The 200,000th Thread Anticipation, Celebration, & Physical Fights Thread

some said "I suppose we need to start paying attention for the countdown to the 200,000th thread."

then someone linked to one of their own recently created threads that was only tangentially related to the thread at hand in an attempt to attract more discussion on their own thread, but it didn't work at all.

and Creames Fartpoop said "Wow."

some have even said it was all said on this thread, a little over 3 years ago.: 195,000 threads!

and yet here we stand. here we are. almost. because according to https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/index.jsp, ilxor.com has 199,807 threads. 200,000 is only 193 threads away. but how does that translate to our human days? how long will it take to reach 200k? and who will start that thread? and what will that thread about? and why can't i just wait to post this until it can actually BE the 200,000th thread? why must i instead go ahead and anticipate it? what happened to the self control that i used to rely on? and can someone please make a graph showing the number of threads created per year in a time series, because that would be neat and an interesting reference.

all of these questions and more, probably with only barely relevant images thrown haphazardly across the thread of time, space, and this thread, in an attempt to attract more discussion on this thread. but will it work?

all of those answers and more.

https://i.imgur.com/yUBYwl5.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcKJE6aYamc

optional subgame: what % of posts have you posted, and how did you do that?

i'll go first. 199,807 threads 13,933,696 messages You have posted 29,548 messages.

that's 0.212% of all ilx posts. i never gave up, except for those couple of times that i quit the internet for about a week, and the time i self banned and then couldn't get my old username back afterward. so karl malone entered my body and now i just do whatever he wants.

Creames Fartpoop otm

a perennially appropriate post

he was the cream of the fartcrop, the nabisco of poop

and Memories!

The 200,000th Thread Anticipation, Celebration, Physical Fights & Memories Thread

why, i remember when creames fartpoop was so otm i darn near fell off my bucket

bookmarked!

when i started this thread 25 minutes ago, there were 199,807 threads. now, there are 199,808 threads. but i can't remember if the number i cited in the op, 199,807, counted this thread as part of that total. i don't think i did. so that means no threads have been posted in the last..let me refresh...27 minutes. that means our rate of new threads per minute is roughly exactly 0 per minute. we're fucked!! we've been in this hell forever!!!

we've been in this hell forever!!!

Thank you. But maybe if you really meant that, you’d start 3 more threads this week. Or tonight.

i’ve never meant a single one of my posts and i certainly don’t intend to start now thank you very much

I think I figured a while back that, between this and my prior username, I'm responsible for roughly 0.1% of ILX's total content. Which seems low, given my inability to ever stfu.

you are the .1 percent

these were my only good posts

You have posted 17,088 messages

― johnny crunch, Saturday, November 8, 2014 11:51 PM (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

is my 17,088th post

― johnny crunch, Saturday, November 8, 2014 11:51 PM (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I have posted 64,322 out of 13,933,868 messages = 0.46%

0.14% over here

We are ILX, we are eternal.

0.24%

I think my coverage is pretty good though, I get to all the boards, and my posts to the str8 fire beautiful kix thread on ILS are all-time classics

on 12/28/19 there were 199,807 posts

now there are 199,882. that's about 6 or 7 per day. according to my calculations, the 200,000th post celebration and physical fight should take place around january 26th or 27th. we could also try to coordinate it with the lunar new year on the 25th, for obvious reasons

*cough* "thread" *cough*

can we plz make sure it's not a poll thread, thanks in advance

posts, threads, who can keep track in these heady days? although i do think this thread (and post) is a good attempt

a post is a thread of words. each word a thread of letters. each letter a thread of instructions within a computer. each instruction a thread of wrinkles in the field. what i thread is what i thread are you what you thread or what. you say i only thread what i want to. what if thread was one of us.

Bend Over And Open Up For The Stats Cock!!!

