7 Deadly ILX Sins

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There are others. Here are seven.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
pretentious	10
preachy	9
condescending	9
snarky	8
irreverent	6
smug	6
troll	5

― Mordy, Monday, 13 February 2012 20:45 (thirteen years ago)

are we voting best or worst or what

― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 February 2012 20:47 (thirteen years ago)

which one you're best at

― iatee, Monday, 13 February 2012 20:47 (thirteen years ago)

^ that

― Mordy, Monday, 13 February 2012 20:47 (thirteen years ago)

what if you're best at more than one

― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 13 February 2012 20:48 (thirteen years ago)

then vote smug

― iatee, Monday, 13 February 2012 20:48 (thirteen years ago)

I'm not good at any of these. preachy, I guess?

― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 February 2012 20:48 (thirteen years ago)

irreverent is a good thing!

― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Monday, 13 February 2012 20:48 (thirteen years ago)

where would sanctimonious land closest too

― beware of greeks bearing petrol bombs (darraghmac), Monday, 13 February 2012 20:49 (thirteen years ago)

inspired by a currently active thread with amazing examples of all 7

― Mordy, Monday, 13 February 2012 20:49 (thirteen years ago)

sanctimonious = preachy, no?

― Mordy, Monday, 13 February 2012 20:49 (thirteen years ago)

could be any thread tbf

― beware of greeks bearing petrol bombs (darraghmac), Monday, 13 February 2012 20:50 (thirteen years ago)

that's why i felt safe mentioning it

― Mordy, Monday, 13 February 2012 20:50 (thirteen years ago)

I've got it down to preachy or condescending, but now I can't decide.

― one little aioli (Laurel), Monday, 13 February 2012 20:50 (thirteen years ago)

I think I have to go w/ smug

― iatee, Monday, 13 February 2012 20:51 (thirteen years ago)

i guess i'm going with smug? "persistently irritating" was not an option.

― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 13 February 2012 20:53 (thirteen years ago)

i think persistently irritated is what other people feel when you're doing one of these

― Mordy, Monday, 13 February 2012 20:54 (thirteen years ago)

*I* would never do one of these. I am too smug.

― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 13 February 2012 20:55 (thirteen years ago)

meta

― Ismael Klata, Monday, 13 February 2012 20:57 (thirteen years ago)

snarky is listed

― Mordy, Monday, 13 February 2012 20:57 (thirteen years ago)

where does claiming to quit and then coming back fit in

― the late great, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:15 (thirteen years ago)

which thread inspired this thread?

voted "condescending" duh!

― sarahell, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:16 (thirteen years ago)

ha la lechera with a perfect post

― beware of greeks bearing petrol bombs (darraghmac), Monday, 13 February 2012 21:17 (thirteen years ago)

troll suggests movie thread imo

― beware of greeks bearing petrol bombs (darraghmac), Monday, 13 February 2012 21:17 (thirteen years ago)

Does creating this poll meta-encompass all these sins?

― Aimless, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:20 (thirteen years ago)

feel like i need darragh to answer this for me

but he is on a romantic weekend and 'being a dick' isnt there so imma just pick at random

― a hoy hoy, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:21 (thirteen years ago)

feeling now like i should've included tedious in the list xp

― Mordy, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:21 (thirteen years ago)

yeah, irreverent/snarky could have been merged into one sin, and tedious added.

― sarahell, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:22 (thirteen years ago)

You also left out all of the above which would apply to at least a handful of regulars.

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 13 February 2012 21:22 (thirteen years ago)

where the hell is 'hateful' you waste

― lil kink (Matt P), Monday, 13 February 2012 21:25 (thirteen years ago)

hey Matt, I really liked what you had to say about power!

― sarahell, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:26 (thirteen years ago)

There are others. Here are seven.

But definitely misanthropy wouldn't be out of place on this list.

― Mordy, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:26 (thirteen years ago)

where is 'drunk'

― mookieproof, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:29 (thirteen years ago)

close enough to irreverent

― Mordy, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:29 (thirteen years ago)

sam,

I am the wrong end of thirty and not the man i used be. Monday evening is about 20 hrs after most of my romantic w/ends finish these days, and i'm not unrelie-

eh i'm ok with that, should i say

― beware of greeks bearing petrol bombs (darraghmac), Monday, 13 February 2012 21:29 (thirteen years ago)

pretty sure reverence annoys me more on ilx than irreverence

― Mordy, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:30 (thirteen years ago)

Hello, out of that list, I irreverent.

