Why do people leave ILX for good?

tbh I'd double-check with your mom to make sure they haven't randomly met and you're merely unaware

x-post - lol!

I only really post intermittently and during polls (especially the metal poll which is always lovely). I start to get really depressed if I spend too long here, which is in part due to my own irrational paranoia but also has a lot to do with how quickly some posters seem to spring to a hostile response. I feel like this level of conflict is unprecedented...I mean, not on the internet of course, but I want ILX to be a haven from all of that. And the conflict is part of the fun, but not when it’s so frequent and really hurtfully personal.

Also it really upsets me how some of you speak to and about imago! Living with him, I think he is just really quite different to how he gets portrayed here sometimes... I know he’s part of creating that perception too of course, but I think the extent of the response is sometimes incongruous with what’s been said, just because it’s imago. Obviously all posters should be held accountable for bullshit or offensive things but the level of aggression is quite high where he is concerned.

Wait is this an LJ sock?

Hi tt!

Ban tange— no im sorry

Living with him, I think he is just really quite different to how he gets portrayed here sometimes... I know he’s part of creating that perception too of course,

imagine what he'd be like IRL by the time you met him if he hadn't been so relentlessly bullied by the sculptor's chisel here

I like imago and barely interact with him on ilm but I must guiltily admit when gr80 made a zine, I asked if I could be listed in the donors as "Ban LJ" and he wisely denied me

the more this place becomes a Twitter Annex the less i care

It's always been a decent aggregator though, now it's an aggregator aggregator.

ID politics killed ilx btw

I would say this is right-but-wrong - a lot of the rest of the web became either less boys-only, or far more so. ILX stayed more or less where it is, but leaking women. But ILX is rarely the only site that anyone goes to, so if other sites have better balances (and are aware of them) then so it goes.

Probably worth revisiting jbr's last posts here, tbh.

The Runaways - classic or dud?

are U a straight white male

I am still a fan of ILX, though.

I posted 17 or so years ago and left after a thread I started turned into some old fashioned meanness and subsequently lurked after. Current board seems less tough

Hi wins!

xps I am in many ways thankful for the grand work the bullying has done, but maybe now it can just be a meme (until the next time he casts a sweeping generalisation with certainty).

you're all pricks!

hey tt! not seen you post much outside of metal poll!

x-post - awww! I was just kidding. Fwiw the worst thing I've ever seen you post was the fish/chocolate thing. <3

worse than poppage?

it really has been just a meme for most of the last decade tt!

I think that's true for some posters but not for others

Most of my posts are sent internally but sometimes I post on the emo thread

I once saw real ILE people on the street and I was so amazed, like some fabric of reality unwound right there, I could not bring myself to make contact - how weird!

(You can see why ;_;)

x-post I honestly don't remember the origins or meaning of poppage (no, I don't want you to tell me) at this point!

The chocolate thing (cockles in red wine iirc?) was nightmarish tbh

Internal sending is an amazing Zen artform and I wish I'd been born with the ability tbh

re irl interactions i feel like if i meet a fatmantis i'll just https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CsyGe4F8CQ

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/771051280617791488/sKg0hPNI_400x400.jpg

I *just* wrapped up all of lunagate and obviously knew the surface story (found post below). The rest is super sad. That all really sucks.

boys = so easily fooled by big boobies

― Yerac, Tuesday, 16 October 2007

let's all start Hootsuite

TT, I can vouch for LJ being the princest among men, though I do feel nearly all on board here feel the same and it's "all in good fun". Until it stops being fun, I know I know, but ILX loves the lad dearly, believe <3

neverban luriqua jagger

Aaww that’s nice! I think I am overly sensitive and defensive. imago is mostly indifferent to comments in any case haha xp

luriqua was truly more than human

I bet he is. Insensitive bastard :D

You are in yr right to defend and b sensitive over the lad tho.

(you prob know he *hugely* helped me out recently w/ something and when ever I get back to London I will repay the good deed. love ot you both <3)

xp

I have no beef with LJ beyond his accursed youth. Must you taunt us so.

i'm 31 as of last week! flopson is the new 'damn u young' guy

luriqua came back quite recently for one post and it was so joyous

what? on what thread???

when i started posting here i was several years younger than LJ is now.

also LBI don't bet against our meeting being in Sint Annaparochie - I enjoy a good adventure. to be continued...

imago is mostly indifferent to comments in any case haha

Yes we can tell.

crutis was really young when he started.

Did we ever find out if it really was Aja posting or her mum pretending?

Ohh, most welcome imago! We have bogs here. And peat. Scrawny locals barking in ye olde dying language. You'll love it.

luriqua came back quite recently for one post and it was so joyous

― imago, Monday, February 26, 2018 3:06 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait what...????

i will give you my home phone number call me collect international if this happens again

God it feels like 20-whenever-things-were-good in here

LJ likes to think I rib him good naturedly but it's not fhi

Lol at LBI and his cod-ireland theme park

Lol at LBI and his cod-ireland theme park

― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, February 26, 2018 9:16 PM (fifteen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haha! Best be rushing yr skinny Irish arse up 'ere before LJ beats you to the punch iirc

bogs means bog birdwatching, i'm down

also lol 'cod-ireland theme park'

Bemused at skinny from a man I've met no less

fwiw I never want xyzzzz to stop upbraiding LJ

I have a real job but that hasn't stopped me, tbh. Also I get the majority of my news and commentary from ilx, the denizens of this remit mostly supplying the info and angles that I need to understand things. Other news outlets are largely incomprehensible and/or don't really give the inside scoop commentary that I appreciate.

ilx feels less like a "freewheeling" space where anything could happen, these days, but half of what could happen back then was going to be mean, sexist, racist, or some variation on all three. There were major shakeups among nb/nyc ilxors back in the day incl v srs interpersonal issues. It wasn't all kittens and bike polo.

The bike polo aspect was so overrated imo