I said personal attacks were never okay, you lying sack of shit.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 23 February 2019 18:46 (five years ago) link
i don't really agree tbh, trolls like attention.
― omar little
which is why they escalate if they're ignored, yes
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Saturday, 23 February 2019 18:46 (five years ago) link
And no, that's not at all a paradoxical sentence...
haha no I take that back you are funny every now and then
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 23 February 2019 18:47 (five years ago) link
Classic post.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 February 2019 18:50 (five years ago) link
i've never seen an ILX troll post on a thread where they're totally ignored and continue to escalate on that thread if they're continuously ignored. the problem is most of the time they're not ignored, so it does keep going.
― omar little, Saturday, 23 February 2019 18:50 (five years ago) link
His comments on DC were bad. Doesn't make him a troll. People on this thread are defending Morbs as well, so, y'know. You're a fucking piece of shit.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 23 February 2019 18:50 (five years ago) link
you are so thoughtful trying to see nuance for Nerdstrom we are lucky to have you.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 23 February 2019 18:51 (five years ago) link
#banthetankie
― Frederik B, Saturday, 23 February 2019 18:51 (five years ago) link
look what ye made me do
― cristiano ornaldo (darraghmac), Saturday, 23 February 2019 18:54 (five years ago) link
i've never seen an ILX troll post on a thread where they're totally ignored and continue to escalate on that thread if they're continuously ignored.
i've never seen a kano transformation
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Saturday, 23 February 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
i dont know what a tracker mortgage is
"ignore the troll" is not good advice when u can "help ban the troll"
― cristiano ornaldo (darraghmac), Saturday, 23 February 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link
euler otm, ilx politics threads are full of angry people acting shitty toward each other, kinda surprised anyone thought nerdstrom's behavior was beyond the pale but maybe i just wasn't paying close enough attention
― the late great, Saturday, 23 February 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link
https://i.makeagif.com/media/11-10-2017/jmyENo.gif
― a Stalin Stale Ale for me, please (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 23 February 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
xp you mustnt have been, he was horrifically insincere in his movements tbh and im an anti-sincerity advocate but
― cristiano ornaldo (darraghmac), Saturday, 23 February 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
did i post this already? i think i typed it out and deleted it. but basically, politics threads are messy because politics are messy. there are very few irl conversations about politics that don't devolve into something kind of ugly at some point. i say all this defensively, of course, because i'm all over the politics threads and people shit all over the politics threads
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 23 February 2019 19:11 (five years ago) link
there are very few irl conversations about politics that don't devolve into something kind of ugly at some point
really? i have conversations about politics all the time IRL - daily, honestly - that don't get ugly
― the late great, Saturday, 23 February 2019 19:12 (five years ago) link
if you're talking about the politics conversations on the internet, then i suppose i agree
― the late great, Saturday, 23 February 2019 19:13 (five years ago) link
ilx went another way quite a few years back
― cristiano ornaldo (darraghmac), Saturday, 23 February 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link
Going onto a thread for Sanders supporters and posting stuff like "I pray to God it won't happen but maybe he will die peacefully in his sleep during the campaign; only, then, who will his stans blame?" and "how will we preserve our standing to criticize other candidates when his campaign co-chair said this thing on TV three years ago?" was blatant concern trolling. There might be a valid case to be made that ilx should have never had a fan club thread for a politician in the first place and that trolling was therefore justified but the first comment was still in p poor taste imo and got a rare FP from me.
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Saturday, 23 February 2019 19:24 (five years ago) link
I'm not even taking a strong pro-banning position here but I do think it makes sense to say NP was trolling.
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Saturday, 23 February 2019 19:27 (five years ago) link
fwiw, when Nerdstrom entered this thread and posted his response, ending with:
"But here we have teachable moment for all of us. Surrendering to these petty and abusive calls for my removable would be failing the test of this moment."
he pretty much tattooed "I'm as phony as a three dollar bill" on his face.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, February 23, 2019 1:29 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
maybe he's just super corny
― Evan, Saturday, 23 February 2019 19:36 (five years ago) link
Lots of ppl on ilx0r dot com are perfectly reasonable and fun, multi-faceted personalities across most threads but flare up into intractable beasts on one topic or bugbear
Also a few who do it vice versa
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Saturday, 23 February 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link
ha
― cristiano ornaldo (darraghmac), Saturday, 23 February 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link
how dare dare u, there is nothing 'fun' or 'multi-faceted' about me, this is bullshit, this whole place is bullshit I tell u
― Choose Your Own Disaster (Old Lunch), Saturday, 23 February 2019 20:33 (five years ago) link
Going onto a thread for Sanders supporters and posting stuff like "I pray to God it won't happen but maybe he will die peacefully in his sleep during the campaign; only, then, who will his stans blame?"
