If Something Happened to You, Do You Think ILX Would Notice?

probably, because i came to ilx through real world connections (jw, ian, remy)

voted no because i've disappeared for stretches before

But we always noticed jess.

then again if i die young i always assume it'll be in some way that makes the papers

"dead man found naked in taco bell parking lot with 'grocery groin' written on his chest in glitter paint"

Not a chance. However, if I didn't live with my partner I'm pretty sure *nobody* would notice, so it's not a slam against online communities at all.

I would notice if you were gone, Emily!

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

We would all notice if YOU were gone, System!

Would System notice if something happened to all of us?

pretty confident that if i expired in front of my computer you guys would all reach through the screen & pull me in. then i could live forever, on ilx

;~)

yes bcz I've met a bunch of you, and another bunch would have mild to strong feelings of relief.

maybe after a good while

What happened to NSFW Australia (seandalai)?

― System, Sunday, April 29, 2012 5:22 PM (2 hours ago)

"Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the hard drive, "on the internet forums ILX." It repeated the date three times for memory's sake. "Today is Mr. World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius)'s birthday. Today is the anniversary of Hungry4Ass's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills."
Somewhere in the walls, relays clicked, memory tapes glided under electric eyes.

I remember hearing a Leonard Nimoy recorded reading of that story

Seems likely that eventually some of the handful of ilxors I've met/am FB friends with/etc would hear something.

But I'm not sure it really matters, does it? I mean, my family and IRL social-life friends would all know first. I haven't read the story beyond the opening anecdote, but I don't know what social media has to do with reclusive old people dying alone. That's been going on pretty much forever. Even in whatever golden age of community may have existed.

I really enjoyed when I showed up on the milk carton thread as I'd just learned to knit and grew insanely addicted to it. Passion, man.

now I combine knitting and ILX, all my flag posts are done Madame Defarge style

crüt and I work in the same office now, so if one of us expires I'm sure the other one will pass the news along.

I cannot possibly imagine that anyone here would notice my absence, no.

I have been dead for several weeks and nobody's said shit

did you guys hear about aerosmith being torn to death by groupies?

xp nm

I'd like to think so but honestly who knows

rip aerosmith

God I love that Bradbury story referenced earlier.

As for me, I'd hope that my sweetie would notice that I'd expired and was face first on the keyboard, but she might take a while to get around to posting here and saying "Yeah, about that."

Considering at least one ILXor HAS died that no one really knew in person and we still eventually found out, I'd like to think that it may happen, at least if it was death by misadventure.

N would probably... possibly... have the forethought to post something here on my behalf, I would think. Not on FB though I hope. Christ I hope someone deletes my FB and LJ if I die.

Quick, give me your logins for safekeeping. You can trust me!

hurrr :)

I know for certain ILX would not notice as I've disappeared for a year at a time.

Twitter, oddly, I think would notice. But Twitter is much more IRL interconnected. (I do wonder if London ppl would just think I'd fucked off to Cornwall permanently and Cornwall ppl would think the opposite.)

((after a couple of hairy moments on cliff sides last week I did wonder if someone would send out a search party if I didnt check in, but loads of ppl knew which stretch of coast I was on))

ilf would wither away without yrs truly, obv. the rest of the place probably not so much

maybe if there was a certain confluence of events. like a grunge thread and a funk metal thread and weezers green album was reissued. plus like maybe a thread about hillbillies in the suburbs. maybe then someone would think to themselves "hey! beaches should be here for this..." I don't fuckin know.

but really, i know a couple times when I've been the first person to notice someone missing and it had been months since they posted and they were much more active posters than me.

I usually just think that maybe the person has another screen name I don't know about or only posts on borads I don't frequent

I don't know. I guess I'm mates with a bunch of you on FB so someone'd probably hear about my demise through that.

Does suzy post anymore btw?

cmon ppl..

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/8393/noiinteam.jpg

<3 all yall btw

(even tho my status as an also-ran is so bona fide that u don't even know about it)

No.

I've had a fever and a sore throat for days and none of you noticed, so there.

oh ya, facebook, that'd prob help alright

No, because I dont socialise with any ilxors. Plus when i stopped posting last year for 4 months no one noticed.

AG, iirc your extended hiatus & the reasons for it were well-known among AIM CHATZ regulars at the time.

