Why do people leave ILX for good?

I will definitely try to filter my output less!

Is it too optimistic to hope that this biopsy of ILX will lead to more people posting more often? Seems like the consensus wants that. Maybe it will just happen.

nah it's just people venting, happens a few times a year

yeah there are so many of these meta-STATE OF ILX threads

oddly they are all the same

I'm going to start a Doopees thread on ILM later today when I get home.

My right arm used to be so awesome, so strong and agile. Now it's just weak and flabby. Those tattoos were a bad idea, turns out. Wish my arm could be what it used to be, man.

Piece of shit arm.

It evolved

it’s less that I self-censor about artists I’m enthusiastic about, more that it just gets depressing to post into the void

feels like less of void when i post here than when i do on twitter

katherine, i feel exactly the same way - there is definitely a gulf in tastes between many users. ive been championing the ionalee record for the whole year so far and like akm and I are the only ones to really comment on it seemingly. i agree with above that there should be more dedicated threads to single artists, but sometimes they sink (this happened with my cecilia thread, a fantastic record that has received zero traction). so the risk is putting out your feelers and seeing if anyone bites, if not, it may still be worth it to push something you love out there, even if 1 person hears it. the rolling threads as mentioned above do kinda narrow things down too much.

music has always been about radical subjectivism with the exception of some consensus-canon, let your individualism fly. (switching to new user name shortly, hence why i am still under this name FWIW).

I'll test some ionalee and cecilia - whatever they are

oh, iamamiwhoami with ionalee... 'Play' is a great song

ionalee is great — previously known as “iamamiwhoami”

Xp 🤷‍♂️

I've thought of her this year as propagating a similar sound to Gwenno, whose album I much preferred.

ok its cool ur all posting now but ilm is that way

sincere shout out to ppl who start threads, especially new band/album threads. absolutely performing a service.

take these posts to heart and finally start that volkswagen t-roc thread

I used to start threads. I had time back then!

YOU COULDA BEEN A CONTENDERIZER

everyone celebrates the thread starters. nobody remembers the thread enders.
like this post if you remember.

You do realize you killed that thread, right?

I feel that it's my duty to start as many threads as possible, given how many I kill stone dead. Circle of life, hakuna matata, all that.

BIG HOOS aka the threadkiller

(xpost)

80% of my posts are the last in the thread. I'm just that boring!

N.E.R.L.

xpost maybe your posts are so authoritatively good that they simply cannot be followed

sometimes i make a jokey post on a very active good-natured thread and it's like...

https://media.giphy.com/media/qwJMG80aUfVKM/giphy.gif

...until it's revived again weeks later to discuss something unrelated.

four years pass...

Haha, Omar, you and me both. No better feeling than dropping a stinker that clears out the room.

fifty-seven years pass...

Turning threads into Chernobyl zones since 2001.

xpost maybe your posts are so authoritatively good that they simply cannot be followed

― Karl Malone, Thursday, August 9, 2018 1:17 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's the same thing my mom told me after I got banned from open mic night

nine years pass...

not to eat an old lunch here but four hundred and twenty years pass...

finally, time for a smoke break

maybe System could auto-post to any thread that's been killed dead for a week. stuff like "yeah, totally" or "you're great" or "chive on".

Random Austin Powers quotes or gtfo, System.

A simple "lads" would suffice.

Oh, behave!

maybe do austin powers but replace 'baby' with 'lads'?

I'm going to start a Doopees thread on ILM later today when I get home.

― He said captain, I said wot (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, August 9, 2018 5:09 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yessss

Who is "System" here... Ned?

Ned is Station.

Ned is all of us. We are all Ned.

man i had the worst nightmare last night

i was in the public square losing my mind, waving my arms like a madman and yelling and screaming

phew! good thing it was just a dream

never watch Newsies just before bedtime

it was just a dream

used to read threads and scream

sometimes your posts just stigmatize me

Never trust a big thread and a LOL

― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, August 9, 2018 8:45 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

FWIW the archives are full of threads started about bands/songs that gained no traction at the time and then started snowballing. I would 100% encourage people to start more threads about new stuff they're into rather than chucking it onto a rolling thread where it'll disappear within hours. Who cares if no one responds?