Advice For New ILXers

Sadly, I gave up on Anna Karenina a couple of years ago, Aaron. But maybe I have matured since then.

Also yes, read old threads: maybe you should put together a course packet of selected classics for common reference! (That is a joke.)

Tracer: I used the same trick as well! I still think I am Levin.

Apart from that... be flexible, be willing to learn, be willing to play, do not take everything said on this board at face value, and most of all, remember that we are discussing OPINIONS - it is OK to insult the opinion, it is not OK to insult the poster holding said opinion. Show other posters the respect you would wish to receive yourself.

remember how google-able the boards are

...and what everyone else said :)

Please, if you can, do not use obscene language in the subject line of your thread. Also, if your thread will contain questionable image files, please put an alert to that effect in the subject line. To be fair, most people do this.

""[I]ncludes (among several things) using music to engage the reader in a dance, using music to express myself, writing about music in order to rock, telling stories, telling jokes, using music to challenge people's modes of thought, using music to raise questions about social relations, using music to challenge people's ideas of what's important and unimportant, writing critically about events in the world (e.g. musical events), showing off my hairstyle, showing off my gang affiliations, writing coded comments to make people fall in love with me, creating literature, creating new social categories, etc. etc."

Which is how I view ilx, a little.

(Advice: don't trust jel.)

I'm kind of against this whole thing, 'by the way', as I think it's rather too normative for my tastes. That's not to say anything about what is being said, I just thing we're getting to prescriptive.

OK. I think I was relating to my experience. This is my first discussion board, the first that i found, so i lurked to find out abt it. i eventually got comfortable and posted very slowly.

I see no point in lurking for a long time before posting, but then my first post was about Colourbox and not Analingus.

Remember that 'a lot' is two words.

Do not try to pick up ILXOR-speak in order to fit in. Languages only evolve by immigrants saying 'this language sucks, let's slash the seats',

Don't complain that everyone is cliquey and unfriendly. Even if it's true it will make everyone hate you even more.

If you don't get a joke, it's probably not funny.

Remember that a lot of things are only on here because everyone is assuming that someone else must like them.

Don't make too many threads just for the sake of it. No one knows how many too many is.

Less 'meta' is betta.

Bring a little bit of analingus to everything you do.

Hm. Well, it's not funny to you, but maybe the fact you don't get it is funny? To other people? Who are mean? And will call you names? Maybe.

Which isn't to say that chatrooms don't pose dangers. I know from my own experience that if someone is trying to pick a fight, and I find myself intervening more than once supposedly to try and talk the guy down, then something inside me is looking for a fight too, and I've got to back off and look at my own problems. But that info doesn't belong in advice to newcomers, and is more likely to scare someone than to help him.

the ilx lawn in 2000 was much greener

more like yawn

my advice just have fun shootin' the shit on the internet

^^

my advice is make sure you're not spending more than 60% of your time complaining about shitty things are, unless you're oscar the grouch

He's more about delighting in how shitty things are though tbf.

Did something happen or is this just griping about the politics threads

Don't post on any threads or the villagers will round on you

Thank u 2 this thread for giving me pause to realize that the fifteenth anniversary of my first post is coming up in a few days, what the fuuuuuck

Run, new posters. Run and don't look back.

oh ppl say that like you wouldn't have just wasted your time on some other dumb shit

I'll have you know that I've very efficiently wasted my time on a broad variety of dumb shit over those fifteen years, thank you very much.

i'm just assuming the "ilx sucks" crew are actually reading the politics threads? in which case my advice is don't even open those threads, talking about politics on the internet is a losing game

'ilx sucks' is practically our secret handshake at this point, c'mon.

I'll have you know that I've very efficiently wasted my time on a broad variety of dumb shit over those fifteen years, thank you very much.

― St. Boniface, patron saint of boner faces (Old Lunch)

i've wasted my time on dumb shit all over the place, this is one of the better places i've gone to waste my time on dumb shit imo

i don't do "ilx sucks" because primus fans beat us to that like thirty years ago

Avoid the Primus threads too.

I wonder if it’s to the point where an early ilxor could veritably pwn a newbie by saying “I’ve been on this site longer than you’ve been alive”

As pwns go, that one's practically invisible to the naked eye.

fp early, fp often, fp nerdstrom poindexter and just generally have a good time

never fp'd anybody, never will

^

come in with an open mind about gaz coombes and hitler

Get down and stay down

-bob marley

duck

is delicious on a cheap frozen pizza