ASK ME ANYTHING RE: The History of ILX

keep in mind i don't forgive her, after the dust settled a bit i discovered she apparently told some lies about me to a late ILXor and i assume no one ever pushed back against them before he passed away. it sucks since i liked that guy. however i would absolutely have gone about it a bit less aggro...i think i just snapped when i put a few things together.

omar little
Posted: March 7, 2019 at 16:40:04
i agree with chaki as far as my own "work" on the luna thing, i got much more heated than normal on that tip.

Yeah, I dunno. I felt bad for a bit. But some of the (off-board) shit-posting / chat logs that came to light absolved me of my feelings. As did the financial impact of her pseudonymetry. Also, I got frustrated that she (and roxy) consistently confused me with another poster who was.... not my favorite.

btw happy anniversary everyone

Yo is it true Dom Passantino got permabanned by a moderator after a clusterfuck beef???

rip big man

wait why on earth would anyone forgive HER? maybe I'm missing something

luna aside, have there been any other similar scammers on ilx?

OTM was invented by Mark Sinker

― Mr. ILX, Saturday, February 23, 2008 5:36 PM (eleven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i like this story but it is entirely untrue

i think these guys may not be on the up and up tbh:
We are interested in buying and selling OX GALLSTONES (well dried and yellow colour): please sign up and reply with your email address!!!

kurt=chaki?

yas kween

morrissey should make a record about the cruelties of traditional chinese medicine, he could call it 'ox gall and eye'

Was guess papers a scam or someone looking to be scammed

why

Who was Mr. ILX?

conor smedley

it wasn't jaymc because Mr. ILX didn't know shit

who has the most sock accounts on ilx?

luna aside, have there been any other similar scammers on ilx?

― kolarov spring (NickB)

Not on ILX, but one of our beloved regulars did get p catfished online. ;_;

delaware never forget

I've been reading ILX since 2007 and had heard references to the Luna fiasco, but never spent the time to figure out what happened. Holy shit!

I have always been a little intimidated by all the seemingly smart people on ILX who know so much about music, movies, books, philosophy, etc. Let's just say that after reading about the Luna thing, I am no longer intimidated. That photo she posted of herself is one of the most hilarious things I have ever seen. Seriously, maybe I am just not a trusting person, but how the fuck could anyone have believed that was her?

i had forgotten that ilx was so traumatized by a catfish all those years ago.. kind of explains some of the lost moxie

Was guess papers a scam or someone looking to be scammed

never a real scam here, just happenstanceand looking to be scammed/pass their tests

Anyone know why Chaki nuked all his social media?

https://twitter.com/askchakri

Yes I do

what was the very first poll

who was the first band

btw happy anniversary everyone

lolol at ppl ten years ago handwringing over whether gabbneb should be locked out or not

who was the first band

this is one of those questions that quickly leads to me googling "was robin hood real?"

/can someone recount the whole history of Luna?/

this has been done a million times!

TBF it largely passed me by and someone had to explain it to me in the pub.

If anyone is ever out here and wants me to explain it to them in a pub hmu

Is it true that you can leave any time you like, but you can never check out?

What is the order for ranking the following ex-posters by the seriousness of their transgressions against the ilx community?

Jon W, Nude Spock. Roger Adultery, Dom Passatino, Graham

Which ilx poster has stepped away from the keyboard for a moment and gone on to greatest real-world success/notability (however subjectively that is measured) ?

shame on you on the day that's in it for the omission(s) on that list

It's a HIStory thread ... and also, partial reading of the archives.

een so

Is it true that you can leave any time you like, but you can never check out?

who was the guy that wanted to print out ilx and sell it as a book (or some variation on that idea)
is ethan p okay what is he doing now
was a flange the vagina or something else

some big-deal-ex-irl ppl are:
max
pareene (i forget his ilx name, ghost something?)
yancey strickler (set up kickstarter)
mark "k punk" fisher (forget his ilx name, he only posted for a while and went off in disgust at our bad ways to found an entire school of anti-neolib cultural and political agitation)

obv also many music writers but i can't start thinking abt that as a big deal can i

also momus lol

I think Nude Spock was one that used to be well regarded, but something went.

The "went on to fame" list is on the Wikipedia page for ILX, I believe.

I think Nude Spock was one that used to be well regarded, but something went.

― Mark G, Friday, March 8, 2019 10:29 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he posted a second time iirc (i wd not put him at either extreme on that list tho)

He predated me by a couple of months, I only saw some posts retrospectively.

we were young, we had no idea what slouching towards us all

Didn’t ta-nehisi coates post here a couple of times, or is that an ilx joke I took at face value

The wiki page has tipped me off that the creator of Aeon Flux posts here, which amazed me until I remembered there's an entire board for Aeon Flux.

The Luna thread seems longer than six years ago, I'm friends with two of my main antagonists from there now, which is a good thing.

(pull-back to reveal I'm wearing a "K8 was right" t-shirt)

slightly aghast at the idea wins of all ppl might be the one taken in by a board joke

Slightly off topic, didn't Doug Yule post to Freaky Trigger once?