What you would get a lot in the early days was like three posts saying "X is a stupid ugly bitch" and then one long, thoughtful, nuanced post from Nabisco, and everyone remembers the fourth post rather than the preceding three when reflecting back on the sepia-toned early age of ILM.
― Tim F, Saturday, 11 July 2015 22:25 (eight years ago) link
But were there any posts about Kyle's mom?
― MarkoP, Saturday, 11 July 2015 22:38 (eight years ago) link
I feel like mid-period ILX was the most dramatic tbh
― The Reverend, Saturday, 11 July 2015 22:54 (eight years ago) link
rev are you in https://www.facebook.com/groups/ilxorsnowplaying/ lots of people joined the past few days but hopefully they might post in it
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Saturday, 11 July 2015 23:18 (eight years ago) link
Do think of Twitter as a kind of downmarket version of ILX for people who never found their way to ILX.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 11 July 2015 23:21 (eight years ago) link
Rev OTM up there BTW. Old ILX was sort of naive and exploratory with semi-regular tantrums, newer ILX is stable but unexciting middle age, all the craziness happened in between.
Message boards in general are in decline, right? If anything ILM is outperforming the rest of them.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 11 July 2015 23:28 (eight years ago) link
reddit seems to be doing fine
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Saturday, 11 July 2015 23:40 (eight years ago) link
Cosmic Slop: I think I'm a member of that group but I don't post. I don't really care for fb as a discussion platform and mostly use it for logistics and lurk otherwise.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 11 July 2015 23:51 (eight years ago) link
So many message boards I've joined and participated in the past fifteen years have died. ILE/ILM is the last one I check with any sort of regularity.
My favorite thread have always been the ones covering the tentpole pop/indie/hip hop albums. There do seem to be less of those kinds of threads lately.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Sunday, 12 July 2015 00:20 (eight years ago) link
The fb listening group just makes it easier to post photos/images of album sleeves than uploading something to imgur and posting it here. It's the rare post there that gets more than a few likes or more than one comment. It's fun(ish), but not a replacement for this place.
I guess the main reason I view fb and twitter as secondary repositories of ILM-talk is that there's no good way to search the archives of either one. Here, if you want to go back and find what people were saying about Justin Timberlake between the breakup of NSync and the release of his first album, it's not too hard to find content if it's there. If you wanted to do that on fb or twitter, you a) couldn't, because those conversations would've happened before either service even existed and b) it would take you HOURS to locate it.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 12 July 2015 00:28 (eight years ago) link
Twitter search isn't that difficult. Also at least 80% of my favorite Twitter users are non-ilxors.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 12 July 2015 00:32 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/reverenddollars/status/99276008250818560
Just took me ~hours~ to find my first tweet.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 12 July 2015 00:35 (eight years ago) link
i hate twitter. but i get it. i guess. why people are there. i'm not a phone person.
― scott seward, Sunday, 12 July 2015 00:39 (eight years ago) link
tbf, the advanced search feature is a lot more useful now than when I was a regular twitter user. I didn't realize they'd beefed it up. The same can't be said for facebook, however.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 12 July 2015 01:00 (eight years ago) link
yeah facebook is a memory hole
― cat-haver (silby), Sunday, 12 July 2015 01:02 (eight years ago) link
Oh totally.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 12 July 2015 01:10 (eight years ago) link
I've always wondered why they've never added a strong search function.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 12 July 2015 01:11 (eight years ago) link
Because it's all about the RIGHT NOW, BITCHES!!!!!!
― austinato (Austin), Sunday, 12 July 2015 01:13 (eight years ago) link
(not that you guys are the bitches; just sayin')
― austinato (Austin), Sunday, 12 July 2015 01:14 (eight years ago) link
another reason it is quiet
because when one of my favorite posters asked for more women in the runaways thread she was derided and as a result of stupid japery she's left ilx altogether
that's why you cant have nice things
i plan on never leaving & making you all miserable as a result YOURE FUCKING WELCOME
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 July 2015 03:08 (eight years ago) link
you're one of the reasons i'm still even here. jbr too, but i can chat with her on facebook.
