Should ILX Have an "I Love Football" Board?

but i will say that the ability to make junky random threads about baseball and to have separate threads for each ballclub works great in ILBB, i probably would participate less if baseball was confined to a few rolling threads on ILE

My absolute bottom line - do NOT call it 'I Love Soccerball'. That would be twee.

Actually, I have just looked at ILNFL and ILHoops and ILBaseball for the first time ever and yeah, I like, even though the thread titles mean nothing to me.

(I do not want it to be called I Love Soccerball, btw)

Nah, I Love Pipecocks wd be better

yes, and all football threads to go in there. so that when it's the only board i tick on SNA i'm not missing out

If this board wants the A-League thread, it will need to pay COGH a transfer fee. (That's a football joke, son!)

But this poorly constructed poll doesn't have an option for me.
― ailsa

well a mod can lock this one and you can start a proper poll with all the right options, it's fine by me.

i would also like to state that this poll does not have my preferred personal choice fwiw

Newsflash: Poll is not going to influence anything, btw. Consider my abstention to be a "don't care because I don't care".

If we had an 'I'm Kind of Indifferent About Football' board, I would probably participate a couple of times or maybe even three.

no. why? it's not like anyone else on ile gives a toss about clogging it up with bollocks.

ile really isn't even clogged up w/ soccer thread either... it's like, what, four threads?

im not one of those complaining it clogs up ile btw.

I've got 16 football-related threads bookmarked at the moment. I suspect having a sub-board would mean more rather than keeping them most discussion in the rolling threads.

Funny how no one ever complains about there being too many film threads on ILE.

Still think we need a 'hide thread' option but that's a different thing.

im not complaining! I just liked the idea of a board of our own, thats all.

Still think we need a 'hide thread' option but that's a different thing.

if every thread was given a category like in the old days, that could be done i guess?

should there be an I love Football?

Good luck finding someone to categorise every old thread!

My biggest fear would be that ILF would ghettoise football talk a bit and there would be reduced participation leading to every thread turning into stale banter between the same four or five people.

which is what you complain about on the football thread anyway tbf!

stale banter between the same four or five people.

Just like the SPL thread then. We've made a successful model of this for about five or six years now.

think the football peeps should take it to iltmi

Still think we need a 'hide thread' option but that's a different thing.

^^

cosign, thirded, whatever.

If part of it is "I want to start more esoteric threads about football, but I don't want to clog the board up with 20 football threads a day" then you're basically no better than a politically correct local council refusing to put up Christmas trees in case it offends Muslims.

We could probably use an "I love polls" before "I love football"

tend to think not, just about

however if there is one, it has to be called i love football (and i'm probably one of the very few who read ~football~ threads and ilnfl)

think that everyone needs to concede that yr own personal belief in 'i love football' or otherwise doesn't in any way change the fact that it should exist i have read a book on this btw

can we have an i love conjuring animal spirits board

only if it's called 'i love soccer'

deal

thread of 'random football formations' is proof that general shit-shooting footy threads can exist happily on ILE, fwiw- even though I support separate board.

xp there can be no mention of the 's' word

i'd go for 'i love footie'

i love footsies

I Love (Real) Football

My biggest fear would be that ILF would ghettoise football talk a bit and there would be reduced participation leading to every thread turning into stale banter between the same four or five people.

― Matt DC, Sunday, September 19, 2010 6:31 PM (1 hour ago)

no this is a good thing - by ghettoizing the topic you draw the real heads in and provide a disincentive for people who don't know what they're talking about - this leads to better discussion and way better/funnier threads

it would obviously have to be called i love soccer, that's a given

I Love Foosball

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I Hate Dogs

I Love (Real) Football

If you want people trolling your board non-stop, I say go for it.

think u just got trolled

johnny fever pitch

let's just call this board I LOVE FLOPPING amirite

or diving is it

innit*

^ getting there, getting there

I Love Football and think it should stay on ILE.

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I also think that the football player ROBIN VAN PERSIE is massively overrated and annoying.

xp

Might be a lesson in egg-sucking here but you choose what gets shown in SNA. Go in to preferences and click on 'I Want to Change the Boards Shown on Site New Answers...'. Then uncheck the weirdy boards.

xps

who are the mods? dmac and ismael?

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/Pages/customise-board-shortcuts.jsp
and/or
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/CustomiseSiteNewPostsControllerServlet

No thank you! This is Darragh's baby as I recall.

who are the mods? dmac and ismael?

― caek, Friday, 24 September 2010 10:09

It's a tough and thankless job being a referee. You're the only man with the experience to take it on, though you'd need to renew your not a nonce papers.

^ making like he knows what a mod is and does xp

lol nonce papers

i'm thinking ronan and lj for the radge lols

that said xp, having mod privileges purely to correct misspelt thread titles would be sweet

I just look for consistency from mods, that's all I ask for. Have no objections to the use of technology to make their job easier.

Gonna have to clear any board mods with the other sitewide admins I think. Although IIRC Darragh said he was only interested in a posting capacity?

Ismael I think you'd be good fwiw.

me too

Ah, stop buttering me up. Seriously though, what does it entail? I still kid myself that I'm here in a part-time capacity.

Darragh said he'd do it at some point yesterday I think.

I Love Football Opening Ceremony

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