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It is sometimes mentioned (last by ned when he was over) that one would not beleieve the lurker traffic on ILX (HELLO Lurkers, I can see you I'm standing on the roof across the road with a long lens Nikon). I'm intrigued as to what Lurkers get out of watching our inane prattle, and whether as perfomers on our blogospheric stage we should get the internet equivalent of an equity card.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 06:40 (twenty years ago)

OR, ILX as intermentalist Soap Opera, discuss...

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

It's all part of the Big Brother-ification of the world. Life is no longer an active participation sport, but something to watch other people doing on the telly or the internet.

― Masonic Boom (kate), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

yo're funny tee heee!

― lurker #1, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 06:45 (twenty years ago)

I'm hoping one day Ned will get his cock out

― Harry Gymslip, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 06:46 (twenty years ago)

I'm bored! (also I like reading the latest Pitchfork goss).

― Nelson Mandela, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)

He had every chance on the underwear thread dammit! xpost

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 06:48 (twenty years ago)

as an ex-lurker-turned-poster-turned-lurker-turned-poster-again, i can safely say that for me, lurking here was something fun to do/read while bored at work. content obviously constantly changes with each post, wide range of topics, you can look up stuff you're interested in via search to find a whole bunch of other opinions, and so on and so on, all without having to fiddle around and navigate a billion other pages or perform too much typey-typey action (which, as many work-lurkers will know, can be suspicious if you're supposed to be doing some strange job that involves no typing). and hey, ILX is FUNNY, to boot.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 06:48 (twenty years ago)

Are they gonna fight on this thread?

― lurker #6, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 08:25 (twenty years ago)

All lurkers are either too messed up psychologically to be capable of engaging in discussion without bursting into tears the moment someone else questions their fragile judgement, or too busy with their actually-rather-good-well-paid-and-exciting job to commit so much time and energy into this place, either way utterly contemptible and must be destroyed.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 08:32 (twenty years ago)

(whaaaat haaave i beeecoooome?)

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 08:33 (twenty years ago)

It's all part of the Big Brother-ification of the world.

OK, which one of the girls is going to be Kinga?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 08:42 (twenty years ago)

(xpost)

What you beheld.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

i'll be the bottle.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

How do we know there are so many people lurking about? Is there some sort of stats?

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 08:54 (twenty years ago)

Lurkers scare me, the government should be doing more about this lurker threat.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 09:01 (twenty years ago)

You know in that episode of Star Trek with those furry creatures that were all over the Enterprise? I imagine lurkers to be like them.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)

i don't know whether this is reassuring or frightening, but a number of lurkers are probably fairly similar to me in certain respects.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 09:10 (twenty years ago)

you know in episode 3 of original Star Trek "Charlie X" where Charlie is 17 and grew up in an alien civilisation and got their special powers and could make people and walls and stuff just vanish with his mind, and when back with humans he had no social skills whatsoever, and would get upset and kill people without a second thought if they upset him, or like when Yeoman Janice Rand slapped him.

Just saying like

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 09:24 (twenty years ago)

the engines cannae tayrk the wit captain!

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 09:26 (twenty years ago)

They lurk because we are so intimidatingly clever and witty. We scare them.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

CJ OTM! OTOH, non-lurking ILxors come in several flavours:

1) the exceedingly droll, witty, clever ones such as herself, and
2) the ones who are not one half so droll, witty or clever as they take themselves to be, and
3) the ones too dense to be intimidated.

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

I'm hoping one day Ned will get his cock out

Tsk.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

I don't know, I barely post on ilx anymore but I read the threads because they can be interesting or entertaining or what have you.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

I'm a two too.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Who, you?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

I can't decide whether I'm a 2 or a 3. There doesn't seem to be a category for "too pigheaded/addicted to stop posting even though they are convinced 90% of the other posters hate them"

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Of course there isn'ta category like that, because that would be silly.

You who, Ned.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Even in my best moments I am a little too too. The rest of the time, I'm a tutu.

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

His Grace, The Archbishop?

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

Don't mess with my Tutu.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Damn!!

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

I thought Ethan was "2" and "3."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

Is that like a 5?

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

It could be a 6, or even an 8

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

On good days, 1. On bad days, 2.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

Charlie is Graham?

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

you DO see!

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

You forgot:

4) Too bonkers to care!

― Masonic Boom (kate), Thursday, 4 August 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

I am arrogant enough to think 1 but probably i reside in category 3.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 4 August 2005 06:51 (twenty years ago)

2, def.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 4 August 2005 06:55 (twenty years ago)

i've not heard stories of people being bonkers since the 80s! i'd assumed bonkerism had become obselete.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 4 August 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

Bonkers is an english condition.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 4 August 2005 07:09 (twenty years ago)

Yes, it happens in the autumn. Children have bonkers competitions. It involves gurning and generally pulling "I'm mad, me!" faces and things. And writing letters to the council about how milk floats are influencing your thoughts through bad programmes on the BBC.

― Masonic Boom (kate), Thursday, 4 August 2005 07:10 (twenty years ago)

I think I'm in the Ineffectual category, which is populated by posters who make virtually no impression on anyone.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 4 August 2005 07:16 (twenty years ago)

then you get a job as a local radio DJ. xpost, yo.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 4 August 2005 07:16 (twenty years ago)

i'm a '9': someone who says 'ooh, i'm a 2 or 3' in an attempt at pseudo-self-deprecation.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 4 August 2005 08:12 (twenty years ago)

anyone who claims to be a 1 - 10 is a complete fucking 69 tbh

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 4 August 2005 08:18 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sanity.com.au/coverscan/610000/609269.jpg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 4 August 2005 08:37 (twenty years ago)

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