Why do people leave ILX for good?

hey fuck you too andrew

he called me an uncle tom

don’t act like there are good people on both sides

[calls for civility ensue]

ross if u really want to get banned pay attention and do what i do

lol there is zero percent chance you get banned for shouting at xxxyyyz

wb and hope u stick around obv

I don't think he is worried about being banned.

you’re absolutely fucking right i’m not with the likes of you running the place

what’s to lose except being called out as a white supremacist

I am running the place?!

its a figure of speech

You are saying a lot of crap, hard to keep up

i just mean dickheads like u r close to critical mass

do try to keep up

Need a coffee man. Maybe then.

i should have given u some of mine i obviously had too much

so why have you picked calling me a white supremacist your hill to die on?

why not just apologize and move on?

it should of course be obvious why i would pick not being a white supremacist as my hill to die on

you could even just sidestep the issue and apologize for wounding my fragile ego

the punchline is that they've run out of new jokes to tell because they're stuck in prison. so they've memorized and numbered all of the jokes. so someone just says a number and everyone remembers the joke and laughs.

― the late great, Thursday, August 9, 2018 8:14 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ah, that ringzabel.

Tlg I didn't know that an apology was all that you were looking for. I will need to look at that thread later to remember exactly but iirc I found what you said very offensive, as did others.

that’s fine

i don’t need u to tell me what was offensive

i need u to tell me what makes me a white supremacist

i’m not mad at anybody else because no one else did that

i found other responses on that thread thought provoking and somewhat persuasive

the argument that the snipers were committing murder by refysing the moral imperative to not shoot, thus making the protestors actions not suicide, for example, resonated with me

your response - petty name calling - also resonated with me, as you can see

really you just picked a bad name to call me

and don’t hide behind other ilxors

own your shit, as they say

if you’re such a righteous dude that you’re sure a peek in the archives will cleanly vindicate you then surely you’re a righteous enough dude just to apologize for hurting my feelings and move on. honestly, it won’t change the balance in the mideast, but it’ll make a difference to this middle easterner *eyes swell w tears*

^^ that last bit is sarcasm

xp to Luna, would've liked to be around at "peak ilxor"

but the threads I enjoy are still good, and tbh I often find some of the old threads kinda weird

we need to determine the actual eras in a pre-poll thread then it must be time for another official vote surely

2001 - 2004 was peak ilxor. It was friendly, intelligent, sociable, interesting, sociable, fast-moving and people had more interesting and cute problems (eg crap jobs, flat sharing/room mates, travel on a budget). And there was a greater insight into peoples' off-board lives which i miss.

note that back then (when i was introduced to this place) we were all 100% anonymous if we wanted to be and the accretions of personal animus manifested and were discharged way differently

and the accretions of personal animus manifested and were discharged way differently

― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, August 9, 2018 8:37 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is honestly one major reason I don't post more -- I've said this many times before but unless someone is using their real name I have zero idea who they are (the changing display names don't help), let alone the near-20 years of contextual detritus around them that everybody else seems to know

i'm not even sure what artists have ilm consensus anymore besides Kendrick Lamar

steely dan, hall and oates, the 1975, charlie fucking puth now

aka the hell axis of music

― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine)

i only like one of the four consensus artists you mentioned :(

I came on in I think 2006 so I guess I just missed ‘peak ilxor’ but I honestly enjoy it more now than during those first few years I was here. Yes it was super dynamic but there was also a lot of mean jock bullshit which I do not fuckin miss at all.

Can’t deal with FB or Twitter at all anymore, this is the little patch of civilization I’m clinging to.

Hey xyzzz step on a rake

there are NOIZE DUDES i miss who seem to be long gone and most-valuable-poster scott seward is apparently on hiatus if not out of here too but honestly the site is doing just fine these days for reasons many have mentioned above -- it's just a better quality of conversation (this poster excluded!) than most other digital watering holes

and seriously fuck twitter

i don't understand the mindset that leads one to say "this message board used to be better". obviously ilx did used to be better before i started posting, but it's such a broad and vague statement i can't take it as meaningful. i have specific grievances with many of the regular posters here which i keep to myself because who fucking cares, i feel bad when i post something and nobody responds at all, not even to make fun of it, i feel bad when i post something and somebody only responds to make fun of it, i understand "there are more interesting discussions on twitter", but "used to be better"? like i'm going to go back and read posts from 2006 in reruns? personally i find how i feel about ilx is highly dependent on my mood at the time. if i'm super depressed ilx is shit because everything is shit. if i'm not super depressed ilx is a decent time-waste and good chance to read and post about things i don't generally get the chance to talk about.

anyway if i ever leave ilx it will probably be a result of some sort of contract dispute.

I judge the health of the board by the # of new posts/year in the Mouse on Mars thread

it's not looking good, you guys

probably because it feels like a club house, or a country club, where it's the same 5-6 posters (obv. i'm insane, over-generalising) referencing in-jokes half the time, and lack of content (pertinent to my interests), i suppose. for example, a fantastic aphex twin video / song drops, and people are ultra-ultra-blasé, almost like it's an inconvenience "I can't be arsed", "This is paint-by-numbers AFX", "My son made me replay the whole thing" etc. - obv. not EVERYBODY/// but, fucking *yawn*, i'm an ignorant / sleep-deprived asshole. the "vibe" isn't one of excitement, or earnestness.. it feels more like "oh, you again" ... it doesn't feel so inclusive, i suppose. more like a clique of cranky fucks. it definitely felt more fresh and exciting during the early-mid 00s, but what Arch Bacon said^^

"ultra-ultra" divided by two, i meant

it definitely felt more fresh and exciting during the early-mid 00s,

Same goes for Aphex tbh (sorry). I recall ILM was good recently picking through the brilliant new batch of AE tunes, and you joined in enthusiastically iirc.

ILX was good for about a week and a half in 2008. I've hated every grueling second I've spent here since. But I'm never leaving.

Never.

take a break and come back as Fresh Lunch

Sack Lunch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u91zAolT3A

has there been mention of the current trend among a certain attention hound type of tweeter to use it like 00s ilx, cf

Say you’re fit and sharp and you’re given the chance to play 38 x 90 minutes up front in the Premier League this season—but your skill level is unaltered, it’s as you are.

How many goals would you back yourself to score?

— Sam Tighe (@stighefootball) August 7, 2018

or

You're backstage at Glastonbury, Saturday night. Headline act have just cancelled. An Eavis asks you to DJ to 80,000 odd people. We'll presume you can DJ, mix etc and you have access to every record ever. What are the first 5 records you play?

— Paul Jenkins (@fourfoot) August 3, 2018

I know two original noize dudes that still post at least a couple of times a month.

Early-mid 2000s seemed peak because there was a FAP seemingly all the time or people hung out or aim'd late at night a lot. Like, some of those mean jokes I think may have only appeared mean because it was people who knew each other in real life play fighting.

xp I know what you mean but then then there's always the 1975 thread if you want unconditional enthusiasm...

Personally I find a lot of the "WOW SO INCREDIBLE" comments on the web annoying so I'm fine with people being slightly blasé

There also seems to be this weird uk vs america aggression. In the past it was much friendlier and inquisitive. Maybe because the Sinister people were around more.

has there been mention of the current trend among a certain attention hound type of tweeter to use it like 00s ilx, cf

Holy shit yeah.

An empty cigar tube filled with wasps makes a good vibrator.

Is this true?

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