Is ILM too metal?

seriously?

Posers can leave the hall...

SB

there's way more rap threads and i wouldnt complain about that and i dont think anyone has ever complained about metal threads.
I posed the question of a I Love Metal board (with the rolling thread for promo talk to stay on ILM)last year, some wanted it some didn't and that was that.

winsome posters leave the hall

But should lots of people say they want one that would be great, if they dont, no biggie.

I think that there's too much music on ILM

Ha!

there's a lot of discussion here of genres I don't have a lot of interest in and I don't think it's worthwhile to tell people to post less or start fewer threads about a subject. however, it seems like there are a ton of threads about metal or metal subgenres, as opposed to threads about metal bands or specific topics relating to metal, which seems kind of odd in relation to other strains of discussion on ILM.

I just don't really understand the meta-complaint threads, I think.

yeah metal dudes be havin' fun and shit

(voted chuck eddy)

as a metalhead, I have created 23 socks to SB OP with

Brian, you should just enjoy metal threads while they last because by monday only the rolling thread will be left on new answers.

every metal thread gives birth straddling the grave

so basically as there's usually only the rolling thread on new answers you are noticing today there's more than usual.

yea i've started like two metal polls at various times in the past that got like 8 posts in them

Brian, you should just enjoy metal threads while they last because by monday only the rolling thread will be left on new answers.

sounds like a threat!

metal threads die quickly as other threads replace them on new answers really quickly. a sub-board would go at a slower pace and you could have polls/.threads on bands/albums while the rolling thread stays on ILM. It works perfectly for the footy board doing exactly that.

bookmark the threads. what's the big deal? didn't we do this already?

We don't need more threads, we need more terrorists.

i don't like the idea of a metal subboard, i actually go on the threads and look w/o posting too much...plus this is a music board and metal is music, soccer is not music

I'm not particularly into metal, but neither do I think that ILM is too metal.

soccer is not music

get it right, it's FOOTBALL

no way, dogg

real football doesnt need shoulder pads or helmets

Real men use their hands. Right ladies?

Rolling Metal is usually v focused on new shit so I think it's rite and proper for there to be other threads talking about old shit.

(however I have always found rolling metal to be very hospitable to me popping in and asking questions abt old shit)

Metal people are good people, Jon.

nycnative will u be at Agalloch on Tuesday night?

Too mental by far.

I will be seeing Agalloch on Monday night in Baltimore.

svveet

NYCNative isn't listening to metal at the moment, burn him!

ILM is too lite jazz.

I think there is too much ILM on ILM

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3295/2992472140_8d2a4abdbf.jpg

I thought ILM was I love Metal...

jesus fucking christ

jesus fucking christ

good band, not really metal though, more crust punk... xp

There aren't enough rap-metal threads

good band, not really metal though, more crust punk... xp

― SeanWayne, Friday, March 18, 2011 11:33 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fair point

there's too much stultifying micro-analysis of novelty pop on ILM, everything else is cool - it's the lack of certain coverage that dismays me

dude we dont like oceansize!

poll is missing a key option:

'ilm is false metal'

(xp) I was listening to Henry Rollins tonight, taking his "50" speaking tour to Philly. Probably not metal, I'll admit.

"it seems like there are a ton of threads about metal or metal subgenres, as opposed to threads about metal bands or specific topics relating to metal, which seems kind of odd in relation to other strains of discussion on ILM"

I think this is why metal is great... also it's not really dissimilar to a lot of electronic music which is also more scene/genre than auteur driven.

oceansize is among the best songs on nothing's shocking, fuiud

who would disagree w/that?

Is ILM too metal?

I think he might be talking about the lame band, not the lame song.

^^^^^ fight instigator

indeed. lj's fave brit band

oh God, if he's gonna come by and post 23 posts defending em, let me know, i'll schedule my ILX lunchbreak then

he's in NZ now he's probably in bed

its a sixth sense thing

He has shitbritindieprogdar?

Not metal enough, obv.

practically everybody agrees we don't need an "I Love Metal," and so...we get I Love Metal anyway & threads get moved over there w/o anybody being asked about it

wtf imo

^^This.

uh the only threads moved there were like 2 that pfunk started and asked for and the thread on itr that i started that no one cares about anyway

word

I just set my prefs so the "I Love Metal" board shows in lime green so as to not contribue, suggest people who feel as I do do the same. thanks jjj not trying to be super-aggro, just really strongly against this idea.

i used up all my super aggro on power metal haters, now i am but a cuddly empty shell

a worthwhile expenditure imo

I just set my prefs so the "I Love Metal" board shows in lime green so as to not contribue, suggest people who feel as I do do the same.

