Some classic threads could be made into podcasts. Each poster would be voiced by a different actor. No celebrities though, we should support struggling artists
― Treeship, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 02:31 (eight years ago) link
Maybe one or two could be performed live. The dialogue would just be the thread but other aspects of the performance -- the setting, costumes, the actors' gestures and intonations -- would put all of it in a different context. Like, the discussion might be about mia but thats not whats really going on with the characters
― Treeship, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 02:37 (eight years ago) link
Maybe instead of performing threads as plays, we could film them as porn parodies. (Again, we'd hire outside talent for this).
― Treeship, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 02:42 (eight years ago) link
was with you until that last post
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 03:48 (eight years ago) link
wtf is a porn parody
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 03:53 (eight years ago) link
"Fishbowl" discussions. Some threads will have just 10 or so users posting, maybe people who know a lot about the given topic, but everyone can read the thread. Then there will be another thread where everyone else discusses the "main" thread, scrutinizing posters the way commentators do after a presidential debate.
― Treeship, Monday, November 30, 2015 9:00 PM (1 hour ago)
better/worse yet, rig it so that (for instance) anyone who visits ilxor.com between 6:00 and 8:00 PM GMT on December 5 is automatically redirected to The Great ILX Gun Control Showdown, followed by a compulsory discussion thread between 8:00 and 9:00 PM. it's not like we have anything better to do with our time.
― scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 03:55 (eight years ago) link
Some threads will have just 10 or so users posting
Some threads don't have ten posters on a good day.
― the fiest p (onimo), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 12:30 (eight years ago) link
These will be high interest threads though that only ten users will have access to. Think "panel discussion." The threads will be advertised on the new york city subway (log on at 10pm to watch the discussion in real time!)
― Treeship, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 12:46 (eight years ago) link
From Jan 1 to Jan 7, if you get more than 25 sbs, you are banned from the site for the rest of the yearthink of it as our version of The Purge
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 December 2015 02:30 (eight years ago) link
Condensing it all into one short window of opportunity would really give me something to shoot for.
― pplains, Friday, 4 December 2015 02:37 (eight years ago) link
Cash incentives for flag posts like you get a dollar if you flag a post. The people that are left after a month of this win something, like dinner with Ned Raggett or something.
― Treeship, Friday, 4 December 2015 13:38 (eight years ago) link
Cash incentives for not being part of the sensitivity crew >.<
― The Once-ler, Friday, 4 December 2015 13:43 (eight years ago) link
subboard dedicated to RIP threads
― lute bro (brimstead), Sunday, 17 January 2016 05:32 (eight years ago) link
― lute bro (brimstead), Saturday, January 16, 2016 9:32 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lute bro (brimstead), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 04:33 (eight years ago) link
ild?
― I expel a minor traveler's flatulence (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 04:40 (eight years ago) link
you could just call it "Board for RIP Threads"
this belongs in :your terrible ideas:, really
― lute bro (brimstead), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 05:19 (eight years ago) link
Make ILX display only the first 100 posts following a bookmarked post
― écorché (S-), Thursday, 25 February 2016 01:58 (eight years ago) link
Option to whatyoucallit entire threads
― Ecomigrant gnomics (darraghmac), Sunday, 13 March 2016 16:25 (eight years ago) link
option to display 100 random posts on a single page
― gr8080, Friday, 8 April 2016 17:35 (eight years ago) link
a rewind feature that allows you to play back old threads so that you can relive the tension and excitement of watching classic clusterfucks develop in real time. if you're so inclined, you can play back all of ilx from the beginning, and you can adjust the speed to 2x/4x/8x/16x/etc. to catch up on ilx history more quickly.
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Friday, 8 April 2016 22:18 (eight years ago) link
principal poster analysis
― We quickly ate the feast as to leave ASAP (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 8 April 2016 22:20 (eight years ago) link
better yet (xpost), newcomers will be required to play back the last 15 years of ilx at a maximum speed of 4x and get an 80% or higher on the forum history exam before they can begin posting. the rest of us will have our posting privileges suspended until we review the period of forum history preceding the date of our first posts.
