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!

If you like. And yay to Liz! too!

this was my secret suspicion actually.

Posting after lurking a lot is problematic because you kind of know about people and are aware of a lot of the board's history but if you let on it seems creepy. (This is even worse if you have a good memory for everything you read, as I do.)

*runs away with hands covering mouth*

actually, I'm just an idiot. I'm going to go back to lurking now...

Dude, all the lurkers should create a club or something.

Hey most of the enjoyment is one's own solipsistic enjoyment after posting a stupid joke.

REVIVAL

But I'm not a lurker no more, so...

why am i arguing about this?

and posting more?

buh.

you will all feel my power and might. be warned!

Anyway, props to the following people, who are totally great: Spencer Chow, amateurist, Dan Perry, Ally, Tombot, adaml, jaymc, gear, Jody Beth Rosen, Alex in NYC.

i just can't afford to dive in, here... but i DO feel as though i have a handle on you all. i guess that must be sort of weird.

*

Hey, I notice!

Hiya to Scout and anotherlurker.

lurvly xmas to lurkers-only!

In any event, I enjoy this forum immensely, regardless of my contributions to it.

hmmmm... I revived this thread to see if I had posted on it before to state how weird I think it is that I never really post on ILE/ILM but read it pretty much daily. Obviously, I DID find a post from myself, which informed me that at this time I have been lurking here (with varying degrees of regularity) for SIX years. It's almost as weird as all of y'all posting all the time:)

also I encourage other lurkers to similarly display themselves then immediately retreat (I'll meet you at the Orange Julius!!!)

I always want to start posting but I'm too lazy to fight my way into the ilx community. I think it's especially hard at a place like this, when everything looks the same and all ya got is your username to distinguish yourself. Not that I'm complaining...I've grown to like the aesthetic.

Having read the ilx/ilm daily for a few years now I do feel kinda stalkerish with how much I know about say, Dan Perry's taste in music.

Oh and joining you, I also just found a post of my own on this thread...but I can't beat 6 years.

starting to feel slightly weirder about it, yes...

agreed about the lack of avatars and the aesthetic
also HI and probably LATER:)

I am intrigued by the long term regular lurkers such as y'rselves.

I am now less of a lurker.

But, you know, I still do my share of mostly lurking.

i'm intrigued too

now more than ever = the anti-jagger

Haha, if I felt like I was intriguing outside of the lurker thread I might post more.

i post a lil bit now but i started lurking like four years ago in high school :/ i recognized some ilxers at pitchfork festival last year and felt like an axe murderer

but you still dont know about nude spock?

i know, right?? there are a lot of ilx celebrities who i have no idea who they are

but in any event be careful what you post because you may be basically raising a generation without knowing it. when people ask about my dad i say the name on the birth certificate is a sperm donor and i consider Anthony Miccio my father

It's weird how well I remember this thread, even though it's already six years old and how it was created. I mentioned on another thread that there were lurkers, which baffled Tom E, certainly when lurkers appeared on this thread. I don't think I could ever lurk on a message board. I did on mailing lists but only managed for a few weeks. If I didn't feel comfortable posting, I wouldn't retreat back to lurkdom, I'd just unsubscribe. I never really understood how someone can just lurk, but then I'm just a social bee (har har) even though at times I feel/felt extremely ignored. Even on ILX I sometimes feel as though I'm just posting to raise my statscockness. I mean, shit, I don't think lurking is bad, I just couldn't do it myself.

I do think that the simplicity of the ILX layout doesn't always enable me to distinguish posters, especially when they change handles. And then after a few weeks I am too self-conscious to ask the person if s/he's another poster.

at times I feel/felt extremely ignored.

I believe that's called "the threadkiller syndrome" - I have it too ("after I reply, the thread always seems to die" and other emo feelings), but I try to ignore it.

Hello?

:-(

Anyway... What I was saying. Oh, Stan, how long have you been lurking? Seriously, it's not only threadkillig, just ending up in between a gazillion other posts. Or when someone reiterates what I posted a dozen posts ago. I sometimes want to eat my mouse. ;-)

I still lurk on some threads/boards here, but not on ILE and ILM. Never have. Found this place after a google search for some band I don't remember, thought I'd add my 2c to an ILM thread, got addicted, the end. :-)

I can't even lurk on semi-dead boards, how fucked up is that? I'm basically just talking to myself on there. *sigh*

I'm too scared to post on the noze bored :-/

DOn't worry, they won't notice you. We're just boring waffles. ;-)

I do think that the simplicity of the ILX layout doesn't always enable me to distinguish posters, especially when they change handles. And then after a few weeks I am too self-conscious to ask the person if s/he's another poster.

Yes, like that annoying stevienixed character who occasionally appears around here :)

xpost to stanM - me too! although i dared to post on a wedding gift thread on noize board. i lurked here for ages before posting. ilx gets me through my boring days at work, and occupies me at night since i've been suffering from insomnia for at least two months.

