an open letter to the mods from Whiney G. Weingarten

http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/mba/lowres/mban1577l.jpg

(note: I was also involved in the meta-shit but I dropped it immediately when reminded of what I was doing)

― lol tea partiers and their fat fingers (HI DERE), Wednesday, November 3, 2010 4:54 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

mod ban thyself

calling the poster a "dumbass" in the admin log does not make the decision appear to be about the community.

oh wait what's this i thought for sure official policy was moving threads from 77

haven't seen the exchange in question but if whiney brought up that unperson bullshit again it's his own fault imo - it's not a dificult rule to follow

otoh 27 days seems a bit harsh and "see you in 27 days, dumbass" is a lame tombot bite

oh wait what's this i thought for sure official policy was moving threads from 77

uh thread in question this time wasnt on 77 so

oh what...so whiney got tempbanned for annoying perry?

man and i was gonna be all pro-mods on this one, i swear

back to the pile

The thing that should be taken away from this is that ranting like an insane person about off-topic meta things will get you tempbanned if I come across it.

Spend more time talking about things other than each other and you shouldn't have any problems.

but we luv each other why cant u see

mod, heal thyself

Whiney did not get tempbanned for annoying Perry

If making fun of rapeyness is a bannable offense, we should all get a time-out for that thread where we ragged on Sublime for singing an anti-rape song.

BROCOLLI RAPE

bee rape (nod to aerosmith)

Anyway, I think Whiney had probably just had too many circus peanuts or something. Just give him a couple days and he'll cool off.

a couple of days, lol

just give him a couple pills and like 30 years of therapy

imo something should be added to the FAQ saying basically "be nice to Dan Perry all the time or be prepared to face the consequences" because that's pretty much how it feels at this point. maybe all the mods stand together on his decisions but usually it feels like it's him taking stuff personal, acting on it, and then usually jjjusten backing him up. nothing against you, dude, you're an A+ poster and as big a part of ILX as anybody but i'm getting Tombot flashbacks.

some dude making a lot of sense, but otoh...

Whiney did not get tempbanned for annoying Perry

― Pashmina, Wednesday, November 3, 2010 6:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

cant really argue with this stone cold logic

stfu noob

Whiney obviously can be a gaping asshole and can be 51'd when he's a general nuisance, as he has been and may be again in the future. but if anything that lowers the impetus for mod intervention, especially a 4-week ban for the kind of thing that iirc usually warrants a couple days in the penalty box. when i talked to him about it he didn't seem particular upset or impatient to get posting privileges back, so i'm not really adamantly protesting on his behalf or anything, but i still think it was pretty clearly a raw deal.

xp uh well fuck you dude

People taking the fact that hi dere and I have known each other for a billion years and turning it into evidence #1 for how we are rogue mod cop buddies watching each others back can stfu IMO. Shit is getting old.

its more classic than old

xp uh well fuck you dude

― samosa gibreel, Thursday, November 4, 2010 12:24 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

j/k noob jeez

Like so far my "backing him up" in this instance was clarifying that the 28 day deal was generated by the system just so peeps had transparency on that and all of a sudden I'm gabby Hayes dancing on a saloon table in the background while dan cold guns em down.

\(O_O)/

brand n00bian

I'm generally fine w/ mod fascism but 'see you in 27 days, dumbass' seems like more of an abuse of power than the actual banning

i read this whole thread and i still dont really understand why whiney is banned

um maybe if u read this one

ILX Posters Whose Butts I Want To Smack With A Spiny Fish

this is a good one to let go smack w/a spiny fish

― lol tea partiers and their fat fingers (HI DERE), Monday, November 1, 2010 1:11 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The fact that peeps still invoke tombot in these threads like you are survivors of some despotic Internet police state is totally fucking pathetic as well btw.

*cowers instinctively*

from whiney:

I 100% feel like I was temp-banned for annoying Dan Perry and nothing else. I have learned absolutely nothing from this experience and when I return in 27 days, I will continue to post as I always have, even--and especially--if that includes lightly poking fun of the terrible mod decisions of Dan and jjjusten. If they're too thin-skinned to handle that, they can continue temp-banning me and everyone until ILX is the boring cuddle party they so clearly desire.

The fact that peeps still invoke tombot in these threads like you are survivors of some despotic Internet police state is totally fucking pathetic as well btw.

― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, November 4, 2010 12:53 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

YOU DONT KNOW

YOU WERENT THERE

you guys are going to learn, I think, that I'm the nicest mod you fucking have

-- El Tomboto, Wednesday, 28 May 2008

miss u, dude

Also, the two of them are being more mean and meta-snarky on this this thread than ANY of my gags about moving the finest thread. This is a ridiculous double standard. And pathetic. And honestly i'm proud to be banned from any site where moderators can dish it all day out but cannot take it.

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

max channeling the spirit of whiney is super weird

http://c2.api.ning.com/files/sEVmhyB3c1XfSzQ6CgQys*cVHfiHrJAeqGs6D7PMf92tVsvCAlJ1NUhVplXjBlT4axsCd1n3kT6Wjrk62Uc*uSBpgBH8zN6m/ouija1.jpg

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/graphics/fifeanddrum.jpg

the length of these bans is straight ridiculous

Uh yknow pretty sure nothing I've said on this thread is up to par snarkwise with repeatedly talking about how the mods love rape jokes so whatever dude.

do THE MODS LOVE RAPE JOKES?

so this is 27 days because that's all the system will allow? what happened to three day temp bans?

do THE MODS LOVE RAPE JOKES?

no

so this is 27 days because that's all the system will allow? what happened to three day temp bans?

temp bans are automatically made longer by the system each time

Wow jhosh yknow it actually really bums me out that we used to get along on this site but then I became a mod and now you seem to go out of your way to be a dick to me.

oh xp

jj

1. i do like you and i reget and apologize for any previous excessively feeling hurting behavior, but that was clearly an hilarious text formatting based joke

2. if you dont want people to give you shit re being a mod, just dont be a mod, easy

anyway imo this is a ridiculous ban but whatever