ADMIN: Too Many Threads - all regulars read this please!

Back to the questions, then!

Can any of the regulars recommend old threads? Memorable debates, where opinions were challenged and discussed at length Eg - 'the trashiness of great pop', or 'Rock vs Pop' or 'Rock vs Rap' (I can't remember)

What I WOULD suggest is maybe if a thread CAN evolve, people don't post brand new questions along the lines of, "As discussed in such and such other thread..." and instead discuss it in the thread. I understand there is a bit of a hardship in this because that means the subject won't necessarily agree but perhaps there could be some way for people to edit the question header to reflect multiple topics? Then again, the most blatant abuse of "As discussed in such and such thread" was done by someone trying to irritate everyone so it's really not going to help much in that case.

So, yeah, one question per day: good. Having no-question-days: bad.

Heybuddy: it is one thread per person per day. i.e. you can post a thread. Ally can also post a thread. Ethan can post a thread. And so on.

DV: You can do this kind of - go to the 'new answers' bit on the front page and you get the forum viewed by update.

Ally: I cant code anything into the way the forum works unfortunately re. editing headers. Only admin ppl can do that i.e. me, Josh and Nicole. The weekends thing - we'll see what happens. If it doesnt work we'll drop it.

And yes, if most anyone listens I'll be amazed.

As I said, if you're going to shut down posting questions on certain days, then you might as make it the admins job to post the questions entirely - this way you can be certain the new threads that do make it on here aren't going to be self-aggrandizing crap, nasty flames of Simon Reynolds, or stuff that exists in an old thread.

The real problem is not that there are too many threads. It's that there are too many pointless threads. But short of deleting them whatcha gonna do?

Yeah there are loads of posts at the weekend but they're always by the usual suspects. If I only came online at the weekend I'd never ever read ILM, it would be mad, you couldnt follow anything. That said if someone turns up on this thread on Saturday and says hey I only post at weekends I will obviously revise the 'policy'.

I was going to make a really awful joke about Josh keeping Tom's ass in gingham, but that would be wrong.

A floral print would be more figure flattering anyway.

1. c or d an artiste(s) 2. s + d " 3. compare two albums by said artiste

- fuxache have we discussed MBV and CAN enough yet or are we gonna get more microscopic - i prefer multiple questions onna thread - gives the thread breadth + depth - i reckon to to s+d on an artist with only one album out is fuckin hilariously shit - what next - whats the best verse in 'seasons intha sun' ?

- so which was the best Erasure album and was loss of The Assembly a cruel blow to UK music, lyle lovett vs. nanci griffith(?), who would advertise dandelion and burdock, should record companies be allowed to give freebies to fans to get there records bought, has any great record been made with the TR505, if japan had won the war what would we have been listening to, who is the most versatile remixer,aaaaaaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh

Where did everyone go?

(although this should return.)

lol

An innocent time

retvrn

all the threads are good, but there are too many of them

The thread police, they live inside of my thread.

OP was just over a month before the ILE breakaway splittist faction struck and stuck

I still want to know what happened to Momus Momus Momus

ilx is in it's early 20's now, a bit too old for his tastes

xp

Whatever happened to DG? Not spoken to him in years since Chatz

a few weeks back and a few streets away, in the city i just moved to, this👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 opened (i have yet to patronise it)

https://i.imgur.com/YTZC9l2.jpg

I didn’t mean the person, the personality, I meant the category of thread and thread categories in general.

lol calz

Oh yeah lol.

One thread per day… What a bad idea. 20 threads per month would have killed ILM a long time ago. It’s easier to cold shoulder the threads you don’t care about and there’s the option to not display polls if you hate those.

A solution that I would code is each user can only post one thread per month. It’s not as strict and makes the users double think what they want to discuss/poll

every poll you create costs you one year of your life, feel like this would set a tone even tho it would have no practical effect

this is already in effect, we just didn't tell people

no killing what can't be killed

Lol

Because these polls they give me
They give me the creeps anymore
Too many threads
Too many threads

as this thread predates my own awareness of ilx by a couple years, and I mostly lurked around because this place was super intimidating (still intimidating? but I used to be an anxious teenager, so)

was it considerably busier two decades ago? and how many regulars were there? never seem to catch more than 50 or so active users at a time these days, at peak hours, but there are ~9000 registered users

which is still very modest I think considering the age of this forum and the general quality of content (lol) but really what a tremendous job of moderation and administration and I think I understand why people googleproof certain names and 77 and etc

idk why but i'm reading that original post like it was written by Shel Silverstein.

