how frequently do you post on ilx?

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i read ilx pretty thoroughly every day but i don't actually post that much compared to a lot of people here. i've got like 4000 posts in 5 years on the site. voted the 2nd option i guess

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daily, more or less

the people who come here once or twice a month probably won't see this thread in time to vote fyi

that's why I said post not visit

just sayin

no it's a good point

too much probably :/

daily

aspie bursts/disappearances

somehow i have said 15,000+ things on ILX. i think i've been here maybe 5 years or so now, so about 10 messages a day.

Who, me?

needed options for hourly, minutely, secondly

In bursts then with the disappearing. Just did some quick math and I've averaged 300-ish posts a year in my nearly eight (!!!) years here, so I guess I sorta average out to posting once a day.

I used to post every day. Now I sometimes forget about ILX for weeks and then come back. I miss it terribly and should make more of an effort to visit it more.

how do you see the number of post you have made?

I think on the main page.

few times a week but i consider myself semi lurker

xpost
click on the Boards link at the top, and then it should tell you how many posts you've made

drunken bursts/disappearances

Don't know how I never noticed that before, 759 messages seems low, but I also had a different log in name years ago.

too much

^^ditto

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people should vote in this, remember this is for science

I voted (semi-lurker).

^ not enough

needs an option for 'every couple seconds'

daily, except for the days after the nights i've been drunk, for fear i posted something untoward

otoh, i didn't see this thread until just now so maybe that's healthy

pretty damn often, obv

I should post more, but I generally only read ILX at work (where posting anything meaningful seems too time-consuming (yes, I know)) or in the evening when I'm h1gh and my posts would lack their usual cogency.

'meaningful' cmon now is this the bar we're setting for ourselves

not "meaningful" like a bob dylan lyric, just not ill-thought gibberish.

like a bob dylan performance

read ilx everyday, but have posted like 1000 messages in 7-8 years so yeah, semi-lurker, without a doubt.

"one of those people who posts in bursts then disappears for long periods", kinda lol bcz once I abruptly stopped posting on ilx after someone zinged me, the ilx surely is an intimidating business

Apparently I've posted 590 times and I've been posting since 2004. I guess my vote of semi-lurker is right.

Never..

i post every day but only on a small handful of threads. i can't keep up with the volume of stuff here enough to comment meaningfully. "meaningfully" because i would like to keep the puns/snark to a minimum.

semi-lurker

somehow i have said 15,000+ things on ILX. i think i've been here maybe 5 years or so now, so about 10 messages a day.

― do it, Rockapella! (Z S), Friday, January 20, 2012 2:38 PM (6 days ago)

^ almost exactly this, except I'm at 17,000+. Rare these days that I go a day without posting - I did manage a whole week recently, but only 'cause we were down.

I totally keep to a handful of threads, though, because if I ranged more widely I'd spend my life reading, posting & (mostly) updating. I probably shouldn't've clicked on this one tbh.

i dunno but i feel i should possibly be aiming for that approach

8,000 posts in 8 years = about 3 posts per day.

where can i see my stats?

7,416 posts/32 months (deducted a month for downtime) = 7.6 per day.

click 'boards' up there ^

Just 7,325 messages. Is that right? Doesn't sound right...

created this account approximately one year ago, have posted 2,942 messages =~ 8.26 messages per day, feels like a lot less

sometimes i feel like a semi-lurker but some of the self described semi-lurkers itt are totally anonymous to me so maybe not

nah you're not a semi-lurker

These stats surely only count from early 2007? Because we all lost our identities when the board went down at the end of 2006 and a new version replaced it a month or so later. I know some people opened a new account with the same name, but lots of people (including me) didn't so there's no way the system can possibly know how many posts I made before then.

