How old are (were) you as of Jan 09, 2011?

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old poll: How old are you as of Jan 09, 2008?

3 years ago jaymac said this:

Actually, you know, I'd be curious to know how this has changed over time. Has the average age (I guess this poll measures the mode) increased as a core group of posters has gotten older? Or is this counteracted by other people not posting as much as they get older and younger people discovering ILX for the first time?

I'm guessing 30-somethings are the plurality by now

use your age as of 01/09/11 so we can better compare w/ 3 years ago. if you happen to be outside of 13-62, just post your age I guess? that seemed like the most reasonable group of 50.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
31	21
30	14
29	14
25	13
27	12
33	11
37	11
36	10
39	10
35	10
34	10
32	10
26	9
24	8
38	8
28	7
46	6
23	6
41	5
40	5
42	4
43	4
50	4
13	4
22	4
19	3
45	3
20	3
53	3
44	3
49	3
14	2
62	2
48	2
47	2
21	2
15	1
61	1
60	1
59	1
56	1
17	1
54	0
18	0
52	0
57	0
58	0
51	0
16	0
55	0

― iatee, Monday, 21 February 2011 04:39 (fourteen years ago)

― teenage cream (J0rdan S.), Monday, 21 February 2011 04:40 (fourteen years ago)

― angel of debt!!! monarch to the kingdom of the Fed... (San Te), Monday, 21 February 2011 04:40 (fourteen years ago)

(24 fwiw)

― iatee, Monday, 21 February 2011 04:40 (fourteen years ago)

― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 21 February 2011 04:44 (fourteen years ago)

27 tbh

― call all destroyer, Monday, 21 February 2011 04:45 (fourteen years ago)

― Mordy, Monday, 21 February 2011 04:45 (fourteen years ago)

49. Okay with that, although not ecstatic.

― clemenza, Monday, 21 February 2011 04:45 (fourteen years ago)

TASTE IT MOTHERFUCKERS

― jaymc, Sunday, January 20, 2008 8:24 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

― mumflop & sons (dayo), Monday, 21 February 2011 04:47 (fourteen years ago)

3^3

― great & spacious building (Abbbottt), Monday, 21 February 2011 04:53 (fourteen years ago)

― old man yells at poop first thing in the morning (pixel farmer), Monday, 21 February 2011 04:54 (fourteen years ago)

I always felt I was ~5 years younger than the avg ILXor...I am sure this has changed over the years.

― great & spacious building (Abbbottt), Monday, 21 February 2011 04:56 (fourteen years ago)

All of your ages are actually in the polled range. Just use the polling system so no one has to scroll through the whole thread and write you down, one by one?

― go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Monday, 21 February 2011 04:56 (fourteen years ago)

yes'm

― old man yells at poop first thing in the morning (pixel farmer), Monday, 21 February 2011 04:57 (fourteen years ago)

Wait til I turn 4^4, Laurel – your advice will no longer apply!

― great & spacious building (Abbbottt), Monday, 21 February 2011 04:59 (fourteen years ago)

I do love taking your advice tho.

― great & spacious building (Abbbottt), Monday, 21 February 2011 04:59 (fourteen years ago)

I'm really sorry, guys! It was a bitchy thing to say. But, like, that's what polls are FOR. Well, that and the element of surprise.

― go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Monday, 21 February 2011 05:01 (fourteen years ago)

I am just being a silly, Laurel! I am sorry if I conveyed any impression that you were being bitchy, bcz you were not imo.

― great & spacious building (Abbbottt), Monday, 21 February 2011 05:05 (fourteen years ago)

I checked the poll option, and also posted. The poll isn't enough--you have to publically confess.

― clemenza, Monday, 21 February 2011 05:06 (fourteen years ago)

― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 21 February 2011 05:07 (fourteen years ago)

I think I'm feeling like I may have given offense in other areas of my life today, and self-conscious about what behaviors of other people are "my" "fault". But anyway, sorry if I was kinda short. No worries, abbs.

xp DON'T DO THAT, or you'll get counted TWICE!!

― go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Monday, 21 February 2011 05:07 (fourteen years ago)

really curious to see if there is anyone younger around

― flopson, Monday, 21 February 2011 05:08 (fourteen years ago)

Oops--make sure you deduct one 49-year-old. Sorry.

― clemenza, Monday, 21 February 2011 05:08 (fourteen years ago)

― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 21 February 2011 05:09 (fourteen years ago)

really?

― flopson, Monday, 21 February 2011 05:09 (fourteen years ago)

― teenage cream (J0rdan S.), Monday, 21 February 2011 05:09 (fourteen years ago)

i didn't realize you were that young -- pretty sure you're the youngest ilxor, flopson

― teenage cream (J0rdan S.), Monday, 21 February 2011 05:10 (fourteen years ago)

so samosa gibreel was 15?

