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speaking of lurkers and forgetting about them: the other week i was talking to my sister about the young people and their constant living online and how when they age into adults it's going to be into a world where all the embarrassing shit they do as kids that gets recorded forever on the internet maybe won't seem like such a big deal because it's going to be that way for everyone.

and i said, seeing as how i am looking for a new job outside of "arts journalism," where you can pretty much be a perverted d-bag lunatic drug addict and still get work if you can write and have connections, sometimes (usually) even if you can't write, i said something like, you know, i've said some pretty fucked up/weird/potentially controversial things in reviews/pieces/essays/articles over the years, it'd be pretty easy for some potential employer to google me and see something that rubs him/her the wrong way, politically or socially or whatever, and say that's that.

then she said something to the effect of "i'd probably be more worried about all the crazy bullshit you've posted to ilx over the years."

my heart kinda dropped through my stomach for multiple reasons at that moment.

one of these days enbb will realise her irl friend "k-mac" is none other than roberto spiralli wearing an elaborate disguise.

but did you at one point attend a mountain goats show at sonar, this is killing me

yeah strongo i've posted stuff to ilx i wouldnt necessarily want my closest to read, but it'd be easy for them to be doing so right now i guess..

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/248/1856/90m/img.youtube.com/vi/fq3abPnEEGE/mqdefault.jpg

ive seen ilxors a couple of times at shows and always felt incredibly embarrassed by even the idea of going up to someone and telling them i know them from the internet

― f (Lamp), Thursday, December 6, 2012 9:39 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is awesome, it's like a grand conspiracy that repels everyone in it from each other

actual answer to earlier question: i have 'turned on' several ppl to ilx accidentally ("what do you keep looking at?") and i know they lurk still and if i can do it so can thousands of others

what about the deep lurkers who don't even know they're lurking

anyway, yes dude, i believe i was at a mountain goats show at sonar in late 2007, after i moved but before i moved back.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/blake-griffin-dunk.jpg

http://shatterthebackboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Dwight-Howard.jpg

http://thehouseofsteam.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/fugazi-basketball-hoop.gif

btw way more ppl read this messageboard than yall realize.

how do u know, is there a lurker board

― am0n, Thursday, December 6, 2012 10:22 AM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

recall stet or someone said the lurker to poster ratio was like 10/1

ok

it was a good show. i got tickets for free and wasn't expecting much but aerosmith was quite the entertainer.

when i was a child i wore a red tank top with porky pig cradling a basketball that said HAM DUNK

bring back unregistered posting

insha allah

What up, K-Mac. How was life at F0rdham?

K-Mac and Omar Little were friends at FU and almost lived together but then Omar Little transferred schools. I know this because OL recognized him from FU and one day msg'd me and said, "So, uh, I think I know your friend." True story.

ILX and real life weird collision shit. The other one of that I've had is that I briefly lived with a girl when I first moved here to Boston who, as it turns out, JJJusten dated irl in MN.

*delights in morbsian wordplay*

http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q686/tinyservants/Screenshot2012-12-06at110551AM_zpsdb15f037.png

ha

i found out a couple years back that a longtime poster knows/knew the person involved in one of the most embarrassing stories i ever told on ilx. that was fun.

Thread	Total Number of Reads	ilXor.com Reads	External Site Reads	No Referrer (can't tell)
valuable new posters	307	266	30	11

^^

wow, the numbers for the us politics threads are 27, 2, 47

11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8czyEa8sHGQ

bring back unregistered posting

― am0n, Thursday, December 6, 2012 11:01 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

unregistered still posts just not as frequently

"eleven, that's how big they are"

I did a poll once to try and figure out how many lurkers there were and not many lurkers voted

it was not scientific but it makes me a little skeptical of the 'big lurker' theory

you need an account to vote tho right?

long tail lurkers

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

ur assuming lurkers are registered

how frequently do you post on ilx?

scoff away

it will overtake you, the tide of lurkers, they're in your job, your family, your commute, your social circle, your dating pool...swarming like ants on a felled popsicle

The weirdest connection I have on here is with dmr. His Facebook feed is a combo of ilxors and college friends of mine who I haven't seen in 20 years.

"Oh hey, there's cutty and my ex-girlfriend replying to each other about a sushi restaurant. Makes perfect sense."

"eleven, that's how big they are"

― am0n, Thursday, December 6, 2012 11:19 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not sure if youre say what i think youre saying but those stats just refer to if someone came to ilx via a link not registered/unregistered lurker/non lurker or w/e

an IRL friend saw me and another ilxor mention "forksclovetofu" in fbook comments once and was like "hey you know forksclovetofu? I know forksclovetofu!" it turned out he just recognized forks's name from lurking metafilter and that was it. then he asked me how I knew forks and I just said "a message board"
"which one?"
"it's called ILX"
and the conversation ended there.

2 months later we're hanging out and he goes "I've gotta confess something, ive been lurking ILX and it feels like I'm stalking you. I know you're currently banned but I haven't figured out why."

same dude has complained to me every so often that he's tried to register and never gotten his confirmation emailed to him. I didn't have the heart to tell him the mods probably assumed from his ip that it was me attempting to register a sock :(

I know you're currently banned but I haven't figured out why.

lmao

also a really good high school friend who I also briefly dated was tza's college roommate

the reg system should def be more open imo

back when there was a table of top 50 most frequent posters i drew a graph, looked like it would have a really long tail. great story, thx.

yeah I think that makes sense and I bet the same is true w/ lurkers

ha unless other mods do otherwise, i would never yank a reg because i thought it was a sock, i am a firm believer in sock culture

yankin on the reg

basically if your address isnt freecialis at gmail.com and your username isnt a racial slur, i will let you in.

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