Look, we all know you hate the idea. but to actively set out to destroy it and actively encourage people to do the same is incredibly shitty and childish.

lol here we go

I suggest the board be rechristened I Love Melody and Geir be given mod rights

every thread is about crowded house

I just set my prefs so the "I Love Metal" board shows in lime green so as to not contribue, suggest people who feel as I do do the same.
Look, we all know you hate the idea. but to actively set out to destroy it and actively encourage people to do the same is incredibly shitty and childish.

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, March 19, 2011 4:39 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Jjj made clear that he was going to look at the future of the board in terms of how many posts were made on it. As I pointed out, that has little to no bearing on how popular the board is, but rather how popular the threads on the board are. So I think it is perfectly rational for those who enjoy that sort of thread but don't want the sectarian board to give themselves a reminder.

"sectarian"

the fuck is going on I thought this was a joke thread

can we have an I Don't Love Metal thread, so I can easily know which people not to socialize with in one neat little board

thread=board

Totally read this as "Is ILM too mental?"

Is ILM?

http://yousang2me.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/the_thinker_rodin2.jpg

There should have been a poll.

ilm is metal?

Everything is metal.

that Rodin is partially marble.

Jjj made clear that he was going to look at the future of the board in terms of how many posts were made on it. As I pointed out, that has little to no bearing on how popular the board is, but rather how popular the threads on the board are. So I think it is perfectly rational for those who enjoy that sort of thread but don't want the sectarian board to give themselves a reminder.

^^^ why everybody who likes or dislikes the idea of "I love metal" should go into preferences now and set the board's threads to appear in some particularly noteworthy color

you really are desperate to kill the board off aren't you

hermann personally i think it's a little much that you're still trying to make this happen after it was discussed and decided against already

i'm with steven tyler

no, I just don't think cordoning metal discussion off from other discussions is a useful or interesting idea. I know you have this bizarre "this is about who people like or don't like" thing but it's got nothing to do with that, I had no idea it was even your deal - I saw the idea, thought it was stupid, would love to do what I can to starve a stupid idea of oxygen so it doesn't thrive. you, predictably, will try to make this about people squabbling, because that gives you some kind of pleasure I guess - I lol & otm you as often as I tell you to stfu but you're so focused on "this poster like me/that poster doesn't" that you don't really notice that. separating out one genre from another genre frankly is a weird notion coming from you vis-a-vis metal, your tastes are more in the blend-genres & you're generally anti-purist, but you're also really into polls & I can see how having diff. boards for diff. genres would appeal to a poll-positive dude

not that you'll read any of this given your "you just don't like me!" default, which is, straight talk dude-to-dude, insanity: I don't know you. you're a poster on a board. I don't like or dislike you, your ideas are all I know anything about. this one is lame, the end

no, I just don't think cordoning metal discussion off from other discussions is a useful or interesting idea.

Especially when, well...what's metal? Are we gonna move the Osmonds threads over here?

(sorry folks...xhuck eddy jokes that have been made 1,000 before stink up the room, i know.)

lol

hey hey guys how about I Love NU-METAL? right?

I don't know you. you're a poster on a board. I don't like or dislike you, your ideas are all I know anything about.

no ilxor but can this be the new board description for the mod request forum plz

so, with this as a precedent, can whiney, deej, and that crew have their own board?

Shouldn't they be the ones to make that request?

i was kidding.

most ilm metal dudes seem the secret hippie types
so it follows they need to be agitated more
hence i voted too much metal (#2)

no, I just don't think cordoning metal discussion off from other discussions is a useful or interesting idea.

um, i don't think it's a good idea either, but, like, decibel to thread, dude.

haha pwnt! it's true - I just think on a music board, you really only need "music," I don't want "I Love Classical" "I Love Rap" "I Love Jazz" "I Love Metal" etc - seems completely pointless

ILX has too many sub-forums

would you prefer more dom-forums?

Maybe more whiney-forums

I think we should convert I Love Metal to I Love Pics Of Phil Anselmo Passed Out and Lying in His Own Piss

*sad trombone* xp

Wow...

