Why are you not posting

maybe I will post tonight

someday i hope to write the greatest ilx post in history

I want to say why Im not posting but my 57000+ posts kind of belie that I suppose. But I'll go with Cruts "Ive embarrased myself enough".

Also, too many dicks on the dancefloor.

Are you not worried about breaking your remarkable streak?

Nah. I usually post a bunch at once, then go quiet for months. See you in November!

Whove yall fpd

I flag posts, not people.

why are you not pooping

There's enough shit on ilx as it is.

wow it's amazing how angry j's post made me, dude fuck off along with your "academic" "intellectual" buddies Oor Neechy and Euler, gee it's such a shame that you can't have a thread on ILX where you deny trans people's lived experiences right to their face without getting pushback (a lot of which was funny tbh). do any of you care that it probably made Kate leave? all three of you suck.

no I'm not posting itt again,no bookmark, fuck you

branwell made kate leave iirc

Can we not with this yet again ugh

sorry, that's just very literally on the record and it should be clear where that responsibility lies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsW040wrMNA

0:34

i do not know if the ppl involved were unaware that it's uncool to try to extensively diagnose an old conversation that caused someone to leave, especially when one of the parties involved has not returned either. however that is what happened here, and it's pretty uncool fyi

how old are people here? how do they find time to post?

i guess work keeps me busy

we’re not all flipped McGriddles here, mcpunisher

(sorry

flippin

goddamit

wow FPed sleeve thrice in two weeks, sadly only one of them counts.

Kumbayah, my lord
Kumbayah

Late to post this, but some time ago mike t-diva very kindly sent me an out of print CD set that I was after - a gesture that to me seemed to sum up ILM at its generous best.

Oh, the Dolly Mixture boxed set - yeah, I was sent some complimentary copies, so it was good to pass one on.

For some ex-posters, not posting is the best outcome for all.

FP'd sleeve. dragging Oor Neechy and Euler into it for absolutely no goddamn reason?

I thought j.'s post addressed a wider couple of points that were at least valid to them and the approach taken by ppl since in relitigating the specific thread was nonsense

eh? I had nothing to do with that thread, please keep me out of it.

Yeah, sleeve's post was just bizarre.

I think Brad was otm about not autopsying this. But I'm also not sure how we should respond to posts like j.'s, where a departed poster returns to denounce "us," but then also announces their immediate renewed departure. I reread the posts j. was discussing and disagree with his characterization of what happened (not as vehemently as sleeve did), but I guess it doesn't really matter anymore?

i agree with that sentiment even though i feel like if i get into why i will inevitably be doing the thing i was complaining about

if i relitigated it, it was only because i was heavily involved and feel unresolved about whether my own engagement therein was fine or otherwise. how solipsistic

I'm sorry Brad - at the time it felt like a genuine + innocent question to ask imago to explain a comment that seemed very off the mark to me. But I totally should've realised that it would end up in relitigation of an old topic and talking too much about other posters, it's pretty obvious in hindsight. Sorry to everyone.

figured out in my early twenties that there was far more stuff i regretted saying than there were times i regretted staying silent. feel the same way about posting and so try my best to only really post to drama and contention free limited interest threads like football and golf.

no need to apologize to me, it's totally fine and i understand why it happened, it just felt very weird to me for reasons i still can't really articulate

i think it's been a bit zero-sum. we don't need to be 'allies' or 'enemies', we don't need to take sides

there is no team j., there is no team anti-j.

I've always been pro-Kate and pro-j. Dispiriting misunderstandings shouldn't define how we interact.

i am on team pomenitul

there were some posts on that creepy liberalism thread that seemed to treat trans issues as hypothetical, like they were oblivious to the fact that trans people post on this fucking board.

I am pro trans, I am anti-bullying, I am anti-police

imo the creepy liberalism thread is cursed and no one should post in it

it was very typical of ilx that we managed to find so much to argue about despite basically all agreeing that the harper's letter was some self-serving bs

I didn’t detect that in j.’s posts, which were aimed at fostering a philosophical discussion on historical liberalism and the ethics of universalism. Unless I’m missing something here?

2xp

also fitting that we'd moved past it and sleeve dredged it back up, doing their usual demonizing "you are terrible and should stop posting, asshole" schtick. which is fitting because one time he attacked a mod for being a terrible mod and cited their treatment of another poster and then that poster stepped in and said "please do not speak on my behalf, I like this mod"

ok i'll recuse myself now, i'm taking us further off topic.

There was no need for sleeve to drag me in to this at all. He could have talked to me off-board on FB if he had an issue with me.

I hope mods are looking at his actions.

In the 'why do people leave ilx for good' thread, several people said they'd basically fled to Twitter, which I didn't get then, but then it happened to me

I perfectly understand why people choose to quit.

Sleeves post wasnt mod worthy fer gods sake it was a bit man and ball and i dont agree with it maybe meself but lads can we put an area of calm into play here at all or else VAR is gonna get a look in and we none of us want that

men and ball tbf, created and unfairly vilified a clear out-group, def FP-worthy, big fan of sleeve tho so no drama rly

I understand why people would want to quit, but fleeing to the angriest place on the internet feels like a lateral move, at best.

things feel much more personal here

idk I'd rather it be personal