US posters appear more loyal to ILX than UK ones...why?

"Exodus - Movement Of Jah Poptimists."

i.e. they all deserted the sinking ship and went to LJ for lots of polls and marketing surveys.

US posters also seem to have a thicker skin regarding trolling and zinging, and personal insults, so maybe that's the answer?

yeah Dingbod, LiveJournal. It is so shite!!! Why on earth do people want to go on it??? It's just a blog with a few more bells and whistles. Big deal.

Tuomas, maybe you're right. There may be cultural differences involved. Maybe I should have extended it to UK vs non-UK. You've stuck around. So has Trayce. are the New Zealanders still here?

The biggest arseholes on this board, the ones who delight in driving people away, post during British working hours.

I'm still here but am definitely posting less probably because there seem to be more US-centric threads at the moment and the UK ones I'm not really interested in.

I think I'm quite sensitive to trolling and personal insults, but since I don't really know any of you personally, I've never gotten so pissed off about it as to leave the board.

most people stick around but just read and post a lot less. i'm surprised some of the 6-7 (COUNT 'EM) people who constitute the supposed livejournal exodus have managed to stay away so long tho.

The LJ/Poptimists thing is always overstated, as most of the ILXers who post there had pretty much stopped posting a year or so before that community ever appeared, and a lot of others post or posted to both. Personally I think LJ is teh lame but still find myself looking at it.

Bigger factors really were offsite mailing lists, the widening of subject matter on FreakyTrigger, UK posters generally being a bit older and getting tougher jobs, and the common perception that ILX is full of nutters.

Also there are just shitloads more US posters than UK ones, so when a load of US posters disappear no one really notices.

Can't get into LJ at all - I tend to find it unreadable. I don't mean that the writing is unreadable but the format to an extent defies me to read it.

The biggest arseholes on this board, the ones who delight in driving people away, post during British working hours.

-- Ed, Thursday, 17 April 2008 10:16 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

OTM, and I for one am sick of it.

take the fucking hint, no-mark. you'll be happier, we'll be happier.

Yo, we're not here to preach because we're not ministers
We're tellin like it is cause Ren and Dre is like sinister
Reality speaks for itself when it's spoken
A basehead cluck can't blame nobody for smokin
Yo, bullets flyin, mothers cryin, brothers dyin
Lyin in the streets, that's why we're tryin
To stop it from fallin apart and goin to waste
And keepin a smile off a white face
N.W.A never preachin, just teachin
The knowledge of the streets to each and
All that don't understand, that's why we came
To let you know that we're all in the same gang

"I for one" - surely the most overused example of tautology ever?

So says the split personality dude.

So upset I'm gonna miss this clusterfuck thread.

(I don't really mean that, it was just one of those instinctive open goals)

^^ Hardman posturing ----> irrelevant cut and pasted nonsense -----> pedantry -----> "zing"

Perfect example of how ILX has gone to the dog's because of what Ive termed the DWSRCC, or "Dripping With Self-Regard and Contempt Crew"

Thank god Spencer left.
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At least you knew where you were with Becky Lucas.

wtf is people's problem with spencer? LOOSERS

what's this LJ exodus you speak of?

can't get into LJ at all - i tend to find him unreadable

US posters also seem to have a thicker skin regarding trolling and zinging, and personal insults, so maybe that's the answer?

i'd wager the US contingent doesn't include many refugees from a Belle & Sebastian mailing list

These threads always amuse me because I keep forgetting that there's an entire other layer of people who dislike each other standing right behind the layer of people who dislike each other that I always notice.

i'd wager the US contingent doesn't include many refugees from a Belle & Sebastian mailing list

way more than i expected tho

I think that part of the UK olde ILX exodus is based around their being the original ILX people, and they do not like that their child has grown legs and turned into a Frankenstein's monster where people mix metaphors a lot.

way more than i expected tho

I always forget that Sinister is responsible for Laurel and rrrobyn, both of whom have told me, after I've brought up Belle & Sebastian, "Oh, I don't really listen to them anymore."

never forget, never forgive

i'd wager the US contingent doesn't include many refugees from a Belle & Sebastian mailing list

HAI, have we met?

hope not

i thougt DG was ex-sinister

ha

I don't actually know who DG is but I would have pegged him for ex-sinister, too -- or at least assumed he was one of the crew incl, roughly, Ptee and Popkins and those Londoners.

i'm not taking any betting tips from you guys

i thought DG was garu G's brother.

Well that's good to know, I was wondering why a friend of Tim's would be so rude.

