quick question about bannings

(I don't know if it's even safe to joke beef anymore...)

kev how many times have you had to backtrack and apologise to mods after unfairly criticising them? I'm guessing it's running into dozens now. You should maybe take that into account before adopting the usual injured innocence imo.

ps give me the privileges, i guarantee you won't have to wait five hours for some tasty ban action.

can't spell ban action without bacon

d'you think thirty bans in the first ten mins would sate the bloodlust? i reckon thirty'd do it

5 hours on a FRIDAY NIGHT is slow? Man, y'all must want all the mods to be online all the time and not have social lives idk.

I've said on many occasions to many people that we, as a species, are still several decades off the emotional, spiritual, cultural and social evolutionary steps necessary for us to really comprehend and communicate via and use the full potential of the Internet. If I were to ever write a thesis on this idea, ILX would totally be my primary case-study. Bronies would be my secondary. Those awful 15-year-old boys on twitter who make rape jokes and post picture of their abs would be my tertiary.

sounds interesting

Not really, though.

Would it be the defining work on the subject?

well i was a bit pissed that it had been 5 hours and nothing had been done about something that was incredibly gross & plainly bannable

can we assume J0rd has spent a) more or b) less than 5 hours putting together a list of every time Morbz has called for another poster's death or multiple posters' deaths, so that the mods can add up all of those and give him three days for every instance?

one poster wished death on a sick poster and 5 hours later was still posting, y'all were slacking. sorry.

― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Saturday, October 20, 2012 12:06 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It was on a politics thread. Who the fuck would even notice?

aha sure, sic

think all u fuckers are on a mission until forks is the only mod left

forks has been hardmodding it too, lately.

lay off the mods imo

http://www.impawards.com/1969/posters/battle_of_the_mods.jpg

given that the poster this was directed towards asked everyone to drop it, I'm not sure a tempban is going to happen regardless

yeah, i'm fine with dropping that asshole off a fucking cliff though.

the mods are alright

i'll just preface this by saying that i don't mind being called out like this, i'm a reasonable guy and can take it like i dish it

but for the record the only time i can recall ever having to retract my mod criticism was on that "why was morbs banned" thread a couple of months ago. i didn't have all the facts (because posts were deleted) so i acted on bad infos. i apologized to dan yesterday for driving him up a wall for a couple years because i regretted that circumstance made an ilx enemy out of someone i otherwise think is cool. because he WAS an awful mod. but honestly i think there's been one, maybe two visible mods since I started posting here that aren't pretty bad at modding. i don't personally dislike any of the mods we feud with; the problem is ~mod culture~, not the mods themselves. last night i regretted people thinking i was using the incident yesterday just to needle the mods, because i saw how a reasonable person could have made that conclusion. but i didn't retract anything i said. and our only decent mod ended up making the right decision, so all is good

tldr - i resent d-mac's implication that i agree with mods more lately :)

In all sincerity k3v, fuck off.

haha k w/evs

k3vin k. w/evs

oh i'm sure you'd make a great mod k3v

forks is a good mod too imo, not sure who the other ones are aside from jjjusten but i think they're doing a pretty fine job these days

Mods why didn't u "minority report" Luna back in '02, really dropped the ball there IMO.

the ball wasn't red

Frankly, I don't think any of the mods do enough to justify the amount of money they get paiOH WATE

They must do it for the unparalleled pleasure of it.

This strikes me as such an obviously bannable offence that the very question is a no-brainer. If people are going to pull shit like this on a Friday night you can't really blame ~mod culture~ for the fact that no one was around to see it.

Honestly I can't see any reason for continuing to stir this up.

kw/3vin k

<3 k3v & j0rdan

I like flopson's better. grood jorb.

They must do it for the unparalleled pleasure of it.

― Perpetual Jive (Old Lunch), Saturday, October 20, 2012 8:49 PM (1 hour ago)

Trying to remember...yeah, that must've been the reason.

i mean, cool, you were busy. fair enough. you're not the only mod.

― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Saturday, October 20, 2012 12:08 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm switzerland on this shit but seriously jjj responds to every post about modding as if he is the only mod or the locutus of mod or something. if he IS the unofficial mouthpiece of the mods y'all need a press secretary who doesn't seem constantly enraged by even having to respond and if he isn't obliged to respond maybe he shouldn't?

fun sub-board!

I think what happened here was that there simply weren't enough mods present at the time of the comment - with their ranks thinned by one more, the problem is only going to be exacerbated from now on. the obvious answer is that we need more mods. I nominate some dude.

"with their ranks thinned by one more"

http://dickgraves.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/all_quiet_on_the_western_front2511.jpg

kinda hard at first to know who to root for when your crazy cousin in the basement verbally attacks your crazy uncle in the attic, but i guess i'll go with uncle morbz. amz is a pill. i mean they both are...oh i don't know...see what i mean???

and i flagged someone (for only the 2nd time) last week or whenever for aomething not as bad in theory.

tldr - i resent d-mac's implication that i agree with mods more lately :)

<3

I think what happened here was that there simply weren't enough mods present at the time of the comment - with their ranks thinned by one more, the problem is only going to be exacerbated from now on. the obvious answer is that we need more mods. I nominate some dude.

― 乒乓

rotating randomly nominated mods, full decision-making autonomy for the duration of their stewardship, thrown back to the mercy of the masses upon cessation of same.

Can I just go on record as saying (if my hilarious posts itt haven't effectively done the job already) that anyone who complains about the mods being really slow or ineffective (at performing the thankless, non-paying ILX tasks which take them away from, like, their real lives) is being really effing petty.

we don't have the owrst mods in the world, we don't have the worst backlash against mods in the world, ilx as a board is gonna have the anti-authoritarian streak present and correct after any mod action.

tho tbf it's a change to have them turn up early and have to wait for the protest to begin

Trying to remember...yeah, that must've been the reason.

― WilliamC, Sunday, 21 October 2012 09:25 (1 hour ago)

:(

I respect your valiant service, sir

Me too. Sorry to hear you've hung up the modhat Rock but I dont blame you,frankly.

i'm switzerland on this shit but seriously jjj responds to every post about modding as if he is the only mod or the locutus of mod or something. if he IS the unofficial mouthpiece of the mods y'all need a press secretary who doesn't seem constantly enraged by even having to respond and if he isn't obliged to respond maybe he shouldn't?

― my mansplain songz (some dude)

with all due respect, suck my cock you dumb asshole.

hugglez!!

ok i should probably clarify that erudite point.

i respond to stuff because my #1 reason for taking on modding is that i felt that as an ilx user, clear and transparent descriptions of what was happening and why it was happening wrt mod decisions were a key aspect of this community. tbf as a dude that was a total pain in the ass about why ilx should not require registration (since have realized i was wrong abt that) i was kinda shocked to get asked to mod. so my basic tenets as mod have been 1)explain what is/isn't happening and why and 2)not become a cipher as a poster, because if i have to self-edit and be nicey nice when shit is stupid, i stop being an ilx participant. I make great pains to be clear abt when i am speaking as MOD and when I am speaking as me, and when I am speaking as me as mod, so catching shit about not being above the fray and keeping some sorta mod decorum when peeps are howling for my head is just not a thing i am going to do. i dont really get the point of some dude coming in here after j0rdan and k3v and i had all worked out our shit and the situation had worked itself out already, but hey, whatever makes your saturday night i guess.

http://i.imgur.com/5BlBE.gif

hahaha

did someone chum the water here this week or something?

jjj i see where you're coming from as far as not wantimg to be a cipher and keep the lines of communication open and all that. but y'know, hulking out over a question about you always hulking out, alright, jeez. i just felt like saying something because when someone asks why none of the many mods were on top of an issue and you take it all personal and I WAS AT A WEDDING GET OFF MY BACK, that's a pretty crazy response even given that the thread was not very friendly to begin with.