First of all, I did not know there was any kind of discussion prior that attempted to make a new board for metal.

I *love* metal soooo much but I thought this would be a fun poll more than anything. Really, my motivations was to see how many votes the Chuck Eddy Postulate received (or if he would vote for his own postulate or be a contrarian even with that!).

I wake up this afternoon (waking up at 4PM is metal) and see a whole new board and I am really surprised!

I can see that there are people who are passionate on each side. I understand the desire for our own clubhouse, but I am an old man whose days where I veiwed metal as *my* music are gone.

When I was a kid I cherished the times that mainstream magazines covered one of the bands I loved. I still remember reading Spin's intervuew with Anthrax's moms when I was 18. Still remember watching Headbanger's Ball as the only MTV programming I ever cared about (well, I liked 120 Minutes in theory, but I didn't have cable and I didn't have a bunch of friends who would gather when it was on at a friend's place who had cable to drink while it aired, which says something about pre-Lollapalooza metal-alternative relations, I think). Still remember having a heated argument with some poor deejay at a rock station in Washington DC about why metal never got any airplay on the station.

I guess my point is that I was always rebelling against metal being ghettoized. As a supporter of the dark arts, I want to spread the gospel, and I never ever felt that was possible when we were stuck in a clubhouse.

I see the need for Decibel and other metal magazines. Hell, if they didn't exist I never would have become as accomplished a music writer as I did (for whatever that is worth). Just as I see the need for rap magazines and whatnot.

But you know... If the leaders in this "Get the metal dorks their own board" were not a few metal fans but actually the non-metal fans, I think we would all feel completely different about the idea. And that's ultimately why I think it's a bad idea.

The metal board is a really stupid idea that makes zero sense. Like I said there's no reason to cordon off certain types of music. In fact I like coming here and finding out about shit that I would never check out. But I will never remember to go to the metal board. If you want to finally kill anything that's still good about ilm balkanization is a good way to start. The fact that this decision was made based on some retarded meta poll that didn't need to exist really fucking sucks.

I've been here a long time and this irritates the shit out of me.

This is about as dumb the sb system but with not even any rational reason behind it. At least sb could be explained by way of internet ppl like automating passive aggressive behavior

I like algerian goal keeper too but dude you have a weird childlike persecution complex

I've never noticed ILM being any more or less Metal than other forums that discuss music but there is no poll option for that

(I'll go with 'I don't understand the question..')

"it seems like there are a ton of threads about metal or metal subgenres, as opposed to threads about metal bands or specific topics relating to metal, which seems kind of odd in relation to other strains of discussion on ILM"

I think this is why metal is great... also it's not really dissimilar to a lot of electronic music which is also more scene/genre than auteur driven.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Saturday, March 19, 2011 10:11 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah but my point was that there's not really any handwringing threads about whether ILM is too electronic music or what's true dance music or having separate annual polls for just that stuff. the degree to which the metal contingent on ILM is kind of self-conscious and defensive is weird imo.

Interestingly the more macho and badass genres (rap, metal) seem to the most jr high sensitive drama and shit.

true

he degree to which the metal contingent on ILM is kind of self-conscious and defensive is weird imo.

― some dude, Saturday, March 19, 2011 4:59 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol this refers to like 3 ppl, tops

I think a large majority of metal feeds on its outsider status; to my mind one of the main ideas which binds all those sub-genres together and gives it coherence is the underlying idea that metal represents everything that doesn't fit and is cast out from pop's euphoric idyll, so it doesn't surprise me that the biggest hardcore metalheads (all three of them or w/e) would feel misunderstood and lacking respect, meanwhile sneering at the pop thrills that a majority of the people on this message board are taken with*...as it is in real life, so it is on ILM...

funny though how kerr and jjj's attempt to unburden themselves and perceived 'others like them' from a board that they feel misrepresents/misunderstands them ("now we have a board of our OWN"), but that most other metalheads, judging from the two threads I read through on \m/ board, seem to take this as a completion of the gesture of rejection, a cementing of their outcast status ("what, are you saying we don't BELONG on ILM?")

uh dude i just mod and do what people ask me sometimes, dont read too far into my motivation here because i dont actually have one

^sorry i'm not trying to profile anyone...

nah, that's not true of most of us at all. I mean I'm a metalhead in that it comprises much of my collection, but I've always been sick of their self-imposed persecution complex and how it seems to be cool to 'out-underground' everybody. and I get that impression from most of the other people (like jon, call all destroyer, aerosmith, etc). I dont' think most of the rolling metal people give a fuck about it, half of em post in other threads ie goon threads.

to clarify, i mean I get the impression that the people I named also aren't into the whole self-imposed persecution thing

I wish I could take back that 2nd paragraph; minutes later, I see it was stupid...I'm just trying to say instead of pointing fingers at particular posters we can see how metal itself can encourage these kind of self-images...I did it in my usual inept way, but I'm actually trying to move the conversation away from the specific into the general...

