meta question: is il* getting nastier?

(::hides behind something sturdy::)

I think people want different things from this little community. There's always going to be a little bit of personailty clash, we span a large chunk of the english speaking western world (and others). I think people have got to rember that we are all, well, people at the other end of the line and be a bit respectful.

In all my life, no one has ever called me cowboy :(

I am mindlessly drooling through fatigue and cramp pain as opposed to crushes although MY GOD THE TALENT at the party last night, oy vey. I think last night is going to FIND ME in an hour or so!

I know this sounds semi-jokey, but I'm actually serious. Does no one else besides my close personal friends notice Ethan's weird psuedo- thing for me? I mean, he seems to memorize my posts and repost them at least once a month, apropos of virtually nothing, and seems to devote far too much time to thinking about me. It's really goddamned creepy and if there was some way on Lusenet that I could just block out his posts, I'd do it because he really, really, really bothers me.

Was that nasty enough for all of you?

Yet another thread I will now refuse to read because of the presence of Ethan, c'est la vie.

The original question was has our tone changed and wondering why, not "here is a thread to vent". I think that was a bit too much.

In answer to Ally's question - Ethan can be a hugely irritating person to argue with. But I have never even considered the possibility he might have a "thing" for anyone on the boards. And I don't think he comes across as much of a mentalist either, pretty average by Internet standards.

Nicole is right: it's always been nasty. And it's often been rubbish, too.

(not to exempt myself from it. no sir. i'm still wary of posting after this weekend's little debacle.)

you are smart and strong = you will piss ppl off, hullo
you are inconsistent = you contain multitudes = you are alive, pfff

for "you" read me, if it helps, cowboys

Anyway, the point to this is that it really would be nice if everyone round here could treat each other with consideration and not pay attention to the name of the poster.

(And I think 'friendless' is overstating things - you might not know many ppl here in real life Nicole but as the quite justified reactions when Robin attacked you showed you've got a lot of well- wishers on the board. And rightly so.)

(nor is this hypocrisy: if [m] and [n] both said "you are adorable take me take me", it's perfectly acceptable to respond in different ways)

Fluxblog author Fatthew Perpetua.[citation needed]

james Keiler from trader joe's is what is currently disappointing my breakfast muffin.

This is the business:

http://www.premierfoods.co.uk/premierfoods/fms//Brands/Frank%20Coopers/frank_top1.jpg

i heard - no joke - he became a millionaire after coding some program that sold to a software developer

I heard this too!

And that he was building a robotic suit for himself.

Notable regular posters have included Momus, Simon Reynolds, PappaWheelie, Philip Sherburne, Drew Daniel of Matmos and The Soft Pink Truth, John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats, internet personality Ned Raggett, former The Wire editor Mark Sinker, Dom Passantino, former Village Voice music editor Chuck Eddy, and BIG MATT aka the fluxdriver.

notable?

internet personality makes Ned sound like Hank Kingsley or something...

IL* = I love assholes?

wikipedia previous edits for i love music pages = a+

is il* getting naughtier?

internet and personality, together at last

...woman hatin' Dom Passantino, former Village Voice music editor Chuck Eddy, and celebrated gourmand Matthew 'Fluxblog' Perpetua.

Give him his credit '.., celebrated misanthrope Dom Passantino'

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I_Love_Music&oldid=148497456

now-banned[1] Dom Passantino

i changed it to 'crazy clown Dom Passantino' one time

(cur) (prev) 21:39, 11 December 2008 VegaDark (talk | contribs) m (Unprotected I Love Music: page protected for a while, hopefully no longer necessary) (undo)

was wrong...