Yeah, I noticed when you weren't here AG.

I think ILX would notice, but everybody would be over it and getting on with their lives within a couple of days.

Mordy's point was would people try to find out where you were. And i say no, no one would.
I don't know if WmC's post is about me or him, but it works either way I guess

there's plenty of people on ILG of whom I would notice if gone. I think they would only notice me though if a new GTA game was released and I didn't post to it.

'about' it.

AND MAYBE NOT EVEN THEN.

what is no new GTA games came out?

*If

My post was about me. ME ME ME!!!!

this is starting to sound like a lifetime movie.

Caught by a thread: An ILXor's story

Having seen the way ILX and other Internet forums have handled deaths, I don't think I'd want anyone to tell tell ILX when I die. Like I don't know what would be worse, the 1 or 2 arseholes who would be unable to resist getting in one last dig, or the fake sympathy from ppl I know didn't like me, but wanted to ~appear~ like they were sympathetic. It would just be a field day for the people who never bothered talking to me, but just loved to to talk ~about~ me. What would it matter, I suppose, I won't be here to care. But I'd hate for some unsuspecting member of my family or friend to have to deal with the shit this place can come up with in its darker moments.

No, I wouldn't actually want anyone to tell ILX. If ppl are close enough to me to want to know they'd find out some other way.

Guess this is a reminder to make a digital will. Or the ordinary kind.

Morbid post yeah, but morbid thread, y'know? Time to get off here and go think about something lighter.

And the ppl who roll their eyes and go "OMG the ~drama~!!!" at that post, you are precisely the people I would want my family to avoid.

To be fair I'm not going to know one way or another how/if ILx responded when I die, but there are family and friends, some overlapping with ILx and some not, who would need to know first (and I expect WILL know first). Otherwise, whatever happens will happen as far as I'm concerned.

This of course depends on ILx still existing when I die, but that's another matter altogether.

I've never heard of anyone "having a dig" during the (thankfully) few Ilxor RIP threads...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur5g0l93F2g

i was thinking but i mean

N would probably... possibly... have the forethought to post something here on my behalf, I would think

!

Yes, ILX would notice if I died, because I hang out in IRL with about a dozen of you and am married to one. I'm sure my tragic death would come up in casual internet conversation. Probably the look at this fucking cat thread.

I wish I had died before I read this awful article. wah wah wah technology is making us lonely.

the answer is no, this is actually ILX's second frogbs

When anyone disappears from ILX I just assume they got their life in order, not that they died.

i try to get a dig in, just in case tho

I doubt it, just because if I died I can't see anyone thinking that ILX would need to be notified.

hardly anyone notices me posting, no reason to think they'd notice me not posting

Hives are notably indifferent to the fates of single bees. I've not sought out or encouraged irl ties to other ilxors, so I don't deserve any special consideration in this respect.

you're both nuts tbh

so has anyone heard from ilx poster I DIED recently?

Saw him eating brains the other day.

i think the answer to this is just simply whether you're facebook or twitter friends with anyone from ilx -- even if nobody noticed you'd stopped posting and none of your loved ones knew about ilx enough to come and post something, odds are someone would notice a facebook wall or whatever full of RIP messages

no facebook here, ergo no rip wall to look at

tbh, it would require an ilxor to:
1] notice my absence (the easy part)
2] dig down through the detritus of a decade to find the few threads where my irl name was linked (the thorniest task)
3] use that name to discover what happened to me (a total crap shoot)

The three or four ILXors I knew personally are long gone from these parts, afaik.

since an ilxor lives like a 20-second walk away from me i'm guessing the answer is probably yes

When Facebook started to be a thing, a whole bunch upped and left the same month (week, even)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

sic, what was with the exclamation, didn't get that.

On another note I thought the point of the threads premise was if something HAPPENED TO YOU would ILX notice. Not "I havent posted in 3 months and NO ONE NOTICEED WAHHH:", but "this person like, actually died/is in intensive care, people do know about this of course, but would or has anyone passed the news to ILX for people who might like to know also?"

N would probably... possibly... have the forethought to post something here on my behalf, I would think

sinister

LOL. I didnt realise I'd worded it that way, what a brain fart :|

No idea what the hell I actually meant. Hindsight? GOod thought? Blergh.

thoughtiness