So I left ILX Ten Years Ago. What have I missed

There was a mixture of personal reasons, and strange chemical reactions, that meant that I, key founder of this Iconic message board, could not keep up with the vital lifeblood of the ILX mainstream. However, having recovered (out of my coma), what have I missed, and how can I catch up with what must still be the most vital online community on the webbernet.

Can Ned Raggett still type?

lou reed is dead

a black man is president of the usa

Clusterfuck Summary Corner

CLUSTERFUCK THREAD SHOWDOWN

THIS IS THE THREAD WHERE WE SUM UP ILX CLUSTERFUCK THREADS SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ THEM.

I think I can still type.

Luna

A few newcomers. Nobody who really made a splash though

they put a man on the moon

there's an iphone 5

I run things now

http://i.imgur.com/3SH9Bwp.png

on ILM, nobody talks about rockists, rockism, poptimism etc. much anymore. lotsa YouTube links. fewer long paragraphs are written.

on ILX, more stuff about getting older, childcare, grumpier vibe but maybe "older n wiser" too? maybe more gays and more parents than ten years ago?

Nobody who really made a splash though

ahem, markers

Site administration changed hands, new code written.

you mean waterface xp

it's halloween soon

The Minnesota Vikings are terrible now

people don't make witticisms for their own sake, they make them with the hope that they'll get compiled on the following "digest threads":

LOLZ in the Conference Room; I'd Like to EXCELSIOR some of that
posts very much in character
o_O posts
ilx posts with striking imagery
RONG 2
FIRST RESPONSE hall of fame

cheap humor is commodified to a much greater extent than genuine insight, so ilx these days is mostly just lazy zings and board-specific puns.

someone is paying us for cheap humor now?!?

sock van winkle

I am a werewolf

The past is prologue. When you board a train you don't inquire where it came from. ILX reinvents itself each day. The dining car is open.

I miss my days as clusterfuck archivalist

ASK ME ANYTHING RE: The History of ILX

Still stand by the images only rule

If this is to be a GOAT nomination thread, then I'll open with an amusing little number called miniature family anecdotes. There are countless contenders, though.

Or I could simply direct you to Best Thread on ILX: Part One - The Nominations, which would bring you up to 2007, more or less.

There are less Britishers, more Americans now than 10 years ago. Perhaps as a result of this, on ILM dance music is discussed less and Guns'n'Roses more. Nabisco appears only rarely now, and few others bother to post several paragraph posts on pop culture anymore. There were some nasty insults and flame wars on the boards around 2004 or 2005 (I think?), which lead to compulsory registration, so no one could post bullshit anonymously anymore. Then things became more mellow for a while, until some of the nastiness returned in the form of "zinging", which some posters seemed to wear like a badge of honour; they even called themselves the "Zing Crew". Then the modding policies were tightened, and most of the hardcore "zingers" were either banned or left the board. Things have been more mellow again for a few years.

also tuomas got banned loads of times for mischaracterisation of stuff so pinch of salt, pinch of salt

SB happened, worked, changed, sucks now

FPed you for that

pfft and to what effect we all ask

people don't make witticisms for their own sake, they make them with the hope that they'll get compiled on the following "digest threads":

LOLZ in the Conference Room; I'd Like to EXCELSIOR some of that
posts very much in character
o_O posts
ilx posts with striking imagery
RONG 2
FIRST RESPONSE hall of fame

cheap humor is commodified to a much greater extent than genuine insight, so ilx these days is mostly just lazy zings and board-specific puns.

― Remember! The cormorant is a big brrd. It has got a long neck. (unregistered), Monday, 28 October 2013 01:49 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This happened a few years ago, don't remember this happening recently.

Mainly because someone else has to post it, and they tend to not bother with especially corny stuff.

Oh, just a little thing called "l0u1s jagg3r".

also tuomas got banned loads of times for mischaracterisation of stuff so pinch of salt, pinch of salt

I was banned exactly once. We used to have a system called "suggest ban", which was a supposedly democratic form of banning, where someone got automatically banned when at least 51 posters suggested him to be banned. I argued against this system, because 51 was hardly a majority, and because the bannee would never know whether there were legitimate reasons for getting banned, or whether it was just because 51 posters didn't like his posting style or something. Then I got banned myself due to 51 "suggest bans", seemingly because I was so vocally against this whole system, as well as being against the ILX secret board (that's another new thing we have), but I'll never know for sure. There was lot of arguing for for and against the whole suggest ban thing, several prominent posters were banned, and a couple of years later on "suggest ban" was replaced by "flag post"... Which seems much fairer to me, because now you have to click on a post you think is offensive/against ILX rules, instead of "suggest banning" a poster someone for reasons that no one else might ever find out.

lol

pretty good summary as to what happened.

Someone taught Scott Seward how to post pics.

xp not that we havent done this x 100 but sb is fp

my summation was much shorter and had the benefit of being correct tbh

wait, pete, come back

I cannot believe how many people still dont get that SB and FP are EXACTLY THE SAME THING, all that was changed was the fucking name. GAHHHH.

They don't sound the same to me. One is objecting to a post, the other to the poster.

after 51 fps all those posts get removed huh

But they work in exactly the same way! The link is in the same spot against every post, and it still pings the mods at 51 flags.Its semantics, and thats all.

Semantics *is* all......

people died

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob1rYlCpOnM

Its not fair to do the sb thing again here, suggest tuomas re-reads the last 6 such threads and re-types his posts verbatim into word or w/e

You missed nothing, it's still mostly rubbish.