I get what you were trying to say. There's a reason I don't associate with IRL metalheads a lot -- because their rhetoric gets old real fast. At one point in my life I was like that but after hearing a death band rally against 'trendy' music and praising our underground cred, I feel like sheepishly raising my hand and going "b-b-but I have Rihanna cds too"

yeah I lived with a metalhead for a little while, I know exactly what you mean. At the time I was really into a lot of 60s band, while he was straight-up death metal, we tended to keep to ourselves for the most part...

I don't want metal to have its own board...big reason is I'm not a metalhead but I do tend to enjoy a lot of stuff that AG reps for, and I'm kind of afraid that he'll stop posting in ILM if he just goes and hangs out on his own board all the time...

I don't want metal to have its own board...big reason is I'm not a metalhead but I do tend to enjoy a lot of stuff that AG reps for, and I'm kind of afraid that he'll stop posting in ILM if he just goes and hangs out on his own board all the time...

This is pretty much how I feel, too. For me the extra board is fine if it supplements, but not if it replaces.

do not want.

The real problem is there's too many shitty threads like this on ILM and they often come from metal posters.

Like at least goons never go out of their way to have thread titles like "no were not making these band names up you noobs wow were so crazy right?"

voted "too much metal but I don't think it's a bad thing, just leave me alone", because if "leave me alone" is a poll option I'm taking it every time

(just kidding, I'm actually incredibly lonely)

xp Whiney -- yup, you're right. Metal posters are the real annoyances on ILM. Nailed it.

Are you familiar with the word "irony?"

Is that some goregrind band that's #136 on the 2011 RateYourMusic chart?

"The real problem is there's too many shitty threads like this on ILM and they often come from metal posters."

Don't the rest come from you though?

xp - do you want your own board, Whiney?

Goon board would be p sweet IMO

so can a mod make that happen?

I don't want metal to have its own board...big reason is I'm not a metalhead but I do tend to enjoy a lot of stuff that AG reps for, and I'm kind of afraid that he'll stop posting in ILM if he just goes and hangs out on his own board all the time...

....
This is pretty much how I feel, too. For me the extra board is fine if it supplements, but not if it replaces.

if you use site new answers you wont miss out on anything and I guess if you use that you wont even notice it's a separate board.

and macdara otm, the board is a supplement not a replacement. I get that some of you (nearly all?) don't like the board but that's no reason to try getting everyone to kill it without trying it for 3 months or something. Would you really take that much pleasure from the board being deleted?
Rolling metal is staying here and being used the way it's always done, noones going to stop using it. Nothing is stopping other metal threads being on ILM either if that is where you want to start them. The board is for more smaller genres/bands/albums that would simply get lost on ILM and slip off new answers pretty quickly.
Also smithy dude please stop projecting about how you think i will react or whatever.

I'm just asking everyone to try it for 3 months and see how it goes. If it really damages ILM then it can be deleted no big deal. Would it really do any harm for everyone just to give it a chance? I'm not interested in fighting on here,it's not my nature irl and im not going to do it online. Lets avoid personal attacks, I for one am going to try that.

Whiney if the goons get your own board good luck with that.

Based board.

"Would you really take that much pleasure from the board being deleted?"

Obviously everyone who didn't want to see it created in the first place would, yes.

Also, mods if you can make me and j0rdan mods, I'd appreciate it

ALL AUTOGOON SUMMERTIME BASED BOARD AND SWAG HUT

if you use site new answers you wont miss out on anything and I guess if you use that you wont even notice it's a separate board.

You realise this undermines yr whole argument right?

dont have any dog in this fight, but AG's right about i love football supplementing the rolling thread while giving ample space for threads/polls we'd never have bothered to do if left with ILE as our only conduit.

