Never secret except that lots of regular posters had never been told about it.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 13 March 2022 22:35 (two years ago) link
not for lack of trying!
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Sunday, 13 March 2022 22:36 (two years ago) link
And I’m sure the fact that you knew those people didn’t know about it gave you the freedom to shit on them, so forget your “not a secret” bullshit.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 13 March 2022 22:36 (two years ago) link
Quarantine Hangouts
Neanderthal was actually a slack member and could have posted there at any time, FYI
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Sunday, 13 March 2022 22:37 (two years ago) link
it is actually pretty spot on ilx for people to inverse how strong their opinions are with how little they know about a topic.
― Yerac, Sunday, 13 March 2022 22:38 (two years ago) link
lol
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Sunday, 13 March 2022 22:39 (two years ago) link
Ok, no, great, this is all cool, you have opened my eyes.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 13 March 2022 22:40 (two years ago) link
Who is the Bad Art Friend?
― symsymsym, Sunday, 13 March 2022 22:41 (two years ago) link
sym otm
― aegis philbin (crüt), Sunday, 13 March 2022 22:42 (two years ago) link
User has been yellow carded.
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― sexy hoss pics (sarahell), Sunday, 13 March 2022 22:57 (two years ago) link
Sunday, March 13, 2022 5:45 PM Site Van Horn Street has been banned permanently. 21 FPs in 48 hours.Sunday, March 13, 2022 4:40 PM Site calstars has been banned permanently. 20+ FPs in the past month. 1 week ban. Unban date 20 March 2022
Sunday, March 13, 2022 3:56 PM I Love AFL User Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison) has been Yellow Carded Sunday, March 13, 2022 12:56 PM I Love AFL User Van Horn Street has been Yellow Carded
just to be clear -- the yellow cards are for continuing to post about something in this thread that the mod (me) had posted not to do. The yellow cards were not inflammatory, just like "hey, chill, take the discussion to ILE" ... I also thread banned Sufjan Grafton last night after a series of posts on the same topic that seemed to be not going to a good place.
If anyone wants to critique my moderation please do so here
― sexy hoss pics (sarahell), Monday, 14 March 2022 01:09 (two years ago) link
Sounds eminently reasonable to me. I mean, yellow cards are more often used for the lols, so actually using them for a proper purpose is good modding imo.
― emil.y, Monday, 14 March 2022 01:14 (two years ago) link
this is like the first time i haven't just modded lol posts for lols so ... i'm kinda insecure?
― sexy hoss pics (sarahell), Monday, 14 March 2022 01:22 (two years ago) link
It's a pretty stressful situation atm but you've handled it well. Nothing wrong with asking people to move over to one of the main boards if you're not comfortable with the discussion being here. I'm fucking terrified every time I do anything mod-like, honestly.
― emil.y, Monday, 14 March 2022 01:26 (two years ago) link
you did good today too emil.y!!!
― sexy hoss pics (sarahell), Monday, 14 March 2022 01:28 (two years ago) link
I'm genuinely upset by this whole thing.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 14 March 2022 02:12 (two years ago) link
what are you upset about Christine?
― sarahell, Monday, 14 March 2022 02:14 (two years ago) link
I hate seeing this whole place torn apart like this.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 14 March 2022 05:55 (two years ago) link
Why is there a Slack? Why was there AIM chatz? Why was (is?) there a Facebook group?
What is wrong with the actual board we're all on? I feel like I almost dont belong here despite being here 20 years because in all that time, I've found out about off-board boards only after the fact (when they blow up like this has) or, in the case of the initial 77 board activity, when I had IRL friends not remotely associated with ILX asking me who X and Y people from here were, because they were writing disparaging comments about me under said non-ILX friend's flickr photos.
I never did find out who did that.
Anyhoo. None of this feels new I suppose.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 14 March 2022 06:15 (two years ago) link
I get u Trayce. I'm not really interested in going to a separate ilx place, but it makes me feel like I'm not really getting the full picture of anything here, like I'm missing out on the real networking being done by the people in the smoking area. I don't begrudge anyone it of course but also accept that I'll have a different relationship to this place than others. it's ok, I'll stick to the tv threads.
― kinder, Monday, 14 March 2022 08:38 (two years ago) link
Yah my TV and gaming buddies here are good peeps, it'll do me.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 14 March 2022 08:39 (two years ago) link
I haven’t posted regularly on ILX in years. Tbh it’s blocked at work and I get overwhelmed when I visit as if I don’t even know where to start again. The slack - which was begun during the first lockdown more as a rapid chat forum seemed smaller and more manageable for me so I have been posting there sporadically. There are several channels many of which are similar to those here. There’s a general one and a cooking one for instance. There was one channel that was for ILX discussions that some people posted in. This idea that the slack exists to plan coordinated bullying attacks is incorrect and pretty nuts and I just want to make that really clear.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 14 March 2022 08:53 (two years ago) link
"Sunday, March 13, 2022 5:45 PM Site Van Horn Street has been banned permanently. 21 FPs in 48 hours"
Just checking is this permanent permanent or a week?
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 14 March 2022 11:22 (two years ago) link
I guess we'll have to see what happens when you get 21'd twice in a month's time. Breaking new ground there, VHS!
― peace, man, Monday, 14 March 2022 12:23 (two years ago) link
So, this place has nothing to do with AFL then?
