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Or are you the sort that goes around saying "I don't start threads, I only finish them, you knowworrimean?"

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 09:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I've started about 7 threads in the 4-5 years I've been on ILX.

― Sir Gregory of St.Kitts (g-kit), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 09:50 (seventeen years ago) link

(In a sort of answer to the other thread, I'm not "Saving my best" for the relaunch, (as if), but I did think this would be one that'd best be asked and disposed of, come the fateful)

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 09:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I've started a couple, but not many. I think my "miracle never-get-tired pill for insomniacs" thread was the most successful (oh, and I'm still looking for a UK source for those pills if anyone's in the know).

My Scottish football threads have thousands of posts but there's only about 5 people post to them on a good day).

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 09:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Funny thing, after about five years (REALLY? OMG!!) of being here, I finally got to ask something that I'd wondered about for ages: How do fairly famous musicians feel when seeing their best stuff sold off cutprice.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 10:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't start threads that much cause I figure noone will reply to'em. I have this paranoid feeling everyone dislikes me. hah! ~~Not~~ really. But yeah once in a while I do start a thread. I started that toilet seat thread and it went completely wild. That was nice. Silly I know, but, hey, it's fun seeing a thread you started lead a life of its own. hahah

― nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 10:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah me too. I have the same paranoid feeling. (that everyone dislikes you) (just kidding - I'm not confident enough to be a thread starter, I guess)

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 10:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't been a thread starter for ages, mostly because I've had a pretty hectic time of it over the past year or so and haven't been around much to contribute on threads, let alone start any of my own.

I still think that my zenith was my "Tell Me About 10-Year-Old You" thread, so it can only really be downhill all the way for me after that :)

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Most of my threads are ridiculous silly pie in the sky ideas I've been kicking about in my head while trying to get to sleep the previous night.

I liked my FATTIST thread, but the ice cream in the street one kind of grew legs.

― Rumpie, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 12:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i am a thread starter. who cares? dust, wind, dude.

― jbr, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link

You are, Mark... You've started over 1,000 threads.

― Keith Watson (KeefW), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

From the number of "I knew this was a Kate thread..." comments I've got, I assume that I've started a few. Can't remember what they were, though. I only start Watercooler threads now. If a topic is interesting enough to be debated on ILX, I'll debate it there.

― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link

How do fairly famous musicians feel when seeing their best stuff sold off cutprice

Well if they remembered to pay their taxes they wouldn't have had the bailiffs come round in the first place.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

My recent threads seemed to gather way too many ad hominem answers, so I'm not sure if I should start new ones.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link

People post in Latin? Cool.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Certe.

― Clovis Iager, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

You are, Mark... You've started over 1,000 threads.

ha ha, i don't know if this is an exaggerated figure or not (too low perhaps).

i feel like i've started maybe 100. some of those would've been v stupid silly ones, from early days. no idea what most popular thread i started was but it seems silly to take credit for that sort of thing unless you really kept it going yourself.

there are only seven types of thread on ILX. discuss.

― #, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

current affairs
personal problems
religion
"i just saw my neighbour kill his dog..." etc
picture
lists
parody

― Ste, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

solae septem species sunt? scilicet scis?

― Sandboctis Scouragus, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

1. RFI ("what is X and can we eat it?")
2. balkanised/regional haps/banter ("it's about NOTHING!")
3. C/D
4. let's commentate on this event as it happens (sports, tv shows etc.)
5. vanity fair freakshow (what do you look like oh the same as last month surprise surprise etc.)
6. self-promotion (my band/club night/book etc.)
7. reaction to news (similar to 4 but more heated, political etc.)

there's probably loads more (list threads could count as RFI or maybe not)

― #, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't start threads much, for many of the reasons cited by Nathalie above. Not that I don't think people like me, but because I think I'm sort of part of the scenery (not in a bad way). However, when I do start them they are almost always about television programmes, because telly is my life.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

8. excelsior
9. parody
10. attention-seekery from trolls ("mods how dare you delete my thread on black people etc.")

― #, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

11. shared interests (games, knitting, sports)

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

12. NO LIST NOVEMBER

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

13. ONLY ON REAL ILM

― #, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

oh yes forgot about excelsior threads

and also the click threads, watercooler, chicago, mongrels etc.

