Lurkers only!

Haven't quite mastered this in the written word yet(which is probably a good thing). When i do, I shall de-lurk.

I don't love Everything, I only love Music.

I lurk outside Steve.n's house and look through his window to read the forums.

I shall retreat once more.

Nickie! You're here! It should be pointed out that Miss Byrne is not being sarcastic. ARE YOU NICKIE?

My freaky trigger claim to fame is that I once wrote tom a stupid email about boy bands which he foolishly but kindly put on the sadly (?) departed letters page. I am 23 ft tall and my favourite actor is cary grant.

j-lu (a k a tha threadkilla)]

Yes I am nickie! hurrah! I've been reading ILE on and off at work on the sly when the relevant authorities are out of eye-shot. earlier this week, i was in the act of replying to the Dirty Vicar's Cork v. Dublin conundrum on the single office computer when one of the boss ladies came in, said in a loud, incredulous voice 'the Dirty Vicar?', to which i could but mumble an unconvincing reply. This board's filth is ruining my reputation.

Being compared to Eastenders is surely the kindest thing anyone has said about the forum. And I would also point out that J-Lu has failed to kill this thread ha. Not that he/she/it killed any others.

What? Why?

but maybe not any more... because i've become big & brave.

hmmm.

we'll see.

(i am a dAemon)

I'm being boring so, look! Viking Kittens!, which I'm sure you've already seen!

It shouldn't take that long. I'm trying to get back to checking it daily.

My sock took about 2 weeks to get approved.

I used to post a lot, but I have the feeling that most people have me killfiled so it seems like a waste of time. Kinda miss it.

i don't even think most people even have killfile set up -- i don't

even even

Not sure if that makes me feel any better. No matter.

Eight years and counting. RIP modest mickey, etc.

Is he out of jail yet?

hope so!

Hey, if you read this board and think "I'd like to register and start posting there," one bit of advice: don't register over and over with variations on the same screen name, or with the same screen name from different email addresses. I'm not going to reject all of them except one; I'm going to reject all of them.

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Tuesday, September 27, 2011 5:44 PM (4 months ago)

Hey, if you read this board and think "I'd like to register and start posting there," one bit of advice: don't register over and over with variations on the same screen name, or with the same screen name from different email addresses. I'm not going to reject all of them except one; I'm going to reject all of them.

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Tuesday, September 27, 2011 5:44 PM (1 year ago)

bashing my head against a wall here

lurkers be trolling u

Spammers also maybe?

Oh well, as long as they don't need to post. I got my irritation out of my system.

hmm, is that helpful post only buried here in the lurkers thread? seems it would be more useful elsewhere.

so i think i'm mostly a lurker these days. or, a lurker with occasional bursts of definitely not lurking.

Arb's has a point,. maybe WmC's message above should pop up any time someone goes to register a login?

ffs you really want to make it soft on them dontya?

I don't know if every mod follows the same rule of thumb -- they may pick a login attempt they like, OK it and reject the other(s). But if I see same IP and 2 or more different login emails and/or 2 or more different screen names, I reject them all.

how many new accounts are approved per day?

I approved three today, two Friday. The mods don't get together and take a daily count, so I don't know the total.

I'm a lurker and an occasional poster, and have changed screen names three times since discovering ILX, using two, maybe even three, separate email addresses. I figured I'd probably be rejected for trying on another handle (which I didn't like - it's hard to find one under which you want to post frequently) with the same email address. I've had most of my threads ignored, but haven't taken it to heart. I'm pretty much addicted to ILX and feel as if I relate more to most of the people on ILE than most of the people i know irl.

Yeah, if you reregister a new account with an existing login (email address) it won't go through. As long as you don't register multiple times at once, should be no problem.

props to wmc for having to think about this stuff! i forget it is all going on under the hood

qiqing, this is important- how d'you feel about ilm?