We established that Gustavus II Adolphus † was the best key player in the Thirty Years War.

people who were children and acted like children have become middle-aged and act like kindly middle-aged people, except maybe four users who still act like children. music threads are mostly nice now, even the ones about crap music. threads are 48,000 posts long, but phone posting has probably reduced the average length of posts. the site doesn't go down ever. there are style sheets.

And yes, people died :(

Polls. And ILFootball.

Goal #1 these days is not so much to contribute quality content per se but rather to post lots of things in a similar tone in a desperate attempt to craft a "discernible posting style"

Also there are lots of inside jokes

oh yeah 77

much hard one

Old ILX was so mean. How do we know that Pete isn't MEAN?

old ilx can't have been mean, silly!

too cuddly uddly wuddly to be meanikins

now it's just lazy zings and excelsior syndrums

and relentlessly FPing the same lame ducks and whiners every week

Ppl argue about pizza once a month, did they do that back then?

arguing about pizza probably better than arguing about some shitty indie band

i mean, just about

u dont understand, pizza is the name of my new indie band is the name of my dog!

now it's just lazy zings and excelsior syndrums

― increasingly desperate demand for high (Noodle Vague), Monday, 28 October 2013 22:30 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh yeah, and the excelsior threads aren't funny any more

Brb, starting "what is the indie rock equivalent of pineapple pizza?" thread. 400 posts by lunchtime.

oh yeah, and the excelsior threads aren't funny any more

"any more"

okay fair point

Death of the random googler era.

when did excelsior threads stop being funny, srs q

the latest one is pretty funny

when [poster x] got bitter about all the meanies being mean, srs a

if it's too lol you're too old etc

btw does this peter exist or did someone decide we needed a colonic

the amount of time ILX spends up its own arse you'd think we'd be good for that

lolz

Old ILX was so mean. How do we know that Pete isn't MEAN?

Wasn't Pete the poster who started the hoax that Ned was being sued (or something like that) because he posted a negative review of the movie Xanadu?

(If I'm misremembering this, and it wasn't Pete, I'm sorry for posting that.)

http://www.vintagehofner.co.uk/gallery/gallery3/gallery6/bert.jpeg

ORNALDO BLOOMPS FOR PRESIDETN

classic hilarious old ILX

some of Pete's best-loved threads:

French films are shit. Porquoi?

Why are Japanese films so terrible?

One thing Pete would like about nu-ILX is that the software and the server are now far more stable than they were in The Greenspun Days of Yore. nu-ILX allows style sheets, so he could, if he desires, make ILX look exactly like it was when it first fired up. And he can access it from his smartphone using Zing. Also, board proliferation means he can now chill out on I Love Books, or indulge his inner wild boy on a noize board.

It's just like the Virgin Megastore (circa 1985) as compared to the shop that opened in Notting Hill.

Also, board proliferation means he can now chill out on I Love Books, or indulge his inner wild boy on a noize board.

There were actually more subboards 10 years ago, since back then anyone could start a new board. (IIRC "Ask a Drunk" and "Ask Dr. Freud" are remnants of this era.) Though because of that freedom, most of the subboards were pretty marginal or pointless, we have better boards nowadays.

me

hi pete, it is a pleasure.

mods pls make an Ask Pete board thx

should take 5 mins

ILTMI

I started making a long list of things that I have enjoyed about ILX in the last ten years to offset all of you cynics but it got sappy so I will try to sum up with: placenta eating, belt-pissing, 100 best horror movies, and the voluntary group torture of listening to every Eagles song.

And I'm being flip by not acknowledging the long, thoughtful posts you can find on all sorts of social and political issues from some really smart people with interesting perspectives. And the like 15 threads about cats. And two threads about bears.

u missed Jay Batman

marissa

not sure what pissed her off, but jess left

PEW

I bet Pete's gone again

Pete you seem nice and I'd def recommend hanging out here more often but tbh it kinda bums me out that a key founder of this iconic message board uses the word "webbernet"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETQZTpzNnb4

i think you'll find that was a carefully-crafted reference to ilx's original incarnation as a fansite for pulp guitarist Mark Webber

what to do when your roommate doesn't realize you're home and thusly is having loud sex in the living room

kate married and settled down

kerry leads a girl scout troop

wins it was even worse back then with the molesworth bollocks

which drove DG mad

molesworth is the shit

^^ one of the seven types of ambiguity

rereading the roommate couch sex thread, I'm going to have to vote that Pete just read that and ignore most of the rest`

oh yeah, Momus is gone now, and ilx is better

calum is gone.

people are still neurotic, but others attempt to support the person, not the neurosis, mostly

except when the ones who've been run off come back, then everyone is dicks again for old times' sake

sometimes i miss the dicks

dick

hey pete, you know what's changed? fuck you!!!! that's what

peter

except when the ones who've been run off come back, then everyone is dicks again for old times' sake

instance

ilm = i love molesworthposting

what the hell time is it there?

milquetoast

I guess Pete's gone for another 10 years.

day of the comet

see you in 2023!

ri pete

guys, Pete slipped back into a coma. Sadly, he was only conscious for a few minutes, most of which he spent trying to catch up on ILX. What a waste. What a goddamned waste.

pete and ri pete were surfing a board, pete fell off, who was left

I don't want to be buried in a Pete Sematary

Porquoi?

RIPete

dammit darragh

Rather than rushing to pronounce its untimely demise, maybe we should just let the thread peter out naturally.

is this pete b?

Pete is the Tenth Beatle which is twice as good as being the fifth.

pete to the power of ten

Hey guys

So I went to sit at the right hand of my father 2000 years ago, what have I missed?

what up, jesus

jesus could you stop gretzky on a breakaway

done

lol