Random conversations

[SKT]

WTF is going on with my google search prompts…outing my cream cheese fetish
(And my desire for some cold, delicious distilled water)

[tenuin]

@SKT I feel like since they crammed AI into everything, the internet's really gone to shit...

[SKT]

@tenuin you won’t hear me arguing.

[nurunuru]

If you want less AI nonsense in your searches but you still want to search through Google, then udm14.com is fantastic. I have it set as my default search engine on my laptop so I don't have to get utter drivel at the top of my results anymore.

[SKT]

Saw this on the internet. Made me think of this place…and then I realized what I was getting @Giles for Christmas

[sophisto000]

@SKT just saw the text version as a bumper sticker and was like wtf

[RobeOfTheMagi]

I can't really allow myself to buy IH regularly - cash flow, financial responsibilities, consumerism etc. However, when I make a purchase, I get all there more excited waiting for the parcel to arrive. I came to enjoy waiting for DHL quite a bit - if it does not take too long though :).

[chrisjohnnick]

Was having a convo with a friend the other and was curious what you all had to say. We were talking about how everyone seems to have a handful of websites that they check daily or weekly. Like their own little grounding bubble of sanity on the internet. What are yours?

Not including stuff that you have to check daily for work, like email or whatnot.

Mine would probably be:
IH Forum
FB Marketplace for deals/free stuff
a couple vinyl record trading forums
Depop/Grailed/eBay (just search every couple of days for the same handful of keywords)
Sometimes ValetMag, but lately I haven't been as interested in their daily writeups

[Chap]

@chrisjohnnick said in Random conversations:

Was having a convo with a friend the other and was curious what you all had to say. We were talking about how everyone seems to have a handful of websites that they check daily or weekly. Like their own little grounding bubble of sanity on the internet. What are yours?

Not including stuff that you have to check daily for work, like email or whatnot.

Mine would probably be:
IH Forum
FB Marketplace for deals/free stuff
a couple vinyl record trading forums
Depop/Grailed/eBay (just search every couple of days for the same handful of keywords)
Sometimes ValetMag, but lately I haven't been as interested in their daily writeups

I do a bit of Instagram but that’s manly food, wine and travel stuff and the IH Forum, of course, that’s all. I have a couple of podcasts investment and stock market related I listen to daily.

[sabergirl]

I wake up in the morning and read Heather Cox Richardson’s blog on Substack. Then I usually glance at Facebook and instagram, realize they both suck, and head to the IH forum. I will usually search for IH on eBay, Grailed, depop, marrkt, poshmark and the real real, but don’t spend any other time on those sites. I used to check them daily, but my closet is now ludicrously stuffed with more things than I wear, which is problematic.

[northsouthdenimguy]

Anybody ever go down a rabbit hole on the forum and come across a banned member’s profile and start clicking through their posts trying to figure out what the hell happened?

Sometimes you’ll find a post from like 2012 and then the next reply is somebody else in 2024 and you’re just sitting there wondering what happened in those 12 years. I guess I’ll never know…

Happy Mother’s Day to everybody’s mothers, and to the memory of the ones no longer here with us today

Edit: My apologies to the mothers on here too. Hope you’re all having a fantastic day.

[Jord]

@northsouthdenimguy I find it funnier when it's a banned member that started a thread

but yes I have lol.

[northsouthdenimguy]

@Jord

‍ glad I’m not the only one

[goosehd]

@northsouthdenimguy often the things they were banned for was cleaned up. Doesn’t make much sense to have the posts that pushed the buttons left for future discussion.

[goosehd]

Although some have been banned for breaking the #1 cardinal rule: Don’t be an arsehole all of the time.

[northsouthdenimguy]

@goosehd

I was just mentioning on another forum the other day how much I appreciate this place because generally it’s positive and there’s not a lot of BS.

That said… I’m not gonna lie, part of me is still curious what exactly somebody had to say to get banned around here.

Then again… maybe I really don’t want to know.

[Jord]

I agree with @northsouthdenimguy this place is really positive in my view, you get the odd person in a new release thread just asking a bunch of questions and having a fit they don't like the answer, but apart from that...

On other forums I use there's people that get banned for scamming within their sales sections... That's probably the worst of it, even though they require tagged pictures with date+username to prevent it from happening, it still happens sadly.

[goosehd]

@Jord quickest way to get banned here. FAFO in the marketplace and a scam = immediate removal.

[Chap]

@goosehd said in Random conversations:

Although some have been banned for breaking the #1 cardinal rule: Don’t be an arsehole all of the time.

Now that asparagus (the white one) became a controversial issue on the forum, I need to be more careful with my posts... well at least I can say I've never been an areshole (here). But I remember I did get a couple of admonishments with political comments...

[Chap]

@goosehd said in Random conversations:

@Jord quickest way to get banned here. FAFO in the marketplace and a scam = immediate removal.

Yeah it's really great that we have strict marketplace rules.