Longtime ILXors - how has this board changed over time?

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)

There should/have be/been a board for people who like to go out to dance clubs called "I love to boogie"

welcome home collardio gelatinous!

Hah while we're constructing a Danny Boyle style panorama of history, I remember the outcry when someone (Jess?) first described someone as not having been bullied enough in earlier life.

Thank you Sweet Yin Yang!! xp

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.

yeah I have heard from a couple regulars who I talk to off-board that they took the outage as a good opportunity to quit

ex-regulars I shd say

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?

― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Friday, August 10, 2012 7:34 AM (54 minutes ago)

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

― sorry for asshole (dog latin), Friday, August 10, 2012 7:39 AM (50 minutes ago)

one of the best things about ILX is that it's actively self-policing, which keeps the level of conversation pretty high, minimizes redundancy and ugliness, but is definitely a two-edged sword. if any given conversation can only take place once, and posters are obliged to know the local history before entering one, then perhaps an end-game stage is eventually reached where all the basic, ground-level things have been said, and there's little room left for the sorts of music-related thoughts most new posters would have.

the other day, i was looking at the sound opinions board, and found a rather dispiriting conversation called "when did punk music start?" i say "dispiriting" because, though it was brand new (started only a few days ago), it tediously rehashed all the tired old punk-related ideas and debates that have been circulating for the last 30-some years, but there's also something refreshing about that kind of naivete. it permits engagement, and the result doesn't necessarily have to be as dumb as that particular SOMB thread. the fact that you just can't have those kinds of conversations on ILM/ILX probably pushes most prospective new posters away, for better and for worse.

as I've explained to friends, the "IL" part of the boards is straight-up sarcasm and it's actually called "I hate music"

I would also like to say that I feel there's always a space for earnest music talk, British or otherwise, and being able to be yourself in your own space is a very important thing. If anyone felt that was threatened in the bad old days, I did not mean to endorse that. Only that engaging in the common areas, and expecting no boundaries to be challenged, is misguided.

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

― scott seward, Friday, August 10, 2012 11:28 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

― max, Friday, August 10, 2012 11:32 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how dare u scott, especially now that youre a vlogger frankly

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)

― Your sweet bippy is going to hell (WmC), Friday, August 10, 2012 11:45 AM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya i somewhat agree but on the other hand its just a message bord

this is not the first place i would go to share earnest thoughts about a record, these days

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xpost. i really love the recursive masking thing that happens when people start quoting posts like

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

― max, Friday, August 10, 2012 11:32 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if ilx is so dedicated to not repeating old conversations, how come the politics threads keep retreading the same dialectics?

politics is cyclical

altho in our case it's more like treadmillical

this is not the first place i would go to share earnest thoughts about a record, these days

sounds like a personal problem

Mordy, I think it's Morbius being senile and we all play along

are you a known poster? you seem pleasant.

:)

there are now no unknown known posters

But really, I seldom post personal thoughts on very many records but I don't know that I'd do so elsewhere. I appreciate reading thoughts on records.

if ilx is so dedicated to not repeating old conversations, how come the politics threads keep retreading the same dialectics?

― Mordy, Friday, August 10, 2012 11:44 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think you'll find that political discussion pre- and through 08 was a bit different. people are much less explanatory and verbose now. maybe up through the passing of the health care act, for the americans.

though it's hard to dissociate that shift in ilx discourse from general irl liberal fatigue

though what shakey said, too. people don't change their minds really.

it kinda sucks now

i can't imagine you ever saying different

has the board changed?
or has the board stayed the same, while you changed?