LP 13/Invisible: Please disperse, nothing to see here

[ClaytonsKitten]

If that doesn't end up being a screen cap from the commercial, I will eat Pharrell's hat.

I've been saying it's a still shot from the video since first seeing it. Clearly no one listens.

 

[mobonofo]

PM me something invisible please ;-)

 

[Miringeltje]

I remember writing invisible messages in a post.
You could only read them by highlighting the post (or page).
Fun times!

 

[lazarus]

Pretending to have access to song that hasn't been released or leaked yet is not cool, as well as posting private messages. Honestly Laz do you just love to blatantly break rules for a reaction (trolling, another rule breaker) even though you say yourself that posting private messages is not ok?

This thread is supposed to be about discussing the new album / songs / thoughts - not all this childish crap that only about 10 of you want to read.

However, just in general principle and not specific to Laz per se, a member's "value" to the forum doesn't preclude them from having to follow one of the most hallowed rules re privacy of PM messages. On this count then, if the contents of PMs were actually published (I don't know, it seems to have been implied)...well then that really is not cool.

I'm not sure what the letter of the actual rule here is, but I'd like the record to show (and I'm sure there were witnesses before my original post was deleted), that I didn't post the actual private messages, but simply highlighted my inbox page showing the names of the users who contacted me. In fact, I have yet to even open any of them. Perhaps posting the names and the titles alone are a violation, I don't know. But I would have appreciated it if this distinction had been made by the mod who altered my post.

Laz's first post about having the track was obviously just a joke. Two new-album threads were created at the same time, and Laz was jokingly trying to encourage people to post in his thread and not the other. He didn't set out to troll anyone initially.

All of the lurkers who suddenly started asking for PMs of the track in response to an obvious joke got exactly what they deserved. Laz rubs plenty of people the wrong way, but he's of more value to the forum than all of the lurkers just waiting for a hand out if you ask me.

This is a spot-on illustration of what happened, particularly the joke of my original post about the "leak". Mikal followed-up by pretending I had sent it to him, and this kept the joke rolling. I'm not attempting to implicate him in any wrongdoing, just explaining the escalation.

I'm having a hard time feeling bad for the drooling parasites who went into a frenzy over something they would have been ILLEGALLY listening to had it been true. There's no actual leak? Boo-hoo. What I'm sorry is that the mods had to deal with people actually COMPLAINING about the lack of said illegal material. Can you see the irony in this? "Hey Sicy, this guy said he had an illegally acquired copy of the unreleased song but it wasn't true and now I'm mad I wasn't party to this crime!"

Further proof of the desperation and idiocy going on here.

 

[Hewson]

PM me something invisible please ;-)

 

[Sicy]

What I'm sorry is that the mods had to deal with people actually COMPLAINING about the lack of said illegal material. Can you see the irony in this? "Hey Sicy, this guy said he had an illegally acquired copy of the unreleased song but it wasn't true and now I'm mad I wasn't party to this crime!"

Further proof of the desperation and idiocy going on here.

The complaints weren't actually about not acquiring said illegal material, but the act of posting private pm's/responses to ridicule in public, and just the fact of pretending to have something that everyone is waiting for. I see your points and appreciate your response and explanation.

 

[Registered Dude]

I've been saying it's a still shot from the video since first seeing it. Clearly no one listens.

yeah I know this seems like the most likely explanation.. but that doesn't look like a film still to me. it's a seems more like a computer generated image. or at least, one that's been heavily manipulated. this could still be from the video of course.. but it could just as easily be some sort of design that ties into the new single/album . much like how this graphic was repeatedly used in the build up to the last Arcade Fire record.

whatever it is.. just trying to have some fun conjecturing

 

[mobonofo]

Haha! doh:

 

[Galeongirl]

If that doesn't end up being a screen cap from the commercial, I will eat Pharrell's hat.

 

[Galeongirl]

I remember writing invisible messages in a post.
You could only read them by highlighting the post (or page).
Fun times!

That's still possible, you just have to change your text colour.

 

[ClaytonsKitten]

 

[Miringeltje]

I know

GG!

Less than 100 hours until Invisible!

 

[Galeongirl]

I know

Wrong blue you need the medium turqoise one.

 

[Airseven]

Gr8 thread!

 

[kingston]

I quit my job for this?!

woW!!

 

[lazarus]

The complaints weren't actually about not acquiring said illegal material, but the act of posting private pm's/responses to ridicule in public, and just the fact of pretending to have something that everyone is waiting for. I see your points and appreciate your response and explanation.

In my haste to show everyone the result of our joking, I neglected to stop for a second to think about all of this. My intention wasn't to single out anyone in particular but more that people in general had been caught up in the madness; I really should have XXXed out the names and it would have made the same point.

 

[Miringeltje]

Wrong blue you need the medium turqoise one.

Yeah, I noticed.
Am a bit rusty.

 

[Registered Dude]

In my haste to show everyone the result of our joking, I neglected to stop for a second to think about all of this. My intention wasn't to single out anyone in particular but more that people in general had been caught up in the madness; I really should have XXXed out the names and it would have made the same point.

clearly, we all need some new music..

 

[Galeongirl]

Yeah, I noticed.
Am a bit rusty.

Nothing much has changed over here, so you'll fit right back in!

 

[digitize]

That's still possible, you just have to change your text colour.

Doesn't work so well on the smartphone apps.

 

[Miringeltje]

Nothing much has changed over here, so you'll fit right back in!

Thanks!

I'm already looking forward to reading all the and about Invisible.

 

[Miringeltje]

Doesn't work so well on the smartphone apps.

Unless you do this. But that doesn't work with the blue background.

 

[corianderstem]

I'm caught up with this thread now.

 

[Registered Dude]

I'm caught up with this thread now.

what was your favorite part?

 

[corianderstem]

The part where I missed it all.

 

[ClaytonsKitten]

I'm caught up with this thread now.

what was your favorite part?

The part where I missed it all.

I liked that too.

 

[Galeongirl]

Doesn't work so well on the smartphone apps.

It's not the Blue Crack there anyway! Pfsh you youngin's and yer fancy phones!

 

[mikal]

In all fairness to Laz, I'm just as if not more responsible for this blowing up. So my apologies if any rules were broken.

 

[Blue Room]

I think you could delete this entire thread at this point. It is a complete waste of time.

 

[corianderstem]

Burn it to the ground and salt the earth.