I'm a lurker and an occasional poster, and have changed screen names three times since discovering ILX, using two, maybe even three, separate email addresses. I figured I'd probably be rejected for trying on another handle (which I didn't like - it's hard to find one under which you want to post frequently) with the same email address. I've had most of my threads ignored, but haven't taken it to heart. I'm pretty much addicted to ILX and feel as if I relate more to most of the people on ILE than most of the people i know irl.

― qiqing, Montag, 8. Oktober 2012 03:49 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hi, i'm lion.

i just wrote this on the politics thread: "i get that it takes years of having little-to-no opinion and posting constantly to get any traction in this place"

been reading for 10 years, honestly it's been a blessing. learned a hell of a lot and shaped a lot of opinions. sometimes it seems like when you want to finally engage though, the above is true.

my post history will show me talking about being drunk, i assume. that's mostly fixed. anyway: you folk take of your own!

post more, ilx needs fresh blood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlZlst4NBVw

ilx is the game of pricks btw. you're not a prick lion, far as i can tell. iatee otm.

it's an undeniable track. that james greer story about the recording: http://www.theweeklings.com/jgreer/2013/01/12/the-time-we-recorded-game-of-pricks/

thanks, i will. i think i spent a lot of time happy not to engage with a lot of the world. as such, i wouldn't self-describe as fresh blood.

<3 you're cool

btw don't post more
life's too short
/trenchant

funny, cause my partner was like: 'you read this shit all the time and don't say anything? life's too short.' now though, she's advocating i get off the internet.

being predefensive about why your posts will be prerejected is decent self fulfilling prophecy but projecting that out to the entire site is nagl imo, if a common snowplough attachment for your standard approaching lurker

We believe in you lion

tbh, darraghmac didn't respond well to me six years ago the last time i tried to enter gracefully:

darraghmac, you've been especially helpful: for a while, in the earlier part of this decade, i lived on hanbury lane in the liberties (off meath st.) and dunville ave. in ranelagh.

― lion in winter, Saturday, April 17, 2010 10:20 PM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

darraghmac, you've been especially helpful:

this was entirely unintentional fwiw

― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Sunday, April 18, 2010 4:47 PM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'll get by this time.

consistency is one of the great joys here.

Do I count as a lurker? I've posted a few times, whereupon the thread promptly flatlines.
j-lu (a k a tha threadkilla)
― j-lu, Sunday, August 19, 2001 5:00 PM (fifteen years ago)

ha! have many times contemplated the dn "threadkiller" but if you hang around long enough, plenty of regulars kill threads too, very equal opportunity the threadkilling

been mostly lurking myself for about half my life (found ilx thru momus' LiveJournal, don't kill the messenger he's made lots of good music)

but anyway thanks everyone, there isn't anywhere else to be quite like this, and I would know, been on the webernets half my life and all

hahaha

srsly man?

i may not recall correctly, but iirc, that was a riff on having posted 'this was entirely intentional btw' just prior

if not, it was entirely unserious.

i feel like that should end in ffs but uh i dont wanna scare you off for another few years so uh idk hi

i didn't take it that way then; couldn't help now though that the two lurker threads i show up on in six years you respond to. that's the problem with not engaging: you're just begging to raise your hand and say 'hello.' swollen with silence or whatever.

by take it that way, i mean: srsly. it's a lot to start jumping all over street names/nabes.

well im. not taking this lion down hy god

not least til winter passed.

hi velko

http://www.impawards.com/1968/posters/lion_in_winter_ver3_xlg.jpg

i lurked for a long time before i started posting - now, as an established z-list poster, i can look back on thousands of my own inconsequential shitposts and think 'at least i have this collection of worthless opinions and pisspoor lowercase 'jokes' to show for wasting my time on ilx'

I've been posting here since my jr. high-aged nephew was born (nb: I don't actually have a nephew) and, although the urge to lurk was at times strong, I've found that getting knocked around a bit for shooting my mouth off has been helpful in my development into arguably the freshest and most provocative voice on the board (Variety's words, not mine).

see thats the kinda success story we love here

I lurked for around 15 years but broke the silence this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edl7918vuDU