;_;

DG started ILE right? much to answer for

tell me about it

ITS NOT ONE OF MINE HE NVER EVEN SEEN ME FLANGE

garu g is the pinefox without his ritalin, everyone knows that

WAIT - maybe the american contingent are more loyal because, being more geographically dispersed, they never have to meet each other?

How many of the top posters have you met?

I'm also ex-sinister

little known fact about mandee

wtf is people's problem with spencer? LOOSERS

-- blueski, Thursday, 17 April 2008 09:38 (7 hours ago) Link

Yeah, I'm not sure. I mean, Jon seems to hate me for reasons I'm not really sure about, and it's probably just people going along with him. Or something about me is generally offensive to the more recent kind of posters. I guess I'll just try and ignore the name calling and hostility, but at some point it's just not worth it. I should probably have just played along early on, but I didn't really understand it and wondered why I should anyway.

I could probably think of as many US as UK posters who don't post any more. Perhaps Grandpont Genie is noticing it more because he knows more of the missing British posters personally?

spencer i think you have more friends on the board than you have enemies anyway

Wait, wtf is 'offensive' about Spencer?

Here we go!

The concept of an ILX friend is great. The concept of an ILX enemy is completely fucking laughable.

Max, it used to be friends and people I didn't know. Now there's friends and "enemies" and I'm thinking why deal with it at all?

suzy, OTM. Hate away, folks, I couldn't really care less.

I am more comfortable with people hating now.

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u51/EreKosETheEternal_bucket/Haterz.png

hoodieasbomakingsignbehinddavidcameron.jpg

But anyway, to get back to the main theme, I think a number of key American Anglophiles who sort of bridged the cultural gap aren't really posting anymore.

And I feel like Ned is posting less.

But maybe not, let me check the stats...

wonder how many ilxors have been posting regularly for five years or more without some kind of lengthy spell away

Hah, well I've been posting less this month, certainly. But my attention is a little more broadly spread out these days.

spencer is cool and handsome

jw doesn't like him iirc because he is a 'ricer'?

ask me anything re the history of ilx.xls obv

sweet

xpost, haha I think it's more than that.

wonder how many ilxors have been posting regularly for five years or more without some kind of lengthy spell away

hi

(i'm not proud of this)

Spencer, I've noticed a few times you've gotten zinged and it doesn't seem to have anything to do with you at all, it's just people talking shit and trying to be funny. It's probably not worth letting it get to you, unless it's to the point where it outweighs any enjoyment you get from ILX. (I know some people will probably find this rich coming from me, since I have a habit of taking things quite personally, but I think I've learned to let the trivial stuff slide.)

wonder how many ilxors have been posting regularly for five years or more without some kind of lengthy spell away

I just had my 5-year ILXversary a month or two ago.

I also feel that on ILM very few people (like Steve and 3 others maybe) are discussing music that I care about. I wonder where those people have gone.

dude don't even make out like ur .xls is bigger than mine

I think the last serious ILX break I took was in the wake of 9/11 when I was looking for a job.

i wonder which contingent donated the most to 'ILX2'

wonder how many ilxors have been posting regularly for five years or more without some kind of lengthy spell away

I just had my 5-year ILXversary a month or two ago.

Yeah me too, and even though there have been times when I've posted less, I've never had a total break from ILX.

2001 on

We're like people that made friends as teenagers and have grown to have different interests in life but are very good, fun friends.

Weird, Abbott, I have no recollections of you posting prior to '07

i wonder which contingent donated the most to 'ILX2'

I'm thinking it was...THE CLUSTER GANG

made friends as teenagers and have grown to have different interests in life but are very good, fun friends.

haha i have NO friends like this irl

I'm thinking it was...THE CLUSTER GANG

i can't remember who this was

xp

me and my old roomie are like this. we used to write counterpart political columns for the high school newspaper. he is libertarian fundie now and maybe a little nuts, but we still have beers and the occassional "john justen and fluffy bear will watch it" style awful movie night

who the hell are the cluster gang?

xp

sadly been posting since 2001 over here

wasn't it a momus thing? xp

yeah, "classic" thread

Gangs of ILX: Introducing THE CLUSTER GANG

Wait a hold it - how long have I been around? This is scaring me. I have lived in this apartment for four years, and can recall being really excited about ILB in the apartment before this one. And posting away.
Yikes!
I'm loyal for a few reasons - lots of people are funny here, and Ned's war reporting has been the BEST source of information for the past four years.

I wasn't around for Lunagate, but I think it's sad that that community (of which I was a member) got broken up.

