Why do people leave ILX for good?

Is this happening on hidden threads? I've posted sparingly for a decade so maybe I am missing historical stuff.

I'd never recommend it for anyone else, but getting really tweaked on caffeine and writing a long screed that completely misses the point in the conversation, only to never open that thread again is my horrible form of catharsis

now the cat's out of the bag

― mh, Wednesday, August 8, 2018 12:53 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hi there

I'd never recommend it for anyone else, but getting really tweaked on caffeine and writing a long screed that completely misses the point in the conversation, only to never open that thread again is my horrible form of catharsis

now the cat's out of the bag

― mh, Wednesday, August 8, 2018 12:53 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ironically this is a great post

i haven't been around for 84 days and now i come back ... to this?

god this is sad

well, maybe if you were the punctual great.....

doubt that helped, deems

:-/

should feel good that things go to shit in one's absence

now save us, please

I never wished death on anyone?
I’ve definitely been an asshole and I’m sorry for that.
As a former addict I did post while in frames of mind that were counterproductive to peace. Anyway I’m sorry for damage caused and yeah temp ban me or delete me, it’s cool

Sorry old lunch I thought you called me wobbly lol
I misread you entirely. Owch. Easier to walk away now really

^^ round and round we go

I never wished death on anyone?

not since yesterday, anyway

honestly i wish anvils would drop on some of you spineless jelly fish fuckers

Look I just want to be banned or deleted.
Mods please do this.

Is it me or is this board way busier and livelier than this time last year? Must be the world cup lifting everybody's spirits up.

heyyyy it's the roundly hated dickhead that called me a middle eastern uncle tom and prodded me into quitting!

didn't work!

obviously!

Carry on then!

(thousand word off topic post ensues)

late great >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>xyzzzzz

late great I was really enjoying yr posts on the Gene Wolfe/NEWSUN thread yesterday (since I just started re-reading that), good stuff

xp

Good stuff!

xp thanks buddy

i apologize for calling you rapey mo in 2003

i could not get into newsun

which killed me because yes tlg posts on it are brilliant

tlg > gene wolfe, essentially

that's the kind of thing you move to the top of the resume, templates be damned

i apologize for calling you rapey mo in 2003

I don't remember this tbh (and besides I blame ethan for all that crap)

There's a Gene Wolfe thread? Point the way!

I don't really consider dropping anvils on fish fuckers to be a sincere death threat. ymmv.

there's a couple, but this is the good one: gene wolfe's book of the NEWSUN!!!!! reading club

Thanks!

I don't really consider dropping anvils on fish fuckers to be a sincere death threat. ymmv.

I didn't say threat.

Remember the good ol days when we used to make fart jokes

The thread that celebrates itself its own title.

BTW this whole thing is p funny because it seems people have forgotten that the whole I AM NOW LEAVING ILX FOREVER *comes back a day later* was a long-running joke on the site a long time ago.

Have you ever really looked at a flower, it's beauty is undescribable.

(That is what I did with my unannounced 37-second absence from ILX. I am a new man.)

good to have u back all the same

here’s ten reasons my engagement w ilx has waned

1) politics threads taking over ILE

2) very online podcast leftists taking over politics threads

3) hardline classic rockists who obssess over classic rock taking over ILM

4) poptimists become radicalized as a result, now only listen to r&b and teenpop

5) snide cinema bores

6) disgusting savages w strong opinions abt whether prawn and rocket pizza is a sandwich and how best to eat one while pooping at work

7) people oversharing and wallowing in depression drama on mental health threads

8) every time i see old posts of mine i feel like a jackass because my online persona is approx 10^6 times more argumentative, negative and obnoxious than my IRL persona and ILX doesn’t have the accountablity that, say, facebook has

9) because the subaltern cannot speak

10) not wanting to share my secret weapons now that i am an actual performing dj irl (sorry to my bobbins thread bros)

11) tombot trolling the sneaker thread

12) making six figures and bennies leaves less time for internet fuckery @ work

13) miss my old friends and too haughty to make new ones

so i guess ... all of the above?

and not really knowing how to be the change i want to see on ilx

lol tlg i feel a lot of that but i sincerely hope i am correct in detecting planetary amounts of irony in 10) and 12)!

tlg keep posting you’re good at it

some footnotes

1), 2) - i blame trump, and i get it, but yeah i don’t need to be thinking abt trump this much and it’s a bit anxious-making to see people who are a lot “safer” than me in trump’s america freaking the fuck out every day

3), 4) hard to imagine something like basement jaxx or lcd soundsystem drawing the diverse ILM tribes together again and i miss that communal experence

5) people used to talk a lot about themselves and their feelings, now i feel there is a lot of discussion of other people and a lot of projection

6) ok well i guess i just contradicted myself

tlg it's nice to have you back ftr

poor man's vahid imo

<3

3), 4) hard to imagine something like basement jaxx or lcd soundsystem drawing the diverse ILM tribes together again and i miss that communal experence

this is otm and too bad

thats a booming fuckin list tbh

now i feel there is a lot of discussion of other people and a lot of projection
and bonus multiple active threads where people complain about other people whether it's it's awful coworkers or disgusting savages or words that annoy or things that make u IA or people on facebook or any number of other complainy threads

seems like there are many and varied opportunities to complain which can create a negative effect on the general atmosphere

about the loss of communal experience I really wonder why that is, what has changed about ilx / the outer world

i always wanna hear more about the ppl that left ilx for ill tbrr

devil has all the best tunes and all that