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by asweetguy4u2know saya R.I.P Nelson on October 12th, 2007
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by Jay Was Here - AYPWIP on October 12th, 2007
To set the record straight... I was penalized for a week for sending too many feedback requests for Crazy Thought questions that were rejected. I had 5 questions rejected and sent numerous requests asking for valid reasons why they would not reinstate them. Instead of reasons or explanations, I got PB'd for a week for what they call "spamming feedback". I admit that I was getting frustrated and the amount of requests I sent may have been excessive, but it seemed to me like they were being completely ignored. I appealed the penalty and an administator removed my restrictions, but I still have not received any explanations nor have my questions been reinstated.
I want to get as many signatures on the petition as possible. My question asking if people agree or disagree with the moderators has gotten excellent responses. I believe the question is over 130 points now. Anyway, no worries... hopefully we can open the staff's eyes as to what the AB community believes is nonsense and what is not.
Thank you all for your support. If you are interested in allowing my Crazy Thought questions then sign our petition http://www.gopetition.com/online/14639.html and reply to my question http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/422288.
by Galeanda on October 12th, 2007
I think this is more backlash from the flagging of Blank Savage's notice. It was most likely a Joomla member that did it and I bet they are continuing to use our own Moderating against us, causing a big ruckus. They seem to be 'by the book' people and are NOT part of our community here so they don't care who or how they upset us. I'm thinking it could be a mixture of seeing Jay thanking people for BS's questions getting answered and also for his more 'trivial' bend which is allowed here, though obviously they don't have experience with it in Joomla-land.
Maybe what needs to be changed is the labeling of 'Nonsense' flags. What if they were called "Not a question" flags, then they couldn't flag it as nonsense but things that weren't a question could still be flagged correctly? And they couldn't be flagged Spam or Offensive either:-)
by APACHEmeansENEMY on October 12th, 2007
he got PB'ed for asking to many questions? thats the dumbest thing i've ever heard.
by Sheepingly needs no handy men only hugs on October 12th, 2007
It's stupid. The AB Staff don't even know the situation and they PB whoever. THey probably PB'd Jay because his stuff was getting flagged alot so they Assumed he was spamming. Its stupid they don't even know what's going on. THey pb'd me for defending people who were getting trolled
by Smart2 is back! Did you miss me? on October 12th, 2007
I like a nonsense question every once in a while. Jay's "WOW, how'd you do that?" generated some nice conversation between us and I think it's a cool way to get to know people here. Every question can't be about personal dilemma, war, divorce, famine, addiction, and moderators. People need to lighten up some. Another site that I used to frequent often was the victim of moderator over-zealousness and it ended up dying a slow painful death before the plug was pulled. I hope that doesn't happen here. Incidentally, it was following an influx of new users from a recently closed-down site, too.
by LadyLuck on October 12th, 2007
Are you serious?! Who cares if someone asks a lot of questions in the same category?! How ridiculous. Where, in the rules, does it say you're limited to a certain number of quesitons per category?!
I'm taking this to the Blog...
by Johnny Cache on October 12th, 2007
The "Crazy Thoughts" category is SUPPOSED to be for nonsense! Funny nonsense, but nonsense nevertheless. Any nonsense flags there should be ignored. Or better yet, PB the creature who's doing the flagging.
Don't PB Jay! (unless it's on whole wheat... sorry, couldn't resist.)
by Barcaluv on October 12th, 2007
Ridiculous. Is this true? Free Jay!
by KyraLou was gone but now shes back on October 12th, 2007
I could see if his questions were something like "Dog ran car mouse keys?", but to flag a question that people could answer and have fun with as nonsense is just silly.
by Halskiisaklink on October 12th, 2007
This pisses me off to no end. It's like the Liberal Party remaining in power. More likely that Jay offended one of the user-staff, though.
by .....----- on October 12th, 2007
I didn't knew this happened and i think its nonsense for people to flag that kind of questions, sometimes all need its a laugh thats why i go to the crazy thoughts category, i think that is unfair.
by inconsequential on October 12th, 2007
Ridiculous. I enjoyed JWH's recent string of silly questions, and so did a majority of others based on their high ratings. He even got his own silly question in recognition of this feat:
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/421175
In any case, Jay writes plenty of great "normal" questions. Why shouldn't he (and we) have a bit of fun every now and again?
If this place gets too regimented, how long will it retain its stable of witty and talented contributors? They're certainly not here for the money...
by Major Look at yerself on October 12th, 2007
This is getting very like yahell. No time to moderate justly.
by Firebrand on October 12th, 2007
What is the Category for if it is not for crazy questions.
