ADMIN LOG WATCH 2

Well that escalated quickly.

Peace.

oh it’s been a long time coming i think

i don’t know about anyone else but if i got on NV’s bad side i’d need to go have a word with myself tbh

oh stop it you, i'm horrible

Well that escalated quickly.

Peace.

― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 13 March 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Peace.

From a warmonger.

It doesn't have secret membership requirements, anybody can sign up.

If people genuinely feel that ilx would be improved by everybody straight calling everybody else on their bullshit all the time, well, I think we tried that and I think the consensus was it wasn't so great

the idea is to talk shit about posters behind their backs to protect their feelings (lol ok) but to also do so via a medium all posters have free access to and can come and go as they please? how is that actually different from just doing it in front of their face, other than being incredibly stupid

it's whichever one you want it to be, just like selectively reading the bits of posts that you feel like acknowledging

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

Was gonna say aren’t we like all old now? This shit is really lame

in my day ppl stopped being interested in other ppl when they reached the age of 23, better times tbh

when I were young, an "admin log" was the oaken paddle my social betters used to administer beatings to those whose deficiencies demanded them

median age 42

FUCK

Too low?

aye

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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.

No luck, though.

how young is "very young"?

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.

I'd like an invite to the Slack. I've been here long enough.

same!

One of my new year resolutions was to continually search for ever more novel reasons to feel shitty about myself about.

I'm not on it, but there's a 77 thread ("slack77") about it which might be the best way to ask?

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?

xp Late teens (about the same age crut and lj were when they first started posting here) to late twenties.

Thanks Rob.

For the record I'm with Alfred, I am fine with just posting here.

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

very young people that me and another poster have been trying to lure over here

Antiquated internet message board shut down in luring scandal

lol

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.

J0rdan S., donna rouge, Stevie, surm, and myself also all started in our late teens and early twenties, fwiw.

And me also.

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, 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.

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.

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.

your understanding is wrong

ian has been here since a wee bairn as well

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.

Wait how do you find out how long you've been here??! Off I go to see if it's in my profile....gulp.

Yeah, I mean I was barely 21 when I started posting. Gonna be 38 this year.

it was a magical night in late 2003 when i first joined ILM hoping to pick up some sweet Gaz Coombes chat

i thought crut was like 12 when he joined?

I started posting here in 2005 iirc, but only started "posting a lot" when my local board went to seed

Which dn is Conner Smedley posting under now

I think crut was 15? I know lj was 17.

your understanding is wrong

― 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

that’s not how i was reading it.

xp I did a web search a long time ago to find my earliest post.

that’s not how i was reading it.

― 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?

Yeah sorry it is incredibly disingenuous to pretend that we all knew about this secret ILX Slack.

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.

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?

Thanks for the info.

Ffs I didn't even know the admin thread existed until yesterday, this is a lot of meta.