Poll: ILX needs to go social or die?

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In the Ideas for ILX thread, lag∞n wrote:

u shd be able to follow people and then theres a feed that displays everyone u follows posts, ilx needs to go social or die

I disagree. ilx is content driven, not personality driven. Personally, idgaf who originates or perpetuates a good thread. But I thought it would make a good poll.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
ILX should stick with boards & threads as its primary organizing principle	67
ILX should use Ned Raggett as its primary organizing principle	32
ILX should die as quickly as possible	21
ILX should convert to using people as its primary organizing principle	1

― Aimless, Saturday, 13 September 2014 17:48 (ten years ago)

those "social" features sound terrible.

― Treeship, Saturday, 13 September 2014 17:51 (ten years ago)

ILX needs occasional threads that sound sort of interesting but are actually sponsored by corporations

― Karl Malone, Saturday, 13 September 2014 17:53 (ten years ago)

Corporations are people, my friend. You can even follow them on facebook.

― Aimless, Saturday, 13 September 2014 17:54 (ten years ago)

Because what ILX needs is to become even *more* tribal? Absolutely fucking terrible idea.

― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Saturday, 13 September 2014 18:10 (ten years ago)

ILX (and before, the Greenspun boards) are still the best 'forum' setup going - no unnecessary clutter, easy to follow, easy to find old threads

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 13 September 2014 18:14 (ten years ago)

lag00n you should apologize for your very serious idea

― Karl Malone, Saturday, 13 September 2014 18:23 (ten years ago)

joke ideas can be terrible too

― DISMISSED AS CHANCE (NotEnough), Saturday, 13 September 2014 18:26 (ten years ago)

don't go changin ilx; the elevation of content over contributor makes this place fairly unique ime

― DISMISSED AS CHANCE (NotEnough), Saturday, 13 September 2014 18:28 (ten years ago)

wait til lagoon finds out about facebook. he will be like...man...somebody already had this idea

― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 13 September 2014 18:31 (ten years ago)

write-in for "ILX should use TIM @ KFC.EDU as its primary organizing principle"

― Malibu Stasi (WilliamC), Saturday, 13 September 2014 18:57 (ten years ago)

lag00n you should apologize for your very serious idea

― Karl Malone, Saturday, September 13, 2014 7:23 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

joke ideas can be terrible too

― DISMISSED AS CHANCE (NotEnough), Saturday, September 13, 2014 7:26 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ideas for ilx is basically ppl making the same joke again & again no

― xelab hate good times cmon (wins), Saturday, 13 September 2014 19:00 (ten years ago)

ilx should have [shitty feature] like [website]

― xelab hate good times cmon (wins), Saturday, 13 September 2014 19:01 (ten years ago)

what's the spread on "should die as quickly as possible"?

― Daphnis Celesta, Saturday, 13 September 2014 19:25 (ten years ago)

SPAGEDY

― j., Saturday, 13 September 2014 19:40 (ten years ago)

The third option is strangely appealing

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 September 2014 19:53 (ten years ago)

only post-midlife-crisis-Ned

― Malibu Stasi (WilliamC), Saturday, 13 September 2014 19:54 (ten years ago)

Crisis on Infinite Neds

― wackness unlimited (snoball), Saturday, 13 September 2014 20:04 (ten years ago)

ilx should have (shitty feature) like (website)
― xelab hate good times cmon (wins), Saturday, September 13, 2014 12:01 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.unsungfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/a-beautiful-mind_02.jpg

― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 13 September 2014 20:09 (ten years ago)

lagoon has “just learned Rails” syndrome. pray for him.

aside: i miss the classic stylesheet. sans serif is bullshit.

― Allen (etaeoe), Saturday, 13 September 2014 20:13 (ten years ago)

only post-midlife-crisis-Ned

Already happened I think.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 September 2014 20:14 (ten years ago)

p.s.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Ned_Raggett_02.jpg/220px-Ned_Raggett_02.jpg

― Allen (etaeoe), Saturday, 13 September 2014 20:15 (ten years ago)

Having only Ned in control introduces a single point of failure. We need a backup.

― calstars, Saturday, 13 September 2014 20:47 (ten years ago)

hi!