As with many internet message boards, I Love Music has thrown up more than its far share of memes that have gone on to wider popularity. These include "no (x), no credibility", "oh wrinklepaws", and "hen fap" (http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=+site:ilx.wh3rd.net+ilxor+%22hen+fap%22). The latter has gone on to widespread Wikipedia controversy in recent times.

this is my favorite recent wiki find

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Kiribati

wait for it.... wait for it...

irl lol

I still wonder which ILX person did this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL2

Assuming it was an ILX person is pretty safe I think.

first par of "background"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/91.104.124.61

gee who could that be

I still wonder which ILX person did this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL2

gotta be Gareth

I Love Music (ILM) is a popular Internet music forum. Notable regular posters have included Momus, Ned Raggett, Simon Reynolds, cheeky-chirpy Jew-hating moderator Sterling Clover, internet legend Tynan Delong, and Mr Hen Fap himself, Fluxblog author Matthew Perpetua.

Thursday, March 5, 2009 9:56 AM I Love Everything User: stanton in the shadows of brotown has been banned from thread: meta question: is il* getting nastier? temporarily

The MP3 blog Fluxblog regularly features music from Kiribati, under the title "Big Perp's Big Tunes from Kiribati".

^^dying

Can we go back to talking about marmalade?

I could organize a marmalade airlift...at Waitrose, right?

Also next time you're in NYC you might try Meyer's of Keswick: most products plus dude makes pork pies.

if anyone wants to fix all those dead links on the Rough Guide page i would be willing to reward them with DVD box sets of popular American youth-orientated TV shows

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, March 5, 2009 11:05 AM

i can fix the links for you if you want

(no buffy-o)

Airlift probably not necessary as the folks are coming soon and I shall ask them to hit waitrose and the fortnum's concession in T5.

Posts containing the words "Miss Jackson"

2001 - 5
2002 - 12
2003 - 9
2004 - 27*
2005 - 8
2006 - 6
2007 - 4
2008 - 0
(* Outkast)

This date shows that when Jess posted this thread in late 2001, ILX was indeed ramping up to a peak of nastiness, from which -- if we disregard the Outkast variable in 2004 -- the board has steadily backed down ever since, eventually landing on the zero-nastiness run we've been on every since a Bimble post in September 2007. (I am ending it here, but only for scientific purposes.)

actually nm that shits impossible to fix

but the song is called 'ms jackson'

You've found the Mexican aisle, Ed...so send me some Ibarra?

but the song is called 'ms jackson'

And it came out in 2000.

I like to think that song is about Randy Jackson.

oh that's right -- it was being discussed a ton in some sort of poll, but maybe that was a decade-so-far thing

I have not seen the Ibarra, only the Nestle analog and it is no way near as good. This is not a very mexican town.

ah, yes, it kept getting nominated for 2000-2004 tracks poll

asterisk stands

Ed, you will be on West Coast soon and they will have it there if they have it in Mpls.

actually nm that shits impossible to fix

That's a damn shame because that stuff was useful.

thought you could do a simple url find/replace but the thread ids and message ids no longer correspond to the current board. you'd have to find them one by one through search function and c/p the full url. good luck with that

Posts containing the words "Miss Jackson"

2001 - 5
2002 - 12
2003 - 9
2004 - 27*
2005 - 8
2006 - 6
2007 - 4
2008 - 0
(* Outkast)

This date shows that when Jess posted this thread in late 2001, ILX was indeed ramping up to a peak of nastiness, from which -- if we disregard the Outkast variable in 2004 -- the board has steadily backed down ever since, eventually landing on the zero-nastiness run we've been on every since a Bimble post in September 2007. (I am ending it here, but only for scientific purposes.)

― nabisco, Thursday, March 5, 2009 12:31 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

nabiscustos

what's the point of banning passantino when he can just log-in under a different name and use a different server? at least you knew to ignore whatever came up with his latest user name.

Well, it's been a long winter and it's fair to say that everyone is suffering from the recession as well.

pissing in the wind imo.

vandalising wikipedia up in heaven now

i can fix the links for you if you want

― american banned stan (eman), Thursday, 5 March 2009 20:17 (Yesterday)

feel free dude (just grab the source code and go from there). it's not a difficult job, just time-consuming (and i am v lazy+forgetful)...

now, how nice is that?