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".
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 24 February 2020 01:27 (four years ago) link
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.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 24 February 2020 08:58 (four years ago) link
Trying my best to call out the bullshit. Also doing it for free too. Aren't you all lucky?
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 24 February 2020 12:04 (four years ago) link
i prefer to refer to it as privileged
― sarahell, Monday, 24 February 2020 16:39 (four years ago) link
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.
― ... (Yelploaf), Sunday, 10 May 2020 22:55 (three years ago) link
Yelp I'm still here I'm just kinda incognito
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 10 May 2020 22:57 (three years ago) link
TNC posted here?!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 May 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
Sund4r posts all the time.
― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 May 2020 22:59 (three years ago) link
Milton P still posts.
― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 May 2020 23:00 (three years ago) link
Often in the same threads as Sund4r!
― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 May 2020 23:01 (three years ago) link
It's been over a decade since Momus posted here, I think?
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Sunday, 10 May 2020 23:04 (three years ago) link
TNC made exactly 10 posts in 2003, not really an ILXor
― trapped out the barndo (crüt), Sunday, 10 May 2020 23:08 (three years ago) link
God only sent Moses Ten Commandments, doesn’t mean he wasn’t an ilxor
― treeship., Sunday, 10 May 2020 23:12 (three years ago) link
deej still post regularly also under a different name
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 10 May 2020 23:20 (three years ago) link
really?
― treeship., Sunday, 10 May 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
I wouldn't discount the likely possibility that I've been extremely confused the last 5+ years, but yes, I believe this is true
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 May 2020 00:02 (three years ago) link
Deej is D-40
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 May 2020 00:11 (three years ago) link
This is what I thought
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 May 2020 00:12 (three years ago) link
I am HOOOOOOWLLLL oh wait gave it away
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 May 2020 00:13 (three years ago) link
i don't think i've seen many d-40 posts recently
― treeship., Monday, 11 May 2020 00:17 (three years ago) link
He doesn't post as much as he had, but definitely still a regular.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 May 2020 00:19 (three years ago) link
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.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 00:26 (three years ago) link
ban yelploaf
― brimstead, Monday, 11 May 2020 00:29 (three years ago) link
And indeed, this August -- three months away -- ILX is officially twenty years old.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 May 2020 00:29 (three years ago) link
Anyway, this is as appropriate a moment as any to reiterate that I miss Scott.
xps
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 00:29 (three years ago) link
What can we do special to celebrate the 20th anniversary
― Mordy, Monday, 11 May 2020 00:31 (three years ago) link
51 each other.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 00:32 (three years ago) link
lower SB threshold to 11, re-enable blink tag, lock 20,000 random threads, make System bump 20,000 others
― silby, Monday, 11 May 2020 00:32 (three years ago) link
bon voyage, yelploaf. walk with god. come back anytime to lurk or post.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 11 May 2020 01:11 (three years ago) link
ilx is old enough to know better
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 May 2020 01:20 (three years ago) link
So cry, baby, cry.
― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 May 2020 01:23 (three years ago) link
can you take me back where i came fromhoney can you take me back?
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 11 May 2020 01:47 (three years ago) link
Whoa, this is weird, in my mind I'm a new ILXor but it seems I've been posting for ... three-quarters of the entire history of the site?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 11 May 2020 03:21 (three years ago) link
thought I started posting as "uh" in 2004 (which I'm not proud to admit), horrified to realize I posted here under my government name 10 times in 2003. which I didn't know until 5 minutes ago.
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 May 2020 03:23 (three years ago) link
sorta kills the point of the big goodbye post when you claim ta-nehisi coates was a seminal ilxor
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Monday, 11 May 2020 03:30 (three years ago) link
I recently ran into one of TNC's posts while doing an ilx search on an unrelated purpose. Surprised me to see the name used in a year prior to TNC becoming well known. It was articulate, pointed, but nothing deathless, much like your somewhat above-average ilx post.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 11 May 2020 03:50 (three years ago) link
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Monday, May 11, 2020 5:30 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Otm. TNC posted a handful of posts, addressing one particular topic, no more. This seems like name-dropping for the sake of it. At least Jimmy the Mod awaited the return of his loved ones en publique.
You owe us nothing, Yelp, and feeling out of touch with everyone here is as good a reason as any to leave, obviously. All the best.
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 May 2020 06:50 (three years ago) link
Might spend the 20th anniversary looking up TNC's ilx posts. They must've had a lot of wisdom in them for a lurker/occasional poster to remember them in his goodbye post 17 years later.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 11 May 2020 07:10 (three years ago) link
Did I remember a rumour that Paul McCartney posted here at least once?
― thomasintrouble, Monday, 11 May 2020 07:11 (three years ago) link
He left after the great 'Defend the Indefensible: Mull of Kintyre' wars of 2006 iirc
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 May 2020 07:14 (three years ago) link
Lol
― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 May 2020 10:38 (three years ago) link
i meant to leave after T✧✧@k✧✧.e✧✧ stopped posting
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 May 2020 10:49 (three years ago) link
what eephus said goes for me too - i arrived in 05 or 06 and have always felt very late to the party
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 11 May 2020 12:27 (three years ago) link
a couple years back someone made a poll of all of TNC's ilx posts, it was kinda weird
I also joined up somewhere around 2004 or 2005 and still feel like I'm catching up.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:36 (three years ago) link
Any children-of-ILXors-turned-posters?
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 12:37 (three years ago) link
My kid lurks on here at times and has voted in end of year polls
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:40 (three years ago) link
He was born in 2003, which was also roughly the time frame when I first joined, although my posting history suggests it was later. I must've lurked for a while.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:42 (three years ago) link
what happened in 04 that so many ppl seem to have found this place? That's when I got here but can't recall how.
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:42 (three years ago) link
I don't remember exactly how I found it. I was very active on the Stereolab forum around then, and that may well have been what led me here.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:45 (three years ago) link