I should point out that there IS no autoban for Suggest Bans, fwiw. The only automated thing is the escalated timeouts for temp bans, which I agree is unnecessary, especially given that tempbans are usually rescinded after a few days.
― Matt DC, Monday, 22 November 2010 10:12 (thirteen years ago) link
What, you mean like:
I mean the link text by every post...
― Matt DC, Monday, 22 November 2010 21:10 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Twat Permalink
― Friday: vuvuzela club meeting (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 22 November 2010 10:12 (thirteen years ago) link
So here's me, sitting on 9 SB's (apparently).
I can't help but think that anything I've posted here couldn't get regarded as offensive to anybody, but have no idea. Doubtless, I'd assume that the majority of them were "rubbish joke, sb" type lols. And, of course, over the course of "HOW MANY???" ahem, years of posting here since the sb system was incorporated (allowing for the non-expiry of sb's), and my general 'live and let live' style here (have never sb'ed anyone), the day it goes to 51 I will be entirely dependant on a friendly mod going "pssh, that's dumb" and dropping my total back down again.
Of course, I could be wrong about a small number of those sb's, so there's my get-out clause in a way. If so, I apologise to those people and won't do it again (if I only knew what it was, that is)
Regards, M.
― Mark G, Monday, 22 November 2010 10:13 (thirteen years ago) link
It would be very easy indeed to change 'Suggest Ban' to 'Complain About This Post', right? Without altering any basic functionality...― Matt DC, Monday, November 22, 2010 10:09 AM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Matt DC, Monday, November 22, 2010 10:09 AM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
my thoughts. i was going to change the text to "stfu" and the 51 to 7777.
― caek, Monday, 22 November 2010 10:58 (thirteen years ago) link
It is easy, Matt, but that doesn't mean it's not a huge change. Flagging up individual posts solves a problem I don't think ILX has -- where are all these unnoticed and ignored horrific posts? -- whereas SB solved a problem I think it really did have, and would again if we turned it off.
(Don't really buy the idea that because other messageboards have flagging on posts we should too, either. They also have avatars and sigs and babysitting mods and pagination and phpBB and a whole tonne of other stuff that might work for them, and could possibly work for us, but would dalso change what ILX is. If you're going to make it as close as possible to other messageboards, what's the point? It's one of the very few boards I like, and I think a lot of that is because it's not the same as the rest.)
― stet, Monday, 22 November 2010 11:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Serious q. is there anybody who has any actually-not-clear understanding about how & why any individual poster, including themselves, got sb'd?
at the risk of reviving this thread, thought i'd respond to aero's question since i'm the most recent person to be 51'd -- no idea how many of my 51 were joek sb vs. real sb, but in the weeks leading up to my 51 i was getting annoyed w/ ilx & generally needed a site break, and posted some lame/inflammatory/wtf things just for the hell of it. pretty sure the straw that broke the camel's back was the semi-joek chillwave poll in all caps? yeah... i needed a break. and therefore i think sb works fine in principle. now, has this changed my posting style? prob not much. but already in the past couple days i've rescinded a couple inflammatory posts before hitting submit. just a couple. but maybe those add up over time, and i avoid sb #2, and become a "better" poster as a result, which is kinda the point i guess?
in summary: tl;dr
― in a merzbow world, how is kanye ambitious?? (ilxor), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
stet, did you get my email?
― caek, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I should point out that there IS no autoban for Suggest Bans, fwiw.
― Matt DC, Monday, November 22, 2010 5:12 AM (Yesterday)
you and a couple other mods have made this point, but i just think it's functionally untrue. has there been a time where a poster has accrued 51 SBs and mods have made the decision not to ban them for 30 days?
― overtheseas aeroplanes I have flown (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean yeah technically it's subject to mod review or whatever but if someone gets 51'd they're getting a ban - it's a given
― overtheseas aeroplanes I have flown (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
The point being made is that people are acting like software is booting them off of the site when what is happening is that mods are going back over posts that have accrued suggest bans and going "oh I see what was happening here, see you in 30".
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
cant believe mods banned all those people
why did you do it mods?
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry caek, got it now (forwarding had stopped on that a/c). Will sort that out for you.
To clarify that upthread a bit though: while we are totally up for help w/code, it obv doesn't mean we'd take anything that's submitted. So if you change the SB text to stfu or someone goes to huge lengths to write in avatar support that's still no guarantee it'd go into production.
― stet, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I for one would go all Nth Korea on ilx if it became riddled with avatars.
― Friday: vuvuzela club meeting (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
otm to that
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
^^
― calpolaris (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i51.tinypic.com/2holgm1.jpg lovin the new avatar functionality
― markers, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i51.tinypic.com/2holgm1.jpg plz dont take it away :-(
― markers, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/Rockhardyavatar.jpg...ok
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i54.tinypic.com/2qwezw2.jpg thanking u
― markers, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
http://images.shaggybevo.com/board/customavatars/avatar610_1.gif You guys are hilar._____________________________________
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― http://tinyurl.com/vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:15 (thirteen years ago) link
http://images.shaggybevo.com/board/customavatars/avatar610_1.gif Lol._____________________________________
ha
― calpolaris (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
:D
― pro EVOO sucker (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
LOOOOOOOL
― markers, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
loooooool
― in a merzbow world, how is kanye ambitious?? (ilxor), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
― omar little, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
ilx would be a zillion times better with avs
― Megatherium americanum (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Adult Verification Service?
― Ravacious Fortune (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link
has there been a time where a poster has accrued 51 SBs and mods have made the decision not to ban them for 30 days?
― overtheseas aeroplanes I have flown (k3vin k.), Tuesday, November 23, 2010 3:14 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
well to be fair, people that get their second sb are supposed to be gone for three months or w/e but i don't think that actually happens
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link
oh sure. i basically just want to look for security holes that i can exploit on bank holiday weekends when you are offline.
― caek, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
avatars! avatars! avatars!
please?
― ENBB, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I will personally do whatever it takes, including send mods money, to not have avatars.
Avatars are terrible.
― aerosmith: the acid house years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
booooooooooooooooooooooooo
― ENBB, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i51.tinypic.com/2holgm1.jpg yeah, no avatars
― markers, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I will send twice as much money as aerosmith if it means avatars
― Megatherium americanum (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
YEAH!
(btw I'm having a hard time getting over how just how cool that camel is)
― ENBB, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i51.tinypic.com/2holgm1.jpg :-D
― markers, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i26.tinypic.com/2z4zig2.gif whats up guys just readin ilx
― Megatherium americanum (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― ENBB, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
like I look at other forums and I think, hey, I could maybe hang here -- oh wait you have avatars, you suck balls, fuck this place
― aerosmith: the acid house years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link
sb'd you for irrational hatred of camels
― tween-justin-bieber-riot-of-09-pandemonium-arrests-terror+tweeting (Edward III), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
*coff*facebook*coff*
― And this one time, on Bandcamp... (Trayce), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
guys, display names = our avatars
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
also if you want the lols of posting an image just bump the 'if ilx had avatars' thread
I don't understand that POV at all. Avatars make the messageboarding experience more lively and fun for everyone. Signatures are a different matter, but avs uber alles imo
― Megatherium americanum (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, November 23, 2010 6:31 PM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark
Oh boy, words... *makes jerk off motion*
― Megatherium americanum (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
text is awesome & clean
avatars become a walk through Shinjuku at night in about thirty seconds and make every page an eyesore
― aerosmith: the acid house years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i agree
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.travel-earth.com/japan/shinjuku-night.jpg
ilx future
― omar little, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link