Why do people leave ILX for good?

I note soda's having separated me from britcrew above btw it's appreciated surely

Can i get a pointer to the last good blood libel, I'm not sleeping.

soda doesnt like the scots?

He's within his rights and may have his reasons.

Also, it's "the scotch" fyi

that's whisky.

deej vs forks is much fiercer and more genuinely ill-meant than anyone rly expected

also at least 3 of rb's miss list still post regularly iirc

make that 5 or 6

more than that i reckon.

i stick aroun’ cos fb has become dire and i just don’t GET twitter/tumblr one whit.

i’d happily go back to usenet if anyone’d still use it.

tipping

It reaches a point alright

why do people leave ilx for ill?

we call that graduating

why do people leave ILX for evil?

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I would have assumed demands of family life or career would have stopped me from posting by now. I've been a lurker/low volume poster for probably about 12 years now, but with 3 kids + full time job without a huge amount of down time I'm sometimes surprised by how much I've become attached to this place (this is by far my most used web site).

This place has become my most reliable provider of music/movie/tv recommendations, which is pretty important when you actually don't have the time to watch a lot tv and movies (I can at least listen to a lot of music when working). So yeah, I'm probably going to keep doing my one post every 2 weeks thing for a while yet.

i like instagram! i like pictures. i don't post anything because i don't have a phone. i like seeing my friends' pictures though and nothing but the pictures. it is really good pr for the store too. much better than facebook ever was and all i do is have rufus post pictures of records.

i can't stand twitter. never liked it. always avoid it.

one post every 2 weeks

goals

Oh, I know a lot of my list still post. I just have no idea who they are, and I like to read a lot of posts by unknown/different names and think, gee... I wonder if that’s X? And I don’t need to confirm it because if it’s not by X it makes me sad.

True fact tho: I hav yo post almost exclusively from my phone (typos probably make that obvious) because work owns my computer and blocks it from non-work sites... and incidentally there’s no cellular/WiFi signal at work. So posting is limited to vacations, evenings I’m not teaching, and cool-downs from the treadmill at the gym.

Love to Scots posters, to you I raise a crumb-soaked egg. And also the China ILXors, wherever you may be.

I voted other and I guess just the relative dearth of users compared to the old days and that fact that many good posters who used to post a lot no longer post is surely one of the biggest issues. I have thought about leaving for good but I come back due to, I dunno, sentimental reasons? I follow v few ilxors on social media so if I leave I'll never hear about posters here that I've *known* via this website for over a decade, would be weird. Like if imago gets hit by a bus tomorrow I'd like to be privy to that information

You guys are the best. Thanks for kicking the shit out of me back in the day.

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I'd post a lot less (ie prob never) if I only had phone access as I also find it a PITA to type.

i'd post a lot more but suspect that people get tired of my obscure aussie rules elections references rather quickly - and if you're fanging for that, check out my 17,844 tweets

i can’t leave now, it’s too late, i even think in lowercase

truth bomb

whatever i said whatever i did i didnt mean i just want to leave ilx for good

discussed this thread with 2 ex-posters in the last 24 hours

talking like 07-13

― flopson, Sunday, 25 February 2018 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Kids today.

xp outcomes plz

i'm going to quit posting because i didn't make rb's rollcall

wow owned

Totes honorary britcrew son stand down

Moving on / generational switch? Seems to me at least, when now reading old ilx posts.

xxxxpost I like slutsky a lot but I thought that tweet flopson posted was really dickish and smug.

overall I like it and I wish all you find internet posters the best.

but you know, I've always said ilx bemoaning the downfall of ilx is ilx's greatest tradition.

to the point where now, for example, the era flopson views as the glory days was at the time viewed as a decline from ilx's golden age.

ilx: why is it so bad and hated

xp that's an essential truth alright

the decline posts started less than a year after the advent of ILM

before we even left greenspun

Ha, yeah. 07-13 didn't really stand out as exceptional in my memory at first but there were some good polls and listening clubs then tbf.

social media as self-promotional arena(s) require(s) regular platform migration by committed opportunists

what if I told you...the golden age hasn't happened yet

I ain't going anywhere.

the roman empire never ended iirc

ilx, our collective black iron prison

xxxxpost I like slutsky a lot but I thought that tweet flopson posted was really dickish and smug.

what do you expect, it was a tweet

tweeting about quitting ILX is on a plane of ridiculousness I hadn’t really conceived of before (sorry Ronan)

to the point where now, for example, the era flopson views as the glory days was at the time viewed as a decline from ilx's golden age.

yeah but us golden agers were wrong about that then is the thing imo. the olden olden greenspun days threads -- I don't think I can be the only back-when dude who sees them now and goes "wow y'all need an editor." some influx of young cats who'd got online younger (cats who nb could also be total dicks a lot of the time & really hounded the people they didn't like imo & that was toxic as shit so there's that too) circa 07ish improved posting generally just by the speed of their game - the general tenor of the internet/social media also has a lot to do w/this mind but I think during that time ilx was learning to think of itself differently and consequently there were big lols to be had.

Food poll tournament undoubtedly the pinnacle of ilx imo

nb the old-schoolers also hounded ppl I'm not suggesting neo-ilxors invented being dicks to ppl on the board

xp otm

I think the periods when I've got the most from ilx are ≈ 01-03 (when it felt like a real community of people with fascinating new ideas, even if most of it seems ridiculous in retrospect) and the last few years (when I've been getting the most satisfying music recommendations).

Every time I pass over an egg option for a cheese option on the menu I smile like the Mona Lisa nobody has ever asked me why but the internal monologue is fierce at I can assure u

xpost I get that jclc