Any reason why ILM is so quiet these days?

So many message boards I've joined and participated in the past fifteen years have died. ILE/ILM is the last one I check with any sort of regularity.

My favorite thread have always been the ones covering the tentpole pop/indie/hip hop albums. There do seem to be less of those kinds of threads lately.

The fb listening group just makes it easier to post photos/images of album sleeves than uploading something to imgur and posting it here. It's the rare post there that gets more than a few likes or more than one comment. It's fun(ish), but not a replacement for this place.

I guess the main reason I view fb and twitter as secondary repositories of ILM-talk is that there's no good way to search the archives of either one. Here, if you want to go back and find what people were saying about Justin Timberlake between the breakup of NSync and the release of his first album, it's not too hard to find content if it's there. If you wanted to do that on fb or twitter, you a) couldn't, because those conversations would've happened before either service even existed and b) it would take you HOURS to locate it.

Twitter search isn't that difficult. Also at least 80% of my favorite Twitter users are non-ilxors.

https://twitter.com/reverenddollars/status/99276008250818560

Just took me ~hours~ to find my first tweet.

i hate twitter. but i get it. i guess. why people are there. i'm not a phone person.

Just took me ~hours~ to find my first tweet.

tbf, the advanced search feature is a lot more useful now than when I was a regular twitter user. I didn't realize they'd beefed it up. The same can't be said for facebook, however.

yeah facebook is a memory hole

Oh totally.

I've always wondered why they've never added a strong search function.

Because it's all about the RIGHT NOW, BITCHES!!!!!!

(not that you guys are the bitches; just sayin')

another reason it is quiet

because when one of my favorite posters asked for more women in the runaways thread she was derided and as a result of stupid japery she's left ilx altogether

that's why you cant have nice things

i plan on never leaving & making you all miserable as a result YOURE FUCKING WELCOME

you're one of the reasons i'm still even here. jbr too, but i can chat with her on facebook.

lol we'll be here at the end posting in the eagles thread like statler & waldorf

another reason it is quiet

because when one of my favorite posters asked for more women in the runaways thread she was derided and as a result of stupid japery she's left ilx altogether

that's terrible, i feel awful for contributing to any of the unnecessary noise in that thread, hope she has not really left ilx

the straight white male poll was the final straw i think :/

I find certain aspects of ILM really frustrating, and while I post a lot have on occasion tried to forgo due to perceived dickishness from some parties, but I always try to remind myself: don't take it personally, it's the internet, this is how it works, most of you I've never met, etc. I do miss some posters, some voices I looked forward to and/or respected. But by and large I don't find ILM hugely different from what brought me here a very long time ago, bar maybe more cartoonishly kneejerk negativity and sensitivity, which at least in the latter case reflects a general increase in awareness, imo, of how we use the internet and perhaps how we use the internet improperly (louder, faster!).

if an ilx beef threatens to take over a perfectly innocent thread you can politely direct people here.

if an ilx beef threatens to take over "if an ilx beef threatens to take over a perfectly innocent thread you can politely direct people here." you can direct people here.

if beef on an ilx trees thread get out of hand, come here to look at beef

if an ilx beef gets out of hand on the beef thread come here to look at trees

that was a rough july on ilx...

otm

when one of my favorite posters asked for more women in the runaways thread she was derided and as a result of stupid japery she's left ilx altogether

If by stupid japery you are referring to this stupid poll then I don't disagree, however I don't see any derision on the Runaways thread, unless it's being accused of being a man by another woman, but if that's how she interpreted it there's nothing anyone else can do about it.

Anyway, seems a pity to me, hopefully she'll be back.

now I feel like a heel -- again, I'm really sorry, I genuinely have no idea who anyone is unless they use their real names

do hope jbr will reconsider, won't go :(
made me happy to see her posting more lately & starting some excellent threads

jbl these days no? Anyway consign that

*cosign ffs

srsly

if this is the endgame of the culture wars then idk what to say or do

learn to do and say nothing.

also I dunno it's the (northern hemisphere) summer, aside from Ned my "friends" on fb are very quiet right now (like Ned had 20x the number of posts of my next closest "friend" last week), lots of people are on the road, or their brains are melting from the silly heat

seems like it could be a good time to run a retrospective ILM ballot poll though? I dunno I just want a place to shoot the shit about music once in a while, and fb mostly sucks for that

you need to get in a 2 year queue now for those, Euler. Johnny Fever said fuck it and was gonna jump it and start one but it never happened.
The all-time revisited poll was canned permanently I think.

