How long have you been here?

ILM some months before ILE day one.

ILE: Was ILE around by then? I forget. I started using ILE a few months later, I think.

ILM, I was trying to find out how long i'd been posting. the first post i made, i think was in about december 2000, but i seem to recall i'd been reading it for a few months before i actually had the guts to post. i'll check and make sure... oh yes, 5th december, 2000. i was banging on about some dirty dronerock boy from hoxton. some things never change...

ilm: 6 march 2001

I don't know. I knew about ILM for ages before that, but was scared. I remain scared.

CJ is one of my favourite new posters.

I pressed the buttons required to start ILE but the ILM posters had already created it...

today is my 10th year anniversary of posting to ILX and this post is my 35,827th post

how do you figure out how many posts you've made?

listed on the boards page

Really not sure. I think its been pretty consistently since I googled Emanuelle Parenin a few years ago. But have come across a couple of things that made me wonder if I had been on earlier, around the milenium. I was doing a lot online around that time.
Think there was probably another Stevo here too. I don't remember the 2lp vs thread with MBV that I saw yesterday.

in 3 days, it will be my two year anniversary with this dn. first time i tried posting was in july 2011 but i was scared off that time.

april 26th 2015 is precisely my 8 year and 9 month anniversary

still feel like the new kid in town some days

ive been here too long. ian or ferg can remember better when we first arrived

2001 i think

4/25/2005, 11,233

my first post was 12/3/2003; only 1,501 posts so far, damn

I think its been pretty consistently since I googled Emanuelle Parenin a few years ago.

<3

I first posted here on May 21, 2006 and started posting regularly in September. since then I've made about 9,380 posts (8,470 as unregistered and 910 as...registered). I probably ended up here by googling the Olivia Tremor Control or Mark Lanegan or whatever indie rock bands I was listening to as a college freshman. the second thread I ever started (a shameless piece of clickbait) has gotten more replies than anything I've started since.

i started lurking in spring of 2004, tipped off by friend and former ilx regular, chris p. don't think i started posting regularly until maybe 2007ish, mostly about basketball. not much has changed in the interim.

i started reading ilm in 2005, in autumn probably, as i was new to my freshman dorm at the time. only 2000 or so posts, i've taken a lot more than i've given back, sorry ilx

First post 3rd December, 2000

none of my various scattered ilm posts in previous years secured any marriage proposals so they were disacknowledged

15 years or so, 14,075 posts which must be an error because i lurk like a muthafucker mostly.

too long! around 9 ish years.

25k+ posts since taking this name in 2007, and I've been posting since late 2002. I just wish I knew what percent of those were typo corrections.

I average one typo correction post per normal post

i'm no raggett but...

5,458 registered users 192,275 threads 12,009,675 messages You have posted 65,730 messages

weird to me that ilx only has 5,000+ registered users for some reason. given how long it has been here. i'm in a facebook group - where i spend a lot of my time now - and they got up to 6.000 members in a heartbeat. easier to join stuff on facebook obviously...

even more puzzling considering all those socks

Accounts have presumably been purged over time. I found a third login where I wrote a single post under my real name but it looks like the account no longer exists.

If you don't log in over the course of six months, the account is purged.

So 5,000 users who have logged in over the last 6 months.

i was a lurker in the pre-ILE I Love Music era, found through Freaky Trigger of course. I distinctly remember the very beginning of ILE, and reading it in my college computer lab while supposedly working on papers. started posting more or less (usually less) around 2001. this is my 5220th post.

5,000 users sounds like a lot to me, feels like there's only a few hundred regular posters

My first post was in 2003, putting these two jpgs side by side

http://i.imgur.com/6I1ToDi.jpg http://i.imgur.com/c39iIpb.jpg

wow i have almost 6k posts that seems v impossible.

