new 77 keeping it positive meta thread to request dudes stop biting their own joeks

Vic's post settles about 10 open questions on ILX right about now.

max you know I got nothin but love for you but you gotta allow for the possibility that ppl who don't agree with you about the general awesomeness of 77 aren't "not understanding" but rather "coming to a different conclusion than you have"

i have no prob w/vic... tombot is always just furious about things

i get that jd youll notice that ive avoided getting into it on this thread - i just want to make sure were all being factually accurate here, a vestige of my board lawyer days i guess

all love man, noted

by the way vic i dont think you and i come across each other on many threads but john is right even if i or others did think you were annoying thatd be a stupid reason to leave ilx - btw i dont really think youre annoying, except for right now when youre casting me as the ringleader of the conspiracy engineered against you based on no evidence

max is not even a real poster btw hes a bot

That explains the Phil Collins, then!

http://www.robopocalypse.com/RAD/2006_10_16.jpg

fwiw (ie nothing) i think vic xi is an ok poster even tho slumdog millionaire looks like some bullshit

vic is a great poster!

i'm not going into the lameness or otherwise of 77 but i think the most surprising thing is that apparently lots of people posted personal shit there despite the kind of person who also frequented that board? i mean y'all best believe dom and velko have that shit backed up in the interests of creepiness lols.

there are countermeasures in place

Take the hint and shut up for a while because you are being fucking annoying and in ILX circa 2002 you would have been banned for trolling.

― HI DERE, Saturday, January 31, 2009 11:38 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

HAW

you're allowed to proclaim shit like that if you're singlehandedly the 50% of ilx that isnt one-note, tiresome and unlikeable

Personally, I died.

I am so about to open up on his fucking weird astrology I'm a special bi-hindu ass and send him right back to whatever completely irrelevant part of the library he belongs, like large print cartoons of how the universe was born according to DJ Junk

btw I just wanna say that there's a grotesque quasi-racism to this with an extra dose of homo-hate that somebody oughta fucking call out as the bullshit it is, so even though I know Tom's more than happy to threaten to ban people for disagreeing w/him or making him mad, I wanna say fuck that shit. It's not "oh Tom's just an angry guy, everybody knows that" - it's hateful.

sorry if this counts as more of me being a dick, I know I am often a tiresome and irritating blowhard, but Vic on the other hand is a good guy and people being nutless enough to talk about him behind his back like this, and others putting up with that kind of hateful shit on their Board of Positivity, is pretty fucking bogus imo, and if this is me on the "moral high ground" - well, no, it isn't. calling bullshit doesn't mean I'm saying i'm perfect, it's just calling bullshit.

um. huh.

well anyway i was on 77 but i guess not really part of the core 77 crew or anything and to be honest it seemed pretty tame for the most part...way less aggressive than the noise board heyday in terms of zing meta whateva

but yeah is it public now? cuz um. i guess it seems kinda lame to make something googlable when ppl were posting in the thought that it wasn't going to be a public board.

i (think) i get along pretty much w/everyone on 77 and JJ and everything so, pretty much this suck IMO.

matt it's back to private now

ah ok it's hard to understand when yr doing a post-mort on a thread freakout.

anyway. it's like 77 is mostly just Hoos & posse being silly anyway. not a big deal imo.

or at least the good part of it was just random silliness and goofing.

i mean shit, basically the damn thing was just a bonerfest over the mad men chick, way more than it was bitching abt ppl

He's right.

it's funny how everyone who posts to 77 is aware of that but everyone who doesn't and professes distaste towards the idea and admits to not checking it thinks it's some awful board of hate

That's only a little different from how people used to act about ILM.

and tbh if you read someone 'talking shit' about you on 77 and instead of posting a response saying 'hey guys this was 8 years ago, haha it was a joke, we all have posts like this' you just straight up quit... idk what to tell you. sometimes you have to respond to ppl if you don't agree with or like what they are saying about you

J0rdan you're saying Vic should be OK with people saying homophobic racist stuff behind his back and should be offering up the excuses for them himself? also, nobody is describing 77 the way you claim they are. they're saying "yup, have a secret board, ppl are gonna occasionally talk hateful garbage behind people's backs, and that's bullshit even if it's not the way things are much of the time," so you can quit claiming people are mischaracterizing 77, 'cause they're not.

"wow that was scorching hateful stuff that guy was saying about me when I wasn't there...guess he must have been havin' a bad day!"

Wait, I think his main point was that stuff like ^ approx. 1% of what happened on the board.

john this is my point, and it's larger than what happened to vic: 77, to vic (to use this situation as an example), is not a private board. he can see it, therefore it's the equivalent to all the sub-boards, and on lots of the sub-boards, including 1p3, ITR (playground of such moral stalwarts as john justen and dan perry) and the noize board, ppl talk about other ppl on the board in a meta way that some might call 'shit talk'. so for 77 - and it's core posters, me included - to be taking this amount of shit from ppl, esp elder posters, is just wrong imo.

and it's my personal opinion, as someone who was ragged on unmercifully when i started posting on ilx, that it's best to respond and weather the storm than to quit. but, that's just my opinion. (not that im condoning tom's pretty awful post)

It is actually unlawful on 1p3 to rain on people's parades, for what it's worth.

um how about the popular thread "not really loving" for instance

People on that thread? Are people who don't throw parades.

I mean sorry we don't REALLY LOVE everybody. The pressure!

Wait, I think his main point was that stuff like ^ approx. 1% of what happened on the board.

which I totally acknowledge. I am not saying ppl were in there bein' dicks all the time. I am a little - OK, being me, a lot - dismayed that when an attack that off-the-charts was launched, the board-culture response was "well, consider the source" instead of "fucking whoa: that is unacceptable." Ragged on is one thing - the quoted bit is beyond the pale imo. I know what it's like to get ragged on, I'm cool with it & invite it plenty of the time, but dragging people's sexuality & race into the insults is the sort of thing I would hope somebody would go "fuckin' wait a minute" about.

john u should read the thread before you start throwing out weighty accusations like "homophobe" and "racist"

sorry unless youre talking about tom's bit

lol totally misread u, take it back, carry on

lmao

j0hn d what is ur fav loggins song

I think maybe the race/sexuality-baiting part of that might have been under the radar for a lot of people, actually. It's not exactly explicit. I don't love that post at all, but I bet that/those aspects of that it were not apparent to most people -- for whatever reason. I think if it had been explicitly hateful in that/those manner(s), there would have been quite a different response. Gabbneb gets shit for being racist for saying some pretty lighthearted/borderline shit on 77 (though I do acknowledge that 'neb gets shit pretty much 94 hours a day everywhere), for example.

dang max you robbed me of another patented j0hn d. self-righteous response!!

I mean, I can't see the racist aspect of it, to be completely honest. The other half, I get you.

XPOST

ok I gotta go to the airport. why? scroll down and see & then cap on j0hn d. all u want the lulz are on me

see you guys in a week, all love to everybody

Uh, tell Kevin McDonald hi from me?!?!?!?!

TS: Most Retarded-Looking Barenaked Ladies Artist on This Cruise

Hey guys funny story: if you cut back on shit talk and act fuckin nice sometimes you will reap some rewards in this life IRL and otherwise.

funny story: people tend to like me more when im mean to them, especially girls

Hoos otm. ps - I hope you're feeling better today!

I am running on all cylinders today, thanks!

Hoos already in the running for the KIP '09 award.