I'm probably a special case in some respects. Been reading ILX since around 2000 and I probably
post on average about once a month! If that. Can't explain the loyalty other than being a creature of habit and ILX is near the top of my bookmarks. Plus this place is often a fantastic resource. I'm american, specifically Texan, a grad student, and I have no personal relationships with anyone else who posts!

ryan why are you scared to get close to us

He's seen too many of us get hurt!

you guys need a gang

I've been posting to ILX for ~5.5 yrs

Is there a way to figure it out?

You seem pretty new in this thread.

personal relationships/posting a lot are the things are contribute to people leaving ILX in the first place!

ive been posting forever.

Spencer I can spell it out if you want. n.b. I like everyone on the board.

yeah back in the initial days of my hazing there was a moment or two where i got butthurt and went "man fuck this board" and left for a couple days, but i came back when i got bored at work and the rest is hoostory i guess.

I left for 4 years because I was BANNED. :)

I didn't know you were banned!

And now look at me! "top poster"

spencer seems like a nice guy

he's good people.

Oh yeah.

Yup indeed.

Someone should mold a clay likeness of his head.

Hello?

you should post more pix of you at scenster parties with attractive womens.
gr8080 only posts photos of himself with cougars : /

Spencer is great.

We can talk about Spencer now, I think we've solved the thread "problem".

I always viewed ILX as kind of "transatlantic", possibly also "metrosexual" when that was still cool.

so kind of transsexual, then?

oo-er!

UK folks have higher standards

And higher teeth

I can't imagine why anyone would dislike Spencer. He always comes across as such a straight-up, likeable guy.

I don't think anybody does. Lots of people have been friendly to Spencer lately.

These threads always amuse me because I keep forgetting that there's an entire other layer of people who dislike each other standing right behind the layer of people who dislike each other that I always notice.

-- HI DERE, Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

it's like a beautiful onion of hate

I am sorry that you think so. It isn't for me.

a blooming onion.

i wasn't seriously saying it was beautiful, btw

xpost

it makes me cry, certainly.

occasionally amusing perhaps, mostly irritating, and sometimes sad.

it makes me cry, certainly.

-- grimly fiendish, Friday, April 18, 2008 4:04 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

that's the nature of an onion

they also go unpleasantly rotten after a time ... i don't think i'm going to pursue this metaphor.

Worse comes to worse, you can deep fry them.

"You seem pretty new in this thread."

Thank you jaymc - so I guess it's been four years, and I still don't know what the abbreviations mean. NB?

I just found out what <3 is - I thought it was something rude.

I'm loyal because, as stated above, I am consistently amazed and amused by so much that goes on here.
Anyway <3 does not look like a heart at all.

it means less than 3

take one anatomy lesson, aimurchie.

you obviously have no heart!!

take one maths lesson, he has <3 <3

And still no explanation of NB!

It's not ilx-ese, but I think it's more commonly used in the U.K.?

NB: a British thing, short for "nota bene" in Latin. US equiv would be "Note:", I think.

http://www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/~noize/joyfulyy/img/noize-board-rogo-2.gif

Thank you!
You see how my loyalty is constantly rewarded!

I feel like much of what I've learned about rhetoric I've picked up from NaBisco's posts here.

NB, I hope that doesn't convict him in any way by means of guilt by association. I still write like Keanu Reeves trying to "act".

I don't think I'm gonna attempt an NB anytime soon.

I just went on the internet last year, and then there didn't seem to be a good jumping on point. Then when I came back it was all a big hoo-hah about secret boards, and blah. Then I came back again and it was all about dr.who.

wrt the hate onion.

yeah i've been here like forever and i still don't even have a clue as to what ppl like know each other or hate each other or had falling outs IRL and stuff....i still get confused by a lot of stuff on here like the luna stuff or whatever.

i think that's why i don't go on ILE that much.

Plus ILX is a testimony to my ineptitude, and years of coming home from work and posting inane comments. I can just do that on facebook now.

I would really like a brief history of ILX in 2007, if that's possible? Who was naughty, who was nice, etc etc.

I attempted an NB WITH a <3 - on a different thread.

I'm feeling brave - should I start a poll? j/k.

I think we need a wiki.

NB: a British thing, short for "nota bene" in Latin. US equiv would be "Note:", I think.

I'd imagine Brits far more likely to be Latin-familiar, but I wouldn't call n.b. a British thing.

I didn't see it used much until ILM. Americans don't know what I'm talking about if I use it. I also think the translation is more at "note well" but in a slightly lighter way than that sounds.

