Longtime ILXors - how has this board changed over time?

I think a lot of the people who had a problem with Noize actually had a problem with Jon. The 'call out poster x' threads were lame but a lot of it was just anarchic goofing around and looks pretty tame in retrospect. By the time of Ask Chaki etc that had solidified into this culture of disgruntled perma-sniping but a lot of that is gone now.

Yeah I know it's not perfect now etc etc but it feels stable in a way it didn't a few years ago.

it's a little too stable, i don't feel people interact with new people anymore or it's not a vehicle for that. i mean it's nbd, lots of friends here, but everything is indeed pretty sectioned off.

I don't think there are that many new people really. I suppose I've been thinking the opposite but maybe that's because there have been a load of catch-all threads for massive events that are attracting a really wide pool of posters - cf Olympics thread.

How many new people do we get though? The only person in a long time who jumps to mind is Vic Perry, who hasn't posted in like a week or so...

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Didn't silby just admit to being here about two years? Seems like newer people can still integrate.

yeah maybe no new people. that's pretty shit imo, why is it the case?

basically ilx will end when we all die

There are several new regs per day, but it doesn't translate into many new regular posters. Actually, I've seen more new names lately -- about half of them brand new, and the other half people who registered months ago and apparently lurked and read for a while before starting to post.

what is our lurker/poster ratio?

Alternatively maybe there are loads of new posters but they tend to slip in fairly quietly and largely unnoticed and then suddenly it seems like they've been around for ages.

it doesn't feel that way to me, surely we should foster growth? i suggest a recruitment drive.

We don't have an admin tool to see how many people have posted over the last X days (which would be very handy, now that I think of it -- I'm sure Stet has such numbers at his fingertips), but we have 2388 registered users and god knows how many unregistered lurkers, so, uh, I don't know.

xp Matt OTM. I just noticed a new name, looked up the info and saw they'd registered 2 years ago and had 90 posts. Stealth!

we need a 'valuable new posters' equivalent for when that happens

Alternatively maybe there are loads of new posters but they tend to slip in fairly quietly and largely unnoticed and then suddenly it seems like they've been around for ages.
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been here since 2005
i mentioned this before upthread and the only person who noticed was mark e, who has met me in person

i think there are a lot of ilx wallflowers. a peep here and there, but mostly observing and not dominating any particular conversation.

i'd have definitely guessed you'd been here since at least 05

re: new posters, did the switch to reg-only as a spam fighting move also end up walling off the more... impulsive, shall we say, strain of visitor we used to get?

lol, maybe we should integrate with Facebook authentication

the only thing it killed off was the Teadrinkers board I think.

ILX: What year did you start posting?

So yeah, if that poll is to be judged as a representative sample there's been a real falling off in recent years.

I keep forgetting how long I've been around but my first post was in December 2003, and I think I lurked for a few months before that

lol I searched that thread and the second post I made on it is "did reg-only slow down the addition of new posters?"

so I guess I'll be having this conversation again next summer

One thing that's changed is the display names.

Lots more security, you know? I feel like I'm having a staring contest with a anonymous username but I won't back down

in October I'll have been posting for 10 years. in December I'll turn 25. someone please shoot me in the face.

But then you won't be able to post about the worst part of getting old.

baby crut <3 I shoot you with love

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Whoa crut you young

as a pack of wolves would a human baby, this board has raised a crut

I remember crut being younger seven years ago

hwere the hell is Buff and Max's mom on this thread? finding mason bees homes?

buffandmaxsmom is actually a crut sock

we need to alter the numbers of new ilxors being born, artificially or organically. our community is in grave danger.

that reminds me, all boards need more Banaka

the fact that "Poll: What's the worst part about getting old?" is doubling in size every day seems like a new development

anyone who claims not to be shocked by these terrifying new figures is a bare-faced liar

ilx is perpetually in the gutter

I see a strong future for ILX implants in the cerebellum and ampule of vater

imho its good theres less overtly anti social behavior and people just being blatently unkind on ilx, but it has the consequence of there just being a shit ton of really boring people who post to every thread and say absolutely nothing who wouldve been intimidated into putting a lil more effort in or driven off in days of yore

an under studied and essentail to understanding the transistion from zing to cuddlestien ilx era is imho mod wars/board lawyers, which was m/l tombot behaving antisocially in defense of the status quo where noise/zing was antisocial/revolutionary, both sides were decimated rip

I'm pretty sure the post-flameout era was full of people trying to constantly go over the top to see if they could accumulate SB points, flanked by people who loved to SB for comedy purposes

as internet communities increase in size and age, the probability of any member x finding any member y boring approaches that of the real world

there used to be standards man standards

Sorry we bored your thread, mister.

ilx used to be a place where you could be yourself, without derision, even if you were a self-clowning oven

i apologise for being boring and nobody noticing me for years and years until the metal polls.

btw I was thinking of this last night and my brain crossed it with that Bjork SNL sketch and I kept wandering around saying "I throw neeckels in the self-clowning offfven and it is mooosick!"

i don't really find contemporary ilx to be "cuddlestien" except maybe in comparison to previous eras. still plenty of bitterness and fighting to be found throughout the site

We were never being boring - we had too much time for synthesizors

ILX has certainly opened its mind _ I remember when you couldn't even make the little "tescicles" sign <3