please ban this guy/question about the ysi threads

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so there's a guy on the latest ysi thread who is posting offensive shit about me, i just got the post deleted but he will just post again--he posts under 'friend of wired' and 'captain buttfuck' apparently and posts a lot on the ysi threads. can we ban him please?

also, are the ysi threads g00gleproofed? if not, is there a way to do this? they seem to be magnets for all sorts of awful random people.

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 05:30 (twenty years ago)

i agree on both points -- g00gleprfed the thread and yeah that capn dude is some troll joker with like 4 aliases -- i already called him out on it earler and he cooled off for a bit but now yeah screw him.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 05:58 (twenty years ago)

ip turns up nothing but ysi stuff, thread is already deindexed but I banned the ip.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:02 (twenty years ago)

i second the call to deindex the YSI threads. half the posters on them don't even seem to realise they are attatched to a wider forum.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:30 (twenty years ago)

was going to suggest making them locked to not logged ins too.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:13 (twenty years ago)

thanks, dudes!

making those ysi threads locked to not logged ins is a REALLY GOOD IDEA. i am fully in support of doing this as quickly as possible.

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 04:39 (twenty years ago)

Howabout just plain invisible to nli's?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 08:54 (twenty years ago)

justice fans be abusin'!

we, er, can't actually make threads invisible to people not logged in, can we?

― tiga is not shirt, not jeans, not any of this silly things: tiga is style. (hait, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 09:28 (twenty years ago)

does anyone else have any opinion w/r/t locking ysi threads to non-logged in posters? It seems like a good idea to me.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 10:29 (twenty years ago)

I can't see any reason why not.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 11:42 (twenty years ago)

Sounds good to me.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 13:09 (twenty years ago)

i think the ysi threads will die out if you make them reg-only. not that this is necessarily a bad thing.

― Yawn (Wintermute), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 14:28 (twenty years ago)

do it!

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:45 (twenty years ago)

I think the YSI threads are the one thing that could really fucking sink ILM if they're allowed to carry on in this way. I've got some fantastic stuff from them but they're putting the entire board on pretty dodgy ground.

Whatever, they should definitely all be Googleproofed and all be registered-only - otherwise ILM could just become a playground for leechers and that will kill the whole thing.

(This is actually an argument for making ILM in general registered-only, which I also agree with)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:33 (twenty years ago)

What's the big deal about registering? I'm at a loss for why there's any issue with this in any case.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:55 (twenty years ago)

Some people don't want to, some people can't, some people would miss being able to ask anonymous questions.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 23 March 2006 00:50 (twenty years ago)

that horrible guy ('friend of wired') is posting again, on the ysi thread. is he using a different ip? can we block that ip, too?

also, there's been a shitload of unregistered posters posting on the ysi thread today...it's really a bit worrying. if the thread is really de-indexed, how are they finding out about it? i really think this registered-posters-only thing would be a good plan for that thread.

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 23 March 2006 01:45 (twenty years ago)

de-indexing waits for the next googletrawl before it takes effect. i'll go deindex the last one too while i'm at it.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 23 March 2006 05:00 (twenty years ago)

de indexing a thread only prevents the contents of it from being spidered but the title of the thread can still be spidered on newanswers, etc

― R.I.P. West Village Bird Shaman ]-`: (ex machina), Thursday, 23 March 2006 07:07 (twenty years ago)

ok yeah but howthafuck is "ysi" gonna be googled to bring up ilx and are we worried about ppl googling "eleventhiest"?

we also have some "regular" not-logged-in ppl who post under a variety of names but share an ip and post styles, and sometimes act like total dicks or sometimes play semi-nice but just happen to have bland tastes in music. so the ppl "finding" it are often (haven't checked all) aliases of this fairly small crowd.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 23 March 2006 07:43 (twenty years ago)

i think i preferred it when there were no ysi threads and ysi's would pop up on a thread devoted to specific single/act/whatever and it would help foster discus instead of just a big shoe sale clusterfuck like it is now.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:29 (twenty years ago)

ok yeah but howthafuck is "ysi" gonna be googled to bring up ilx and are we worried about ppl googling "eleventhiest"?

ORLY

BLOUNT OTM, BAN YSIZ

― R.I.P. West Village Bird Shaman ]-`: (ex machina), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:34 (twenty years ago)

i disagree, blount. just before we had the YSI threads almost every seperate thread was turning into a lenghty YSI request.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 23 March 2006 22:45 (twenty years ago)

the ysi threads have gotten so robust and have attraced so many randoms that it's likely other messageboards and blogs are linking to them. i checked backlinks in yahoo and couldn't find anything, but that link just proved google is still indexing them.

if an outside site links to the ysi thread, even with deindexing on our side, does it still get indexed or is there some sort of robots.txt shutoff?

― meth lab for doug flutie (sanskrit), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:49 (twenty years ago)

also, there seems to be an uncomfortable double standard with the whole don't fileshare matm0s/protect ILM's own but it's OK to gorge like mad on unreleased dance 12"s. but that's another discussion entirely.

― meth lab for doug flutie (sanskrit), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:51 (twenty years ago)

hello people of course gooogle is still indexing them! we just started deindexing them like a tiny bit ago? do you think that this magically removes them from google like snap!!?! AS I SAID ABOVE de-indexing waits for the next googletrawl before it takes effect.

can you NOT READ J0n!? my point was that the TITLES are not the fucking googlebait, but the content.

so we deindex, and then we wait. chill people.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:22 (twenty years ago)

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