I'm happy to share my thoughts as to why Carlton *can* make the finals this year if anyone is interested.
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Monday, 14 March 2022 12:39 (two years ago) link
KBP! Could do with some more posts from you around here these days.
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 14 March 2022 13:00 (two years ago) link
― peace, man, Monday, 14 March 2022 bookmarkflaglink
VHS in actually being useful for a change.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 14 March 2022 13:31 (two years ago) link
Yep, that is the reason for no end date as of yet. Trying to look through to see if we addressed what to do in the case of 2 consecutive minibans.
― emil.y, Monday, 14 March 2022 14:58 (two years ago) link
Be good to know *looks nervously over shoulder lol*
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:00 (two years ago) link
Never secret except that lots of regular posters had never been told about it.― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, March 13, 2022 5:35 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglinknot for lack of trying!― thinkmanship (sleeve), Sunday, March 13, 2022 5:36 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, March 13, 2022 5:35 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Sunday, March 13, 2022 5:36 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Probably worth noting that, while ILX can often feel like a tight-knit community, few people read every thread on the board and it's easy to miss stuff. The only reason I knew about the Slack is because someone mentioned it to me off-board around the time it started. (I signed up, realized I didn't have time for it, and haven't logged in since.) So it's not surprising to me that some regular posters might not have known about it and consequently feel left out.
― jaymc, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:26 (two years ago) link
hey, do i actually have to remind you that ilx has a search function?
― sarahell, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:29 (two years ago) link
There's an xls for that.
― When the Pain That You Feel is the Bite of an Eel, That's a Moray (Old Lunch), Monday, 14 March 2022 15:30 (two years ago) link
I think that maybe we could get certain threads mod-stickied. I think I can remember that happening one time that I've been here, although I might be imagining it (https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=58899 ???) . The slack announcement could have been one of them (in hindsight).
I thought about this briefly like a month ago when I realized that I never saw the ILM EOY voting thread (which had only been bumped on a handful of occasions) and thus missed the ballots deadline.
― peace, man, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:34 (two years ago) link
peace, man: i don't see anything in the admin tools i get that can do that. granted, i don't have all the tools, and i'm guessing that the reason i get errors when i try and use some of the functions is because as a sub-board mod i have more limited permissions? (not complaining, just saying)
― sarahell, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:45 (two years ago) link
Yeah, honestly I don't remember that capability from when I was a mod either, so maybe I'm just making it up.
― peace, man, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:54 (two years ago) link
The thread that I linked was very apropro, however.
― peace, man, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:57 (two years ago) link
hahah yeah, apart from some classic nabisco otm content, this is good to reflect on -- also i miss Edward III
anyway here's why secret boards are bad ideas: a) information wants to be free, and when "secrets" come out the results aren't usually enjoyable, b) secret boards create a sense of disenfranchaisement amongst non-secret board members, and c) it gives the judgment-impaired a screen behind which to hide.I think all 3 of these factors greased the sledrails on the recent ... debacle. at least when this shit was on noize board people could shrug it off as "what do you expect, noize board is made of dicks", but when it's on some secret area that only "certain people" are privy to, it adds an extra twist of humiliation...― Edward III, Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:39 PM (thirteen years ago
I think all 3 of these factors greased the sledrails on the recent ... debacle. at least when this shit was on noize board people could shrug it off as "what do you expect, noize board is made of dicks", but when it's on some secret area that only "certain people" are privy to, it adds an extra twist of humiliation...
― Edward III, Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:39 PM (thirteen years ago
― sarahell, Monday, 14 March 2022 16:01 (two years ago) link
also relevant
the idea that's it's some gossip infested shitstorm with teh bottom feeders of ilx scurrying around and talking shit on ppl they don't know and don't usually interact and argue with is completely false― J0rdan S., Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:32 PM (thirteen years ago)
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:32 PM (thirteen years ago)
― sarahell, Monday, 14 March 2022 16:06 (two years ago) link
^kind of a hilarious post in retrospect lol
― imago, Monday, 14 March 2022 16:10 (two years ago) link
imago, m8, you missed all the excitement!
― sarahell, Monday, 14 March 2022 16:11 (two years ago) link
getting my lazy gawker zings in while I can innit
― imago, Monday, 14 March 2022 16:12 (two years ago) link
now that were a proper clusterfuck m8
― imago, Monday, 14 March 2022 16:13 (two years ago) link
sarahell, error messages might be permissions-related, but they might just be shonky code! Actually, now I'm thinking about it I've had issues with deleting posts. Could you try deleting a post by ticking the check box, then scrolling down to the "delete selected posts" button?
― emil.y, Monday, 14 March 2022 16:13 (two years ago) link
nope, doesn't work -- i get about a dozen lines of error message code when i try to delete a post, with our without ticking the checkbox
― sarahell, Monday, 14 March 2022 16:15 (two years ago) link
it gets me to the "do you really want to do this" screen, i click yes, i get the errors
Ah, bums. That's about as far as my tech help goes, I'm afraid.
― emil.y, Monday, 14 March 2022 16:16 (two years ago) link
Sometimes I would just edit the contents of a post and replace it with some text like CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT.
― peace, man, Monday, 14 March 2022 16:21 (two years ago) link
I am smelly.
― imago, Monday, 14 March 2022 16:23 (two years ago) link
Oh goddamn you sarahell!