― scott seward, Sunday, 12 July 2015 03:16 (eight years ago) link
lol we'll be here at the end posting in the eagles thread like statler & waldorf
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 July 2015 03:30 (eight years ago) link
that's terrible, i feel awful for contributing to any of the unnecessary noise in that thread, hope she has not really left ilx
― some dude, Sunday, 12 July 2015 04:56 (eight years ago) link
the straight white male poll was the final straw i think :/
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 July 2015 05:13 (eight years ago) link
I find certain aspects of ILM really frustrating, and while I post a lot have on occasion tried to forgo due to perceived dickishness from some parties, but I always try to remind myself: don't take it personally, it's the internet, this is how it works, most of you I've never met, etc. I do miss some posters, some voices I looked forward to and/or respected. But by and large I don't find ILM hugely different from what brought me here a very long time ago, bar maybe more cartoonishly kneejerk negativity and sensitivity, which at least in the latter case reflects a general increase in awareness, imo, of how we use the internet and perhaps how we use the internet improperly (louder, faster!).
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 12 July 2015 05:25 (eight years ago) link
if an ilx beef threatens to take over a perfectly innocent thread you can politely direct people here.
if an ilx beef threatens to take over "if an ilx beef threatens to take over a perfectly innocent thread you can politely direct people here." you can direct people here.
if beef on an ilx trees thread get out of hand, come here to look at beef
if an ilx beef gets out of hand on the beef thread come here to look at trees
― scott seward, Sunday, 12 July 2015 05:35 (eight years ago) link
that was a rough july on ilx...
― scott seward, Sunday, 12 July 2015 05:41 (eight years ago) link
otm
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 July 2015 05:44 (eight years ago) link
when one of my favorite posters asked for more women in the runaways thread she was derided and as a result of stupid japery she's left ilx altogether
If by stupid japery you are referring to this stupid poll then I don't disagree, however I don't see any derision on the Runaways thread, unless it's being accused of being a man by another woman, but if that's how she interpreted it there's nothing anyone else can do about it.
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 July 2015 07:35 (eight years ago) link
Anyway, seems a pity to me, hopefully she'll be back.
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 July 2015 07:38 (eight years ago) link
now I feel like a heel -- again, I'm really sorry, I genuinely have no idea who anyone is unless they use their real names
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Sunday, 12 July 2015 10:18 (eight years ago) link
do hope jbr will reconsider, won't go :(made me happy to see her posting more lately & starting some excellent threads
― drash, Sunday, 12 July 2015 10:35 (eight years ago) link
jbl these days no? Anyway consign that
― the story of ilm: an ottyssey (wins), Sunday, 12 July 2015 11:21 (eight years ago) link
*cosign ffs
srsly
if this is the endgame of the culture wars then idk what to say or do
― The Bends by Radiohead (imago), Sunday, 12 July 2015 11:23 (eight years ago) link
learn to do and say nothing.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 July 2015 11:43 (eight years ago) link
also I dunno it's the (northern hemisphere) summer, aside from Ned my "friends" on fb are very quiet right now (like Ned had 20x the number of posts of my next closest "friend" last week), lots of people are on the road, or their brains are melting from the silly heat
seems like it could be a good time to run a retrospective ILM ballot poll though? I dunno I just want a place to shoot the shit about music once in a while, and fb mostly sucks for that
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 12 July 2015 13:25 (eight years ago) link
you need to get in a 2 year queue now for those, Euler. Johnny Fever said fuck it and was gonna jump it and start one but it never happened. The all-time revisited poll was canned permanently I think.
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Sunday, 12 July 2015 15:59 (eight years ago) link
I only have about 20 followers on twitter and most aren't interested in talking about music. Not to me, anyway. And obviously nobody ever sees my tweets so its pointless trying to start debate there
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:00 (eight years ago) link
Johnny Fever said fuck it and was gonna jump it and start one but it never happened.
Nah, it had been planned from the beginning to happen in August/September, but if gr8080 and seandalai are available to move it up, I guess we can.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
I cant even remember what the poll was going to be.
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
Albums & Tracks from the beginning of ILM thru the present. (aka 2000-2015)
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:20 (eight years ago) link
oh yeah, the one that people will be campaigning for anything to stop Kaputt from winning
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:23 (eight years ago) link
won't be won by a straight white man
― The Bends by Radiohead (imago), Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:30 (eight years ago) link
(not saying this is a bad thing & in kaputt's case it is an excellent thing)
oh ffs
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:33 (eight years ago) link
people will vote on the music not what kind of human (or robot) makes it.
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:36 (eight years ago) link
imago with record time on that one, well done, why wait for the actual thread
― Joan Crawford Loves Chachi, Sunday, 12 July 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link
30 years ago a child would kick a ball on the street.
― some dude, Sunday, 12 July 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link
30 years ago a straight white man would kick a child on the street.
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 July 2015 17:04 (eight years ago) link