Has ILE become too pally?

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phew!

― Ron, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

ten months pass...

I think ILE has definitely got too meta and injokey of late.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 25 January 2003 17:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Maybe adding stuff to the FAQ might help? If newcomers don't look at the FAQ then they can't really complain....

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 25 January 2003 17:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah, I'm inclined to agree. It's the multiple joke versions of threads that I dislike really.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 25 January 2003 17:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

I liked your general injoke laden joke, sorry I realise that's an injoke now. I'm unsure if ILE has been meta or injokey, to be honest the old threads keep coming up and I read the sort of comic ping pong of funny posts and think that ILE has become less cliquey in the sense that now threads derail a bit less often. Is this my imagination?

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 25 January 2003 17:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah Martin, sorry about the Charmin one. Though I think one every so often is good and it was funny once and once only to have a million off one thread.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 25 January 2003 17:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

but N you're the one who is mainly responsible for the injokes and stuff?

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 25 January 2003 18:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's the multiple joke versions of threads that I dislike really.

It's probably hypocritical for me to talk about annoying things, but the multiple joke versions of threads are intensely annoying.

― Nicole (Nicole), Saturday, 25 January 2003 18:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

thirded, but whatever floats yr boat. let people have their fun - although i didn't read any of them, it looked like this latest round had many threads with quite a few answers.

― ron (ron), Saturday, 25 January 2003 18:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

this injokiness is inevitable. live with it.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 25 January 2003 18:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

that's your answer to everything.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 25 January 2003 18:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

yes.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 25 January 2003 18:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Gareth that's just not true.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 25 January 2003 20:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

five months pass...

Tonight, I feel totally out of it, for example. Maybe because I've been playing Age of Sodding Empires II all night but still, I look at at, and it's like a chatroom.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 00:15 (twenty years ago) link

It has gotten like that on certain threads.

― Lars (Nicole), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 00:23 (twenty years ago) link

They're just back and forth joshing one-line posts between a few people for the entire thread. On questions that looked interesting. Ah well - I know hw easy it is to get into that mindset. It'll pass, I guess.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 00:30 (twenty years ago) link

ILX goes through good spells and meh spells, I suspect another meh spell is in effect right now.

― Lars (Nicole), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 00:34 (twenty years ago) link

Mostly it goes through people-bitching-about-X and people-bitching-about-Y spells, but it's always something.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 00:43 (twenty years ago) link

But Nick, aren't you totally like the innest-of-the-in crowd in your ILX locale? I've always thought so, w/ the way some of the international ILX superstahs always flirt w/ you. U have nothing to complain about!

― Vic (Vic), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 00:45 (twenty years ago) link

It's post big FAP. I actually know some of these people now.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 00:49 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, like half the posts I read I now have voices and faces to associate with, it's very strange

― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 01:16 (twenty years ago) link

Millar made fun of my haircut when he met me for the first time.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 01:22 (twenty years ago) link

And he said my voice was deeper than he thought it would be. I mean, what the hell?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 01:26 (twenty years ago) link

that means he's attracted to you that much more, as you remind him of areal military mang

― Vic (Vic), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 01:32 (twenty years ago) link

Shh don't tell!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 01:36 (twenty years ago) link

Millar: how would you rate Tracer's handshake?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 01:37 (twenty years ago) link

That's cos you're so imposing in real life, Tracer. I mean, the glowing shirt.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 01:38 (twenty years ago) link

I made fun of your haircut? That's absurd! I never make fun of anybody's appearance when I first meet them. Andrew can tell you.

― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 01:42 (twenty years ago) link

palliness taking over the 'too pally' thread! classic

― ron (ron), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 01:46 (twenty years ago) link

Let me testify for a minute: I met two people over the last fortnight that I feel I've known my whole fucking life. This doesn't happen to me too often, so I'll continue to be a bit giddy for a while. Allright?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 01:54 (twenty years ago) link

YOU TELL 'EM PREACHERMAN!

(unless you're talking about someone besides me, then I hate you)

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 02:00 (twenty years ago) link

He must have meant me!

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 02:03 (twenty years ago) link

i honestly meant 'classic' :)

― ron (ron), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 02:03 (twenty years ago) link

I think the inside jokes and pally-ness are not a big deal. I think if anybody really wanted to really join the group, I don't think it would be a very rough hazing process.

― Scaredy Cat, Wednesday, 16 July 2003 02:19 (twenty years ago) link

jfgkjfyyyyytygjl,m

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 02:21 (twenty years ago) link

this isn't just a matter of what happens on threads but what kinds of threads there are. it seems like for days at a time every single active thread is jokey and hermetic.

― Josh (Josh), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 02:29 (twenty years ago) link

I offer the same advice as usual: start a thread on what you want to talk about and see what happens. I don't think people generally barge in on serious political threads or advice threads or what have you--generally!--and start posting cock jokes or whatever. I could be wrong, I pay no attention to anything anymore.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 02:41 (twenty years ago) link

this place is so high school

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 02:43 (twenty years ago) link

'why don't you post the threads you want' only works when the place isn't so totally overwhelmed.

― Josh (Josh), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 02:46 (twenty years ago) link

Josh has a point

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 02:47 (twenty years ago) link

it seems like for days at a time every single active thread is jokey and hermetic.

and sometimes i saty away from the board for days at a time. coincidence?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 02:47 (twenty years ago) link

stay

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 02:48 (twenty years ago) link

There are so many threads it is easy for the good ones to get overwhelmed.

