quick question about bannings

(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

in this case i dont know, i gues LOL would be appropriate

not I . L . X ?

fire walk with pee

"ilx" isnt sufficiantly insurrectionist

"DOM"

it was all lol until "DOM." do not understand. *scans the archives*

happy scanning my friend

http://i.imgur.com/VvcuJ.gif

could not find anything...but in the latin alphabet, "DOM" begins with an "i"

DOM is MOD backward DO U SEE

wmc you're a class act

i really like when these dramas happen cause then i finally get to learn who the mods are

you could ask -- it's not a secret

jjjusten
forks
electricsound
matt dc
ned??
abbott??

KBP

i thought he just had that awful board but wasn't a site mod?

correct

:)

there's gotta be more than 6??

; )

im a board mod for the only board that matters

so glad to have you on I Love Cars

there's gotta be more than 6??

― iatee, Sunday, October 21, 2012 10:44 PM (53 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i thought this too but i'm comin up empty

board mods shouldn't even exist in the sna era

wasn't remy sitewide?

oh yeah! how could i forget my man

jjjusten
forks
electricsound
matt dc
ned??
abbott??

― call all destroyer, Sunday, October 21, 2012 10:39 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i only knew forks before all this. isn't stet one?