First of all people should not be flagging questions from that category as nonsense, are 5 points really that important
Secondly why the hell is Jay in the PBox on the word of some point hungry anal person?
by Punny on October 12th, 2007
I'm with you, sweet guy...This is getting ridiculous...
by asweetguy4u2know saya R.I.P Nelson on October 12th, 2007
Thank you to all who answered supporting Jay I apologize that I didn't have the facts directly from the source wt the time I asked my question. The way I asked it was how it was explained to me by another party and I guess I should have waited til I heard back from Jay first before asking the question. It's just that I was so angry to hear he got pbed for such b/s . It seems to me too many peaople want to turn this site into a dead serious intelligent questions only site and I for one am not going to stand by and allow that to happen. Without people like Jay around to make us laugh this site would be very boring and dull.
by Ed the Jetpacking Headbanger on October 12th, 2007
One way we can support Jay is to sign this petition.
Jay posted it in a question this morning, pass the word.
http://www.gopetition.com/online/14639.html
by Crazy is looking 4 Imperfections. on October 12th, 2007
I loved his questions! I guess some people here think they are "community leaders" or "staff"..I wont say any names. Totally unfair, this is a Q&A website.
We should protest.
by Jenniferocious on October 12th, 2007
I'm not sure I disagree completely with all those flaggings.
There's only so many lame questions we can take.
One or two - fine. The people who like those questions can go answer them. But when ALL someone asks are inane questions like "Hey! What are you doing here?" "Surely, you can't be serious?" "Alright! Who left this here?" "Stop that! Don't you know that you'll go blind!" "WOw! How'd you do that?" "Whoa! Where did that come from?" "Wait, what are you going to do with that?" it gets REALLY OLD really fast.
Do I think he should have been penalty boxed for that? No. Especially since he seems to have moved on since then to asking better questions. However, I can't say I'm sad to see those other questions disappear.
by Mandy the Pirate Comedian on October 12th, 2007
whats pb? thats crappy because i have alot of silly questions that i was going to ask..hmmmfphf
by Yeahwell... on October 12th, 2007
His questions are half as crazy as some of the rest of them. That's just dumb. I don't think people should be able to flag something as nonsense. Who's to judge what is nonsense. That really irritates me!!! If you don't like what someone says, just ignore it or downrate it. sigh...
Quit being judgemental old ladies!
by SASSYWI-Q-Sassia-Jetpacking with NASCAR on October 12th, 2007
There was one that happened last night a flagged crazy question flagged.Not all of it is Joomla some of it are not so active members that have jumped back in and started flagging!!!!!
I am not for the idea that some one is allowed to deside if we can have fun!
by herecomesred2 on January 5th, 2009
Or humorous answers. For land's sake, this is not where you go to look up information to base life/death situations on. I realize that there are actual technical and real informational outlets here, but MY GAWD, lighten up. And gimme my damn voodoo doll.
by HeadAlpha on January 5th, 2009
Well said. I can't stand serious punctilious people.
by HATING godgobbers is Auzziegob FUN on February 24th, 2008
G'DAY Guyzeeee & Jayzeeee......owya both tripping ! ? !............ya might have noticed Auzziegob's postings are constantly flagged out by gesticulating, gospellalian, goody two shoed, godgobbers........................
but Auzziegob says eeeeeeeerz cheeeeeeeerz to telling them all to get stuffed !!!!!!!!!!...........and I hope their bibles spontaneously combust and turn to nothing more than ashes in the breeze,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,ahhh yes, the world is better off already !
by Anonymous on August 8th, 2009
Who regulates crazy questions anyway? Guess, its to be taken with a grain of salt... :)
by Scrappy on January 5th, 2009
that's been going on since 2007 then I see. I have been here 5 months and it's been going most of that time. Over the last 2-3 months we have lost some awesome ABers who LOVE to use humor because if you use humor on here, you will almost always piss off every one and they will flag it. Why is the staff accepting the flagging though? God FORBID.. someone who hates life (trolls, people with no humor, etc) let anyone who enjoys life and enjoys making others laugh..get to have a good time.
For what other reasons do questions get removed, apart from offensive, spam or duplicate?
by Andy B has left AB on August 22nd, 2011
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Do you flag questions/answers?
by FalsePretense on August 9th, 2011
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Is the AB flagging system automatic if so how many flaggers will it take to remove a question or it to get a PB? ( Re Bornabrits problem)
by formichinoo on August 31st, 2011
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when you post question,what you do if you found abusive answer for it.any answer delete system?
by (^_^) on October 26th, 2011
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So, AB finally got rid of most of the spammers? I've been gone for a few months, How did they do it?
by Swami_Rick on November 28th, 2011
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You're reading How many others besides me are getting sick and tired of people with no sense of humor unjustly flagging humorous questions? I was just informed Jay was here has ben PBed for asking too many crazy thoughts questions that got flagged and I for one am mad.
