Why do people leave ILX for good?

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?

me? most people who actually want to share something rather than solipsistically wank?

(fwiw the reason I share things in rolling threads is because there's an actual chance someone might see it instead of going "don't know them, don't give a fuck)

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

― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, August 9, 2018 1:23 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cool, now "do i make u horny, lads?" is a thing i made

that sort of thing ain't my bag, lads

so people are saying i should start a new thread to discuss bob patterson's 1971 album "instrumentalist, singer, songwriter"?

Threads have a negligible marginal cost is what we’re saying and why not have more of them

I mean bumping 11 year old threads with 5 posts to discuss something on your mind is a hilarious and important part of ilx culture but still threads are free

i love necrothreading because half the time the start of the thread will give the lie to any notion of "back when ilx was good" and the other half of the time somebody will mention some amazing record from the '90s the world has forgotten about and i find a great new album to listen to.

I'm still disappointed that I somehow just missed the ILM wall-to-wall challops days. Those look like they were wild times.

yes otm

Xp

Too wild

personally solipsistic wankery is why i'm on message boards

i generally only make song/album/artist threads when their momentum seems to have escalated beyond devoted genre threads or which would seem to appeal to more than the narrow band of ppl who keep up with a rolling thread (see: new foxing record), so far this has worked out fine

oh and especially if the artist/album doesn't settle easily into a genre thread

just keeping up the ilm convo to annoy deems at this point

hey its all energy right

me? most people who actually want to share something rather than solipsistically wank?

Just because people aren't responding doesn't mean they aren't listening and engaging, but I'm much more likely to engage with something when someone's actually chosen to single it out rather than putting it as a Youtube link in a thread with literally hundreds of others.

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

― Evan, Thursday, August 9, 2018 5:05 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I feel your pain (though experience suggests that this a manifestation of my real life).

I used to be a thread starter - twisted thread starter..

This sort of thing: “It obviously degrades my profession and hypnotism when it is used for crime.” and how popular they were, ahem...

I checked, and so far this year I have started ... three!

aw that shouldve developed tbf

i like ilx, i think i'll stay

but rarely contribute

How ILX makes me quiver
How ILX makes me smile
With all this love I have to give ILX
I guess I'm gonna stay with ILX a while

stockholm syndrome

Mookie I sent you an apology in the other thread

Hope you’re okay

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

― Evan, Thursday, August 9, 2018 5:05 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I feel your pain (though experience suggests that this a manifestation of my real life).

― djh, Friday, August 10, 2018 6:36 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

To clarify I was bragging

there are a few posters acting like dicks lately and i don't always remember them doing so?

maybe they always were idk

say who and i can tell you

ive been a dick lately - time to take accountability for that and be way more aware

there was briefly a trend i noticed recently where longtime posters who never made an impression one way or another suddenly turned into attention-begging creeps but afaict they were either banned or left of their own accord.

Nah, I'm still here.

JK above by the way djh- I definitely know how it feels to struggle with the fear that others don't find you all that interesting. I was much more sensitive about that in the past.

you can't see people quietly nodding on the internet

incidentally, this shit right here is why people leave. I write a review on an entirely different website, which is a thing I do, because I write about music, and am immediately branded a troll, because I don't like a song.

the 1975

fwiw there's never any point in engaging with deej, but particularly when he does the four-consecutive-complaining-posts thing

also recommended to ignore whiney when he starts posting images

kind of hard not to engage when you are dragged into a thread by name, unsolicited