tbph i don't think brad left bc of that interaction. i mean maybe he did but it would be weird if a drive-by by a known troll and provocateur on one thread drove him off the rest of the site. maybe he's using it as an excuse to take a break in which case more power to him.
― Mordy, Monday, 26 February 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link
Paranoid I typed "wife" now
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link
join me on the dark web, where we say "p4rtner"
― i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Monday, 26 February 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
actually if you google "ilxor" and "w1fe" you do find me, i fucked up
― omar little, Monday, 26 February 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
1LX 5P0U5E
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 26 February 2018 19:25 (six years ago) link
i think for me, after 16+ years of reading and posting, i have really internalized a lot of the ILM / ILE discourse, to the point where i can generally predict what type of replies i will get if i post a thing or say a thing. so i'm content to sit back and not post, or maybe just to let other post it for me. because the other side of it is that a lot of what i have to say isn't that original anyway and not very interesting to many people. this is especially true on ILM. i like what i like and i have certain attitudes about music that i thnk are familiar to me and not that productive to endlessly rehash.
― the late great, Monday, 26 February 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
familiar to ILM i mean, not familiar to me
― the late great, Monday, 26 February 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
I feel that way sometimes, other times I hear some music that I should have known about and find out no one's ever mentioned it on ilm outside of voting for it in a year end poll!
― mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link
What I like most about ILX is that it’s basically a better version of mid-90s Usenet, somewhat anonymous, pretty consistent group of intelligent/eloquent regulars with good discussions, no upvotes or other shit that makes discussions into popularity contests, no avatars, no emojis, no bots, but also no gigantic unmoderated flamewars. Most of the internet is an unadulterated shitstorm in terms of discussions, especially Twitter. I’m not going to maintain a second anonymous Facebook identity for online discussions, too much work.
I read daily, post occasionally. I’ve been here since 2001, probably will never leave, still don’t feel like I’m truly part of it all as a non-Anglospheric dude.
I don’t want to play the role of tonedeaf overearnest Scandinavian/Dutch/Swiss/German curiosity but I guess I am that guy once in a while.
― Siegbran, Monday, 26 February 2018 19:33 (six years ago) link
What I like most about ILX is that it’s basically a better version of mid-90s Usenet
It was a direct descendant of 90s alt.music.alternative in a way.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 26 February 2018 19:35 (six years ago) link
― Siegbran, Monday, February 26, 2018 7:33 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/005/393/IKIFEEL.jpg
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 26 February 2018 19:40 (six years ago) link
Geir said last year in the ilx now playing group that he was thinking of delurking on ilx to post again.
I still remember when he turned up after being an ilx bogeyman initially and tom had to post verifying it was really him when he did arrive
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Monday, 26 February 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
I like the low amount of beef on ILX these days bcz I don't have time to keep up with it. *
Strongly miss the volume of female posters generally, and specific voices like JBR/JBL and Jenny and c# who've exodused in recent years; especially JBL as it was openly due to toxicity rather than busy life changes. It's :-/ that the more congenial atmosphere these days is largely being enjoyed by middle-aged white str8 dudes.
deems: one had to stop browsing at work and switch to zing, found it harder, "now I'm over a year behind and can't catch up"; the other claimed to still post, but I haven't seen them do so for years. (tbh I see 2-6 ex-posters a week IRL who still read threads to some degree)
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 26 February 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
“w1fe” is my new favorite thing
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Monday, 26 February 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
* wrote this on zing and it wouldn't post and by the time I got to keyboard, where I was up to was lost in the fold. one thing doesn't change: ilx loves talking about itself.
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 26 February 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link
imo the best approach instead of catching up is removing all bookmarks and starting fresh
― mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
If there were, say, a French equivalent to ILX (please point me in the right direction if you're aware of one, thx), I'd probably feel less inclined to spend time here. The Anglocentrism (in the broad sense) is kind of stifling sometimes, down to the overemphasis on ID politics.
― pomenitul, Monday, 26 February 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
ilx declined when I stopped lurking and started posting regularly
correlation is not causation :-)
the other claimed to still post, but I haven't seen them do so for years
verifiable through a Search on 'username' + 'posts' + 'most recent first'
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 26 February 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
Strongly miss the volume of female posters generally
yep. if there's anything "wrong" with ILX, it's this.
