Ever use Tachy goes to coventry? Because that is literally equivalent to shouting at a wall. It’s a way of banning someone without them knowing they were banned, so they don’t know to create a new sock.
For those who, like me, wondered what this was:
Global User Ignore. The spammer sees his posts when he looks but no one else can see them.
We have the ability, we don’t use it.
He is the Best of The Worst.
At first I thought it was something special about our vB setup, but no; it’s a standard feature of the software.
I get the “Coventry” part, but I wonder why “Tachy”
And it’s boring as shit. Meanwhile, you’ve got juicy lulz in the mod forums and denying us the pleasure of needling them? Not cool, dude.
Not sure what your point is. They know we know. And the objective is to yank everybody’s chains, not just the mods. (And some of it is really fucked-up shit, like harassing bereaved family members.)
I’m glad, actually, since it seems like kind of a dickish thing to do on the part of the mods, and basically results in the user in question wasting all of his time on the board while he posts into a void. I wonder how long it would be before someone noticed that nobody was responding to them?
That’s the username of the first user it was ever enacted on, when it was being developed.
Essentially if I recall correctly “Tachy goes to Coventry” was just a working title for the mod, but when they released it everyone liked the name so much they never bothered giving it a “professional” name like Global User Ignore or something like that.
I like Tachy.
I believe that one of the rare times it was used was on a serial sock(maybe 50-100 socks)–he caught on within a day or two.
With any of the people we might ever think of using it on, it would be better for him to waste his own time rather than everyone else’s.
I guarantee that some of these folks would never, ever notice.
A user on a board I used to frequent didn’t notice for about 2 weeks and 80 posts (mostly LOOOOLLOOOOL or goatse pics). People who flameout aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed.
You’re thinking of 4chan, right? Specifically /b/?
Ok, I only asked because sometimes how codified standards of a society are interpreted and inforced may not be what is expected by a newbie (such as myself) yanno, “we both type english but are you typing the same english I am?” scenario
Yeah, the worst thing is when you open a thread… and it’s a zombie… and you see a familiar poster… and he’s banned…
It’s like the trifecta of being bummed out.
We tried it a couple of times and all it did was aggravate the user and make them more disposed to come back under other user names and be annoying back at us.
So we don’t use it, it’s just not helpful to us.
The ones that do it dozens of times are yanking the mods’ chains. The occasional ones that drop by to harass members are in a different league.
I know you don’t have any choice but to ban them again, but “bragging” about it in a post by a mod is giving them the attention they want. THAT was my point. Just don’t talk about it if you really don’t want to call attention to it. I know that will never happen, though, just like DFTT is dumb advice as well.
And you know this, how? You don’t see what we see. In any case, the ones that do it dozens of times are often mentally ill.
I don’t see anything like bragging in Miller’s posts.
That’s why I put the word in quotes. Trolls could see it as a way of one mod sticking it to them. You know that some are like this, just as I “know” that some do it just to yank your chain. It isn’t secret behavior.
Usually, when I stumble across a zombie thread containing someone I didn’t know was banned, I do remember them well enough to recognize them as a general malcontent or annoyance, and so it’s not all that much of a surprise. I’m not really much interested in finding out what, specifically, was the last straw.