How much thought and effort do you put into your ilx posts? (scale 0 to 10)

probably a four average

is nabisco still here

I guess we'll have to wait and see!

Varies quite a bit. Fewer 10s now than when I started, but I still occasionally begin drafting a longer post on Word. Mostly in the 5-7 range now. If you went by typos, you'd probably think 1-2. Most of the fussing I do is to try to head off dismissals and sarcasm. Which happens anyway, so probably not the most productive use of time.

This post was a 6.

yeah mine was a 2

it's probably a 3 average for me, brought down by lazy youtube embeds, jpgs, lists, C&Ps, and boredom-induced shitposts. it's hard to take message board posting seriously in this era of 15 active users, but I feel like I should start contributing more of substance to this site, maybe get a new username and start writing 1000-word critical précis about Fetty Wap mixtapes or whatever.

(this post is maybe a 5.5)

it depends on the topic because if im really feeling a topic then i will put in a 5's worth of effort but mostly its just firing off whatever impulses i have in my mind without regard for filter. 3

Sometimes i go back and eff around with my syntax and wording before posting, but i find that when i do that on my phone sometimes there are grammatical errors.

in 2009-2011 or so I was putting in solid 6s and 7s but these days all i've got time for are 2s and 3s. sorry guys

plenty of ppl are v. conscious of their posting styles

treeship seems to be on the edge of his seat whilst posting

― mookieproof, Thursday, June 13, 2013 11:08 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

generally find myself feeling at least vaguely embarrassed quickly after posting effortful things so i try to limit myself to 4ish

I put in way more thought than actual effort. like "i wanna say something about this" then 20 mins later... "ah fuck it." *close tab*

How much thought and effort verbiage do you put into your ilx posts (scale 0 to 10)?

A solid 8 or 9 on average.

Varies drastically depending on when you catch me. Part of the intention with changing DNs (and posting less) was to write with a bit more thought on a few project pages. That's not been particularly successful but seems worth striving for.
I'm afraid that I tend to use ILX as a watercooler more than anything else and that produces diminishing results all too often.

I guess I'm more lurker than not, but the 0 rating doesn't seem to apply when I take into consideration all of the messages left unposted - maybe I'm struggling to put the right words together in a forum where many do that for a living/measly check/"recognition", maybe I have a minor point to make in a strain of discussion that everyone else moved on from hours ago, maybe my opinion merely echoes someone else's with no additional insight, maybe I am the dull cipher of my darkest fears, procrastinating at a monotonous office job, passing the time while waiting for death's cold embrace.

Nah, fuck it. Zero it is.

^^^ 1 hour solid of drafting before posting.

^piquant!

^I had to look that up.

wait who was ulysses. how many odyssey themed display names do we have around here

i'm forks; adopted this dn because i had amassed something like 2k bookmarks and wanted a fresh start. refernece was meant to be to the sirens.

shakey started using outis some time back; that one's a bit more self-evident

who else is on the homeric tip now? LJ?

I misread that as 'homoerotic tip'.

11

10 ... thousand

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My posts >>>>>>>>>>>>> any tweets

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I don't post to ILX any more unless I'm feeling a 7 or 8 in effort.

But the more salient question is, how much effort do you put into *reading* ILX posts. What's the point of putting an effort of 7 or 8 into a post, when the place is dominated by people who are only reading or responding at a 2 or 3?

I'm reading at a very high level

I said 3. They're usually at least mildly considered but I generally crank 'em out in one quick and mostly unedited burst between doing the things that I'm getting paid to do.

3 on a good day.

long-term lurking takes the most effort

needs a 'zero (don't lurk, just that you all don't deserve my genius)' box

Voted 7. Rock Hardy's average was about 1.5, WmC's was about 4. The less I post, the better my posts are...I think.

voted 6. if i let myself i could agonize over every post until i was satisfied but as is i end up deleting about 50% of the posts i compose and then the other 50% i think 'fuck it,' and hit submit even dissatisfied.

what if i put a lot of thought and effort into my lurking?

it depends on the topic because if im really feeling a topic then i will put in a 5's worth of effort but mostly its just firing off whatever impulses i have in my mind without regard for filter. 3

― get a long, little doggy (m bison), Sunday, March 20, 2016 11:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^

mostly i just c&p and go ^^^^ or "otm" or "yea def"

all in all i would say im prob at like a 1-3

It's kind of a compliment to ILX that I give my posts a level-3 effort because that's about my max effort wrt most things.

1-3 most of the time but maybe a couple times a year i'll pull out a 7 or 8 on ilm

sometimes 10, sometimes 0.

i also have many typos due to iphoning, especially on the many days where i'm phoning it in (get it? this post is at least a 5), which probably make it appear that i care less than i really do. but i care! sometimes.

