The Rescue Rangers iteration, or the regular old Disney ones?
― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:11 (fifteen years ago) link
still blamin the polls, it took em a year or so but they gradually replaced good discussion (I know, poll-defenders, there are some poll threads that are exceptions, but the notion that music discussion = ranking things worst to best is a pretty closed system)
― J0hn D., Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Polls are terrible. You can hide them, but that's not the problem. They are like black holes for conversation.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:13 (fifteen years ago) link
What about a poll ranking your various login names over the years, J0hn?
― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:14 (fifteen years ago) link
banana nutrament ftw
― electricsound, Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:14 (fifteen years ago) link
haha sanskrit linking to the dermy.
― oscar, Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:14 (fifteen years ago) link
http://waxidermy.com/images/deal.gif
― electricsound, Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:15 (fifteen years ago) link
I still think the polls should be on a separate board.
― sleeve, Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:18 (fifteen years ago) link
As Geir starts an Elvis Costello poll...
― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Most new music sucks anyway, and the new music that doesn't doesn't get any attention from the kids. It's more fun discussing old music.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Alison!
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:22 (fifteen years ago) link
(Oh, sorry!)
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I figured it out! All of Geir's posts make total sense if you add "to me" after every sentence!
― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:25 (fifteen years ago) link
It's like adding "in bed" to the end of every fortune in a Chinese fortune cookie.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:26 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Geir Hongro, Thursday, June 5, 2008 2:20 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
in bed
― latebloomer, Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:27 (fifteen years ago) link
A meme is born.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, that should keep you entertained, Scott!
― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:30 (fifteen years ago) link
at Burger King
― J0hn D., Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Come back Jess H., Come back Yancey S., Come back Keith Harris, and Love Bug Starksi's not around much these days.
Plus ILX could use some new folks (ideally some into more than indie-rock)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Most new music sucks anyway, and the new music that doesn't doesn't get any attention from the kids. It's more fun discussing old music
in bed with a hot chick.
― oscar, Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:44 (fifteen years ago) link
IN STEREO
― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:45 (fifteen years ago) link
at Burger King.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:45 (fifteen years ago) link
ILX could use some new folks (ideally some into more than indie-rock)
A-FUCKING-MEN
― sleeve, Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Plus ILX could use some new folks in bed
(ideally some into more than indie-rock) at Burger King
to me, with a hot chick
― marc h., Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:47 (fifteen years ago) link
I see less and less ILX'ors being primarily indie-rock fans, but maybe that's just my misimpression.
(xp)
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:47 (fifteen years ago) link
oh god-x-post-fucking-damn-it
to me, whatever.
― marc h., Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:48 (fifteen years ago) link
The sentiment in this thread-title is one I myself have been espousing, hence my recent attempt to bump a load of "interesting" threads. Didn't really work out.
― Just got offed, Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:49 (fifteen years ago) link
JGO I will Paypal you five bucks if you harsh on the next dumbass Lorax post like that again, that was a beauty to behold.
― sleeve, Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:50 (fifteen years ago) link
i mean ffs that dude deserves my vocabulary
― Just got offed, Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Link?
― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:52 (fifteen years ago) link
lorax behaves like a dicksleeve: if someone tells you that they like *the homosexuals*, what current group/artist would you tell them to check out?
where it was all hatched: The Resonant Frequency #57: Perfect World POLL - "Perfect songs are hard to find; here are 12 to start with."
i think that thread was the nadir
― Just got offed, Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:53 (fifteen years ago) link
see, I like the polls, because I don't see much discussion on non-poll threads, and they get conversations started. I don't see how having polls makes OTHER threads suck more.
on the other hand I agree that ILM has been boring lately. I've been using site new answers instead of just loading ILM and it's opened up a whole other message board of (sometimes) fun. I rarely even read ILE before site new answers. So I think a lot of the blame should rest on site new answers.
I also agree with the comment above that posts like IMs have taken some of the vitality away, but I don't think that's the only thing going on.
― Euler, Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean I still post to the poll threads but in doing so I'm just as guilty of lazy posting as anyone else.