― Mark G, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:32 (thirteen years ago)

what's closest to the opposite of 'playful', i'll vote for that tbrr best thing about ilx is playfulness of denizen

― beware of greeks bearing petrol bombs (darraghmac), Monday, 13 February 2012 21:32 (thirteen years ago)

wait are we voting best, worst or 'what i do best'

― beware of greeks bearing petrol bombs (darraghmac), Monday, 13 February 2012 21:33 (thirteen years ago)

what u do best

― Mordy, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:34 (thirteen years ago)

ilx is like a superhero team and w/ our 7 rings combined we make a thread

― iatee, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:34 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah I'm missing Tedious or Boring on that list.

― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:35 (thirteen years ago)

otm

― iatee, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:35 (thirteen years ago)

irreverent's great, what's it even doing on a sins list? Preachy is the worst, all the others can be amusing somehow - I probably do it best though, I certainly used to

― Ismael Klata, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:35 (thirteen years ago)

hopefully irreverent i guess

― beware of greeks bearing petrol bombs (darraghmac), Monday, 13 February 2012 21:35 (thirteen years ago)

Then I vote for "running a well measured and fragrant bath"

xposts TIMING!

xposts more oh forget it.

― Mark G, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:35 (thirteen years ago)

bottom three

― judith, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:36 (thirteen years ago)

I'm gonna vote for pretentious bcuz I'm almost certainly pretentious, but I actually secretly rlly like pretentious ppl so I'm actually almost doing a humblebrag.

― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:39 (thirteen years ago)

Erica, I do think that you need to not point out the negatives that appear on this board and, I don't know, maybe focus on something positive.

― pplains, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:40 (thirteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/eFYsD.gif

― pplains, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:40 (thirteen years ago)

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but if we want a completist picture of ILX sins, where does "attention whore" go?

― sarahell, Monday, 13 February 2012 22:03 (thirteen years ago)

what happened, I'm confused

did PP think I started this thread?!

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 13 February 2012 22:05 (thirteen years ago)

maybe he's making posts directed at you displaying each of these sins, because of your post about how all of them apply to some regulars? (which was otm)

― sarahell, Monday, 13 February 2012 22:06 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah, that's what I thought at first but then I wondered if he thought I posted stated it too. idk. Man, I know he was joking but that stung a little even so. Harsh dude, very harsh. ;)

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 13 February 2012 22:08 (thirteen years ago)

pugnacious

― beware of greeks bearing petrol bombs (darraghmac), Monday, 13 February 2012 22:19 (thirteen years ago)

So ENBB was the last person to have posted in this thread before i thread bombed it, and I mistakenly thought she had started it.

http://involveconsulting.com/img/oldManComputer.jpg

― pplains, Monday, 13 February 2012 22:21 (thirteen years ago)

So, um, go to hell Mordy.

Guess I'm just not very good at being unpleasant!

― pplains, Monday, 13 February 2012 22:22 (thirteen years ago)

Ouch...

― Flag post? I hardly knew her! (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 13 February 2012 22:23 (thirteen years ago)

wait

Mordy, would you technically even qualify for hell? Forgive my asking, like

― beware of greeks bearing petrol bombs (darraghmac), Monday, 13 February 2012 22:25 (thirteen years ago)

there should be faux-naive imo

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 13 February 2012 22:37 (thirteen years ago)

what about pathologically-conflict-avoidant

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 February 2012 22:39 (thirteen years ago)

I'm compiling all these wonderful suggestions for the sequel.

― Mordy, Monday, 13 February 2012 22:42 (thirteen years ago)

it's a lovely poll though, Mordy, really it is

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 February 2012 22:50 (thirteen years ago)

I voted troll, bc prolly no-one will vote themselves that, and i could be a very ineffective troll for all you know

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 February 2012 22:52 (thirteen years ago)

I should disclose in the spirit of this thread that it was between starting this, me screaming at ppl on a couple other threads, and passive aggressively updating the 'posts you had second-thoughts about' thread. option A really combined options B + C in a satisfying way.

