How many posts does it take for anyone on ILX to take you seriously?

I mean really.

Let's see, I've got a little over 9,300 posts, so I'd say...at least 9,301 posts

One great rock post could change the world.

I dunno. How many posts would it take before you said something that's worthy of notice or response? That's just a start, but it's where you begin.

This post, for instance, seems to merit both notice and response, because you have provoked some of each. But in terms of substance it tends to portray you as someone whinging for more attention. Sure, almost anyone can get attention, but being taken seriously requires something worthy of it. No one here can stop you from doing that, but you. Go for it!

Three posts. One to screw in the lightbulb, the other two to take notes and exclaim, "Excelsior!"

aww I only have 4,480 I AM BABBY

Does anyone take me seriously yet?

xxxp

Well it's hard to say exactly why I started this. On the one hand I am frustrated and just want to talk to people and feel essentially ignored. I know it's not fashionable to be so frank about feeling angry, but there it is.

On the other hand I can't help but view this genuine anger in a funny light, hence the ironic/confrontational tone.

I really like your classical music recommendations, if it helps?

after 47000 posts i am rarely listened to let alone taken seriously. you'll grow accustomed to it soon enough

Dude you have 47,000 posts?? jesus

how do you find the number of posts you've posted ?
i got some stats to work out.

You have posted 4,599 messages

click "Boards," look down

4,536 registered users 171,880 threads 8,212,191 messages You have posted 4,600 messages 46 logged in users active in the past five minutes

damn.
i never clicked that before.
4201 in nearly 10 years, which puts me in lurker status.
as to answer coreys q : every non-snark post that i read is taken seriously by me (and yes electricsound, even yours)

in most threads, especially clusterfucky ones, unless you're making salient points, saying something pretty nonsensical but still interesting, asking a question, or being a dick to people, the likelihood of no one saying anything about your post is high

"salient points" varying wildly depending on the context, of course

i think that is actually what the real life definition of salient is

relative prominence

*ilx ignores*

Your path to relevance will greatly expedited if u can get on the good side of the display-name aesthetes - not that I'm speaking from experience, mind.

Well isn't this only counting posts for new-nuILX post-poxy fule?

when all else fails, standing back in an viking, M.I.A., etc. thread until shit gets super heated and then dropping in with a well-timed image zing might earn you a little notice and possibly an SB or two

I have 1,369 posts, and I am taken very seriously.

hello corey how do you do

Holy shit, I have almost 10,000 posts here?

I find that my posts often kill threads. Is that because they possesses such zingy goodness that no one dares follow with some second-rate hack-eyed bush league plop of a post?

I like to think so.

hey corey check out this JPEG image of a scoop of vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup drizzled upon it

http://www.freeclipartpictures.com/clipart/clip-art/pictures/icecream.jpg

xp hahaha your name is Super Cub, do you live in the Castro?

is this a furry reference? because that doesn't do it for me, for the record.

Hahaha, hi Del!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_(gay_culture)#Terminology

Not my point of reference, but I would fall into the bear category.

... and I guess this goes beyond just ILX into IRL, really. I feel like I can't make a single connection in a city with almost 3 million people and it's fucking maddening.

aww I would make a connection with you!

erm

:-*

At last, someone taking corey seriously!

My life has meaning now! ;_;

doing my part to expand the reaches of corey-awareness

I take my (non-pillbox) hat off to you, sir.

9,401 so far. (is that all?)

That cant be right for you, surely ET! Have you changed email addies since the ILX 1-2 changeover maybe?

its kept all mine intact as ive used the same email since day 1... I'm rapidly approaching 33,000 messages. Hahah wow :)

...and none of them are worth a damn, imo

3206 posts, converted lurker...pretty sure I am not taken seriously.
But I take Corey seriously! :D Cosmic problems I take super-criticaltheory-seriously. Heidegger serious. (minus the Nazi stuff).

Let the seriousing begin.

ppl take me pretty seriously because i am a serious kind of a guy

how many posts does it take to get to the tootsie-roll center of a tootsie pop

corey I recommend you start a thread about a controversial thread about vikings and/or poop

good idea

Or yr sex life.