― i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Monday, 26 February 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
overemphasis on ID politics lol
― brimstead, Monday, 26 February 2018 19:49 (six years ago) link
Geir said last year in the ilx now playing group that he was thinking of delurking on ilx to post again.I still remember when he turned up after being an ilx bogeyman initially and tom had to post verifying it was really him when he did arrive― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Monday, February 26, 2018 2:41 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Monday, February 26, 2018 2:41 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
omg, Geir? I'm happy to hear he's still out there loving music.
― how's life, Monday, 26 February 2018 19:49 (six years ago) link
sorry carry on
roxy hasn't posted for a long time, she is missed.
― omar little, Monday, 26 February 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
This is exactly what I'm talking about. For structural reasons, it's probably not as apparent if you live in the US/UK/Anglo Canada, etc.
― pomenitul, Monday, 26 February 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
surprised how many people here seem to know each other IRL. I spent a few hours with a fellow ILXor and it was a seriously surreal experience. especially since most of the conversation was about how the stars consistently kept aligning to integrate Ned Raggett into this guy's life
― frogbs, Monday, 26 February 2018 19:51 (six years ago) link
I found Geir active again on RYM recently and very nearly added him as a friend
― imago, Monday, 26 February 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
geir still loves the same music he always did
you can join the group https://www.facebook.com/groups/ilxorsnowplaying/
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Monday, 26 February 2018 19:53 (six years ago) link
personally I cannot imagine why there aren't more female posters
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Monday, 26 February 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link
I believe it was more a general vibe than that the poster used bookmarks at all
I'm well aware, but search is not available on zing
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:01 (six years ago) link
why do people leave ILX for God?
― piper at the gates of d'awwww (voodoo chili), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:03 (six years ago) link
(I had checked by the time I posted, and the last post for one username was March 2014, with the previous username stopping in November 2005, but I dunno if they had another more recently)
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
i only leave ILX for food
― alien lames (NickB), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
― frogbs, Monday, February 26, 2018 1:51 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol, was it gr80?
― mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:05 (six years ago) link
It was indeed.
I spent a few hours with a fellow ILXor and it was a seriously surreal experience. especially since most of the conversation was about how the stars consistently kept aligning to integrate Ned Raggett into this guy's life
...I don't even know what to say to that.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:06 (six years ago) link
And katherine OTM of course.
lucky guess
― frogbs, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
I'm kind of amazed sometimes how many people from ilx I've been fortunate to meet either by chance or design
then there's the near misses, like the realization I probably used to walk past the currently-screen-named JCLC in the grocery store all the time before I posted here
― mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
re: facebook diaspora - I am happy to return to an ad-free, grassrootsy, weird, non commercial environment
Facebook is a tool of the wicked, but we must do what we can with it since so many of us are trapped there
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:13 (six years ago) link
I still can't believe the one time years and years back when I was at LACMA visiting with a then-fairly-recently-arrived UK friend (non-ILX) and we were walking around in a courtyard and I heard a 'hello there' or the like right behind me and I turned around and it was gabbneb.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:14 (six years ago) link
I don't even know what to say to that.
"my work is done" or something like that
― frogbs, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:15 (six years ago) link
I was going to ask if it was G too lol.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
overemphasis on ID politics, or as we now call it in the USA, the totality of modern life.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
xp to be fair he tells a very good tale of Ned
― mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
The weird thing is that gr80 has also now collectively met my entire immediate family aside from my mom, as well as meeting my girlfriend, and every time it's been outside of California.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
yeah I know
― frogbs, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link
tbh I'd double-check with your mom to make sure they haven't randomly met and you're merely unaware
― mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:19 (six years ago) link
x-post - lol!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:20 (six years ago) link
I only really post intermittently and during polls (especially the metal poll which is always lovely). I start to get really depressed if I spend too long here, which is in part due to my own irrational paranoia but also has a lot to do with how quickly some posters seem to spring to a hostile response. I feel like this level of conflict is unprecedented...I mean, not on the internet of course, but I want ILX to be a haven from all of that. And the conflict is part of the fun, but not when it’s so frequent and really hurtfully personal.
Also it really upsets me how some of you speak to and about imago! Living with him, I think he is just really quite different to how he gets portrayed here sometimes... I know he’s part of creating that perception too of course, but I think the extent of the response is sometimes incongruous with what’s been said, just because it’s imago. Obviously all posters should be held accountable for bullshit or offensive things but the level of aggression is quite high where he is concerned.
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
Wait is this an LJ sock?
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
Hi tt!
― scotti pruitti (wins), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:24 (six years ago) link