― Mordy, Monday, 13 February 2012 22:53 (thirteen years ago)

it's like a meta emo-poll

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 February 2012 22:54 (thirteen years ago)

hahaha, my equivalent move was reviving the "Ideas for ILX" thread, but I forgot to post "nuke from orbit"

― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Monday, 13 February 2012 22:55 (thirteen years ago)

(carefully refrains from flagging VG's post, out of pity)

― Aimless, Monday, 13 February 2012 22:55 (thirteen years ago)

Seeing as "immature twat" isnt an option I guess "irreverant" will have to do for me.

― thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Monday, 13 February 2012 22:56 (thirteen years ago)

also, what's that thing where posters to a poll thread need to mention how special a snowflake they are?

― Mordy, Monday, 13 February 2012 22:58 (thirteen years ago)

^^ Great idea!

― Cosy Moments (Aimless), Monday, 13 February 2012 22:58 (thirteen years ago)

Say something nice about another ilx poster

― Cosy Moments (Aimless), Monday, 13 February 2012 23:00 (thirteen years ago)

aimless: re flagging, idgi?

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 February 2012 23:01 (thirteen years ago)

it's the new sb. he was joekzing that he would flag you for "trolling"

― Mordy, Monday, 13 February 2012 23:02 (thirteen years ago)

VG: self-revealed saddo troll

― Cosy Moments (Aimless), Monday, 13 February 2012 23:02 (thirteen years ago)

Where's the confused option?

― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 13 February 2012 23:03 (thirteen years ago)

right next to the permalink link on your post

― Mordy, Monday, 13 February 2012 23:04 (thirteen years ago)

xpost haha! in light of this add dimwitted/slow as poll option plz

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 February 2012 23:06 (thirteen years ago)

I guess I have to vote Pretentious as Bloviator is not an option.

― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Monday, 13 February 2012 23:30 (thirteen years ago)

bloviator 2 with danny glover

― beware of greeks bearing petrol bombs (darraghmac), Monday, 13 February 2012 23:37 (thirteen years ago)

bloviate always sounds kinda giggly/nsfw to me

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 February 2012 23:39 (thirteen years ago)

feel like my nobel-winning work will be in the field of snark

― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Monday, 13 February 2012 23:40 (thirteen years ago)

tbh nv you've been more earnest than snarky for ages now, and more often straight-enraged than either

― beware of greeks bearing petrol bombs (darraghmac), Monday, 13 February 2012 23:41 (thirteen years ago)

Faux-naif is missing.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 05:39 (thirteen years ago)

here should be faux-naive imo

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, February 13, 2012 10:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh there we go.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 05:39 (thirteen years ago)

theres really only one true sin and its not being funny or interesting

― (_()_) (Lamp), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 05:42 (thirteen years ago)

I've got it down to preachy or condescending, but now I can't decide.

― one little aioli (Laurel), Monday, February 13, 2012 3:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i am pretty sure i am preachy, but condescending is the other one, for sure.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 05:43 (thirteen years ago)

But definitely misanthropy wouldn't be out of place on this list.

― Mordy, Monday, February 13, 2012 4:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

where is 'drunk'

― mookieproof,

yep, yep

― tmi but (Z S), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 05:45 (thirteen years ago)

pretty sure everyone's a troll

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 05:55 (thirteen years ago)

8. libertarianism

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 06:25 (thirteen years ago)

tuomas

― buzza, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 06:26 (thirteen years ago)

feeling now like i should've included tedious in the list xp

yeah, had to make do with "preachy"

[three paragraphs of musings explaining why and how this applies to me me me me me]

― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 07:01 (thirteen years ago)

irreverent

― plee help i am lookin for (crüt), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 07:44 (thirteen years ago)

I predict irrev to win by 95%.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 10:33 (thirteen years ago)

Obsessive-compulsive also missing.

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― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 10:43 (thirteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 00:01 (thirteen years ago)

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

― System, Thursday, 1 March 2012 00:01 (thirteen years ago)

can't believe only 6 people copped to being smug

― sarahell, Thursday, 1 March 2012 01:24 (thirteen years ago)

Maybe they thought smugness was their second-best talent.

― Aimless, Thursday, 1 March 2012 01:42 (thirteen years ago)

top 3 about right for ilx i'd say

― Mordy, Thursday, 1 March 2012 02:08 (thirteen years ago)

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