this person emailed me from this address: (redacted)
if this was not a person named (redacted), who was it?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 20 January 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
gerard lbi is a real person who exists and is a very lovely guy. no reason at all to think it wasnt he who mailed you
as already explained, the "poster x is part of european sockpuppet gang" has been an ilx trope for a decade or more
this thread had already started down that route when it started whaling on fredb
cant really say any more than that
― Catherine, Boner of JP Sweeney & Co (darraghmac), Monday, 20 January 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
ok if you are responding to me with this info, my post was a stupid injoke based on typical Irish pronunciation of the first name
I didn’t mean to convey skullduggery or him being anything other than he was
― steer karma (gyac), Monday, 20 January 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
sometimes on ilx ppl like to joke that posters are sockpuppets of other posters and sometimes they're sincere and sometimes they're trolling and even when they're sincere often they're wrong
― Mordy, Monday, 20 January 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
I don't really get what is going on now, but I haven't been sending anyone emails under false names.
― Frederik B, Monday, 20 January 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link
in fact and to be absolutely fair, this was the post that actually set the thread kinda towards that :
is it more nagl tofind it weird that (people from xyz region) are interested in the minutiae of another country's politicsorto pretend you are from xyz region to provoke people and "stimulate discussion" by being antagonistic/contrarian/etc?
there's a lot of bad looks to go around but i am not sure which is "worse" in the eyes of the general ilx public. i know what i think.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 20 January 2020 16:58 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
imo, but as i said, lookit
― Catherine, Boner of JP Sweeney & Co (darraghmac), Monday, 20 January 2020 18:01 (four years ago) link
I kind of want to revive the luna thread but that would be a bad idea
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 20 January 2020 18:03 (four years ago) link
you think?
― We Jam von Economo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 January 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
xxpdidn’t realise my mam went here, thank god i dont post on tmi
― steer karma (gyac), Monday, 20 January 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link
i bumped this thread because buzza's thinking everyone is a sock and making paranoid/aggro posts about it is vmic. not because fred b is a sock.
― uncrut gems (crüt), Monday, 20 January 2020 18:25 (four years ago) link
Gotta follow my lead and post in the most unmemorable way possible. It's the only way to dissuade ilx conspiracy people trying to connect dots all the time.
― Evan, Monday, 20 January 2020 18:30 (four years ago) link
i wonder if the dm feature should be removed from ilx
― treeship., Monday, 20 January 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link
just like, not sure there is a need for it
wtf of course there is, I just used it the other day with f. hazel
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Monday, 20 January 2020 18:55 (four years ago) link
harsh trís
― Catherine, Boner of JP Sweeney & Co (darraghmac), Monday, 20 January 2020 18:55 (four years ago) link
i think everyone agrees we want this to be a place that feels safer and less toxic than twitter/instagram/facebook/reddit/etc
maybe this is a way to do that
― treeship., Monday, 20 January 2020 18:56 (four years ago) link
i'm no longer chariman of the board of ilx so i'll leave this decision to more qualified people
― treeship., Monday, 20 January 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link
delighted to note that jaymc has still got it
― opden gnash (imago), Monday, 20 January 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link
albeit surely playing to the gallery
I have no problem w the dm feature.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 20 January 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
i have sometimes found it kind of hostile, to be honest
― treeship., Monday, 20 January 2020 19:03 (four years ago) link
in the rare occasion that anyone has used it to contact me, the messages have either been genuine and friendly or intended to reduce acrimony (not to sow it)(so far)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 20 January 2020 19:04 (four years ago) link
barely anyone has used it for me, not for a long time. the people i know on ilx i am connected to other ways.
but in years past i'd get some messages there that i could have done without. nothing egregious, but i don't give out my email address to everyone you know. just every store i shop in.
― treeship., Monday, 20 January 2020 19:05 (four years ago) link
i was just kind of throwing out ways to improve the site and retain more posters. i feel like this site is getting smaller and smaller
― treeship., Monday, 20 January 2020 19:14 (four years ago) link
any ilx mail I've ever sent or received to/from someone I didn't know offboard was usually me or them apologizing for getting too heated or a misunderstanding
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 20 January 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
Yeah the only time I used it was to apologize to someone :-/
― brimstead, Monday, 20 January 2020 19:22 (four years ago) link
so all evidence, mine included, indicates that the dm feature is not actually a tool of hostility
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 20 January 2020 19:24 (four years ago) link
here
it's also very useful for under-the-radar "YSI" links :)
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Monday, 20 January 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link
darraghmac's posts can be difficult to parse sometimes but this is going too far.
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Monday, 20 January 2020 19:32 (four years ago) link
lol
― treeship., Monday, 20 January 2020 19:32 (four years ago) link
people forget that it was frederik b who originally programmed the dm feature. more people need to read the faq
― treeship., Monday, 20 January 2020 19:33 (four years ago) link
what an ear he has for dialect
― treeship., Monday, 20 January 2020 19:34 (four years ago) link
Denmark isn't mitteleuropa/Central Europe, and could you please turn down the celtsplaining, deems?
Neider is Nederland.
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Monday, 20 January 2020 19:34 (four years ago) link
slow news day i see
― I have not yet begun to fart (rip van wanko), Monday, 20 January 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link
adding to the chorus here that LBI is real, named G3rard, and iirc I'm friends with him on facebook and all his details line up with the bio he's presented here! and I don't think anyone's ever implied he is or has created any sockpuppet accounts outside of the "european ilxors are all the same guy" conspiracy
my more humorous take on the location conspiracy is that any poster that has a city/state/country in their name absolutely does not live in that location
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 20 January 2020 19:50 (four years ago) link
although I did once see 'alex in montreal' in said city but that may be the exception that proves the rule
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 20 January 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, January 20, 2020 11:50 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is true.
― bidenfan69420 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 20 January 2020 19:58 (four years ago) link
No it isn't
― We Jam von Economo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 January 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link
i'm australian like i've always said
― treeship., Monday, 20 January 2020 20:11 (four years ago) link
i began to suspect this was true when I could not verify the existence of Kentucky Fried Chicken University
― I have not yet begun to fart (rip van wanko), Monday, 20 January 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
Why does this borad exist.
― pomenitul, Monday, 20 January 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
i made the noise board back when i used to publish under the name "whiney g. weingarten"
― treeship., Monday, 20 January 2020 20:21 (four years ago) link
Sheesh, feeling so real rn
(mod req: plz to remove my e-mail address from this. that's a bit too real y'know?)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 20 January 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link
What is happening
― Rhoda from Steubenville (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 January 2020 20:32 (four years ago) link
hey, not much. you?
― Evan, Monday, 20 January 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link
Nm, just a bit of casual doxxing.
― pomenitul, Monday, 20 January 2020 20:36 (four years ago) link
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Monday, 20 January 2020 19:32 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
ffs i literally made this joke immediately after tris posted
ye ppl
― Catherine, Boner of JP Sweeney & Co (darraghmac), Monday, 20 January 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
― Catherine, Boner of JP Sweeney & Co (darraghmac), Monday, 20 January 2020 21:10 (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mark s, Monday, 20 January 2020 21:13 (four years ago) link
Treesh, I am sorry I used all those sock accounts to send you dick pics.
― sarahell, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 05:16 (four years ago) link