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Saint Isaias Boner: Jan 17, 2007; hi how are you ♥

Orange Sunshine posted:

Other than the posts I have made there, this is 100% true.

ah i was searching by username not id, how can i forget the three hilarious posts you made in the trump thread this year

carry on goonsire

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Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

Saint Isaias Boner, did the IKs know?

# ? Aug 27, 2016 14:12

Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

Which mod has the longest rap sheet?

# ? Aug 27, 2016 14:13

Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

Have you ever met another mod?

# ? Aug 27, 2016 14:14

Kazvall: Mar 20, 2009

Im going to ask Lowtax if I can mod GBS because I feel my poo poo sense has matured.

# ? Aug 27, 2016 14:23

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Hogge Wild posted:

Have you ever met another mod?

All the mods sleep in a single large bed.

# ? Aug 27, 2016 16:35

Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

FactsAreUseless posted:

All the mods sleep in a single large bed.

oh my

# ? Aug 27, 2016 16:43

defectivemonkey: Jun 5, 2012

FactsAreUseless posted:

All the mods sleep in a single large bed.

We work together to raise Charlie from the chocolate factory. Actually, his ownership of he factory is how SA has stayed afloat.

# ? Aug 27, 2016 19:46

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

stringball posted:

Can you show us pictures of what the forums look like to you guys? What's it look like when you probate someone?

Mods have the punish/reward + history buttons, but not the "show IPs" button

This is the page for probations. The options in the dropdown are 6 hours, 12 hours, 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 1 month, and 100,000 hours. Anything written in the top field shows up in the Leper's Colony, the bottom field is for notes that show up only in the mod queue.

Admin punishments/rewards go through immediately, while mod ones go into a queue for approval. If there was a private note on this probation request, it'd appear below "origin" at the right.

The 'history' button is a user's personal little modqueue. It's similar to the Leper's Colony but has a list of all thread moves, mod-given titles, private notes etc. for that user.

# ? Aug 28, 2016 02:50

Orange Sunshine: May 10, 2011; by FactsAreUseless

WE B Bourgeois posted:

Mods have the punish/reward + history buttons, but not the "show IPs" button

Mods can reward people? With what?

# ? Aug 28, 2016 05:04

Shine: Feb 26, 2007; No Muscles For The Majority

Orange Sunshine posted:

Mods can reward people? With what?

Free custom titles, with assistance from admins to upload images. Admins can additionally give people platinum/archives/no-ads.

# ? Aug 28, 2016 05:11

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

Of course, the custom title reward can be a punishment as well :grin:

# ? Aug 28, 2016 05:18

Bad Seafood: Dec 10, 2010; If you must blink, do it now.

It's probably also worth noting mods only have their mod powers in the subforums where they operate, with the exception of being able to check user histories.

When I post in Games or wherever, I'm basically just another user.

# ? Aug 28, 2016 05:26

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

WE B Bourgeois posted:

Mods have the punish/reward + history buttons, but not the "show IPs" button

This is the page for probations. The options in the dropdown are 6 hours, 12 hours, 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 1 month, and 100,000 hours. Anything written in the top field shows up in the Leper's Colony, the bottom field is for notes that show up only in the mod queue.

Admin punishments/rewards go through immediately, while mod ones go into a queue for approval. If there was a private note on this probation request, it'd appear below "origin" at the right.

The 'history' button is a user's personal little modqueue. It's similar to the Leper's Colony but has a list of all thread moves, mod-given titles, private notes etc. for that user.

Oh is that what the approve/deny probation thing looks like? Cool.

# ? Aug 28, 2016 06:32

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

Also for some reason we can give and cure Forums Cancer even though Forums Cancer was a dumb idea.

# ? Aug 28, 2016 08:10

AMLOVINIT: Mar 30, 2016

I know you all said that reports are awesome but do you come across reports from whiney little self righteous shites on a My Opining Is The Only Correct One journey?

Nota Bene: in my twisted mind, all report-ers are just snitches

# ? Aug 29, 2016 17:05

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

AMLOVINIT posted:

I know you all said that reports are awesome but do you come across reports from whiney little self righteous shites on a My Opining Is The Only Correct One journey?

Nota Bene: in my twisted mind, all report-ers are just snitches

Literally constantly.

That's what "Misc" is for.

# ? Aug 29, 2016 21:16

VideoGames: Aug 18, 2003

AMLOVINIT posted:

I know you all said that reports are awesome but do you come across reports from whiney little self righteous shites on a My Opining Is The Only Correct One journey?

Nota Bene: in my twisted mind, all report-ers are just snitches

I get some. When they are especially bad I might take a screenshot and show it to the thread that generated it. I only ever really had to do that for the EVE Online thread, which is doing way, way better now.

# ? Aug 29, 2016 21:40

Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

VideoGames posted:

I get some. When they are especially bad I might take a screenshot and show it to the thread that generated it. I only ever really had to do that for the EVE Online thread, which is doing way, way better now.

Could you link some funny reports here that you posted there?

# ? Aug 29, 2016 21:52

Plan Z: May 6, 2012

Whose idea was it to do report-shaming in PYF? Because that was the best decision to fix that sub.

# ? Aug 29, 2016 21:56

VideoGames: Aug 18, 2003

Hogge Wild posted:

Could you link some funny reports here that you posted there?

Well, they're not funny, just silly.

I liked this one the most:

There are the occasional reports I've thought "Why on earth is this a report?!" but I have not made screenshots of those.

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Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

what happened to gnarly? I thought he was a good mod but I haven't been active in GBS for ages and people were saying it broke him.