No dont

but only if it incorporates vikings and/or poop

Oh but really tho dont

^^ listen to this man only if you want to be denied ILX glory

Yeah cmonnn, it woked for Jagger.

you have to get banned some.

god damn i want ice cream rl bad now, for some reason

oh he still posts I think.

buh-duh-boom-tschhh

FWIW I feel better after starting this thread. Mission accomplished?

l0lshea

May I highly recommend the slow, slow road where you *don't* try to get attention by zinging, being outrageous, or generally acting tactless? It may get you name recognition, but if I'm recognizing your name as "oh man here's that new guy who drives me nuts" then that is not a good thing. Not that I recognized you either way, corey, but I have my eye out now!

Does posting on wdyll make you more 'noticeable'? I feel a bit like I'll recognise one ilx0r from one post to the next if I've got an idea of what they look like. Or if they're a total dick, I suppose.

maybe if y'r hot

Oh yeah, ppl are all pretty homogenous until they post on WDYLL, in my mind. After that, I can keep people straight by saying, "Ah, he's the one with brown hair and glasses."

FWIW I posted as Daruton until a couple days ago.

and Abbott, I think girls that are into prog kick major ass.

lol^

xp to abbott

FWIW I posted as Daruton until a couple days ago.

Ohhh. I was wondering who the heck you were.

PS prog rules!

that last post of mine was my 2,112th post to ILX!

http://www.fdisk.com/rush/w_2112.gif

That cant be right for you, surely ET! Have you changed email addies since the ILX 1-2 changeover maybe?

I may have... I did use a couple different names before zeroing in on this.

This is post # 11,778 for me.

god damn i want ice cream rl bad now, for some reason

― sleepingbag, Thursday, 17 June 2010 06:54 (2 hours ago)

There should be a law against posting images of ice cream covered in chocolate sauce (at least I'm assuming it's chocolate sauce and not some bizarre ILTMI thing).

FWIW I posted as Daruton until a couple days ago.

now that is a name familiar to me

You have posted 38,279 messages

:/

That's almost a novel.

i've posted 5,000 with this username, which i've only had for like a year? 18 months? can't remember when the special guest stars mark bronson era ended.

i'd bet matt's count only goes back a few years tho right?

I think my count is actually every message I've ever posted, because I've not changed username at all in that time.

I have posted 11,130 messages and have still to attain Valuable New Poster status though I think people have noticed me more since I became a vuvuzela bzbzbzbzbzzbzbzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzbzbzzbzbzbzb

Guess who has 133,548 posts to their name?

lou1s

lol jesus i've posted over 11,000 and i've never said anything of interest

Surely that 100k count is Ned?

lol jesus i've posted over 11,000 and i've never said anything of interest

― go O and O (Ste), Thursday, 17 June 2010 10:08 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

must be 10k or so solid gold GTA posts tbh

Surely that 100k count is Ned?

Haha of course it is.

I've been here since about 2000, so yeah, quite a lot.

pish, who wants to be taken seriously?

It says I've only posted about 1600 messages. Doesn't seem like many, but then I think I must have changed my login a few times.

7037. So little?

9,803 and 95% of those were probably shit puns :(

Remember when you used to have to categorise any new threads you started? Would've been interesting in hindsight if we had to categorise every post we had made.

and people should be able to rate them from 1-10 also

8762 in a about a year, I think. feel like I should conserve my posting in order to 'cultivate' my 'brand'

pfft u can't cultivate vanilla mayne

6209 since november 2002.

^ top example of cultivated posting imo ^

only 699 as tomofthenest... I thought I might have broken the 1000 mark by now.

Pick a name that is close to another, more well known ilxor then pretend that people are talking to/about you, easy!

pish, who wants to be taken seriously?

― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:17 (33 minutes ago) Bookmark

Precisely

has anyone caught up w/Ned in overall posts?

― edgar ballin poe (crüt), Friday, May 7, 2010 3:21 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I mean Ned Trifle II

― edgar ballin poe (crüt), Friday, May 7, 2010 3:21 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^^ I do not mean to imply that I do not take Ned Trifle II seriously because I do!!

