Is self-banning allowed at ILP? I mean, if you feel that your own personal level of argument failure is exceeding logical boundaries for any given day. Or maybe it should just be a community function, a type of voting system function. Have a page where users can vote, and after X number of votes, an offending user is auto-banned for 24-48 hours …
Wait, nevermind, that would end up being a perma-ban for me. “The jury is instructed to disregard the previous remarks.”
Mastriani - as the owner of a successful message board website, you may know about this already - we sometimes use the Ban-O-Matic Random Ban Selector. It randomly selects a member name to ban. Most of the time it will, obviously, select a long-gone, zero-post, just-lookin’-around member from back when stuff like philosophy was discussed here. But it’s something to do.
I was not aware of this functionality addition to message boards. I know I should feel empowered to use it, but for some reason, my sense of self-validation in banning seems reduced to almost imperceptibility …
Apparently, the lack of measureable e-peen drive is now officially an issue. ::sigh::
Oh, well, when you apply for modship here, along with your three hundreds dollar application fee, you have to send in a 1000-word essay about why you want to ban people, who you would like to ban and how you plan to accomplish your banning goals for the year.
Then, if you make that cut, you submit a multiple choice test that measures how often you are likely to ban and indicates how banning affects your emotional well-being. If it doesn’t make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside to ban someone, you just won’t work out on staff here. The motto here is “I ban, therefore I am”.
You may also know that mods here have a special sig that only other mods can see. Mine is, “A ban a day keeps the voices in my head away”. I’m not going to tell tales, but others here use such gems as:
“I love the smell of banning on the morning. It smells like…victory.”
“I think that I shall never see
Anything lovely as a banning.”
Oh, you paid the Old Fart surcharge. I had to pay that one, too. The $100.00 fee is still in place, but you can have it waived if you can demonstrate that at least 51% of your bannings have been patently unfair, or if anyone’s mom calls to complain.