― mookieproof, Monday, 21 February 2011 05:14 (fourteen years ago)

17 iirc

― flopson, Monday, 21 February 2011 05:17 (fourteen years ago)

his first ever ilx post your 11 favourite songs of the moment, fuck.

― flopson, Monday, 21 February 2011 05:18 (fourteen years ago)

Can't believe I've been on this board 17-27.

― Melissa W, Monday, 21 February 2011 05:18 (fourteen years ago)

I think rufusmagufus is the youngest.

― Jaq, Monday, 21 February 2011 05:25 (fourteen years ago)

― kl0p's son (k3vin k.), Monday, 21 February 2011 05:25 (fourteen years ago)

― communist kickball (m coleman), Monday, 21 February 2011 05:26 (fourteen years ago)

34 (+1/2)

― mary quantized (get bent), Monday, 21 February 2011 05:38 (fourteen years ago)

haha 'jaymac' was a typo btw

― iatee, Monday, 21 February 2011 05:40 (fourteen years ago)

only just noticed that

― iatee, Monday, 21 February 2011 05:41 (fourteen years ago)

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 21 February 2011 08:20 (fourteen years ago)

35 here. Feeling it physically more than mentally.

― the worst dong of the last ten years (Craigo Boingo), Monday, 21 February 2011 10:30 (fourteen years ago)

37 :(

― not_goodwin, Monday, 21 February 2011 10:32 (fourteen years ago)

(am 37 now, though)

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 21 February 2011 10:42 (fourteen years ago)

39, and just in case anyone is logging the posts, don't count me again, I have voted!

― Also unknown as Zora (Surfing At Work), Monday, 21 February 2011 10:49 (fourteen years ago)

In January 2008 I was in the largest ILX age bracket (28), interesting to see if that is still true... Are all those people born in 1979 still around, or have they dropped off and been replaced by young whippersnappers?

― Tuomas, Monday, 21 February 2011 10:53 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.threewordphrase.com/dungeon.gif

i'm somewhere around panel 3

― ledge, Monday, 21 February 2011 10:56 (fourteen years ago)

― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Monday, 21 February 2011 11:01 (fourteen years ago)

The average age of the board would've been late 20s in the 2000-2005 era. Pretty sure it skews older now.

32 anyway.

― Matt DC, Monday, 21 February 2011 11:02 (fourteen years ago)

I am as young as the person I'm feeling.

..um.

― Trayce, Monday, 21 February 2011 11:26 (fourteen years ago)

That post makes you 65

― Mark G, Monday, 21 February 2011 11:37 (fourteen years ago)

30. Joined when I was 19 or 20. Haven't really grown up in the intervening years.

― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin), Monday, 21 February 2011 11:43 (fourteen years ago)

Loving the Jan 9 cut-off date, as it has given me one final opportunity to be 48.

― mike t-diva, Monday, 21 February 2011 11:43 (fourteen years ago)

Skipping 106 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

27. Damn I will have to now calculate when I turn 33 and a 1/3rd.

― no pop, no style -- all simply (Viceroy), Monday, 28 February 2011 02:30 (fourteen years ago)

― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 February 2011 02:56 (fourteen years ago)

i actually had a 33 1/3 party last month! most people thought it was a dumb idea.
xpost

― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 28 February 2011 02:57 (fourteen years ago)

Well they're dumb!

― gnarly gnarlingtons in my life (Trayce), Monday, 28 February 2011 03:15 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:01 (fourteen years ago)

Went with "37"

― Alba, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:02 (fourteen years ago)

o_O

To see age 31 over all the others is quite staggering.

― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:03 (fourteen years ago)

wau for my age being in second

― I hear boom you know I don't hear any police say knock knock (San Te), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:04 (fourteen years ago)

To see it take it by such a margin I mean

― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:05 (fourteen years ago)

33. First posted on ILX in 2002. First posted on a message board in 1992!

― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:15 (fourteen years ago)

I think my first message board posting was like 1995. good ole BBS days

― I hear boom you know I don't hear any police say knock knock (San Te), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:16 (fourteen years ago)

saturn returns maaan

― dell (del), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:17 (fourteen years ago)

Legend of the Red Dragon!

― I hear boom you know I don't hear any police say knock knock (San Te), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:18 (fourteen years ago)

mean: 33.16

that's assuming no lol votes - but even if there are the 2 13s and 2 62s more or less cancel each other out / don't matter

― iatee, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:19 (fourteen years ago)

1995, me too. BBS'es - had one myself - and dial-up. Times is weird.

― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:19 (fourteen years ago)

i still remember when the closest thing to facebook was people updating their AOL profiles

― I hear boom you know I don't hear any police say knock knock (San Te), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:21 (fourteen years ago)

who else is under 20 besides me & gospodin simmel

― flopson, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:21 (fourteen years ago)

(3 years ago the mean was 30.599) xp

― iatee, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:22 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/P9qdj.jpg

― iatee, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:57 (fourteen years ago)

red = 2008
blue = 2011

― iatee, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:57 (fourteen years ago)

Previously, no ilxors would own up to being older than I. Now there are 5 (presently anonymous) folks who claim to be older than 56. The torch has passed to a new gerontation, or so it would seem. Who's up for a bit of shuffleboard?

