Some Schmo wrote: ↑Tue Nov 23, 2021 2:43 pm
Why do we have to put up with this? This board has become littered with idiot accounts recently, and it's not improving the board experience. The tiny dicks have turned into a tiny dick parade. I realize they have deep psychological problems, including crippling insecurity, but why should that be our problem?
Can't we check the IPs of new accounts and disallow any of them where the IP's been used? My ignore list has never been this long. This board is drowning in new guy idiocy.
Hmmm....
The ignore feature works fairly well but only up to a point. Unregistered lurkers can still see everything that is posted in this forum. Whether or not they want to join a virtual cesspool, hey, how would I know?
The mods and admin can already see the IP addresses in list form including alternate accounts that posters are using. That is to say, if you are using a sock, those same posts come up where your regular posts come up on the list for viewing.
History--we once had emoticons disabled because Shades thought they made the board look like a kindergarten coloring book. We likewise had limitations on the size of images we could post. I don't know if we still do re: image sizes.
So...it's not okay if emoticons make the board look like a kindergarten coloring book but it IS okay if the spam trolling makes the board look like a boys bathroom in middle school. Hopefully you will understand the reasoning behind that and if you do, would you please be kind enough to tell the rest of the class what that reasoning is?
with regard to to your current complaint, I'm afraid if you're waiting for a response or decision on the part of admin, you'll have to take a number and get in line behind me and others who are still waiting on the so-called moderation thread
for a decision regarding violations of the board's spamming and harassment rules, particularly, sexual harassment of female posters.
I'm not sure that decision will ever come from admin because you know, Shades respects women so much that he
bends them over a pedestal and he's never seen fit to deal with sexual harassment on this board regardless of the fact that the issue has been raised since the board's early days. I do think the anti-harassment rule works...the problem is that Shades himself doesn't work.
So. That is the person you, I, and others are attempting to deal with here. Perhaps he is someone who enjoys having this board as a kind of feather in his cap but doesn't really care if the feather is sitting on top of a mountain of excrement. And when I say, excrement, I mean a giant pile of crap.
