Bannings

[KarmaBum]

@Herja said in Bannings:

I was content to just pack my shit and leave quietly in the night

I think a lot of us were otherwise just gonna walk away - till that happened. Which really would’ve meant the death of the community.

So I’m glad that this happened instead.

But still.

LOL banned from MSB

for breaking a “rule” that got made up after we got banned

wt actual f

[BloodAngel]

@KarmaBum NO FLAG NO COUNTRY! This is the rule I just made up!

[crawfish]

@KarmaBum There needs to be a ‘Banned from MSB’ flair! Flare? SOMETHING.

[Jennkryst]

@crawfish And @hellfrog can never have it.

[hellfrog]

@Jennkryst said in Bannings:

@crawfish And @hellfrog can never have it.

honestly how dare you

[Meg]

@Jennkryst said in Bannings:

@crawfish And @hellfrog can never have it.

OK @hellfrog can have it. Crawfish can’t.

[hellfrog]

DO YOU BITE YOUR THUMB AT ME

[crawfish]

@hellfrog YES I DO BITE MY THUMB AT THEE

[BloodAngel]

@hellfrog

[hellfrog]

@BloodAngel said in Bannings:

@hellfrog

Look how stressed his homeboy is in the back

That must be crawfish

[BloodAngel]

@hellfrog Indeed. Very much the fish of the craw.

[Third Eye]

If nothing else, we can all remember Jamie Kennedy’s very strange turn at attempting Shakespearian dialogue in the most 90s of ways.

[hellfrog]

@Third-Eye gosh I preferred when I didn’t

[MisterBoring]

Well, I’m reducing my MSB activity to lurking now. Gany just basically said that the only person who needed to be apologized to on MSB for what happened was Derp.

[sao]

@MisterBoring Wildly myopic.

[Meg]

I deserve an apology. Ganymede is absolutely wrong. I did nothing to break her imaginary rules after she implemented each.

And I will deserve an apology from Tinuviel-Pavel when I get the first ban from this forum too!

[Pavel]

@Meg said in Bannings:

And I will deserve an apology from Tinuviel-Pavel when I get the first ban from this forum too!

When hell freezes over.

[Tributary]

@Roz said in Bannings:

@Jennkryst said in Bannings:

@Meg ESPECIALLY since they are still likely locked and invisible to anyone who wants to investigate just what the fuck happened.

It actually looks like the Hog Pit has been reopened even for folks without logins.

When I asked Ganymede for a copy of the database to preserve for posterity, she refused, insisting that MSB was fine and she had it covered. (I presume so that I did not set up a ‘competing’ MSB somewhere.)

I said, “Okay, well. Can you just set the Hog Pit readable so that people do not require accounts to see it? That way, the history is all there for reference.” And she conceded that this was an acceptable compromise.

[Roz]

@Tributary said in Bannings:

@Roz said in Bannings:

@Jennkryst said in Bannings:

@Meg ESPECIALLY since they are still likely locked and invisible to anyone who wants to investigate just what the fuck happened.

It actually looks like the Hog Pit has been reopened even for folks without logins.

When I asked Ganymede for a copy of the database to preserve for posterity, she refused, insisting that MSB was fine and she had it covered. (I presume so that I did not set up a ‘competing’ MSB somewhere.)

I said, “Okay, well. Can you just set the Hog Pit readable so that people do not require accounts to see it? That way, the history is all there for reference.” And she conceded that this was an acceptable compromise.

I actually think that having a Hog Pit type of area as opt-out rather than opt-in is pretty reasonable. I respect that BMD made the choice it did, but I think I mentioned it at some point in the early talk that it’d be nice to have the section just open and let people use the built-in features to ignore the category or whatnot.

[Tez]

@Roz said in Bannings:

I actually think that having a Hog Pit type of area as opt-out rather than opt-in is pretty reasonable. I respect that BMD made the choice it did, but I think I mentioned it at some point in the early talk that it’d be nice to have the section just open and let people use the built-in features to ignore the category or whatnot.

I went through our logs to see if I could find WHY we decided that, and it’s more that we just kind of … took it as given. I do know that it was also on the back of the politics section on MSB becoming visible in a bit of a shocking bit of unwelcome, which likely influenced the desire to specifically have unpleasant things be opt in.

I think that if the community had a strong desire and a strong reason to have it be opt out instead of opt in that it would be worth hearing.

I WANT A LIST OF PROS AND CONS.