which ilx poster has had the most transformative effect on your life?

Wouldn't fp anyone for Johnny Logan love

Horseshoe is great

Aw, don't feel bad! I meant to post that here last week but realized I didn't. It was such a big deal to me at the time (this was like 2010 ish) that I wrote to her separately and she sent me all kinds of reading recs and it was a really big thing for me.

I'm not sure if she's gone but I haven't seen her post in a while but I don't really post very much these days so idk.

And, yes, she is great all around.

That's really great <3

I believe I've seen recent horseshoe posts on the cooking threads

I'm also going to say Odysseus for dragging me out to regularly participate in things like chat and plug and reading philosophy, through which I made irl friends. Also, the mid-00s metal polls introduced me to contemporary avant- and post- black metal, which became a regular part of my listening diet.

abby is consistently awesome and absent these days

Don't want to be nasty and there some assumptions coming up on my behalf but, if by 'A***' you refer to Horseshoe: there's probably a reason why she *never* used her real name on ilx and would probably prefer for it to stay that way?

her name isn't abby?

oh wait you meant crabbits? i thought you meant horseshoe, whose name does not begin with A
anyway that's now how she spells it but yeah maybe not use her name

I don't know whose name is Abby, all I was trying to say was that name never came up on here, the dropped 'Abby' only made me wonder 'who?', and one might not use it that freely if the person itself didn't use it that way either on here.

good point

horribly phrased sentence on my part but hope you get the gist. dropping her birth name felt like doxxing to me.

agree that "let's not do that going forward" is a good way to proceed wrt that issue

idk the answer to this or that it has been one person so much as a community presence for me (like KM)
it's a place i can go reliably, a place i can jib jab about stuff without much concern because no one can see me or know who i am? ilx can be relaxing in that way (except for when it's being toxic or i follow the wrong threads) + it's also a place where people like talking about music. you don't get that everywhere, or the people who like the same music i do or are interested in music the way i am aren't always compelled to talk with me about it in person (more now than before, but it was a long time between high school/college and a time when any of my close personal friends cared about music as much as i did)

i will say that i have gotten positive vibes from all ilxors i have met irl
and there have been quite a few!

i have gotten positive vibes from all the vast majority of ilxors
it needed to be corrected and i am not interested in talking about it

If now it comes across as if I am berating you, of all people, that is totally not what I intended! Just thought the transition from "we sure miss horseshoe" to "yeah Abby is the best" felt weird to me (which wasn't you even doing that in the first place).

Ilx is totally relaxing, a safe space for me too, very much so, and it should stay that way. I met good friends on here, stayed at ilxors places abroad, but don't get called by my first name on here because I don't use it as a dn. And that is awesome.

So ilx is awesome, all positive vibes for me for so many reasons. And it should stay that way imo, is what I meant. Without calling users by their real name when they themselves haven't used that.

But don't get me wrong, all <3 to you LL. 'LL' is fine.

xp :-(

Got bad vibes once from an ilxor who stayed at my house of all things

IT'S ALL PIPES DEEMS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s09pfBEJYHc

very kind of sund4r and others to say those thing. Much unexpected so thank you!

sund4r otm

LL otm, ILX is basically the one place I talk about the things that interest me the most because basically no one I know irl is interested in or interested in talking about those things.

Odysseus is a v important cog in the ILM wheel. The world needs proper enthusiasts

Coming the mechanism I mean. IDK I'm not an engineer lol

Cog in the mechanism. I hate my phone

Most engineers argue against coming the mechanism, fwiw.

Seconded on Odysseus. Good egg, enthusiastic and has brought a lot of people on this board closer together.

thanks for the shout outs

Thanks Veg Grrrrl...initiating the process that led to so many wonderful ilxors distributing that Seger comp all around the web will always be my ILM legacy

100% bonafide hero AND legend <3