― Just got offed, Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Polls are retarded.
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 5 June 2008 02:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Polls are stupid if you think you gain anything "objective" from the final result, but as a way of focusing attention, they can help focus a thread. Not every thread needs that focus, but why not let a thousand flowers bloom? Unless there's an argument that polls cause all the other flowers to wilt, which I don't see.
― Euler, Thursday, 5 June 2008 03:04 (fifteen years ago) link
this has been a really great year for albums-- indie esp. so it doesn't surprise me that ILM's been a snooze
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 5 June 2008 03:05 (fifteen years ago) link
polls are fun! if you don't like bowie don't click on the bowie poll threads! if you like bowie click on the bowie poll threads! what's the big deal?
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 5 June 2008 03:06 (fifteen years ago) link
it ruins the mood
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 5 June 2008 03:07 (fifteen years ago) link
IN BED
― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 5 June 2008 03:09 (fifteen years ago) link
wait, that actually kind of made sense
i think the only unworthy threads are ones that splinter discussion among threads. everything else i could care less about. i mean it takes me what 0.2 seconds to decide if i wanna click on a thread or poll or not? idk
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 5 June 2008 03:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Always.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 5 June 2008 03:11 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost
see, I think that's what polls do. they replace a thread revival and subsequent new discussion with a bunch of discussion by people who never read any of the related non-poll threads, so 1. stuff gets repeated and 2. the people from the orig thread don't have much incentive to say anything besides going "uh, we talked about this already when we did that "OPO Pink Floyd album" thread."
― sleeve, Thursday, 5 June 2008 03:13 (fifteen years ago) link
What sleeve said there -- part of the problem is a temporal one. Points of view can and do change, and people say or project things that they don't think later on, or that they would heavily rewrite or reconsider. This would seem to be a reason to do 'new' threads via the polls, but the flipside is that there's a valuable tension to be found in those older judgments versus the newer ones, in one place.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 June 2008 03:18 (fifteen years ago) link
I hate to be mr. we already had this thread eighteen bazillion times person but, uh, there I go.
I hop back and forth. at various points in the past x years I have been bored/disgusted with basically every board here that I've ever posted to, ILM probably moreso than the others since it's so dependent on 1. new releases 2. new beefs 3. new posters to talk shit with - it's both the most vibrant/active and the most inconsistent of all the boards, blessing curse yada yada [ heavy-handed aspie modding ]
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 5 June 2008 03:19 (fifteen years ago) link
hey! there's been a bunch of poll threads with great discussion going on. see the Ride - Nowhere poll thread, that discussion was great, very fun to read.
― stephen, Thursday, 5 June 2008 03:27 (fifteen years ago) link
They are like black holes for conversation.
yeah i don't see how a "POO: Prince single" from 3-4 years ago is any better/worse/different than "POLL: Best Prince single" so it's probably the quality of the posters in whatever thread you're thinking of not the poll form itself
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 5 June 2008 03:29 (fifteen years ago) link
see the Ride - Nowhere poll thread, that discussion was great, very fun to read
one of the better thread bimblifications, yeah
although dude you were responsible for that shoddy "12 perfect songs" p-fork dick-suck so in a way you are responsible for ILM being crap
― Just got offed, Thursday, 5 June 2008 03:31 (fifteen years ago) link
responding to sleeve: yeah, I see what you're saying. I don't revive many old threads or read through the archive much, so I just respond to threads others have started or revived. I'd generally like to talk about older stuff, because I don't have much cash to spend on newer stuff and I don't get promos. But the liveliest / brainiest / whatever threads are mostly about newer stuff, so I mostly have to sit them out. I'm also under the impression the things I like have either been talked to death (e.g. Stones, New Order, JAMC) or are not well-regarded here (e.g. REM, Keith Whitley, the Judds) and so aren't likely to make ILM less boring if I got all thready with them.
