― stet (stet), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (121212), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link
The skill needed to get the best (i.e. what I want) out of ILX these days seems to be about identifying where the little islands of civility exist and enjoying them, and trying to forget that the rest of it is there, and so very pish. (This is the view correctly ascribed to me by Keef above).
I used to be able to use ILx differently, and follow conversations about which I knew little or nothing, because the general tone made it a pleasure. That doesn't seem to be the case anymore. So it goes I suppose. Things change, so do I. On those occasions where I see what appears to be bullying, most usually low-level unpleasantness, it reinforces my view that most of ILx is not the place for me to hang out, so I don't. That's what grimly recommends, I guess. Well done me, proper Thatcher's child behaviour.
So, in summary: I got old and less grouchy and I don't have the time or the energy to waste it on fights here, or (for that matter) to try to convince other people that they might like to behave differently. Hats off to anyone who feels like giving it a whirl, though.
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Or, more likely, another pub? ILX isn't full of fannies (let's call them wankers to avoid offending Nathalie's Fanny). I think of ILX as the pub people go to to avoid the ones full of wankers. It has a better good guy: wanker ratio than most other Internet forums I've been to.
― onimo (nu_onimo), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link
(love the zingmonkey!)
― scott seward (121212), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link
I like the idea of I Love Books but whenever I feel the need to start a literature thread, I'm pretty sure I'd do so here. The last Pynchon thread on ILE got way more responses than the equivalent ILB thread. That said, I like the idea of ILB and I'm glad it's there.
(xpost - ILB ended up in like five newspapers!)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link
hahaha remember when I started a mini feud between ILB & NB last year? no blood spilled. I can be such a dick sometimes.
what newspapers was ILB mentioned in? UK I presume.
― mark coleman (lovebug ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link
no-one's "irreplaceable".
xpost
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link
Better than what ILM/E have become even in the past 6 months, but still pretty bland.
― Geza T iz tha Rainy G. Toronado (The GZeus), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link
a ton of euro papers. cuzza the one thread that mikey started. it was briefly a webenomemon.
― scott seward (121212), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link
Alisa, post on TITTWIS. it is open to all posters and all topics.
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link
The Campbell - MacDonald feud, including the Massacre of GlencoeThe Capone - Moran feud, including the St. Valentine's Day massacreThe Clanton/McLaury - Earp feudThe Donnelly - Lucan community feudThe Gunn - Keith feudThe Hatfield - McCoy feudThe Lancaster - York feudThe Percy - Neville feudThe Talbot - Berkeley feudNjál's saga, an Icelandic account of a Celtic-Nordic blood feudThe Pleasant Valley War
― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link
S... I'm a bit late here, but the problem with this statement is that it's an impossible ask.
If you can think of an answer that isn't qualified with an if, then we might be getting somewhere.
p.s. fuk u! lolz HI DERE!
― KeefW (KeefW), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― KeefW (KeefW), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link
What? Tell me more!
― Tom D. (Dada), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link
maybe so. but then so is saying: "hey, stop zinging/bullying/being nasty to each other."
my point is simple - it's far more useful to say, a la mark seven billion posts ago: "look, people, how about we just ignore posts that irritate us" than it is to say: "right dudes, no more irritating posts." i mean, irritation is in the, er, brain of the ILX0r. one man's troll is another man's nabisco. or something.
fill in the blanks: it's an i----n-t m-ss--e boa-d. lighte- up, pe-ple.
― grimly fiendish (simon), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link
Wow, for the first time ever, I'm proud of my ancestors!
― Tom D. (Dada), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― onimo (nu_onimo), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom D. (Dada), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom D. (Dada), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― kv_nol (kv_nol), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Mmnot as I remember it... CJ sounds about right, but not entirely sure.
― Ole Martin Halck (OleM), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Friday, 16 February 2007 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― unfished business (Scourage), Friday, 16 February 2007 02:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― McCain's-sponsored epaulettes (stet), Friday, 16 February 2007 03:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Dearest admins, who decides what it is zinging, what is bullying, and what is just making a point to someone who then takes it personally?
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 16 February 2007 08:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 16 February 2007 08:50 (seventeen years ago) link
I know this! It's the admins!
― KeefW (KeefW), Friday, 16 February 2007 08:59 (seventeen years ago) link
teh_kit, if you can't be meta on a meta-board, when can you be meta?
(haha, that looks like a theaudience album track title)
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 16 February 2007 09:21 (seventeen years ago) link
luv ailsa_xx
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 16 February 2007 09:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 16 February 2007 09:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link