*cries*
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
shakey, 77 only exists so that regular users of ILX have a space to talk about things they wouldn't necessarily want accessible to lurkers and/or random googlers of ILX. the only requirement to be admitted to 77 is that you be a regular poster on the board. that and you have to have a klout score of about 75.
― dayo, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
Shakey, just opt in. It's not all "hilarious noodz".
― coat news for people who love boat shoes (how's life), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
are there smoking jackets and/or monogrammed bathrobes
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
Surprisingly some people trust others enough to talk about their jobs, relationships, and medical probs but don't want it easily googleable
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
No, just organ donor cards and union reps
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I don't really wanna talk about any of that shit with you guys.
no offense.
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
thank you WmC
― OPÓ (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
maybe a good reason for not joining 77 is feeling that your posts would be un googleable & so ineligible for the crossover market. like shouting down a well, you would be depriving the wider internet of your well-typed insight, & missing out on a bigger audience share.
― blossom smulch (schlump), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, July 11, 2012 7:41 PM (6 minutes ago)
it started out as a place for the cool kids but now is pretty much just like the rest of ilx. there are threads about all kinds of stuff including music and movies
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 11 July 2012 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
shakey there's like 4 years worth of threads on there now (some of them actually p great) aren't you at least remotely curious?
― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
Shakey Mo might not be aware of goddamn numbers in the titles of things or hipsters who don't believe the beatles are popular.
― coat news for people who love boat shoes (how's life), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
omg, you were actually part of that initial conversation and you didn't even know that there was an epic spin-off thread:
xp - i know the beatles are highly influential and significant, but comparing them to pizza is exaggerating their omnipresence― sarahel, Monday, June 28, 2010 9:43 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkthere is literally no more omnipresent music than the beatles except, maybe like, Jingle Bells and Happy Birthday and shit― Elektro Guzzi Mane (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, June 28, 2010 9:44 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkI can understand not actively liking the Beatles or just never having paid too much attention or whatever but people who are like "no, they SUCK" = yeah grade-school level contrarianism― insert your favorite discriminatory practice here (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, June 28, 2010 9:45 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― sarahel, Monday, June 28, 2010 9:43 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
there is literally no more omnipresent music than the beatles except, maybe like, Jingle Bells and Happy Birthday and shit
― Elektro Guzzi Mane (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, June 28, 2010 9:44 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I can understand not actively liking the Beatles or just never having paid too much attention or whatever but people who are like "no, they SUCK" = yeah grade-school level contrarianism
― insert your favorite discriminatory practice here (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, June 28, 2010 9:45 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― coat news for people who love boat shoes (how's life), Thursday, 12 July 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
Oh the thread did get deleted!
― t. s. idiot (loves laboured breathing), Thursday, 12 July 2012 11:15 (twelve years ago) link
Shaky, a couple things:
1) I don't know the percentage of ILX on 77 now, but surely these days the onus of elitism falls on the holdouts
2) Yoi started a thread about another poster in ILE, one with a very public profile, one who had taken great pains to keep demarcations between his public & ILX selves separate, one who is usually the first to object whenever other posters are singled out with their own threads. Despite all this, he took the thread with good humor, and only asked that it be moved to 77 so he could have the privacy to talk freely about w/e he was going to say, considering he had a wikipedia troll who continuously posted his ILX username on his page.. And instead of good-naturedly holding your nose & taking the plunge,--considering that it was on 77 at behest of the person you started it about--you claimed propietary right and had it deleted in a huff. Do you see how that might not be, like, totally cool
― t. s. idiot (loves laboured breathing), Thursday, 12 July 2012 11:29 (twelve years ago) link
fwiw I didn't know that about his wikipedia troll. tbh I have like zero knowledge of his non-ILX-related activities. I had figured since the thread was exclusively about things he's posted on ILM, and nothing more, that it probably wouldn't be a big deal - it was simply an expression of my ongoing fascination with where our tastes both diverge and overlap and it was meant it good humor. I didn't know he was skittish about it - and he's entirely within his rights to ask that the thread be moved/modified/deleted - but I was completely unaware of his feelings about it and the thread just disappeared. which, from my POV, was fairly irritating. (If aero expressed his concerns on the thread or ILX-mailed me or something, I missed it). I'm sorry if I've inconvenienced ua in anyway and I'd be happy to let him know that. nothing but love and respect for him, he is a bro.
That being said, I feel I'm entirely within my rights to ask for a thread I started to be deleted, rather than to have it continue in a venue I have no interest in participating in.
