Ideas for ILX

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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

lol sarahell

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

I'm usually self-deprecating and relatively modest but I'm going to admit:
I've read through old music threads, found a comment and thought "wow, I really agree with this guy" only to realize.. I was that guy

^

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

Sure, ranked choice is an overdue reform but what we REALLY need to do is abolish the POLLectoral College that makes votes from some places count more than others.

uh sorry for trolling. I thought my post was pretty clearly tongue-in-cheek, and I don't actually want to break ilx just yet! I've lurked/posted on too many boards where the mods carried on like overambitious housekeepers*, so I appreciate the fact that conversations are allowed to evolve naturally on a scale of eons rather than being policed for "thread drift" or archived into oblivion

*including one autocratic mod who, upon disagreeing with another poster, uses his editing powers to insert his counterargument IN ALL CAPS right in the body of their post

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

Karl Malone otm

there used to be categories

some of us would literally spend time sorting the threads into them!!

https://web.archive.org/web/20060826032419/http://ilx.p3r.net/category.php?catid=145

kinda fascinating to browse through those, haha

ah, for the days when there were only 2 requests:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060921181110/http://ilx.p3r.net/category.php?catid=147

I thought my post was pretty clearly tongue-in-cheek

it was! sorry if I added to the confusion

I still have all those categories somewhere; we could put them back

put categories back from the category back catalogue

literally had no idea what necroposting was before trying to read the above series of posts

/I thought my post was pretty clearly tongue-in-cheek/

it was! sorry if I added to the confusion

I'm usually self-deprecating and relatively modest but I'm going to admit:
I've read through old music threads, found a comment and thought "wow, I really agree with this guy" only to realize.. I was that guy

Fight Club version of the Piña Colada song, I like it.

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

― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone),Thursday, April 16, 2020 12:06 PM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

if there needs to be a debate about this, it can happen in this thread.

i’m too angry to say much beyond: i thought it went without saying that as a community we use discretion in what threads are appropriate to revive. amplifying hate speech in the service of a cheap joke should get you banned from the board, period.