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
― slam dunk, Thursday, 6 December 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
what about the deep lurkers who don't even know they're lurking
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 6 December 2012 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― bob chipeska (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 6 December 2012 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
http://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/blake-griffin-dunk.jpg
― beef richards (Mr. Que), Thursday, 6 December 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://shatterthebackboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Dwight-Howard.jpg
― beef richards (Mr. Que), Thursday, 6 December 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 December 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
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
― slam dunk, Thursday, 6 December 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
bring back unregistered posting
― am0n, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
insha allah
― am0n, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
What up, K-Mac. How was life at F0rdham?
― pplains, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― go to party leather (ENBB), Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― go to party leather (ENBB), Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
*delights in morbsian wordplay*
― buzza, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q686/tinyservants/Screenshot2012-12-06at110551AM_zpsdb15f037.png
― slam dunk, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
ha
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― bob chipeska (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
Thread Total Number of Reads ilXor.com Reads External Site Reads No Referrer (can't tell)valuable new posters 307 266 30 11
― am0n, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
^^
― buzza, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
wow, the numbers for the us politics threads are 27, 2, 47
― before and after broscience (goole), Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
11
― beef richards (Mr. Que), Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8czyEa8sHGQ
― am0n, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
― am0n, Thursday, December 6, 2012 11:01 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
unregistered still posts just not as frequently
― 乒乓, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
"eleven, that's how big they are"
― am0n, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
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
― iatee, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
you need an account to vote tho right?
― 乒乓, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
long tail lurkers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter
― beef richards (Mr. Que), Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
ur assuming lurkers are registered
― am0n, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
how frequently do you post on ilx?
― iatee, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
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
― slam dunk, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
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."
― pplains, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
― 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
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
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 :(
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
I know you're currently banned but I haven't figured out why.
lmao
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
also a really good high school friend who I also briefly dated was tza's college roommate
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
the reg system should def be more open imo
― iatee, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― ledge, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I think that makes sense and I bet the same is true w/ lurkers
― iatee, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Dave Whobeck? (jjjusten), Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
yankin on the reg
― bill paxman (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
basically if your address isnt freecialis at gmail.com and your username isnt a racial slur, i will let you in.
― Dave Whobeck? (jjjusten), Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
FREE CIALIS
― beef richards (Mr. Que), Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
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
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
Whoops.
― Cherish, Thursday, December 6, 2012 11:46 AM
― am0n, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4A9r9yKkkNs/S9ck5Vc3ifI/AAAAAAAAE-Q/PHMqHVrYAuQ/s1600/k-pax+movie+kevin+spacey.jpg
― buzza, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
x-post to CAD - I HAVE BEEN TELLING HIM THIS FOR MONTHS NOW.
― go to party leather (ENBB), Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
i feel like his time is coming...it's hard to de-lurk but i believe in him
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 6 December 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nndb.com/people/004/000044869/KevinMcDonald-sized.jpg
― am0n, Thursday, 6 December 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link