Longtime ILXors - how has this board changed over time?

you guys are killing me

Even the Dutch board? xp

It's really difficult to tell when, say, there's a random thread titled something like I JUST WANT YOUR FULL ATTENTION - is that about a band, a track, a new thing, someone just attention seeking? But with blog view, when you see every person on ILM, one after another, going "holy shit, this track is amazing" - you know that it might be something worth checking out.

And mh, I honestly don't mean to start anything up again, but what the old guard were complaining about Noize Board was not "things being different" but some quite seriously over the line, aggressive and bullying behaviour. Which it's very easy to forget or overlook when you were not the repeated target of this. But not if you were, for example, singled out for repeated harassment for two years solid, because you once asked someone to maybe resize an image.

ENBB you should come now while the Lobster wars are occuring - fight for the Maine resistance force against the maple menace to th enorth! LObsters are so cheap now the local papaer was actually beggin Mainers to eat them

xxp Are you one of those people who use Google Glasses? This isn't the Middle Ages you know. Sub-meson neural interface with Autotranslate provided by the BabelFish module is where it's at.

devastating 2 me how succinctly this digression unintendedly answers the thread question :(

x-post - Yes! My dad was telling me about all these cheap lobsters last week. Gonna be there in October but would like to drive up sooner just cause it's so pretty. Also, CHEAP LOBSTER.

xp On a serious note, I think that technology has had an impact. There is a drop in long form posts. We're used to posting tweets, and viewing websites on mobile devices.

x-post what's that supposed to mean, huh? :(

old ilx never spoke of lobster

flopson keep in mind the whole reason ILE was brought into existence was because ILMers were getting tetchy about music threads turning into discussions about what people had done the night before

Any set of answers to the question which didn't mention Noize Warz would be a little lacking, though.

Mobile devices might be a major structural force underlying a different feel - - ILX was always one of the last bastions of long-form paragraph-style discourse on the internet, and part of its appeal to me is TOTALLY the unapologetically early 1990s look and feel, text text text baby! This also makes it easy to use on mobile devices, which is an unexpected boon, but it also means that you're now trying to craft a post and by the time you're done, 25+ one-line posts have gone by and your remarks are sort of out of place now. Those one-line posts are often really good, mind you...they're not all zings and ho-hums! But they do mean that the format and pace is more like an IRC room than a Usenet board.

DG told me ILE was my fault ;_;

Can I ask an ilx history question: what is the origin of the Noize board?

or the 'noize' term in general

ANother some-time ILXOR will be visitng Portland but she is verydiscreet - she will not eat the lobsters though

xpost Seconded, someone please clarify!

I wish we had a Maine fap when I lived there. Enjoy tha lobstuhs!

I will eat them all!

Noise board creation also had some personality issues involved, though, which is to say that noise-folks wanted to use space to act a certain way, and creating the noise board gave them a space to do it.
Noise board creation would be like if you had a party and a couple dudes wanted to wrestle in the living room, so you said hey, let's set up a wrestling mat in the yard for you two.

Nabisco otm

got it, thank you!

2004-2008ish or so was really zing-heavy. But it was kind of fun. Still, hurtful to some I am sure. It's a lot nicer these days. Some people annoy me sometimes, but at this point y'all are kinda like my family members... some of you say things that make me roll my eyes at the dinner table but I still love ya.

I still rmemeber when there was the complaint that the ILM board was going off topic too much so the ILE board was made - where a tart can be star

Mandee otm

and the days of Momus sitting with us by the fire, chuckling at his genital

Noize was a thing! Wolf Eyes and Lightning Bolt and such!

A bunch of Noize fans made their way onto ILX, they were (most of) young and brash and boys and American. They clashed a lot with the mods, and eventually someone (I'm curious who) had the brainwave of giving them their own board.

someone (I'm curious who) had the brainwave of giving them their own board.

Wasn't there a time when anyone could create a new board?

