― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 21:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 21:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 21:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 21:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 21:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
More people meeting each other = more pally posts.
Also: when ILX started the core posters were a few Brits who mostly knew one another anyway and had a separate mailing list for banter and nonsense. Now the locus is a bigger group of New Yorkers who mostly met through ILX so it's natural ILX is the scene for a lot more social stuff.
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 17 July 2003 08:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 17 July 2003 08:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 17 July 2003 08:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 17 July 2003 08:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 17 July 2003 09:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Larcole (Nicole), Thursday, 17 July 2003 11:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
it bugs me that some people seem to be on ilx exclusively to make flirtatious three-word posts and flatter themselves
Yeah, this bugs me quite a lot. There are people who can be absolutely *guaranteed* to follow posts by certain other people with nudge-nudge flirtation and private jokes, and sometimes it's fine, sometimes it's irritating. Mostly I just think it would be better kept off-board, as it's a bit showy-off, kinda territorial and just a bit icky.
Anyway, I'm a touchy fuckx0r, so this may just be me (and amateurist, if I can speak for him, as I suspect he wasn't being sarcastic), but... there you go.
― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 17 July 2003 11:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Thursday, 17 July 2003 20:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
Ormskirk ILX - And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Bickering
― Matt (Matt), Friday, 18 July 2003 00:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Millar (Millar), Friday, 18 July 2003 00:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 18 July 2003 14:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Friday, 18 July 2003 21:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 19 July 2003 01:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
So if I sometimes seem crotchety, it's largely for this reason.
― amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 19 July 2003 04:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 19 July 2003 04:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
"mouth"
― amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 19 July 2003 04:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 19 July 2003 04:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Saturday, 19 July 2003 04:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 19 July 2003 04:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Saturday, 19 July 2003 04:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 19 July 2003 04:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 19 July 2003 04:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
Incidentally Jess I didn't have you in mind as one of the people who seems unnaturally effusive and enthusiastic.
― amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 19 July 2003 05:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 19 July 2003 05:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Saturday, 19 July 2003 05:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 19 July 2003 05:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 19 July 2003 11:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 19 July 2003 11:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 19 July 2003 11:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Larcole (Nicole), Saturday, 19 July 2003 11:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 19 July 2003 12:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 July 2003 12:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 19 July 2003 12:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 19 July 2003 12:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
I have an ambivalent attitude to those threads. I rarely laugh at what's posted there, partly because it's about context (threads are always funnier if one sees them as they build anyway - there's a strange element of timing, despite the message board format) and partly just cause people have crappy senses of humour. Yet, I can't stop myself pasting stuff there from time to time. It's a weird compulsion. And I always read it in the hope of an ego boost. I do find it hard to believe that people are sticking to the 'laugh out loud' criterion most of the time.
― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 19 July 2003 12:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 19 July 2003 12:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
For me, it's just because I have read something I think is pretty funny. There is no connection to me and I'm not trying to boost anyone's ego. No evil Machia-pally-ian scheme behind it at all.
― Larcole (Nicole), Saturday, 19 July 2003 12:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― joan vich (joan vich), Saturday, 19 July 2003 13:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― thom west (thom w), Saturday, 19 July 2003 13:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― joan vich (joan vich), Saturday, 19 July 2003 14:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 19 July 2003 14:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
maybe not but then they are HUGE threads, and while some do dominate there is still a wide range of people both quoting and being quoted on there - and nobody has really complained about it (because they'll just get accused of hating fun).
the 'laugh out loud' threads i dunno - you either like that sort of thing or you dont- i guess i love it. i didnt want it to be just about backslapping, ego-stroking cliqueyness, but i dont really see the harm in that anyway if thats what people want to do. i suppose some people approach a thread like that and they wont laugh at anything on there because often people will not laugh at something when they've been forewarned that its absolutely hilarious.
― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 19 July 2003 14:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 19 July 2003 14:42 (twenty-one years ago) link