If you stopped posting here do you think anyone would notice?

jeez, don't get all butthurt at my failed zing

link plz

brainwasher i usually notice when you start posting again cuz you usually disappear for a few days

it has nothing to do with that thread

http://luxton.blogware.com/0706/seriousbaby.jpg

some but not lots

serious answer, I think generally I notice more when someone starts posting again after not posting for a while

Not many ppl seemed to notice when I hadn't been posting a while back. That didn't suprise me in the least.

But it wasn't like I was all "I AM NEVAR COMING BACK U ALL SUX" anyway so its a bit daft to expect it.

Occasionally I notice that a very prolific poster has completely stopped. This often coincides with them being a cute girl.

Not as many BSRW political cartoons floating around since August, that's for sure.

Yeah I mean it's not like a classroom where you'd notice the absence of a physical presence, what you'd be noticing is the absence of a certain perspective. That's a much more difficult thing to take note of, and to notice its absence it has to be somewhat distinct in the first place.
So I've noticed, for example, that I haven't seen much of Nabisco lately. Obv I noticed when Jess quit showing up on the rap threads around mid last year I guess.

I imagine after a while someone might go "Hey, no one's been creatively OTM'd in a while. RJDHoos seems incomplete somehow. Where's HOOS?"

serious answer, I think generally I notice more when someone starts posting again after not posting for a while

-- Hurting 2

yes, and i'm sorta amazed that people backslide after months, even years of not posting.

i'm pretty sure everyone has the same answer to this-- there is a certain group of posters of which we'd notice if one of them stopped posting. i didn't notice that trayce stopped posting tho i have nothing against her and thought 'tryace has been gone' once she showed up again

I wasnt gone that long anyway - was just work.

yes

it might be met w/ a mixture of sadness and relief tho

hey guys i'm about to stop posting for a few months, this is just an advance warning so that you notice ok?

I assume you all to be assorted avatars of a single nemesis.

vishnu

aka the steendriver

It is always difficult to distinguish between a poster not posting at all and simply posting to threads you have not been interested in opening or reading. BTW, I think my absence would be noticed more in I Love Books than if I disappeared from ILE for a while.

yes, and i'm sorta amazed that people backslide after months, even years of not posting.

Are we talking about someone besides Felicity?

Oh wait, "balls."

xpost and ask a drunk right?

I always thought it was weird that Geir would disappear for months at a time and then post very prolifically and then disappear again.

chart stars have busy touring schedules

yes, and i'm sorta amazed that people backslide after months, even years of not posting.

Are we talking about someone besides Felicity?

-- jaymc, Tuesday, April 8, 2008 9:43 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I had "help."

Ha, I don't even know what that means.

I just realized, sadly, that last week was probably my longest period of not posting in five years: eight whole days.

yes jaymc, you are correct. i guess i think if you can make it for 3 months or so without posting, don't look back. maybe not lurking is the key?

No.

Nope.

NOPE

EVERYBODY OTM SO FAR

only on the sc-fi related threads

^^tv threads for me.

there's "notice" and then there's "miss you". if I stopped posting no one would notice, but there'd be a tiny inexplicable vacuum in each and every one of your souls, and you would inevitably turn to hard drugs and cheap sex to fill the void. or cheap drugs and hard sex. anyway, I'm here in the spirit of law and order.

By the time you've noticed I've stopped posting, it'll be too late for you.

Hmm... potential horror movie premise.

"Say, Hurting 2 hasn't posted in a while. I wonder if he--what was that noise? Oh my god! AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRHHHHH!"

by the time i get to livejournal, you'll be lolling

it feels like scott seward and rrrobyn haven't been around much lately. so I miss them. and ian.

ian is around. jhoshea started a scott thread this am and i was thinking 'i haven't seen scott post in a while' and then he magically appeared!

yeah I've seen him here + there. but ian not on nb is ;_;

I wish him and jon would fuck and make up already.

probably not wise to go there.

nb is rly slow anyway. 77 where it's at, yo!

then I will not go there.

everybody's partying down on 77 and I'm out here in the parking lot bumming for change.

I'm pretty sure noone would notice if I did. And if you think, nah, I would, well, how the fuck did you not notice that I did for a couple of weeks? ;-)

not for me, nope.

although in the rare case someone did, I'd hope that person would start a rumor about me going crazy or shit like that.

