― jess, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― dave q, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
(not that i do either.)
― gareth, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ronan, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Maria, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Also I don't think constantly highlighting it does much to stop it as it makes it less natural and more of an issue. Perhaps.
I think most of the people here are very kind, decent etc.
Probably the best thing to do if things are bothering or upsetting you is to take a breather and then come back if/when you feel comfortable. I have done that a couple of times, it helps a lot.
― Nicole, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― DG, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I'll be around for as long as I have internet access or as long as their is an ILe. jel = k.
― james, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
so, picking at scabs = dud. time for thread mutation. i really like this bubba sparxx album despite myself. but, is mosh a better euphamism for female pubic hair than nappy dugout?
If you put 20 or so people in a room you wouldnt expect them to all get on, why expect it here. We're people, we disagree, we get snarky. Now let's just not make excuses for ourselves and let things run their course as they will.
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― Nude Spock, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Are you talking about what you just said?
― Rebecca, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
There..........I needed to let out some aggression.
― Ed, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Menelaus Darcy, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tom, Sunday, 4 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Sunday, 4 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I'm curious as to why. Is it the Springer aspect, where people just really enjoy watching people being cruel to each other?
― Nicole, Sunday, 4 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tom, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Geoff, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ally, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sterling Clover, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― jess, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Samantha, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― ethan, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― fritz, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Sterl, what's wrong with viewing it as an experiment? How is that sociopathic?
At any rate, by "experiment" I mean we were testing to see if this would work, if ILM would become "better" ie strictly deep music discussions and if people could actually do a "Post any old shit" format. I didn't see the need for the split and I think the end result is mostly that giving people the ability to post anything they want results in people getting a bit fishy because society in general likes order and this is an orderless format. However liking order doesn't mean wanting to stick strictly to it, and I think ILM suffered for that in the early days of ILE - ie people tried to stick too hard to music-only discussions with absolutely no wavering, which turned off some regular posters who liked throwing in other references, and made a lot of the discussions harder for the less knowledgable to crack. Now I think the situation on ILM has faded away for the most part and the discussion is generally going back to the mix of music/non-music that it is best, because people can't stick to that strict of an order for too long. Meanwhile ILE falls into anarchist chaos on intermittent bases.
That's just my take on it, it makes me quite amused to think of it in those terms. I hardly see it as offensive in any way.
(ally's also right that ilm has had an upsurge of activity lately.)
― gareth, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― james, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ed, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I don't think I will stop posting though, at least til I get laid off -- I need something to do in the mornings.
― Nicole, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I don't think I would enjoy ILE as much without the controversy though, constant agreement is dull and in all liklihood would degenerate into self congratulation, swapping and approving different intuitions.
One thing I dislike are the occasional cheap shots made about Dunedin and NZ in general, the sheep shagging references are a bit tired and at least we don't have a song about it as far as I know (cf the Macc Lads, no sheep til buxton) the only complaint I have with that is that I have heard similar jokes too often to find them amusing. Thats a small quibble though, and I have noted NZers making the same jokes so I guess they must not mind.
Time for me to subside back into my general lethargy...
― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
And this is meant to offend no one, but I would like to say something: I don't particularly like threads like this, meta-threads were everyone just sits and picks apart ILE because invariably it leads to an overblown situation. And I mean nothing against you Jess, it's just a general thing I've noticed. Threads like this and all the somewhat recent "Who do you like best? Who do you like least? Pretend to be another poster! Anonymously offend people!" threads really should just be done away with cos I think they're the biggest problem around here.
― Ally, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― bnw, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ronan, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)