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

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.