Remember when we had the Statscock to answer these kinds of questions?

Remember the summer that I actually passed both Ned and Ally on the Statscock? Man, those were some bad, bad times.

6209 since november 2002.

― estela

I think thats a bit cheaty because you've had other usernames, madam! :) Or one other, that I can recall.

5700 in ten years. Shit, how could I even want people to take me seriously. I probably posted half the first seven years. Been lurking mostly and GIGGLING at the serious posters. ;-)

Oh uh I just realized I've changed my username several times. lol

967 since 2005, only ever one username. Have always tried to keep it pithy, but am sure pithy = anonymous too.

You have posted 19,345 messages

every one of them disposable as a mugabe butler

11.5K posts since 2006, 42% of which are "lol" or "ommfg."

I think it's funny that people think the amount matters. Bill, I never would have guessed it was that little actually, I notice you all the time.

Hahah Darra thats my problem too =) Lots of signal to noise ratio on the bad side, ah dear.

i want to find out more about bill a but his profile is empty :(

xp

Thanks, Nath :)

I guess I'm not really much of a one for the big, rolling threads, or weighing in on all kinds of random stuff - my posting on ILE and ILM is usually just in response to seeing something pop up that relates to a topic I'm interested in which is mainly music, tv and film so plenty on the UK Mad Men thread etc. I also tend to ruminate on matters discussed and then post a few paragraphs, rather than ping-pong style, which am sure has kept my post count down too.

I'm no poll-daddy or New Questions type either, think I've only ever started one thread iirc (for Let The Right One In). There's definitely a few people here whose opinions I'll take on board and who I feel like I'm on a wavelength with, but I love the clusterfuckery and nonsense lol stuff as well. Am now going to make 2010 the year I break the 1K barrier, what a time to be alive!

darragh, I've barely even registered that a profile thingum exists - I do sometimes feel as though my use of ILX is hopelessly rudimentary. will update it today, by crikey.

i believe i'm like one of maybe 4 ilxors with anything in their profile, i wouldn't actually sweat that

I love the clusterfuckery and nonsense lol stuff as well

Pass

I also tend to ruminate on matters discussed and then post a few paragraphs, rather than ping-pong style

Fail

awwww, I know.... Part of it is that I snatch a bit of ilx time during the day at work and would feel rude if I started chipping in loads and then being absent for like six hours. I know the paragraph style posting can often come across as verbose and po-faced - it's not meant to be though.

I started out strong, but have gone stagnant over the last 8 years. Maybe I'll ramp it back up one of these days.

Seriously though, I used to post all the time back in the beginning, but then I got a real world job, where you know, I had to work the entire time I was there. Not much time to do the internet posting.

THEN 9/!! HAPPENED>

i think running is eating into ur ilx time tbh

trayce, any other name/s i used were before november 2002 so take cheaty back or else ";-;".

I wouldn't want anyone to take me seriously.

i never have.

That makes two of us, then!

once i read you on ask a drunk that sealed it.

CJ, are you by chance CJ The Unruly?

7,361 messages in about three years, hmm. No idea if most of my stuff gets read or not, let alone taken seriously. Like to think the latter though, at least sometimes - I do put a lot of effort in occasionally. Speaking of which: 7,361 times X words, during the time I conspicuously *haven't* written the great novels I was planning, ain't too smart.

Just over 3,000 posts in 6 years, so I'm sure I'm barely a blip on the radar to most. But that's all right. Y'all are fun to just sit back and listen to.

nanowrimo's loss is our gain xp

trayce, any other name/s i used were before november 2002 so take cheaty back or else ";-;".

Hahaha oh god, not sarcastic crab! Noooo. </3

it's an evil clown with fangs imo

apparently i've posted ~23,000 messages since 2001 (?). and i'm pretty sure most people still confuse me with j0rdan s.

it's an evil clown with fangs imo

yeah no

I don't confuse you with Jordan S., but for some reason I confuse you with Jaxon. You're the handsome drummer, right?

(x-post)

10,487 in 5 years or so
awareness of la lechera remains limited outside of chicago

8900 posts not much more informative or enjoyable than this one

^ 6500 wasted in trying to explain poorly constructed crossword clues

Jordan, please change your display name to The Handsome Drummer.