The cries to 'delete this board i wasn't consulted' are kinda weird imo.

thank you

don't goons have their own board? (77)

Has ILM ever been balkanized based on genre before?

I'd lol at the idea 77 is a good board if I even had any idea wtf "goon" is apart from a reference to SA.

good = goon, fuck.

goodboard

looking for mr. goonboard

I think musical genre boards will eventually be destructive and destabilizing for ILM...so by all means, let's have 'em.

lol

The cries to 'delete this board i wasn't consulted' are kinda weird imo.

well, there's some history here. about a year ago, AG started floating the idea of creating a metal board. brought it up on the rolling metal 2010 thread if memory serves. the idea was not well received and a majority of the posters on there thought a separate board was not worth pursuing for many of the reasons we've seen again on this thread. that seemed like the end of the matter until this new metal board popped up last night.

AG - I like you and think you're a nice guy who's really passionate about music but this fixation on a metal board that nobody else wants really comes off like some captain ahab white whale behavior.

http://brainticket.com/shopbt/images/cat/ahab%20-%20call%20of%20wretched%20sea.jpg

great album

dadjokes in the face of ILM schism

lol true

xpost

i like metal and follow all the metal thread but am kinda w/ "smithy" on this one, not really into the separate board idea. i mean, i like krautrock, post-punk, hip-hop, jazz, dream pop, new wave, R&B, etc., but i don't feel the need for any of those to have separate boards. always thought one of ILM's big points of appeal is the fact that all those different genres can bump up against each other in the main music board

i like metal and follow all the metal threads but...

How did the metal board wind up getting created, anyway?

it spontaneously came into being from the collective power of metal

The cries to 'delete this board i wasn't consulted' are kinda weird imo.

― the '' key on my keybord is not working (darraghmac), Saturday, March 19, 2011 9:08 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

v. good job missing the point--this was discussed last year on rolling metal and most of that community was not into the idea, so i think it's fair to say wtf when 6 months later it gets created anyway and one very vocal poster seems to be the only voice pushing for it.

and macdara otm, the board is a supplement not a replacement. I get that some of you (nearly all?) don't like the board but that's no reason to try getting everyone to kill it without trying it for 3 months or something. Would you really take that much pleasure from the board being deleted?
Rolling metal is staying here and being used the way it's always done, noones going to stop using it. Nothing is stopping other metal threads being on ILM either if that is where you want to start them. The board is for more smaller genres/bands/albums that would simply get lost on ILM and slip off new answers pretty quickly.
Also smithy dude please stop projecting about how you think i will react or whatever.

I'm just asking everyone to try it for 3 months and see how it goes. If it really damages ILM then it can be deleted no big deal. Would it really do any harm for everyone just to give it a chance? I'm not interested in fighting on here,it's not my nature irl and im not going to do it online. Lets avoid personal attacks, I for one am going to try that.

Whiney if the goons get your own board good luck with that.

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, March 19, 2011 8:56 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

none of your arguments make any sense--you still have not explained how one would choose whether to post something about a band or album on rolling metal or on the sub-board--i can tell you what this is going to lead to which is tons of crossposting or stuff getting missed by ppl who have to make a choice about what they want to follow.

it's retarded, like, i would not follow a rolling grind thread, but if four ppl i trust post positive things about some grind album in rolling metal i might check it out and find something cool i would've missed otherwise.

"threads about smaller bands/albums that would get lost"--ilx has one of the best, most useful search functions on the internet--there's no risk in starting a thread, if it gets 10 posts so what--someone can search and revive it down the line, this is how ilx has always worked.

anyway, you're creating a situation where there will be metal discussions that exclude some of our best posters because they don't have an interest in this board, and also where ppl will have trouble deciding where to start new threads because they won't know where they'll get an active conversation. so far all you've used this board for is starting rolling subgenre threads because oh yeah ppl were crying out for those.

i have no idea why we're bad guys for not wanting to try this for 3 mos., ilx is not a democracy but the metal community is small and you seem to take absolutely no heed of its vocal rejection of this idea--your interest in prescribing the behavior of others is absolutely surreal--but i think there are a lot of reasons to not want a sub-board and i hope it dies on the fucking vine tbqh.

