I Love Politics board?

the gabz spot

this would have made sense like 6 months ago but how active would it be a month from now?

We should turn The Church into I Love Politics.

this totally is a great idea.

no

yes, GO NOW.

no way

Sure, why not

no way. ile will pretty soon become "i love everything except politics, film, books, baseball, cooking, comics, bicycles etc". it'll become 33% wdyll, 33% excelsior, and 33% so not gonna happen threads.

No way.

no way. ile will pretty soon become "i love everything except politics, film, books, baseball, cooking, comics, bicycles etc". it'll become 33% wdyll, 33% excelsior, and 33% so not gonna happen threads.

― collardio gelatinous, Thursday, October 16, 2008 8:03 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^real talk

and 1% lolling at British newspaper columns xxpost

no

give it 20 days and see if it still sounds like a good idea

i voted no because i hate politics

Too much polls and too much politics these days

Too MANY polls, actually

Shit idea.

Also might attract all sorts of fucking weirdos.

this would have made sense like 6 months ago but how active would it be a month from now?

― clotpoll, Thursday, 16 October 2008 19:38 (3 hours ago)

Lol Americans.

We can implement with the proviso that nobody's allowed to talk about politics taking place in their own country.

^^^this :D

it is going to turn into a liberal free republic dot com

its a great idea

This is another one of those not in my neighborhood threads isn't it?

just delete all the sub-boards (except for TMI, natch) and we can have a true ILE.

this would have made sense like 6 months ago but how active would it be a month from now?

― clotpoll, Thursday, 16 October 2008 19:38 (3 hours ago)

Lol Americans.

― Matt DC, Thursday, October 16, 2008

Matt, you obv are unaware that there will be no more US politics once Mr Wonderful's Candyland is in full effect on Jan. 20. Just gumballs, pretzels and rivers of bourbon.

HUZZAH!

No Everlasting Gobstopper no credibility.

rivers of bourbon in every pot

there will be no more US politics once Mr Wonderful's Candyland is in full effect

just saying, there's not likely to be the same volume of discussion post-US elections, at least for a while. Anyway, I'd rather have discussion of important shit that I care about be on the main page, rather than a sub-board that I'll forget to read. Isn't the point of sub-boards to be for fun/hobbies/specialized stuff?

btw i would support I Love Candyland.

No

no.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

no

I have no problem with any number of sub-boards for talking about stupid crap but prefer not to have interesting subjects siphoned away from ILE.

if we could siphon the UK politics regulars away from ILE but keep the politics talk that'd be totes awesome

I have no problem with any number of sub-boards for talking about stupid crap but prefer not to have interesting subjects siphoned away from ILE.

Personally, I usually use Site New Answers, but I can see this being a concern to those who don't.

http://marapetsuniversity.com/images/site/candyland.jpg
mmmm chocolatey bourbon

chocolate/bourbon '08

change you can believe in!

only if I can moderate it

^^^^^^^^^^^ i support this

moderated by daria, gabby + dr morbz

http://offthemeatrack.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/fred.jpg

if my eyeball would ever pop all the way out I would scream like hell

can i be a moderater? i have the patience needed to overlook things

where has this terrible idea come from?

I was in the shower and I got water in my eye and I started thinking, what if my eyeball would fall out? I would scream like hell.

I don't think politics is a specialized enough subject to warrant a niche board, I'd rather have political threads here.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Closer than I thought it would be.

popular poll!

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44784000/jpg/_44784762_zimbvotemug226.jpg

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/images/iraq_voter_and_son.jpg

My reasoning behind the poll was that with SNA, people who care about politics can watch the board, while people who don't could easily avoid it by not watching the board. And I think it would be conductive for more inside baseball-type political discussion that might be lost on ILE, or jammed into one of the rolling threads.

And I'm not sure I get some of the above reasoning...I would think that those who voted no because they hate politics would have liked the idea of siphoning off much of the political traffic to a sub-board that can easily be ignored?

I voted against further 'balkanization' - God knows I love politics.

I didn't mean to say that everyone who voted no hates politics...there were just a few comments above I was referring to.

you know, an i love politics board might actually stimulate more political discussion

non-election-time discussion i mean

Why don't we just call it "I Loves a good punch-up" and have done?

I would have voted no!

I'm quite unaware of the existence of other boards.