906 with this account. God knows how many with other accounts.

As for me: I have 53,482 posts since February 2003. Last time the statscock was available, I think I was second all-time behind Ned. But that's mostly because I've never changed my username. (I have to think that the combined total of, say, Dan Perry/HI DERE is probably higher.)

Have always tried to keep it piythy

Me too!

15,793. not sure who takes me "seriously" but idk if i'd really want that to happen?

I've only got 56,325 posts but I have changed my user name several times over the years. And now the other Kate has probably got my place on the statscock. :-(

22 messages (!) with this username, 477 with my other one, but then do I think of myself as a lurker. OTOH I have met some ILXors IRL so that made me feel like the real deal, briefly. And they were utterly charming.

this is the thread where you link to your first ilx post.

it's important to note that only like 3 people on this site are taken seriously

Which 3?

am0n, gershy, and pato

geir

the mods

ksh, l0u1s jagg3r, tuomas

System

It's true. The only consistently OTM poster is System.

except for that one time when he posted out of character

err, excuse me, s/he. these are PC times after all.

forgot 'it' too. english language desperately needs a genderless pronoun

system is obviously a female

they? xp

trust me, you guys

system is obviously a female

― iatee, 17 June 2010 14:35 (3 minutes ago)

SB alert

tits or it didn't happen

SB alert ends

wait, that was a famous post at one stage, right? did i make that up in my head?

ILX, she is a porno

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

(O)(O)― System, Wednesday, June 16, 2010 4:01 PM (Yesterday)

ILX System is secretly Ariane, right?

I'd bump her thread.

i'm a serious guy

I'd touch the poetry book to show her I'm sensitive, touch her hair to show I'm romantic, and then kiss her on the cheek cause Ariane won't sleep with you two hours later if you try to french her a minute in. You gotta take it slow!

Next version of Ariane needs an option where you can impress her by going to her computer and making snarky zings on ILX...

(don't say luna don't say lune dont say luna)

CJ, are you by chance CJ The Unruly?

― Tuomas, Thursday, 17 June 2010 12:21 (2 hours ago

Yep, that's me. For some reason I stopped being able to log in as CJ_The_Unruly so have had to start all over again. I don't think ILX was taking me seriously.

Ok. I thought you'd left ILX, nice to see you back!

ugh, if ever I think "I can't write a book, I don't have the patience" I should remember I've posted over 63K messages here

i don't see the link btwn shooting the shit on the internet and having the discipline to plot and write a novel that anyone would ever want to read, tbph.

don't think he said "that anyone would ever want to read"

^^^^^

think I'm just going to search my name and copy all of my posts from the past 10 years for this year's NaNoWriMo; it will be the first time I'll finish!

63,000 dick jokes: a novel by dan perry

63,000 CONTEXT-FREE Dick Jokes

why would you want to write a novel that nobody would want to read?

this isn't aimed at dan, btw- a few others have expressed the same sentiment- 35k posts stitched randomly together != a novel, 'sall i'm sayin

every post i make is like a pearl of wisdom drabbled into the scabby ears of you swine

darraghmac obviously has no experience with po-mo lit

darragh, I don't think he was entirely serious about turning his posts into a novel

read ulysses already, sheesh

35k posts stitched randomly together != a novel, 'sall i'm sayin

going by some recent novels I've read, I'm going to have to disagree with you there

xxxxxp Tell that to Bob Dylan...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c7/BobDylan_Taratula.jpg/200px-BobDylan_Taratula.jpg

and you guys wonder how you rack up xK amount of posts. sheesh

now

that's

not

fair

said

I'm pretty pleased that my 1,457 posts probably contain fewer words than my last couple of years of real writing. Less pleased that that's certainly too few to be taken seriously.

You have posted 10,831 messages

That's all? That's only about 1,300 a year or so.

Surprised I am only around 26,000 but then I realized that's starting in 2005 or so. Had another account for -- what, 4 years? before that. Geez.

xxxp
I'm bored, so let's tell a story posting one word at a time.

