Longtime ILXors - how has this board changed over time?

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

You can tell by the occasions when they ostentatiously drop things into conversation from several years before their first post.

you've met sarahel too huh

that blows my mind. as if there isn't already enough time to waste on this thing than having to brush up on your ilx history.

maybe! my point was just that message boards still seem to be popular xxp

its a lil embarrassing but also kind of awesome when people become board historians, there is really a lot of info out there that needs looking after

Nothing wrong with a little research.xls

that seems a weird thing to gauge imo. a lot of ilx is reading old threads, either through their revival, or if they're alluded to, or when you're just really bored & they're there.

ultimately, i'd rather be a boring blank on a message board and a lively human irl than the other way around.

You need to entertain the kind of people who think that message board snark makes them into some kind of army drill sergeant or you're basically worthless imo.

I did in my initial post definitively single out that behavior as boorish, just trying to trace the cause n effect here

ultimately, i'd rather be a boring blank on a message board and a lively human irl than the other way around.

― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, August 10, 2012 10:49 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sort of a false binary tho no

i guess the reason we don't get so many newcomers is two fold:

- no equivalent of sinister (or wherever) to attract a big new contingent
- impenetrable / exclusive nature of the board when it comes to jargon/history etc. If I were a newbie, I doubt I'd understand half the posts on ilx.

it would be nice to have some younger ilxors though. you don't see a whole lot of teenagers or even people in their early twenties hanging around these days - most seem 26 up at least.

idk, I don't think anyone who has posted for any period of time and has a discernible personality is ever going to be seen as a "blank"

best to start over with a new name

it would be nice to have some younger ilxors though. you don't see a whole lot of teenagers or even people in their early twenties hanging around these days - most seem 26 up at least.

maybe some children of ilxors will takeover

are you saying there trolls in ILX

http://bestworstmovie.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/best-worst-movie-review-troll-2.jpg

I'm only 23! I think I came across ilx a couple of times through googling; I think I joined as a result of the ICP "Miracles" poetry thread. xps

sort of a false binary tho no

i dunno, not really. i've never interacted regularly with people for this long and still have no idea what they look like, sound like, smell like, etc. it has made me think a lot about the concept of integration/integrity, tbh.

I'd say the first crop of ILX posters very consciously developed writing styles that amounted to these genuinely unmistakable posting 'voices' (in varying degrees of contrivance) and you don't see that as much these days, partly due to posts getting shorter but also due to several people defaulting to particular prevalent posting styles. See also these innocuous posters who suddenly discover old Ethan P posts and start affecting this kind of obviously put on brattishness.

i feel like there are more boring posters now than there used to be but maybe i have just become more boring

it's true, LL smelled me when we met, these things are important

let's turn this into a discernible posting style thread

Iirc a huge part if the total poster drop is the astonishing number of people we lost on the long ilx outage a while back. Also the current system culls users that haven't posted in the last six months, which is a huge factor in total regs vs the old system.

how do you request a new board anyway

I vote we give Latham Green a board

Do you have a list of users who we've culled, no reason, just a laugh.