FTR I said almost the exact same thing a week or so before he did.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 24 February 2019 01:29 (five years ago) link
your politics thread posts are very similarly useless, meta, and mean, as you well know
― k3vin k., Sunday, 24 February 2019 01:50 (five years ago) link
can we unban yandex.com and 176.36.21.189 ?
― sarahell, Sunday, 24 February 2019 02:54 (five years ago) link
i miss their political wisdom
― sarahell, Sunday, 24 February 2019 02:55 (five years ago) link
As with all things, this place is far more agreeable when politics are kept off the table. I've been mulling this over lately, and have come to the conclusion that furiously keeping up with political drama hasn't made me a more ethical person by any stretch of the imagination – once or twice a week is more than enough. That said, I'm pretty sure that nerdstrom was a bona fide troll. Dissenting opinions aren't suppressed by the mods so much as they are drowned out by the eternally self-replicating closet juggalo hivemind.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 24 February 2019 10:35 (five years ago) link
we used be able to have politics threads it was fine
rancour and trolling were both more generally accepted and more generally present and it was good actually not bad
now nope
and its bad actually not good
i dont think that whats changed is that we now have politics
― god knows i want to fp (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 February 2019 10:37 (five years ago) link
bizarro's remains the only good and scientific explanation why is he so slept on
― mark s, Sunday, 24 February 2019 10:40 (five years ago) link
So you say, deems, then you go and pick a bone with alter egos.
You may be right, though. When everyone's a troll, no one is.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 24 February 2019 10:43 (five years ago) link
less that subtle difference between that and what im getting at tbh
― god knows i want to fp (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 February 2019 10:51 (five years ago) link
I'm tempted to start a thread wherein we discuss subtle resemblances between ILX and 4chan.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 24 February 2019 11:59 (five years ago) link
thanks for the kind words, k3vin.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 24 February 2019 13:36 (five years ago) link
drowned out by the eternally self-replicating closet juggalo hivemind.
new board description
― ☮ (peace, man), Sunday, 24 February 2019 14:12 (five years ago) link
'Closet' being the only sticking point. I can't be the only one down with the clown and posting in full greasepaint 24/7.
― Choose Your Own Disaster (Old Lunch), Sunday, 24 February 2019 14:14 (five years ago) link
― he protec, he attac, but most importantly, he dmac (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 24 February 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link
Dissenting opinions aren't suppressed by the mods so much as they are drowned out by the eternally self-replicating closet juggalo hivemind.
― pomenitul
that's "fully automated luxury juggalo gay space communist" to you
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Sunday, 24 February 2019 17:15 (five years ago) link
Arguably, that might have merited a FP as well. (But I didn't give it one.) I guess it felt less trollish since it was on the "second thoughts" thread in the first place and wasn't presented with a pretence of being a concerned supporter.
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Monday, 25 February 2019 04:20 (five years ago) link
Theories have been advanced
― moose; squirrel (silby), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 07:09 (five years ago) link
who is Gummy Gummy?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 11:12 (five years ago) link
P sure GG = amateurist
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 11:22 (five years ago) link
― moose; squirrel (silby), Tuesday, April 2, 2019 3:09 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
https://media1.tenor.com/images/ada0e5dc681821584dbf4561b7269654/tenor.gif?itemid=7666771
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 2 April 2019 12:02 (five years ago) link
In retrospect, banning seems like it was probably going too far tbh.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 13:08 (five years ago) link
He never got unbanned, did he?
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 13:10 (five years ago) link
no
― ILX Loophole Converts Your IRA/401(k) to Physical Gold (WmC), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 13:11 (five years ago) link
There was this one time when I lived in a basement apartment and we had like a half dozen friends over on a summer evening and we were just kinda hovering around the open front door gabbing and enjoying some drinks when suddenly this total rando comes from out of nowhere and just like dives over the railing of our steps and struts in like he owns the place, to the baffled stares of everyone in attendance. He thought he was crashing a party but no. I was kinda embarrassed for him and his seeming inability to read social cues. Don't know why I just remembered that anecdote.
― Piecing together a lost culture from an unearthed Joshua Kadison CD (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 13:26 (five years ago) link
He got 51ed i mean
― Buttigieg comes right from the source (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 14:01 (five years ago) link