Why do people leave ILX for good?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Good results imo

id like to thank u all this wdnt have been possible w/o each and every 1 of u

It’s remarkable u left ilx 25 times

imago I will always tago 4 u :)

damn now I'm mad at myself for not thinking of tago imago as a dn

lol

Nice

:D

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dissatisfaction with available stylesheets

lol at this tho

crimson hexagon was dissatisfied with available stylesheets but he made his own instead of leaving

The elephant in the results of course is the people who are not-LJ who people left ILX over, of course.

once or twice it was for the best

xpost I guess I have myself to blame as the penguins are gone from naus.css.

i am happy to wear the burden for all

i was sb'd so that ye may find salvation. and yet i am risen

i will never log off

― ciderpress, Saturday, February 24, 2018 6:47 PM (three weeks ago)

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afaict a midlife shift to hardline conservatism never prevented anyone from staying on ilx

Oh man...gd times.

oh snap!

You have posted 75,000 messages

not going anywhere. you will just have to deal. i'm just getting started!

#30thousandpicturesofrecords

those 75,000 posts paved the way to the next 75,000 posts

Shut the fuck up, my ass (I will never shut the fuck up)

Never stop, skot. I have rued your couple of leaves-of-absence from ilx.

I'm never gonna leave ILX because it's the one website on the godforsaken internet that doesn't turn off my music when I'm browsing on my phone

^^^^(or my podcast)

according to what I came across on another board, it's because ILXors are not nice people.

surely we must find this board and go there to explain in detail why we're nice

(no)

I'm not doing that. Kiss my butt. In fact, everybody can kiss my butt. You can't see it but both of my middle fingers are up right now. It's hard to type but so worth it.

i mean ilxors are twats, this is canon

but you're all MY twats <3

(Whoever said current ILXors are not nice clearly wasn't here a decade+ ago.)

there's a thread on not-very-active messageboard d1ssensus making fun of ilx posts

they don't seem to understand the difference between the music boards and others and think it's completely mind-boggling that people would post about grocery store items they enjoy

I mean, if you want to find actual mean people

old lunch otm

y'all are much nicer

it's probably because we always have two fingers up our butts

It really mellows one out, I find.

some ILXors can for sure be mean but the nice ones are great. people can get riled up, it can happen to anyone, but in general when things get tense i find you can take a break from the site for a day and let things simmer down.

when taken in context alongside other boards it's still way less toxic than a lot of places. you don't tend to see tons of trolls, huge meltdowns, or flame wars that shut down threads on other sites.

Sometimes I cannot tell if someone is trolling or just being super regional.

I don't think nastiness is much of a problem, or trolling. Posters can be unbearable in other ways.

flood of disingenuous posting

humorless disingenuous posting

ILx is so much more relaxed these days.
10 years ago this place scared the fuck out of me.
whereas now i believe it to be the best online collective there is.

i enjoy and learn a lot from the board and lord knows when I first joined I deserved 98% of the scorn I got but there was a period of time this place cut me deeply......i originally came back only for the metal board.

After eight years of Usenet this place looked like a model of civilised discourse back in 2001.

well hell compared to Usenet a punch feels like a kiss

I only regularly lurk on one other message board which seems to consist mostly of chill normies but reminds me semi-regularly of how awesome ILX is at correcting against oh I dunno saaaaay fairly overtly racist posts and posters (tbf, said board is pretty good at bringing the hammer down when these things do pop up).

the funny thing about Usenet is that I posted in the Slayer and Metallica Usenet boards in high school between 1995-1999, and there was a guy who went by M1k3 M0sh, who was a relatively respected scenester dude who occasionally went a bit OTT and got clowned for it.

Around 2014 or so, I befriended an older dude named M1ke at a metal show and...a year later, realized it was him. and he still goes by "M1ke M0sh" as a pseudonym.