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it was a lot busier, yes. Also, please bear in mind this thread was started before DG created ILE.

Around 2003 I would sometimes get caught in a loop of reading all the threads updated that interested me, refreshing, seeing a bunch of new updates and I could just keep going like that.

How would anyone get anything done! I like ilxors current pace, far more manageable

Huge long considered posts too. Threads very rarely reached 100 posts. They were celebrated as milestones when they did.

It was a simpler time. Plus ILX threads were all deindexed for a long while.

but you didn't need to register to post so random googlers and angry mailing lists/other boards showed up, lol

Sorry, can you explain deinxed?

*Indexed, good lord

Deindexed = hidden from g00gle. (Hidden from all search engines? idk)

I liked the misspelling:)

Means it wasn't showing up in Google searches

(xp)

In any case there seemed to be more time, it just seemed to be more private, some of us were typing from laptops and desktops instead of phones, not as many people had died, it was still fun to interact with Momus etc.

Of course some new ILX0rs were born as well so we replenished.

it was still fun to interact with Momus etc

citation needed :|

ILX threads were all deINXSed for a while

Sorry if this is a dumb q, but why does Tom E no longer post here (or does he?)

because of the grocery groin post

He was playing evil genius and we were all the occupants of the vat in which he used to make observations for a paper he wrote about the lifecycle of message borads iirc.

deINXSed

I need ilx tonight, cause I'm not sleeping

_it was still fun to interact with Momus etc_

citation needed :|

Threads very rarely reached 100 posts. They were celebrated as milestones when they did.

I remember it was a big deal when the Aerial thread hit 1000 posts, circa 2005

wasn't this the first 1000+ thread?

Jay-Z / Nas hip-hop throw down? & other throw-downs?

and it ran to Jay Z/ Nas and other hiphop throwdowns...resurrected. Part 4

I don’t believe you, you need more posters

DMB thread was famed for being very long iirc

iirc try glasgow more (on ILE, mind you) was the longest thread ever at one point

funny that what's become the default Pitchfork thread (21,000+ posts!) started with 30 posts in 2002 and then lay dormant for 5 years before being revived

Pretty sure top three are:

2008 Primaries Thread: 7253+
Your 2008 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread: 7238
try glasgow more: 6800+

I think a Chicago thread from a couple years ago might be 4th. Dave Matthews only has about 2500.

― jaymc, Wednesday, February 6, 2008 6:04 PM (fifteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

If I can stay focused, the Immaculate Grid thread will be over 10,000 by the end of 2024.

The DMB thread would periodically be revived by random Googlers (some of whom stuck around a minute, IIRC), so it was sort of the gift that kept giving.

Sorry if this is a dumb q, but why does Tom E no longer post here (or does he?)

Tom has started, grown, and abandoned-after-decline several other internet and IRL communities in the meantime. (His current one has been given an end-of-life target in the last few weeks.)

Tom delete all the 50 favorite threads now, please!

Sorry

j/k

funny that what's become the default Pitchfork thread (21,000+ posts!) started with 30 posts in 2002 and then lay dormant for 5 years before being revived

Tom's music polls were just about the only decent thing about Twitter when I left it, if those come back on a new platform I'd consider joining it just for that

he's on bluesky calmly posting as he usually does

every poll you create costs you one year of your life, feel like this would set a tone even tho it would have no practical effect

― my full length poll (Noodle Vague)

i'm already over my statistically allocated lifespan, which i think means that knocking years off my life has no effect whatsoever.

Tom's music polls were just about the only decent thing about Twitter when I left it, if those come back on a new platform I'd consider joining it just for that

lol I was so annoyed by these at their peak. I didn't even follow the account, but they were all over my timeline.

Tom's music polls were just about the only decent thing about Twitter when I left it, if those come back on a new platform I'd consider joining it just for that

he moved them to a dedicated site but not enough ppl joined the platform so moved back to twitter for a deathrun

aw, I'd have helped (lol)

guessing its presence on this new platform no longer exists