OTM Mark G

please make this, there's no other good board for my White House Puppy Anticipation Thread

you know, an i love politics board might actually stimulate more political discussion

non-election-time discussion i mean

― corrie ham (roxymuzak), Wednesday, November 5, 2008 6:29 AM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

let's do this. i'll mod and to make it fun i'll wear one of those barrister wigs like the british moderators do.

that's like saying Trump should be president

do we really love politics tho

If this means quarantining every motherfucker in the trump/politics threads I’m all for it

I also vote yeay for treesh to be part of the gestapo

ile is fine we already have enough boards

most of which are dead

Alfred is right I am a fiery demagogue

Ilx has never needed a firm iron fist as bad as it does now

Treesh go pinochet on us baby

i love politics combined with De Subjectivisten, all posts auto-translated.

https://i.imgur.com/T4qXydx.jpg

Did a mock-up just to show how nice all those threads could look if they were all together in one place.

yeah a place i would never fucking visit

maybe that's a good thing, who can say

I mean, that's like half of ILE right now which is kinda my point.

that's why it needs to split off. ILE has lost it's character as a place to discuss general topics

i think this would lead to LESS political discussion on the boards

which would be good

I always click on ILE, so subthreads make no sense to me.

xps It might! And that might not be the worst thing. I had c&p'd that only roxymuzak quote to show that things used to be different and apparently we were once yearning for more political content.

The trick is to exclude the new i luv poli board from ILE

political content would be good if it was the substantive debate of issues and ideas. when it's just trump content it's worse for you than cigarettes, i'm guessing, and as addictive because there is always a new reminder of terrifying it all is

xp: well, from SNA at least.

Put it this way

We implement this idea and not only will i stop shitposting, i will revive my intellectual socks much of ilx knew and loved

Maybe

i also want to moderate an astrology board

you sound like you have too much time on your hands

How about if it's called 'I Hate Politics' instead? More accurate.

I think we should spend six months agreeing on definitions of terms first

I think we should spend six months agreeing on definitions of terms first

I think we should spend six months agreeing on definitions of terms first

I think we should spend five months agreeing on definitions of terms first

Motion carried on first terms to now only last five months.

why is there an i love film board but lots & lots of threads about movies & teevee on ILE ?

i love film is for the cognoscenti and i love everything is for the common man

do this and make treesh a mod; excising politics is the only way to save the patient at this pt

I think a new board would be good. It probably won't impact me personally, but it really does seem like ILE is overloaded with politics threads, and that it's causing a bad experience for a lot of folks that come here to get away from politics

Yes please. A quarantine is long overdue.

I can't imagine how an ILX user with a disdain for political threads keeps accidentally clicking on them when they are clearly labelled thus. Or even going one step further and accidentally engaging with them!

Let's just fuse all boards, that'll solve it.

well with yr movies & teevee I can't always tell from the titles what it's about
would be happy just to be able to hide threads I guess
the level of politics discourse here is generally rather low but as a substitute for having to wade through twitter, usa newspapers, etc., it works well

With any luck the sheer volume of political posting will return to a more tolerable background noise level after the current moment in history passes over and there’s less shit to be appalled by on a daily basis.

I refuse to accept the current political climate in the anglosphere as “the new normal,” basically

it's not the "new normal", but only because things are going to get a lot worse from here

i wouldn't bank on any kind of restoration of 2015-era status quo

I Love Pessimism

I think it will get better because of the progressive insurgencies in the democratic party represented by ocasio cortez and others is coinciding with the republican party’s ultimate disgrace, which is just taking longer than people anticipated.

That is at least one way to read the tea leaves.

delete all ilx boards except happy robots

I don't understand how the politics thread or threads could be more clearly labeled?

like 95% of the politics discussion happens on 3 threads

I'm generally against sub boards with exception like sports ones makes sense

even I love books I wish wasn't, I feel really too much of a country rube to stumble into that but would be fun to discuss books

i read that thing obama said yesterday. he always was good at speeches. he's on a total "life of brian" trip right now. me, i'm down with it. i try to always look on the bright side of life.

whatever the "level" of discussion is honestly the media/social media landscape is so dire, even at it's most contentious the ilx us politics thread is a way I can guarantee I stay on top of any story though a filter of goofiness and/or predictable/adorbs quirks like tombot hulking out and calling everyone fucking idiots or Morbs Perrin stuff etc etc etc

a subboard will have less discussion and be less useful

my .02

kinda with m@tt here, normally the politics thread is mitigating my distress not enhancing it

normally

Every thread i dont want to read should be on some other board i’m not even aware of

I enjoy the politics threads sometimes, but I do think ilx being taken over by trump discussion has paralleled the rest of the culture, in which trump now looms over everything, and I hate it. Moving the politics thread to its own board would give some breathing room to other topics.

