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one place down from "ultimate metal", i'm sorry guys.

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 8 May 2005 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"Off-topic message board"

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 8 May 2005 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

It's got the 25th highest post/member ratio

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 8 May 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

TAKE THAT BIG FOOTY!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 8 May 2005 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

that n/a is a busy guy

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 8 May 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, it takes me back to Greenspun and the epic battle for preeminence between 'Ask A Drunk' and 'Marin Urology'.

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 8 May 2005 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

It's got the 25th highest post/member ratio

Our members waste more of their time on our board than all but 24 other message boards in the whole world.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 8 May 2005 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

hey, "you" (whoever would do such a thing) shopuld totally get a gif tracker, whatever that is, and get all those neat stats, like pie charts and stuff. maybe you have that already,

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 8 May 2005 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

For some reason, I find those things really tacky.

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 8 May 2005 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

tracking programs can be fun, tho. that's how i know that, for example, 0.06% of the traffic on my website came from Morocco.

― kingfish, Sunday, 8 May 2005 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

OK looking at the top 20 rankings it is obvious that for true competitiveness ilxor.com needs:

- more anime
- more picture ratings
- more Dutchness

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 8 May 2005 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Those were the days my friends

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 8 May 2005 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

We've got Aeon Flux, noize board and De Subjectivisten, what more do they want?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 8 May 2005 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hey everybody! I am from HOLLAND! Isn't zat VIERD?"

― J (Jay), Sunday, 8 May 2005 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

that n/a is a busy guy

-- gabbneb (gabbne...), May 8th, 2005 4:39 PM. (gabbneb) (later)

Believe me, if I were busy, I wouldn't be posting on ILX. I am the exact opposite of busy.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 8 May 2005 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's one more voice in the fight against Ultimate Metal.

― 57 7th (calstars), Sunday, 8 May 2005 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

5579 members! i wonder how many have been active members withing the last few months or so?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 8 May 2005 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)


Our members waste more of their time on our board than all but 24 other message boards in the whole world.

nah. but we have Ned.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 9 May 2005 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Also its worth noting some boards frown on repeated postings to a thread - for eg: here, if I made an observation then realised I'd forgot something, I'd post a second or third or whatever time to update. We cant do things any other way.

On Simptropolis this is completely frowned on as "spamming" (yeah they obviously have no idea what spamming is, but wtf ever), and you can edit existing posts to update/fix them. And I assume such edits wouldnt count towards extra posts. So any board that allows edits, and frowns on flooding/spamming posting styles, is never gonna be up there.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 9 May 2005 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

nah. but we have Ned.

Hooray!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, Ned the Ubiquitous. Nedarino. Nedster. Nedness. Nedman Graham. N-- I'll stop now.

Anyway -- yeah, I'm inclined to believe that what gets a lot of the posts going is what Trayce just said, the corrections and second thoughts and "hey, I would like to elaborate on something"s that occur here. Which are really, really hard to unlearn if one were to go elsewhere, with actual post editing capabilities.

Congratulations, everyone, on being prolific and holding up this joint without us less frequent posters.

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 9 May 2005 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"nancies"

― g e o f f (gcannon), Monday, 9 May 2005 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.nancies.org/tour/reviews/19990221/

"Then Dave goes, "sometimes i feel like a muppet." Then Dave started to talk about how Jesus was groovy."

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Monday, 9 May 2005 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

The inability to edit your posts, for all the trouble it has caused me personally, is kind of awesome. More boards should hold you accountable for what you said the *first* time.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

the one other board i've ever posted to, i had the ability to edit my posts, and within a few minutes most of my posts were about five words long and simply conveyed a piece of information. the ones where i didn't have a piece of info to convey, i just deleted after a few days.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 9 May 2005 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Simtropolis are lame - I mean I love downloading their mods and stuff but the forums are crap! Rule: "USE SEARCH! Dont make new thread on something already posted about". OK, fair enough... Next Rule: "Don't revive old threads!". WTF? That one makes NO sense, especially not in light of rule the first. Nongs. So I never post there, I just leach all their cool shit.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 9 May 2005 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

ahha holy shit

http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2

[ Poll ] Official CAUGHT BY MOM Thread 2005!
[ Goto pageGoto page: 1 ... 78, 79, 80 ]

― Lethal Dizzle (djdee2005), Monday, 9 May 2005 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

is something brilliant happening?

