Alligatorjandro
Banned
Just dont act a fool and you'll be ok.
Is GAF too strict?
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Professor Beef
Banned
You'd think it would be that easy...
Ya'll gon' make me lose mah mind
UP IN HERE
UP IN HERE
Y'all gon' make me act a FOOL up in HERE
UP IN HERE
UP IN HERE
Well, I can only speak for myself but usually I am either reading the topic, in which case, yes, I'll most likely see what you're talking about or it was reported to me, in which case I'll read the conversation leading up to the post and afterwards, in which case I'll probably see what you're talking about.
Though it's always possible that I miss something, yes.
I can't really know whether something affects me subconsciously, after all, so no comment on that.
But I am aware of the possibility of being wrong or overreacting to a post or even, yes, just being misled by whining, and I am more than solicitous of other moderators' opinions as a result. For instance, there was one topic where nothing in particular was way over the line, but the entire tone of the topic was infuriating and had me seeing red. I knew I wasn't really the right person to actually moderate that topic, so I asked another moderator to look at it instead.
Eh I don't know about that. Government places require you to hand over your facebook.
I don't know, I just consider if you've posted something on the internet somewhere, it's public. You can't take it back, and everyone can see it.
HAHA Glad I'm not the only one who thought that.
Avoiding a ban is so easy even an alligator can do it.
cage match
Ugh, no not my curiosity. Now I have to know what it was!
I personally like how Bish stickied the threads and made of examples of everyone. It was amusing as a bystander, showed that Bish was serious about banning and is generally a bad enough dude to ban the President, and has gotten everyone to walk around on eggshells for a bit while carrying serious discussions.
So Bish is basically Judge Dredd.
I see, the old "good cop bad cop" routine! Very clever.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
weekend_warrior
Banned
This took me way too long.
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
The whole bish meme in itself is a testament to his self-aware brand of "spectacle" derailments.
He's known for his unpredictability in my mind, so the fact that even you can't really see what's coming with him makes it all the better. :lol
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
If I got you a Nestea autograph...can I get these powers?
Overall GAF is fine. Only thing I get worried about is if I missed some random thread where a meme/image/phrase is banned and I don't realize it lol.
Call it de facto public subject to the actual private rights that companies still hold over it
TheGreatDivide
Banned
Unless you're Devolution.
You can do that as well. Have it so only the poster sees their own posts and noone else does. That way they will slowly go insane.
Blackace
if you see me in a fight with a bear, don't help me fool, help the bear!
They don't have much of a point
Yeah we don't want to make a spectacular of every ban but sometimes it can't really be helped
This is what GAF is
Ironic? No, that's not the word I'm thinking of.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
For the record, I agree with you about the idea of a ban record as a warning to other posters, but you picked a terrible site to reference. SA is a horrible site of racists and genuinely terrible people as moderators who operate under personal vendettas. Like Reddit/4chan/that style of site, there's good and bad subforums, and man, there's a lot of bad there.
As for the hellbanning idea, it's been dropped by all the sites that used it as it has the aforementioned flaws.
What? I've been there since 2007, what? Anyone who's being racist gets banned lickity split.
The more transparency, the more people will start threads arguing about bans. It's more efficient for everybody to constantly live in fear, not knowing where among them the Bish will strike next.
Basically, GAF posters are a superstitious, cowardly lot.
Hahaha, I was waiting for someone to do this.
I'm hoping it's all tongue-in-cheek, or else I'll be disappointed. I hope we're for the most part of above begging to the mods "PLEASE BAN THIS USER YOU WILL HAVE MY ETERNAL LOVE morseo than you already do", especially since we have a perfectly fine ignore feature if you can't stand their presence.
Busted. Shit.
That was riddled in the creeper thread.. ironically enough, they're the banned ones.
0 solidarity.
So Bish is the Batman.
This thread has gone on for 83 pages. Mission accomplished.
Has SA's policy contributed to more ban discussion/controversy? I don't frequent there, so I'm curious if it works like you believe it does in practice.
Blackace
if you see me in a fight with a bear, don't help me fool, help the bear!
Don't get me wrong
Asking for us to help is great
holding Grudges and dropping names when no one is doing no wrong not so great
I heard that if you engrave Elebreth in the sand the great Bish will be unable to swing his mighty banhammer for twelve hours. Of course, he can still hit you with his ranged lawnmower, but it's something.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Drinky has been banned 7 times by 5 separate mods, and he also essentially hasn't posted for the last few years
Devolution has been banned for being aggressive to others. No one has "immunity".
Yeah, because it's a thread in which the mods came in (like fifty pages ago) to offer some transparency about the process.
Hypothesis confirmed!
:lol
And then it continued anyway, fifty pages later.
What does that tell you about the attempt at semi-transparency?
Yes, reporting someone for doing something clearly wrong helps reduce the moderators workload, but falsely abusing this system against someone you dislike makes more work for them.
Does GAF have a "report this post" feature?
Lionel Mandrake
Member
We're still not even sure if he's done.
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