Why do people leave ILX for good?

I just realized who in orbit is. I think.

fwiw I never want xyzzzz to stop upbraiding LJ

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Its nice to be appreciated like this.

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.
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it never seemed very hospitable to me, but i did enjoy watching the insider/outsider language grow, change, and pretty much disappear
where are these secret chatrooms?!

fp'd jclc for forgetting when the speed-up started

there is an ilx group on facebook but nobody ever goes there.

except geir

i was never invited to that

sorry - realised that luriqua didn't actually return a couple of years ago after all

here is his final confirmed sighting, in 2014: your terrible ideas

Wasn't there a late night aim chatroom that people would start and invite certain people to? I can't really remember.

Yes aim/ILX was a thing for a good while.

Yerac I have literally been to your house. Two of them. (laurel)

all the internet is bad not good

It was. I miss putting shoes on my head tho I don't know that anyone will remember that.

I think there is a regional slack room for one group and then I know about one entirely separate "secret" board but I am not a part of either.

CHATZ on AIM

tho enbb will remember we all did some yahoo webcam thing for a while. I wonder what happened to CHAD?!!

Oh I remember that. That was actaully very fun. Wait - I only barely remember Chad. Who was chad?? Some random person, right?

aye some californian guy , i think we crashed his room

AG, I remember where I was living at the time and think that was all 2008 so exactly 10 years ago. O_O

Chadz

I wonder if chad is still broadcasting his life 24/7 on webcam

Yeah I was just thinking that (10 years argh)

I miss putting shoes on my head tho I don't know that anyone will remember that.

I remember. I also remember “buttz”. In fact I never forgot buttz, not even for a minute

oh no my chadz

Chad from California. I'm sure you can track him down. How many can there be?

We should all hang out in KM's twitch stream chat

KM will keep us together, it's the truth.

In Orbit, I am so bad about figuring out who people are when they don't have their original name in parentheses. I just re-read all the luna posts and so much is coming back to me. Like, how much I disliked the TITTWIS threads.

And yeah, I think I blocked out how mean some people were, but I am probably comparing it to how terrible most of the internet is nowadays.

ILX's old school paragraph long vicious screeds or succinct insults like "you waste. you little man." seem pretty quaint compared to trump-era internet.

think putting the usernames at the bottom of the post instead of on top or on the side like other message boards affects the experience a lot. you read the post, then who posted it. for a while I never really paid attention to who was who, unless they had really good music taste. I wondered why I was getting yelled at in half the threads I posted in until I realized it was like the same two people every time

The blue sticks out too much for me for that to be true tbh. But the plain and simpleness of ilx is obv its USP.

And your rocky start was mentioned but you've redeemed yourself more than fully thru the vaporwave shares and yessing out imo

I didn't realize that they changed the display name properties so you can't just change it completely without the parentheses showing up.

as someone who does the least possible to maintain whatever social media accounts i have, i find other forms of online interaction are typically more prescriptive about how much you have to engage with them and i appreciate that ilx has a pretty free-moving sliding scale, usual social impediments aside. there is an experience for ppl who want to join in and post voluminously and get involved with off board stuff, and there is an experience for ppl who want to trick their brain that they are interacting with other human beings even when they have no inclination (or aptitude) to actually do so.

i'm one of the admins of a facebook group with 15,000+ members and originally i really dug it and stopped going on ILM at all but it has since devolved into beatles shit and dudes and i kinda can't stand it now. but it has been a long winter. there are ilxors there. and some who have left that group too! or stopped posting anyway. when ilx is 100% beatles shit and dudes it will be time to pull the plug.

you can't compare the sniping interpersonal meanness of ilx with grand scale hate-based movements like the alt right or whatever
i don't think the current climate makes the old mean spiritedness seem gentler, it just seems like it has spread and grown tbh

"100% beatles shit" made me lol :)

the mean-spiritedness or obnoxious bantz or whatever happened here was generally between people who had an understanding of what the other person was about, even if it was the basis for grinding axes

we're not banding together to hate entire classes of people, other than shit beatles dudes

Otm.

Yellow Submarine though... That 23rd take on the reissue of Bantz Records, where Ringo whistles the tune through his nose? Pretty wild.

scott i'm in that group! i think i'm going to post only hip-hop CDs on there now.

Did Gaz coombes ever play with any of the beatles

Fifth Beatle iirc

you cannot play music without -in some sense- playing with the beatles. that is a fact of rock.

everything i do, i do it for them

everyone knows art pepper replaced his sex addiction with heroin. few know that his sex addiction replaced trolling deej.

nobody could troll like (flappy) Bird anyhow

Just an aside but I probably took comments more personally as a teenager when someone calling me "damaged goods" for liking an artist would get under my skin. Nowadays that probably wouldn't bother me much

worse it was a gang of four poll

xp depends on what artist tbh

damn Sufjan

Right now I know who tt is, I thought LJ had just made this person up - not really.

There were permabans for financial fraud, forgery, following etc posters offboard, and everybody else I'm aware of getting banned (perm or temp) deserved it at the time, whether they got it together later or not.
I miss a lot of other ilxors, some of whom have died.
Twitter can be at least or at most good for informative links: I recently snagged one for a complete run of Ed Sanders' Fuck You, A Magazine Of The Arts. The Mute button is a blessed thing, for when you want to get rid of somebody without hurting their feelings---they won't know they're muted, just think you and they have lost each other in the tumblin' tweeterweeds of followers etc.. (Now, if only we could mute by subject or keyword, please Jesus.)
also totally makes sense to me that a lot of people i knew here who started writing more and more seriously and more professionally would stop typing so much somewhere for free. it takes mental energy out of you.

― scott seward
It's a good place to try out first drafts, loose grafs, also for procrastination of course---it takes mental energy out of you.Sometimes that's the goal!