― Lars (Nicole), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 02:48 (twenty years ago) link

low-traffic threads take what, maybe two days tops to slip off the new answers page?

― Josh (Josh), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 02:52 (twenty years ago) link

And you imagine bitching about it will do... what again?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 03:03 (twenty years ago) link

But that's more # of threads than what is contained within any given thread...

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 03:05 (twenty years ago) link

If you guys think it's bad here, try some Usenet groups for a while. You'll cry at the stupidity and be glad to come back here. My boyfriend uses webforums too, but they're 3d design ones, and overrun with young kids making stupid poo jokes and the like. He marvels all the time at the level of intelligence on this beeyotch - cock jokes and all.

Just a perspective from a (relative) newbie here... :)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 03:11 (twenty years ago) link

If you guys think it's bad here, try some Usenet groups for a while.

alt.music.alternative veterans from the 1990s to thread!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 03:13 (twenty years ago) link

Except for the absence of a basement dwelling crank it's not all that different.

― Larcole (Nicole), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 03:15 (twenty years ago) link

i imagine bitching about it will do nothing but fill up the internet with more worthless crap. i am trying to fit in man don't hassle me.

― Josh (Josh), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 03:17 (twenty years ago) link

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N, my point was people can't get upset that they aren't automatically in on everything right away. (if anyone is/was, I dunno). But it's not hard to get all the BS if you stick around. The group will draw you in if you let it.

Sarah, you are right it's the syrup/pork that binds us all.

― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Sunday, 20 July 2003 18:21 (twenty years ago) link

ILE/ILM's problem from the perspective of every non-regular I've ever talked to is that it's this MASSIVE, INSANELY FAST conversation and it requires far too much time for most people to keep up. The weekends move a bit slower but every day coming home from work (where I can't read, much less post) I have to play catch-up on all the poop that happened between 4am - 5pm EST while London and NYC are up and chattering away.

Palliness is what makes people want to stay and keep up with everything. We're FRIENDS, here, of a sort, some moreso than others, and that's what friends do - make injokes and call each other silly things.

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 20 July 2003 18:25 (twenty years ago) link

Tom, don't lie. It's all about the pork.

― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Sunday, 20 July 2003 18:27 (twenty years ago) link

good point about how much your view of ILE depends on your circumstances and location. i have a fair bit of free time on my hands and i am in London area which explains why i have been such a frequent poster the last 6 months and enjoy the vibe of this place generally. i'd be a lot more frustrated if i was on 56k dialup, worked 9 to 5 everyday without permission to access this site and i lived somewhere where i couldnt go to a local FAP regularly - but those who come here in that situation and put up with all the cliquey bollocks are real troopers and i salute them (no pun intended Millar, bwahahaha)

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 20 July 2003 18:31 (twenty years ago) link

I don't know, after reading some of the comments on this thread I wonder if anything I write is welcome here.

― Larcole (Nicole), Sunday, 20 July 2003 20:57 (twenty years ago) link

I am probably being paranoid, but when people speak in such generalities it does make you wonder who they are referring to. Maybe next time you find a post you take exception to you should comment on it on that thread.

― Larcole (Nicole), Sunday, 20 July 2003 21:03 (twenty years ago) link

Aw.

*hugs Nicole*

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Sunday, 20 July 2003 21:09 (twenty years ago) link

(You better get a streptococci vaccination soon, stranger.)

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Sunday, 20 July 2003 21:11 (twenty years ago) link

i think its interesting that someone pointed out upthread that a lot of the palliness follows from AIM chatrooms. and i hate to say it, but a lot of ilx AIM chatrooms, though individuals go out of their way to be welcoming and thats a good thing, hardly ever talk about anything with any relevance to me. sometimes ilx is like that too, but frankly you have to take the good with the bad, lifes like that. nicole, trust me, you have nothing to worry about.

When one wanders into an internet community for the first time, as with a party in real life really, more self-conscious types (eg ME)

i find this initial statement interesting, because N you don't come across as particularly self-conscious on the internet at all.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 20 July 2003 21:49 (twenty years ago) link

a lot of ilx AIM chatrooms, though individuals go out of their way to be welcoming and thats a good thing, hardly ever talk about anything with any relevance to me.

that's everybody, I think. Unless you're me in which case the content of the AIM chat convo is whatever I have to say abt what is on my TV at the moment and not much else.

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 20 July 2003 21:51 (twenty years ago) link

I am very self-conscious, lucylurex. I carefully examine all the things I am about to say and decide they are great. Ha ha. Actually I meant more in real life, I guess.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 20 July 2003 22:27 (twenty years ago) link

See, this is a good example of a thread which went into deep psychosis for a while there but managed to crawl back out of the abyss!

Oh it gives me hope.

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 21 July 2003 01:36 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.internalmemos.com/memos/memodetails.php?memo_id=1701

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 21 July 2003 03:50 (twenty years ago) link

Good Lord.

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 21 July 2003 03:57 (twenty years ago) link

Sounds fake to me. It decreases company morale? They're going to escort you to a meeting room?

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 21 July 2003 04:48 (twenty years ago) link

"All things in moderation" works pretty well in all works of life, including ILE.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 21 July 2003 12:38 (twenty years ago) link

Mark is a moderate smoker.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 21 July 2003 12:52 (twenty years ago) link

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