Not a chance, and I've been on here for years.

narp. but beg to differ stevienixed. =)

I noticed, stevienixed.

The only thing being, how do you know people have/have not noticed?

It's not like someone starts a thread "Has Mark G gone off the net?"

there are a few people i've noticed that haven't posted for a while, but mainly because i've spoken with them outside of ilx. Another one because they posted *so* much, it was hard not to notice that they stopped.

I'm not here often enough probly for anyone to notice if I ever stop posting.

For most of us, Passantino would add another notch to his bridge.

We are all his billy goats, man.

He plays the violin?

Passantino ran me off ILX. :(

"I'm pretty sure noone would notice if I did. And if you think, nah, I would, well, how the fuck did you not notice that I did for a couple of weeks? ;-)

-- stevienixed"

Bbuutt - you keep on knitting babies!
Nath, you and your gorgeous children are a huge part of Ilx.
I respect you because you can debate and zing in at least two languages.

I was missed! (once) (a long time ago)

no

ppl who post on the metal thread might notice that nobody was posting about lugubrum anymore?

nope, in other words.

yes

no, and I'm kind of glad about that

Probably not.

Nope.

I mean, sometimes I don't even know if I post here anymore.

Not that anyone would notice, but if it wasn't for me jumping in with thread-killing non sequiturs, some of these joints would go on forever.

^this. I'm Big Doug aka the Threadkiller.

I stopped posting during the day pretty much entirely for 2 years in 02/03 and no-one noticed, so no.

Dang, Pash. Can't you see when someone's trying to make a point?

what, you want him to post last and lock thread, is that it?

WELL I GUESS WE'LL GET TO FIND OUT IF ANYONE WOULD NOTICE NOW

but no really I will be disappearing for about a month soon, I hope you all enjoy it as much as I will.

what, you want him to post last and lock thread, is that it?

No, no...when the magic really happens is when a thread just sort of slides off the page, real quiet like.

xposts

when the magic really happens is when a thread just sort of slides off the page, real quiet like.

Flush this question out

For what it's worth, it's been proven that the best way to keep posting to ilx is to make a dramatic announcement on ilx saying you're NEVER POSTING HERE AGAIN.

me = guilty as charged

haha those flush threads were great fun

weren't they?

dunno, never read 'em

How would I know if anyone noticed?

I don't think anyone notices when I DO post here LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Do you ever wish you could have your own Tom Sawyer faked funeral?

i stopped posting for a bit and no one noticed
AINT NO THANG

i don't read every thread going.

'absent' posters could be in places i'm not.

yeah, esp. since i have contractual obligations to fulfill here via my presence

I'm pretty sure that if I stop posting here, the last thing I'm going to be concerned about is if people notice.

yes, and i'm sorta amazed that people backslide after months, even years of not posting.

Are we talking about someone besides Felicity?

-- jaymc, Tuesday, April 8, 2008 9:43 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I had "help."

-- felicity, Tuesday, April 8, 2008 9:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Ha, I don't even know what that means.

I just realized, sadly, that last week was probably my longest period of not posting in five years: eight whole days.

-- jaymc, Tuesday, April 8, 2008 9:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

I fell into a "This is the Thread Where I Say Pt. 77"-induced coma until gershy revived me.

people whose posting I missed when they stopped for awhile:

- Kingfish
- Alex in NYC

I'm pretty sure that if I stop posting here, the last thing I'm going to be concerned about is if people notice.

-- HI DERE, Wednesday, April 9, 2008 1:28 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

is this your way of saying that you'll only stop posting if you're deathly ill or forcibly restrained?

no

i think people would notice on the chicago thread and on the odd jazz d-bag or new orleans thread, otherwise not so much (and believe me, i am fine with that).

i didn't even notice when i stopped posting

I stopped for a couple of years and occasionally I'll stumble upon an old post from Trayce (bless) denoting the fact. Other than that I don't see why anybody I don't know irl would notice or care.

What really stands out is how many people I don't remember existing at all, like hoos and tombot. nfi why, maybe they had different names before.

probably

no

Adam OTM about one thing: I wouldnt know with a lot of ppl because I have totally lost track of so many peoples names. Like, dozens of them I have vague to no idea who they are/were.