― Ste, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

see "balkanised" no 2 above.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

My thread-starting approach frequently involves asking for advice on one thread and then feeling guilty and trying to follow it with a more general interest thread. So nothing great and memorable has come of this. Maybe I'll start one about organic fish today.

― Maria, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Not much of a thread starter. My best guess is 30-50 in 2 1/2 years.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm feared to death of starting threads, as it may reveal my true identity of being a complete bull-shitter.

THERE I GO AGAIN

― Ste, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I keep hearing that GODDAMNAWEFUL FIrestarter song when clicking on this link.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

the first day on the new server could be 'EVERYONE START 1 THREAD TODAY'

― #, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Sounds familiar

"If this is your first night on ILX, you *have* to start a thread!"

― Ste, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

'greetings, all'

good times

― Sandbox Scourage, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Rarely. I started a couple early on that received, like, three answers. My proudest moment remains What Do You Look Like In Your Underwear?

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

for which we remain most grateful

― #, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

mostly

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

And rightfully so! (xxpost)

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Did you anticipate the turn it would take, Mädchen?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Not at all! I was gobsmacked.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

ha ha, i don't know if this is an exaggerated figure or not (too low perhaps).

No, it's not, it's straight from the database, as of a couple of months ago anyway, so possibly a bit more now.

I can post the top 50 if anyone's interested...

― Keith Watson (KeefW), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

yes please!

― nerdy nerdington, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

If you change your name frequently, then this'll affect your standing...

count(*) displayname
1813 Ned Raggett
1542 Tom
1280 anthony
1082 Alex in NYC
1002 mark grout
913 gareth
906 dave q
732 mark s
686 Ronan
685 Scott Seward
617 dog latin
590 donut bitch
580 Fritz Wollner
579 MarkH
557 Huk-L
551 DV
545 Dom Passantino
541 roger adultery
530 anthony easton
526 Tracer Hand
519 Mike Hanle y
449 David R.
439 jess
438 gygax!
421 N.
406 Geir Hongro
403 hstencil
399 stevem
380 piscesboy
378 ken c
360 Dan Perry
347 Mark
341 Ed
331 Gear!
331 nickalicious
329 sundar subramanian
324 Dave225
322 Matt DC
319 Tim Ellison
311 (null)
311 jel --
305 Pete
304 Sterling Clover
304 Nick Southall
301 @d@ml
298 Hurting
295 Nordicskillz
291 Forksclovetofu
280 William Bloody Swygart
274 Joe

― Keith Watson (KeefW), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Who's (null)?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, I wondered that myself...

― Keith Watson (KeefW), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

That can't be right... though I suppose I didn't register for ages and ages through most of my heaviest thread-starting times. :-(

― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

(Though if that's going by display name, not user name, then no wonder.)

― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

So, is it safe to deduce that starting threads is a male habit? No women at all in the top 50 (unless Null is one).

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Uh, no it's not safe at all to assume that, if it's based on display name. No Ally? No JBR? (Apart from my not being on the list.) I call shenanigans.

― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

bear in mind male-female proportion on ILX is probably at least 3-1

number of thread i've started is way more than i expected. considering how little i used 'stevem' as a display name i might be on over 700 in total.

― #stevem, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

bear in mind male-female proportion on ILX is probably at least 3-1

Yeah, but not 50-1.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Typical that the "feminist" is actually ignoring the only female trying to answer this question.

This list is based on display name. The three heaviest list starting females that I've just named are also (correlation not implying causation of anything) the three people who change their display names the most often.

― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

or could be way more but i refuse to believe i have started more threads than mark grout despite the 1 year (or whatever it was for me) headstart (xpost)

― #5t3v3m, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Typical that the "feminist" is actually ignoring the only female trying to answer this question.

That's why I put the 1 there. And it was an x-post. Though many male poster change their names too. Is the list based on "Your Full Name" or login name?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

can we get a 'most threads started' based on login name to settle this battle of the feministas?

― #, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

why don't we leave keith alone to actually do some important ilx work instead?

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought this was based on login names, like the statscock... Woouldn't it be much harder to gather the info for display names?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

It's hardly "feminista" to think that Tuomas talks enourmous amounts of bollocks about gender roles.

― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

No Ally? No JBR?

Ally is one off the bottom of the list, on 270. I don't know who JBR is.

Is the list based on "Your Full Name" or login name?

It's the display name, which I think is the 'Your Full Name'.

