've just edited to your suggestion. Agree that people generally shouldn't take stuff out of hiding if they can avoid it. My reluctance was partly a "no editing without permission of the original poster" thing and partly a "there aren't enough mods to always clean up your innocuous mistakes so learn to live with them" thing, and I realise the latter sounds a bit lazy but we are very very few these days.
― emil.y, Monday, 5 April 2021 19:44 (three years ago) link
if the pawn reaches the 15-year final rank, promotion to mod imo
― imago, Monday, 5 April 2021 19:57 (three years ago) link
3 months
Promise me comedy modding and I'll put a good word in.
― emil.y, Monday, 5 April 2021 20:09 (three years ago) link
I’ve heard of Dom passantino but “en passant imago”?! I haven’t heard of that
― jammy mcnullity (wins), Monday, 5 April 2021 20:20 (three years ago) link
lol
it'd be comedy modding all the way obvs :D
― imago, Monday, 5 April 2021 20:50 (three years ago) link
Accidental thread - could someone please eradicate?
BOB POPPINS: Robert Smith's guest vocals, 2003-2021
Merci bien moderators.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 3 June 2021 23:18 (three years ago) link
Polite bump.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 4 June 2021 05:40 (three years ago) link
Just hoping to catch a mod browsing SNA in whatever timezone.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 4 June 2021 11:20 (three years ago) link
sorry for delay. post duplicated as requested.
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 June 2021 12:19 (three years ago) link
You want the entire thread deleted?
― In my house are many Manchins (WmC), Friday, 4 June 2021 13:47 (three years ago) link
Yes, please, as polls can't be edited.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 4 June 2021 18:41 (three years ago) link
I locked it instead of deleting so you can still access the discussion on it if you start a new one - I thought that would be fairer to participants but can fully delete if preferred.
― emil.y, Friday, 4 June 2021 18:45 (three years ago) link
I was very confused why it was locked, hopefully you can restart it as was enjoying the discussion.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 4 June 2021 19:08 (three years ago) link