POLL: Which component of a thread is the most important?

Unfunny tweets by someone you've never heard of.

Voted Random Googler. Oh wait.

The eminently pollable part.

nobody gonna stan for the ironic quipping

Same point repeated by six people who never read anybody else's posts

this is the one obviously

Write-in for 'fresh Beatles observations'

'Great revive'

'ffs'

dissing Joe Biden

Real answer is 'The Beatles' tho.

this one is sauce

second thoughts

not reading posts is key: all the classic threads have a fundamental point buried upthread which undermines or otherwise makes pointless the majority of the next 100 posts made by ppl who have spent no time considering it. this is why lurkers are the best ilxors

Turning every film thread into a Pauline Kael thread. (I try to pick my spots, though.)

Every second spent reading a post is a second diverted from the glue that holds us all together: shitposting. ILX would fall apart if we started reading each other.

I would say 'failing to read previous posts and subsequently making the same point someone made earlier' is an essential component, frankly surprised that no one itt has mentioned that yet

Insane Clown Posse

voting 'insane challop' obv, god the father of this trinity

Tbf there are no truly insane challops on ILX when set against a wider internautical backdrop.

^^^a self-disproving statement, classic paradox, worthy of any greek philosopher

Real heads know the answer is sauce.

Cheesy posts vs. saucy posts vs. crusty posts

crust

not reading posts is key: all the classic threads have a fundamental point buried upthread which undermines or otherwise makes pointless the majority of the next 100 posts made by ppl who have spent no time considering it. this is why lurkers are the best ilxors

otm camaraderie! you make a very good point

I like "misunderstanding of basic premise of thread which leads to discussion of that instead, with occasional pleading posts from OP to get back on topic"

lmao at any op who believes we can be controlled

a reminder that there are already other threads on the topic that should be used instead, killing the new thread while the old thread(s) remains un-revived

I like trolling parody polls which have a brief flurry of interest before being forgotten about

Haven't seen any of those, link pls?

It interests me what determines whether a given message board will frown on people who start duplicate threads without using the goddamn fucking search function 😉 vs ones which will get mad at people who "necro" old threads

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the challop, for otherwise the echo chamber and the clusterfuck never happen

The only opinions that matter are those which are challenging.

The only emperor is ... oh ffs

one thing I like about ilm is that overall no one stresses about "UsE thE SeArcH FuNcTiOn" thread policing

Or go insane about perfectly natural “off topic” conversation drift - this is psycho behaviour that I had only glimpsed briefly while lurking other forums, but am now v familiar with from the mutual aid whatsapp lol

wtf has that got to do with this poll? FP

Can peeps please leave moderating to the mods and keep it civil in this thread, it's a touchy subject but we want this forum to be welcoming for everyone. We don't want to have to start handing out warning points that can lead to bans 😉

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BG, oh they used to, back when I started here.

Along with "You haven't selected a category for your new Question!"

Those were the days, although the only category I remember is "Momus Momus Momus."

I don't remember any of them, obviously.

Searching the archives for "Momus Momus Momus" brings up quite a few amusing posts.

lol i just came across my old list of the categories earlier today, they were good, no one understood most of them except me

Were you the, um, mastermind behind the categories?

yup

(probably not all of them)

dont think i wd have gone with momus momus momus for example

Is that category list in a form that the rest of us would be able to see it?

if i can refind it lol, i wasn't actually looking for it

I know exactly how that goes

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