quick question about bannings

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.

like handing out tix at the Indy 500, eh.

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?

shorter version: "Even though I have nothing of substance to offer on the current situation, I think I'll slide a little bamboo under the fingernail of one of the mods purely on a matter of posting style." For the record, it was the cumulative effect of this sort of stuff that made me decide to hang it up. It builds to a point where a mod's stomach lining says "either you go or I go, pal."

I'm sorry you had to quit, Wm

same wmc. one mod less is a victory for the usuals. arm the police imo.

Time to enact modtial law.

why did wmc quit modding?

oh i didn't read his post, lol

this is not a good development imo

always been in favor of rotating mods but i don't think we have enough mentally stable volunteers to do it.

WHAAAAAT U SAAAAY I WILL MOD U AND BAN U

sorry sorry, crying and so sweaty now

this is not a good development imo

― racewar driver (k3vin k.), Sunday, October 21, 2012 12:05 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol

good job k3v

in front of mod & everybody

can we vote on a new mod to replace him w/ a ballot poll, or, preferably a knockout tournament poll?

hahahaaa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSGKO7Be6nc

''k3v and j0rd don't honestly care about the post in question or about morbs, they're just using it as a wedge to fuck with the moderators''

this is obviously untrue and i'm surprised somebody who reads the boards as much as, and is as sensible as, wmc agreed with it.

My m.o. for the last few years has been to leave most of my opinions unexpressed.

(unexpressed: please die now)

shorter version: "Even though I have nothing of substance to offer on the current situation, I think I'll slide a little bamboo under the fingernail of one of the mods purely on a matter of posting style." For the record, it was the cumulative effect of this sort of stuff that made me decide to hang it up. It builds to a point where a mod's stomach lining says "either you go or I go, pal."

― WilliamC, Sunday, October 21, 2012 8:49 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ehh i never remember you getting much of a hard time about being a mod, probably because of said unexpressed opinions? basically i'm needling jjj on the same tip i used to needle tombot and djp: "you seem to either really hate being a mod, or enjoy it for weird reasons, either way maybe you don't need to keep doing this?". sorry if it was tacky to pile on itt but it's not like there's ever a 'good time' to say these things where mods are like oh good it's complaint box day, let us have it!

It's true, I avoided a lot of the ill will that JJJ has caught, that DJP caught in the HI DERE era, and especially that Tombot caught. But every time somebody pushed what I considered an undeserved needle into a mod, I felt it a little bit too, and had a brief "oh lord, when will it be my turn" moment. I won't speak for any of the other mods, but it sure wouldn't surprise me to find that they felt it too. That's probably why I've crapped out as a mod after a relatively brief stretch: I'm too goddamn sensitive.

I will say that I never felt the needle when I thought the criticism was deserved, and there have been times when that was definitely the case. But it seems, looking back, that so much moderator criticism has boiled down to "I don't like your style, and somehow that's your problem, not mine." Posting style aside, and tendency to post "FUCK YOUUUUU no wait, that was injudicious and badly phrased, here's a more reasoned answer" aside, I think JJJ is one of the best mods ILX has ever had, and I always trusted his instincts over mine about what specifically needed to be done in any particular situation.

Let me just clean that up a bit and repeat it: for all you folks who think I was a good mod but JJJ is terrible, I followed his lead, and I don't think it ever led me wrong. Everything else is just cosmetics.

basically i'm needling jjj on the same tip i used to needle tombot and djp: "you seem to either really hate being a mod, or enjoy it for weird reasons, either way maybe you don't need to keep doing this?"

Come back next week for more of some dude psychoanalyzes the mods.

lol

I just found it impossible to discern who the mods were or what the criteria for moderation were, bcz we don't have a constitution and I had a life.

Let me just clean that up a bit and repeat it: for all you folks who think I was a good mod but JJJ is terrible, I followed his lead, and I don't think it ever led me wrong. Everything else is just cosmetics.

― WilliamC, Sunday, October 21, 2012 3:52 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well i can't speak for everyone making every criticism but in this instance i was purely talking cosmetics; we don't know all that much about who makes the big mod decisions and how, we just see the guy who says "suck my cock you dumb asshole" so y'know, you deserve some credit for not being that guy.

I'll admit, the idea of a MOD BOARD C-SPAN holds some appeal

One time, I peed on this dude until he started screaming at me and then I was all, "that's really unprofessional, guy".

i didn't realize what was going on in this thread was equivalent to urinating on mods and shoving bamboo under their fingernails, but now that it's been pointed out i guess it's pretty obvious

can a mod please rename

as in rename ILX?

"I Love Urinating on Mods and Shoving Bamboo Under their Fingernails" lacks a certain je ne sais quoi imo.

i love punji sticks

You can't piss on mods cos they'll just block your I Pee address

^lol

haha

you're a real wizz w/the puns

well, where better than an intellectual pissing contest to show off ur innate wisdom

you're a real wizz w/the penis

innate wizzdong

"I Love Urinating on Mods and Shoving the Letters R-O-B-E-R-T Under their Fingernails"

just RBT iirc