Wow you guys

My joke about metal heads being just like techno heads seems all too real now

it's retarded, like, i would not follow a rolling grind thread, but if four ppl i trust post positive things about some grind album in rolling metal i might check it out and find something cool i would've missed otherwise.

call all destroyer, I'm callin' you out on saying "retarded" in a derogatory sense. C'mon man. Use other words.

this is the first metal thread I've actually noticed or posted on

I think a metal board is the dumbest idea. I don't understand what the need for it was, and it's still not clear to me. I loved reading the metal threads on here, but I'm certainly not going to check the metal board for what's going on there. Which is a shame, because I got to learn some great metal bands through ILM. Why do the metal fans so desperately want their own board?

Emily said it OTM already. Metal is music, and ILM's the place for music. Simple as that.

My joke about metal heads being just like techno heads seems all too real now

― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Sunday, 20 March 2011 05:15 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

pretty sure it's been all too real for a good 20 years or so tbh

Why do the metal fans so desperately want their own board?

thing is they almost entirely don't as far as I can tell, I certainly don't

Well I'm lost as to how the metal board got created then in the first place.

got <3 for jjjusten but this is his doing, right?

obviously the solution to this problem is for AG to register a bunch of socks and flood the new board with praise for false metal until all the other 'heads are united in opposition

either that or give it to me and I'll make it a lil b board

I Love Tiny Pants

I Love You More Today Than Yesterday (But Not as Much as Tomorrow)

NWA and Mayhem are the same thing. Why can't we all just get along?

Norwegians With Attitude

str8 outta Oslo

(copied from Rolling Metal 2010 thread):

Locked in, rapping with my corpsepaint and a mullet,
Let's see how my sword stands up to your bullets
Like Hecate, I'm enthroned, and if you disrespect
You'll be lying in a Graveland like Oystein Aarseth

I grab the mic, and I drop Norwegian coldness
Truly underground, don't need no radio hits
Bringing obscure sounds to your town, you better harken
I bring pride pure white like my homie Rob Darken

I do not like Christians, Samoth-I-Am
Burning down churches and I don't give a goddamn
Now I'd advise you not to fuck with this
Or I'll disfigure your face, and leave you looking like Mortiis

Marduk duck goose, I choose you to be my victim
I rip you up and stab you in the back like Bard Eithun
I rock cold like a Blizzard, with the mark of a Beast
Ripping up posers right and left I bring 'em down to their knees

And like the Nightspirit, thus I have spake
Don't try to disrespect, cuz that's a big mistake
Like a Beherit EP, sorry to end so soon
But this is me signing off, Under a Funeral Moon

always thought one of ILM's big points of appeal is the fact that all those different genres can bump up against each other in the main music board

^^^

xpost woah

lord custos tribute thread

You are about to witness the strength of Sathanas

lol

got <3 for jjjusten but this is his doing, right?

― WD-40 (acoleuthic), Sunday, March 20, 2011 7:50 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

$5 says he just wanted to see a clusterfuck.

it's like on SimCity when you intentionally create earthquakes

call all destroyer, I'm callin' you out on saying "retarded" in a derogatory sense. C'mon man. Use other words.

― Algae-Eating Bowlkeeper (kkvgz), Sunday, March 20, 2011 6:11 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sry dude, it was late, i was annoyed.

Freezing Super Moon

I am sad.

I feel like I broke ILM.

Or contributed to breaking it anyway.

I am sorry.

no one is blaming you

it was not your fault

do you want your own board, Whiney?

― sarahel, Sunday, 20 March 2011 00:41 (14 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Goon board would be p sweet IMO

― hey jelixy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 20 March 2011 00:42 (14 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so can a mod make that happen?

― sarahel, Sunday, 20 March 2011 00:44 (14 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

When the goons get their own board i hope we dont see a bunch of threads by people who have no interest in hiphop trying to destroy it.

it would be better if somebody late at night crept up and cut the link that keeps it moored and let it silently float out to sea

rolling metal thread is going to have lots of new posters now. Who knew so many ilxors were secretly into metal all along.

I was with this idea until AG posted four manowar polls in one day.

lol

i didnt post ANY polls. It was someone who wants to destroy the board who did that.

Holy Poster, going down in flames in a sea of SBs
Oh what's becoming of me

When the goons get their own board i hope we dont see a bunch of threads by people who have no interest in hiphop trying to destroy it.

