An open letter to ILX & mods re: an alternative to the current system

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if that's aimed at me, i specifically typed in english that the first thing you say hasn't happened itt. in english. specifically.

Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link

turn around slap someone down for daring to suggest "hey, actually, I'm a programmer, I might be able to help you out."

this happened?

questeon the answers (call all destroyer), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link

Make up your mind. Is it "THIS IS PUNK ROCK, DO IT YOURSELF!" or is it "NO ONE IS DESIGNING THEIR OWN CODE THIS IS MADNESS" ?

Karen D. Tregaskin, Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link

i'm super confused but let me say again i completely support yr efforts if you actually want to write something for the site

questeon the answers (call all destroyer), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link

I am srsly not trying to be willfully obtuse here but as a mod who deals w/ sbans, I am still completely baffled by how the sb system and this flagged post system are in any way functionally different.

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link

but the notion of people designing their own site and that then being switched for ilx? madness, you know that, right? couple of you seem to think that's accepted at this stage.

*slaps Karen in the face*

― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Sunday, 21 November 2010 18:28 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

samosa gibreel, Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link

that's actually what happened, i remember now.

Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:38 (thirteen years ago) link

as i understand it, instead of a tempban at 51 there will be some kind of amorphous mod action around 20

questeon the answers (call all destroyer), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:38 (thirteen years ago) link

Make up your mind. Is it "THIS IS PUNK ROCK, DO IT YOURSELF!" or is it "NO ONE IS DESIGNING THEIR OWN CODE THIS IS MADNESS" ?

just to be extremely clear, it's the latter.

Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link

has any one individual post ever attracted 20 sbans?

betting not

Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link

Like I kind of think people just don't understand how it works or something. Nothing anybody has mentioned in this thread is any different as far as I understand it other than changing the name of the function and adding a drop down menu?

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:41 (thirteen years ago) link

xps

if that's aimed at me, i specifically typed in english that the first thing you say hasn't happened itt. in english. specifically.

also reposting this, in anticipation of you again repeating that i said both things and calling me a hypocrite again.

Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:42 (thirteen years ago) link

xp stfu and go do it jj, it's what 5 people want

Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:42 (thirteen years ago) link

Change the name, call it 'u r dick' or something xp

Friday: vuvuzela club meeting (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:42 (thirteen years ago) link

^^^support this

questeon the answers (call all destroyer), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:43 (thirteen years ago) link

jjj, as I understand it, the main difference is that dick-move-perpetrators are informed of the dickishness of their move immediately rather than find out weeks or months later that their posting life is considered a collection of dickmoves by 51 ilxors -- which I'm totally for. I think that a lot of ilxors who get flagged are going to say "fuck you, that's just me KEEPIN IT REAL," but at least everybody will know exactly what they're getting called out for

Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link

I get the impression part of what K8 is asking for is that a clicked on post will flag that as a SB and therefore she (or anyone) knows why they're being flagged.

The current system only allows you to SB a person once, which a flag-post system would change (as I assume we'd be allowed to flag multiple posts by the same person - I would certainly expect this).

I cant help wondering if some people reeeeallly may not find it fruitful to know why people are SBing them, imo. But thats just me.

And this one time, on Bandcamp... (Trayce), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link

fyi mods sarge has informed me he is still unable to post sitewide

aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link

I am srsly not trying to be willfully obtuse here but as a mod who deals w/ sbans, I am still completely baffled by how the sb system and this flagged post system are in any way functionally different.

I kinda thought I had explained that in the first post. But again, this time more slowly.

Suggest Ban is "confirm you want this USER removed from the site - at some point between now and 6 months"
Flag/Report Post is "I find this POST objectionable and would like moderator action on it - ASAP"

The former is directed entirely against an individual as a whole. The latter is directed against a specific action.
The former is "You are a bad person" the latter is "this thing you did, it is bad"
The former is disconnected in time and explanation from the actual action that caused it. The latter is causally connected, both at the time, and in specific explanation, to the action.
The former is "I, as a banner, do not have to justify this action in any way" the latter is "I have to specify why I want action taken"

Do you understand how these two things are different?

One is a blanket indictment of an entire person, without ever explaining why they are bad, just that they are bad, and they should go away.
The other is very specifically aimed at actions, with the idea of pointing out what behaviour is unacceptable, with the specific intent of changing that behaviour.

