how many message board do you look at?

i wanna know which ones other people look at. silver jews bulletin board and the fake matador bulletin board are the only other ones ive looked at.

washington redskins message board

occasionally check the democratic underground. just to see quick reactions to breaking news, but i don't read it regularly.

I only look at ILX. this was not the case when I first started posting here but it is now.

http://henfap.com/

I lurk on a couple of other boards (between 1 and 3), but only post on ilx.

I generally only look at ILX, tho there are a few various subject-specific Q&A boards I consult from time to time, as needed.

ILX, Metafilter, Electrical Audio, reddit, and sometimes the Ex-Scientologist Message Board for the fascinating/insane/disturbing stories. So 5.

just ilx, i like to lurk on local newspaper talk forums to gawk at racism & feel superior but i don't think it counts

just ilx but sometimes I end up reading a thread or two on other sites when they show up in search results

same answer as curtis. my other internet time sinks are google reader and livejournal.

i think maybe just by see what others write in this thread i might start nerding it up on a few more message boards

only ilx, although I occasionally scan others if I find an interesting thread on google.

I look at many message board.

i was just thinking tonight about the loathing i have for grad course discussion boards because they have rules and you need to use capitalization and no one is funny

haah yeah that's the problem i had with an online course i took. and the guy who signed his name in purple comic sans ~*~Chris~*~ and i couldn't even make fun of him for it.

anyway non-plain text msg boards are annoying

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in ~*~Chris~*~'s defense, purple really is the most beautiful color in which to display comic sans

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I look at some others once in a while and used to more often...but I still voted 1 just cause, I dunno, I look at ilx about 1000x as much as anything else

a soccer board and a skyscraper board. only post here though

2 -- ilx and a knoxville-centric board that has helped keep me in touch with friends and the city during my years in nyc, and will be a help in getting me reacclimated as we move back there. (although i'll probably post there less once i'm actually back in knoxville, for various reasons.)

i look at a redsox board too but i kind of hate the ppl there and try not to read it too much

I find message boards to be a valuable source of technical information - like if something goes wrong with OSX or my iPhone or I need to reformat my hard drive or buy a new camera I can usually find good threads covering my exact problem or need on other message boards.

but for just shooting the breeze etc, ILX is the only one

Lurk at a couple of others, mainly 2+2 (poker site).

If LJ comms dont count, theres one I lurk on and one (Whirlpool, an Aus DSL/broadband forum) I occasionally post on, but apart from ILX my interwebbing is all either directly work-related bore, or general reading.

Lurk all over, but ILX is the only place I post

post on ilx & a few miami hurricanes boards

post on . . . a few miami hurricanes boards

bet those boards are exciting

Currently 3, or 4 during select 3-month intervals. (But #s 2, 3 and the on-again/off-again 4 are just casual flings; ILM/ILX is still the love of my life.)

so i was thinking: does nerding it up on message boards allow you to seem more laid back and cool like when you meet your significant other's friends at the pub cuz you don't have that need to yak about some minutiae cuz you already circumnavigated it with other nerds on message boards? i think i do or atleast i feel like i do but i am still pretty nerdy around them.

This, and another small board with about 15 people.

ILX takes up enough of my time on its own, I daren't get into any others.

only have eyez 4 ilx

2 - ILX and electro-music.com

One other - being the one that first got me into this board lark but which now seems very dull and slow next to you, ilx (imagine!). But I only look at it from time to time and post there maybe two or three times a year. So I'll say 1-3, because I do follow and regularly contribute to a blog or two, and they're sort of like message boards in their way.

so i was thinking: does nerding it up on message boards allow you to seem more laid back and cool

you can probably stop that thought right there

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also is it just me or are most message boards really just cliques of peeps who don't necessarily want to hear what yr opinion might be on their thread . . .

it's just you

i don't know dude, i feel part of the clique here but on other boards . . .

i selected just ilx - sometimes i use the message board on the Blue Jays site - but i loath most the posters there. you guys a'ight.

i regularly look a local music board for info only, not discussion, have posted maybe 10 times in many years
so many msg boards so unbelievably annoying/dumb. maybe i haven't found the nerdy niche-info board for me yet tho? ha
ilx all the way

The layouts of most other message boards I've ever glanced at have given me a headache.

I get paid to look at a bunch of message boards I would otherwise never visit. Most of these are in languages that aren't English so I can't even read them!

Other than that, only ILX, unless I'm searching for information about something and google leads me to a message board.

xpost yea i like that you can change the way ilx looks and it's search function is better than some others

Also, no avatars, quotes attached to posts, star ratings and what have you. An excellent signal to noise ratio.

yea ilx is no nonsense. no ratings except suggest ban
although you can write a thing in yr profile

and there ya go mods:
can you make the stylesheets so that the language can be changed; could that even work? i know english to spanish or french wouldn't be that big of a deal but like english to mandarin or hindi?

Bannez Vous?

what does permalink do anyway?

and is it possible to see how many suggest bans you have?

i've checked out other ones but it's pretty amazing how most other message boards have the same level of discourse as the comments sections in news stories. they kinda give me a morbs level of cynicism about the future.

Try this: (xpost)

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=71

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a morbs level of cynicism is alot of cynicism, right?

also mark that's just the imustprotest board, i didn't see anything about suggest bans

ilx and gamedev are the only ones i read really, the latter purely for educational reasons.

oops: This is the thread where we ask "what is our current bannage total?"

rock, thanks mark i just asked.

My two other message boards pertain entirely to hiking and backpacking. This is my beloved hobby and therefore it is the most important thing on earth to talk about. For everything else, there is ilx.

www.teufelstomb.com

I'm the guy in the Venn diagram overlapping Electrical Audio and Robert Parker's Wine Board.

I read a couple of other ones but never really post anywhere (not even here that much). Mostly I read for specific hobby or necessary information purposes and appreciate the minimalism and general level of intellect here after the flashy horribleness of so many other places. The one devoted to my car model is the worst - mostly gaudy flashing shit surrounding sub OMGWTFLOL level postings.

what does permalink do anyway?

Lets you link to a specific post, not just a thread.

I'm the guy in the Venn diagram overlapping Electrical Audio and Robert Parker's Wine Board.

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I'm on ILX and the old Stylus board, that's pretty much it.

By "old Stylus board" I mean "Stylus ex-staff board."

and not the "playing records with really old needles" board.

Man reading this thread, I feel so geeky for reading 3-5 message boards. I lurk on all of them mostly.

I am on ILX + 1 local board which is much slower than ILX + spend free evenings in 1 small chatroom but I'm overlooking the distinction since ILX is actually more real-time than a slow chatroom. (Though I guess people aren't counting twitter or facebook, which could be in the same category. I'm not on either.)

There are a couple more communities I've drifted into and out of over the past decade but apparently 3 online communities is all I can keep up with at once. Occasionally I find a new one, but it always seems to work out that I don't have time to check them all and one of the old ones gets knocked out.

www.teufelstomb.com

― Ponger12, Thursday, January 28, 2010 7:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

^ this is awesome, dudes

what does permalink do anyway?

Lets you link to a specific post, not just a thread.

― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Thursday, January 28, 2010 8:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

ha! no way i was just thinking about that the other day! now i must find reasons to exploit this resource

Currently I only visit (and post) on two: ilx and ravelry.

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hands down my most popular poll thus far with over one hundred voters! full moon fever