when you post to a thread, or start a new one do you ever wonder about all the lurkers who will read it and never respond or 'step forth' ?

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I do, but not every time. Obv this time I am.
Just now and then I think about it and get a weird sense of shadow people hovering around.........

― donna (donna), Thursday, 5 August 2004 07:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I tend to think about this when I am typing information about myself on a thread. Especially the TITTWIS thread. Ppl will actually know things about me & I am not even aware of their existence!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 5 August 2004 07:16 (twenty-one years ago)

YES! freaky when you think about it, even though you don't know them IRL. Then again, maybe some of them are people who interact with us IRL and just don't admit to coming here.......
Im starting to spook myself out now.
* looks over shoulder *

― donna (donna), Thursday, 5 August 2004 07:21 (twenty-one years ago)

*shudders* oi you, back away from donna's posts!!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 5 August 2004 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

― (..) (Gear!), Thursday, 5 August 2004 07:58 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, i don't care what a few lurkers know - as long as i never meet them/have met them IRL.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 5 August 2004 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

No.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 5 August 2004 08:14 (twenty-one years ago)

lurk lurk lurk

― Catty (Catty), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think lurkers exist, really. The mindset of someone who'd be entertained by all this without wanting to contribute makes no sense to me.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

sixteen years pass...

Now that I know this place is haunted by approximately 10,000 lurkers a month, yes, I do wonder about that.

― pomentiful (pomenitul), Friday, 28 August 2020 19:59 (five years ago)

Had no idea I was onstage this whole time. Woulda put on some damn pants if I'd known.

― the secret of sucess is to know all rules ...and brake them (Old Lunch), Friday, 28 August 2020 20:35 (five years ago)

what is this

― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Friday, 28 August 2020 21:04 (five years ago)

...that stands before me
Lurker in black which points at me

― pomentiful (pomenitul), Friday, 28 August 2020 21:05 (five years ago)

xp being discussed here:

Discussion thread for possible FP/moderation changes to ILX

― sleeve, Friday, 28 August 2020 21:06 (five years ago)

Had no idea I was onstage this whole time. Woulda put on some damn pants if I'd known.

― the secret of sucess is to know all rules ...and brake them (Old Lunch), Friday, 28 August 2020 20:35 (one hour ago) link

So, OL, do you find it hard to post when people are watching? Y/N?

― trunk's full of pearl and lonestar (PBKR), Friday, 28 August 2020 21:52 (five years ago)

hope some of the 10,000 lurkers per month here will start posting, we need them

― Dan S, Saturday, 29 August 2020 00:31 (five years ago)

i never post but vote in every single poll, making my choice at random

― orifex, Saturday, 29 August 2020 00:54 (five years ago)

Many of them are probably on ILM after searching for information on Britpop or whatever, then they see that the thread has been dead for 15 years and click away.

― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Saturday, 29 August 2020 00:56 (five years ago)

milo it is amazing how predictable you are regardless of the topic at hand

― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Saturday, 29 August 2020 01:23 (five years ago)

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