Longtime ILXors - how has this board changed over time?

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

omg megan fox's toe thumb!

http://styleblazer.com/69650/15-of-the-ugliest-celebrity-hands-they-arent-always-perfect-all-over/

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

it's called a heart

oh wait, that's depeche mode innit?

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

― Mordy, Friday, August 10, 2012 10:27 AM (24 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya but thats just people fighting abt things or w/e instead of going out on the neighborhood watch like they used to, see ban x threads

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

Nonsense, the most egregious boring say-nothing posters on any message board (or in the real world for that matter) are always totally oblivious to the fact and there's not much that can be done to change that.

we need a separate flag post button not for antisocial behaviour but just for being tedious

ya but thats just people fighting abt things or w/e instead of going out on the neighborhood watch like they used to, see ban x threads

I feel like I missed out by not getting one of these

I wonder if the smaller amount of new posters reflects people beginning to see message boards as relics. I mean why read a long thread where a bunch of freelancers argue about Odd Future when you can just tweet at Tyler the Creator?

i don't think so. message boards are still very popular throughout internet; reddit, 4chan, somethingawful, i'm sure tons more. ilx has always been a smaller more insular community

what always surprises me is when a new poster turns up and within months seems to know all the memes, jargon, flames, poster idiosyncrasies and general ilx history etc... I've been here 11 years and my ilxor.xls is woefully undermanaged

most of these people r long time lurkers tho no

I mean why read a long thread where a bunch of freelancers argue about Odd Future when you can just tweet at Tyler the Creator?

― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Friday, 10 August 2012 15:34 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but where do you go if you wanna know about shaving your pubic hair. like how you look for tyler when thinking about odd future, you go to ilx, straight to the source.

we need a separate flag post button not for antisocial behaviour but just for being tedious

― thomp, Friday, August 10, 2012 9:33 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is how I always used it, I must admit

Also, I now use "flag post" on the worst gross-out stories and creepy posts to share the love with mods :)

pet shop boys <3 (this one is testciles)

There are two or three who I suspect genuinely do read through dozens of old threads and flamewars in an attempt to be up to date on every aspect of board mythology. You can tell by the occasions when they ostentatiously drop things into conversation from several years before their first post.

Nonsense, the most egregious boring say-nothing posters on any message board (or in the real world for that matter) are always totally oblivious to the fact and there's not much that can be done to change that.

― Matt DC, Friday, August 10, 2012 10:33 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha yr prob right but I feel like there are some Ilx stalwarts who were whipped into shape via constant hazing, tho part of it is prob people started to feel affection toward them via having abused them so much

i don't think so. message boards are still very popular throughout internet; reddit, 4chan, somethingawful, i'm sure tons more. ilx has always been a smaller more insular community

reddit has a very pronounced 'we find this boring' mechanism. 4chan is 4chan. SA has barriers to posting but i don't know whether they're as pronounced as reddit's