Longtime ILXors - how has this board changed over time?

The point of a wiki is that we all write it...

i'm getting so "all my friends" today about people on the internet and i'm not even drinking

xp you can do "the beatles"

with dr. whiney g. weingarten

i kept track for a while. i know, i know. before our last sandbox sidetrip we had over 3,000 registered users. today it's 2,386.

Interesting that its dropped! I wouldnt have gathered that.

when i kept track, a year ago

ethan had some insightful things to say but it was a bit HS canteen after a while

I didn't really interact with him, but reading him in some threads he struck me as a kind of redneck cop trying to nightstick people into not discussing or liking hip hop he found distasteful. Fuck the police.

here

http://hanlepedia.wikia.com/wiki/Hanlepedia_Wiki

I guess the main way ILX has changed is that most of the good posters are gone or post infrequently

Indeed?

Sorry, let me put that more diplomatically... many cherished posters are no longer with us

carry the burden of those we've lost, hungry4ass

ethan and i always got along really well. i miss him posting.

― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, August 9, 2012 11:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought he was really annoying when he was still here, but when I come across his posts, he doesn't seem that bad. He got sbanned for something REALLY stupid, like an image bomb iirc, and just never came back. Meanwhile we've had dudes get sbanned 3 or 4 times and they rise up posting again like it was nothing.

One thing, was ethan black or white or what? He was definitely one of those dudes who pointed out racism regularly (oh, if he were here now to see the IS IT RACIST thread), and I got the impression he was coming to it from a personal perspective. But a while ago someone said something that gave me the impression that he was white. And also, he never posted in the wdylls. Fuck, who was that? Anyway, someone here has met him, I'm sure?

yeah

lol

yyyyyyeah

he just understood what it was like to be a puppet of the man

Oh fuck, he worked in a puppet theater or something too, didn't he? I'm still foggy on a lot of things about ilx from my early days of posting.

at the very least this thread has taught me that 'doctor casino' is not greying britishes rocker 'dr. c', who seemed a good chap.

i joined ilx during the peak of the nasty years, snuck in a few days after l0u1s jagg3r and as a consequence nobody noticed at all pretty much. posted so intermittently on threads that nobody cared about for such a long time about my startling insights regarding animal collective albums. it wasn't until the gay threads started properly rolling that i became a "regular poster" but sadly a lot of the earliest staples of those threads have disappeared (casuistry: my most missed poster, who i hung out with in toronto a couple years ago and who was pretty much exactly as i expected) or who i don't get to interact with as much with as i used to (surmounter, who i never see anymore now that everything that it is currently possible to say about the album blackout by britney spears has been said) and also the gay thread itself suddenly domesticated and is now about gays in their married bliss, though again this is super cute but i don't really have anything to add on the topic. its harder lately for me need to post and i've been pretty much just lurking intermittently recently. ilx is time consuming and this has always been a major problem. the need to be involved in this or that rolling discussion. my most positive recent experience was the paul simon poll, the antagonism between the simon solo evangelists and the s&g orthodox believers was genuinely hilarious to me. i think that what is good about the always burgeoning poster base is that it still allows these strangely sequestered private conversations. a couple of years ago i had a long discussion with lamp about chillwave that let us post like one hundred youtube videos and hit submit on whatever badly digested derridean stoned logic entered our heads and all the bad vibes festered elsewhere on the post-anco thread. i feel like the coalescence of a mainstream hivemind is always in flux and im not in touch enough right now to know where that is at the moment. i think that a lot of the best posters still post pretty regularly, surm, stevie d, harbl, ice cream, horseshoe, max, enbb, morbius, i mean this is definitely not a complete list. it feels like the tribal rolling threads have dissipated somewhat maybe idk. it also feels like there's been a shift away from the internetspeak linqua franca that i got used to. for me those fashions have been mainly how i keep track of the eras (the abbrevs era vs the EVAH era). best beloved tuppence. why because she look intrsting. itt two princes. can i just

ethan was white btw

probably still is

judith that was a great post. :-)

Yeah, I enjoyed that too. Agreed that the Simon poll result thread was really great, and also symbolizes one major thing I come to this board for, that you really don't find as much elsewhere on the internet, which is just great little anecdotes of how people came to love a certain song or where it was at a certain time in their life and all this kind of stuff, it's a really positive kind of sharing IMO. And the S&G/solo battling struck me as a pretty friendly rivalry, without any kind of death threats or "clearly you must be a racist" kind of stuff.

