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

dmac---they could coexist, but it'd be sorta redundant.

lj's second (third?) sb was a surprise for sure, other than that even the ones i wouldn't have wished for were in no ways surprosing or murky imo

why redundant

i) hey mod look at this and decide
ii) hey mod if 50 other people feel like i do please ban this user for 30 days

lol ok look I've been drinking, I'll re-scan the thread and give you a rhyming & rhyming big-up in a minute

― aerosmith: the acid house years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, November 21, 2010 7:12 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

see, the only reason i've managed to stay with this thread is because i live in lol mn and am drinking 3.2 k*ll*ans

ok lol @ autoreplace there, what the heck

drinking whiskey, i dont even know why i'm here. think i'm taking all aerosmith's flak tbh

worked brilliantly for hi dere.

― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Sunday, November 21, 2010 8:10 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

I love HI DERE, but I always felt his willingness to engage with the plebes on this stuff was his achilles heel... obviously he felt he was doing a good thing wrt mod transparency, but the people he dealt with were mostly animals who took a mile when given an inch. Let everyone have IMP so they can let off steam and feel like they're being heard, but you don't really need to actually talk to them imo.

only redundant in that if a given poster is getting flagged all the g-d time, then the mods can just ban 'em. no one gets voted off the island.

i haven't been suggest-banned often, but when i have, it's around the time i've been snide or a jackass. so i'm not surprised to have seen it happen.

im almost +ve i sb'd you once in the 'how many sbs do i have?' thread bcuz your total was low + i think i had a 'good zinger' about you now have x+1 sbs instead of x or w/e

so i mean i hope that taught u a lesson

lol it did

just sb'd you.

no offense

(actually, just kidding)

xxxp to ptt hoooo boy

only redundant in that if a given poster is getting flagged all the g-d time, then the mods can just ban 'em. no one gets voted off the island.

― BIG MUFFIN (gbx),

mods cant make that call themselves?

sb, for me, works only if mods are making the calls on what's acceptable/banworthy completely independently of sb totals. sb used as a register of complaint of the kind of mid/low level annoyance/nuisance/disruption that can make a poster who never posts anything banworthy in one post a real PITA

What is the purpose of the suggest ban system? I am asking this now, in a lull, in the hopes that we can reasonably and non-specifically address a potential alternative.

-Is it to attempt to punish or reform the behaviour of out of control or problem posters?
-Is it to lighten the workload of the mods, and eliminate the need for "Ban Poster X" campaigns?
-Is it to create a general air of paranoia, fear and suspicion, dissuade posters from expressing views they fear may be unpopular, and drive the creation of new screen names and socks to express opinions?

so imo sb is for none of those things

princess tam tam even tho upthread I advocated greater restraint on the part of non-mod ppl other than kate posting itt, you are proposing bad bad things

well, maybe the first one tbf, tho 'out of control' isn't quite right

need a mod & kate only board, lj?

see, the only reason i've managed to stay with this thread is because i live in lol mn and am drinking 3.2 k*ll*ans

lol high five

tam tam is only a princess in the sense that he likes his new tiara and his suggestions are terrible

princess tam tam even tho upthread I advocated greater restraint on the part of non-mod ppl other than kate posting itt, you are proposing bad bad things

― pro EVOO sucker (acoleuthic), Sunday, November 21, 2010 8:27 PM (53 seconds ago) Bookmark

What do you mean?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVmhZW1dDis

suggest beef

Gbx for a small fee I will call you every Saturday afternoon and tell you to go to the gddmn liquor store.

I mean 3.2 k*ll*ans u poor bastard

i did, it just, uh, didn't last.

a bitter harvest

loool

What do you mean?

― Onigaga (Princess TamTam), Monday, 22 November 2010 01:28 (6 minutes ago)

yr proposals advocate out and out authoritarianism, no right of reply, and the sort of unfeeling moderation for which ILX is seldom if ever known

1) Ad hominem attacks
2) Bullying
3) Racism
4) Sexism/Misogyny
5) Homophobia
6) Hate Speech (other)

the mods already take care of all these pretty effectively imo.

Note what reasons are not given: this system is *not* for things one finds annoying but not mod-worthy

i don't agree with it, but my understanding is that this is exactly what SB is supposed to capture: low level dickishness.

― caek, Sunday, 21 November 2010 14:03 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

if the mods find it useful/reassuring to have the silent support of SBs before they make a moderation decision they would have hesitated to make on their own, then i'm all for keeping it. and when they make that decision, they can tell the problem poster why.

but 51 = 30 days, 102 = 60 days automated bans seem to be treated like a force of nature by the mods simply because keith wrote the code that way. and in practice they've resulted in a mixture of absurd and uncool popularity contest bans that make ilx a worse place, and perfectly sensible bans/timeouts for bad faith dickishness the mods could have done themselves. just get rid of the autoban, keep the "suggest ban" button as an "fyi this post annoyed me" if the mods fine it useful, and the system is fine.

― caek, Sunday, 21 November 2010 14:19 (Yesterday)

i agree with all this 100% hope it's not too dense in someone else's words

yr proposals advocate out and out authoritarianism, no right of reply, and the sort of unfeeling moderation for which ILX is seldom if ever known

dude, your situation would be massively IMPROVED if all that came to pass

except "automated bans" just isn't true, as has been stated here and on every other SB thread. Bans are not automatic.

xp

that is very fair xxpost

Why so, WmC? I know the mods are trying to help me so I got a lotta time for yr many decisions, but I think a right of reply and an informed consensus is very important as well (albeit more so in politics than on ILX).

except "automated bans" just isn't true, as has been stated here and on every other SB thread. Bans are not automatic.

Trayce said this too and it's sound. So maybe just call 'suggest ban' something less inciteful or make the link harder to get at or something.

Or put love hearts around it maybe.

"right of reply" is the 50x before 51 imo lj

well they've spoken and I'm listening

hey gbx - while I disagree that the flagging system will solve much of anything, I want to sincerely give you props for being civil and keeping it positive on this thread.

If all ban decisions had been taken out of the hands of SB'ers, you probably wouldn't have gotten your third month off.

On the other hand the first month off might have been permanent, so I dunno.

In other words, it was mostly a joke.

(to LJ)

lj's third ban was when? i think his second one was worse tbh.

have only had 2 SBs

'only' haha

~foreshadowing~

lol

:(

and thx sarahel, tho i'm on my third k*ll*ans so things might get a little crazy around here

i was fond of my tribute thread though. some of my finest creative work on ilx.

why are you googleproofing the beer name?

it does it automatically!!!