I Love Politics board redux - this time with feeling!

I voted yes without really giving it any thought. If you had a specific political board, maybe people would be more inclined to start a thread on, I don't know, Edmund Muskie. But Trump has been so exhausting--I don't post very often on the Trump threads anymore--I don't have any strong feelings on the issue.

Hell no, shit no, fuck no -- there's my 3 votes.

bad idea

I voted yes because I am pro-compartmentalization in all things.

democracy sucks

I voted no out of badness but really where's the harm?

that was me in the gay marriage ref

high five

injust want to make it clear i voted yes to gay marriage that was a joke post on ilxor.com

I want a messageboard where people are more positive towards the poisonous corrupt psychopaths that are making many ppl's lives not worth living to the point of suicide. FFS I'm not asking for a lot!

deems backtracking on a joke is why this place is going to hell. #voteno

vote yes on the no option

I want a messageboard where people are more positive towards the poisonous corrupt psychopaths that are making many ppl's lives not worth living to the point of suicide.

Ok, this is a slightly unfair characterization of politics thread posters.

not really in the context of this thread tbh!

i thought calz was talking about left twitter tbh

I Love Gulags has 1023 new answers

yes i mean no

no

xxp
well yeah, that's an abortion - no argument, but it doesn't make Bama/Blair apologist twitter any more appetising!

So you are for relegating said psychopaths to their own forum or no?

very poor + disingenuous rhetoric there Moodles, but I wouldn't much better tbf!

Yes to Gulags, no to I Love Politics

Lol, ok

xp

veering into unsavory territory

xxxp

Yes to Gulags, no to I Love Politics

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My man

All joking aside, there seems to be a non-trivial amount of no voters whose argument is "the quality of discussion on politics threads is horrible, so let's make sure they are perpetually at the top of ILE".

Of all the possible outcomes to this poll/question, that must be the most far-fetched. I wonder how you came to this conclusion at all.

voted yes as part of a social experiment but bizarro gazzarra is right, politics spill into everything. would you put the us open thread there? maybe we need a "politics" tag like a "NSFW" tag you could put on threads to help people avoid those threads (joeks tag)

Well, I'm genuinely surprised that there are so many strong no votes, did not expect that given that so many people seem bothered by the persistence of politics threads

xp

no need for a politics tag as long as we can see user names on sna

there seems to be a non-trivial amount of no voters whose argument is "the quality of discussion on politics threads is horrible, so let's make sure they are perpetually at the top of ILE".

I have never seen this expressed here, but maybe I don't have the right decoder glasses.

voted no

I spend half of half of my time having nervous breakdowns and worrying about surviving under the most (arguably) far-right Tory government we've had in the last century. And then realising how lucky I am because I have one terminally ill and one severely disabled in my house, and they haven't worked out how to murder us yet! But no matter what happens I will hate these people and their apologists forever, even if I win the lottery tomorrow.

Ban seeing user names

Tru demokrasi for all

*hammer and sickle*

we need the eggs

Egghead

you masochists

^

Gets it

Omg is that a james franco ref in 2018? My life hasn’t been for naught

i think it was an Alvy Singer ref (alert the snowflakes)

Voted yes so fewer ppl will see my bad posts

There’s other ways to achieve the same goal

Another option could be just renaming I Love Everything to I Love Politics and moving all the quality content to a new board.

yes

i wd like to spoil my ballot

Voting yes will trigger the article 77 process which will give us two years to negotiate the relationship between ILP and ILE. The negotiations will be spectacularly incompetent and result in ILP crashing out of ILE with no deal. Chaos will ensue.

the electoral college will hand the Yeses a win

i move to place all 'yes' votes into a single district (I Love Vinyl!)

This desire to subdivide cannot stand. I opt for dismantling all boards and all threads and make all of ilxor.com just one single thread.

(77 borad stays obv)

As always De Subjectivisten are the front runners of this idea. We wrap the whole world and every topic imaginable into two threads: film (obv) and the shadow cabinet. It's not complicated.

burn it all down!

I Poll Lolitics

Alright, alright, we can throw in a fifth borad, I Love Celtic Politics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4O1A-mmBWw

Eire Love Politics surely

I'm 100% in favor of a politics board

This is a good idea but

Having an movie board sadly doesn’t keep movie stuff off ILE

RIP

have one main ILE board and an option to tag subcategories on threads - film, games, books, politics, etc. then people can filter 'em but they're all still in a big list so people can see and comment

If a talkie is discussed on ILE it's a movie, if it's discussed on ILF it's Film

pumpernickel is fine, quit slandering pumpernickel

Gonna immolate in the great Bread Polls of 2021

...which is what I envision for an ILE freed from political shackles

we have an i love football board and the most popular football thread - by a loooong distance - is always posted on i love everything ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I Love Puh-puh-puh-puh-puh...

This is a good idea but

Having an movie board sadly doesn’t keep movie stuff off ILE

RIP

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This is the thing, youd need mods to agree to ban fuckers who didnt comply

ppl piping in w the naysaying shhhhh