― imago, Saturday, 13 September 2014 20:48 (ten years ago)

If this is ever done in the future, maybe you could just choose which you like as a preference.

― calstars, Saturday, 13 September 2014 20:49 (ten years ago)

die die die die die die

― Nhex, Saturday, 13 September 2014 21:15 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWW0mayvQSU

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 September 2014 21:20 (ten years ago)

would support a more tribal ILX if we could have some sort of mechanism for tribal warfare

― the late great, Saturday, 13 September 2014 21:49 (ten years ago)

http://cqdx11.net/Image_Uploads/2013/05/Tribes2box1.jpg

― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 13 September 2014 22:38 (ten years ago)

brb getting an ILX armband

― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 13 September 2014 23:14 (ten years ago)

💔

― stet, Sunday, 14 September 2014 00:39 (ten years ago)

ha was that what that was

― fedora, wherever it may find her (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 September 2014 00:40 (ten years ago)

today was a stark warning

― you'll never guac amole (wins), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 22:50 (ten years ago)

Would it be possible to implement user personality stylesheets where you could choose to have all posts translated into the posting style of your favorite forum member?

― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Thursday, 25 September 2014 00:00 (ten years ago)

toggle between estela and nakhers depending on how much time i have

― Ѿ (imago), Thursday, 25 September 2014 00:00 (ten years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Thursday, 25 September 2014 00:01 (ten years ago)

jazz needs to go social

― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 25 September 2014 00:05 (ten years ago)

http://www.technobuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/facebook_dislike.jpg

― dan m, Thursday, 25 September 2014 00:08 (ten years ago)

i espouse all forms of social media pls don't do this pls

― busted (art), Thursday, 25 September 2014 00:26 (ten years ago)

when two tribes go to war, ned is all that you can score

― syro gyra (get bent), Thursday, 25 September 2014 03:21 (ten years ago)

Well I hey

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 September 2014 04:03 (ten years ago)

those "social" features sound terrible.

The world has enough problems, what with this ISIS thing.

― FYI Macedonia (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 September 2014 09:12 (ten years ago)

ILX should just become ARG (all-Raggett guide)

― Your hippie magic has no effect on (bernard snowy), Thursday, 25 September 2014 09:55 (ten years ago)

ILX threads with too many embedded youtubes automatically go behind a paywall

― Your hippie magic has no effect on (bernard snowy), Thursday, 25 September 2014 09:56 (ten years ago)

each day at midnight GMT, users receive a fixed number of 'ILX points' which can be used to take actions such as viewing threads, making posts, or voting in polls

― Your hippie magic has no effect on (bernard snowy), Thursday, 25 September 2014 09:59 (ten years ago)

System should be given rudimentary A.I. and access to a database of quality posts from old ILX

― Your hippie magic has no effect on (bernard snowy), Thursday, 25 September 2014 10:03 (ten years ago)

http://oi60.tinypic.com/adklyg.jpg

― 💻 👀 (am0n), Thursday, 25 September 2014 16:57 (ten years ago)

I think we should have an otm button

― stet, Thursday, 25 September 2014 20:43 (ten years ago)

otm

― mattresslessness, Thursday, 25 September 2014 20:47 (ten years ago)

http://www.housing.umass.edu/images/getinvolved/keep-calm-and-write-an-otm.gif

― example (crüt), Thursday, 25 September 2014 20:50 (ten years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/5tPJ5Zv.jpg

― schlump, Thursday, 25 September 2014 21:16 (ten years ago)

Even if it was "personality"-driven, do you actually think the ILX Team™ would actually do anything about it to change it?

That's not how they roll, bro.

It's all about efficient backend and user-friendliness.

ILX ain't 'bout that INTEROPERABILITY lyfe, yo

― ∞, Thursday, 25 September 2014 21:34 (ten years ago)

HEY WATCH THAT LIP HEXY

― j., Thursday, 25 September 2014 23:22 (ten years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Friday, 26 September 2014 00:01 (ten years ago)

Strong showing for Ned there. And at least now we know which of the four options not to pursue.

― Aimless, Friday, 26 September 2014 00:04 (ten years ago)

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