Why do people leave ILX for good?

lol I tried to get into the discord chat the other day and I guess it's gone or something. I don't understand the new ways of using the internet.

ilx declined when I stopped lurking and started posting regularly

yea I admit I spent a lot of time trying to rile people up in the old days and a lot of my opinions were flat out dumb. one big moment for me was when I used the word "uppity" in the "is this racist" thread and a lot of people gave me shit for using such a "racially charged word". but I *honest to God* never remembering hearing the word in that context (or just didn't realize it at the time) so I thought all you guys were trolling me so I kept trolling back even harder, and then I looked it up and it turns out it IS a racially charged word, and I wanted to go and say "my bad" but wound up with 68,000 SBs and couldn't post for a while

― frogbs, Monday, February 26, 2018 10:59 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol at this wtf

Crazy that one ILX is not enough for people, they need two of the fuckers.

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

― Mordy, Monday, February 26, 2018 12:53 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think this is the funniest shit, how many 'secret' chat rooms do we have now that are mostly ilx people? lagoon and I tried making a slack but no one joined but there are at least two active ones I know of, but am not part of (probably for the best)

but but but

xxp

unite all boards into a single one

Have to say 77 and [secret board name redacted] are where it is pretty much these days.

Oh wow auto corrected secret borad! :D

those chats are where they breed trolls w/regulars and come up with nefarious armies, i think that's what TWU is maybe on about.

I have heard of the double-secret board and have it on authority that it sucks

one big moment for me was when I used the word "uppity" in the "is this racist" thread and a lot of people gave me shit for using such a "racially charged word". but I *honest to God* never remembering hearing the word in that context (or just didn't realize it at the time) so I thought all you guys were trolling me so I kept trolling back even harder, and then I looked it up and it turns out it IS a racially charged word, and I wanted to go and say "my bad" but wound up with 68,000 SBs and couldn't post for a while

Oh man I remember this because, full disclosure, I didn't realize before then that it was racially charged and just thought it mean stuck up.

Imagine there's no 77. It's easy if you try.
No Moderator Request Forum. No I Love TMI.

i can tell how out of it i am bc i didn't even know these chats exist.

those chats are where they breed trolls w/regulars and come up with nefarious armies, i think that's what TWU is maybe on about.

― omar little, Monday, February 26, 2018 7:03 PM (forty seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

those chats made Trump president iirc

Hold on, there's more than one secret/invitation only board?

isn't TWU just rolling with the ongoing delusion that everyone who disagrees with him is a bot army, and not a bunch of people just reacting to bad posts

TWU's conspiracy theory is legitimately one of my favorite ongoing traditions.

oh and a couple of weeks ago, another great poster was driven off the board by a shitty poster. so there's that!

i love the idea of ILX crisis actors responding to bad opinions about Prefab Sprout or something.

is brad really gone xp? i may be done with ILM if brad is done

dayo otm

dayo i just rescreened that Johnnie To movie you sent me, it holds up.

i thought TWU was playing that for laughs nowadays tbh

Can't thank y'all enough that all this old days style excitement kicked off the day the wife left the country for a week

omar and dayo otm

"Hold on, there's more than one secret/invitation only board?

― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, February 26, 2018 2:05 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

AFAIK no there isn't. There are, however, other boards that ILX posters have started and brought posters with them but they're not hosted by ILX or hidden here.

dayo i just rescreened that Johnnie To movie you sent me, it holds up.

― omar little, Monday, February 26, 2018 2:07 PM (forty-five seconds ago) Bookmark

sparrow? man did i send this to you or just make the rec? either way glad you liked it!

Sez u xp

I have one at \ilx.xls but nobody else posts to it :(

like youtubers sending their armies on a raid

Can't thank y'all enough that all this old days style excitement kicked off the day the wife left the country for a week

― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, February 26, 2018 7:07 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Shees mr. you could've given us a couple of days notice at least that it'll be deems week this week.

Possibly 2 posters given I haven't seen someone else post since that incident but could just be coincidence xps

yeah Sparrow! you emailed me a download. i should show it to my w1fe, might be a good HK gateway drug, then she'll be into Bunman and Red to Kill before i know it.

party at dmacs lads

dyng at "w1fe" for some reason

hahahah same

the old Aim CHATZ run by roxy were fun

google w1fe and find omar little

tbh I am amazed anyone from ilx interacts with me on twitter. I realized after doing some cleanup that apparently I only respond to people on there in a really haphazard way, or after a few drinks

sorry to everyone who's still here who got weird misspelled or incoherent messages on that site. I'm going to do better. not on ilx, though.

I'm going to do better. not on ilx, though

― mh, Monday, February 26, 2018 11:15 AM (twenty-three seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

new board description

is brad really gone xp? i may be done with ILM if brad is done

yeah brad bounced iirc after being treated very shabbily by a regular

tbph i don't think brad left bc of that interaction. i mean maybe he did but it would be weird if a drive-by by a known troll and provocateur on one thread drove him off the rest of the site. maybe he's using it as an excuse to take a break in which case more power to him.

Paranoid I typed "wife" now

join me on the dark web, where we say "p4rtner"

actually if you google "ilxor" and "w1fe" you do find me, i fucked up

1LX 5P0U5E

i think for me, after 16+ years of reading and posting, i have really internalized a lot of the ILM / ILE discourse, to the point where i can generally predict what type of replies i will get if i post a thing or say a thing. so i'm content to sit back and not post, or maybe just to let other post it for me. because the other side of it is that a lot of what i have to say isn't that original anyway and not very interesting to many people. this is especially true on ILM. i like what i like and i have certain attitudes about music that i thnk are familiar to me and not that productive to endlessly rehash.

familiar to ILM i mean, not familiar to me

I feel that way sometimes, other times I hear some music that I should have known about and find out no one's ever mentioned it on ilm outside of voting for it in a year end poll!

What I like most about ILX is that it’s basically a better version of mid-90s Usenet, somewhat anonymous, pretty consistent group of intelligent/eloquent regulars with good discussions, no upvotes or other shit that makes discussions into popularity contests, no avatars, no emojis, no bots, but also no gigantic unmoderated flamewars. Most of the internet is an unadulterated shitstorm in terms of discussions, especially Twitter. I’m not going to maintain a second anonymous Facebook identity for online discussions, too much work.

I read daily, post occasionally. I’ve been here since 2001, probably will never leave, still don’t feel like I’m truly part of it all as a non-Anglospheric dude.

I don’t want to play the role of tonedeaf overearnest Scandinavian/Dutch/Swiss/German curiosity but I guess I am that guy once in a while.