UPDATE

on 12/28/19 there were 199,807 posts

now there are 199,882. that's about 6 or 7 per day. according to my calculations, the 200,000th post celebration and physical fight should take place around january 26th or 27th. we could also try to coordinate it with the lunar new year on the 25th, for obvious reasons

― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Wednesday, January 8, 2020 11:12 PM

on 12/28/19 there were 199,807 posts. on 1/8/20 there were 199,882.

today, there are 199,944 threads. that's a rate of about 5 and a half per day since 12/28. according to my latest calculations, we are now on track for the 200,00th's post 10 days from now, Saturday, February 1st.

That is a weekend, so I expect everyone reading this to be there. bring morphine and a lawyer, things are going to get wild fast

AI fix that

what does the 200,000th thread poster win for the feat?

i'm not sure, but it would be good if the quality of the thread affected the kind of gift it is, or even turn it into a punishment.

worst 200,000th thread = -2x gift
below-average thread = -1.5x gift
average thread = standard gift/participation award;
above-averagethread = 1.5x gift;
top quality thread = 2x gift;

can someone explain to me though why the most recent threadid is 109852?

https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/RecentQuestionsControllerServlet?boardid=40&offset=0

does this tally include all threads ever, or only currently non-deleted ones?

suddenly, facts enter the room

SCANDAL

were there one hundred thousand Newgod threads

i have no idea. i've been worshiping at this altar: https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/index.jsp

i mean, does it include the sandbox threads?

and how many sandbox threads WERE there?

u can see for yourself https://sandbox.ilxor.com/sandbox/

i mean, go back to the very beginning of this mess:

"some have even said it was all said on this thread, a little over 3 years ago.: 195,000 threads!"

but did some say, at that time, that 3 years only adding up to 5,000 new threads is very suspicious. according to my calcs that's about 1,666 threads per year. nu-ilx is smaller than the days of yore, but not THAT much smaller. right?

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there are 3,942 fucking threads on there!

that means there are at least 203,886 ilx threads!! this whole thread is bullshit

man, fuck this. i'll see you in another 100k, if that one isn't bullshit too

this is like when MLB celebrated the "one millionth run"

have the physical fights started yet that's what i'm here for

i for one blame Karl Malone and only Karl Malone for this snafu. rest assured, the Oviedo Tattler staff is going to be up all night to make sure this story is in the early edition. which is the only edition. for the week. because we're a small operation.

did we ever decide whether a cat can have salami

this fucking THREAD should have happened 2 fucking years ago at least

don't blame for this, i'm like the guy on noah's ark who noticed the land after 48 days, and was like "hey, this land has been here for 8 days, we could have left"

Karl, can we get some interview questions in for our early edition? Please reply to the queries below

1) how do you intend to live with the embarrassment? have you picked out a new home in a remote part of Alaska to retreat to yet?

2) do you expect many lawsuits as a result of this major bungle?

3) what is your favorite situational comedy?

can't do the So Solid until there's 21 threads to go

Someone do a poll for every year between 1990 and 2019.

That'll get us there

On it. What should we poll tho?

best poll

Polls en abyme.

polls en abysmal

At what time, according to your calculations Mr. Malone, will the 200,000st thread be posted?

some scholars say that the only true order in the universe is disorder. what caused the big bang? some rando, probably, in other words.

these scholars created https://www.random.org/clock-times/

according to those calculations: it will be one of these five times:

01:20
01:50
07:50
16:30
23:00

so is ilx's expansion slowing down or continuing to accelerate?

Both.

what time zone, though? the scholars are one step ahead of you. according to the time zone institute, these are the options: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/current-number-time-zones.html

using leaked tools from random.org, i came up with these 5 numbers between -12 and +14:

-10 -11 -10 0 -9

that corresponds with:

UTC -10 small region of USA and 2 more HST Honolulu
UTC -11 American Samoa and 2 more NUT Alofi
UTC -10 small region of USA and 2 more HST Honolulu
UTC +0 United Kingdom and 24 more GMT London
UTC -9 Alaska/USA and regions of French Polynesia AKST Anchorage

no need to thank for me for all this information i've put together - just go ahead and add it to your stochastic models and plan accordingly

