Longtime ILXors - how has this board changed over time?

xpost, no prob alba.

1) personal, unwarranted harrassment from a definite "longtime ILXor" (who seems gone though perhaps posting this will bring it)
2) having fights with Tom over things I've posted to ILX and me throwing a regrettable stroppy fit and doing things like abolishing ILX from my computer, deleting my photo archive, etc to spite him.

So, to me, a longtime ILXor, the board has definitely changed, just as I have changed a lot, and because of both of those things (plus the two mentioned above) I use the board less now, but, hell, I'm like one of 10 people who doesn't seem to dislike Jon Williams, I'm certainly not going to dislike your average ILXor. For a while it was a bit bothersome to me, because I no longer felt I could use the board for the purposes I was originally using it for, but pretty soon I realized that was quite childish and I really didn't care very much and like the occasional distraction it might offer now.

xpost no, I am never going to defend the proposition that everything old is good, mookieproof, far from it, I am wholly in advocation of deleting the entire archive, truth be told.

And your naked penis contribution is monumental!

That is all from me. Goodnight, sleep tight, and for the record everyone on this thread is ok by me. *salute*

ps N/alba/AllyzaySC/etc don't go!

Whatever the public wants, ken.

"Posting on the thread
with a gun in my hand..."

*hides*

Good luck on yer papers.

i remember when people would argue and 'debate' in long paragraphs - that don't happen anymore and i suspect alot of that's due to the growth of the place, people don't want to get caught in the xposting.

I'm confused.

maybe someone could blank it out or something.

oh dear :/

And BTW, I try my hardest to at least put up a facade of being intelligent, of having something of substance in my cranium, but honestly, when it comes to music, I'm just coming out of a period where I was actively avoiding any "new to me" music and only relying on my musical comfort foods for aural nourishment. And before that, I went through a period where I was only doing that which would allow me to survive. I listened to my Ultravox and Visage and Japan (to name the most "obscure" artists I was into at the time) and assorted various '80s artists and such only to the point to where it wouldn't interfere with my schoolwork, homework, club and organization duties, volunteer work, and nascent social life. In fact, even though I seem like I'm a busy individual these days and am in fact living a fully grownup existence, I've got more free time these days to devote to music listening than I ever had as a teenager.

So that's why I can't contribute worth a shit on ILM, unless you count the few times I post something and it ends up getting ignored or glossed over. That's why I'm forced to stick to the "chatty" threads. I lived to exist for such a fucking long period of time that it's only been recently that I've been able to expand my horizons, and I was kinda hoping on having that happen by frequenting this forum. So I'm fucking sorry I'm one of the idiotic masses around here. I'm just trying my hardest, time and again, and it seems like it's all for nought.

Oh, and I think the longtime posters who have chosen to drop out of sight around these parts have done those of us who really haven't been here all that long a GREAT disservice. Every single one of you oldtimers have contributed in some way or another to getting every single one of us (relative) newbies to come out of the darkness of lurkdom and start posting here. We don't get to hear their fresh perspective on any number of things. That's really unfair of them.

This is true, but it's (a nearly inevitable) consequence of the mode of interaction a message board allows. One's intelligence and one's humor are basically the only traits that are able to conveyed and, therefore, appreciated. (but even on those two qualities, you're selling yourself short)

Are you aware of the fact that whenever somone says "Chicago FAP!" there's this eternal protracted debate as to when and where and why and how? If you said "Chicago FAP!" tonight, we'd all pretty much bend to your will, short of driving to whatever backwater you live in.

With ILM, you can search the archives for seemingly every band you can think of and come up with several threads devoted to them. So, the bands that almost everybody knows have already been C/D & S/D'ed to death, thus, most of the new threads are related to more obscure bands in sub-sub-genres and relatively few people are able to participate.