^ was just about to

okay

HOOS
the
magic
gay
dwarf
pringlebacker

is just...

Somewhere, Uncle Bill is laughing.

so corey what are you up to today

It's the time, Darragh - the god-knows-how-many hours it took to write 7k posts could've been used to spin pure literary gold. But wasn't.

true, as long as we're not using a 7k posts = 7k worthy sentences maths

You have posted 8,952 messages

:(

the following need a more challenging/engaging job

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Anybody can write a short story - a bad one, I mean - who has industry and paper and time enough; but not every one may hope to write even a bad novel. It is the length that kills.

The accepted novelist may take his novel up and put it down, spend days upon it in vain, and write not any more than he makes haste to blot. Not so the beginner. Human nature has certain rights; instinct - the instinct of self-preservation forbids that any man (cheered and supported by the consciousness of no previous victory) should endure the miseries of unsuccessful literary toil beyond a period to be measured in weeks. There must be something for hope to feed upon. The beginner must have a slant of wind, a lucky vein must be running, he must be in one of those hours when the words come and the phrases balance of themselves - EVEN TO BEGIN. And having begun, what a dread looking forward is that until the book shall be accomplished! For so long a time, the slant is to continue unchanged, the vein to keep running, for so long a time you must keep at command the same quality of style: for so long a time your puppets are to be always vital, always consistent, always vigorous! I remember I used to look, in those days, upon every three-volume novel with a sort of veneration, as a feat - not possibly of literature - but at least of physical and moral endurance and the courage of Ajax.

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

the following need a more challenging/engaging job

No shit.

hey I lose my job next week, I'm gonna be making that 2 seconds a 0.

omg they can see us?

the real question is, how many posts does it take for me to NOT take you seriously?? in "that fucker Jess Harvell" thread i was not yet hip to max's winky ways

My recent achievement seems lame "now" ;__;

ken - i got laid off a few weeks ago. so what i need is a job. full stop.

ppl take me pretty seriously because i am a serious kind of a guy

― max, Thursday, June 17, 2010 4:40 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

gawker has gone to your head dude

um - so how do yous guys see how many posts you've made? i remember when we used to have "stats" but that's gone, right?

just gotta count em

hahahahaha

(it's at the top of the front page with the board list on it)

ya just found it! You have posted 9,610 messages

9,720 words

hmmm

You have posted 24,361 messages

i searched for threads i've started and was blown away by the amount i have zero recollection starting. like, less than half!

xpost. it is alot. get a job!

less than half of them i remember, that is.

most of my posts are on the watercooler and rolling metal threads i think.

i searched for threads i've started and was blown away by the amount i have zero recollection starting. like, less than half!

This has happened to me as well. And then I will read some of them and wonder what the hell I was talking about and what I was thinking. Alcohol can only be partially to blame.

ya - i will freely admit the amount of drug abuse going on in my life 7 years ago might have something to do with it.

4,536 registered users 171,880 threads 8,212,191 messages You have posted 4,600 messages 46 logged in users active in the past five minutes

― ksh, Thursday, 17 June 2010 04:14 (15 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Wait how many broken social scene threads did you start in the end?

The most alarming thing about this thread is finding that I've heavily outposted some folk whom I think of as pillars of ILX, and over a shorter period as well. I may have to reconsider my self-image as basically a lurker here.

Who are you? (j/k)

a Ned Raggett sock

As I suspected...

Actually I'm beginning to suspect that everyone else on ILX is a Nedsock and I'm the only real person here...

in a stunning turn of events, all ilx posters are actually ksh socks

― ksh, Tuesday, April 6, 2010 6:43 PM (2 months ago

getting back to the title of this thread:
dude who the hell cares if anyone takes you seriously? i think it's much funner when there is a thread derail and a bunch of silly joeks get posted. i mean seriousness is fine for work or whatever but i likes to laugh and many times it's ilx that does it for me

^
only with a username like this will you be taken seriously!

had me lol'n thus copy n pasted that bitch to my display name

is a ref to the noize borad iirc

whenever i see "aspie" that's where i assume it came from

omg

14,642 messages

:/

oddly enough i have only posted to ilx 235 times but ive made each one really count

19,359..........HOLY SHIT

around 25k

i'm always surprised to see dudes like ksh who have been posting since roughly when i started, or since, with almost three times my post total.

more free time imo

You have posted 14,766 messages

christ

xxpost

i've only been posting as "ksh" since January or something — if you added last year's posts from kshighway and kshighway1 :-/

but, I mean, these post counts take into account posts that are, like, just "hahaha!" or "irl lol," which I have a tendency to post way too many of

You have posted 16,196 messages

That can't be right.

