Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

i don't think the idiot flamingo person is doing real harm with their posts and I doubt a month off would persuade them to not post things that get a reaction.

we have just gone through the whole "don't do pointless ramps against mild trolling" debate and it's not a different situation here just because the mods think this guy's on the good gbs side rather than the bad Outsider side on whatever weird red-string forums corkboard they have

I wonder what threads nooner likes

Endorph posted:

general politics threads in gbs are w/e but i dont think gbs needs a thread just about the ukraine war for instance

Cthulu Carl posted:

Yeah, I feel like the point where it took a turn from "borderline, but mostly unserious" to "weirdly tribal was here

Which seemed oddly similar to a CSPAM thread title, if not the actual title and seemed like it was meant for more forums war nonsense instead just "oh those silly Russians" and subsequent posts after if seem to be on the same lines.

I don't think I needs gassed, I don't even think Toxic Mental needs de-IKed. But that thread can be a bit of a lightning rod and I don't want it gone because it was allowed to get out of hand.

If they wanna post Putin Chimps or snicker about Tankies, whatever, but turning it into forums war bullshit again should be nipped in the bud. And again, once legitimate content got posted, things moved on, but I'd rather it not happen again or more often.

cumpantry posted:

it's not fair to anyone who isnt posting messed up stuff to have their words altered or wiped. im more than certain THIS USER WAS MADE TO gently caress OFF under a problem post is more than enough for most issues and im surprised to read some in this thread argue it doesnt matter

probe me, kill me, release me, but leave the history

Bad Purchase posted:

Psycho Landlord posted:

The only reason anybody is pushing back against this is because of who it was done to. Nix posted badly, as usual for all the war threads on this site, but there was *nothing* truly objectionable about the post that was blanked and the fact that it was done so makes it look like a lovely gotcha (which is in character for GIR ime elsewhere on the forums)

That's a garbage way to moderate even at the IK level and there is no doubt in my mind that if the same had been done to the people in here complaining by some DnD mod or whatever they'd be all about a de-IKing in SAD

Quit with the forums wars and just look at poo poo objectively here, this thread was doin good

Cthulu Carl posted:

You're also forgetting their key point of "The only people complaining are 'agitators'"

Other people's posts shouldn't be hosed with except for poo poo like doxxing, NWS images, or a post that breaks the forums, and if they ARE edited, then who did it should put why and alter as little as possible.

If people disagree, I volunteer to be an IK for a week and I'll edit all their posts and we'll see how it goes.

Panic! At The Tesco posted:

nom epique does the most mild shitposting i've even seen and it's hilarious how his posting style annoys people this much.

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

don't recall anyone losing their minds, but then drone_fragger does love a bit of hyperbole

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Congentially lovely posters are like a small rock in your shoe. They aren't a huge problem in the full scope of life but the answer isn't to ignore the problem. You get the stupid rock out of your shoe.

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

lol noticing that after the weekend the thread rating is 1.59 and also that fluff voted it a 2. very good

rodbeard posted:

A little while back someone posted a random right wing news article speculation on if Costco was going to stop carrying bud light because it "went woke" to the Costco thread. I don't know why people think they're doing a public service by telling everybody all the latest right wing propaganda but I think the mods should tell people to take it down a bit.

Shinjobi posted:

It's become extremely less funny than it was a decade ago, and I don't think mild online slapfights will change that

Fajita Queen posted:

The most prominent poster in the thread getting outed as a pedophile and a couple other people defending him probably did more damage tbh

cumpantry posted:

we just came fresh off the imgur apocalypse though, so is this a good idea long term? then again, i guess it's a case of what lasts longer, image hosting or a site under musks management lol

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

my rules for the musk thread is to probe bloodlust and posting tweets from nobodies just to get angry them at because i think both make threads more toxic i think after the recent controversy involving musk unbanning an account for posting csam its more important than ever to probe for posting twitter nobodies because those are the accounts that will post that poo poo in the first place

when i first started someone posted a tweet from some rear end in a top hat and when you clicked on that tweet and scrolled down it led to a beheading video they didnt link to the beheading video directly but they through their negliance exposed another poster to it which is why i crack down on it. i think its a good idea for threads in gbs that involve lots of twitter traffic to crack down on that more and encourage common sense when handling twitter to prevent that since twitter embdeds arent going anywhere even if i wish they would go away

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

no.