it's whichever one you want it to be, just like selectively reading the bits of posts that you feel like acknowledging
― Nordle (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 13 March 2022 12:55 (two years ago) link
i could've extended either quote multiple paragraphs both ways and responded exactly the same
ftr i genuinely do think that things people can't say directly to someone's face here probably aren't worth stating privately, i've never even liked the "posts you had a second thought about" thread for that reason. say it or don't. maybe it's a natural impulse but i would hope a bunch of median age 42s have something better to do with their time by now, the older this place gets the more embarrassing the petty high school drama becomes
but if people are going to insist on shit talking off board then maybe actually make an attempt to keep it private? gossiping 101 would teach not to leave a transcript of your shit talk in the break room if you don't want the subject to stumble on it
― ✖, Sunday, 13 March 2022 13:08 (two years ago) link
Was gonna say aren’t we like all old now? This shit is really lame
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Sunday, 13 March 2022 13:36 (two years ago) link
in my day ppl stopped being interested in other ppl when they reached the age of 23, better times tbh
― mark s, Sunday, 13 March 2022 13:48 (two years ago) link
when I were young, an "admin log" was the oaken paddle my social betters used to administer beatings to those whose deficiencies demanded them
― rob, Sunday, 13 March 2022 14:04 (two years ago) link
median age 42
FUCK
― flow, my crimson tears (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 13 March 2022 14:56 (two years ago) link
Too low?
― Alfred Ndwego of Kenya (Tom D.), Sunday, 13 March 2022 14:58 (two years ago) link
aye
today on SNA: Jeopardy, crossword puzzles, Nancy, Wordle, Marvelous Mrs Maisel, obituaries
― rob, Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:01 (two years ago) link
There's a bunch of very young people that me and another poster have been trying to lure over here--all of whom have seemingly been genetically designed to be great ILXors.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:02 (two years ago) link
No luck, though.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:03 (two years ago) link
how young is "very young"?
― rob, Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:04 (two years ago) link
i genuinely do think that things people can't say directly to someone's face here probably aren't worth stating privately
This is going to sound mean, I'm aware, but I'm kind of surprised anyone could get to 21, let alone 42, and think that - it's just not how people operate, in my experience. I mean, the reason that there's an ILE is that ILM was founded first, but people won't stop discussing other things and each other.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:08 (two years ago) link
I'd like an invite to the Slack. I've been here long enough.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:12 (two years ago) link
same!
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:13 (two years ago) link
One of my new year resolutions was to continually search for ever more novel reasons to feel shitty about myself about.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:14 (two years ago) link
I'm not on it, but there's a 77 thread ("slack77") about it which might be the best way to ask?
― rob, Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:15 (two years ago) link
Because that's perhaps what irks me most about it: if it's so public and open to any ilxor who wants to be on it, then why have some of us been kept in the dark about it?
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:15 (two years ago) link
xp Late teens (about the same age crut and lj were when they first started posting here) to late twenties.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:16 (two years ago) link
Thanks Rob.
For the record I'm with Alfred, I am fine with just posting here.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:16 (two years ago) link
J0rdan S., donna rouge, Stevie, surm, and myself also all started in our late teens and early twenties, fwiw.
I would like to attract more young folks to ILX too, fwiw
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:18 (two years ago) link
very young people that me and another poster have been trying to lure over here
Antiquated internet message board shut down in luring scandal
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:19 (two years ago) link
lol
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:20 (two years ago) link
if people are going to insist on shit talking off board then maybe actually make an attempt to keep it private?
Honestly, this makes the most sense to me. I do think there is a time for private venting, but if it's not actually private then doesn't that make it pointless? Not saying the slack is pointless or directing any ire to it, but it doesn't feel pleasant knowing that there is a whole dedicated group for slagging people off.
And me also.
― emil.y, Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:32 (two years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, March 13, 2022 11:08 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
How's there any comparison between a slack with a very limited and clearly denoted userbase and an ilx board that sits right next to the other one? People don't even shit talk each other in 77 afaict, at least as long as I've had access to it. Maybe they did in the past
My understanding of the slack - admittedly limited as I've only heard about its existence through occasional whispers in the wind during a certain phase of the moon on a hot summer's night - comments were/are being made under the assumption that the posters in question wouldn't see them.