I only have about 20 followers on twitter and most aren't interested in talking about music. Not to me, anyway. And obviously nobody ever sees my tweets so its pointless trying to start debate there

Johnny Fever said fuck it and was gonna jump it and start one but it never happened.

Nah, it had been planned from the beginning to happen in August/September, but if gr8080 and seandalai are available to move it up, I guess we can.

I cant even remember what the poll was going to be.

Albums & Tracks from the beginning of ILM thru the present. (aka 2000-2015)

oh yeah, the one that people will be campaigning for anything to stop Kaputt from winning

won't be won by a straight white man

(not saying this is a bad thing & in kaputt's case it is an excellent thing)

oh ffs

people will vote on the music not what kind of human (or robot) makes it.

imago with record time on that one, well done, why wait for the actual thread

won't be won by a straight white man

30 years ago a child would kick a ball on the street.

30 years ago a straight white man would kick a child on the street.

and he was never caught

lol

it was meant to be a combination of funny and true, ended up looking so much like piqued satire that I had to follow up with a disclaimer, shdnt try to jape about on these sensitive issues obv

you're a sensitive issue

music critics used to make lots of big posts here.. Now it feels they save that for the dayjob. Which is a loss to ilm

Wow, I've spent a lot of time lurking through past threads and thought it was a plus for this site that we'd been largely rid of that crowd... not that music criticism in general is a bad thing, but it's a magnet for snobs, and this site certainly got many of the worst of them. The DMB thread is a fucking embarrassment from this vantage point. Record store rats spewing causticity at 14yos sticking up for their favourite band with newly-enlightened 30somethings egging them on? Entertaining yeah, but in a car wreck sense, on both sides, no? Seems like putting ego before loving music.

Recently a former regular here tweeted '"The idea of musical 'authenticity' is certainly a suburban idea."--Frith'... from this Cambodian perspective where "early 70s rock was real music" is a resounding statement, I'm not even going to bother asking whether critics think it's pre- or post- khmer rouge suburbia, but rather why no one's calling them out on this bullshit. This reliance upon ready-made insults is typical from modern critics. The only real counterpoint used to come from Geir Hongro, who was unfortunately so simpleminded that he became a village muppet. At its height this site was a simmering pot for off-the-shelf arguments you could spew at the grad lounge to impress the bob marley/RHCP fan's girlfriend before retiring alone for the night. It's really entertaining to read, yeah, but not worth shedding a tear over. Things are fine now.

At its height this site was a simmering pot for off-the-shelf arguments you could spew at the grad lounge to impress the bob marley/RHCP fan's girlfriend before retiring alone for the night.

At its height this site was a simmering pot for off-the-shelf arguments you could spew at the grad lounge to impress the bob marley/RHCP fan's girlfriend before retiring alone for the night.

At its height this site was a simmering pot for off-the-shelf arguments you could spew at the grad lounge to impress the bob marley/RHCP fan's girlfriend before retiring alone for the night.

At its height this site was a simmering pot for off-the-shelf arguments you could spew at the grad lounge to impress the bob marley/RHCP fan's girlfriend before retiring alone for the night.

At its height this site was a simmering pot for off-the-shelf arguments you could spew at the grad lounge to impress the bob marley/RHCP fan's girlfriend before retiring alone for the night.

that's Pol Pot behaviour right there

xxp i must admit i have no idea what you're talking about here.

huh. yeah not my experience of ILM mainly. plenty of that around the edges but when i think music critics making "big posts" i'm picturing multi-paragraph usenet-type things where people are trying to figure something out, or people who know something are taking the time to explain it. i've learned a ton from long posts on this board and have mostly just skimmed past the admittedly abundant contemptuous rockist zingers (which, yeah, are definitely around, especially in the VERY early days).