Why do people leave ILX for good?

ILX provides an agora for the agoraphobic.

oh, for sure. i've come around to that. it's amazing to be able to bump a relatively minor topic (like the raspberry pi thread) with a handful of weird questions about a project, and then get really thoughtful advice soon afterward from people that i know, and that i know will still be there in a few weeks and might be interested in how the project is coming along.

My first OP was an inadvertent duplicate thread for Mad Men season 4 which enraged lag8n and he image bombed my thread, so a mod locked his thread in response

Now we’re best buds

man i wish jbr would come back

FTR, I'm not so thin-skinned that I can't deal with ribbing or criticism. sleeve, eg, has been vocal about his lack of appreciation for my Trump posts but I have no beef with sleeve even though I can't understand why anyone would ever object to anything I've ever posted because it's all kind of amazing tbh.

Ages ago, I wrote what was easily my most vitriolic post on the board in response to a shitty attack post by someone I subsequently spent ages thinking was a total dick and who I now think is a pretty cool dude and poster. ILX clearly demonstrates that bridges can be mended if one posts from a place of openness and love. Namaste.

Tone policing valid criticism nagl my man

Also link plz

Ages ago, I wrote what was easily my most vitriolic post on the board in response to a shitty attack post by someone I subsequently spent ages thinking was a total dick and who I now think is a pretty cool dude and poster. ILX clearly demonstrates that bridges can be mended if one posts from a place of openness and love. Namaste.

Same and otm.

yeah, that's happened to me more than once too. and a lot of the times it goes the other way, too, where i was being a complete dick to someone for no reason and then gradually realized that the other person was a human being who was actually really interesting

I still hate everyone I ever hated ftr.

my posting has slowed down a lot, or it feels like it has. i peaked years ago! i don't really have much to talk about on here these days nor much to contribute. i'm not disinterested, but i'm beginning to feel like i want to hang on for one last big poll and then get out. like a heist movie. except I'm heisting music recommendations.

lots of the posters i was pals with back in the day i don't really talk to anymore, but that's maybe bc I'm not one who's ever met anyone IRL (except JBR for about a minute, and she's great!)

I do believe that every ILXor I've met IRL has been gone from the board for a decade+ at this point.

now i just post GIFs to watch their fuckin' expression change etc

I keep misreading this thread titles as "Why do good people leave ILX?"

dear god, why does ilx happen to good people?

there's people you thought left years ago but are still around in a new username that everyone but me knows who it is

Sund4r hates people? A new facet haha

02-03 were fun years for me

w/r/t recruitment, i have done my part by both speaking with people in person and virtually

have successfully gotten a handful of people on board but they all give me the same feedback

also i think these are good but different times

people get nostalgic for the past or for what can't be had

Who was infinity symbol

meanwhile, i still don't have the slightest idea who the infinity symbol is

dmac u and i will never agree on socks just tellin u rn bud

I mean is that a clue I mean

Way I'm feeling rn I'm just gonna disappear and come back as '?'

what are your positions on socks?

Mine?

Hmm we could extrapolate I spose

Just thought I can't come back as ? because jay batman would kick my ass

I'm against socks I think it's a silly business.

Online like.

One of my favourite genres of ilxor is people who have been here for like 15 years, always with the same username, and yet are subtle enough to slip under the radar

NZ's own 'etc' being one of the finest exponents of this

xp i certainly can't read either of your minds! and i did ask.

Sund4r hates people? A new facet haha

Sometimes yes, but I was joking there tbc.

i have no desire to connect my various usernames to previous ones bc i don't treat this message board the same way others do, and never have, if people want an explanation

i do think i've gotten old too and am much less profane than before

just livin for the moment and chilin in lyfe now

other: when they tore the statscock down

Ok guys

Who was infinity

Srs now

chexy obv

who?

c21m50nh3x460n, but that doesn't explain who he was back in 02-03

but like he says, now chillin in lyfe.

oh come on he's not crimso

who the fuck is crimso?

not him that's for sure

jaymc to thread plz

I'd be surprised if chexy wasn't new as chexy tbh

Who is the sockpuppetmaster of ilx

TWU what's happening to me

He Do the Posters in Different Voices

the seemingly decline in big cultural tentpole moments is a factor for me. a lot of what made ilx fun for me was participating in those threads. although i guess a new star wars can be relied upon to come out every year. i think this is especially apparent on the music side. i mean just look at what was #1 for the tracks poll! a song nobody loved.

maybe that's another way of saying lots of good discussion can be found somewhere else, and also maybe that i'm less interested in engaging with the 'culture' nowadays. i will say ilx is nice though in that it's often a refuge from the hysteria present on other social media like twitter, the politics thread is often a good splash of cold water from trump fear.

also unfortunate is the number of shitty posts blanketing the board from posters like infinity symbol which makes finding the good stuff that much harder.

anyway! ilx is dead, long live ilx.

Who is the sockpuppetmaster of ilx

― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, February 26, 2018 1:40 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Like online or on our own time?

Dyao so help me

Who is the sockpuppetmaster of ilx

it's these two kids:

https://i.imgur.com/cX2mKYS.jpg

Johnny Mathis and Mark Cuban

Write in vote for I save my best comments for secret ilx chat room bc tbph the ppl there are cooler sors