hay giuse what r u doing to 77

we cant invite ppl and threads seem to be shifting from 77 to ile -- not a big fan of this idea, some things (not at all meta) discussed on 77 that id prefer not to be googleable and i sort of assumed they would remain ungoogleable -- cant think of an ex. off the top but im sure there's something in there

also why cant we invite da croupier?

ohhhh lord mods please talk to this sucker cause they killing 77 they taking the pain and struggle of life of 77 the only thing we coulda express our minds and pain. and these suckers took it and made it look like garbage thats why we get judge so much cause these shit dont be making sence

hehe

my bad if i motivated that last thread move because i mentioned a non-77er

i think its more like mods think theyre being smartypants any time a non 77itizen gets namedropped on 77 so they move the thread but really they are the dicks and we're still awesome

can't we all just be awesome dicks

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ok since my dissent was outed by HOOS being chatty on the meta 77 thread that got moved, I'm just going to go ahead and say I'm basically the number one 77 cheerleader since everybody seems to have been <s>behaving</s>keepin it positive lately

everybody gets a voice etc. you just don't get to pick who

I don't see any particular problems with 77 being meta about 77 stuff, you guys know what is against the rules so I won't say it again

lol html

shoulda just yellowcarded shipley

77 77 77 77

hey did you guys notice "seventy-seven" has a rhythm to it like "keepin it poz"

seventy poz, keepin it seven

^ down for the cause

I'm trying to figure out a 77 theme that goes to the tune of the eastern motors jingle now

wat if we post meta in dis thread who will u invite where

oh man guys roxy is PISSED at 77 right now

is roxy not on 77???

waht happened?

????

i was away when the nu-john justen era was inaugurated and was unaware of the new, awful, homo, etc., rules.

welcome back~

nrq i thought you were ignition (remix)

let me dumb down the rules for you nrq, if you want to have your own special secret clubhouse, man up and do your backstabbing out in the open instead of hiding where your targets can't see you.

of course then it would be just "stabbing" i suppose

what a wacky language we use.

lets all be fair, rev 'backstabbed' marcello out the open a few months ago, and then 'backstabbed' him again on 77, and 'backstabbing' is sort of weird way to say 'said he would punch a racist dude'

John makes a fair point.

Can we make the moderator discussion forum visible to all then?

wasn't talking about rev here max.

mea culpa. i reposted a bimble post. i can now see how that might have lowered the whole tone of ilx, and i'm deeply sorry for any offence caused.

you are back on 77 now. from here on out though, can we stop fucking about with all the snarky secret meta-crap? thx.

in case that request sounded vague, the next bans will be permanent, savvy?

i do think its weird that rev was banned -- marcello was being a big dick and he called him out on that thread too

dude, for the last time, the rule is (and has been since we go into one of those super-old clusterfuck threads) no meta crap about non-77 posters. this isn't hard to understand.

I don't understand how people talking shit on 77 leads to invites being turned off for 77. Isn't the best cure for shit talking to invite the person who was being talked about?

THERE'LL BE NO DISAPPROVING OF RACISM ON MY WATCH

I don't understand how people talking shit on 77 leads to invites being turned off for 77. Isn't the best cure for shit talking to invite the person who was being talked about?

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The reason I turned invites off is because people kept inviting sockpuppets of banned users to the board. If anyone wants to invite someone, then ask me, tom or john. Generally it shouldn't be a problem.

Its like hip-hop is a body and the more junk food it intakes {i.e} SOULJABOY the more unhealthy it would become and eventually die. Thats why we need more organic artists is in hip-hop like talib kweli, moss def, common you could even say immortal technique yeah those artist is they need to be more of them so we could keep hip-hop more healthy and alive and breathing well. OK THATS IT PEOPLE LET ME KNO WHAT YOU THINK OF MY THEORY. peace & love. ONE!

(6:23:31 PM) Tom Millar: I'd still like to know whomever invited the latest chaki sock onto CB
(6:23:41 PM) grady: chaki did obv
(6:23:57 PM) grady: you know you can invite ppl to 77 even after youre banned right?
(6:24:15 PM) Tom Millar: haha no
(6:24:24 PM) Tom Millar: now you've let the cat outta the bag
(6:24:34 PM) grady: haha ooops
(6:24:40 PM) Tom Millar: thanks though that at least puts my mind at ease about it
(6:24:43 PM) grady: i thought EVERYONE knew that!
(6:24:59 PM) Tom Millar: why would I know that I don't go banning myself just to see what things I can do when I'm not logged in
(6:25:12 PM) Tom Millar: although maybe I should add that to my occasional mod duties
(6:25:33 PM) grady: see this is why you need a mind liek mine on the mod council, tom

sorry guys :(

souljaboy - invite
talib - invite
moss def - invite
common - no invite
immortal technique - no invite

i did not know that, about invites

of course no one but grady and chaki knew that

this thread is now burning

i thought it was pretty obvious - when you're banned you can still access all boards and threads, you just can't post. obv chaki/anyone would be able to get into 77/the invite box

Shouldn't 77 just be made public anyway? Is there any good reason for it still being invite-only?

no

no on the first, yes on the second

read op maybe xxp

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If you fear that the board would loose it's special flavour, well, I think 1P3 and the Noise Board prove public boards can have that too.

it's not so much about being googled as it is that people have posted personal things on there. not meta, but about themselves.

i've basically seen your taint, so i don't expect you to understand, but the board started with an expectation of privacy. some people think that's important. what's with the big desire to make all that public?

when 77 looses it's special flavour, we will all breath deeply of it :)

But people never knew all the members 77 of anyway, and they always knew anyone might be invited there in the future. Do you really think folks have posted some super personal stuff there, thinking that some other ILXor might never see it?

i do, yeah. but it isn't so much about 'some other ilxor' as it is 'any person in the world 6 billion of us'

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The big desire is, like I said, that there are some great threads on 77, and I don't think it's fair that everyone isn't given a chance to participate in them. I would assume there are lots of ILXors who don't have enough "inside knowledge" to 1) know that the board exists, and 2) know how to get an invitation.

