Ideas for ILX

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i've heard it from more than one person now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7t8eoA_1jQ

Crypto-ilx would result in an interesting ethical dilemma wherein ppl want to write long threads about the carbon footprint of ILX posts and debate the ethics of posting under the new system, but the debate itself uses vast amounts of energy.

personally, every single post i make it fraught with ethical tension!

but that's because i have to hustle to get by in this information economy

would it be possible to extend the colors specified on "Customize Site New Answers" to the individual board pages as well?

I was visiting the thread https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=70606 which is filled with dead links to graphic images on defunct sites or dead pages and wondered if ilx could perform periodic scans for dead links and edit them to replace the link with the words {dead link}. Maybe time the scans to coincide with the down time between when the Aus/NZ crowd goes to bed and the western Europe/UK/Irish Republic crowd is rolling out of bed.

Stet, would it be possible to change the FP system so that any FP lodged by Poster X against Poster Y automatically replaces any previous FP by Poster X against Poster Y? That way old FPs wouldn't have to be cleared out and a correct, current total could always be found. Not sure if that ever got suggested before.

please please please

Damn you guys are out for blood

Why always picking on Poster Y, Poster X is no saint!

I think it's time we freshened up the ILX house style manual.

Ban everyone. IP bans, hard to get around. Wait for several decades for the land to be repopulated by a new generation.

ILX will become wehole.tv

People who use salt of the earth as a compliment never seem to consider what salt does to earth

makes it slightly more edible

ip bans are insanely not hard to get around

Ok supergenius if you say so

and here you always struck me as a guy familiar with coffee shop wifi!

It would be neat if after a poll ended there was a little asterisk or something next to the option that you voted for, in case you can't remember.

It would also be neat if you could change your vote before the poll ended - sometimes the conversation changes my mind!

Yes, either that or a big obelisk.

If that doesn't work we could try a medium-sized basilisk.

Personally I am partial to Asterix le Gaulois.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRA1KxYlKKYB-eFErAO4dDuPqQQTjcCpdF41w&usqp=CAU

Surely this has been suggested before, but a button that updates all your bookmarks to the current moment would be so wonderful. I have not really looked at ilx since September, and while I don't want to lose all my bookmarks, clicking through all of them just to scroll down and click bookmark on the last post is a serious chore.

Haha straight after that I had the idea to go look if there WAS such a button already

So thanks for that!!!

Don't tell me it's been there for years...

Holy shit thank you

it's been there for years.

look here bub

it would be neat if the board descriptions that were quotes linked to the posts where the quotes came from

be also nice if we could change ILE or ILX's, which are both years old

But they are eternal

I had never noticed the typo in ILE's before.

yes, it was supposed to be “ILM”, because who needs all the rest of it really

link to quotes? learn lore, noobs

Is there a way to search for an exact phrase in ILX search? In Google you can do this by enclosing the search term in double-quotes, unfortunately in ILX search this doesn't work.

yes it does

If I search for posts containing the term “blue monday” (with quotes), and sort by newest first, then why is the first result a post that mentions Monday (the day of the week) and not the word “blue” at all? Also, if I go back and remove the quotes I get the exact same set of results, so the presence of quotes makes no difference.

https://i.imgur.com/34afHFD.png ?

^^^

It works for me too. Huh.

Hmmmm. There must be an extra step I’m missing.

What I did:

Go to Search page

Under Text Search, terms: "blue monday"

Next line, click radio button for "Posts"

Under "Order Results By," click radio button for "Newest First"

Click "Search" button right under that.

You need to pony up for ILX Premium.

Doctor Casino: yep that’s exactly what I did to a T. Strange. Oh well, guess I’ll just have to deal with it. Thanks for your help anyway!

If I search for posts containing the term “blue monday” (with quotes)

your browser (phone?) is helpfully converting your straight quotes (") to "smart quotes". suspect the search software wants straight ones.

can test by copying this text into the search box rather than typing it yourself:

"blue monday"

on an iphone i think you can force a normal quote mark by holding down the key? these are the wages of ""“aesthetics”""