― Aimless, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 01:43 (fourteen years ago)

Sorry, too busy chasing kids off my lawn.

― WmC, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 01:50 (fourteen years ago)

well there's also a good chance that somewhere from 1 to 5 of those were joke votes cause 62 was the new upper limit

― iatee, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 01:53 (fourteen years ago)

"Gerontation" = shorthand for "Geritol nation."

― clemenza, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 01:55 (fourteen years ago)

damn fellas we officially have an aging population a la europe or a small town in japan.

where is the new blood!

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 03:01 (fourteen years ago)

yeah kinda surprised at the low # of college age posters

― some dude, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 04:33 (fourteen years ago)

a good thing imo. if yr in college u shd be out there in wavy line the world wavy line imo, not debating sitcoms and posting pics of actresses with a bunch of old bloggers.

― this odyssey that refuses to quit calling itself (history mayne), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 09:38 (fourteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/41/109772077_fec0a2c4de_z.jpg?zz=1

Ah, the old Wavy Line shops, they all gone / shut now.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 09:50 (fourteen years ago)

36.

― piscesx, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 10:14 (fourteen years ago)

13-19: 11
20-24: 23
25-29: 55
30-34: 66
35-39: 49
40-44: 21
45-49: 16
50-54: 7
55-59: 2
60-64: 4

― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 11:55 (fourteen years ago)

― Tuomas, Monday, February 21, 2011 12:53 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Seems like my first guess was true. I'm still in the largest bracket, ILX is aging with me. :)

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 15:35 (fourteen years ago)

31, FTW

― Jeff, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 15:42 (fourteen years ago)

largest bracket = common, right?

― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 15:44 (fourteen years ago)

a good thing imo. if yr in college u shd be out there in wavy line the world wavy line imo, not debating sitcoms and posting pics of actresses with a bunch of old bloggers.

― this odyssey that refuses to quit calling itself (history mayne), Tuesday, March 1, 2011 4:38 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

i still get a fair bit of ~the world~ in in between ilx & studying but sometimes when i'm on too much it really gets to me and i get to feeling like one day i will look back at my youth and be overcome w/ regret. also prob a lot of college students are just on other lame forums & some of them are shy or not that interested in ~the world~

― flopson, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 17:01 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/6T0Dw.jpg

same graph w/ 3 added to the 2008 numbers, interesting how closely some individual peaks/troughs match.

this doesn't 100% imply that ilx has a constant group of users, could also just mean that when people leave they're quite likely to be replaced w/ similar aged users and not teenagers. but I do think you can look at this and think that there's a decent amount of stability in the group of people here. I feel like 31 year olds should consider themselves keepers of the torch.

― iatee, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 17:42 (fourteen years ago)

pleased to see i'm roughly in the middle.

― bang-proof-bling-mans (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 17:53 (fourteen years ago)

I think that this is the right thread to confess to--I'm 40, not 42. I changed my birthdate because I wanted to obscure some of the ties to my real name; I was going to lie to everyone about some other things but never got around to it. (Everything else is true. I swear.)

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 18:09 (fourteen years ago)

I've been on discussion boards since 1989 and here (thanks to rockcritics.com) since 2001.

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 18:12 (fourteen years ago)

i've been alive since 1989

― kl0p's son (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 18:16 (fourteen years ago)

you say tomato

― bang-proof-bling-mans (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 21:22 (fourteen years ago)

I don't believe there are really 4 13-year-olds on ILX.

― I just threw some kazoo on this bitch (Whitey on the Moon), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 22:59 (fourteen years ago)

I am a 52-year-old siamese quadruplet.

― richard melville hell (crüt), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 23:03 (fourteen years ago)

I think it's safe to assume that the tail ends of the blue line are jokes

― iatee, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 23:05 (fourteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

where's Aja?

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 10:37 (fourteen years ago)

No one knows.

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 13:57 (fourteen years ago)

Aja was reabsorbed into her progenitor.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:19 (fourteen years ago)

The ILX poster Aja, yes. (I don't believe either that she posted anything that appeared under her name.) The real Aja, I have no idea.

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:26 (fourteen years ago)

i am 34, but soon 35.

― hey it's (jel --), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:32 (fourteen years ago)

hey me too!

― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 19:01 (fourteen years ago)

Now there are 5 (presently anonymous) folks who claim to be older than 56.

I can't remember if I participated in this poll or not (Cue memory joke....) I'm 52.

http://www.kelleytown.com/images/Simpsons/HansMoleman.jpg

― Partyin', partyin', fun fun fun fun (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 19:49 (fourteen years ago)

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