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Friday, 8 April 2016 22:21 (eight years ago) link
solipsistic ilx: you think you're interacting with real posters, but they're actually just chatbots programmed to respond in the voices of real posters. there'll be a chatbot darraghmac and a chatbot morbius and a chatbot ned, and they'll all respond in character because they've been fed the complete posting histories of those individuals. this will be a tactful feature for banned/disliked posters: they can abuse the chatbots all they want without hurting anyone's irl feelings, and they won't have to face the indignity of knowing that they've been banned. over the years their ilx timelines will diverge from reality in very interesting ways.
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Friday, 8 April 2016 22:33 (eight years ago) link
Break break hes in the machine burn everything
― never had it so ogod (darraghmac), Friday, 8 April 2016 22:52 (eight years ago) link
Love the rewind idea tho, but not as much as I love the fact u xposted yourself with a "better yet"
― never had it so ogod (darraghmac), Friday, 8 April 2016 22:53 (eight years ago) link
I have def wondered if ILX is a collection of bots designed to make people purchase unreasonably priced NBA tickets
― We quickly ate the feast as to leave ASAP (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 8 April 2016 23:00 (eight years ago) link
lol
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Friday, 8 April 2016 23:03 (eight years ago) link
option to display 100 random posts on a single page --gr8080
really good idea
― de l'asshole (flopson), Saturday, 9 April 2016 00:07 (eight years ago) link
also it's been a couple years since we talked about it but time for avatars imo
― de l'asshole (flopson), Saturday, 9 April 2016 00:08 (eight years ago) link
I want to publish like three or four epic threads in book form. I've talked about this before.
― Treeship, Saturday, 9 April 2016 00:45 (eight years ago) link
It would be sort of like a novel: there are the conversation topics but the reaaaal story is what is going on between the posters.
― Treeship, Saturday, 9 April 2016 00:46 (eight years ago) link
get to print
― portumnes (alomar lines), Saturday, 9 April 2016 03:52 (eight years ago) link
i've also had the idea of writing a novel where the text was just fictional message board threads. it would be a lot easier to just copy ilx threads though
― Treeship, Saturday, 9 April 2016 04:58 (eight years ago) link
Just a bit of fun
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 9 April 2016 18:06 (eight years ago) link
* Bookmarks separated out by board?
― never ending bath infusion (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 14 April 2016 00:23 (eight years ago) link
That's potentially something greasemonkey could do give that the board id is in the url... Would need to lookup board name (or use a hard coded list)
― koogs, Thursday, 14 April 2016 02:23 (eight years ago) link
Mind, I dunno how useful anyone but me would find it - just sometimes I'm looking idly but nonspecifically for a familiar I Love Photography thread to peruse, say.
― never ending bath infusion (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 14 April 2016 03:16 (eight years ago) link
android zing wld be v intersting!
― niels, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 07:32 (seven years ago) link
plz to restore classic-style capitalization for the "two weeks ago" thingy?
― Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 25 August 2016 21:18 (seven years ago) link
please stop referencing post times to the current time and instead reference them to midnight of the forthcoming christmas day
― veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 25 August 2016 21:34 (seven years ago) link
i agree with Casino, looks yuck now
― flopson, Thursday, 25 August 2016 21:41 (seven years ago) link
Absolute dates only.
― Jeff, Thursday, 25 August 2016 21:50 (seven years ago) link
Dates in kelvin
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 August 2016 21:51 (seven years ago) link
the time words force you to engage your slow thinking and ask yourself "will this zing be good if it is responding to a fifty-eight minutes old post?"
― veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 25 August 2016 21:52 (seven years ago) link
I like the relative timing - I feel like it's been this way since I came back? Y'all whinin' 'bout 'nothin
― El Tomboto, Friday, 26 August 2016 00:02 (seven years ago) link
The relative time only bothers me on zing touch because you have to click on the individual post to see the date-time
― Jeff, Friday, 26 August 2016 00:21 (seven years ago) link
a bot that bumps a random thread every day (and temporarily pins it to the top of SNA) with the text "did we ever get this sorted?"
― hippie lady from california who loves that god (unregistered), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link
I like that one. Extra entertaining on days when it throws up an old clusterfuck.
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 16:44 (seven years ago) link
we've got one of these already surely?
― Len Bincowank (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
did we ever get this sorted?
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 16:46 (seven years ago) link