# ? Aug 29, 2016 22:26

GonSmithe: Apr 25, 2010; Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

what happened to gnarly? I thought he was a good mod but I haven't been active in GBS for ages and people were saying it broke him.

He's an angry alcoholic who was a horrendously lovely mod because of it

# ? Aug 29, 2016 23:08

Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

GonSmithe posted:

He's an angry alcoholic who was a horrendously lovely mod because of it

he was a good mod, one of the best this site has ever had

# ? Aug 29, 2016 23:09

Saint Isaias Boner: Jan 17, 2007; hi how are you ♥

zen death robot posted:

why do you think this

also give examples of what made him one of the best mods ever

if you timed it just right you could get away with some horrible posting while he was sleeping one off, but if you kept it up for too long he'd log in all hung over and ban everyone he saw

i assume that's a desirable quality in a mod

E: those competitions were good and some good threads came out of them

Saint Isaias Boner fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Aug 29, 2016

# ? Aug 29, 2016 23:23

Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

zen death robot posted:

why do you think this

also give examples of what made him one of the best mods ever

He was an active mod in a good way, ie. he posted in his own forum and didn't poo poo on other posters. He also ran some funny competitions. And he wasn't thin skinned. He was the opposite of Franco, Ralp, and Silversliver.

# ? Aug 29, 2016 23:24

Brute Squad: Dec 20, 2006; Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race

Plan Z posted:

Whose idea was it to do report-shaming in PYF? Because that was the best decision to fix that sub.

I'm not a mod, but I remember Xylo doing a bunch around when GBS went to 2.0.

# ? Aug 30, 2016 02:07

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

AMLOVINIT posted:

I know you all said that reports are awesome but do you come across reports from whiney little self righteous shites on a My Opining Is The Only Correct One journey?

Nota Bene: in my twisted mind, all report-ers are just snitches

If a report reason includes "poster used [logical fallacy]" I will almost always misc it

# ? Aug 30, 2016 06:04

Ralp: Aug 19, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Plan Z posted:

Whose idea was it to do report-shaming in PYF? Because that was the best decision to fix that sub.

Greetings.

# ? Aug 30, 2016 14:21

Ralp: Aug 19, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Hogge Wild posted:

he was a good mod, one of the best this site has ever had

# ? Aug 30, 2016 14:22

defectivemonkey: Jun 5, 2012

I misc reports often and note that the reporter "doesn't understand jokes".

# ? Aug 30, 2016 16:04

ass: Sep 22, 2011; Young Orc

Incoherence posted:

Also for some reason we can give and cure Forums Cancer even though Forums Cancer was a dumb idea.

Why was cancer a bad idea? Didn't it just make affected posters have slightly transparent posts, changed their title/regdate and would redirect them to ponyta.swf if they posted outside of RFA? Sounds like it was an okay punishment for really crappy posters that were to be contained in RFA back when it was a thing.

# ? Aug 31, 2016 17:21

Shine: Feb 26, 2007; No Muscles For The Majority

It made threads look stupid and was more a punishment for everybody else than for the cancer recipient.

# ? Aug 31, 2016 17:32

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Shine posted:

It made threads look stupid and was more a punishment for everybody else than for the cancer recipient.

This. It was supposed to encourage you to put that poster on ignore, but instead it just made everyone a little irritated randomly while browsing the forums.

# ? Aug 31, 2016 18:29

SubponticatePoster: Aug 9, 2004; Every day takes figurin' out all over again how to fuckin' live.; Slippery Tilde

Bad Seafood posted:

It's probably also worth noting mods only have their mod powers in the subforums where they operate, with the exception of being able to check user histories.

When I post in Games or wherever, I'm basically just another user.

Do you get reports from mods or do y'all handle that poo poo in the mod forum? Also, if you did get a report from a mod would you put the offender on probation even if you didn't agree as a courtesy?

# ? Sep 2, 2016 00:19

BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

GonSmithe posted:

Oh is that what the approve/deny probation thing looks like? Cool.

hey gonsmithe ol buddy ol pal you should hit my history button and tell me if there's anything good in there

# ? Sep 2, 2016 01:04

Shine: Feb 26, 2007; No Muscles For The Majority

SubponticatePoster posted:

Do you get reports from mods or do y'all handle that poo poo in the mod forum? Also, if you did get a report from a mod would you put the offender on probation even if you didn't agree as a courtesy?

If a mod reports something in YLLS, I'll probably look at it more closely than I would otherwise, but I'm not gonna probate somebody just because another mod reported them. I assume that's how everybody else does it, too.

# ? Sep 2, 2016 01:56

Bad Seafood: Dec 10, 2010; If you must blink, do it now.

SubponticatePoster posted:

Do you get reports from mods or do y'all handle that poo poo in the mod forum? Also, if you did get a report from a mod would you put the offender on probation even if you didn't agree as a courtesy?

I treat mod reports the same as user reports, including ignoring reports I think aren't actionable.

Since the person who made the report can view where I file it, however, I tend to include a more robust explanation for my ruling than usual.

# ? Sep 2, 2016 02:05

Nostalgia4Infinity: Feb 27, 2007; 10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING

SubponticatePoster posted:

Do you get reports from mods or do y'all handle that poo poo in the mod forum? Also, if you did get a report from a mod would you put the offender on probation even if you didn't agree as a courtesy?

I'll report something if I think it warrants it. I don't expect for it to be treated any different than a non-mod report.

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Avshalom: Feb 14, 2012; by Lowtax

hello, friends. have any of you ever known love?

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