― Keith Watson (KeefW), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

All nurses are women!

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, I wasn't trying to make any particular point here, just observing.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyway, observing patterns isn't the same as saying "All men are like this!" or "All women are like this!". I'm a social sciences student, I can't help noticing such stuff.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe you should start trying harder.

― John Justen wants to hit you in the head with a pipewrench. (John Justen), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, because there are no patterns in societies. We are all individuals bound only by our untamed spirits!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

All women are nurses!

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.icn.ch/SewDatasheet02.pdf

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

women(!) don't start parody threads or spam threads(!)

― general genderson, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

That was a parody spam thread! Two birds with one stone.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

"oh ma-ma!
could that really've been
teh end
of me
never ever starting
'nother ilxor thread
again?"

― tiit (t**t), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

bear in mind male-female proportion on ILX is probably at least 3-1
Yeah, but not 50-1.

Nor is it 2-1.

Nor is it 4-1.

Nor is it 7-1.

Oh right, it's 3-1 and everything else it is not.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

THREE-ONE, THREE-ONE

THREE-ONE

THREE-ONE, THREE-ONE

THREE-ONE

― STAND UP IF YOU'VE GOT A DICK, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

My two favorite threads I ever started...

1. titled "This is what it sounds like when doves cry", the first post was a picture of Chewbacca. Approx 12 responses.

2. titled "RISING WHIRLWIND SNOOZE BUTTON SMASH" where everyone turned boring everyday activities into awesome Street Fighter finishing moves, or something like that.

― nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Whoa!

Man of a thousand threads!

Nah nanana naaah.... nanana naaah na na naaah na na naaah
nanana naaaah....

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 08:16 (seventeen years ago) link

the first thread i ever started

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 08:40 (seventeen years ago) link

RISING WHIRLWIND SNOOZE BUTTON SMASH was an awesome thread.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link

The first thread I started was piercing baby's ears c/d and I've rested on my laurels ever since.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Only 311?

All quality I guarantee!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

The best threads I've started are the one's about banal conversations, and the "the little side pocket on jean, what are they for?", I was always proud of that one!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

So what are they for?

I think my high water mark was Addams Family vs Munsters.

― Wench (jim wentworth), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

It's so great, google cached it!

Google ""the little side pocket", and click on cached.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

So they did!

― Wench (jim wentworth), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyone want any other stats that I might be able to get in spare time?

― KeefW (KeefW), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

i start only about two threads per year i think. tragic obv. because otherwise there'd be far more threads like "Places To Put Your Penis"

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 30 November 2006 03:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I know nothing about starting threads.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 November 2006 03:56 (seventeen years ago) link

ok Shaggy.

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 30 November 2006 04:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Zoinks!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 November 2006 04:12 (seventeen years ago) link

it wasn't him.

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 30 November 2006 04:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Banging away like an ILXor.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 November 2006 04:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I think sometimes that I like starting threads more than responding to them (and definitely more than I like responding to answers in threads I start). Attention seeking?

― jergins (jergins), Thursday, 30 November 2006 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't recall what threads I've done - the "Postcards from the Edge" one was a minor success, and my embarrasing "I love youse all" thread from when I first got here keeps rearing its sickly head. I think apart from that I mainly did local FAP organisation stuff.

Curiously, my first thread was on ILM and it was something like "you know you're getting old when..." wiith me whining about how music bored me these days. And a load of lovely ILMers gave me some srsly ace recommendations on new (and old) music I might like.

Now Louis Jagger does the same and everyone piles shit on him. Makes you think. Or not, I wouldn't know.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 December 2006 03:35 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm pretty sure louis has never made me think, but such things are always possible

― esoj@w3rk (esoj@w3rk), Friday, 1 December 2006 03:48 (seventeen years ago) link

the sewage outflow has mercifully slowed to a mere trickle, nowadays.

electricsound, don't think of pink penguins.

― Sandbox Scourage (Scourage), Friday, 1 December 2006 03:56 (seventeen years ago) link

God I love RISING WHIRLWIND ETC. Kills me every fucking time.

― John Justen wants to hit you in the head with a pipewrench. (John Justen), Saturday, 2 December 2006 03:53 (seventeen years ago) link

i didn't realise i'd started so many threads!

― wogan lenin (doglatin), Saturday, 2 December 2006 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link

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