Longtime ILXors - how has this board changed over time?

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.

there was a thread years and years ago where we posted in each other's styles and you had to guess who we were being. it got very confusing though.

actually I was wanting an "I Love Science" board - I wonder if ILX has enough scientists to make it vibrant and flamboyant

caek!

you guys are making a pretty good case for the whole nu-boring ilx.

meanwhile, megan fox's toe thumb!

http://www.handresearch.com/thumbs/megan-fox-thumb-tribute.jpg

there was a thread years and years ago where we posted in each other's styles and you had to guess who we were being. it got very confusing though.

― sorry for asshole (dog latin), Friday, August 10, 2012 11:16 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i re-read this p recently. it's mostly funny & stayed light-hearted. biggest gag is posting 5 dense paragraphs every time nabs pops up

I'm more freaked out by the other Megan Fox she has growing out of the side of her head.

http://www.celebritysmackblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/90303w6_fox_m_b_gr_03-1.jpg

new board "I Love Boredom"

that would be I LOVE CRICKET: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX.

nothing boring about I LOVE CRICKET: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX

I didnt see that - is it invisible?

I Love Toe-Thumb

I pretty much went away for what feels like three or four years, and recently came back. Had been an on-and-off poster since '03 probably. I'm just glad ilx is still going, still has some of its long-standing regulars, and still recognizably the place I left. I've been dealing with mortality and loss of late, so to find that a place like this endures is a pleasure I don't take for granted.

those are all her right hand, what kind of horrors could she be hiding on the left hand?

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

― lag∞n, Friday, August 10, 2012 9:43 AM (55 minutes ago)

I hate the truth of this. Hazing to toughen someone up and hazing as a requirement to club membership are just gross and inhuman to me. (sorry for earnest, double sorry that I've committed this sin myself)