Threads arent plants

Lets move all threads to sub boards then we can live peacefully in our microcurated bubbles

yeah Treesh tbh the best way to avoid trump discussion is to just not read the politics threads. ime it isn't really taking over anything else i have my bookmarks on.

how's life's mockup does reveal that ILE has tons of 'political' topics in SNA... but is this actually that different than other points in the board's history? especially if things like the (still-horribly-named) spree shooting thread count... at what point are all "news" or "unfolding news story" threads "politics"? like by that standard, the baseline version of the site, if someone turned off all subboards on their Site New Answers preferences, and if people actually kept movie stuff in I Love Film, sports stuff in sports boards (etc.) would end up being:

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idk my feeling is like ILE is the universal water cooler, this mix of shit that's actively on people's minds cause it's currently going on, and random conversation starters around whatever miscellaneous topic. an ILE where the 9/11 or regular election threads were hived off for people interested in the news would be a really weird ILE, one that treats major pressing issues as the equivalent of niche hobbies. i could imagine a scenario a bit like I Love Film where blockbuster crossover stuff that will get thousands of posts is expected to appear in ILE (e.g. the monthly US Politics threads), but issue-specific questions that are just going to be four or five people arguing with each other migrate to the subboard? so that there's only a few "politics" threads in your ILE SNA if you really really don't want to see all the others...? idk it still seems weird but of course i'm someone who comes here at this point as much or more to get exposed to challenging political ideas and figure out my own positions on things. and yes, to keep up with the news in a way far far superior to any other.

I thought most people use the Site New Answers link. I always assumed people get pissy about the politics threads because that they think it takes away from traffic on other general topic threads.

but of course i'm someone who comes here at this point as much or more to get exposed to challenging political ideas

huh

well, people use SNA but you customize that. the argument would be, i think, that if there were an I Love Politics board, those who never wanted to see politics threads could have that one turned off and wouldn't see it in their SNA.

oh nm i understand "challenging"

@ Mordy - it's true! being on ILX has been one major factor in my getting leftier with the years, and watching how others articulate their POVs has helped me practice and better define mine. also getting exposed in depth in more specific discussions like, idk, Gamergate thread or Techno-Utopianism is both a space for me to try out shit i've been thinking/reading about, and to realize additional connections between those and capital-P Politics threads.

I think Mordy probably means that he's one of the ppl who's political views challenge ilx status quo views and maybe they were not shall we say enthusiastically received?

moving politics to a sub-board will likely have the effect of increasing the number of threads about politics and activity on them in the short-term (i'm talking during the first week, when it is new and shiny), then reducing the overall amount of posts and people looking at the politics threads afterward. i'm sure that will thrill a lot of people, but i'm one of the people upper-decking the current politics threads on a daily basis so of course i'm inclined to keep things as they are.

love you KM but i think you need a new metaphor for the day

Every thread i dont want to read should be on some other board i’m not even aware of

― Οὖτις

every thread i want to read should be on some other board i'm not even aware of

xpost lol, it's true

Um until this pending request is granted no other new borads

Are you in favor of creating an "I Love Big Butts" board?

i don't know why i clicked on that exactly but just fyi, that is a NSFW link

the only recorded incident of the beautiful word "zugzwanged" being used on ILX was on an ILE political thread, need I say any more?

maracas.jpg

ILX british politics thread are good #content even if I only understand 50% of the words being used

the worst feature of the us politics threads predates the current president: it's the attention given to media and how bad it is, at the evident expense of other frameworks. there's lots of competition for what those other frameworks could be and I don't mean to suppose that my favored ones would be popular here & that's fine, but the media one, it's like talking about rock critics instead of about rock.

basically there was this old h@rv4rd philosopher who said "philosophy is bullshit but history of philosophy, that's scholarship" & that view is bad enough, imagine if we did history of history of philosophy, like, that's what happens here for politics way too much

it's like talking about rock critics instead of about rock.

good thing that’s not at all what ILM is like

-wink-

I mostly just want to mod a board, which I’m not sure the higher ups were even really considering

the phenomenon DC describes takes place on "democratic party direction", the left- and right-wing drift threads, the organizing thread, the silicon valley thread, occasionally the scotus thread etc.. (and of course brit politics threads.) it does not take place on the monthly trump threads, which are foolish garbage without exception. one active thread of foolish garbage at a time p much is a sub-board.

ILX british politics thread are good #content

Yeah, if you're a duplicitously Eurosceptic tankie whose bedside bibles are The Foundations of Geopolitics and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (grossly exaggerating for effect, obviously, but the doctrinaire partisanship is hard to stomach – there are plenty of reasons to support Corbyn, and even more reasons to despise May, but current UK politics strikes me as rifer with gray areas than its US counterpart).

I refuse to take seriously anyone who thinks a) Russia isn't that bad, the West is the sole vilain!; b) Corbyn's comments about English irony were not antisemitic; c) Brexit is ultimately a good thing as it is merely the first, necessary step towards utopia on a global scale.

https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2012/4-7/1z2rNFqTZP-12.png

Bring back bethune

Um until this pending request is granted no other new borads

Are you in favor of creating an "I Love Big Butts" board?

― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, September 8, 2018 4:30 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't know why i clicked on that exactly but just fyi, that is a NSFW link

― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Saturday, September 8, 2018 4:30 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the only recorded incident of the beautiful word "zugzwanged" being used on ILX was on an ILE political thread, need I say any more?

― calzino, Saturday, September 8, 2018 4:42 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maracas.jpg
― mark s, Saturday, September 8, 2018 4:48 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what a set

neither trump nor politics killed ilx

They never should have made trump a mod

I Love Tariffs

announcing tariff of ten fps on any poster also posting to twitter

Ilx should never have created twitter

(beats breast) mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa

mine own most grievous

Who let mine dogs out

I do sometimes feel like the US Politics thread is too much of a giant clutter heap (and yes dominated by Trump), but that can be solved just by making other politics related threads? Like you could just start a Rolling US Non-Trump-Related Politics thread, or a Rolling US state and local politics thread, or a rolling congress/legislation thread or something?

just weighing in to say that i want you all to get yr own board, that way i dont have to write my ilx/lord of the flies fanfic

Like you could just start a Rolling US Non-Trump-Related Politics thread, or a Rolling US state and local politics thread, or a rolling congress/legislation thread or something?

You could!

nobody ever bumps the irish politics threads any more

you had a referendum, it's the end of history

sorry, forgot to change dn

septic tank indeed

I was going to use "humourless tankie miserablist" the other week, but its too much truth for me to handle!

I am septical about the EU but I've never been that into tanks tbh, except Panzer General is a quality game and doesn't have any of that awful political correctness gone mad like what pom worries about sometimes

mess liberales

propose I Love All Being For the Best in the Best of All Possible Worlds board

More doing less talking peeps

Can we get another more definitive poll going?

I Love Polls board

No way.

― I'm the wire monkey, not the soft monkey (Rock Hardy), Thursday, October 16, 2008 3:13 PM (nine years ago)

still otm

I feel politically homeless. I want about 90% of the UK political classes to be liquidated. But all I could find in the last Labour manifesto was boring stuff about bringing PFI's back in house, re-nationalising utilities and public transport, not being such dicks to the poor and disabled etc...

having a bunch of parallel US politics threads would be a drag - same articles getting posted/discussed in multiple places. the dem party direction one is distinct enough, because they're not in govt and don't drive most of the main politics news etc.

Yeah, I agree. I think the solution is for trump to not be president. He dominates us politics, therefore he dominates the us politics thread. This’ll work itself out.

famous last words

dammit hoos that was like my one hopeful moment in the last 25 years

It's like this and like that and like this and uh

So how do we actually get a politics board? I don't know the decision process for new boards. Do we need to do a new poll?

Amendment required. Needs ratification from 2/3rds of thread posters plus gabbnebb

Is there a real answer to this? The thread revive has convinced me it is a good idea.

not since the 69th amendment passed which states, and i quote: "Congress fhall make no Lawe in contradiction to the Notion of 'Fuck Gabbneb'" which the ilx board lawyers have interpreted to mean that we don't need his approval bc fuck gabbneb.

xp

xp the "real answer" is in the poll numbers above

So there needs to be a new poll?

sigh

Sigh, all you want, I'm doing it

this is gonna rule

New poll is here btw:

I Love Politics board redux - this time with feeling!

Surprisingly large amount of people turning up on the new thread to vote no. This may be a much less popular idea than I thought.

you keep complaining that ppl voted no

seems a strange thing to keep doing idk

i mean you put no as an option

I don't read it as complaining so much as an enduring surprise.

yeah, I'm not complaining, just surprised. Honestly don't have a big stake in the result, but I started the poll because it seemed like there were a bunch of people wanting a forum, but no one taking the steps to make it happen.

and there's a load of people votimg no, right

as far as I can tell, may just be that no is more vocal

this is ilx’s brexit

Lol did dmac just step out of a lynch movie

can we have an I Love the 1975 board, feel like I'm traumatized by how often that thread is bumped

sorry

ironically, the current US politics thread is seeing less activity so far than any US politics thread since 2015.

And isnt it ironic

oh, most decidedly so

Dont u think

precisely

Its like rain on your wedding day

https://i.imgur.com/vVXEEXI.jpg

go ahead, make a post. it had better be really good. if it's a good post you have nothing to hide

*calls backup to the posts you had second thoughts about thread*

Its a free ride when youve already paid

I've googled the lyrics to the song and I'm looking for the perfect line to copy and paste next.
Do I go with the next one in the song?
Or do I jam an ILX inside joke into another line that doesn't follow, thereby excusing its out of place appearance?

^ mr play it safe

An old man turned 94k +bennies!

well isn't this nice

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