FWIW just under 6,000 posts in 5 years (or 8 years if it magically knows my old name). So about three posts a day.

that's never right, surely

little over 1 post per day for 8 years

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jesus christ i have posted 35000 things to here

I don't have detailed Rock Hardy stats, but it looks like I've been averaging about a post a day for 7 to 8 years. That seems really low, though. I know I write several posts a day to get stuff off my chest, then never hit the submit button, but I would have thought that I actually posted closer to 3x/daily.

yeah this was less an attempt at separating the 10 post a day and 3 post a day people and more an attempt at getting an idea of how many lurker-lurkers there were

Jibe shld get an upgrade from semi-lurker to whatever one higher is. dude is always otm.

voted every day. been posting about 3 years, lurked for about a year before that. even so, avg about 20 posts a day which is ridic

(tbf most of those came from darragh baiting me into naive footballing opinions and i have started to learn from my own stupidity.)

do lurkers have accounts?

wish i had lurked before posting

I told them to make accounts at the top of this thread and if they don't they are going to ruin science, so I hope they did

the problem with sb is you can't hit those fuckin lurkers

i love ilx

would be a good site imo

May will be my 11th year of intermittent posting, but I definitely had a 3 or 4 year break where I visited rarely and lurked only - 4,064 messages under this login.. which I started with 6 years ago, Christ I am getting old.. average of 1.8 posts per day by my FFM count. Math!

i love ilx too
i also love lamp

Apparently for a while I was posting under hissisterpam. Who knew? I forgot. I suck at this.

god i average 12.75 a day on the stats for this log-in and it's not the only one i've had

You have posted 23,251 messages

whoa

You have posted 16,606 messages

I felt good about this until I remembered that this is my second login

You have posted 69,254 messages

O_O

i have measured out my life in iffy zings

19,033 messages

Only 967 to go before I hit the big 20K.

You have posted 8,278 messages

I am gonna compile my uh 18,226 messages into a book, and maybe pretend that the narrative is a guy talking to himself

which is probably close to being true regardless

8,348 + 1.

I dont thik I post every day anymore, though I do read ILX most days simply because I'm at work and I work with Internet so its just There. you know?

But I suppose my record speaks for me: Ive made 44,643 posts since Feb 2003. Yike.

of the 9,729,264 messages that have been posted i must have read at minimum 2 million. when i found ilx in 2001 ile was so new i was able to read every existing thread in a few days.

(i was supposed to be finishing a master's thesis and was doing everything i could to avoid it, i also around that time watched an entire five day cricket match even though i hated cricket and couldn't understand the scoring.)

I post a lot but only because I treat ilx like an IRC chat room or maybe an irl conversation. I'm considering changing over to a more formal, agonied format where I spend half an hour on every post, editing the message box, just to maybe improve writing skills or become more principled. but then I'd miss out on all the fun zing wars

yeah I think ilx has made me a worse writer

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13,768 (including this one) since my first post on Jan 27, 2004.

About 5.4 posts per day

3 lurkers??? cmon this whole thing was supposed to be a lurker-trap

I've decided that I'm going to turn over a new leaf on ILX

Would have said a few times a month!

I post a lot but only because I treat ilx like an IRC chat room or maybe an irl conversation.

keep doing this! i love that people do this!

Ok, how the fuck did my laptop manage to log into ILX as my old logname.
(Also, my English is deteriorating. Or I am beginning to be aware that my English is not as perfect as I thought it was. lol)

hemidemisemilurker

keep doing this! i love that people do this!

I'm going to have some drinks and you will looooove meeee in 2012

I felt good about this until I remembered that this is my second login

Oh shit...

I alternate between "every day, pretty much, w/ whatever regular exceptions" and "few times a week". I have posted 16,152 messages.

I have contributed 0.17 percent of ILX content.

one of those people who posts in bursts then disappears for long periods

Long enough that I need to re-register.

how frequently do you post on ilx?

oops I meant to post this in the other thread

yeah I think ilx has made me a worse writer

― iatee, Thursday, January 26, 2012 6:47 PM (10 months ago)

same :(

yeah apparently "lol no" comes across as "flippant" and "not very thoughtful" in a lot of workey contexts it seems.