Also, if anyone can and will get an invitation if he asks (as has been the case from the beginning), and if old threads are searchable once your a member of the board, I don't really see this as an issue of some implicit agreement of privacy.

i do, yeah. but it isn't so much about 'some other ilxor' as it is 'any person in the world 6 billion of us'

So it isn't possible to make threads ungooglable? If this is the case, then I agree that the board should be kept invitation-only.

The easiest way by far to de-google pages is to make them protected. Otherwise, it gets tricky, and you really can't trust Google to play nice.

You could have CB available only to folks who are logged in, I suppose.

Would that offend yr democratic sensibilities, T-dogg?

Okay, but could the invitation process at least be made more democratic, so that everyone knows how to get an invite if they want to get in? Because now they'll only know how to get it if they happen to check this particular thread, and I don't think all ILXors even read I Must Protest.

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You could have CB available only to folks who are logged in, I suppose.

That would be a great solution, if it's possible.

hey tuomas i'm sure everyone was a good sport growing up in finland but here in america most of us were dorks who were never let into the cool kids secret club so now that we're grown adults talking about serious things on the internet its important that we have a secret club that is invite only. its fun.

its probably one of those things you dont get cause you're finnish.

anyone who wants to be on 77 basically is - only regular posters would really care about the shit that goes on and most regular posters can read 77 - i don't think we need a huge banner ad advertising that you need an invite to the secret board about hot chicks

You could have CB available only to folks who are logged in, I suppose.

That would be a great solution, if it's possible.

this has been the case since 77's inception?

and fuck it, the inclusiveness of 77 is what makes it one of the best board on ilx. meta stuff is policed pretty well and the other threads are just threads. i think 77 "induction" should be undemocratic - if you post a lot and forge relationships w/ other frequent posters than eventually you will be folded into 77 and your life will go on. fuck a "invite everyone who posts at all" - that would just make it like ILE or something

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tuomas, don't you get that 77 wouldn't be the unique thing it is if it hadn't started out invite only? people wouldn't have posted half the shit they have it had been public. you understand that the subboards that are/were best were forged under unique circumstances, right? and to take that away under some bullshit 'democracy/transparency' guise is funhating. nothing noble, ok.

tuomas, don't you get that 77 wouldn't be the unique thing it is if it hadn't started out invite only?

Noise Board and 1P3 have always been public, and yet they've evolved into unique things too. I think sub-boards can (and have) evolve into places with a certain quality and a certain set of regular posters even without keeping people away by artificial means.

sure, but that doesn't inherently make the way 77 was formed a bad thing.

'artificial' is bullshit. everyone gets somewhere somehow.

But now those artificial means are keeping away new or old-but-lacking-of-insider-knowledge posters who might otherwise contribute to the special flavour of 77.

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sure, but that doesn't inherently make the way 77 was formed a bad thing.

I'm not saying it was a bad thing, I'm just saying that I see no reason why the board should still be secret.

okay, what's this 77 thing and can i have in cheers?

This just proves my point: if someone who's been here as long as Dog Latin doesn't even know about the board, then it does seem too exclusive to me.

I'm not saying it was a bad thing, I'm just saying that I see no reason why the board should still be secret.

for one, the fact that it's google proof is much more important to the identity of 77 than the fact that it's secret from other ilx posters. if 77 became public and googleable it would no longer be the true 77 and imo that would be a sad thing.

and just like you see no reason for it to be secret, i see no reason for it to be public other than the fact that some number of mythical "ilxors" can't see the board - but since you haven't named anyone (and if you did they could just be invited) i don't see the point of opening up 77 based on some hypothetical situations

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in summation: 77 is secret from the rest of the internet - the fact that it's a secret to some posters on ilx is basically incidental.

http://www.freewebs.com/musicletgo/Let%20Go!.JPG

http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/sites/misc/img/7817_Avril%20let%20go.jpg

http://www.badrecordcovers.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/let_go_01.jpg

Okay, here's a solution: everyone who registers to ILX automatically joins 77, but to lurkers and googlers it will remain invisible. Would that suit everyone?

NO

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http://dj.driti.org:666/images/just_let_go_small.jpg

no!!!

no tuomas , it wouldn't.

Why?

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tuomas do you go around trying to ruin things in daily life or just here?

I mean, if it's just about googlability, this would solve the issue. So it seems people are against it because they don't want every ILXor to have the chance to post there.

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srsly can i have password 77

IT IS NOT ABOUT GOOGLEABILTY IT IS ABOUT HAVING A SECRET CLUB END OF ARGUMENT STFU NOW

who the fuck are you country?

a friend :)

But Jordan and others just said it's about googlability. Anyway, I haven't still heard a coherent argument for having a secret club, except that it's "cool".

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jergins country matters is l0u1s jagg3r

tuomas that is the way the board started stfu and live with it GOD

also keith fix the code so we can invite people and we can lock this fucking thread thanks

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