― N_RQ, Monday, 9 May 2005 08:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, it takes me back to Greenspun and the epic battle for preeminence between 'Ask A Drunk' and 'Marin Urology'.

Good times indeed Aimless.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 9 May 2005 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

C'mon guys! We're only a measly 200 posts behind Ultimate Metal! Everyone post a couple of more posts per day and we'll beat those longhairs!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 9 May 2005 08:52 (twenty-one years ago)

We pwn Urban75. Take that you, trusty bastards!

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 9 May 2005 09:21 (twenty-one years ago)

34th in the "custom code" only league...

http://rankings.big-boards.com/?filter=custom,all&p=2

― ja (_ja_), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck you ultimate metal

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

that's right, YOU!!!!!!

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

That cheers me Dave. I lost a good IRL friend when she decided that Urban 75 people were the only people she would hang out with, missing brithdays, weddings and moving-to-Germany parties in the process.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

We have one more post than Ultimate Metal right now.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 9 May 2005 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

editing posts causes such confusion and continuity problems. i like the "paper trail" of sorts...

m.

― msp (mspa), Monday, 9 May 2005 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

ok we may have one-upped 'ultimate metal', but i've got my sights set on 'ford truck world'. i mean, how can they possibly post so much about F-150s and shit? screw them.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 9 May 2005 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

VANQUISHED:

ihttp://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/VOLUME02/IMAGES/Heavy_Metal04.JPG

NEW EVIL:

http://www.txlottery.org/news/photos/20030114truck.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 9 May 2005 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

actual 'thread' disucssion:

Hey, does anyone know where i can get a lightning bumper for my 01' f150 stand cab, made of urethane?

i know a guy thats got a real one, just needs to be stripped and repainted. email me if you want some info.

Wings West makes them and they also have the lightning 8 piece kit. Check out their website.

i have a Wingswest, I hate it. Maybe I just got a bad one, but I would get a OEM L bumper if I had another chance. My skirts are from a SVT Lightning.

why do you hate your wing west cover? I just bought one...I hope it doesnt suck?

I got a Wings West one too and I like it. the only thing I dont really like is that I gotta make some brackets for foglights.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 9 May 2005 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

If only Ned and Alex would stop pulling their punches, we could be somebody.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 9 May 2005 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG not only do they have avatars and poster info, but each post is accompanied by a mini-photo of THEIR TRUCK! actually, i'm starting to like it over there. see you all later. Supercrews rule!

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 9 May 2005 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

If only ilx had one more creepy dude with unlimited access to a computer -- I feel confident ilx would go to number one.

― Leon Federline (Ex Leon), Monday, 9 May 2005 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha!

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 9 May 2005 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Or should I change that a to z?

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 9 May 2005 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

the one other board i've ever posted to, i had the ability to edit my posts, and within a few minutes most of my posts were about five words long and simply conveyed a piece of information. the ones where i didn't have a piece of info to convey, i just deleted after a few days.

That editing business can get really hairy sometimes. It's nice to be able to correct typos or html errors, or the like, but sometimes one person will delete part of a post that someone else responded to, changing the meaning of that other person's post. I had this happen recently somewhere and I just got pissed off and left, I think for good. I'm sure the intentions of the person making the edits were okay, but they should have considered how it would totally alter some remarks I had made in response (withoout quoting the original). I felt pressure then to delete my response, which I did, but I kept going in a basically passive-aggressive tantrum.

