Longtime ILXors - how has this board changed over time?

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!

as much as i like the get-personal aspects of certain threads and am quite neutral about threads going off-topic on a message board about everything/nothing, i also fondly remember the time when thread policing consisted of a series of amusing and massive images fuck yeah

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???

― reductio ad burzum (flopson), Thursday, August 9, 2012 1:34 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

actually, I think it's just that the internet has become more boring in 2012

xpost to flopson re long posts, my secret hope in reviving this thread was that it would come out that my tireless efforts to keep posting like it's 2003 have not been in vain, that this is indeed the new trend, then i realized the majority of my posts are probably written more in this decapped, one-liner drive-by style with karats or 'xpost' at the start and no period at the end

if it was 2002 there would be a couple lit majors trying to effuse over the nature of blogs and blog views and their relevance to music writing followed by a couple of cryptic references to something said at a fap

like, the ship has sailed on there being a new http://www.ulillillia.us/ created in 2012. (what, when did ulillillia change to a .us domain name?) all the ulillillia that are out there have been discovered already. there are no more new ulillillia. this is web 2.0.

i also fondly remember the time when thread policing consisted of a series of amusing and massive images fuck yeah

I feel that the only way to respond to frogbs half the time is with frog pictures, tbh

I don't know what ulillllletc is and the name makes it look like a virus so I'm not clicking on it, but I sort of relate to this idea that we live in a bleakly decadent fin-de-siecle era, with everything worth saying having already been said, and the only hope of artful posting being through Mannerist operations on the board's past, hence all the meta stuff and the fascination held by younger posters like me with the board's arcane and ephemeral history.

but alas not 20 pictures of frogs in one post :/
xp

ulillillia = "I was otherwise very normal before I became 4 years old"

so many words, so few nabiscos. responding to some run-on naif rant with little content with a big image was denigrated as cheap zings, but in fact, the words were just too expensive

This is the only thread where "having posted on a messageboard for 12 years" feels like an accomplishment, rather than a condemnation of my entire lifestyle, tbh

;_;

or not as funny
xp

does anyone else remove bookmark from a thread they're otherwise very much interested in when they've said something trolly cause they just can't help themselves

YES

sometimes a binladenthumbsupbycomputer.jpg really is worth a thousand words, though

I think I read ILX about 30% for run-on naif rants, 30% for the cheap-zing images. Nabisco is def one of my favorite posters on here, maybe just because (s)he made thoughtful contributions to threads I started, which makes me feel special.

Or I remove bookmarks for a week or so because I know I'll go on some tear or get too emotionally locked into a topic and want to come back to it later, more clear-headed

tbh when I first started reading ilm, there were a lot more people who regularly were published or wrote music stuff semi-professionally and I was more likely to remember their names than other posters

sorry for being a nobody :) (ooh I could c/p that into passive aggressive thread too, lol)

^^^ JOEKS

tbh when I first started reading ilm, there were a lot more people who regularly were published or wrote music stuff semi-professionally and I was more likely to remember their names than other posters

you know that a shit-ton of ppl who are regularly published/writing music stuff semi-professionally are still here, right

well yeah but I'd have to read ilm

also, it's ironic that this thread was bumped in the same week that the fourteenth thread about shaving pubic hair ever created was started

these pubes have been shaved before, you could say.

xxpost and those guys are all jerks :D

I remember VegemiteGrrl because she's the ex-australian who still interacts like an australian, but instead of constant lame insults it's constant cheerful half-joking

you had me going for a while there, dayo! i'll get you for that.

I wonder if you asked 4chan ppl if they felt 4chan was more boring in 2012, what would they say

xpost
case in point, back in 2004, i would have produced a 11-part youtube series about my pube policy, had youtube existed. but now i'm just like "my pube policy is the same as nabisco, nabisco otm"

xxpost to mh and I interact in a language that you understand. it's win/win!

i remember a thread where t0m admonished everyone for referring to simon reynolds as a "gobshite." different times. a few years later i really enjoyed those early encounters between the earnest types and the noize crew. everyone is too nice now but we're all old.

Like when they say "Just pullin yor tit mate!"

there's not really much that's new/valuable to add since nabisco already nailed it 7 years ago or whatever.

nobody on earth is OTM all the time

I am nicer to people.

The emergence of chat threads that aren't topic specific.

I wonder ... did this exist before
This is the thread where I say:

That's true, his stance on salting food is wrong and wronger. xxp

xp (Luna RIP)

idk, the period of clowning people with no self-awareness of how they sounded had its purpose, but failed in that it's possible to be clowned and still not learn self-awareness

really feel that the terminator series is about skynet wandering on to ilx and not figuring out how badly it had been clowned for years

I am nicer to people.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius)

Link? (Kidding!)

The emergence of chat threads that aren't topic specific.

When I first started here, I was always too afraid to read this thread. I still haven't, but is that what this phrase refers to?

Not location specific, No rules: Welcome to ILX heaven