― Euler, Thursday, 5 June 2008 03:35 (fifteen years ago) link
" so it's probably the quality of the posters in whatever thread you're thinking of not the poll form itself"
yeah, it's the old generation was better routine
― Zeno, Thursday, 5 June 2008 03:37 (fifteen years ago) link
i guess 'notable' has an air of 'exceptional' to it but all i meant was, like, famous. someone pretty famous, like has has hit singles and been on TV and stuff, drops a new mixtape like at least 4 times every day. that wasn't true 10 years ago.
― dirty drone barack boy (some dude), Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:22 (eleven years ago) link
has has = has had
― dirty drone barack boy (some dude), Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:23 (eleven years ago) link
i could suggest raising yr bar for 'famous', but i mean i'm not out to stop anyone's fun or anything
― the right to beef at (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:24 (eleven years ago) link
it's not like the rolling noise or anything else threads are predominantly about people who are 'famous' by any measure! i just mean, like, well known to fans of the genre!
― dirty drone barack boy (some dude), Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:27 (eleven years ago) link
please don't waste any effort trying to convince me, i dont even know what 'noise' is tbfh
― the right to beef at (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
guess
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Saturday, 9 February 2013 04:13 (eleven years ago) link
This thread needs more salsa dancing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2XQb5fJpeg
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 9 February 2013 05:01 (eleven years ago) link
it certainly could use maracas
― dirty drone barack boy (some dude), Saturday, 9 February 2013 05:02 (eleven years ago) link
it could use some deleting
― Ballboy to Afghanistan (LocalGarda), Saturday, 9 February 2013 09:04 (eleven years ago) link
^ the kind of vicious zings killing ilm
― the right to beef at (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 February 2013 13:56 (eleven years ago) link
hah it occurs to me that i have no idea what kind of music darragh likes
― mookieproof, Saturday, February 9, 2013 3:22 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ilx- find by GISing 'kate bush tits', stay for the literary football gags
― 10/11 of a dead jesus (darraghmac), Friday, August 12, 2011 5:57 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Julian-Joachim Roedelius (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 9 February 2013 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
^posts that float thru your head
― Julian-Joachim Roedelius (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 9 February 2013 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
gifs that float through mine yet, tboh
― the right to beef at (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 February 2013 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
that's a one notable mixtape every 6 hours average
― zero dark (s1ocki), Saturday, 9 February 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
^
― how's life, Saturday, 9 February 2013 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
Lol slocki
― downton arby (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 10 February 2013 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
What's the deal with all of the 'overrated bands' threads, and related spoofs!?
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Sunday, 10 February 2013 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
no idea and not read them but I'd imagine boredom on a sunday?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Sunday, 10 February 2013 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
Just curious--and this is coming from one of the all-time great thread assassins* Anyway, I'm sure I'm this for others, but does anyone else have particular posters that you reflexively recoil from? (NO NAMES PLEASE) like they drive you crazy? I think I'm projecting my own shit on them, but god, this person posts everywhere and makes me crawl up the wall....
*I would say people comment on maybe 1 in 20 of my posts, although sometimes a thread of mine will do sort of well.
― Iago Galdston, Friday, January 25, 2013 1:50 AM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
good post
― nomar, Friday, 9 September 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
mysterious
― imago, Friday, 9 September 2016 17:03 (seven years ago) link
today has been a day of ilm exultation imo
will ILM have a great weekend
― meh 😐 (wins), Friday, 9 September 2016 17:05 (seven years ago) link
and a drug
― imago, Friday, 9 September 2016 17:10 (seven years ago) link
there are definitely cliques on ilx, and certain users only read certain users
i'm sure i'm no different than the rest, and there are many posters i don't bother reading (recoil from/hate/drive me crazy are all too harsh and don't apply to me)
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 9 September 2016 18:13 (seven years ago) link
kale bush tits
― dow, Friday, 9 September 2016 18:22 (seven years ago) link
personally I recoil from my own posts
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Friday, 9 September 2016 19:57 (seven years ago) link
lads
― Mordy, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, September 9, 2016 2:13 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I figure I don't get read much.
Even when ILX isn't entertaining I still lurk, mostly due to not knowing where else to go on the internet. I don't use social media really.
― Evan, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Friday, September 9, 2016 3:57 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
just confirmed this
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link