Why do people leave ILX for good?

oh, so there's no thought police

but i don;'t have a right?E

listen to yourself

u sad little man

u waste

Ok dude go with god.

everyone is free to think and say what they want about the European Union or Corbyn or whatever is happening in that thread. Except people also say stuff back.

― xyzzzz__, Thursday, August 9, 2018 12:31 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no dude

come back here

fuck you

you don;'t fucking know me

you don't know my fucking sociaL justice day job that goes from 7 am yesterday to 1 am today PDT

go with my nuts, asshole

hey everyone take notes this is how u hardman properly

come back and post like a man xyzzzz, tell us how many palestinians yr adventures in modern music saved this month and i'll tell u about my social justice work

say something back

(preferably something nice in a shitty way)

Normal posts to engage with.

On a slight digression, having been browsing quite a lot of old threads recently, I think 2001 - 2004 was peak ilxor. It was friendly, intelligent, sociable, interesting, sociable, fast-moving and people had more interesting and cute problems (eg crap jobs, flat sharing/room mates, travel on a budget). And there was a greater insight into peoples' off-board lives which i miss.

xp Okay, thank you both for your time on the "Reasons to leave ILX" thread - it's a fine display, the judges can't fail to appreciate it. Who's next on the ticket?

it’s not normal u moron

i’m ESPECIALLY mad at u

bobbins threads just aren't the same without you tlg :(

hey fuck you too andrew

he called me an uncle tom

don’t act like there are good people on both sides

[calls for civility ensue]

ross if u really want to get banned pay attention and do what i do

lol there is zero percent chance you get banned for shouting at xxxyyyz

wb and hope u stick around obv

I don't think he is worried about being banned.

you’re absolutely fucking right i’m not with the likes of you running the place

what’s to lose except being called out as a white supremacist

I am running the place?!

its a figure of speech

You are saying a lot of crap, hard to keep up

i just mean dickheads like u r close to critical mass

do try to keep up

Need a coffee man. Maybe then.

i should have given u some of mine i obviously had too much

so why have you picked calling me a white supremacist your hill to die on?

why not just apologize and move on?

it should of course be obvious why i would pick not being a white supremacist as my hill to die on

you could even just sidestep the issue and apologize for wounding my fragile ego

the punchline is that they've run out of new jokes to tell because they're stuck in prison. so they've memorized and numbered all of the jokes. so someone just says a number and everyone remembers the joke and laughs.

― the late great, Thursday, August 9, 2018 8:14 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ah, that ringzabel.

Tlg I didn't know that an apology was all that you were looking for. I will need to look at that thread later to remember exactly but iirc I found what you said very offensive, as did others.

that’s fine

i don’t need u to tell me what was offensive

i need u to tell me what makes me a white supremacist

i’m not mad at anybody else because no one else did that

i found other responses on that thread thought provoking and somewhat persuasive

the argument that the snipers were committing murder by refysing the moral imperative to not shoot, thus making the protestors actions not suicide, for example, resonated with me

your response - petty name calling - also resonated with me, as you can see

really you just picked a bad name to call me

and don’t hide behind other ilxors

own your shit, as they say

if you’re such a righteous dude that you’re sure a peek in the archives will cleanly vindicate you then surely you’re a righteous enough dude just to apologize for hurting my feelings and move on. honestly, it won’t change the balance in the mideast, but it’ll make a difference to this middle easterner *eyes swell w tears*

^^ that last bit is sarcasm

xp to Luna, would've liked to be around at "peak ilxor"

but the threads I enjoy are still good, and tbh I often find some of the old threads kinda weird

we need to determine the actual eras in a pre-poll thread then it must be time for another official vote surely

2001 - 2004 was peak ilxor. It was friendly, intelligent, sociable, interesting, sociable, fast-moving and people had more interesting and cute problems (eg crap jobs, flat sharing/room mates, travel on a budget). And there was a greater insight into peoples' off-board lives which i miss.

note that back then (when i was introduced to this place) we were all 100% anonymous if we wanted to be and the accretions of personal animus manifested and were discharged way differently

and the accretions of personal animus manifested and were discharged way differently

― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, August 9, 2018 8:37 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is honestly one major reason I don't post more -- I've said this many times before but unless someone is using their real name I have zero idea who they are (the changing display names don't help), let alone the near-20 years of contextual detritus around them that everybody else seems to know

i'm not even sure what artists have ilm consensus anymore besides Kendrick Lamar

steely dan, hall and oates, the 1975, charlie fucking puth now

aka the hell axis of music

― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine)

i only like one of the four consensus artists you mentioned :(

I came on in I think 2006 so I guess I just missed ‘peak ilxor’ but I honestly enjoy it more now than during those first few years I was here. Yes it was super dynamic but there was also a lot of mean jock bullshit which I do not fuckin miss at all.

Can’t deal with FB or Twitter at all anymore, this is the little patch of civilization I’m clinging to.

Hey xyzzz step on a rake

there are NOIZE DUDES i miss who seem to be long gone and most-valuable-poster scott seward is apparently on hiatus if not out of here too but honestly the site is doing just fine these days for reasons many have mentioned above -- it's just a better quality of conversation (this poster excluded!) than most other digital watering holes

and seriously fuck twitter

i don't understand the mindset that leads one to say "this message board used to be better". obviously ilx did used to be better before i started posting, but it's such a broad and vague statement i can't take it as meaningful. i have specific grievances with many of the regular posters here which i keep to myself because who fucking cares, i feel bad when i post something and nobody responds at all, not even to make fun of it, i feel bad when i post something and somebody only responds to make fun of it, i understand "there are more interesting discussions on twitter", but "used to be better"? like i'm going to go back and read posts from 2006 in reruns? personally i find how i feel about ilx is highly dependent on my mood at the time. if i'm super depressed ilx is shit because everything is shit. if i'm not super depressed ilx is a decent time-waste and good chance to read and post about things i don't generally get the chance to talk about.

anyway if i ever leave ilx it will probably be a result of some sort of contract dispute.

I judge the health of the board by the # of new posts/year in the Mouse on Mars thread

it's not looking good, you guys

probably because it feels like a club house, or a country club, where it's the same 5-6 posters (obv. i'm insane, over-generalising) referencing in-jokes half the time, and lack of content (pertinent to my interests), i suppose. for example, a fantastic aphex twin video / song drops, and people are ultra-ultra-blasé, almost like it's an inconvenience "I can't be arsed", "This is paint-by-numbers AFX", "My son made me replay the whole thing" etc. - obv. not EVERYBODY/// but, fucking *yawn*, i'm an ignorant / sleep-deprived asshole. the "vibe" isn't one of excitement, or earnestness.. it feels more like "oh, you again" ... it doesn't feel so inclusive, i suppose. more like a clique of cranky fucks. it definitely felt more fresh and exciting during the early-mid 00s, but what Arch Bacon said^^