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That's even a stupider reason to get PB'd. What is the AB world coming to.
by Sheepingly needs no handy men only hugs on October 12th, 2007
Jay is now my hero; I'm going to name one of my kids after Jay!
by Mike has a Day job. on October 12th, 2007
Things seem to be going in rather crude English vernacular
''Arse upards' here lately
by Firebrand on October 12th, 2007
+ points - YAY JAY!!
by Smart2 is back! Did you miss me? on October 12th, 2007
Thanks to all of you!!! {{{hugs}}} :P lol
by Jay Was Here - AYPWIP on October 12th, 2007
Jay Buddy I'm sorry I asked this question before I got your response to my e mail The way it was told to me was how I worded it in my question. Sorry for the misunderstanding buddy. I was just really pissed at the moment that they would pb you cause some assholes have no freakin sense of humor and think this site is supposed to only be about serious crap all the time without people like you here Jay who ask the silly questions sometimes this site would be so freakin boring.
by asweetguy4u2know saya R.I.P Nelson on October 12th, 2007
Thanks for celaring that up Jay. Petition signed : )
by Barcaluv on October 12th, 2007
No worries, Lou. I'm glad I had a chance to settle any rumors before they got too out of hand. Thanks for your concern, my friend.
by Jay Was Here - AYPWIP on October 12th, 2007
Thanks Barcaluv!
by Jay Was Here - AYPWIP on October 12th, 2007
Either way Jay was mistreated and so are the rest of us. Arg to the AB STAFF. A big ARG indeed!
by Sheepingly needs no handy men only hugs on October 12th, 2007
And I signed it too!
by Sheepingly needs no handy men only hugs on October 12th, 2007
Thanks hun! :)
by Jay Was Here - AYPWIP on October 12th, 2007
Yep signed it earlier how many signatures now?
by Firebrand on October 12th, 2007
last time i checked it was 27. But that was like 3-4 hours ago.
by Sheepingly needs no handy men only hugs on October 12th, 2007
Mine was 27, that was hours ago.
by Firebrand on October 12th, 2007
34 on there now.
by Firebrand on October 12th, 2007
woo hoo. HOw many is jay trying to get?
by Sheepingly needs no handy men only hugs on October 12th, 2007
2 on the get rid of Congratulations petitition that has been there 4/5 days bu a Joomla member One of them was a level 1 the other a level 9, I think saying that they thought we were ruining the site.
by Firebrand on October 12th, 2007
I'm not sure how many we'll need. The petition to remove the "This or That" category only had 29 on it. As of right now, we have 35. I think we may be where we need to be. A few more signatures couldn't hurt though. ;)
by Jay Was Here - AYPWIP on October 12th, 2007
like 200 more!
by Sheepingly needs no handy men only hugs on October 12th, 2007
That would definitely do it! lol
by Jay Was Here - AYPWIP on October 12th, 2007
Imma start protesting if they don't apologize to ya!
by Sheepingly needs no handy men only hugs on October 12th, 2007
That this or that was a pet of mine I boycotted the category and made a big fuss, the staff have ignored me since.
by Firebrand on October 12th, 2007
btw I signed the pettion myself Jay and apparently there are at least 3 people who don't who aren't sick of unjustified flagging cause that's how many d/r's I got already like I really care or I'm gonna cry cause 3 jerks have no freakin sense of humor.
by asweetguy4u2know saya R.I.P Nelson on October 12th, 2007
There's no need for an apology. AB Rich released me from the Penalty Box after I explained the situation, and I admit to getting frustrated at being ignored. I may have been a little demanding with my last round of Feedback requests. All I want is for my questions to be reinstated or an valid explanation why they won't be. I take pride in all of my contributions to this site and I took this all a little personally.
by Jay Was Here - AYPWIP on October 12th, 2007
I'm getting hit with a bunch of downrates too, Lou. Must be the humorless trolls with no imaginations who are jealous of the rest of us with enough intelligence to be creative.
by Jay Was Here - AYPWIP on October 12th, 2007
as well as you should have Jay. As I previously said if we didn't have people like ytou around here to lighten things up this site would not be as fun to come to anymore.
by asweetguy4u2know saya R.I.P Nelson on October 12th, 2007
Jay I say we all gang up on the trolls and beat the crap out of all of them especially the ones who lack a sense of humor lol
by asweetguy4u2know saya R.I.P Nelson on October 12th, 2007
Ahhhh....makes sense now. Well, I've been trolled all darn week too, and I'll sign the petition.
by LadyLuck on October 12th, 2007
Down with teh trolls!
by Sheepingly needs no handy men only hugs on October 12th, 2007
Is it bad if I actually agree that "spamming feedback" is a bad thing? That doesn't mean I don't think you're a great guy, though.
by AnonymousGirl on April 10th, 2008
AG, I agree that it was a bad thing.
I don't think anybody here would disagee with that.
The point is that I asked for an explanation... and was ignored.
The so-called "spamming feedback" didn't occur until after the attempts for an explanation.
But this was a long time ago though and I am not nearly as passionate about this place as I used to be. It is all water under the bridge for me.
BTW... I think you're great too. ;)
by Jay Was Here - AYPWIP on April 11th, 2008
Aww. Thank you.
Yeah,I'm probably going to start coming here less as well.
by AnonymousGirl on April 11th, 2008