Why do people leave ILX for good?

i'm guess i'm unclear on what the repercussions were re the specific use of the word troll (which was rebuked immediately) vs say the posting of the link in the first place

if we're going to talk about it being rebuked immediately then it should probably be noted that last night it was doubled down upon by someone else entirely: "I'm starting to think you really are a troll"

ILX could do with its own Miss Manners, fr reals.

― Melted Belts, Priced To Move (Old Lunch), Friday, 17 August 2018 14:47 (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh this role v def covered

i think CAD is otm but that its also not exactly the same as just engaging with "ilx username x" either and that should be reasonably negotiated

xps i dont think you can stop ppl calling other ppl trolls tbph

(for the record, I don't post here or write about my music under my government name)

it's fine to talk about trolls when someone is actually trolling

― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, August 17, 2018 10:57 AM (nineteen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's is like seeing one of those J0rdan S. posts when he's like "Rivers Cuomo should be prosecuted for hate crimes for the opening lines of 'Buddy Holly'" and being like "actually, that should be reserved for actual hate groups"

if we're going to talk about it being rebuked immediately then it should probably be noted that last night it was doubled down upon by someone else entirely: "I'm starting to think you really are a troll"

― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, August 17, 2018 10:58 AM (fifty-four seconds ago) Bookmark

ok i don't remember that but i'm still unclear on what the repercussions were

Look, everyone here knows who I am IRL but this is where I go to get away from constantly discussing my prop comedy and my shock of wild red hair and my fabulous, muscular physique. I understand that people are puzzled by my reluctance to make the most of my a-list celebrity, but I appreciate the preservation of my anonymity more than words or a toilet seat with a rear-view mirror glued to it could possibly express.

lmao

xxp lol don't we have a thread cataloguing and praising J0rdan's hyperbole though

Oh, so that's why they called you 'haircare'.

brb going to OKCupid to find who fits OL's profile

the repercussions are that an indeterminate number of people are now angry at me or think less of me; there could potentially also be career repercussions as well

like, for instance, I am probably going to be actively job searching in several years. my pseudonym already has at least one site calling me a bad writer prominent in the first results. I have no idea what to do with this. if I include it then prospective employers might see that and be put off by it. if I leave the pseudonym off then my resume has a several years' gap.

I'm going to wager that literally zero people on ILX are or were angry at you, and any editor that doesn't give you work because you don't stan Carly Rae Blood Sausage is a huge herb

for the record i blame turrican and lbi for extending the convo unnecessarily

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, August 17, 2018 1:50 PM (fifty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

While I appreciate that you love a good scapegoat, I had nothing to do with the current clusterfuck on that thread. The way katherine was targeted on that thread was not on - but unfortunately unsurprising.

(it also doesn't help that the field -- I don't want to go into details -- is notorious for firing and/or suspending people based on things they say or do in their personal life, and has gotten significantly worse about this after 2016. there's a reason I rarely post about politics, for instance, under my government name, unless it's things like "putting children in cages is bad," and even that kind of thing has cost people jobs in this field)

(it isn't music writing)

i think extrapolating all of that based off a few posts in a 5,000 post thread about the 1975 is allowing yourself to spiral to places that are unrealistic and unhealthy but that's just my opinion

it isn't really unrealistic when scouring people's old social media posts, going back years and thousands of posts, is a thing that happens in today's world

the post has been googleproofed

katherine, i do think it's smart for everyone to be careful in what they post these days, but I honestly cannot fathom an army of pepes demanding you should be fired from a job because you don't like the 1975

do "pepes" (alt righters?) especially like the 1975? i need a vox explainer

well, sure, in this case it isn't the alt-righters I'm worried about

Do u ppl ever just relax and have fun or do u argue abt everything

them's fightin words

i’d think they’d find matty to be a beta

(xp)

Do u ppl ever just relax and have fun or do u argue abt everything

― F# A# (∞), Friday, August 17, 2018 11:28 AM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

arguing about things is the opposite of fun, which is why I try to avoid it at all costs. unfortunately, in this case, I didn't avoid it hard enough I guess

tbh I think there's a line between "don't have haters" and "don't engage the haters" that's being blurred here

I don't quite understand what you mean but not originally posting to that thread where my opinion was likely to get me yelled at was my way of not engaging

right path, imo

apparently it wasn't the right path because even that wasn't enough

can someone explain what the fierce loyalty for that band is all about? this seems very un-ILM. the whole joke before was that it was hard to find an artist that everyone could agree on. that is actually the reason i wanted to post to ILX and not another messageboard--it's not a fan forum but a community of critics (pro and amateur)

no one should feel like they can't post on a thread because they dislike the artist. threads aren't subreddits.

in this case it's more "no one should feel like they can't write elsewhere on the Internet because they dislike the artist"

They might call you a troll

The horror

I don't understand why it's such an unreasonable thing not to want to be called a troll

have to consider the source tbh

Because who fucking cares that internet poster and basketball fan Kevin Keller thinks your opinion on emo Big & Rich is bogus

if its any consolation I too dgaf about the 1975 (this is based entirely on seeing them perform on SNL once)

I concur with bacon-loving brony-4-lyfe WGW.

because they're not random people from the internet (which is upsetting enough as it is). these people either are my actual colleagues or know my actual colleagues, and I either encounter them in real life or encounter people who know them in real life, and now an indeterminate amount of them are upset with me or think less of me

no one is upset with you bc you were indirectly called a troll

katherine, I'd go out on a limb and suggest that anyone whose opinion of you is lowered as a result of whatever happened in the thread about the 1975s is maybe someone whose opinions are way too easily swayed by basically nothing and therefore suspect as a general thing.

this sure sounds like someone who is upset with me

Lmao at being accused of sea lioning bc I tried to engage a writer who posts on this board after their writing was posted to this thread ... Christ alive be more dramatic

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, August 17, 2018 11:51 AM (thirty-one seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ok but what does that have to do with the repercussions of being called a troll

the thread is googleproofed, you can stop posting in it now

those ARE the repercussions

I'd stop posting in it if people would stop bringing it up