What would you ban if you could?

People who only comment on stuff to say ‘this sucks’ and leave, never elaborating.

Oh. I'd also ban gore sites(the ones featuring real life gore, that is).

Edited by CosmosAndChaos on Dec 30th 2023 at 5:14:17 PM

Agreed. Unfortunately this is something my father doesn't seem to understand... and he wonders why we don't get along. x_x;

Something less serious now. AI that reads player inputs in fighting games.

Edited by CosmosAndChaos on Jan 8th 2024 at 8:42:25 AM

It's both insensitive and also just kind of a lazy, hack route to take, I feel.

On a similar note, I would ban jokes about depression.

Book covers that are just the poster for the film/show.

"Faithful remakes", because they add nothing new to the original.

I’ll concede that, but only if you make it *possible* to acquire the originals.

AI/NFT/Crypto/Techbros' ability to exist at all.

Speaking of technology, I would ban all the jokes and comments people keep making lately about how robots/machines/what-have-you are going to Take Over the World.

Isaac Asimov would like a word with those folks. ;)

Rooms with horrible cell phone/data reception. We need to stay connected nowadays...

That’s probably the only thing I don’t like about the House on the Rock. It’s a great place, but it doesn’t have the best phone reception. ^_^;;

Frying pans not being cleaned before being reused. That's how I got an allergic reaction at a restaurant because they didn't clean up the fish oil on the pan before cooking my ordered lunch.

Ew. That sucks.

You said it. x_x

Yikes! As someone who's done ServSafe training, not cleaning anything before re-using it is usually a big no-no! Sounds like those staff members need to be re-trained.

If it was possible I'd also ban boredom. But I don't even know if that's physically possible.

I’d ban the spoiled, entitled, ungrateful attitude of way too many people in online communities who act like they can be assholes to whoever, whenever, wherever and however they want and not have to stand for any consequences of their bad behavior. This is just one of the numerous reasons I despise my community manager job.

One user that I permabanned actually had the gall to complain and claim that he was perfectly justified in not only spewing truckloads of racist and ableist slurs about other users, but also telling his friends to send death threats to a guy just for being mean to him with the Insane Troll Logic justification that ”everyone is a jerk on this website, so that means it’s OK for me to be one too”. (Like, hey, here's a thought: Why don't you just block the other guy or, better yet, report him for doing that instead of starting harassment campaigns against him?) He then went on to claim that I was unfair and ”a bully” for permabanning him for it, despite the fact that I banned him repeatedly and warned him several times to stop, and he refused.

Like, good lord, how entitled and hypocritical can you be?

Edited by MagmaTeaMerry on Feb 7th 2024 at 11:34:18 AM

I would ban (or I guess, cure) all digestive issues. Why do we have to deal with stomach upsets in the year 2024. Sounds like a problem we should have left way behind us with modern medicine.

I'd ban diabetes, both types. Why do I have to be punished for my Sweet Tooth?

David Zaslav from having a job anywhere in entertainment. Let him flip burgers for eternity while desperately trying to erase the Chicken McNuggets as a tax writeoff.

I'd really ban colds, especially those that happen when I am still working on difficult assignments. Those colds really reduce my working efficiency a lot. x_x

I would ban the expression “hanging in there.” I feel like I hear it too much, especially nowadays. x_x

Now that I think about it, is there an expression or figure of speech that could be considered the Good Counterpart of “hanging in there”? I’d like to do that for a change. ;)

People teasing others when they clearly hate it.

Edited by wooden-ladybug93 on Mar 7th 2024 at 12:57:55 PM

The screen in trains and buses that tells what stops are next not working. And people singing in trains.