Ruby, how bad is your insomnia? :-(

pretty bad, i guess. i'm not getting more than five hours sleep a night, and this has been going on for awhile. it's weird: i HATE going to sleep at night, even though i know i need to. i sleep for 4 or 5 hours and then when i wake up, i'm wide awake but exhausted. some nights i only get a couple of hours. i have two jobs that both involve being on my feet the entire time, but strangely i seem to be functioning ok. however, i'm really scared of the inevitable crash - i know it's coming, i just don't know when.

Have you tried something simple like Valerian?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerian_%28herb%29#Medicinal_use

i tried valerian a few years ago. i hadn't slept for about three days because i was so stressed about my exams. the night before my exam i took double the recommended dose and still couldn't sleep :(

and that stuff really STINKS.

a couple of people i've spoken to about have suggested i try to get a week's worth of sleeping pills. but i think this would only be a short-term solution and not solve the underlying problem - whatever that is.

Aww, I was going to finally come out of the lurking closet but it seems this thread is no longer being used for that purpose. Oh well, maybe another time...

A evening job was my solution. Melatonin, btw, is much better than Valerian.

no, no, please do come out, earthbound misfit! and welcome!

hmmm, maybe I forgot to turn the sarcasm tag on ;)

I've gone from regular posting back to mostly lurking.

im sort of a lurker. i dont post a lot mainly because if i do it tends to take up more of my time than i'd like...

sorry guys :( second thread i've derailed in the last few days.
stet, i already have a night job, and a day job. kinda sucky. where do i get melatonin from?

It's pretty easy to get in American pharmacies, you have to import it to the UK, so I don't know about where you are. If you're working two jobs it might not be great though -- when I take it I sleep for 9 hours straight.

I didn't mean to make you feel bad for derailing the thread Rubyredd :( Threads are made to be derailed! Sometimes excercising a couple of hours before bedtime makes people fall asleep easier.

Melatonin will be with vitamins at the store.

e.b. misfit: i spend between 10-14 hours on my feet, plus i walk home from work (40mins) and none of this seems to be wearing me out. well, it's wearing me out, but not making me sleepy. i've also tried having a glass of wine - no luck.

i'll check out the pharmacy tomorrow, see if they have melatonin. thanks guys :)

I've read that taking a warm bath right before you go to bed lowers your body temperature and makes it easier to fall asleep. Have you tried that one? Also, alcohol isn't a good cure for insomnia. It initially makes you sleepy but later it actually has the opposite effect and makes it hard to stay asleep (if you managed to get to sleep in the first place). One thing I do when I can't sleep is get up and eat something with lots of carbs, and that usually does the trick for me.

yeah.. the eating thing is part of the vicious cycle: i'm not really eating, because i'm physically drained when i get home, but i think that's only making it worse.

Isn't there a sleeplessness thread where we can talk about/with lurkers? :-)

i'm going away now :(

just kidding!

Give it a rest StanM, be openly cross for a change rather than all cuddly and passive agressive.

I enjoy being a lurker much more than being an active poster.

i can't say anything nice.

there is an insomnia thread or two, for sure

see how i am not lurking on the lurkers thread? even though it says lurkers only and is therefore somewhat confusing? it is okay tho. ilx/noise has made me take a lot of things less personally/seriously, in a good way, not in a sociopathic way, i mean
of course, i do not often read/post to ilm, for time/sanity/anti-frustration reasons

so yeah, just post, guys
the posting adjustment period passes fast, do not worry abt being cool or whatever it is we worry abt these days, ie, no one on ilx is going to tax audit you, i mean, i don't think

If I had something to add I'd go back to regular posting, but I don't and I'm not worried about it anymore. This is an interesting site with many interesting contributors, some of whom I consider my friends, so I enjoy lurking.

hi bry

yeah i guess the other thing is that sometimes people feel like talking and sometimes people feel like listening and hey why not
xpost

I think the only reason I didn't post before is because there are like 100 posts a second here and it's hard to keep up. Today I don't care if I can keep up or not :D

KV, I know, Stan, he was being genuinely jokey, certainly not passive aggressive or whatever. He shouldn't be anything (except himself). There. :-P

Thanks! And yeah, I'm way too lazy to be aggressive. Passive, no prob. :-)

i post a lil bit now but i started lurking like four years ago in high school :/ i recognized some ilxers at pitchfork festival last year and felt like an axe murderer

Ain't no thing, sparklecock.

Hi rjg

Yay lurkers! I lurked for like 100 years and by that I mean about 2-3 with maybe 12 posts/year until this year (when I got a 40h/w job with internet computer) and know how many of you feel-- threads dying when you post etc. I'm a paranoid though and even I've realized that it's probably not me, and besides, the more shit you post on, the less likely it is that people will not respond to your stuff (if you post on every thread, can you shut down ilx?).

Anyway having a fair bit of boredom/spare time makes posting easier. I don't recommend being less busy, but, you know... yeah.

