Has ILE Gone Down The Dumper?

It looks as if the flaws inherent in the low security level here (at greenspun) are beginning to show. Instead of being just an ugly blot on the community that people can shake their heads at and then ignore out of boredom, a 'problem' here has more freedom to poison and warp the whole process. It's awfully hard to maintain the decorum of 'real life' in an online community unless the participants are *held* to some immutable facsimle of an identity. Some will undoubtedly argue that is the great thing about online discussions - that new freedom, unpredictability, rawness, fire, blah blah blah etc., but I don't get the sense that *that* is what most here are after. There's a lot of fun here and a lot of intelligent debate, but most importantly (in the survival sense), there has been an awful lot of trust and respect. When individuals flaunt the conventions and treat the place as their personal playground, they weaken the established bonds and poison the group mentality. It's a bit of a tight spot, as it seems that some people will just never, ever get over themselves and defer to the larger intended purpose of a place.

One of the things I love about ILE is the LUSENET technology, and specifically the way it allows you just to keep away from certain threads if you can see they're boring or aggressive. No, ILE has not gone down the dumper.

But I don't think ILE has. It goes through good periods and bad ones, it's pretty cyclical.

And it's all because !I don't give a fuck about this world!.

I must confess THIS time I actually noticed myself becoming disinterested in ILE but nonetheless I'm not too worried, there's a thread like this every month or so.

It's the casual hipper-than-thou contempt for the less-trendy tossed around by the cool kids that make it feel like a high school cafeteria.

This is a Butthole Surfers cover of 'Never Understand', no? But why?

I believe you.

uh, what beef do you have with tom as a mod?

yah well if everyone could read the thread than they wouldnt assume that would they? it was chicken shit of jon in the first place for starting that thread on secret board and its chicken shit of ilx in general to have a secret board for that to go down on.

xpost

wait, who is remy asking?

i don't think it was chicknshit of Jon, it was very calculated. how he got away with starting that thread and posting the things that Alex took most umbrage with but managed to get the flak directed towards Ian is beyond me. maybe i'm giving him too much credit.

you dont think it was chicken shit to start a thread about a poster's income on a secret board when said poster couldn't read it? uh ok.

perhaps one of these excellent mods should delete tubfurry up there and make this thread less NSFW

he was trying to rake up a shit-storm and you played your part very well. i'm sure he was delighted. xp

if he wanted to start a shitstorm he would've posted it on ile.

Now I just want to see this sekrit board to find out if some ilxor has been dumpster diving for my paystubs.

and miss out on the extra secret borad baggage? like i said, maybe i'm giving him too much credit, but if not his method was A+ xp

at best he accomplished a minor shitsquall (2xp)

jw got pretty upset at me when i reposted the thread where alex could see it so yah.. i think you give the guy too much credit.

i don't think it was chicknshit of Jon, it was very calculated. how he got away with starting that thread and posting the things that Alex took most umbrage with but managed to get the flak directed towards Ian is beyond me. maybe i'm giving him too much credit.

-- Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, May 21, 2008 6:09 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

it's because everyone expects jon to be an asshole at this point

if Jon sincerely complained about you moving that thread Chaki then i take it back, and he's chickenshit and dumb as bricks on top of it. it would not be out of carachter for Jon to go out of his way to engineer shit and beef, tho, so you can see where i was coming from.

why is this not worksafe, or is that a joke

has anyone ever done the IMPORTANT STATISTICAL WORK of plotting posts per thread over time?

i don't like ppl talking shit about alex in nyc

ok we're one step up out of the dumper now tubfurry has gone

uh, isn't everyone sick of talking about ILX yet?

apparently not

wow. we need more to do.

Sure does make it easier to tell who is incredibly self-important.

It does?

Yeah if you can like, read.

OH CRAP THATS WHY I KEEP GETTING CONFUSED

Good job playing the purposeful obtuse card guys.

if you want to see purposeful obtuse you should see the other thread

lol "I should?"

coulda shoulda woulda

wait so you guys arent all making squiggly line pictures to exchange

egg on my face

(without the yuk yuk comedy i am not being purposefully obtuse i actually have no idea who you are talking about)

I'd c&p but I don't wanna get banned :D

(my point was that most everyone here has stretches of shocking self-importance all of the time and I don't think you need a thread like this to see it)

uh there's definitely a spectrum

There is, but you still don't need a thread like this to see it.

this thread is all about ther evivial of butt mucous - well fuck you all, i'm out of here, and i'll never shit my filth upon your darkened doorsteps again. i can tell when my anal weeping is not wanted.

-- Queen G, Friday, March 1, 2002 1:00 AM (6 years ago)

^^^real talk

Right but IMO the difference is that there are the people who go in streaks of self-importance and then there are the people rehashing the same obscure points over on the ADMIN thread all trying to rationalize why they do/don't agree with the ideas put forth by the mods. Plus I don't read every thread so it consolidates that shit a bit. xp

i can't even remember what back then prompted this thread

dom your anal weeping is always wanted

i can't even remember what back then prompted this thread

-- DG, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 20:21 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

I think it was that "what is the most unacceptable thing to come out of yr ass" thread./ I just woke up. I think I'll go back to sleep.l

omg that thread

and it comes full circle with the anal weeping?

the exit count continues to rise

can the exit count ever go down?

hahahahahha yeah that is a good point

yes, like when felicity and the pinefox came back!

so ilx is getting better?

you've got to believe it.

http://eil.com/newgallery/Spandau-Ballet-Gold-162495.jpg

http://image.fishpond.co.nz/731458523321.jpg

"Nothing can stand in our way!"

(it had better not, cos we'll ban it)