Haha the thing about using ILX on mobile browsers (apart from the horror of Remove Bookmark not working) is that it doesn't show you xposts, it just posts, giving you +20 boor points.

the mobile use creates many sudden happiness when it auto-corrects into something strange - your words

xps lol i didn't notice that u were talking about lobster, i am not depressed by lobster digressions.

could maybe write a more bitter vers of this but i think a 50-post digression about whether you use 'blog view' or 'site new answers' in a thread called "how has this board changed over time?" is symptomatic of the glut of boring stuff on ilx in 2012 and the conditions that everyday create more and more of it???

sorry for boring :/

Wait, isn't a discussion of previously unavailable tools for using ILX, and how that changes how individuals relate to the site, really germane to the question? I mean, I get that it's sort of like navel-gazing minutia in a way but I "get" it, personally.

^^^

Blog view and SNA are valid topics for discussion on this thread - they change how you see ILX, and may encourage short pithy posts even more that mobile devices and twitterisation.

what is blogview! HOW DO I SHOT BLOGWIVE!

Just looked at blog view for the first time and it made my head spin - don't think I could ever do that. Seems like you'd really have to be reading ILX virtually 24/7 to have any hope of following anything. Which I guess I sort of do anyway, but I'd like to think I don't.

It's one of the choices across the top, next to "Logout," and it presents recent chunks of posts with new answers in a blog-style scroll.

lots of scrolling => I am lazy => not much of a blogview user

don't mean to attack anyone in specific for being boring and i think the glut is a consequence of people feeling comfortable and a casual, chatty environment that has resulted from it: which (despite, being someone who posts infrequently and impersonally is not something i personally place a big value on) i can acknowledge is important to a lot of people

U OPEN My werld bioioitch!

No offense taken on the boredom front...some of the greatest posters ever are boring!

I wonder how much of this is just down to raw numbers of posters but I have no idea, really, how many active users there are now versus three years ago, five years ago, seven years ago...is there any kind of database that would give a sense of that?

"i can acknowledge is important to a lot of people"

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-K07eebumZmc/TvN1SmVvZvI/AAAAAAAACUI/TtxP5n9aL4w/s1600/strenco_steam_robot_1.jpg

lol otm

the ilx database, no doubt

BLog view just spiced up my chutney! I know I am offensvice but dues, I am sensitive too!

on the longterm trend from novella-length to shorter posts, isn't it also possible that many topics have just already been talked to death? ILX has been around for a while now, and i think ilxors generally do a decent job of reviving old threads rather than starting up new ones. and so while it's true that the real world is endlessly complex and new issues are always arising that deserve discussion, there are also a lot of things that have already been discussed in depth, and there's not really much that's new/valuable to add since nabisco already nailed it 7 years ago or whatever.

dunno, just a thought.

long posts making a comeback imo

WCC's points above about Blog View are otm. For me, it's a way to peek into a thread to get the gist of it without turning its dot into an accursed circle. Sometimes I keep up with goon squad beef that way.

could maybe write a more bitter vers of this but i think a 50-post digression about whether you use 'blog view' or 'site new answers' in a thread called "how has this board changed over time?" is symptomatic of the glut of boring stuff on ilx in 2012 and the conditions that everyday create more and more of it???

See, I read this quite differently. That on ILX 2012 people are friendly and polite and helpful enough to explain what they like and don't like, and try to help other users get the most out of their ILX experience, rather than just lazy zings going "LOL u newbie u don't know about the circles, die Britisher LOL" etc.

xpost to self
you know, if i was stuck on a desert island with some stranger and the death penalty came up (maybe, for example, this stranger was proposing that i should receive the death penalty), i could talk her ear off. but with a topic like that on ilx, one often just scrolls up and sees how the discussion developed several years ago, and quickly spot someone who was OTM. you might be able to post a link to a recent story that's relevant, or maybe post a goofy animated gif, but often there's not much new to add that's truly valuable. this may actually just be a self-esteem problem!