Ideas for ILX

Maybe a suggest ban counter? So ilxors would know how many people they have pissed off without having to ask a mod.

lazy to search upthread but one thing I'd love to see (which I'm certain we never will) is an "ignore thread" option

This is a brilliant idea, Dan.

Yours too, Nicole, although I'm sure that's been brought up before in various sb clusterfucks.

Any mod i've ever requested an SB count from has had a gleeful, if not outright maliciously satisfied, mien.

oh no, I've made 10,000 posts on ilx when I could have been writing a novel. outside, playing.

i would've loved to have killfiled the viking thread

yeah i would use "ignore thread" for threads I really should not be reading or posting on but I keep reading and posting because I have no willpower

i think it would be more fun if people dramatically asked mods to ban them from threads, like when everyone tries to get unhooked from ilx

i wouldn't give that trigger-happy bastid HI DERE the satisfaction tbh

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hahaha

does anyone else have this problem where you can't play ilx youtube embeds in chrome? (windows xp, up to date build, no extensions). they work fine on blogs, other fora etc

they don't work on my iPhone, don't know if that's related at all? It's better that way, actually, cos they just appear as hyperlinks instead - if they showed up as embeds (which do work) it would probably kill my browser

Is it possible for a thread title change to be reflected in the bookmarks as well?

e.g. "US Politics: LOOK AT MY RIGHTEOUS [[redacted]]" still appears as "US Politics: LOOK AT MY RIGHTEOUS COCK" in my bookmarks

Can you not get round that by removing the bookmark and then re-bookmarking?

being able to select certain threads not showing up on SNA would be great, but i reckon that's prob been discussed and whatnot up above.

so, i'll, er, just go check that instead.

<spoilers> BB code which lets you embed spoilers in threads, shows up as a black block of text, highlight to reveal

won't that be difficult w/ different schemes (i.e. white on black or terminal?)

An easy way to see a user's old posts would be nice - maybe put a link to 'previous posts' on the user's profile page, it's got to be good for something?

stalking?

oh yeah, a sneaky bit of code to remotely turn on webcams would be good too

re:spoiler, could do some fancy css to highlight on mouseover (wouldn't work in ie tho (but highlight still would)). would be fairly easy to customise for different schemes or could just leave it black on black whatever.

  .spoiler { color: #000; background-color:#000; }
  span:hover.spoiler { background-color: #fff; }

A "Hide This Thread" function.

I like cozen's idea. Good for inserting subliminal messages too **phwoar, smell my pants**

Not working yet :(

Hide this thread, or even just a way of removing the hollow bullet point from threads you clicked on but don't want to be reminded of the new answers upon any more.

Can you not get round that by removing the bookmark and then re-bookmarking?

I just removed the COCK and re-bookmarked the thread and there it is again, a huge COCK.

That thread's done now anyway but I'd still like to see this change as I use bookmarks all the time and end up not noticing amusing mod title edits.

just a way of removing the hollow bullet point from threads you clicked on but don't want to be reminded of the new answers upon any more.

― let me mansplain that to you (Masonic Boom), Friday, August 6, 2010 10:27 AM (9 minutes ago)

^YESSSS

i am so tired of clicking on rolling stupid crazy veggie swag thread

lol i never knew what the hollow bullet was for

i would heartily support a hide thread function--like if there was a megathread about a move or tv show that i hadn't seen i'd like to not be tempted to click on it

Hide thread would be awesome.

hey guys there is this function already! it comes pre-loaded, into your brain, and its called "self-control." thx.

make everyone mods

thx max; didn't think of that :(

I still don't know what the hollow bullet is for, I swear there's no correlation between it and threads I've clicked on having new answers.

If I had a modicum of self control, I would have wandered in here 10 years ago when Ned first posted the link going "ha, our friend Tom has made this site, check it out..." read it, going "wow, these people are mentalists" and never looked again.

However, me, I have this weird OCD that I can't stand seeing the little open bullet sitting there amidst all the normal bullet points and it irritates my sense of order so much I have to click on it to make it go away. ::sadface::

make everyone mods

All I need is one day. I will be the Countess Bathory of modding.

Although I like it, in that it tells me when threads I do like have new answers, what's irritating is that it gets tagged even when you click on a thread by mistake. Or if you click on a thread because you like the title, and then it turns out to be about FOOTBALL UGH and you can't make it gooo awaaaaayyy.

So sometimes I have to actually log out and look at a thread in order to make the little open bullet point not happen, in order to find out what the thread is before I figure out if want to follow it or not.

Welcome to the wonderful world of OCD, please wash your hands on the way out. No, really. And again, please, it will really bother me if you don't.

Can it be set up that wehn using bookmarks you can get the option to go back a user defined number of posts or to the start of thread instead of just previous page?

Current options 'View previous page' and 'Kill your browser' not good enough for you?

Or if you click on a thread because you like the title, and then it turns out to be about FOOTBALL UGH

:)

I was on the verge of starting a thread entitled "New Aphex Twin album in the autumn" and filling it with posts about how Liverpool won't win the Premiership, but decided against it.

I would actually hurt you, DC.

I know where you live.

;-)

I was thinking

"Check out this awesome Paisley pattern!"

then jpgs of St Mirren kit/Liverpool formations from 1979

"Aphex Twin's cock!"

Then pictures of Paul Scholes's cock.

I can kinda relate to the OCD thing. When there are threads that I'm forced to enter for mod porpoises, I hate that there's now a little circle instead of a dot telling me 'you're missing something! you're missing something!' It's not hard to quash that feeling, but I hate having it in the first place.

And managing hidden threads would be as easy as managing bookmarked ones.

xpost hahaHAAA

Actually, no one deserves that last one.