Why do people leave ILX for good?

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

The one way in which that slutsky tweet is wrong: twitter can attract the same sorts of ppl as ILX -- ok that depends on which twitter you follow -- nevertheless I often think this or that person would've been perfect for ILX except twitter got in the way of them ending up here.

I've never been on FB (lol def not Linkedin) but I don't get that impression.

the writing and editing of posts improved when I joined imo

here's my blueprint for triumph

- clandestine recruitment drive on other websites. candidates are discussed at length on 77. if they pass muster they are sent a PM on their own website simply reading 'you are ready for ilxor' like how bill bruford joined king crimson. you laugh but I actually recruited both ultros ultros-ghali and Spottie using this technique on Drowned In Sound, and I'm prepared to repeat the process on RYM and so forth
- restructuring of the boards (we can discuss this) that doesn't sacrifice the overall vibe. STRONGLY recommend separate 'I Love Politics' board for starters
- more proactive/comedy modding. it gets a bit moribund on that front these days
- 'guest artists' come and give interviews/do AMAs like on Reddit EXCEPT they're all kind of obscure/ilxor types like avalon emerson or that guy who directed horse money or w/e. if the site was run a little more like a culture blog this wouldn't be too hard to organise
- ilxor youtube channel
- some kind of social component I haven't calculated yet

basically, anything to make this place less of a waste of time for ppl, and more of an indispensable cultural nexus containing all the math, all the languages etc

That posts needs more DJ Martian

been here 15 years and de subjectivisten remains a(n excellent) mystery

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I could see leaving ILX at least temporarily if I found myself in a new job which made it more difficult to toss out witty ripostes in the midst of 'doing work'. Or if I decided to devote time to being successful at something in life ever.

- 'guest artists' come and give interviews/do AMAs like on Reddit EXCEPT they're all kind of obscure/ilxor types like avalon emerson or that guy who directed horse money or w/e. if the site was run a little more like a culture blog this wouldn't be too hard to organise

this is a cool idea actually

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.

― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r),

the listening clubs were indeed fun but they were never going to last

- clandestine recruitment drive on other websites. candidates are discussed at length on 77. if they pass muster they are sent a PM on their own website simply reading 'you are ready for ilxor' like how bill bruford joined king crimson. you laugh but I actually recruited both ultros ultros-ghali and Spottie using this technique on Drowned In Sound, and I'm prepared to repeat the process on RYM and so forth

How many people will leave ILX for good if this is introduced?

restructuring of the boards (we can discuss this) that doesn't sacrifice the overall vibe. STRONGLY recommend separate 'I Love Politics' board for starters

I second this, particularly part B.

everything is political tho and we already have an i love everything board

https://im-01.gifer.com/13N8.gif

U can't remove politics from anything iirc

Lol xp

Srs suggestion: everyone forced to join I live footy

The world cup threads are the bright counterweight to what used to be a similarly periodic shitfest of US elections but somewhere along the way a particularly clunky comparison of trump to something something face like a melting wax ass lololol tore through the unknown materials and rules that combine to dictate the strange gravity and orbit of these event threads and now we all live in the awful US election thread universe

If I no longer loved music I would quit this place bc the discussion of most other topics I care about isn’t strong here & I don’t care about movies or tv but I do love music so I’ll be around. It seems like older people stop loving music and turn to tv and movies instead or just turn away from social life on the internet. if you leave for Twitter well then you get what you deserve.

football is cancer

bc the discussion of most other topics I care about isn’t strong here

rude imo

I've never really thought of ILE as more or less than a secondary board that was created so music fans could also have a place to shoot the shit about other things.

If I no longer loved music I would quit this place bc the discussion of most other topics I care about isn’t strong here & I don’t care about movies or tv

what else is there after art and politics and food?

fucking for one

humping iirc

eyyyy

plus the weather

"Sex" and "food" are synonymous.

I've never really thought of ILE as more or less than a secondary board that was created so music fans could also have a place to shoot the shit about other things.

I only come here when ILM slows down to a crawl. Like imago said, a separate 'I love (US) politics' board would make this neck of the woods more appealing (to me, at least).

then why am i so much better at eating than shagging xp

It's funny but I dont think I ever looked at ILE for it's first few years of existence. Pretty sure 2003 will be when I first posted there at the earliest. I remember DG setting it up though. I miss DG but he always comes back every few years

then why am i so much better at eating than shagging xp

― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara),

using the wrong recipes

it's a poor workman that blames his tools

Pl

surely it's the ten thousand hours thing

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Your ideas are thrash and I'm the plank?