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We are all familiar with terms such as "lurker", but do you think there should be ILE-specific terms for:

(i) people who only ask questions and never answer them

(ii) people who only answer questions and never ask them

people who are the chief contributors to their own posts

― MarkH, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

suggestions, please!

― MarkH, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't like terms being FORCED into being made, langwidge should come NATURALLY! NO FORCING! No-one will use it! Also the fact that... ur... I don't really bother either way with those people, Mark :)

― ergonomic keyboard plus cookies = an arse, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

people who are the chief contributors to their own posts

well lady die of course.

― di, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Could the term be 'stoker'?

― suzy, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

people who are the chief contributors to their own posts

ILEgoers

― Jonnie, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am always the only person to contribute to my own posts. Do you mean threads by any chance?

― Emma, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(i) intelligent.

(ii) misled.

(iii) wise.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i think this question has waaayyy to much bitching potential. well, if i were to get going on it that is :)

― katie, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe I'm misreading the above posts, but I don't see anything wrong with doing any of those things. Does it really bother you how other people use ILE? Don't most posters do a little of each of i-iii depending on their feelings about different threads?

― fritz, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was hoping somone would explain the trend for random Xor things in the middle of words. I have tried and failed to understand this for ages now.

― Anna, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't care if I do i), ii) or iii) either to be honest.But I do like giving things titles!

― Jonnie, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think there's anything wrong with doing any of those things either. But you could argue that there's nothing wrong with lurking, although the name makes it sound as if there is. Emma is right tho, I should really have said threads not posts.

― MarkH, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the new phrase for being always right should be BEING EMMA instead of being OTM since I am ALWAYS RIGHT. Mostly.

The Xs = some kind of hacker speak Anna. It's some techie bloke thing I believe.

― Emma, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh right, thanks.

Shall we go back to the make up thread?

― Anna, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't usually 'do' meta-threads, but one thing that is really starting to aggravate me - people posting on threads only to register how disgusted they are with said threads' existence. For fuck's sake, if it has a title like "Child Abuse: S&D", it's obvious that it's either sick humour or sick sickness, so in any case, why look at it if it's going to upset you? Just so you can say "I don't like the direction this board is going in", "Some people need to grow up", etc. Just what is the point, pray tell?

― dave q, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We did that one two weeks ago, Q. Do try and keep up.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Um, well you see, I DO stuff. Keeps me away from the computer for periods of time. Of course, the stuff I DO doesn't involve pointlessly aggravating everybody and acting like a two-year-old, so you probably don't consider it doing anything.

― dave q, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I take it that you wouldn't be interested in the Child Abuse thread, then?

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

please please explain the 'RoXoR' thing. I don't care if it's spoddy - I jus wanna know.

― misterjones, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

incidentally, a lot of the slang used in ths forun seems to be sourced from Molesworth and co. If you kno what I mean. Branes and all, FITE etc.

― misterjones, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Not interested in childish abuse, perhaps?

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh Clover, what a witty wit you are. Or should be. For your own good.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

BRANE = not molesworth but cutting-edge cosmological astrophysics i think you'll find, we are very advanced here thank you excuse me

― mark s, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

See - I've read 'Bak In The Jug Agane' or however it's spelt - so I get that. You can pick up classic/ dud / search/ destroy etc. But yes, the X thing still eludes me.

Emma - your explanation statisfied me over lunch, but now Misterjones has made me want more.

― Anna, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It is far easier just to accept these things without seeking to understand them.

― Emma, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay - let's go back to the make up thread

― Anna, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1 "FLUXOR G " 2 "SYMANTEAXCIOT" 3 "BROTHER FAMILY ONERS"

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anna / misterjones - this thread will ... probably not help at all.

― Jeff W, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thank you Jeff. For some reason I have a block about searching for that thread (or the other ones on the same subject) whenever this xOr nonsense gets raised.

― N., Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am going to start a thread about how much I hate meta-threads. It will be called "Who Shaves The Barber?",

― Sam, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Go on then.

― N., Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I just posted my details up on fr!3|\|dzr3un!t3d. I saw the space, and thought "now there's a canvas if ever there was one". It's in h4x0rspeak, is very long, and well-nigh incomprehensible. I'll post it on ILE if anyone's interested.

― Norman Phay, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

always interested.

always learning.

― richard john gillanders, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

XoR = better used in speech not text I've found.

― Tom, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom is on the moneyXoR. I find that ILX slang slips into my spoken vocab far more than my written vocab. "Nobgoblin" particularly of late.

― Tim, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

...harvesting the ugly barnacles from the gloom of the soul and heavenly the scrapings of us with full virulence.

― Frank Kogan, Sunday, 3 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nine months pass...

i just got my copy of complete molesworth from amazon uk, so i will learn how to be 'hip' to the 'lingo' (ya dig)

― ron (ron), Friday, 6 December 2002 01:10 (twenty-three years ago)

XoR

HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE THIS, PLEASE TELL

― Vic, Friday, 6 December 2002 02:01 (twenty-three years ago)

The Pronouciation of ILXOR

― ron (ron), Friday, 6 December 2002 02:04 (twenty-three years ago)

who is (was?) Molesworth?

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 6 December 2002 04:23 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.simonbarne.com/oddsandends/molesworth.html

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 6 December 2002 18:28 (twenty-three years ago)

i hate molesworth

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 6 December 2002 19:48 (twenty-three years ago)

twenty-two years pass...

resetting the post clock

when you’ve posted 3 times in a row and and then someone else posts again so you can up to another 3 in a row

― z_tbd, Monday, 10 November 2025 20:56 (one month ago)

There's a post clock? Things you were shockingly old (in ILX years) when you learned...

― henry s, Monday, 10 November 2025 21:35 (one month ago)

it is very “unwritten rule”. but some say that if you post 4 times in a row, within a certain period of time, about yay wide - you just really shouldn’t do that.

― z_tbd, Monday, 10 November 2025 23:46 (one month ago)

and i have to say, although i’ve broken the unwritten rule uncountable times, i do notice when i reach 3 in a row and consider doing something else

― z_tbd, Monday, 10 November 2025 23:47 (one month ago)

but that’s why that 4th one in a row hits so hard, it’s like a cigarette after 2 years.

― z_tbd, Monday, 10 November 2025 23:47 (one month ago)

Long, long ago in an ILX far away the Old Archivists state that there was a hiccup (spelled 'hiccough') in the Site New Answers where every other thread was prefaced with TITTWIS. These creatures have long since gone extinct although rumors persist that they survive in a shoebox at the bottom of Loch Ness.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 11 November 2025 01:15 (one month ago)

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