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
― resumo impetus (blueski), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rick Gibralter (grady), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm quite happy with stet pointing out that admins discuss things off board. However in that same post he also says:
1) The only workable rules (ie that won't result in endless legal-type bickering and "but I didn't break the rule!" whining) will be really amorphous and pretty self-explanatory: Don't a be dick. Flickr's one's good too: "Don't be creepy. You know, that guy. Don't be him."
and the need for a new (albeit possibly temporary) rule i.e. take shit to the meta board or we'll take it there for you runs contrary to the idea that self-policing is the only workable rule.
I'm basically OK with this meta-board in principle, but not entirely clear what the principle is.
Since this is a meta-board, I'm going to do a wee bit of self-explanation. I have had a bit of a run-in recently with a poster who is taking it WAY more personally than it was meant. It's certainly not personal to any one poster, more a disagreement with a principle of people getting to police their own bits of the board (and evidence suggests I'm not the only one). I've tried to illustrate the non-personal-ness of my argument by politely explaining to that person that I do not actually have a problem with them personally. Part of me is a bit worried that others don't see it that way - I guess it depends what bits of ILX people notice.
I'm giving up on that one issue now anyway. It's too small a part of my overall ILX experience to let it bother me that much. I'm all for live and let live. I contribute non-snarkily to lots of the board - TV, films, music, football, general day-to-day shit. I'm trying really hard not to be an overall nuisance. I hope I'm succeeding. I really like this board and a lot of the people therein. I just want it to work.
Peace out.
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link