My content probably amounts to the same level of discourse as those who only put in a 3 or 4, but pretty much everything I post is at least a 7. Mainly b/c I'm second-guessing myself, deleting entire posts and then going back to the thread to start again, double-checking assertions made even casually, etc etc. Times when I just post "^^^^" are a blessed relief to me, tbh.

ie how much time do you waste on ilx

obv 10

every post is checked for diction, prosody, metre, alliteration, and interwoven rhyme schemes only seen in the poetry of beowulf and esoteric writers of the ancient world

also included are more allusions than your boy jamie j and toilets

this very post took 36 minutes and 15 seconds to compose

less and less

In many cases the more effort I put into an ilx post the more ignored I felt it was. Probably because the more effort I put in the more I'm hoping for responses/engagement with it. I'd go into pity-party mode since the radio-silence seemed to highlight how narrow my network of local IRL friends actually is. To clarify I think my wife is constantly baffled by my insistence to keep up with conversations here instead of have them with people I can actually interact with otherwise. But I don't know anyone IRL who is nerdy about American Primitivism or early 90s indie pop for instance. So at this point I usually just stick to irregularly posting uncontroversial chiming-in style "contributions" because I'm otherwise pretty addicted to lurking. Some threads move too fast for me, too.

we need more prosody around here

Loads, still say stupid shit

Believe me, dude, saying stupid shit takes next-to-no effort if you do it right.

I put negative thought into my posts to make everyone else look good

i am professional discourse generator, effort is strictly proportional to length of post in 99% of cases. i wrote to an old college friend, a painter, the other day, like, voluminously, and she wrote back three paragraphs and said, 'it was very challenging for me to write this much'

user forgot to tick off "spell checker"

Prob about 1, most of the time tbh.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Nabisco is an American manufacturer of cookies and snacks headquartered in East Hanover, New Jersey.

Every post has to be triple-checked for any missed understanding of: various opaque ironies, decades-old ILX mythologies I have no conception of, US-isms, the history of participating ilxors who might be offended by what I'm saying.

"Louis, is it okay to write 'ilxors' all in lower case?" etc

I loved Evan and emil.y's answers to this. I'm terrified that saying anything could elicit any kind of negative reaction anywhere. It's difficult because I'm ravingly opinionated, but not keen for this to take its usual form (raving), so can only emit these bizarre, stilted, narcissistic approximations of speech and hope that people will be able to successfully accumulate some flotsam of character over the course of years. Everything is regretted as soon as posted. I am often laughing, but this doesn't come across at all because I'm worried writing 'lol' might seem flippant or disingenuous. lol

And threads do move so fast! Obviously it's all worth it because this is ultimately like a life museum (but less memento mori than that sounds).

I voted 9 because there's always more to do.

i just write whatever shit i'm thinking

:|

I put 3. The more I labor over a post, the less likely I hit submit.

"the history of participating ilxors who might be offended by what I'm saying"

Fuck em.

The more I labor over a post, the less likely I hit submit.

For me, laboring over a post is often a sign I haven't a clear idea of what I want to convey or else I doubt its value. If I can follow my thought from its beginning to its end, I can write it without a lot of fuss, however long the post might be.

i voted 6 because i think the curve has gotten all screwed up in the post-nabisco era and people are selling themselves short. i write a lot of short thoughtless things but sometimes i can really get myself going especially if i'm trying to avoid working on something else.

next version of ilx should require you, when you submit a post, you have to click on a little meter to indicate the effort level. other people could click up or down on it to indicate whether they thought you tried as hard as you claim to. we could generate graphs of who's trying the hardest, or you could install a filter where you don't see any posts where people tried harder than a 5.

If anyone's a consistent 8 or 9, I would've said you, Casino.

nabisco wrote many good posts but I wouldn't put him at the top end of the scale. A thoughtful post can be as brief as a sentence.

awww, thanks clemenza.

alfred, fair point about thoughtfulness vs. length. to be honest, the most thought i put into a post is probably when after a lot of typing and a long sigh, i realize it's really better left unsaid, and tab away to something else.

That's what I mean: thoughtfulness and length aren't a binary. I like your posts too.

Nabisco's posts weren't just good because of length though. He was, as the saying goes, OTM. Also it makes me sad new posters don't know who nabisco is (not that they *should*, just sad that he's been gone so long).

Nabisco is... a lurker

This makes 10 = 0

I wasn't around during his heyday but still search for his name in old threads with complex topics to see his opinion.

But "what's up, my Lil niggas, we're going to Applebee's tonight" managed to be both hilarious while disarming an old myth.

Yeah, nabisco's posts were almost always on point.

To answer the original question: maybe a 6 or 7 in my case; some of my posts are more considered than others, but my ILX style (or lack thereof) is fairly close to the way I speak, although irl conversation usually involves more codeswitching and a more varied use of irony.

This thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80G38bxPeyI

That's my favorite sketch of all time, including the next one "(Again)"

next version of ilx should require you, when you submit a post, you have to click on a little meter to indicate the effort level. other people could click up or down on it to indicate whether they thought you tried as hard as you claim to. we could generate graphs of who's trying the hardest, or you could install a filter where you don't see any posts where people tried harder than a 5.

― never ending bath infusion (Doctor Casino), Sunday, March 27, 2016 10:57 AM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good god that sounds horrible.

over 9000

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

i give those results a 2 for effort

4 nabiscii

nice of the lurkers to vote. glad i picked the median option. all users who voted 10 should out themselves immediately obvs

didn't vote

No love for 8?

thread reminds me of this post -Inaugural WRITING TECHNIQUE thread: NONFICTION branch

i just write whatever shit i'm thinking

― Laertiades (imago), Sunday, 27 March 2016 00:46 (Yesterday) Permalink

fixed.

I once composed a long post in Word but just before submitting I inserted a "typo" to make it look more spontaneous.

http://www.geometricdesign.co.uk/perfect.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35U255Si7C0

"I love this, it's so spontaneous!"

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