I still don't even know what FAP stands for, though :( I get the gist of it, it means "let's meet up and drink beers or vitamin water" but I don't see how that fits into f-a-p.

i really never used to post much at all. i've been reading the site for at least 4 years now though. kinda like you Will, my old job would never allow me the time to get into a good convo on here. but latley i've had some free time to post a bit more and i'll continue try and do so. as long as people here willing put up with me. ;)

I lurked for a long time, then posted a lot, then old ILX went kaboom, then I moved, then I found nu-ILX, and now mostly lurk and occasionally post. But be assured that when I do it's excellent.

LURK AROUND YOU
THERE ARE MANY THINGS TO SEE
THAT SOME WOULD SAY
COULD NEVER BE

THESE THINGS I KNOW
ARE TRUE AND I WILL TELL YOU SO
THEY ARE THERE TO SEE
IF YOU BELIEVE

TROLLS & WIZARDS & FAIRY KINGS
BIRDS THAT TALK & FISH THAT SING
AND IF YOUR HEART IS TRUE
YOU WILL FIND THEM, TOO

IN EVERY WISH & DREAM & HAPPY HOME
YOU WILL FIND THE KINGDOM OF
THE GNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME!

Will, FAP = "fancy a pint?" because a bunch of Britishes started ILX.

Oh you lurkers, do not despair that no one loves your posts and people may not be saying "oh my what a very fine post" because it is not true; well, the former is not true; as I love your posts most near as I love all the stars I have named; I remember you in my heart and write this run-on in your dedication for possible encouragement or consolance if you wish it.

Hi from a part-time lurker, former regular poster, who now only posts once in a while. (I'm struggling with the nu-ILX and new usernames and all that crap - don't have enough time to try and figure-out who folks are, but that's okay - it's very small potatoes in my life.) Anyway, cheers to all you lurkers!

(that's the fabulous MsLaura from the equally fabulous Laura's Critters thread, lurkers!)

i'm reading this thread to the tune of r kelly's 'players only'

as well you should!

Bryan!!! I didn't know you were still lurking here how are you doing? :)

I lurked on noize for ages and then I thought "fukkit" and joined in. I've even been banned since! I feel all at home now *sniffle*.

ive never been banned from noize :(

I'm ok, Trayce. How are you?

sunny i would ban u if i could

(that could be taken the wrong way so please file it under fulfilling a lifelong dream for a stranger instead of an i dislike cuz i don't even know you! except maybe you had a baby recently?)

thanks!! <3 <3 <3

I discovered ILX via search engine years ago and didn't know how to wend my way through all the threads, felt stupid and forgot all about it. Earlier this year I was organizing my "favorites" and found the new, improved version and I stayed this time. I only post when I forget to stop myself (maybe three times). I don't know any of the acronyms, lingo, what-have-you, and I know how important that is to some people here. I have, however, really come to enjoy certain people here (I even have a mild crush on a regular--I hope he is a boy!), and for a lurker, I waste about 10 hours a week here. For the record, I do pretty much love Everything, but I really really don't love Music. Thank you, Everything.

Yay to Everything!

Ned Raggett is a boy

I hope!

I miss MsLaura and her wonderful critters so so much!

RJG is a boy.

I am sure.

this thread should be blank. 'lurkers', you are not hardcore.

I like bastardo's login. He should post lots of not nice things so I can see it.

IM TRYING TO COME OUT OF MY SHELL BUT I AM SHY AND NOT TEH SMALLEST CAT AND MOMUNS DOESNT POST MUCH AND IT MAKES ME SAD BECAUSE I THINK HE AND I WOULD HAVCE REALLY HIT IT OFF AND COULD HAVE TALKED ABOUT TEH TIMES WHEN WE FEEL TO EMBARASED TO TALK TO TEH LADIES OF ILX HI DERE GIRLS ALSO MY NAME MAKES PEOPLE NOT TAKE ME SERIOUS I HAVE FEELINGS JUST LIEK THE REST OF YOU OK?

hi grady pt 46

ive never been banned from noize :(

-- sunny successor, Friday, July 20, 2007 2:10 PM

i have been banned twice.

I was banned DOZENS of times. It's part of the fun.

http://www.robandelliot.cycomics.com/images/waldotshirt5.gif

What ever happened to Gear, anyway? or do we not talk about that?

He changed his name.

don't talk about it!!

gear was permabanned

RIP

lukas there was a big fiasco where a chaki accused gear of not being "real," posting photos of other people, not ever having overheard his roommate getting it in the butt, etc, and he left in a big huff....

butt huff

a few other people left too, in the wake of it

what all u fuckers keep sbanning lj? fess up

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.

youre power mad

shaddap, you

RIP conrad...

Can't recall how long it took after registering before I was approved, but I feel like it was over one week. Does it usually take that long?

I did consider at one point that my request might have disappeared into the ether, though I didn't try a different email address or user name.

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