― Charles Dexter (Holey), Saturday, 7 February 2004 05:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 February 2004 05:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― Charles Dexter (Holey), Saturday, 7 February 2004 05:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 7 February 2004 05:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 7 February 2004 05:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― ModJ (ModJ), Saturday, 7 February 2004 05:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 7 February 2004 05:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 7 February 2004 05:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― Charles Dexter (Holey), Saturday, 7 February 2004 05:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 7 February 2004 05:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 7 February 2004 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 7 February 2004 05:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― Viral Marketeer, Saturday, 7 February 2004 08:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― nathalie (nathalie), Saturday, 7 February 2004 08:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 8 February 2004 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 8 February 2004 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 8 February 2004 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 8 February 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Sunday, 8 February 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)
I'm curious in regards to why those who do not like the current state of the boards continue to read and post. Are you hoping that the cycle will come completely around, and the forum will again be just like the forum you once enjoyed?
― webcrack (music=crack), Sunday, 8 February 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 8 February 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Sunday, 8 February 2004 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― webcrack (music=crack), Sunday, 8 February 2004 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)
1. Because the pages are some of the internet's fastest-moving.2. To have arguments with people whose worldviews are different from mine.
At the moment I'm putting more effort into my LiveJournal page. I'm enjoying the friendliness of LJ and Friendster (which has the internet's slowest-moving pages). I don't see myself any time soon staying up for three days on a thread about Bush or boshi*, battling Blount, Jess, and John Darnielle. But neither am I going to say ILX got worse, or that there was ever a 'golden age'.
* Boshi = hat in Japanese. The alliteration was irresistible.
― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 8 February 2004 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― webcrack (music=crack), Sunday, 8 February 2004 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Sunday, 8 February 2004 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 8 February 2004 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)
*unable to keep straight face in face of all the stink*
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)
Dan you certainly do have a way with the Japanese noise-band names.
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)
I prefer "I Love Books" at the moment, which is manageable; I already feel I'm getting to know some of the charming people there. We all warm our hands round the same fireplace.
― R the bunged up with jollop of V (Jake Proudlock), Monday, 9 February 2004 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 9 February 2004 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sean (Sean), Monday, 9 February 2004 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 9 February 2004 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 9 February 2004 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 9 February 2004 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 February 2004 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Monday, 9 February 2004 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 9 February 2004 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― My Huckleberry Friend, Monday, 9 February 2004 04:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 9 February 2004 06:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 9 February 2004 06:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 9 February 2004 06:27 (twenty-two years ago)
also i think the absence of the greenspun blackouts and the 'return to normalcy's that lent some people hurt too maybe. some people have definitely done gone thru the rabbit hole with this place.
― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 9 February 2004 06:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 9 February 2004 06:39 (twenty-two years ago)
Honestly, those people who are complaining about this "becoming just another shitty internet forum" are absolutely clueless. I've been to "shitty internet forums" before and they are even more ridiculously in-jokey, cliquey, parochial-minded, and averse to any overt signs of intellect than this forum could possibly be in its worst of days. Sure, those of you who've been on here for ages and ages might miss those days when you felt that close-knit feeling of camraderie, but you know what? Those of us who are new(er) to this forum aren't out to steal those warm and fuzzy connections away from anyone! We're just trying to feel our way around, see whom we can possibly connect with, try as hard as we can to not make ourselves look like wastes of space here, that sort of thing.
And I find the fact that this topic has been discussed a number of times in the decidedly short period of time *I've* been around these parts is quite distressing. Internet forums DO shift and change with time, but their origins are ALWAYS at the core of them, and those who claim to miss the "old" forum aren't digging deep enough to discover that the core is still intact, even with some of the old cast missing. (And I'm sorry that they're gone, but I had no control over them leaving, and besides, if you really miss someone from days gone by, you could always e-mail them or write them letters or whatever.)
*wonders if this should be posted*
*shrugs, clicks on Submit anyway*
― Mellow Dee (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 9 February 2004 06:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mellow Dee (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 9 February 2004 07:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 9 February 2004 07:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 9 February 2004 09:15 (twenty-two years ago)
riiight! ILE started in, what?, August 2001!? so there were 4 months of quality... threads like this are whinier than my livejournal -- i've started one myself.
― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 9 February 2004 09:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 9 February 2004 09:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― Prude (Prude), Monday, 9 February 2004 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 9 February 2004 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)
Old ilx is something that can only be deduced by visiting a veeery old stately home and being interviewed by an eeeeeeeven older maiden aunt. Her nurse will take blood samples and examine you for webbz0r3d f33t.