the gay thread itself suddenly domesticated and is now about gays in their married bliss, though again this is super cute but i don't really have anything to add on the topic

The gay thread is often indistinguishable from the film ones, and both kinds boast more than their share of heartless single queens like me.

yeah but you all have a different way in to and involvement with film to me and the way film is discussed on ilx has always been the one weirdly alienating thing for me. that said donna rouge told me i might like harun farocki once and since then i've seen about 75% of all the farocki films that exist.

which takes a bit of effort.

donna rouge and sarahel are probably the two biggest omissions from that list of my favourite posters

Post at your leisure, judith -- please! I for one miss your posts.

the quality of discourse has definitely dropped from the "are the Smiths the best band ever and do you want a curlywurly milkshake?" era

My early favorite posters were Josh and Badgerminor.

2002 to like 2005 were pretty rough, and i know i was part of that cuz lol twentysomething with a unresolved anger issues and taking the internet too seriously. i'm a lot mellower now, and (conveniently) i think the rest of ilx is too, or at least the trolls are easier for me to ignore.

i always liked noise borad (i never posted there a lot but they were always nice to me and some of my favorite posters are noise hall-of-famers) although i dislike the zing aesthetic.

one funny thing when i started posting on ilm is how pop-evangelist everyone was, and i was all "stop thumping that bible at me! i may be new here but i'm right there with you." i've loved pop forever and i don't have some staunch indie past to live down. even if i like pavement.

yeah that's true. hadn't thought of it that way. i'm no born again either. loved it all from day one. never had no pop or indie guilt. so no need to justify my life. its kinda fun to watch other people get hot and bothered about it though.

does tom ewing cringe when he looks at ilm now? now that it's an unofficial grateful dead fan forum.

Judith! I miss you! I know a certain hairy little snorty fellow who does as well. I am honored to make your list even though lol what? I'm so not one of the best posters. <3

the Rolling Stones, Beasties and Simon & Garfunkel polls have been some of my favorite recent ILM interactions. Super positive, massively educational.

And I will forever cherish the glorious, hilarious, super hi-fiving summer camp that was Omar's glorious ACTION MOVIES POLL.

Yeah, action movie poll (ahem) kicked ass. And got me to watch some of those movies for the first time, to my satisfaction!

Was a lot of fun, it's true.

fav recent thread was scott's trip to the yankee doodle store w/ smith & wesson boots.

I've been lurking and posting only occasionally since around 2001, but never been so heavily involved that I ever had more than a vague idea of what was going on in terms of the larger community.

But I do have a sense that ILX has a diversity that wasn't there before. You'd have a hard time posting about anything that wouldn't at least get a few intelligent responses. And honestly my main reason for reading this forum is just to get leads on new music, and that function it performs better than ever. That's perhaps a selfish way to read approach it though, since I almost never post about music.

I wasn't here at all, then I was here a lot, then I was here too much, now I'm hardly here at all.

otm

I guess the main way ILX has changed is that most of the good posters are gone or post infrequently

― WheatusVEVO (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, August 9, 2012

many of the people i loved most are gone. (so are some assholes, of course.) many good people remain. the vast bulk of posters are giant blanks to me, but i guess that's no different than it was 12 years ago.

The worst thing of all I think is how many regular ILXors have actually passed away.

(unless thats what h4a was in part referring to)

Like I can think of 3, immediately, but there must be more?

i have a feeling ade was more referring to the people who have actually gotten their shit together and found contentment away from black text on a white background

beacons to as all, each and every one of them

when I got here it seemed like ILM/ILE cultivated a lot of MFA types and there was more of the sinister/alt.music.alt diaspora going on. the brits, the gays and the party drug people were all interspersed and ad hominems seemed reserved for truly worthwhile targets like Momus and some other asshole whose name I can't remember. There was Graham, and Andrew, and the code was shit and didn't scale, and I was in the military and then I was in grad school and then I was married.

Now I'm married again, and a dad, and I'm in the government, and it just all seems a little smaller and quieter, and people still get nasty but now it's nastiness among peers because we banned all the champion trolls and the diaspora has reverted to ghetto threads and there's too many boards for me to keep up on the best and brightest - site new answers (ex audience-specified running threads e.g. gay, city, parents, photogs) seems to boil down to POLITICS SPORTS POLITICS WEATHER TELEVISION CONSUMER-PRODUCT POLITICS - I miss some things about the old days. but not much. I'm not one for nostalgia, surprise.

i'd just like to point out that i'm one of the rare success stories in off-board life that still deigns to post here with any regularity. you're welcome.