Any reason why ILM is so quiet these days?

(xpost to NA)

i always figured u guys had some contact w nakh off-ilx? tell him i say 'hi' if so. i figured he was just on-and-off, hadn't noticed that this was an extended break for him? a talented writer and painfully knowledgeable dude

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Drash was great.

i remember weeks when i was top of the statscock - dark days my friends

lex's point about threads dedicated to singles and albums getting 5 posts and then vanishing is weird to me - wasn't it always like that? too granular.

i still really, really value this place. i trust you guys! mainly. and i like the "old music" threads too.

It did use to be like that. I remember when it was a huge thing if a thread reached 100 posts. The nas thread and DMB thread where people were amazed at how many posts they had.

having to register did kill those threads. I miss the days of the random googler but the spam was getting too much so registration had to happen.

For me, the search function being out of service has been pretty limiting on my use of the board.

― Austin, Monday, February 6, 2017 12:52 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

For me, too. But it also makes me wonder why I bother reviving old threads about some Krautrock band or some new thing I just discovered just to get one or two responses before the thread dies again (and yes, xp, in my experience, this does happen). Don't know what I'm expecting, necessarily--maybe nothing?--but yeah, I dunno. I hate the Rolling threads and I hate barrages of Youtube clips and I don't keep up with mainstream pop music.

But the absence of the search function has definitely kept me checking in less than usual this past week.

there used to be way more people. that makes a big difference. i remember when there were LOTS of threads with 100+ posts. but there aren't enough people around to make that happen now.

i'm not even around now...on ilm anyway. you're welcome.

the rolling threads seem like a direct response to the issue of "reviving old threads about some Krautrock band or some new thing I just discovered just to get one or two responses before the thread dies again"

ilx needs more clusterfucks

I never look at rolling threads tbh.

why do people hate rolling threads idgi

i never look at them either.

they're boring.

Donald Trump needs to start a music career.

The problem w clusterfucks is that if you're in any way an emotionally healthy person they are deeply unpleasant to be in the eye of which trains you not to start or participate in them again which winnows the field

i like rolling threads bc they let me find new music esp in genres that i don't know much about, i guess that's weird

Seems like they will be full of overly serious 'genre experts', could be wrong because I never look at them.

well, long threads on ilm used to be (sometimes) informative and entertaining. when people were debating things. and if you were into it. the fast and furious responses. it was fun. might have even been better before youtube too. people had to discuss what they were getting at instead of just going: see, like this. and posting a video.

i guess it depends on whether you're here for the music or the music writing

well, there were more debate champions in the old days.

and most of those people are long gone.

and i'm not dismissing the "here for music writing" cadre or anything, i know that's a big part of ILM history, it's just not what i use the board for personally

It's too regimented for my liking. That all goes over there in that thread, and that belongs on that thread.

you can read/post in more than one thread you know

think I'm going to advertise ilx about town but not quite sure what angle to take

It's not often that someone is trying to push the cluster down the fuck hill on purpose. It just happens.

U quickly learn where the sensitive points are

ilx shld have a snapchat filter

it's been fun and all but i look forward to the day ilx is gone

maybe next time there's a hosting drive we can have a "delete the whole damn thing" drive and see who raises more money

i like ilx a lot and spent most of my 20s posting to it but this type of being on the internet doesnt feel natural anymore. i mean a lot of what i liked abt ilx was that it was entirely separate from my real life and gave me a place to take positions or inhabit persona that i wouldnt have felt as comfortable doing on ~social media~ but that also meant that once i wasnt as engaged w/music and books and other stuff i posted on ilx abt i quickly fell out of reading and posting regularly

also a lot of the allure was feeling that you were in on this long-running dialog with the other posters and as those posters disappeared it made it harder to post longer/more meaningful stuff? idk

it's been fun and all but i look forward to the day ilx is gone

maybe next time there's a hosting drive we can have a "delete the whole damn thing" drive and see who raises more money

― the late great, Monday, February 6, 2017 4:26 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ime opinions like this mean that you want to quit ilx but have fomo. just quit if you want to.

I've killed loads of threads with really boring posts. Sorry.

ILX prevents me from looking too much at the cesspool that is much of the rest of the internet these days so it's still invaluable as far as I'm concerned.

Our pizzagates are much better

i like how fairly chill ILX is, the drama is certainly a lot less these days, our biggest -gates in the past involved some really batshit things and nowadays it rarely rises beyond the level of sean spicer dlp9001 vs dippin dots spotify.

I really like ilx and even ilxors for the most part

I like how the last two posts were from nomar and ogmor.

I would love to post more but I spend all my precious little free time just trying stay current on any given thread. An example is our monthly Trump threads: you step away for two or three days and there's a like 1500 new messages. You guys post and link to a lot of great shit (I basically get my news from ILX and recs from ILB and ILM), so I read most of what is posted/linked, leaving no time for posting. Not that I have anything interesting to say, mind.

Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up! [Started by New Mark H (New MarkH) in January 2007, last updated yesterday by Wimmels on I Love Everything] 5 new answers (xp)

I have never confused myself with nomar, you guys are thick imo

No, I've never mixed you two up either, but dow and dowd is another matter.

The problem w clusterfucks is that if you're in any way an emotionally healthy person they are deeply unpleasant to be in the eye of which trains you not to start or participate in them again which winnows the field

― Mordy, Monday, 6 February 2017 22:18 (one hour ago) Permalink

This is spot on. I'd easily post twice as much if I didn't have to worry about getting on the wrong side of a grumpy regular.

I come here for both the music and the music writing. I don't care if it's detailed critical insight or just a pleasant "I like this album, check it out," they both have value to me, and even the pleasantry posts can incite good conversation. The hostility just kills it before it even begins, though.

(Should also stress that 95% of users are delightful and great to interact with, and that I still love this community. It just has a small toxic element that I think some of the long timers here don't even notice anymore)

I'd easily post twice as much if I didn't have to worry about getting on the wrong side of a grumpy regular.

And this goes tenfold for women.

i don't notice it. you guys are pussycats for the most part. or pussy hats. one or the other. but that's fine. we've got big and bold in the white house now. chill is good.

x-post

quite the unfortunate crosspost too

ime opinions like this mean that you want to quit ilx but have fomo. just quit if you want to.

― na (NA), Monday, February 6, 2017 2:34 PM (one hour ago

partly that, partly also tfw someone revives an old thread and i am reminded of how obnoxious i was in my youth

Clusterfucks and antagonism are the worst