Later on you may found in the courtyard shouting COUNT MAGNUS ARE YOU AWAKE???
I suggest running away, but that's the thing really isn't it? You can run, but YOU CANNOT HIDE. (I saw Terminator 2 last night BRILLIANT).
― Sarah (starry), Monday, 9 February 2004 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 9 February 2004 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Monday, 9 February 2004 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)
Ramosi was great but never a part of this place;
nabisco's precision is missed but is somewhat made up for by run it off's tenacity;
it's better than it's ever been, of course. Which means that it's just this side of awful.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 9 February 2004 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)
I'd honestly have to say the Laugh Out Loud threads played a part as well. I'm as guilty as anyone as regards playing to them.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 9 February 2004 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)
as natures of forums change, it's almost inevitable that people will find that it is no longer the thing that you had wanted from a place, but of course to other people, it becomes more special because of the change. and to new people who joined because they find the new being to be special to them.
it's not limited to just forums either, there's a good comparison to for example "Bands who have 'sold out'", sequel to films etc.
However, I am almost certain that The Fall had started way before ILX had ever even existed.
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 February 2004 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 9 February 2004 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)
Matt DC often makes me laugh on ILE, though. Whoever he be.
― MikeyG (MikeyG), Monday, 9 February 2004 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 9 February 2004 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― MikeyG (MikeyG), Monday, 9 February 2004 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Monday, 9 February 2004 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 9 February 2004 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― Changin' Alan (Alan), Monday, 9 February 2004 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― Matt (Matt), Monday, 9 February 2004 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)
Sarah is beyond rad. :-)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 February 2004 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)
"Later on you may BE found in the courtyard.. ect ect".
― Sarah (starry), Monday, 9 February 2004 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 February 2004 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― Matt (Matt), Monday, 9 February 2004 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)
O hang on it's gon shit again...
No, its got better again.
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 9 February 2004 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 February 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 9 February 2004 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Monday, 9 February 2004 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Monday, 9 February 2004 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― Matt (Matt), Monday, 9 February 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 9 February 2004 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 February 2004 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― Pete (Pete), Monday, 9 February 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Monday, 9 February 2004 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 9 February 2004 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 February 2004 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 9 February 2004 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)
As a cure for the vapours, let me recommend that, if you see a thread that rises above the ruck, then join it and respond in kind. Avoid the temptation to wallow in the others. Over time, the culture of excellence will reassert itself as the competing dreck withers on the vine. Either that, or we all wear funny hats and get slobbering drunk.
― Aimless, Monday, 9 February 2004 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― Winston Churchill (Prude), Monday, 9 February 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 February 2004 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 9 February 2004 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 9 February 2004 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Monday, 9 February 2004 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Monday, 9 February 2004 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 9 February 2004 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 9 February 2004 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)
We want cool kidsOut on the cornerCool kidsOut on a limbCool kidsLooking for someone, looking for somethingLooking for somebodyK-K-K-Kids are all right
We go cruising down the avenueLean out the window at the stop lightJust trying to shake up the Main Street bluesTry to break out into the hot nightAnybody got a situationIs there any place to go
(chorus)
Anybody got an invitationIs there any place to goWe want cool kids - so coolWe want cool kidsWe want cool kidsCool kids - Out on the cornerCool kids - Out tonightCool kidsCool kids - Out on the cornerCool kids - Out tonightCool kids - Looking for troubleCool kidsC-C-C-C-C-C-C-Cool kidsCool kids - ohhhhCool kidsI wanna be cool, I wanna be coolCool kidsKids are all rightCool kidsOut on the cornerCool kids
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 9 February 2004 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)
Oh and have you ever been to other message boards!? most people on most of them are completely incomprehensible/illiterate, unless maybe it's like a politics or books board or something. But as "general discussion" boards go, it is still the fact that no other board I've seen approaches ILX.
― Dan I., Monday, 9 February 2004 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 9 February 2004 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 9 February 2004 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 9 February 2004 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Monday, 9 February 2004 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 9 February 2004 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 9 February 2004 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)
If 'pulled its little wings off' = greatest thing ever. This still comes close.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 February 2004 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 9 February 2004 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 9 February 2004 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 03:37 (twenty-two years ago)
Ronan's last several posts were inspired, either way.
STOP spelled backward is POTS.
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 03:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 03:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 03:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 03:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 04:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)