Why do people leave ILX for good?

can you take me back where i came from
honey can you take me back?

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

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?

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.

sorta kills the point of the big goodbye post when you claim ta-nehisi coates was a seminal ilxor

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.

sorta kills the point of the big goodbye post when you claim ta-nehisi coates was a seminal ilxor

― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), 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.

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.

Did I remember a rumour that Paul McCartney posted here at least once?

He left after the great 'Defend the Indefensible: Mull of Kintyre' wars of 2006 iirc

Lol

i meant to leave after T✧✧@k✧✧.e✧✧ stopped posting

what eephus said goes for me too - i arrived in 05 or 06 and have always felt very late to the party

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.

Any children-of-ILXors-turned-posters?

My kid lurks on here at times and has voted in end of year polls

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.

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.

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.

I may have first heard about it through hipinion.

heyday of blogging iirc, and no twitter yet

plus there were people making a living writing about music.

I found Tom Ewing's Best singles of the 1990s some time in 2000, I think, and was reading Freaky Trigger for a while - my first ILX post was February 2001, though I probably lurked for a bit before then.

i bought my first computer immediately following 9/11 after it became clear that physical media was too slow to keep up with the world. Plus the downloading. I found ILX a few months after.

I joined in 2003 but only really lurked. I properly started posting in 2015 (I think). I don't post enough so always feel vaguely like I'm posting from 'outside the room' as it were. I get this with all forums, tbh.

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, May 11, 2020 8:42 AM bookmarkflaglink

My friend that posted here told me about Geir and how he said Schoenberg ruined music so I joined purely to wind him up about it

I want this to be a true story

Hey Geir, I know you still drop by every now and then. What's less musical in your opinion, twelve-tone serialism or rhythm for rhythm's sake?

“The return to the board of noted musico-phrenologist geir” may yet be my answer to thread q so steady on pom

lol I think I missed the 'phrenologist' part.

I want this to be a true story

― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, May 11, 2020 9:12 AM bookmarkflaglink

Lol it totally is. The first post under my gov't name was me ribbing him for it. I didn't realize the dude very rarely responded to barbs so I lost interest, came back a year later to talk rap and metal.

Schoenberg? I thought it was James Brown who ruined music?

Papa's Got a Brand New Tone Row

I started posting in 2005? no idea if I lurked before that, probably not for long if I did. I do feel like a new poster, though I've met a people off board which makes me feel more like an insider.

get up get into it get inverted and retrogade

I once started an 'end of music' Pandora station based solely on the initial inputs of James Brown and Schoenberg. Geir is a good sort, though; some time ago, I reminded him of some of his earlier ILM pronouncements and he lolled

I like Geir, I think he drops by here from time to time. Some weird opinions, but a good guy.

So he's not an actual phrenologist? I'mma need a citation, wins.

everyone who leaves becomes their legend in time, rarely fairly but thats life

did… did a nude spock write this?

I said musico-phrenologist which is not an actual thing: I was not being literal

Ah, my bad. I parsed the hyphen as an 'and' instead of a metaphorical qualifier.

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.

Is that around when the Baffler excerpted the MIA thread?

I became a parent so I was under what I call My First Quarantine, don’t know about anybody else.

lol that MIA thread was def one of my first full-on ILM reads

iirc I found this place googling for "Charalambides"

yeah i wonder if 2004/5 had an influx bc google still worked properly

The googlers were great

I learned about google on my first professional job, which lasted from 2000 to late 2003. I feel fairly certain I encountered ILX during that time as well, but it seems too early given my posting history.