The unhappiness of ILX

All for shrewd discourse, me.

FPed

I forgive you

It's shrove discourse ffs

ilx is all lenten stuff, when you think about it.

and yet none of us is quite able to give it up.

A most ingenious paradox.

when will we start listening to what marvin said

Let’s get it on?

Happy borads are all alike, each unhappy borad is unhappy in its own fashion.

when will we start listening to what marvin said

― Kate (rushomancy),Tuesday, April 14, 2020 2:10 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

"Now that's some good badger milk"?

THAT CREATURE HAS STOLEN THE SPACE MODULATOR!

this makes me very angry very angry indeed

Marvin? he was a friend of mine

"Life? Don't talk to me about life."

You know that new sound you’re looking for?

THAT CREATURE HAS STOLEN THE SPACE MODULATOR!

― Fleetwood Machiavelli (Ye Mad Puffin),Tuesday, April 14, 2020 4:18 PM
Lol

that is a good thing obviously and i myself suffer from depression.

i just don't think there needs to be so many politics threads. where are the great debates happening that aren't to do with politics? where something feels like it's at stake but it's not über bleak? i would like to see links to those threads, if they're on ILM or wherever.

― treeship.,Saturday, April 11, 2020 8:52 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

So you're saying there should be an I Love Politics board...?

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length),Saturday, April 11, 2020 8:53 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think so, yeah

― treeship.,Saturday, April 11, 2020 8:54 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I just know that I was one of the loudest cheerleaders for the creation of I Love Soccer or whatever its called, to stop those damned kids from kicking their Jabulanis into my yard. All I'm saying is I'd welcome back all those orange-slice eaters into ILE with a hat in hand apology if it meant that the politics threads could find a new home. Preferably in a secret borad that I'll never ask for the invite to.

There's a regularly updated football thread on ILE still. Could make the same exception for politics. Everyone's happy!

I just don’t like to be shouted at.

i have never killfiled anyone but i don't like to be subjected to other people's rage either
irritability and anger are signs of other deeper problems and venting them doesn't solve the problems, it just sprays the problems onto more people
ideally if i have anything to say about it, i am not one of those people getting sprayed

i get that other people talk through their issues in different ways; i'm just not here to get doused in angry droplets

Some posters have taken up very hostile posting styles and have said that they see this as a place to vent or express their despair.

Can I just say that treeship started this thread to complain about other posters doing a thing that he is an absolute master of? Nobody performs their wailing and garment-rending better.

He literally wrote "(I am as guilty of this as anyone)." in the OP

Ok I know this has gone round a time or two but I am having trouble seeing a huge unbridgeable difference between:

A. Not reading a politics thread that is on ILE

and

B. Not reading a politics thread that is on ILP (or whatever)

Not trying to be a jerk, and am happy to be schooled on how different these actions are.

i think the difference is that it's possible to mute entire sub-boards. someone could plausibly mute all of ILP while still enjoying the suddenly reinvigorated ILE, full of glorious discussion and controversial opinions now that politics has gone away

If the board is made, and it won't be, it should be called I Hate Politics

personally, i use site new answers and leave every board on, because i believe in the mission of ilx

It should be called I Enjoy Enemas

Can I just say that treeship started this thread to complain about other posters doing a thing that he is an absolute master of? Nobody performs their wailing and garment-rending better.

― WmC,Tuesday, 14 April 2020 20:48 (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

He literally wrote "(I am as guilty of this as anyone)." in the OP

― dip to dup (rob),Tuesday, 14 April 2020 21:00 (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

also very unfair to characterise any of treeship's admittedly signature styles as either of these things

but theres twenty posters perform their wailing and garment rending better. twice twenty.

treeship a very handy punchbag for certain ppl on the board imo.

maybe certain posters make acceptable punchbags or maybe itd be more honest to say we all have different behaviours and characteristics we like in our punchbags and treeship is either in some peoples sweet spot or hasnt got whatever x factor would have enough others jumping in to stop it.

also a politics board wouldnt work.

think of the first thread on ile where someone was told "nope thats politics, take it to ILP"

im gonna pour myself a nice scotch and just sit and enjoy a few minutes thinking of that clusterfuck, and it repeated ten times a week.

There's a regularly updated football thread on ILE still. Could make the same exception for politics. Everyone's happy!

― nashwan,Tuesday, April 14, 2020 1:37 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's by far the most popular football thread and always has been. the separate forum kept about 0.5% of football posts off of ile

Football and Film are following on from ILB, which has somehow kept the majority of books discussion separate from ILE (which has a lot of its own threads devoted to books and authors in the archives). So it follows the same lines but for some reason only the Books sub-board seems to have a distinct identity.

Politics wouldn't work because it's a subset of current affairs discussion, and much else besides. A disaster like covid is very much tied with the political response so you actually need one thread for that which does not involve this.

personally, i use site new answers and leave every board on, because i believe in the mission of ilx

― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone),Tuesday, April 14, 2020 4:10 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

o captain my captain

no, i really see the motivation here. if we don't have to talk about politics, we don't have to worry about it. we can just completely avoid all that unpleasantness and strife. it's pretty much the same thing as football, right?

i use sna and leave every board on because i am old and stupid and don't know how to do anything different

it's pretty much the same thing as football, right?

horse racing iirc

How about I Don't Like Politics, a sub-board where no political discussion is allowed

I am old and stupid

I'm sorry, Kate, but I can't parse that, because "old" obviously can't mean old and "stupid" certainly can't mean stupid. I'm stumped.

xp a better idea but again the first time anyone tries to invoke it, there'll be tears

it's pretty much the same thing as football, right?

Let's see: tribalism, ancient grievances, regional chauvinism, extreme tendentiousness, fierce loyalties, public betrayals of those loyalties, greed, confirmation bias, silly hats, violence, injuries, uniforms, domestic abuse, mental illness, pointless death, purported displays of obligatory patriotism, principled questioning of obligatory patriotism, domestic draft beer, network television, commentators in bad suits, and nachos.

So far I think politics just needs more nachos, and THEN they'll be the same thing.

rooney defending the right

If Joe Biden was a millennial he'd definitely be one of those Americans with an Arsenal tattoo

I'm sorry, Kate, but I can't parse that, because "old" obviously can't mean old and "stupid" certainly can't mean stupid. I'm stumped.

― A is for (Aimless)

awwww, you're a sweetie. it means i have a history of negative self-talk and i am grateful to you for calling me on it. 3>

xp a better idea but again the first time anyone tries to invoke it, there'll be tears

― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac)

ok, let's roll with that. how about I Love A Good Cry, a board where we all give each other virtual hugs and tell each other what amazing people we are?

fine, but the first time anyone oh I see what youve done there

who's happy right now? no sentient person