Longtime ILXors - how has this board changed over time?

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

my rule for group-specific threads is that the london and australian threads will never make sense, but the gay threads usually have some great material in them

try a littel tenderness!

best youtube video i made today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxZM7Sj8-2E&feature=channel&list=UL

I'm a fan of SNA -- didn't use it right away but eventually became converted. On the other hand, I've tried bookmarks but have discovered they aren't a good fit with the way I use ILX. Which is to say, I mostly just like to dip into whatever's in SNA that looks interesting. I'm on the site often enough (pretty much every day) that I don't miss too many updates to my favorite threads, and if I do, it's no big deal. For me, having specific threads bookmarked -- with constant alerts when there are updates -- feels like an onerous obligation to keep up with them.

oh wait that was to zs talking ab out youtube but that was a while ago now. i'm slow.

I remember how some Ilx people touched my soul in a way only Jesus did

i've been on ilx since 04 and tbh when i discovered noize in 06, everything abt ilx/the internet clicked into place for me

started in 05 for me but oh yeah this X10000

as a sideline to the hacker aesthetic, the noize borad in its heyday was a place for shared music enthusiasm, earnest (yes) appreciation at a time when ILM was dominated by pretentious/convoluted music-crit and verbose posters who could be very condescending w/o realizing. i liked these guys - and they were always guys - but still the over-intellectualized verbiage on Ashley Simpson (remember HER?) got a bit wearying imho

now I come to ILX out of habit, click threads randomly. sometimes I feel out of it/too old but hey change - it makes you wanna hustle

haha, i'm kind of tempted to go looking for these high-falutin' Ashlee Simpson threads...I always liked "L.O.V.E."

Pieces of Me is an alltime jam.

noize board as all males is a misremembering

I meant the ILM heavies were all guys, noize was WAY more integrated than ILM ever was

oh! yeah, maybe!

for some reason i remember the pop music fans from back then as all male.

ha I heard Ashlee's song about "Whoa I didn't steal yr boyfriend" playing on the radio when I walked into my health club a few months ago and LOL'd thinking about ILM's 'glory days' the receptionist just stared incredulous so I said 'who could forget this classic' and he said 'well you have a kid so that must be why you know this song' and i laughed even harder cause my son hated her. "No but I knew a 56 y.o. critic who..."

maybe you had to be there ;)

Bullshit revisionism. And I say that as a girl who was on ILM from p much the first month. Old ILM had a lot of women.

One thing about the Noize Board that's not often commented on is that it functioned partly as a locus for NYC ILXors. I gather that some of the frequent Pickle Bar posters in the board's heyday gravitated there less because of the "noize aesthetic" than because that's where their friends hung out and where happy hours at Daddy's were organized.

xpost

well when I started posting in 2004 you were one of the few women - maybe 20% tops - as far as i could tell

haha, i'm kind of tempted to go looking for these high-falutin' Ashlee Simpson threads...I always liked "L.O.V.E."

time would be better spent getting back to your X-Men/Grant Morrison blog imho :)

True. I never went to a Daddy's, but Noize was a reliable source of info on upcoming NYC shows and events.

(xposts)

I mean, to Daddy's. Not to a Daddy's..

Bullshit revisionism. And I say that as a girl who was on ILM from p much the first month. Old ILM had a lot of women.

as usual you read what you want to read. We were talking about 2005.

2008 was a difficult year for ILX - there were many passions flowing like wine into the mouth

prithee - when and how did Momus eventually tell us all to "get thee fucked" and leave?

on ilx's best day, no doubt

it has changed a lot for me over the years.
i had no idea as to the whole community aspect of this place until i went to chicago a few years ago and met up with the local crew there (and djp !).
that one evening made me realise how brilliant it is.
i used to be in fear of posting stuff, and so held back a lot, but no longer.
the contacts i have had from random ilx folks re the last year experience have been very heartwarming.
something i would never have expected from ilx.

oh, and even after 10 years hanging out here, i still have no idea re noize/secret boards etc.

thread? anyone have that memory? in the barin?

the divine nature of latham green's spelling has not changed over time

yoy uknwo I realized I did not spell brain right but then I felt it seemed nic ethat way - like some word from middle-earth

exactly!

Hey let's fight some old wars!

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

I am willing to admit it has been done in amusing manner like, five, times. Most of the time it was an airhorn at a dinner party - yeah dude that's hilarious but we're talking here! From some of the posters it definitely started sounding like "I don't have anything to say so I don't think anyone else has" / "bored now!"

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

The thing is, most of those people were quite aware of how they sounded, they were just glad that they could sound like themselves unselfconsciously without assholes. Then, suddenly, there were assholes!

i liked these guys - and they were always guys

a) they weren't always guys, dude b) at least they weren't bros.

as a sideline to the hacker aesthetic, the noize borad in its heyday was a place for shared music enthusiasm, earnest (yes) appreciation at a time when ILM was dominated by pretentious/convoluted music-crit and verbose posters who could be very condescending w/o realizing. i liked these guys - and they were always guys - but still the over-intellectualized verbiage on Ashley Simpson (remember HER?) got a bit wearying imho

those posters getting chased off ilm coincided w/ my move to ilx + subboards and only infrequent posting on ilm

sometimes wonder if the influx of B&S fans was actually an influx of people who thought they were characters in a B&S song

those posters getting chased off ilm

leave on their own or chased?