I have way more than 19k too as posted with other logins for ages...

Yeah, this is my second login, too. Yikes a hootie.

How does one acquire this information?

click Boards, fourth stat

Thanks. 10k.

11k+, would probably be a lot more if it wasn't for bookmarks keeping me corralled into the same few threads except for days of extreme boredom.

This isn't alltime though, is it, it's just since the reboot?

I have some catching up to do. In my defense, though, in the time I've been posting lurking on ILX I have at least managed to write a novel nobody would want to read.

lol, this is not the ditch I expected this thread to veer into, and corey probably didn't either

but ftr, 5903 messages this login, Rock Hardy probably posted 8K-9K. I'm probably one of the few ilxors whose post count is always lower than I expect.

How many posts does it take for an ILX thread to be taken seriously?

Where I find a poster who aims serious.

Are we sure corey is not actually Chaki back from the deadbed?

just over a grand. hmm.

From now on, I am serious, and I wish to be taken seriously. It's a new era.

Now let's get down to business.

Wait, hold on. OK, there we go. Starting now.

i've always taken you serious, come along, we shall dine at an expensive french restaurant.

Are we sure corey is not actually Chaki back from the deadbed?

This thought immediately occurred to me, as well.

why are we still talking about that guy? he hasn't posted here for a couple years, right?

Yeah, but his name's Cory.

lol

Cory, story... allegory...

maury povich

yeah, but why would someone troll ilx under a user name that's just one letter different from their real name? That's like wearing one of those fake glasses with plastic nose and mustache "disguises"

I admit, it's no Big Jim Swells.

*makes an .xls joke*

*makes a joke about one post, but posted to a few dozen threads*

http://www.heathersanimations.com/dance1/danceguy.gif

at the very least, a mod will take you seriously.

so what did you have for lunch today corey

i think actually the more you post the LESS seriously people take you.

I know thats the case for me.

I wonder what "being taken seriously" is like...

something like being taken, srsly

I thought I was the only one feeling ignored/killing threads until now! On the most part that is. I got over it. I always thought to myself that if I started a "What does it take to not be ignored on ILX" thread nobody would post on it on purpose.

I thought I was the only one feeling ignored/killing threads until now!

clearly this is a bigger club than most of us realise.

last one in this thread is a dirty rotten egg

"Taken seriously" was poor phrasing. I really mean something more like "paid attention". But it's not that important.

Maybe the mods can just merge this with the "lonely" thread.

i'm quiet sure i would win the lifetime achievement award in thread killing.

xpost

hi corey! i've never said hi.

Hi there! I've always silently wondered about your screen name. What's the context?

My first thread was great but I was kind of confused when no other thread I started ever caught on. I had just assumed that after the first one I could just expect that kind of response on every thread. When every thread afterwards withered and died pathetically, or half of my posts aren't acknowledged, I can understand corey's frustration.

Heaps of people have threads die on the vine, man. Even Ned.

Try being an ILX poster living in australia, where all the action happens and is over while we're asleep :/

xpost Who's Ned?

bahahaha trayce your user name

I can never take you seriously now.

Hi there! I've always silently wondered about your screen name. What's the context?

silently wonder no more, my good man...
hmmm - there used to be a thread about screen name origins but i can't seem to find it.

anyways... i was working on a website for a plastics company and the short form for the page that dealt with it's line of Thermoformed Thinwalled Containers was thermo_thinwall. i thought it made for a neat-o name. then i took a hiatus. in that 5 months i accomplished 90% of everything i've ever done in my life. then i came back and the site had gone weird for some reason and i needed to recreate my name (not knowing it would be forever permanent). i had also just watch a Mr Show skit called "Return of the Curse of the Creature's Ghost" and here we are.

