YOU COULDA BEEN A CONTENDERIZER
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:52 (five 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 (five years ago) link
You do realize you killed that thread, right?
― sleeve, Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:00 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
N.E.R.L.
― outside, you're never alone. (Austin), Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:05 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
four years pass...
― Funkface LLC (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:21 (five 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 (five years ago) link
fifty-seven years pass...
― Funkface LLC (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
Turning threads into Chernobyl zones since 2001.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:37 (five 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 (five years ago) link
nine years pass...
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:42 (five 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 (five years ago) link
finally, time for a smoke break
― sleeve, Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:44 (five 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 (five years ago) link
Random Austin Powers quotes or gtfo, System.
― Funkface LLC (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:49 (five years ago) link
A simple "lads" would suffice.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
Oh, behave!
― Funkface LLC (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 August 2018 18:20 (five 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 (five 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, August 9, 2018 5:09 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yessss
― MaresNest, Thursday, 9 August 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
Who is "System" here... Ned?
― Evan, Thursday, 9 August 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
Ned is Station.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 9 August 2018 19:10 (five years ago) link
Ned is all of us. We are all Ned.
― outside, you're never alone. (Austin), Thursday, 9 August 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
man i had the worst nightmare last night
i was in the public square losing my mind, waving my arms like a madman and yelling and screaming
phew! good thing it was just a dream
― the late great, Thursday, 9 August 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
never watch Newsies just before bedtime
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 9 August 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
it was just a dream
used to read threads and scream
― mh, Thursday, 9 August 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
sometimes your posts just stigmatize me
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 9 August 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
Never trust a big thread and a LOL
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, August 9, 2018 8:45 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Thursday, 9 August 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
FWIW the archives are full of threads started about bands/songs that gained no traction at the time and then started snowballing. I would 100% encourage people to start more threads about new stuff they're into rather than chucking it onto a rolling thread where it'll disappear within hours. Who cares if no one responds?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 9 August 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
me? most people who actually want to share something rather than solipsistically wank?
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 9 August 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
(fwiw the reason I share things in rolling threads is because there's an actual chance someone might see it instead of going "don't know them, don't give a fuck)
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, August 9, 2018 1:23 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
cool, now "do i make u horny, lads?" is a thing i made
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Thursday, 9 August 2018 23:16 (five years ago) link
that sort of thing ain't my bag, lads
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 9 August 2018 23:18 (five years ago) link
so people are saying i should start a new thread to discuss bob patterson's 1971 album "instrumentalist, singer, songwriter"?
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Thursday, 9 August 2018 23:34 (five years ago) link
Threads have a negligible marginal cost is what we’re saying and why not have more of them
― faculty w1fe (silby), Thursday, 9 August 2018 23:35 (five years ago) link
I mean bumping 11 year old threads with 5 posts to discuss something on your mind is a hilarious and important part of ilx culture but still threads are free
― faculty w1fe (silby), Thursday, 9 August 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link
i love necrothreading because half the time the start of the thread will give the lie to any notion of "back when ilx was good" and the other half of the time somebody will mention some amazing record from the '90s the world has forgotten about and i find a great new album to listen to.
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Thursday, 9 August 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link
I'm still disappointed that I somehow just missed the ILM wall-to-wall challops days. Those look like they were wild times.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 9 August 2018 23:55 (five years ago) link
yes otm
― marcos, Thursday, 9 August 2018 23:55 (five years ago) link
Xp
Too wild
― Mark G, Friday, 10 August 2018 06:58 (five years ago) link
personally solipsistic wankery is why i'm on message boards
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 10 August 2018 07:10 (five years ago) link
i generally only make song/album/artist threads when their momentum seems to have escalated beyond devoted genre threads or which would seem to appeal to more than the narrow band of ppl who keep up with a rolling thread (see: new foxing record), so far this has worked out fine
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 10 August 2018 07:23 (five years ago) link
oh and especially if the artist/album doesn't settle easily into a genre thread
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 10 August 2018 07:29 (five years ago) link
just keeping up the ilm convo to annoy deems at this point
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 10 August 2018 07:30 (five years ago) link
hey its all energy right
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Friday, 10 August 2018 07:33 (five years ago) link
Just because people aren't responding doesn't mean they aren't listening and engaging, but I'm much more likely to engage with something when someone's actually chosen to single it out rather than putting it as a Youtube link in a thread with literally hundreds of others.
― Matt DC, Friday, 10 August 2018 08:50 (five years ago) link