Why do people leave ILX for good?

this isn't something we should discuss imo

lurkers otoh

this isn't something we should discuss imo

Indeed. My initial question was facetious and likely a parody of some other post/thread I've already forgotten about.

Imago otm. Let's just say it's a tie and move on

mariah carey is poster "bee ok" iirc

Fred B is Lars Ulrich.

i'm kali malone

*drones on and on about something*

Not to start shit again, but your posts are wayyyyyyyyy better than Kali Malone's music.

Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaank
Yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooou
:)

(I do like her music though!)

also your jump shot is amazing

I had an international smash hit single when I was still going by the name Jordy so let's not be too quick to declare a winner here, is alls I'm sayin

Has it gotten any easier now that you're no longer a, you know?

Sadly, it's all been downhill since my diaper days.

I had an international smash hit single when I was still going by the name Jordy so let's not be too quick to declare a winner here, is alls I'm sayin

― Expart of Languidge (Old Lunch)

dur dur d'etre old lunch

Should someone alert fellow "twofer" Geeta to this proposal?

whenever I mention ilx to her, she has warm things to say about a lot of old school ilxors, but expresses no interest in returning to regular posting/reading.

she does have great taste in food/bevs, so if she happens to be visiting your locale, you should definitely buy her drinks and/or dinner, esp. if you are an affluent white dude.

unless you're "that one guy" .... he knows who he is.

I would definitely... oh wait, never mind

not you, mh

jokes

DM-ed you

she does have great taste in food/bevs, so if she happens to be visiting your locale, you should definitely buy her drinks and/or dinner, esp. if you are an affluent white dude.

Would it be ok if I'm just a regular middle class brown woman?

I think the implication was that the people complaining about a lack of diverse voices earlier in this thread are largely cisgender white straight men

well, fuck it, i've done my part to increase the number of women _and_ decrease the number of men posting here

of course offering money to posters is a fairly clueless solution - first off y'all can't afford my rates, second off i guarantee you spend enough time even talking about the idea and some asshole will jump out of the woodwork with some bullshit argument about how i "shouldn't count".

well, fuck it, i've done my part to increase the number of women _and_ decrease the number of men posting here

A+ :D

I'm always completely... fine with people leaving? Like "kudos to you, you managed to get out of here." I don't desire this myself, but I can see why one would, for so many reasons.

Trying my best to call out the bullshit. Also doing it for free too. Aren't you all lucky?

i prefer to refer to it as privileged

Hi all,

I’m out.

I found ilx in ‘03 and have since been a daily lurker and occasional poster. I’ve learned so much here from ilxors like Milton Parker, dylannn, John D4rni3lle, Sund4r, Scott Seward, momus, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and even deej.

Where have they all gone?

Maybe I’m old or too sensitive but I feel increasingly at odds with nearly everyone here. I don’t want to be unkind to anyone so I’ll stay quiet.

My best to all.

Yelp I'm still here I'm just kinda incognito

TNC posted here?!

Sund4r posts all the time.

Milton P still posts.

Often in the same threads as Sund4r!

It's been over a decade since Momus posted here, I think?

TNC made exactly 10 posts in 2003, not really an ILXor

God only sent Moses Ten Commandments, doesn’t mean he wasn’t an ilxor

deej still post regularly also under a different name

really?

I wouldn't discount the likely possibility that I've been extremely confused the last 5+ years, but yes, I believe this is true

Deej is D-40

This is what I thought

I am HOOOOOOWLLLL oh wait gave it away

i don't think i've seen many d-40 posts recently

He doesn't post as much as he had, but definitely still a regular.

I don't think Coates posted enough to count, leaving us with seven ilxors. Four are ostensibly still active to varying degrees, which is more than 50% over a period of almost two decades. That's a pretty good percentage, right? Certainly not enough to warrant a 'where are the snows of yesteryear?'-type lament. Sounds like your main reasons for self-ejecting lie elsewhere, Yelp.

ban yelploaf

And indeed, this August -- three months away -- ILX is officially twenty years old.

Anyway, this is as appropriate a moment as any to reiterate that I miss Scott.

xps

What can we do special to celebrate the 20th anniversary

51 each other.

lower SB threshold to 11, re-enable blink tag, lock 20,000 random threads, make System bump 20,000 others