milton parker (Jon L) wrote this on thread asmus tietchens s/d on board I Love Music on May 24, 2006
never trust a thread over 50 posts
― sleeve, Thursday, 9 August 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
Maybe people are too busy censoring themselves from talking about their interests because they to don't want to seem selfish or random.
― He said captain, I said wot (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 9 August 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
I’m gonna try to be more selfish and random on ilx for the good of the culture
― faculty w1fe (silby), Thursday, 9 August 2018 15:23 (six years ago) link
I regularly feel enthusiasm for stuff nobody else cares about/actively hates, I'll revive a thread with a lone post = whatever, twas ever thus
We should all do this more often.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 9 August 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
i try to
― marcos, Thursday, 9 August 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
omg that's brilliant
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 9 August 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
Never trust a big thread and a LOL
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 August 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
I would be one of those people commenting on everything all the time, but would worry about (founded) accusations of dilettantism or self-absorption. As it is I usually go back and edit posts so that not every sentence begins with 'I', or seems less opinion-based, to the point where I just don't even sound like myself at all. The worst outcome of posting anything here is receiving something positive in response that turns out to be mocking, or where ambiguity remains. Maybe I'll take to using the 'SWIM' pronoun of old internet drugs forums.
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 9 August 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
― faculty w1fe (silby), Thursday, 9 August 2018 15:23 (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you, and everybody, should do this
xp and you too tt
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 August 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
dilettantism is good
― marcos, Thursday, 9 August 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
I will definitely try to filter my output less!
Is it too optimistic to hope that this biopsy of ILX will lead to more people posting more often? Seems like the consensus wants that. Maybe it will just happen.
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:05 (six years ago) link
nah it's just people venting, happens a few times a year
― niels, Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
yeah there are so many of these meta-STATE OF ILX threads
oddly they are all the same
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
I'm going to start a Doopees thread on ILM later today when I get home.
― He said captain, I said wot (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
My right arm used to be so awesome, so strong and agile. Now it's just weak and flabby. Those tattoos were a bad idea, turns out. Wish my arm could be what it used to be, man.
Piece of shit arm.
― Funkface LLC (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
It evolved
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
it’s less that I self-censor about artists I’m enthusiastic about, more that it just gets depressing to post into the void
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
feels like less of void when i post here than when i do on twitter
― marcos, Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link
katherine, i feel exactly the same way - there is definitely a gulf in tastes between many users. ive been championing the ionalee record for the whole year so far and like akm and I are the only ones to really comment on it seemingly. i agree with above that there should be more dedicated threads to single artists, but sometimes they sink (this happened with my cecilia thread, a fantastic record that has received zero traction). so the risk is putting out your feelers and seeing if anyone bites, if not, it may still be worth it to push something you love out there, even if 1 person hears it. the rolling threads as mentioned above do kinda narrow things down too much.
music has always been about radical subjectivism with the exception of some consensus-canon, let your individualism fly. (switching to new user name shortly, hence why i am still under this name FWIW).
― Ross, Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link
I'll test some ionalee and cecilia - whatever they are
― He said captain, I said wot (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
oh, iamamiwhoami with ionalee... 'Play' is a great song
― He said captain, I said wot (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:24 (six years ago) link
ionalee is great — previously known as “iamamiwhoami”
― omar little, Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:25 (six years ago) link
Xp 🤷♂️
I've thought of her this year as propagating a similar sound to Gwenno, whose album I much preferred.
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:29 (six years ago) link
ok its cool ur all posting now but ilm is that way
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
sincere shout out to ppl who start threads, especially new band/album threads. absolutely performing a service.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link
take these posts to heart and finally start that volkswagen t-roc thread
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
I used to start threads. I had time back then!
― Evan, Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
YOU COULDA BEEN A CONTENDERIZER
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
everyone celebrates the thread starters. nobody remembers the thread enders.like this post if you remember.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link
You do realize you killed that thread, right?
― sleeve, Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
I feel that it's my duty to start as many threads as possible, given how many I kill stone dead. Circle of life, hakuna matata, all that.
― Funkface LLC (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:03 (six years ago) link
BIG HOOS aka the threadkiller
(xpost)
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
80% of my posts are the last in the thread. I'm just that boring!
― Evan, Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link
N.E.R.L.
― outside, you're never alone. (Austin), Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link
xpost maybe your posts are so authoritatively good that they simply cannot be followed
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
sometimes i make a jokey post on a very active good-natured thread and it's like...
https://media.giphy.com/media/qwJMG80aUfVKM/giphy.gif
...until it's revived again weeks later to discuss something unrelated.
― omar little, Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
four years pass...
― Funkface LLC (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
Haha, Omar, you and me both. No better feeling than dropping a stinker that clears out the room.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
fifty-seven years pass...
― Funkface LLC (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
Turning threads into Chernobyl zones since 2001.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
― Karl Malone, Thursday, August 9, 2018 1:17 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That's the same thing my mom told me after I got banned from open mic night
― Evan, Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
nine years pass...
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
not to eat an old lunch here but four hundred and twenty years pass...
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:43 (six years ago) link
finally, time for a smoke break
― sleeve, Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
maybe System could auto-post to any thread that's been killed dead for a week. stuff like "yeah, totally" or "you're great" or "chive on".
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link
Random Austin Powers quotes or gtfo, System.
― Funkface LLC (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:49 (six years ago) link
A simple "lads" would suffice.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
Oh, behave!
― Funkface LLC (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 August 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link
maybe do austin powers but replace 'baby' with 'lads'?
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 9 August 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link