I Love Politics board?

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.

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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

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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.

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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

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

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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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