I'm not saying people should never talk about other posters as people or acknowledge that they exist as people. I'm not saying people should do anything except learn to keep their shit talk private if they want it to be private.
― ✖, Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:34 (two years ago) link
Yes, emil.y! Glad to know there are others who've been here a while, I just have a hard time remembering who, plus there were the 7 years that I lurked and hardly posted.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:34 (two years ago) link
your understanding is wrong
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:38 (two years ago) link
ian has been here since a wee bairn as well
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:39 (two years ago) link
I've been on longer than most of the name posters here--August 2001. I was 31 then, and I'm 51 now. This feels kind of weird to me.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:39 (two years ago) link
Wait how do you find out how long you've been here??! Off I go to see if it's in my profile....gulp.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:40 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I mean I was barely 21 when I started posting. Gonna be 38 this year.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:41 (two years ago) link
it was a magical night in late 2003 when i first joined ILM hoping to pick up some sweet Gaz Coombes chat
― Nordle (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:44 (two years ago) link
i thought crut was like 12 when he joined?
― peace, man, Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:44 (two years ago) link
I started posting here in 2005 iirc, but only started "posting a lot" when my local board went to seed
― flow, my crimson tears (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:47 (two years ago) link
Which dn is Conner Smedley posting under now
― When the Pain That You Feel is the Bite of an Eel, That's a Moray (Old Lunch), Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:49 (two years ago) link
I think crut was 15? I know lj was 17.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:51 (two years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Sunday, March 13, 2022 11:38 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
I'm not talking about the entire slack if that's how you're reading it, I'm talking about what NV was referring to above, the channel of complaining and laughing at and taking the piss out of posters and posts etc
If that really isn't as it sounds then strike me from the record but clearly at least one person has taken it personally
― ✖, Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:51 (two years ago) link
that’s not how i was reading it.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:51 (two years ago) link
xp I did a web search a long time ago to find my earliest post.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:52 (two years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Sunday, March 13, 2022 11:51 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Feel free to enlighten me any time you want, or just keep doing this. I guess you're confident that everyone involved was using that channel as if it it were as visible as ILE?
― ✖, Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:58 (two years ago) link
Yeah sorry it is incredibly disingenuous to pretend that we all knew about this secret ILX Slack.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Sunday, 13 March 2022 16:00 (two years ago) link
Half the people complaining are mad that the slack isn't more private and half are mad it's not more public. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW, COME BE A PART OF IT. But we have group norms and people will say something if you're a jerk, because we're all people sharing our emotional selves in real time to each other. Jesus christ it's not that complicated.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Sunday, 13 March 2022 16:01 (two years ago) link
It's a conversation. If you can't imagine what the norms for that are, may I refer the reader to the mIRC era or whatever your preferred online dosage was. Mine was chatrooms, which is what slack basically is as far as I can tell?
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Sunday, 13 March 2022 16:03 (two years ago) link
Thanks for the info.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Sunday, 13 March 2022 16:04 (two years ago) link
Ffs I didn't even know the admin thread existed until yesterday, this is a lot of meta.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Sunday, 13 March 2022 16:04 (two years ago) link
Still can't find out how to join it.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Sunday, 13 March 2022 16:05 (two years ago) link
I'm not on there, but the slack was advertised publicly on threads back when it was created I believe? Fair enough not everyone reads every thread, but don't think there was any effort for anyone to be kept in the dark.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 13 March 2022 16:06 (two years ago) link
Yet no one will tell me how to join it.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Sunday, 13 March 2022 16:07 (two years ago) link
Lmfao
should we just delete ilx and refer every1 to the slack?
― brimstead, Sunday, 13 March 2022 16:23 (two years ago) link
You see? Keep posting "just come join the Slack" and "it's actually not mostly about dunking on people" and then don't give any further information. Really inspires confidence that it's not just some cliquish BS.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Sunday, 13 March 2022 16:27 (two years ago) link