I'm glad someone liked/got my username finally haha :D

It took several posts for me to take it seriously, but...A+

My first post ever was such a rousing success that I have mostly just rested on my laurels since.

Oh, you're Pullapartgirl? I tought you were a new(ish) poster.

My first post was oct 21st 2003! Holy shit.

Yeah, that's me. I mostly kept to the Chicago threads and only recently started branching out into other threads.

I'm not particularly bothered about being taken seriously, but one thing that's irked me is that a few times someone has referenced a point I've made and (perfectly innocently, I'm sure) attributed it to someone else. You can't really say anything about that without looking like a dick.

Ned otm

^ i've done this to caek before, i'm sure

like darraghmouse says, croupier makes a good point

wait isn't darraghmac darramous?

NO

FFS

my first post was june 23 2002. almost 8 years exactly! maybe i should have a party. maybe it should be a pity party. when i am miserable i don't like the ilx. when i am happy everyone on the ilx is my pal. the serious thing though, i dunno, depends on how serious you are i guess. plus nobody gets paid here to care about you. its mostly just a matter of sticking around long enough and people remembering if you like cilantro or not. those little details add up and then you become a real internet person to others. they still might not take you seriously though. or like you. but they might. and you have to wonder why you care. ponder it for awhile.

;)

plus nobody gets paid here to care about you

FAQ this

FAQ you too onimo btw

plus nobody gets paid here to care about you

Didn't we have a "care about me" drive recently?

Board description material.

when i am miserable i don't like the ilx. when i am happy everyone on the ilx is my pal

so true

darraghmac/mous Q is obligatory - like Sturridge/Chelsea

I often find my flippant offhand posts generate the most response and interest, whereas the ones I spend ages writing and putting a little bit of my soul into get completely ignored. Note to self: stop trying.

i don't see how "that was me, actually" = being a dick, tho personally i'd go with "that was me, you fuck"

xp it's not that earnestness (?word?) is undervalued on ilx, except that maybe it is?

earnestism

earn

not getting it tbh

Earnestness is correct.

I will care abt u 4 $ tbh

when i am miserable i don't like the ilx. when i am happy everyone on the ilx is my pal. the serious thing though, i dunno, depends on how serious you are i guess. plus nobody gets paid here to care about you. its mostly just a matter of sticking around long enough and people remembering if you like cilantro or not. those little details add up and then you become a real internet person to others. they still might not take you seriously though. or like you. but they might. and you have to wonder why you care. ponder it for awhile.

All of this is so true.

And I have gone from hating cilantro to being okay with it.

i dunno, i think u cant really worry abt other ppl, i dont really care what ppl get out of my posts im kinda just in it for myself

Remembering who calls it cilantro and who calls it coriander is essential.

xpost - yes

uh, I thought it was cilantro/rocket...?

wau today I have learned something

I mean it's nice if people enjoy what you write, obviously, but getting too precious about your contributions to a message board is pretty counter-productive, imo (hence the not picking people up on misattributing my posts, I guess).

xposts - I think rocket is arugla.

No self-respecting Cuban uses cilantro.

yes, I realized I had confused them when I looked up the cilantro/coriander thing

how many posts does it take ilx to go from discussing new poster esteem issues to the merits of cilantro

and how much to tip cilantro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ0epRjfGLw

i'm sort of the opposite i.e. i hope no matter what bs i post that no one would take me seriously. i can't handle that kind of pressure.