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Monday, 9 May 2005 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Like many people, I suppose, I've gotten kind of used to the typos over here, my own and others- in fact, I've learned to love them, like I love the mistakes on old records. Rock and Roll!

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 9 May 2005 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey I just want to say that the men and women of ILX are outstanding.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 9 May 2005 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

If only Ned and Alex would stop pulling their punches, we could be somebody.

Yeah, sorry about that. I'm shy you know.

If only ilx had one more creepy dude with unlimited access to a computer -- I feel confident ilx would go to number one.

*clones self*

Heavens! ;-) Heavens! ;-) Heavens! ;-) Heavens! ;-) Heavens ! ;-) Heavens! ;-) Heavens! ;-) Heavens! ;-) Heavens! ;-) Heavens! ;-) Heavens! ;-) Heavens! ;-) Heavens! ;-) Heavens! ;-)...

(There is the theory of the Nedius...)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

If the server hadn't given out all those times in the past, good lord knows where we'd be now...plus we'd still have the Catbus thread around. God I miss the Catbus thread.

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Monday, 9 May 2005 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 92 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.
Dude, it wasn't me (for once)

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

I mean, Christ, I admit when I do shit all the time!

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

Okay, sorry for the false accusation.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

I notice this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/I_Love_Music

1/lmao @ "esteban"s pussy whining b/c someone has called him out on his "lol @ teh fags" schtick "some of my best friends are gay" 0/10

2/also he claims that you, Tuomas, put up the first post! I doubt this is true, somehow.

3/also lmao @ ilx bullshit flamewars infecting wikipedia, like a disease.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

On the subject of Ned (waaaay upthread) I feel I must admit that Ned _Raggett_ has now ousted Ned _Flanders_ in my mind, which led to a rather embarassing conversation the other day about the Simpsons.

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

This article about a message board has been tagged for speedy deletion multiple times. Its content was recently replaced with an unrelated article about trees, which was then vandalized

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

hey pashmina anyone could have posted that

ps: fuck you

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Wednesday, 14 December 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

can we have the article about trees back on the ILM wiki page? sounds interesting thnx

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

PS - here are all the edits whomever did Kate's has done:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=158.80.0.2

And if you whois that ip it resolves to:

whois 158.80.0.2

OrgName: Baker College
OrgID: BAKERC
Address: SYSTEM HEADQUARTERS BUILDING
Address: 1050 BRISTOL ROAD
City: FLINT
StateProv: MI
PostalCode: 48507-5508
Country: US

― GET EQUIPPED WITH SAVE A HO (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

Who started the entry, then? Someone calling themselves "tuomastumour". No way of lifting the ip for them from somewhere?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

what are you gonna do when you find out? arrest them?

get over it, cyberdetectives.

― snowkitten (g-kit), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

I don't really care that much, Greg! I'm just curious (& bored @ work, natch)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

I did it, that Bobby Gillespie nonsense was way out of hand. It's not like it wasn't going to get edited right away anyway.

― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

City: FLINT
StateProv: MI

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/cannes/cannes_film_festival_2004_photos/michael_moore/cannes6.jpg

"LMAO @ FAT CHIX HUR HUR HUR"

― Yawn (Wintermute), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

hahahah Baker College.

Baker College is like some junior college thing from my hometown. My next door neighbor was one of the high mucky-muks there for a while.

― kingfish holiday travesty (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

On the subject of Ned (waaaay upthread) I feel I must admit that Ned _Raggett_ has now ousted Ned _Flanders_ in my mind, which led to a rather embarassing conversation the other day about the Simpsons.

Hahahah. Oh dear.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Baker College is like some junior college thing from my hometown.

Yea the format of the IP address (with a zero in the 3rd octet and a 2 in the 4th) and googling for it leads me to think it is a gateway. Leave it to a crappy college to not even give students a real ip.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Reynolds

the last external link is the lols.

