Any chance of banning IBTL?

[Rel]

If I have anything to say about it, Pandas will be going extinct long before IBTL.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

Maybe I don't understand the interwebs too well, but why would someone even care about being IBTL? Is it like those idiots who post "First" after a thread is started (usually when like a dev posts in video game forums or WoTC when 4e was in development)

You hit the nail on the head.

IBTL is really annoying, and I'd be in favor of banning it. But with it allowed and tolerated, it does provide me an excellent instantaneous rubric to judge someone's intellect and persona. Every post of "IBTL" to me reads as "I'm a sad, pathetic loser who has nothing better to do than brag about posting in something."

 

[wedgeski]

Indeed, these memes often say more about the poster than anything else they could have written.

Oh, and, 13th!

 

[Piratecat]

If I have anything to say about it, Pandas will be going extinct long before IBTL.

Well, duh. Pandas are at least delicious.

 

[Umbran]

If I have anything to say about it, Pandas will be going extinct long before IBTL.

Yeah, but with perhaps 3000 pandas in the wild... that could be before the end of the year...

 

[Rel]

Well, duh. Pandas are at least delicious.

Yeah, but with perhaps 3000 pandas in the wild... that could be before the end of the year...

Peef: It's what's for dinner!

 

[TheYeti1775]

You mods could always have Morrus to alter the Grandma Filter to replace IBTL with something like.
"I have a horrible obsession for turtles" or something of that nature. One of the boards I'm on changes hitler references to turtle references, because one of the common fall back arguements on there is to compare it to him.

 

[pawsplay]

IBTL is like a general eye rollsy, but more whimsical, and hence, in my view, sort of an improvement.

 

[weem]

In all my time here, I think I have seen just a handful of "IBTL" posts.

I was a mod on the VN Boards (IGN) for a while, years back - THAT place saw a lot of those posts. It doesn't seem to be a big issue here (fortunately) - that or I have had great luck in missing them

 

[renau1g]

Yeah that site has a ton of "first" "first...oh I mean second" posts this sites pretty good, like I said I have only seen it once here.