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Sunday, March 20, 2011 3:18 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark

whats funny dude is that the people most interested in 'destroying it' (what a weirdly charged verb to keep using) are, um, regular rolling metal posters & readers

like gr8080 and by kurt schwitters who appear to have started the most threads

Yea I guess I hafta throw my autographed Deicide drum head now :/ cuz I'm not reel metal

good idea, throw that shit out.

Real metalheads aren't in ILM.

no they are in ULM

Internationally, Ulm is primarily known for having the church with the tallest steeple in the world, the Gothic minster (Ulm Minster, German: Ulmer Münster) and as the birthplace of Albert Einstein.

srsly the most metal place in central europe

Einstein was into dubstep iirc

I heard he was relatively into it but not a fanatic.

I m/ Metal is to be deleted due to overwhelming negativity on the idea.
Lets hope things can get back to normal now.

Look at it this way, destruction is really metal, right?

I dunno, trying to see some levity in this situ. Personally its jjj's actions I'm more concerned with here but I got no dog in the hunt so peace.

he did nothing wrong leave him out of it

Yea I guess I hafta throw my autographed Deicide drum head

you should, he lied about what he would do aged 33.

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lol

there's a lot of discussion here of genres I don't have a lot of interest in and I don't think it's worthwhile to tell people to post less or start fewer threads about a subject. however, it seems like there are a ton of threads about metal or metal subgenres, as opposed to threads about metal bands or specific topics relating to metal, which seems kind of odd in relation to other strains of discussion on ILM.

― some dude,

No point in starting a thread on a band that will get 10 posts if lucky.

Yes there is, because that is a more useful means of categorization, cataloging, making searchable. I was looking through Dino Jr. threads last night and there was one that was like 15 posts long and well, whatever, that's how long it was. I read it and it served my purpose. It was a lot better than having one ilxor post about Dino Jr. "Man, Bug is great - I hope Mascis and Barlow keep playing together for the next 20 years", then another guy be like "Has anyone heard this new band called the pixies yet?", and then someone else being like "Sonic Youth are the quintessential independent band, they'll never sell out!" on Rolling Indie 1988.

So, if I'm looking for information about Blut Aus Nord, I could look for the Blut Aus Nord thread, instead of searching by post and coming up with every mention of Blut Aus Nord in every metalhead's year-end list and every newly updated list of poll nominations.

Which, all of those lists are fucking noise to me, search-wise.

there is no point in starting a thread on every band in existence. Dinosaur Jr are a big band therefore have their own threads for the band as well as threads/polls for each album. You cant do that for every band.

Sure you can. Doesn't mean that there will be any responses though.

making it pointless then

*claps with one hand*

^ has the clap

too much metal? no. too much Rebecca Black? maybe.

When pasted into a Microsoft Word doc, page 3 of the Blut aus Nord search results is 179 pages long!

you should start a thread about that

lol

I didn't even realize it was that bad, but I kept trying to c&p the whole results into an ilx post and the site wouldn't let me!

179 pages! It is awesome! Polls are awesome! Up-to-date up-to-the-minute poll noms posts are awesome! They are awesome for searching for posts about metal bands through!

Because metal bands don't have their own threads.

Up-to-date up-to-the-minute poll noms posts are awesome! They are awesome for searching for posts about metal bands through!

not just metal bands! It's like wading through all the content farm links in a google search

I agree the Rolling Metal Promo©* Thread does move very quickly and everything gets lost in it, one of the reasons there's a compromise of rolling subgenres threads since the overwhelming majority of ilxors objected to a separate board, but if every band and album got a thread of it's own, there would be way more complaints.

*©Roxymuzak

AG, i posted my fav metal albums of 2011 so far over in the rolling metal promo thread. did you see?

was it a list of promos you had?

no! it's a list of great metal albums

Rolling Metal Thread 2011

^ you need to re-bookmark that thread buddy

i never stopped

but most of them I've not heard since I dont get promos

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haha

but if every band and album got a thread of it's own, there would be way more complaints

I don't get this at all. Who complains about threads popping up about a small band, getting half a dozen posts, then quietly slipping of new answers into the archive to be revived again with the next release/tour/whatever? Isn't that how it's supposed to work. The only way this would be annoying is if someone decided to be an asshole and create a thousand threads a day about every metal band he knew.

Something happens with a band you like. You have something to say/share. Bump or start a thread about them. No-one's going to complain about that other than people who complain about everything.

forget it, onimo. it's goalkeepertown.