twisted thread starter?
Or are you the sort that goes around saying “I don’t start threads, I only finish them, you knowworrimean?”
I think I’ve started about 7 threads in the 4–5 years I’ve been on ILX.
(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)
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).
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.
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
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)
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 :)
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.
i am a thread starter. who cares? dust, wind, dude.
You are, Mark... You’ve started over 1,000 threads.
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.
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.
My recent threads seemed to gather way too many ad hominem answers, so I’m not sure if I should start new ones.
People post in Latin? Cool.
Certe.
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.
current affairs
personal problems
religion
“i just saw my neighbour kill his dog...” etc
picture
lists
parody
solae septem species sunt? scilicet scis?
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)
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.
8. excelsior
9. parody
10. attention-seekery from trolls (“mods how dare you delete my thread on black people etc.”)
11. shared interests (games, knitting, sports)
12. NO LIST NOVEMBER
13. ONLY ON REAL ILM
oh yes forgot about excelsior threads
and also the click threads, watercooler, chicago, mongrels etc.
see “balkanised” no 2 above.
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.
Not much of a thread starter. My best guess is 30–50 in 2 1/2 years.
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
I keep hearing that GODDAMNAWEFUL FIrestarter song when clicking on this link.
the first day on the new server could be ‘EVERYONE START 1 THREAD TODAY’
Sounds familiar
“If this is your first night on ILX, you *have* to start a thread!”
‘greetings, all’
good times
Rarely. I started a couple early on that received, like, three answers. My proudest moment remains What Do You Look Like In Your Underwear?
for which we remain most grateful
mostly
:)
And rightfully so! (xxpost)
Did you anticipate the turn it would take, Mädchen?
Not at all! I was gobsmacked.
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...
Yeah.
yes please!
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
Who’s (null)?
Yes, I wondered that myself...
That can’t be right... though I suppose I didn’t register for ages and ages through most of my heaviest thread-starting times. :-(
(Though if that’s going by display name, not user name, then no wonder.)
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).
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.
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.
bear in mind male-female proportion on ILX is probably at least 3–1
Yeah, but not 50–1.
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.
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)
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?
can we get a ‘most threads started’ based on login name to settle this battle of the feministas?
why don’t we leave keith alone to actually do some important ilx work instead?
I thought this was based on login names, like the statscock... Woouldn’t it be much harder to gather the info for display names?
It’s hardly “feminista” to think that Tuomas talks enourmous amounts of bollocks about gender roles.
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’.
All nurses are women!
Hey, I wasn’t trying to make any particular point here, just observing.
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.
Maybe you should start trying harder.
Yes, because there are no patterns in societies. We are all individuals bound only by our untamed spirits!
All women are nurses!
women(!) don’t start parody threads or spam threads(!)
That was a parody spam thread! Two birds with one stone.
“oh ma-ma!
could that really’ve been
teh end
of me
never ever starting
‘nother ilxor thread
again?“
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.
THREE-ONE, THREE-ONE
THREE-ONE
THREE-ONE, THREE-ONE
THREE-ONE
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.
Whoa!
Man of a thousand threads!
Nah nanana naaah.... nanana naaah na na naaah na na naaah
nanana naaaah....
RISING WHIRLWIND SNOOZE BUTTON SMASH was an awesome thread.
The first thread I started was piercing baby’s ears c/d and I’ve rested on my laurels ever since.
Only 311?
All quality I guarantee!
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!
So what are they for?
I think my high water mark was Addams Family vs Munsters.
It’s so great, google cached it!
Google “”the little side pocket“, and click on cached.
So they did!
Anyone want any other stats that I might be able to get in spare time?
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”
I know nothing about starting threads.
ok Shaggy.
Zoinks!
it wasn’t him.
Banging away like an ILXor.
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?
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.
i’m pretty sure louis has never made me think, but such things are always possible
the sewage outflow has mercifully slowed to a mere trickle, nowadays.
electricsound, don’t think of pink penguins.
God I love RISING WHIRLWIND ETC. Kills me every fucking time.
i didn’t realise i’d started so many threads!