I think I must have been here from around 2007. I was just thinking that I had a sign in that I can't quite remember some variationon Pelucidar or parennin somewhere between the 2 of those, was assigned to me on first signing in.
If unused accounts are purged after 6 months and I reset up my account when the forum moved I've probably lost any messages before 2011. So not sure still.
I moved into this flat in late 2006 and set up internet in early 2007 which was the first time I had home internet. Had previously been using a University account borrowed from a friend. I don't remember if I had used ILX before I got my own computer so can't remember when still. Just think it was before 2011 and may have been a while after 2007

i'm still pretty new

4,337 messages though

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/08/smoked-chocolate-and-tequila-ice-cream-recipe.html#556658

fshin for compliments

― thoughts you made second posts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 April 2015

marcos has gone in hard

lol i still pretty much feel like i'm just a drop in the bucket

2005 I think?

43678 posts. Since the big switches were flipped. Gah.

2001 I think, but I just used to make up a different name every time I posted. In fact, one of the first threads I posted on with this name (in 2002) was started by me with a different name, and then 75% of the subsequent posts are me under various other names too. It was a great discussion.

nakho's gonna have to do more than that to get me searching for phantom former accounts

Eyeball Kicks obv referring to an uproarious & very kinky incest thread where all the taboos got challenged

If only.

a little over 7 years, so about half my life

November 7, 2004

I don't know how many posts though.

about 3.5 years of mostly reading but also posting about once every 4 hours on average

but I just used to make up a different name every time I posted.

same for about 4 or 5 years much to the annoyance of mark s and tom :D

tho i think i did an actual pfunkboy post in 2002

2002 d k (i was in high school, ilm pop music theory was exciting, pharrell with his shirt off, ethan p imitations, getting my first blowjob while listening to freeway, any bumped thread from this period and i scan it already blushing for any embarrassing shit i said)
2004 william wiggins (like a stiff british music writer parody concept but then just talking about da band and cassidy singles in no caps, ten posts about nas in a row)
2004 cloverlandthug (ten posts about lil flip in a row, in hindsight chamillionaire sucked)
2007 dylannn (talked about china and working at a hotel, less interested in posting about music except nas and lots of posts with no responses or not very interested responses months later such as http://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=93677 and ITT -_------->>> pictures of william t vollmann (no shops allowed) and lethbridge and selected films of joey wong 王祖賢 1984 - 2004).
roughly 5000-6000 across all four?

i think i've been here under various names for eleven (!) years, and still never once been invited to the secret board :(

Since the start of both, though admittedly I was initially grouchy about ILE.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, December 2, 2002 11:33 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

nakho's gonna have to do more than that to get me searching for phantom former accounts

― carles the jekyll (imago), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:50 (46 minutes ago)

there's nothing exceptional there so even in the unlikely event you discerned one, no chuffage would follow

not the -age he's after iirc

since 2002

Fourteen years next month I believe.

5,000 users sounds like a lot to me, feels like there's only a few hundred regular posters

ciderpress wrote this at 2015-04-28 14:24:06.000

I'm pretty sure there's a post somewhere where stet broke down the entire ilx user base scientifically. I can't find it at the moment, but there's this:

the lurker pool for ilx is huuuuuuuuuuuuge

-- strongohulkington, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:28 PM (5 months ago)

(really, really huge. Scary huge)

-- stet, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:36 PM

I still long for the days of a screenshot of 1 Active Users (that isn't after an outage)

I remember ILE starting and never even clicked on it until 2004ish as i was only interested in reading about music (hence why people long for old ILE lol )

Yeah, I stayed on ILM for a while when I started. ILE seemed weird and scary to me. I did not love everything. I wasn't sure if I wanted to go to ILX Heaven.

been here since summer 2004. only posted a lousy 2,444 times.

12 yrs ffs

Yeah, I stayed mostly on ILM for years before dipping a toe into ILE. I think I migrated to ILNFL before I even went to ILE.

I feel like I read somewhere that lurker / contributor ratio on forums tends to be 90%/10%, so.... ~5000 posters, ~50000 lurkers...?

Or, you know, whatevs the correct math is 🎃

I think you posted a 10%/100% which means lurkers are 100% and we are the posting 10% which seems about right