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

hope you're proud of yourselves

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

It's not anyone else's fault here that Adam Curry is a self-promoting tool!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 December 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

Rofl. Doesn't surprise me that Curry would do such a thing.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 19 December 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

we're down to 262nd :-(

― ken c, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

Oh no! I guess we never did beat those Ultimate Metal guys.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 10:32 (eighteen years ago)

but we are the most bitch. thanks to Tuomas.

― Upt0eleven, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks to people bitching about Tuomas, maybe.

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

Two places below a bunch of white supremacists. For shame.

― Matt, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

Also, we've dropped from 25th place to 166th if ranked according to post/member ratio.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

And the 25th spot was before ILX became members-only, I think.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

has ilx shaved off its rough edges to become a neat, streamlined, underground MACHINE? or is it now a devil's playground dominated by a gang of ruthless hardman that suffer no fools gladly and hound newbies until they either shake with fear or fade away?

― Upt0eleven, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

If the latter was true, I don't think the post/member ratio would've gone down so much.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

i think it's more that people got bored?

― Matt, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

i was going for HYPERBOLE and DRAMA. but yes, my reasoning was flawed.

16922 members eh? that seems like fuckloads.

― Upt0eleven, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

yeh, but 16,917 of those are my sockpuppets.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

I think DRAMA's edging in front of HYPERBOLE with the superdelegates at the moment.

― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 11:10 (eighteen years ago)

Both those counts are wrong. We're at 6,244,966 posts which puts us in 191st place. User accounts are down to 6058 though, since the move. With a comment/user ratio of 1058, we should still be in 25th place!

― stet, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 11:54 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, I was kinda wondering how the post/member ratio could've dropped so radically.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

As far as I see it, we either need more racism or cat pictures.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 12:07 (eighteen years ago)

http://images.morrissey-solo.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_20060705-M_Morrissey.jpg

twofer - racist cat

― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 12:15 (eighteen years ago)

^^^we need custom emoticons

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 12:15 (eighteen years ago)

Pfft, it has nothing to this cat:

http://www.ptyx.org/mu/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/hitlercat.jpg

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

you mean graemlins xpost

― electricsound, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

It's OK, deej isn't homesick, you don't need to make allowances for him.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

haha

― electricsound, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 12:30 (eighteen years ago)

What we can take from the top 20 message boards:

1. Gaia Online: Creepy wapanese shit for fat chicks
2. IGNBoards: For people who find GameFAQs too intellectually stimulating
General video gaming message boards 178924213 1255254
3. Nexopia: I don't want to know
4. FaceTheJury: Daddy issues central
5. 4chan: Bunch of dudes ironically pretend to be paedos, actually paedos.
6. Vault Network: People who find IGNBoards too hipstery.
7. d2jsp: Diablo 2 mods? Seriously?
8. Offtopic.com: Would anger Pinefox
9. Jogos: Jog on, morelike
10. MesDiscussions.net: French medical help. lol stds.
11. BuddyPic: "Picture" "rating" "message" "board"
12. Something Awful: Bunch of dudes swearing to give the impression that they're fully rounded individuals when they're not talking about Firefly
13. Fok.nl: Not cool enough for De Subjectivisen
14. Christian Forums: lol
15: PBNation: People don't painball in 2008, stop lying.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 12:30 (eighteen years ago)

Couldn't be bothered with the final five.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 12:31 (eighteen years ago)

I like the sound of painball. Guns or flippers?

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.cbtnz.com/CBT_Site_Logo.gif

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

What happened to deviant art? I thought that was the unbeatable nr1 forum that even myspace couldn't beat.

5. 4chan: Bunch of dudes ironically pretend to be paedos, actually paedos.

LOL.

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 13:13 (eighteen years ago)

jog off more like was my fav

― ken c, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

ok fuck this i'm starting a poll

― ken c, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 13:27 (eighteen years ago)


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