first order of business: ban mh
― He is married to Brogmus, Linda. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 16 April 2020 17:52 (four years ago) link
chaotic evil
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 16 April 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link
jeez thats a motley list of nonsense
― steer calmer (darraghmac), Thursday, 16 April 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link
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?
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 16 April 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link
I would accept the ban as a show of good faith
― mh, Thursday, 16 April 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link
R.I.P. George Michael H
― sarahell, Thursday, 16 April 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link
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
― kinder, Thursday, 16 April 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link
archive all threads that haven't been posted in for over 6 months
You might want to register at Reddit!
― ☮️ (peace, man), Thursday, 16 April 2020 18:34 (four years ago) link
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.
― fetter, Thursday, 16 April 2020 18:47 (four years ago) link
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
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 16 April 2020 18:49 (four years ago) link
in this great future, you can't forget your past
--Bob Marley
― dip to dup (rob), Thursday, 16 April 2020 18:50 (four years ago) link
"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.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 16 April 2020 19:00 (four years ago) link
The Biden thread will be a trip in a few years from now (assuming he'll win).
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 16 April 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
The worst thing reddit and Twitter did to the idea of forums/blogging is making ‘the conversation’ an hour long and then basically disappearing.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 16 April 2020 19:04 (four years ago) link
yeah wtf that was one of the best movies of all times!!!
― sarahell, Thursday, 16 April 2020 19:05 (four years ago) link
― ogmor,Thursday, 16 April 2020 19:03 (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i also like this idea
― when I come out, can you introduce me as Jagger (imago), Thursday, 16 April 2020 19:06 (four years ago) link
lol sarahell
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 16 April 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
in this great future, you can't forget your past--Bob Marley
― kinder, Thursday, 16 April 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link
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
― mh, Thursday, 16 April 2020 19:11 (four years ago) link
^
― calstars, Thursday, 16 April 2020 20:46 (four years ago) link
"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.
― Fleetwood Machiavelli (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 16 April 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link
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
Karl Malone otm
― anatomy of a buttless wonder (unregistered), Thursday, 16 April 2020 21:04 (four years ago) link
there used to be categories
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 16 April 2020 21:06 (four years ago) link
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
― anatomy of a buttless wonder (unregistered), Thursday, 16 April 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
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
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 16 April 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
I thought my post was pretty clearly tongue-in-cheek
it was! sorry if I added to the confusion
― dip to dup (rob), Thursday, 16 April 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link
I still have all those categories somewhere; we could put them back
― stet, Thursday, 16 April 2020 21:16 (four years ago) link
put categories back from the category back catalogue
― steer calmer (darraghmac), Thursday, 16 April 2020 21:18 (four years ago) link
literally had no idea what necroposting was before trying to read the above series of posts
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 16 April 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
/I thought my post was pretty clearly tongue-in-cheek/it was! sorry if I added to the confusion
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Thursday, 16 April 2020 21:52 (four years ago) link
Fight Club version of the Piña Colada song, I like it.
― pplains, Thursday, 16 April 2020 23:46 (four years ago) link
― 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.
― budo jeru, Friday, 17 April 2020 00:45 (four years ago) link
is... is this a common problem?
― donald failson (sic), Friday, 17 April 2020 01:45 (four years ago) link
I see what thread was bumped (as an attempt to lightly dunk on something Karl said itt) looks like a mod deleted it. probably for the best
weirdly enough Pashmina was the OG poster in it (under his Xtian name)
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Friday, 17 April 2020 01:46 (four years ago) link
― pplains
yeah, it's called "this guy was me", the first track on side two of the 1989 cassette "parrots on fire" by the algy krebbs quartet, underrated jam
i'm frankly disappointed at how often i agree with myself
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 17 April 2020 01:58 (four years ago) link
over time you'll get used to it
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 17 April 2020 02:48 (four years ago) link
― budo jeru,Thursday, April 16, 2020 7:45 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― donald failson (sic),Thursday, April 16, 2020 8:45 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― genital giant (Neanderthal),Thursday, April 16, 2020 8:46 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
i have no idea what happened, or what i said that got dunked on, or what thread was revived, or whether or not it was deleted. if it was something really dumb i said a long time ago on a thread, revived, then i'm pretty certain i deserve it. i just spent 4 hours arguing with my mom, trying to get her to own up to a single fucked up thing that she and my dad did, and completely failed. all i wanted was for her to just tell the truth, about anything really, and she couldn't do it. so if someone revived something i said that was ignorant and ugly, i'm definitely not proud of it, but at least i will own up to it and say that i did it and that if it feels cringey and terrible now, at least that means i'm not that same person anymore
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 17 April 2020 05:54 (four years ago) link
oh no :(. i'm so sorry Karl.
this is where I wish I had been more specific. so, without naming the thread itself, which you can't even search for on ILX anymore, there was a thread with a transphobic title (from the wee early days of ILX). you didn't post in it, to my knowledge.
but Whiney took your quote about necrothreads and bumped that thread with that quote, I guess to say "u sure our necrothreads are high quality"?
but budo called him on it, and somehow they were deleted.
u did nothin wrong dogg.
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Friday, 17 April 2020 06:08 (four years ago) link
don't agree that deleting evidence of community consciousness changing is a great way to represent the change fwiw
I guess being a snide dick to someone now on an old dickish thread is a good way to show that ppl used to and can still be dicks, though
― donald failson (sic), Friday, 17 April 2020 07:47 (four years ago) link
I don't think anything was deleted, was it? Am assuming it just got dropped from New Answers
― stet, Friday, 17 April 2020 10:53 (four years ago) link
bumping of old threads is one of my fav things about ilx
― devvvine, Friday, 17 April 2020 10:57 (four years ago) link
otm
sic otm too
― steer calmer (darraghmac), Friday, 17 April 2020 11:25 (four years ago) link
Searching by date without any other search criteria - like let me see threads started in a date range.
Also while I'm on date searching - the date fields on mobile bring up a calendar instead of allowing text entry, meaning if I want to search by date for something from 2006 I need to click the back-a-month button 100 times.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Friday, 17 April 2020 11:41 (four years ago) link
Then when I move to the next date field (for a BETWEEN search) it defaults to today's date so I have to click it another 90 odd times.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Friday, 17 April 2020 11:43 (four years ago) link
― stet
idk, i read soda's post in the thread delete request topic and assumed the thread was actually deleted
commendations to the mods for addressing the issue so rapidly. i did see the thread in question because i didn't click on it or pay much attention to the title because my whiney-sense tells me that i probably shouldn't click on any thread he's bumped. honestly didn't register with me that it was transphobic. again thanks to soda; i'm grateful to not have had to be confronted with that old bullshit firsthand.
unfortunately i guess a side effect of that is that it's maybe a bit tricky to piece together what actually happened, but karl, trust me, it was nothing you did.
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 17 April 2020 14:23 (four years ago) link
xp thanks, neanderthal! that clears it up, thank you
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 17 April 2020 14:25 (four years ago) link
wait what happened???
people who are not whiney
― sarahell, Friday, 17 April 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link
unregistered these ideas are seditious
― silby, Thursday, April 16, 2020 9:58 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
agreed, time for someone to spend time in the reneducation camp
― dip to dup (rob), Thursday, April 16, 2020 10:01 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― symsymsym, Friday, 17 April 2020 16:23 (four years ago) link