Karen D. Tregaskin, Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link

J0rdan, if you're reading this, try posting now

Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link

jjj, as I understand it, the main difference is that dick-move-perpetrators are informed of the dickishness of their move immediately rather than find out weeks or months later that their posting life is considered a collection of dickmoves by 51 ilxors -- which I'm totally for. I think that a lot of ilxors who get flagged are going to say "fuck you, that's just me KEEPIN IT REAL," but at least everybody will know exactly what they're getting called out for

― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Sunday, November 21, 2010 5:46 PM (58 seconds ago) Bookmark

props for this. extracting reason from all the clusterfuckery.

cha-cha cheating (bnw), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link

xp stfu and go do it jj, it's what 5 people want

― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:42 (1 minute ago)

http://i.imgur.com/UnvzI.jpg

calpolaris (nakhchivan), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link

xxxxxp to kaen

some of us want the option of the user being removed from the whole site for 30 days, should we start a thread lobbying against that being removed?

again, taking you at face value that you don;t know how you could ever have been banned under sb, your argument is predicated on being suggest banned for nothing that you can think of except that at least 51 ilxors are total shitheads.

Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:53 (thirteen years ago) link

most of my sb's are of the "you need a break from the site" variety

questeon the answers (call all destroyer), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link

To make it really short:

Suggest ban = users are two year olds
Flag/report post = users are adults

Karen D. Tregaskin, Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link

I had a bunch of stuff to say, but it's probably better that I stay out of these convos. Lemme just say that I'm glad I'm not a mod here, many of you are... needlessly difficult.

Onigaga (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link

this all seems a bit complex

maybe we shd just say why we sb people, as and when, but oh no, that would be zing culture

rip whiney g weingarten 03/11 never forget (history mayne), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link

does anyone read anymore

cad: k8 has stated several times over that she a) is a programmer (tho rusty) and b) would at least like to look at the source code. as would i, but mostly to see if i can even parse it.

as for how this would be substantially different than SBs: i've made what i thought was a pretty clear case, a few times. flagging posts attracts mod attn ~to that post~ and they can, as they do now, decide what to do about the infraction. modding is then directed towards something controversial ~as it happens~ vs someone suddenly getting disappeared because their posting history caught up with them. also, in a "rhetorical" sense, flagging a post is just saying "i don't think this is appropriate" vs saying "i think this person should no longer post on ilx"

xp thanking u, kate

BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link

most of my sb's are of the "you need a break from the site" variety

Actually my (very very few) have also been this. General "pull back, you need a break" pings, based on multiple posts of wtfery.

And this one time, on Bandcamp... (Trayce), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link

again, taking you at face value that you don;t know how you could ever have been banned under sb, your argument is predicated on being suggest banned for nothing that you can think of except that at least 51 ilxors are total shitheads.

No.

My argument is "if you do not KNOW why you have been SB'd, your imagination can run riot and you can think that it might be for A or for B or for CDEFGHIJKLMNOP"

If you want to read that as saying "OMG, she just accused everyone who SB'd her of being LMNOP!" that is an incorrect conclusion to draw from the statement that I made.

Karen D. Tregaskin, Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link

what about those of us who sb as a gesture of love

sure it's a dysfunctional way of expressing ourselves but who are you to judge us

aerosmith: the acid house years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link

in seriousness tho K8 people do tell you when they're exasperated with you? like how you could not know exactly which posting behaviors have resulted in sb's is a total mystery, since you are smart and can figure that out??

aerosmith: the acid house years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link

if you have ever been banned can you be considered an adult

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link

cad: k8 has stated several times over that she a) is a programmer (tho rusty) and b) would at least like to look at the source code. as would i, but mostly to see if i can even parse it.

i know! why are you explaining this to me?

questeon the answers (call all destroyer), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link

sometimes we just like to explain things to call all destroyer

aerosmith: the acid house years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 22 November 2010 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link

Suggest ban = users are two year olds
Flag/report post = users are adults

― Karen D. Tregaskin

code in an age check, keep sb

Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Monday, 22 November 2010 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link

can I just say that while I am often frustrated with and irritated by KDT/MB, the original post in this thread was reasonable, and it was carefully timed not to fall in the middle of any other metashit -- a good attempt to talk borad mechanics. And she still got four SBs for it. Doesn't that make it obvious that she's getting SB'd for existing, not for anything specific she did wrong in that post?

