Ideas for ILX

pearse and the lads were the paperthinwalls era

Everybody is required to post as The Amazing Randy.

Identities must be guessed by posting style.

In the interests of constantly improving our democracy (& not lagging behind the labour party) I wld like to make the case for polls with preferential votes (i.e. you can number your choices). However much work wld be involved you know it wld be a storming success.

imagine the excitement of the stats loving silent majority of ilx when they;re able to see multiple rounds of voting w/ options gradually getting eliminated

Separation of embed options so I can keep images on but switch off YouTubes

thread-specific killfile

would settle for built in, nonuserscript killfile on web

stet can you like. make a bug bounty program where we crowdfund specific feature improvements

> thread-specific killfile

this is already possible. the includes at the top of the file list the urls that this script applies to. replace the wildcards with something more specific (boardid and threadid)

https://github.com/acdean/kilxor/blob/master/kilxor.user.js#L3

ah, cool!

An "I Love COVID-19" board

stigmatize necroposting: it confuses newcomers and makes them think ilx is "old" and "inactive" and "irrelevant"

archive all threads that haven't been posted in for over 6 months

repeatedly bumping old threads with posts that add nothing to the conversation ("cool", "haha", "amazing") = yellowcard

bumping old threads to revive past disputes and/or poke fun at other posters = tempban/permaban

let the mods 👮 be the judge of what is or is not a "great revive"

unban Frederik B

nothing i hate more than forums that fetishise "make a new thread!!!". Great, you have 1000000 threads with six posts in them asking the same question, nice one.

actually this is a lie, I hate a load of things more. wtf

off-topic "tangents" will be deleted or split off into their own thread ajkdrbgjkvbqerhjhjmavnej

unregistered these ideas are seditious

agreed, time for someone to spend time in the reneducation camp

unregistered must build the 10th level of hell

Reveal Your Uncool Conservative Ideas for ILX Here

i haven't heard of "necroposting" until now, though, that's kind of a fun term.

it's a practice that on essentially every other messageboard you'd get instantly flamed for

(for no good reason really)

i always thought the quality of the necrothreads was one thing that set ILX apart. i do see it as a resource for the future, or an archive

Nothing weirder to me than forums where people lose their shit over conversations drifting from thread topic

Like there are def messageboards out there where that would be grounds for moderation. Someone saying something a bit off topic

yeah I love ilx's stance on bumping old threads, the fact that we have people engaging in threads that last decades is great. I don't think we have a great ui for dealing with really long threads, but that's a separate issue.

Can i just...

unban Frederik B

― anatomy of a buttless wonder (unregistered),Thursday, April 16, 2020 12:38 PM bookmarkflaglink

No

let the mods 👮 be the judge of what is or is not a "great revive"

I have no idea why people would think something is inactive when it's site _new answers_ and not site _new threads_

why are we listening to this guy when he's not even a registered user

_let the mods 👮 be the judge of what is or is not a "great revive"_


hard pass

I'd support bg's reign of terror

first order of business: ban mh

chaotic evil

jeez thats a motley list of nonsense

With long threads as well as 'Skipping xxxx messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all, 'can we have a 'view previous 100 messages' as otherwise alternative is to load the full thread?

I would accept the ban as a show of good faith

R.I.P. George Michael H

i always thought the quality of the necrothreads was one thing that set ILX apart. i do see it as a resource for the future, or an archive

Would love a 'view previous 100 messages' tho

archive all threads that haven't been posted in for over 6 months

You might want to register at Reddit!

Agree, I like it when a thread is revived and I see something that I posted 17 yrs ago. Did I really say that? What was I thinking? Which office was I sitting in when I posted it? Only ILX gives this.

it's what makes it a unique imo - a community that is still in conversation with its past. or re-evaluating it, however you want to frame it

in this great future, you can't forget your past

--Bob Marley

"archive all threads that haven't been posted in for over 6 months"

Not at all, plenty to discover especially in regards to anything to do with books, music and film. I definitely use it to look at/htrash/refine any views I've had as I learn along.

The Biden thread will be a trip in a few years from now (assuming he'll win).

I just want to say my own idea up thread about ranked polls is the best idea for ilx itt

The worst thing reddit and Twitter did to the idea of forums/blogging is making ‘the conversation’ an hour long and then basically disappearing.

yeah wtf that was one of the best movies of all times!!!

I just want to say my own idea up thread about ranked polls is the best idea for ilx itt

― ogmor,Thursday, 16 April 2020 19:03 (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i also like this idea