valuable new posters

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)
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^^

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.

FREE CIALIS

BAN CIALIS

My irl bff confessed to me a couple months ago that he's a lurker (HI K-MAC!) even though I suspected it for a long time. Occasionally he would just know things that I knew I hadn't told him or he'd bring up something I'd just talked about on ILX and was too much of a coincidence. I can't remember the actual example but somehow I caught him one day and he had to finally admit it.

This morning he drove me to work and as I was getting out of the car he said, "Hey, are you getting a haircut tonight?" and I was like "Wait, what? How did you know that?" The look of shame on his face as he muttered "Uh, ILX" was pretty priceless.

― go to party leather (ENBB), Thursday, December 6, 2012 10:34 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

k-mac should totally de-lurk ftr

Whoops.

― Cherish, Thursday, December 6, 2012 11:46 AM

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4A9r9yKkkNs/S9ck5Vc3ifI/AAAAAAAAE-Q/PHMqHVrYAuQ/s1600/k-pax+movie+kevin+spacey.jpg

x-post to CAD - I HAVE BEEN TELLING HIM THIS FOR MONTHS NOW.

i feel like his time is coming...it's hard to de-lurk but i believe in him

http://www.nndb.com/people/004/000044869/KevinMcDonald-sized.jpg

i wish man-servant hecubus posted here.