I have only ever known Brits to use it, and I have actually listened to British colleagues explain it to other USians over the phone or in person, when "NB" had been used in an email or memo. So I'm not the only one! I don't think it's EXCLUSIVELY British, maybe, but outside maybe the legal profession and a few other specialties, Americans don't know it or use it.

maybe it is more common in legal-world, but I thought it was pretty universal among intellectual types

My point exactly.

in uk pretty much everyone uses it (ie not just intellectuals) for emphasis on emails and written notes

Is it really all that obscure? I thought it was in the MLA style manual.

I think it means "pay attention: I am about to backtrack/equivocate."

Brits are smarter. End of discussion.

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Jon,

You keep calling me things like "douchebag" on ilx. Why do you think I'd want to be your friend on here?

-Spencer

Why do you think I'd want to be your friend on here?

NB is definitely used in school in the US, etc, like what you'd write in the margins by an important passage or something. I've never seen it used in the US in business or formal emails, etc., but I've never seen "note:" used, either (usually it's "Please note, <///#~~~". People in the US are hyper-formal with communications, moreso than the UK, from my own experience at least.

the real answer to the thread question is OUR INDOMITABLE PIONEER SPIRIT

In a business context, "please note:" usually means "this is f***ed up, tag you're it."

i think we should all fucking relax, smoke some weed and giggle.

Ok, but I won't inhale.

or listen to some crappy 80s music (KOKOMO by the BEACH BOYS or was that the nineties???) and giggle

1988.

Close enough.

I thought NB meant "Note By"

RIP

UK ILX: too zingy to live, too bored to live again

Isn't doglatin and crew coming to Londan this weekend? Sure you will ilx people to hang out with.

that doesn't change the fact that UK ILX is more or less dead

my question is 'what happened?'

squirrels chewed through my broadband

I am still here indeed me ol' chum.

although it feels like a lot of UK posters who used to post a lot have very recently decided to up sticks to social media. that kind of annoys me because even though i like chatting to ilxors on FB, I still see my ILX life and my IR life as separate.

if zappa were alive he'd have def released an album with ignor's post as title

Autocorrect Insulted My Posting Comrade

I like the total randomness of this place.

Good revive btw. Great thread with a few hilarious moments.

the cable has been replaced, though it took hours. I had not appreciated that my internet was coming through a tree before

FACT: US posters are more loyal because more of us own dogs. dogs are loyal to their owners, and owners are more loyal to messageboards.

36.5% of U.S. households own a dog, vs. 31% in the UK.

i should see if Vox is hiring

my question is 'what happened?'

People got bored. Covered this in another thread but I particularly dislike or, in some cases, have grown to dislike the contributions of certain of the more prominent (and in many cases celebrated) posters on ILX. I think I called them humourless but that wasn't what I meant at all, what I meant was joyless as well supercilious and just plain cold. I recommend hanging out with the ILB Crew, they're cool!

I maintain steadfast and unwavering loyalty to the ILX brand. Bloomps be praised.

hopefully all of these emigre uk ilx posters have found a new place to discuss new bbc2 panel shows, today's daily express frontpage, ben goldacre and the hypocrisy of the liberal democrats

A pub would be a good place

Human contact though, wow

it does feel like a rather quick exit on behalf of the Brits.

seen that new cassetteboy conference rap dog latin?

i saw a Cassetteboy thing the other day, but i think it was just Osborne or some other Tory figurehead. Hadn't seen/heard anything else by him since about 2002 though.

how many brits post regularly these days? a baker's monkey?

Don't know but the number of Yanks is yea big.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0eVkrDIgAEGxi-.jpg:large

I recommend hanging out with the ILB Crew, they're cool!

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what it is. in fact we're due an autumn FAP I reckon.

as for me, i'm working too much to contribute regularly, which frankly disgusts me (the work bit, though it'd be good to be contributing more - or at all really - as well.)

Yeah I *did* hang out with the ILB cru after that Pynchon talk recently, was ace

but there's a reticence to post I've noticed, not sure why. The level of discourse is quite good, when it does happen

would hang quietly in background of an ilb cru meet i think

I endorse the observation that ILB's UK contingent is top notch. If I were nearer London, I'd gladly FAP with them and be all the better for it.

not at all, you'd be dancing on the tables in no time (xp)

would you fuck deems, that behaviour would only be an indication that you were in need of strong liquor and a contrarywise kick up the arse.

xp!

aimless, should you ever have the luxury of a UK visit - there's some very good walking as I'm sure you know tho i realise circumstances may not be expedient - you just need to send up the signal.

would you fuck deems

pls dont start sentences like this pls

now you put it like that.

poll?

by all means don't let's

the british left

A thread connection if ever there was one

loool wins

I blame our less extensive cinematic comic universe