An open letter to ILX & mods re: an alternative to the current system

YEAH!

(btw I'm having a hard time getting over how just how cool that camel is)

http://i51.tinypic.com/2holgm1.jpg :-D

http://i26.tinypic.com/2z4zig2.gif whats up guys just readin ilx

lol

like I look at other forums and I think, hey, I could maybe hang here -- oh wait you have avatars, you suck balls, fuck this place

sb'd you for irrational hatred of camels

*coff*facebook*coff*

guys, display names = our avatars

also if you want the lols of posting an image just bump the 'if ilx had avatars' thread

I don't understand that POV at all. Avatars make the messageboarding experience more lively and fun for everyone. Signatures are a different matter, but avs uber alles imo

guys, display names = our avatars

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, November 23, 2010 6:31 PM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark

Oh boy, words... *makes jerk off motion*

text is awesome & clean

avatars become a walk through Shinjuku at night in about thirty seconds and make every page an eyesore

yeah i agree

http://www.travel-earth.com/japan/shinjuku-night.jpg

ilx future

also ilx looks like you're working, from a distance.

"avatars become a walk through Shinjuku at night in about thirty seconds"

Sounds like a delightful journey of sight and sound, a treat for all the senses

working on craigslist

but i make gifs for a living

I think you guys just haven't been on a board with GOOD avatars. I'm sure everyone on here would just have pics of their favorite dumb band or some crap. This would be my signature image on here btw:

http://i47.tinypic.com/dnltu8.jpg

Stet's is the only reason I think it's good not to have them tbh.

"In 2018, a sub-board mod on ILX edits an excelsior post."

http://xenophilius.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/minority-report-ui.jpg

wouldnt it slow the shit out of everything? apart from being an eyesore

aside from the fact that you'd have to change the entire layout of the board to accommodate images next to every post

Sounds like a delightful journey of sight and sound, a treat for all the senses

like Facebook! lol

http://i51.tinypic.com/2holgm1.jpg aside from the fact that you'd have to change the entire layout of the board to accommodate images next to every post

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, November 23, 2010 6:37 PM (56 seconds ago)

http://i51.tinypic.com/24zksvn.png feel like ice cr?m should have my back on this, feel like hes a guy who can appreciate a quality av

ENBB throwing off my theory about how you can 100% judge a person based on how they feel about avatars :(

can we have embedded sound-avatars/theme songs? It would be fun to open a thread and hear 100 songs playing at once

mine would be canyon.mid

x-post - You have a theory on that? Wow. Sorry JD, I can't help but enjoy them and agree that good ones can enhance the mb experience. Although I guess in this instance that's more in theory because I also do, as previously mentioned, like the fact that I can browse at work and have it seem at least sort of discreet.

can we have embedded sound-avatars/theme songs? It would be fun to open a thread and hear 100 songs playing at once

mine would be canyon.mid

― pretty hat machine (crüt), Tuesday, November 23, 2010 6:49 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

sandstorm

Avatars make the messageboarding experience more lively and fun for everyone.

Farmville updates and endless fan page invitations make the Facebook experience more lively and fun for everyone.

i say make every post a flash embed where you have to play a level of breakout to reveal the message.

lol no ENBB all I mean is I think you are cool and smart, and yet I think avatars are basically the death of intelligent message board conversation, so my theory that anybody who likes avatars must not be cool & smart is dashed

Farmville updates and endless fan page invitations make the Facebook experience more lively and fun for everyone.

― Friday: vuvuzela club meeting (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, November 23, 2010 6:58 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

not remotely comparable

lol dude 100% precisely comparable

if u like avatars, you rule at Farmville & are proud of it

Mafia Wars too

would also like to request chatrooms

^^

w/video of course

Oh c'mon Aero, those facebook things are comparable at all!

http://i56.tinypic.com/4lksk8.gif Mafia Wars updates are just annoying conveyances of information... its just like someone letting everyone know "I'm doing a thing"... an avatar can reflect ur hopes and dreams, they can be amusing or heartbreaking, they can subtly impact how posts are read for better or worse... the intertextual possibilities are mindblowing... its disappointing to see so many 'old century' attitudes itt, the new media is here 2 stay...

http://avatars.qkype.com/free-avatars/avatars/funny_223/badass_cat_avatar_96x96_69099.jpg u guyz :):):):) :) :D •---========---• :roll: :rofl: :rolf:

in old ilx we used to do all that with our words, maaaan, the words shone on old ilx

though that could have been a [marquis] tag tbh i dunno

http://avatars.qkype.com/free-avatars/avatars/funny_223/badass_cat_avatar_96x96_69099.jpg :machinegun: :banana: :vomit:

http://i54.tinypic.com/2gyafyx.gif would it be 2 much 2 suggest that the anti-avatar crowd are hopelessly rockist

http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/655728313/H1_bigger.jpg If you guys have a problem with the way this board is, you're welcome to find another forum on which to post. I'm sure you'll be welcomed there. In the meantime, abide by the rules here or you'll no longer be welcome here. Do we understand each other? Thought so.

- Bill_1971

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I'm kind of a big deal

Mafia Wars updates are just annoying conveyances of information.

I express my most heartfelt inner self thru mafia wars

fuck u man

*puts a hit out on aerosmith*

http://images.shaggybevo.com/board/customavatars/avatar610_1.gif

http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/655728313/H1_bigger.jpgIf you guys have a problem with the way this board is, you're welcome to find another forum on which to post. I'm sure you'll be welcomed there. In the meantime, abide by the rules here or you'll no longer be welcome here. Do we understand each other? Thought so.

- Bill_1971

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I'm kind of a big deal

― omar little, Tuesday, November 23, 2010 6:21 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Srsly, omar little has a point.
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