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
what difference does it make to you whether it carries on somewhere you can't see, or gets deleted?
― caek, Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
Shakey, do you ever lock your doors at night or do you think that's too elitist?
― pplains, Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
considering he had a wikipedia troll who continuously posted his ILX username on his page.
lol not cool
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
Troll did the same thing to Ned's wiki page too, if you can believe it.
― pplains, Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
the difference is I don't have to ask a mod to lock my doors for me or let me into my house
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
What about your office? Can anyone wander over to your desk from the street?
Okay, enough with the analogies. You're a quality poster, but when you throw around words like "elite" to describe 77, it really sounds like you don't quite get the gist of why that board exists. You don't have to gain entrance if you don't want it, but it seems more of a stubborn action to take than one that has any merit.
― pplains, Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
srsly, free bord
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
stop raining on our elite qualities, pplains
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
it really sounds like you don't quite get the gist of why that board exists.
considering it existed for some time (a couple years?) before I even heard about it, forgive me if my initial impressions die hard
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
but yeah just in principle I don't like things on the internet that require me to register/ask permission and I avoid them like the plague for the most part
you have to register for ilx
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
What if you were just added anyway. Would you freak?
― pplains, Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
I spend 35% of my browsing time searching for secret knocks. Great way to find coupon codes to use at Walgreens.
― pplains, Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
I strenuously objected to this policy when it was put in place fwiw
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
er I think I did... maybe I am confusing it with the debate over whether this should be a reg-only board or not.
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
yes, because true anonymity with no logging in works so well
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
― pplains, Thursday, July 12, 2012 11:05 AM (3 minutes ago)
This won't happen.
― Neil Jung (WmC), Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
There was an ADMIN thread at the top of SNA for like a week only a month or so into the board's existence. Granted that thread was about how people were talking behind one another's back on 77, but times have changed!
― coat news for people who love boat shoes (how's life), Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
but yeah I can count on one hand the number of internet services I have registered for, and at least 2 of them are things I never use/only created so I could register for something else
There was an ADMIN thread at the top of SNA for like a week only a month or so into the board's existence.
I tend to ignore ADMIN and ILX meta threads because they're so annoying and jampacked full of people sniping at each other over imagined/inconsequential personal snipes and also I tend not to care too much about the technical stuff that goes on in the background of this site.
Granted that thread was about how people were talking behind one another's back on 77, but times have changed!
how very reassuring
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
er that should say "personal slights" there
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
― Neil Jung (WmC), Thursday, July 12, 2012 11:10 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
What if instead of asking, he simply said "Open the 77 Pod Door, Mods."
― pplains, Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, July 12, 2012 12:09 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it was p awesome tbf, just got ruined by spam
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
I'd say "Are you asking to be added to that board? It's unclear."
PP, you often engage in meta threads with hypotheticals, metaphors and extremely vague expressions of dissatisfaction. It's hard to know what point you're trying to make, or if you have one.
― Neil Jung (WmC), Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
― Neil Jung (WmC), Thursday, July 12, 2012 5:10 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It happened to me!
― emil.y, Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
add em, ur added shakey, deal
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
happened me
― deems irreverent (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
I'll amend that then -- I don't think I've ever added anyone who didn't specifically request it, apologies if I did, and I definitely wouldn't do it again.
― Neil Jung (WmC), Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
everyone used to be able to add people not just mods is the thing
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
Oh that's right, I'd totally forgotten that. I hadn't been modding long when that was ended, iirc.
― Neil Jung (WmC), Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
• Shakey's complaints that 77 is elite is inaccurate.• His thoughts on 77 are likely inaccurate because he has no access.• He doesn't want to have to make a request or ask a mod to go in. • There's no question he deserves access, so what if he didn't have to ask.
I'm 99% satisfied with ILX (FREE DOM.) I'm not sure what other vague expressions of dissatisfaction you're remembering, but what if I don't really have a point betcha didn't even think of that one huh?
― pplains, Thursday, 12 July 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
it may no longer be elitist in its present form, but that doesn't mean I approve of it. I wouldn't exactly be rushing to join a country club that used to exclude Jews just cuz they were finally forced to, knowhutimean?
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 12 July 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
bro GET OVER IT
― k3vin k., Thursday, 12 July 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
- the only ways to know if someone is a regular is either by their posting history or through recognition by another - people change accounts so there is no algorithmic way to do it by post history by the system - very few people who have requested access are denied, if any
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, 12 July 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link