How long have you been here?

2005 I think?

43678 posts. Since the big switches were flipped. Gah.

2001 I think, but I just used to make up a different name every time I posted. In fact, one of the first threads I posted on with this name (in 2002) was started by me with a different name, and then 75% of the subsequent posts are me under various other names too. It was a great discussion.

nakho's gonna have to do more than that to get me searching for phantom former accounts

Eyeball Kicks obv referring to an uproarious & very kinky incest thread where all the taboos got challenged

If only.

a little over 7 years, so about half my life

November 7, 2004

I don't know how many posts though.

about 3.5 years of mostly reading but also posting about once every 4 hours on average

but I just used to make up a different name every time I posted.

same for about 4 or 5 years much to the annoyance of mark s and tom :D

tho i think i did an actual pfunkboy post in 2002

2002 d k (i was in high school, ilm pop music theory was exciting, pharrell with his shirt off, ethan p imitations, getting my first blowjob while listening to freeway, any bumped thread from this period and i scan it already blushing for any embarrassing shit i said)
2004 william wiggins (like a stiff british music writer parody concept but then just talking about da band and cassidy singles in no caps, ten posts about nas in a row)
2004 cloverlandthug (ten posts about lil flip in a row, in hindsight chamillionaire sucked)
2007 dylannn (talked about china and working at a hotel, less interested in posting about music except nas and lots of posts with no responses or not very interested responses months later such as http://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=93677 and ITT -_------->>> pictures of william t vollmann (no shops allowed) and lethbridge and selected films of joey wong 王祖賢 1984 - 2004).
roughly 5000-6000 across all four?

i think i've been here under various names for eleven (!) years, and still never once been invited to the secret board :(

Since the start of both, though admittedly I was initially grouchy about ILE.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, December 2, 2002 11:33 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

nakho's gonna have to do more than that to get me searching for phantom former accounts

― carles the jekyll (imago), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:50 (46 minutes ago)

there's nothing exceptional there so even in the unlikely event you discerned one, no chuffage would follow

not the -age he's after iirc

since 2002

Fourteen years next month I believe.

5,000 users sounds like a lot to me, feels like there's only a few hundred regular posters

ciderpress wrote this at 2015-04-28 14:24:06.000

I'm pretty sure there's a post somewhere where stet broke down the entire ilx user base scientifically. I can't find it at the moment, but there's this:

the lurker pool for ilx is huuuuuuuuuuuuge

-- strongohulkington, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:28 PM (5 months ago)

(really, really huge. Scary huge)

-- stet, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:36 PM

I still long for the days of a screenshot of 1 Active Users (that isn't after an outage)

I remember ILE starting and never even clicked on it until 2004ish as i was only interested in reading about music (hence why people long for old ILE lol )

Yeah, I stayed on ILM for a while when I started. ILE seemed weird and scary to me. I did not love everything. I wasn't sure if I wanted to go to ILX Heaven.

been here since summer 2004. only posted a lousy 2,444 times.

12 yrs ffs

Yeah, I stayed mostly on ILM for years before dipping a toe into ILE. I think I migrated to ILNFL before I even went to ILE.

I feel like I read somewhere that lurker / contributor ratio on forums tends to be 90%/10%, so.... ~5000 posters, ~50000 lurkers...?

Or, you know, whatevs the correct math is 🎃

I think you posted a 10%/100% which means lurkers are 100% and we are the posting 10% which seems about right