Impressive stuff

got a horrible feeling thread 200,000 will end up being some poll about the best bassist in an early 90s midwest indie band or something

wait - 2 of the 5 rando time zones were honololu. that means honolulu came up TWICE as much as American Samoa, London, and Anchorage, and infinitely more times than the time zones that weren't selected at all.

that means that the time zone must be UTC -10, Honolulu time. let's go ahead and memorialize this breakthrough:

the 200,000th thread will be posted at 01:20, 01:50, 07:50, 16:30, or 23:00, Honolulu Time, Saturday, February 1st.

xp threads vmic though

Well yezh

it's what we will have would have wanted

The only way to save ILX is to let gabbneb and chaki back, just in time for the 200,000th thread, and then lock them into it by threadbanning them from every other thread in the past AND future, and then TARDIS SOUND EFFECT we’ll be okay until esby gets out of hand again

― El Tomboto, Thursday, January 23, 2020 9:08 PM (five days ago)

uh, they've both "been back" for a while -- pretty sure me and Shakey and a few others spent about an hour discussing bagels and brunch spots in SF w/chaki a few years ago ... so maybe this momentous thread is some t.s. eliot hollow men thing where it's a bunch of former "ilx bad boiz" amiably discussing bougie restaurants in gentrified cities

TWENTY ONE THREADs REMAIN

word on the street is that stet is going to post the 200K thread and use it to explain how ilx is being shut down and everyone is instructed to go to discord and twitter instead

personally, i think all of that is a distraction from the helicopters and the FEMA camps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7VhofoV3qs

I’m ashamed to admit this is the first time I’ve ever watched that video straight through without looking away from the screen

Do we do the fireworks at 200,000 or 200,001? I don’t recal a thread zero.

It's official!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_Music_%28forum%29?wprov=sfla1

As of February 2013, ILX is hosted on a server (paid for by board users) in Canada. Running costs are paid by yearly funding drives.

Currently, the board is about to celebrate its 200,000th thread. However, debate has emerged to ascertain whether this count is accurate, as there is speculation that this excludes deleted threads, as well as threads counted on the temporary board.

Other posters have noted that the count may be suspect due to the repeated recoding of the site. The site has put its 200,000th thread celebration on hold until it can figure this out.

it may be written that this was the incident that sparked one of the many, many physical fights on the 200,000th celebration thread.

NINETEEN THREADS REMAIN!!

for example, i see that "StickyEmotions" has been toot tooting around in the Felching article as well

i'm activating a cyberhack squad in a bunker under the ocean

Do we do the fireworks at 200,000 or 200,001? I don’t recal a thread zero.

at 200,000!

and here is my argument: we're not celebrating the exact passing of 200,000 years. we are celebrating a big dumb round number. and that big dumb round number is 200,000, not 200,001

lol of course I added it. interestingly it hasn't been reverted yet. once we get to that thread, I can link here as the source.

nah, I like it! it's a little part of ILX, out there

well-phrased edit. good work all around

My 30,000th post. Aren't Steve Martin and John Goodman supposed to walk in and welcome me to some club or something?

lol tehresa still posts in the sandbox,

People fought

It's happening.

who as it

i see chocolate chip cookies but maybe the filters i have on sna affect this

Here it is:

anticlimactic

the "jol out" of threads

threadid=100000:
Totally Adorable Pictures of Winston Churchill

perfect

the 200,000th thread will be posted at 01:20, 01:50, 07:50, 16:30, or 23:00, Honolulu Time, Saturday, February 1st.

well, science proved when it would take place, and still i completely missed it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_Music_(forum)

lol

A+

Haha, well played (and otm!)

i am charging oder doch? with murder of the 200,000th degree, + shoplifting

i propose ritual blood sacrifice as punishment. can i get a second or third so we can update the thread title?

you know what's fucked up?

there are 202,101 threads right now. 202101, as in this year has finally started with that last post, the 01, and the next 98 threads are the rest of the "real" 2021 threads for heads