FP: Should 31 be the new 51 y/n

The football forum I post to has an interesting system that isn't without its flaws. There's a Like button AND a LOL button, as well as a FP button. Three buttons for every post! The biggest difficulty comes with LOLs, which are handed out both for genuinely humorous content and embarrassing nonsense. I've thought maybe a fourth button - LOL @ - to differentiate from 'LOL with' - and perhaps a fifth, a sort of 'super like', which you can dole out thrice per week to distinguish full hero-worship from the posts you vaguely concur with. A sixth button would be a 'dislike' - not as strong as a flag but nonetheless admonitory in nature. Other buttons for gratitude, shock or incomprehension suggest themselves. It really is limitless when you think about it

a good system would be one where -- right below where someone posts -- there's a space where you can put a follow-up comment, perhaps of approval or derision, perhaps a further joke, perhaps suggesting the thread steer more towards your own interests

that is sedition and you belong in a facility

instead of having options for how ppl express themselves, you want to force them to communicate in a box

what about if all threads were polls and answers could only be expressed as sub-polls?

I would like to cast my vote for a textless, all-button ILX.

I believe it’s called a field, technically
Xp

appreciate the explanation

appreciate the rewording of my joke

Something like FP has to scale, I think. After all, with a million posters 51 would be achieved too often to be useful, and with 50 posters it wouldn't be reached. If we have fewer posters now maybe it should be scaled down; I don't really care either way. I've only ever clicked the FP button by mistake on my phone, as far as I recall.

who says humanity ever scaled

greyscale punishment for 51 seems just

Fewer posters since when? When was FP introduced?

i thought pissing off each other was our raison d'etre

oh off? whew

I seriously doubt we have fewer posters due to FP/SB or anything like that. It is more likely its because we aged out, and also a lot of women left ILX for reasons I'm sure no one needs to go over for the enth time.

Going over things for the enth time ... on ILX ... where there are currently 200+ new posts arguing about the merits of Tusk vs. The White Album?

yeah but this time someone is totally wrong about the white album

i never thought a late night bump about the white album being scary would cause so much tsuris

scary is not a word I associate with anything about the Beatles, except for maybe the thought of contracting diseases from their rotting corpses

LBI

in lieu of lowering the cap, how about this: tell us who you want to banned, and i will FP them. sure many others would be happy to oblige

flappy w/ the surprise yiddish drop

killfile/ block poster on zing takes the edge off ilx’s worst (tusk white album thread is Swiss cheese chez moi) but maybe The System could auto fp the fools we’ve blocked since as it is I have to actually look at the trash to fp it o/w I’m not doing my part to purify ilx

The System could auto fp the fools we’ve blocked

Seems like there would be plenty of reasons to block someone you didn't particularly care for that don't rise to bannable offenses. The point of blocking/killfiling is precisely that it is personal to oneself and tailors ILX to your own predilections. Banning is universal and affects all ILX.

Yeah to FP and ban people is pretty serious & really only extends to personal attacks, thread stalking, and obviously if they're being openly racist/homophobic/misogynistic/etc etc etc.

I was going to say that people who post without actually engaging with others is the worst, but maybe the worst people just have every other poster killfiled

do you mean ignoring people or not engaging with people in good faith conversation?

Yeah to FP and ban people is pretty serious & really only extends to personal attacks, thread stalking, and obviously if they're being openly racist/homophobic/misogynistic/etc etc etc.

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 18:37 (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

100% wrong

Modban for that

Read the histories son

xp both seem fair?

imo some posts can only be engaged with in bad faith

ban turrican

there it is

Everyone wants the perfect society but nobody wants to be a citizen

i am going to go back on an fping spree so watch out

fingp's surely

ban turrican

― marcos, Tuesday, October 31, 2017 2:47 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't know why I didn't block Turrican after he called me "the Roger Waters of 9/11"

oh i just read the white album v tusk thread hahahaha. an fp was handed out i can tell you that much

"the Roger Waters of 9/11"

Not really sure what this means?

surely roger waters is the roger waters of 9/11

I now remember why I mostly avoid ILM
can we get quotes around the word "love" in the board name plz

Quotes around "music" also a fair request imo

at least I got a new screen name out of this

this is the story: I accidentally posted something in the "unusual details in wikipedia articles" thread that was meant for the twin peaks thread. it was a detail about the building in the opening scene of the first episode not existing, and that someone had figured out the made up building was in the same spot as a church that was destroyed on 9/11, along with a very old Sycamore tree. just something to think about within the twin peaks thread. then Turrican said "Flappy bird is to 9/11 as Roger Waters is to WWII," because i guess he's read enough of my posts to figure out that I lived next to the Twin Towers when 9/11 happened and felt it was necessary to insult me apropos of nothing. Fuck him.

DJP with all due respect it's really not funny

do you think he has a little counter on his screen where he gives himself points for being rude

xp. it's at least a little bit funny

knowing you actually lived there, what the ever-loving hell was T doing

i'm not sure T thinks he's engaging with real people.

i mean i hope not.

"Flappy bird is to 9/11 as Roger Waters is to WWII,"

Right, I see, so you father died in 9/11.

being an annoying pedantic asshole is one thing but the 9/11 comment is so over the line & I really don't want that to become a joke because it's not funny and I'd really like to not have to read it in display names and shit, sorry if i'm being a downer