Should ILX Have an "I Love Football" Board?

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

http://images5.cpcache.com/product/30043635v1_480x480_Front_Color-White.jpg

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.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Juan_Manuel_Mata_Garc%C3%ADa.jpg

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

xp

start a thread

He's not even worth a thread

but yr feelings about him are, surely!

Should be "I Love Futbol" Imho.

i'd go for 'i love footie'

This must never happen

"football" is nowhere near as popular globally as cricket or australian rules football, guys

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

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― Cox's Muffin syndrome (admrl), Monday, 20 September 2010 03:11 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

in a worldleague where torres and rooney exist i say gtfo.

voted 'i only click sna or use my bookmarks anyway and don't get caught up in this outdated system'.

that said i've been thinking of turning the church into my own one stop religious wengerball palace

can i just say as a keen cyclist i was originally on the fence about iltrmb but it has brought me nothing but unalloyed joy and gratification.

as for ilg, its benefits and delights are without measure.

my sarcasm meter is just flying wildly from one extreme to the other, tbh

i am 100% genuine, mr sincere, i cannot tell a lie.

honestly

no really tho, iltrmb and ilg are a+++

I would love there to be an "I Love Football" board so I can banish all football threads to the same limbo that Cricket, NFL, basketball, bicycles, videogames and other people's children languish in. I think this would be a brilliant move.

The only slight caveat I have is that the problem is, even though unfollowed boards are bannished from Site New Answers, they still turn up on Blog View. This isn't really a problem with NFL and baseball threads as they don't tend to be active at the time I'm at work and reading blog view, but if there are suddenly 500 football threads in Blog View, that would be irritating.

However, I think it would be a minor request to make site Blog View mirror the Site New Answers filter? That would make everything just perfect. Obviously, if that's a massive programming hassle, then never mind. But it would be nice.

xp ok you owe me for a new sarcasm meter now

struggling to figure out how to be +ve about iltrmb and ilg without sounding sarcastic.

^ maybe that will do it.

I still have no idea why anyone would want to use Blog View.

It means that you can keep an eye on threads you're not actively following without having to click on them and get that annoying little hollow bullet you can't reset. Also it gives you an idea if threads whose title is confusing or misleading are actually about something you want to read, or if a previously boring thread has mutated into something interesting.

Mostly, it just enables you to look at a whole series of recently updated threads and see what's going on, without clicking every single thread and reading them.

Hence, it's really good for work, when you want a quick hit of "what's going on in ILX" in a short enough capsule to do before the next chunk of work.

i don't care about where football is on ilx, but a real-world equivalent of a sub-board for it would be MUCH APPRECIATED

i'd go for 'i love footie'

― sonderangerbot, Monday, 20 September 2010 00:27 (11 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

better yet why not 'I Love Footer' and everyone has to post exclusively in the style of Hunter Davies

'i love footsie' TMI collaboration

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

― france bans luriqua (k3vin k.), Monday, September 20, 2010 1:30 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah this totally works for _____________ (zing!)

non-affiliated, but if ILE isn't football-averse then why hold off on this kind of thing

Greatest goal ever

just do more football threads on ile in you want

the difference w/ ilg for instance is that there are loads of threads for games in development that might occasionally or sporadically get new posts, whereas football threads are either for a season or just random

*if* you want

just do more football threads on ile if you want

FUCK NO. ILE already has more than enough football threads. It's just about tolerable when it's one rolling thread but if there were half a dozen in new answers, it would be really annoying and intrusive. Like when New Answers gets swamped by 16 different THE ILX TOURNAMENT OF CHEESE or whatever threads all at once.

well it's one or the other tbh, more on ILE or a dedicated board.

I have already stated my preference for a dedicated board.

this is exactly why you should do more football threads on ile

the difference w/ ilg for instance is that there are loads of threads for games in development that might occasionally or sporadically get new posts, whereas football threads are either for a season or just random

So, what's the difference w/ ILBaseball for instance?

football is good