US Politics Feedback Thread - Page 85

On October 04 2017 00:28 brian wrote:

do you have an alternative? because asking everyone to just ignore shit like RiK is admirable, but not likely to work. we’ve lost countless dozens of pages due to responses to left field shitpost of similar caliber.

and i mean when my friend lost his marbles because i didn’t respond as he saw fit, the logical conclusion came and went without much commotion(well, additional commotion, anyway) i see no problem there.

-brain

On October 05 2017 03:37 Liquid`Drone wrote:
holy shit I can't believe the last post is from 2016. I thought STIMEY died like a decade ago.

To be fair, I actually think we accommodated many of his moderation policy wishes posthumously. And he was hilarious, part genius part insane.

On October 05 2017 06:25 Liquid`Drone wrote:
Stuff like more transparency, reasons given for bans, a system of different ban lengths.. Back in the early days of TL, if you were banned, it was permanent, it was at the whim of the moderator who did it, frequently with reasons like 'you suck, idiot'. Stimey was banned after a moderator flamed him and he retorted with creating a thread called something like FUCK YOU moderator X. Then he made several new accounts, some of them lasting for pretty long periods of time. We kinda had a rule that if you were banned, it was okay for you to create a new account, as long as you didn't do the stuff that got you banned in the first place you'd be allowed to keep posting. But he argued that it was far too arbitrary and that reform was unlikely because people weren't actually informed of what their transgressions were.

But then he kinda made these points in a really aloof stoner&strong psychedelics/philosophy major kind of way that was pretty confusing to many. He was a really divisive figure, people pretty much either loved or hated him - personally I was in the love camp.

Particularly because of gems like, replying to 'Stimey, my point is I've never once seen you take a piece of well though-out criticism as such, and don't pretend that there haven't been any.'
"who the fuck cares what you saw or never saw? i've never seen you take a dump. should i conclude that you are full of shit? "

On October 05 2017 07:30 brian wrote:
back then being a mod was the coolest thing in my book for sure.