How old should you be before posting on ILXOR?

H.P., you realise ilx0r is an ageing population and by revealing that you're under thirty half the board is going to try to Peter Thiel you?

like the well-known neil young hit "powderfinger", "i had just turned twenty-two" when i started posting here, "and i was wondering what to do", so i left for a few years and came back, didn't really go pro until 26.

H.P. you're in your posting prime imo

like the well-known neil young hit "powderfinger", "i had just turned twenty-two" when i started posting here, "and i was wondering what to do", so i left for a few years and came back, didn't really go pro until 26.

H.P. you're in your posting prime imo

good advice, mom.

this is a good thread and I agree with M bison that more young folks should post and not give a fuck about what the old ppl said 15 years ago

I have been around ILX for a long time and have no idea what "Peter Thieled" means fwiw

have you really been posting here since 2002? that seems unlikely. different user maybe?

God double post and terrible spelling, maybe I should wait another decade.

Yeah Plumtree was my favourite band at age 7! Glad someone remembers me!

God double post and terrible spelling, maybe I should wait another decade.

Yeah Plumtree was my favourite band at age 7! Glad someone remembers me!

Lol I give up

hahaha

I have no idea what causes the double posts other than phone/Zing issues

Yeah it’s posting twice on my iPad because I get a blank white screen the first time. Stupid on my part to not unconditionally trust technology

you can't be twenty on ILX mountain

I arrived at 24 and I'm still here at 43. Lurking, reading, posting when I feel I have something to contribute, voting in assorted polls.

Who is the youngest ever regular poster? Aja?

Aja (aja) wrote this on thread Kurt Cobain better than JESUS! on board I Love Music on Apr 4, 2003

You'd never find Jesus hanging with a Courtney Love.

PS

I am 12 and LOVE NIRVANA! I hate the fact that Kurt died when I was only three years old.

I guess she would be about 30 now. Was she real? I think so but I can't always keep track/remember.

I don't think there's a minimum age. Post facts and opinions when you know what you're talking about; ask questions when you don't.

I think its more than just exchange of factuals tbh

i must have just turned 19 when i started posting. in retrospect i probably should ave waited a good ten years before posting anything, and even then

how old was connor smedley when they started posting? what about brodie?

Noted real people connor smedley and brodie, there

Conner (sic) Smedley actually is real! I believe someone linked to his post-ILX work at some point (although nothing compared to the real-time lycanthropy documentation).

his real-time post-ILX work is staking vampires, wd that all who quit the borads found such a calling

fwiw, I assume "Peter Thieled" referred to this not to borad lore: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to-inject-himself-with-young-peoples-blood

it did, peter thiel has never posted on ilx

(im fibbing, he is clearly poster sanpaku)

wait conner smedley was sic???

xp lol but also hmm...

my posts were always good

― mark s, Sunday, July 18, 2021 10:50 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

part of the ilx dynamic is regretting every single one of your bad posts and marveling at the ppl with no bad posts like mark s and tim f

i started posting at 22 and used up every opportunity to embarrass myself in the first year bc i wanted to come off smart and erudite but actually came off totally incoherent. love growing up

i started posting at 22 and used up every opportunity to embarrass myself in the first year bc i wanted to come off smart and erudite but actually came off totally incoherent. love growing up

i started posting here at 23, and i'd like to think that my posts have gotten better in the 8 years hence, but i think the main thing that's changed is that i've stopped bothering to capitalize letters

house style rules

surely most of the people posting in the forum's early years were in their 20s, which is why every thread from more than 20 years ago starts like "Fuck Joni Mitchell."

I think you have to have experienced at least five decades on this earth to have earned the correct level of grizzled cynicism and disdain that a "popular" ilxor requires, not to mention having been on this spinning ball long enough to have all earnestness squeezed out of you.

even alex in nyc was young once (which is why every thread from more than 20 years ago starts like "Fuck Joni Mitchell")

Joni Mitchell: Classic or Dud

not to mention having been on this spinning ball long enough to have all earnestness squeezed out of you.

― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, July 19, 2021 9:20 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

speak 4 urself i am bursting full of sincerity and light which is why im the ilxor "Best Poster" from years 2017-18 and 2020

Where once we were clouds, we are now the shakers of fists.

going to be interesting what future Historians surmise about past civilizations after the impending nuclear war, when ilxor.com's archives are the only things that survived.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bZjKC0EaY0

I thought “getting Peter Thiel’d” meant being totally evil and then buying out all of ILX and converting it to a hidden Quora or wikihow subforum, all on a floating megafortress made of PayPal, and everyone is totally straight

Taking sides: getting Peter Thiel’d vs getting Sean Parker’d

a million young blood sacs isn't cool, do you know what's cool? a billion young blood sacs.

I think I realise why I lurk rather than post here is as a 26yo, I feel like I have not lived/consumed enough to participate in the dialogue.

I still feel like this in my 40s and I've been mostly lurking here for probably 15 years at this point. So many smart and knowledgeable people on this board, I feel like my contributions are rarely meaningful and mostly redundant.

Ha, sorry for causing so much confusion. Yes, the Peter Thiel thing is not specific to ilx, and I maybe did overestimate how much other people know/care about billionaire/longevity cult people and their young person vampirism.

Oh i really presumed the buy and wreck it for spite thing was the one!

I just assumed everyone knew the "inject yourself with young person blood" story! I was wrong! I did get a little obsessed with the weirdness of longevity cults for a while but I've seen it specifically in reference to Thiel a bunch so figured it'd be an understandable thing, if a bit memey.

the first thing i think of with thiel is just how wealthy he is, how vindictive, how he's like the guy in the master, how he dreams of libertarian free-floating fortresses running on crypto. so he wants to be a vampire too and young guy blood, eh that all fits into his main story.

i joined at age 20 and only like 50% of my old posts are embarrassing now

What are decommissioned oil platforms in international waters even for if not youth blood factory farms

I was on a pre-ILX thing and cannot bear to see what I wrote on there, my online persona was definitely "complete prick" at the time. Then I didn't actually start posting here until what, 2013? 2014? - after lurking for a year or two. It is a right and good thing that I and everyone else were spared the 2000s posts I would have made.

Where once we were clouds, we are now the shakers of fists.

ILX is not a mirror. ILX is a hammer.

And every post looks like a nail

In each of these polls, the most common age was the age of someone born in 1979-80 (28 in 2008, 31 in 2011, 36 in 2016).

How old are you as of Jan 09, 2008?
How old are (were) you as of Jan 09, 2011?
How old were you as of Jan 09, 2016?

Dat's me!

80

Old enough to know better. Was this ever sorted?

sorted or not, ilx loves its meta-threads about ilx, so if we sort this it'll just be shoved aside for some new form of self-probing, like a tongue obsessively returning to a sore tooth.