Should ILX Have an "I Love Football" Board?

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=69

I don't care and I do like football

Yes! as i don't like football

See the poll options are clearly inadequate

I love polls where "I don't care" is an option.

As opposed to, y'know, just not voting. I care so much I want to tell you (anonymously!) that I don't care!

thats ilx for you.

yes to get this nonsense off ile no for the lols

No.

Yes.

An I Love Football would be like an I Love Politics, you just know it would have less participation than it does on ILE. Who cares how many threads there are at any one time?

On the other hand it might really take off like The Church.

^^^ legally obliged to do that zing

No - but if we must, move only the minor threads there and keep the Premiership one on ILE.

Let I Love Film be a cautionary lesson here - dozens of film threads thriving on ILE and that board totally ignored.. Even I LOVE CRICKET: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX, I Love Hoops and ILNFL look pretty threadbare most of the time. Keep it in the ILX mainstream.

BEST LEAGUE IN THE WORLD superiority complex, yo

xpost

In ILNFL's defense, we don't start many threads, the each one of them is MONUMENTAL.

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Ha - I did think of you ailsa, honest, but representing you, dan, wbs and all the cups would've made for one unwieldy post!

I think yes, with except with the big ones staying here. Y'know, SPL and dunno what else. The foreign leagues and other discussion could benefit from not disappearing from sight so quickly.

to be fair, the ilnfl thread today has literally 7x the amount of reads as any other thread today

i voted i don't care

ILNFL = all killer, no filler imo. We may be small but we're scrappy

same with ilh

If you only have a small number of threads that are all monsters, why is another board even necessary?

(Not hating on ILNFL at all btw)

don't 'get' all these sub-boards, thought 'everything' was suitably comprehensive

And nary a clusterfuck thread too, might I add. :D

ILNFL I mean

^try repping for RBIs on i love baseball

xp

I don't care and I do like football

^

i love baseball is really the only board that would clog up ile if it was let out -- nfl & hoops use rolling threads

i like having separate boards myself but feel like this should be left up to the soccer folks

I've got all the current season ones bookmarked anyway (plus soccerball gifs, english football introspective handwringing thread etc), so don't care, tbh. But this poorly constructed poll doesn't have an option for me.

MattDC, I can see an argument that I Love Soccerball would allow some other threads other than the well-followed behemoths, but I don't know if it would happen or if anyone would care.

don't 'get' all these sub-boards, thought 'everything' was suitably comprehensive

― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Sunday, September 19, 2010 9:32 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

If they work they're great. I Love Comics was fantastic three or four years ago, for example. A smallish group of funny, enthusiastic posters.

don't really care here, i'm not much of a soccer fan and i rarely click on ILE anymore anyway, if i want to look at an index of threads about 'everything' i use site new answers. which is gonna give me the football threads regardless of where they are.

but i will say that the ability to make junky random threads about baseball and to have separate threads for each ballclub works great in ILBB, i probably would participate less if baseball was confined to a few rolling threads on ILE

My absolute bottom line - do NOT call it 'I Love Soccerball'. That would be twee.

Actually, I have just looked at ILNFL and ILHoops and ILBaseball for the first time ever and yeah, I like, even though the thread titles mean nothing to me.

(I do not want it to be called I Love Soccerball, btw)

Nah, I Love Pipecocks wd be better

yes, and all football threads to go in there. so that when it's the only board i tick on SNA i'm not missing out

If this board wants the A-League thread, it will need to pay COGH a transfer fee. (That's a football joke, son!)

But this poorly constructed poll doesn't have an option for me.
― ailsa

well a mod can lock this one and you can start a proper poll with all the right options, it's fine by me.

i would also like to state that this poll does not have my preferred personal choice fwiw

Newsflash: Poll is not going to influence anything, btw. Consider my abstention to be a "don't care because I don't care".

If we had an 'I'm Kind of Indifferent About Football' board, I would probably participate a couple of times or maybe even three.

no. why? it's not like anyone else on ile gives a toss about clogging it up with bollocks.

ile really isn't even clogged up w/ soccer thread either... it's like, what, four threads?

im not one of those complaining it clogs up ile btw.

I've got 16 football-related threads bookmarked at the moment. I suspect having a sub-board would mean more rather than keeping them most discussion in the rolling threads.

now matt dc tells us he's not doing it anyway

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/wc2010_07_12/w30_24252959.jpg

l-r: matt dc, ilx

HERE WE GO

SAYONARA, I LOVE CARS

suggestions for thread title of sam's rolling wengerball thread?

"If 1 of my posts is directly about Arsenal and is over 4 lines, you are welcome to suggest ban me."

lololol no1 was man enough to do so on that thread.

"Aliadière always scores against us. Props to Wenger for selling him in favour of Robin van Injury."

did jeremie ever find a new club?

here i go to wiki

oooh he doesn't. might start a 'into the void' thread for his ilk on our new borad :)

"come and play for the ILX XI"

loved jeremie's french/cockney accent. frockney?

http://blogs.tampabay.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/10/11/celebrate2.jpg

what.

http://itc.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/celebration6_2.jpg

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Winter2007/images/soccer.jpg

http://www.kickoffworld.net/Download/mobile/SensibleSoccer/sensiblesoccer4.JPG

i wish FM2011 was out.

Alright let's do this.

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Tim otm

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Zonaro_GatesofConst.jpg

darraghmac arriving at his hotel this morning

Near 500 years of the Ottoman Empire in Europe led to nothing but good tho

led to more exposure for Colin Kazim-Richards iirc

think darragh went a little overboard getting 130 of his brothers to vote

tenacious separatism

Well it's been nice knowing you guys, it's been fun, maybe see you around sometime?

have a nice life y'all

Are you two off somewhere then?

aw come on Tom you can suss out the SNA magic so you can still see ILE, ILM and I LOVE FOOTBALL: THE NORTHAMPTON TOWN OF ILX: THE NORTHAMPTON TOWN OF ILX!

I only use SNA for Thread Connections Yuks tbh

I don't understand why you wouldn't use it all the time?

I suppose because I don't wanna accidentally end up on some weird board with some bunch of anal geeks, irony or what?

As I said before, I'm already on ILM and that's bad enough

You can set SNA so it only shows the boards you're interested in. Or you can add the football board to your menu at the top right next to where it says ILM and ILE.

Might be a lesson in egg-sucking here but you choose what gets shown in SNA. Go in to preferences and click on 'I Want to Change the Boards Shown on Site New Answers...'. Then uncheck the weirdy boards.

xps

who are the mods? dmac and ismael?

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/Pages/customise-board-shortcuts.jsp
and/or
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/CustomiseSiteNewPostsControllerServlet

No thank you! This is Darragh's baby as I recall.

who are the mods? dmac and ismael?

― caek, Friday, 24 September 2010 10:09

It's a tough and thankless job being a referee. You're the only man with the experience to take it on, though you'd need to renew your not a nonce papers.

^ making like he knows what a mod is and does xp

lol nonce papers

i'm thinking ronan and lj for the radge lols

that said xp, having mod privileges purely to correct misspelt thread titles would be sweet

I just look for consistency from mods, that's all I ask for. Have no objections to the use of technology to make their job easier.

Gonna have to clear any board mods with the other sitewide admins I think. Although IIRC Darragh said he was only interested in a posting capacity?

Ismael I think you'd be good fwiw.

me too

Ah, stop buttering me up. Seriously though, what does it entail? I still kid myself that I'm here in a part-time capacity.

Darragh said he'd do it at some point yesterday I think.

I Love Football Opening Ceremony

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