That's the kind of bullshit that I think a flag post system instead of a SB system might help eliminate.

Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Monday, 22 November 2010 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link

To make it really short:

Suggest ban = users are two year olds
Flag/report post = users are adults

to make it shorter = this sort of garbage is why people sb you

aerosmith: the acid house years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 22 November 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link

probably already been said in this very long thread, but i would guess that starting this thread will have earned you 5< SBs, because it's annoying and cluster-fucky

xp

ha

rip whiney g weingarten 03/11 never forget (history mayne), Monday, 22 November 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link

as a child I posted pictures of men stretching their anuses out, as all children did, in the 90s

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 22 November 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link

flagging posts attracts mod attn ~to that post~ and they can, as they do now, decide what to do about the infraction. modding is then directed towards something controversial ~as it happens~ vs someone suddenly getting disappeared because their posting history caught up with them. also, in a "rhetorical" sense, flagging a post is just saying "i don't think this is appropriate" vs saying "i think this person should no longer post on ilx"

ok

why not both?

also- do sb's draw mod attention to a post or not?

Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Monday, 22 November 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link

"only I am an adult! people who disagree with me are children! it is a great mystery why I get SB'd!" like seriously? I'm one of the few posters whose "fuck you, the patriarchy" radar is as sensitive as yours, but that post warrants a huge FUCK YOU from me

aerosmith: the acid house years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 22 November 2010 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link

and again: flagging, like SBs, would have a threshold (i said 20, arbitrarily). not a threshold for ~action~, but for ~notification~. like if somebody went and flagged an entire thread for lolz, it wouldn't necessarily be brought to the attn of mods. if someone made an egregious post in a highly trafficked thread, then it seems likely that lots of like-minded ilxors would say "hey that's not cool." i generally do NOT SB because i like having some of our more controversial posters, and i don't want them to get 86d because i registered my disapproval of ONE POST. however, it would be nice to be able to call attn to it (i'm more inclined to post a response, but still) and maybe have that lead to a yellow card or temp ban or w/e.

cuz if i'm not mistaken (mods?), temp bans are usually the result of attn drawn to specific posts, whereas the review process for SBs is only twigged when they hit the threshold

BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Monday, 22 November 2010 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link

why are you guys making this about kate, it's a little weird

BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Monday, 22 November 2010 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link

sorry, cad! i misread this:

this happened?

― questeon the answers (call all destroyer), Sunday, November 21, 2010 5:32 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark

i thought you meant "kate never offered to help" when you actually meant "no one slapped anyone down"

my b

BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Monday, 22 November 2010 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link

i'm actually replyin to everyone that's called me names itt, gbx, tbf. i even posted to some who didn't

Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Monday, 22 November 2010 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link

and, just so we didn't miss it:

can I just say that while I am often frustrated with and irritated by KDT/MB, the original post in this thread was reasonable, and it was carefully timed not to fall in the middle of any other metashit -- a good attempt to talk borad mechanics. And she still got four SBs for it. Doesn't that make it obvious that she's getting SB'd for existing, not for anything specific she did wrong in that post?

That's the kind of bullshit that I think a flag post system instead of a SB system might help eliminate.

― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Sunday, November 21, 2010 6:00 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Monday, 22 November 2010 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link

why are you guys making this about kate, it's a little weird

I was actually going to use Bimble as my SB example fwiw.

And this one time, on Bandcamp... (Trayce), Monday, 22 November 2010 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link

to make it shorter = this sort of garbage is why people sb you

yeah, pretty unhelpful there

cuz if i'm not mistaken (mods?), temp bans are usually the result of attn drawn to specific posts, whereas the review process for SBs is only twigged when they hit the threshold

yeah, that's pretty much right

Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Monday, 22 November 2010 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link

btw the discourse of banscussion wrings our hands for us and causes undue and unproportionate and unnecessary stress for its participants - kate has a right to express her sentiments and I have no problem with her doing so (indeed I agree with most of them) but this thread is just too long and it draws too much negative energy to ILX - I cannot think of a way to remedy this without restricting freedom of speech except personal restraint though

thread shd have really been a discussion between kate, wmc and jjj maybe? get abbott involved too? idk

pro EVOO sucker (acoleuthic), Monday, 22 November 2010 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link


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