What do you think is the cumulative word count of ILX?

there's 10 million posts, so assuming each post has at least one bona fide word, the answer is pretty trivial

oh. i didn't see those stats on the homepage. a mod can take this down if they want.

maybe you could change it from word count to animated gif count

you could do a poll on how posts on ILX are actually worthwhile and host a good old fashioned thread of fights and sadness. those are always fun.

the gif one would be ok. a mod would need to change it, and also the options, because i doubt there is more than 500k gifs

*are

500,000-1 million words

Z S alone has posted 2.8 million animated gifs to ilx

thanks to the browse by date feature, you can read all of ilx in chronological order and pretend it's an experimental novel. I'm up to July 2006, but I'm getting increasingly fed up with all the Guess Papers and Oink invites subplots when I really just want to know whether the popists will defeat the rockists (*no spoilers please*). "read all of ilx" is on everyone else's bucket lists too, right?

omg i didn't know about that feature. thanks unregistered! i think i'd rather read this than finnegans wake, which i started last year but gave up on

How many original words tho

maybe the poll should be "how many words, excluding and, if, but, is, how, the, a, an, or, and all forms of to be."

beat the hell out of Proust at any rate, zxpost

i don't think so

;-)

but better than infinite jest i imagine

fp'd u for that one

what does that mean? is that a hex?

thanks to the browse by date feature, you can read all of ilx in chronological order and pretend it's an experimental novel.

Pro-tip: don't actually do this

i'm doing it now. it seems like many of those same people who posted back then are still here, which is cool.

also, i assume that hurting 2 is hurting's son and heir, right?

thanks to a weird time travel glitch, certain posts from 2006 are dated Feb. 26 2000, so you can skip ahead to August 2000 without missing any major plot points.

that one weird trick for saving twenty minutes of a decade-long archival research project that the mods don't want you to know about

one of the hardest parts is keeping track of Pappawheelies I through VIII. it helps to sketch out a family tree. too bad ILX The Novel doesn't have any maps or genealogical tables in the front matter.

i am going to pitch this as an ebook to all the major publishing houses btw

i only come in at the end, like tom sawyer

in the bestselling ebook version (i don't think it's possible to make a print copy tbh) i am going to insert my name earlier on, and credit myself with all of the most brilliant posts. fair warning.

I don't care what you do as long as you credit it to "Ned Raggett et al." and send me a generous 0.05% of the royalties.

nabiscotreeship otm

0.005% and i will credit you with five classic, mid-decade nabisco posts xpost

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My last 10 posts average about 50 words each. 14,000 posts x 50 words = 700,000 from me...conservatively, knock that down to 500,000. Right now, I'm .00129 of all ILX posts ever--between 1/10 and 2/10 of one percent. 500,000/.00129 = 387,596,899. So about 400 million words.

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words, words, words

i am going to pitch this as an ebook to all the major publishing houses btw

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