^ amazing post

:) now watch him crack under the heat

lol

wow i've only posted 3,776 messages?! question: did everyone have to re-register around the sandbox era or something? i think i've been aware of ilx and possibly posting here since '03, but i don;t think i 'officially' registered til 05. is that possible?

i think everyone had to, yes

Cilantro is CORIANDER? About 1000 recipes I thought I couldn't make just became gloriously available. Sometimes you gotta <3 ILX regardless of mood / its ability to remember you.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/75/Who_Are_You_album_cover.JPG/200px-Who_Are_You_album_cover.JPG

http://rlv.zcache.com/i_am_me_mechanical_engineering_tshirt-p2352151321375706553yi4_400.jpg

In American, "coriander" refers to the seed and "cilantro" refers to the leafy herb tops. Not quite the same taste iirc.

i'm going to assume they're both variations of the same, ass-y taste.

have any of you ever used "culantro" in cooking? sorta similar to cilantro, big in puerto rico, s.e. asia

Culantro sounds like it would be even assier.

you racist

I'm just saying, "culantro" sounds like culo + cilantro. Not so appetizing.

Cilantro is coriander. O_O

Just to clarify, this is a weird revelation to me, as well.

xpost

apparently the fragrance of culantro leaves is indeed more pungent, so your non-racist intuition is happily otm

I was going to do a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup joke but only got as far as "you got your cilantro in my culo!" before rethinking the whole enterprise.

is "culo" latin for lady elbow or something?

Cilantro leaves/stems and coriander seed do not taste the same. We've been over this before, but since there's no way to require people to look at a thread and learn the info in it, we'll go over it again. (cf tipping, username compendium, etc etc)

we're sorry. ):

i think technically cilantro is a subspecies of coriander or vice versa but generally yeah

holy crap, what an obnoxious schoolmarmish post from me

some people find the schoolmarm stereotype 2Bsexy!

In the UK, what you in the US call "cilantro" is called "coriander" - the leaves. In the US, "coriander" only refers to the seeds. In the UK they'd be called "corainder seeds" to make the distinction. No-one's saying the leaves and seeds taste the same; this was all discussed in great depth in the cilantro thread.

i'm going to assume they're both variations of the same, ass-y taste.

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, June 18, 2010 12:32 PM (2 hours ago)

first the light switches and now this!

Read an article a few weeks ago about cilantro that was attempting to explain why people have such strong feelings against it. Apparently the leaves are coated with a substance that has similar chemical compounds to soap so the author suggested that perhaps people exposed to soap before cilantro would associate the herb with soap and in turn hate it. The soap-y substance could be a defense mechanism that functions in warding off insects?

I personally love both the leafy greens of cilantro and coriander seeds.

As for being recognized on message boards, meh.

generally i love cilantro, but sometimes i do think i taste the soapy taste that ppl complain about. i always assumed it just meant it was no longer fresh or something...like how basil can taste really blech if it's past its time

bananas though apparently for some of you just get better with age, like a fine wine

Banana wine! Or banana jam!

corey do you like coriander or do you think it tastes like soap

I once knew a girl named Coriander. She went by Corey.

(True story.)

i was a cilantro hater. now i'm okay with it. got used to it being all over stuff in restaurants.

Yeah, in the last few years so many restaurants have begun to splatter it all over their glassware, men's room condom dispensers, matchbook baskets near the exits, etc.

practically!

it's to keep latino vampires away

JA JA JA JA JA JA JA!

i told this story on the cilantro thread but i went to a pizza place in philly when i lived there and ordered a regular pizza and when we got it it was covered in cilantro! that was the height of my cilantro hate. that someone could do that to a defenseless pizza...

Cooks often use cilantro as an accent when they don't go through the trouble of properly seasoning the food for a few hours.

"the author suggested that perhaps people exposed to soap before cilantro would associate the herb with soap and in turn hate it"
I thought this was a genetic thing? -- like those people who can taste those bitter chemical PCP? strips and those who can't.

Plus, who gets exposed to cilantro before they get exposed to soap? Are you not supposed to wash a child until that child is old enough to ingest pureed cilantro? Are you supposed to use cilantro to wipe the goo off a newborn?

ew

"Plus, who gets exposed to cilantro before they get exposed to soap? Are you not supposed to wash a child until that child is old enough to ingest pureed cilantro? Are you supposed to use cilantro to wipe the goo off a newborn?"

http://bucf.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/fidel_castro_dead.jpg

Bitter PCP strips?

More like bitter after a PCP trip.

I think Philip means PROP:

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

if you can taste it, it means you are a supertaster:

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

i'm going to assume they're both variations of the same, ass-y taste.

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