The unhappiness of ILX

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