what is the point of posting?

just placing this here because it seems like something that should come up in a search for this question

there is no goal besides posting. a true poster will always post.

the post creates its point as it is read

i sometimes wonder about the lasting effect of these posts, knowing that they are still here for someone to find years after the fact. they have more permanence than the bits of a conversation have, even if they're never seen again. they're on some map, at least, along with a million other similar points. i still think of the internet in that way, as some sort of evolving guidebook, even though i know i should just be thinking about who is recording this and who they're selling it to

cr1ms0n h3xag0n iirc

xpost

So you want to have some legacy?

they're on some map, at least, along with a million other similar points.

Points or "points"?

'points'

points, though, is the real answer. data points in a series.

So you want to have some legacy?

but this, yes, i think cuts to the point. no pun intended!

maybe not even having a positive legacy, more like not having a negative legacy

FALSE ^^

because not posting at all would also result in a non-negative legacy. it must be about some hope to be positive.

to marvel at my ability to kill threads

phase 1 post
phase 2 ???
phase 3 high status career in elite media

my tables!

i post to give others the gift of me

thank you

thank you

to ward off those who would post otherwise

to give my point of view and see what others think about the subject.
Seems to be true of most things.
& not to be put off posting by others.

ceci n'est pas un post

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_seeking

There are so very many minutes to fill until I finally bite the dust. The heck else am I gonna do with all those minutes? Whittle?

An observation: the more of a point my life seems to have, the less I am likely to post.

ciderpress otm

Low level trolling and making jokes only I find funny usually seem like adequate reasons

aspirational posts here manifest reality in multiple dimensions

https://lisathatcher.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/points_negativland_cover.jpg

where else do i get to talk about the music i enjoy listening to?

This is the closest I’ve ever come to living a “double life.” Even if I tell people I contribute to a messageboard, I don’t think they get the extent of how much I post and how I know like 100 people from here.

In many ways, ilx has shaped my worldview, especially reading the archives when I was in college (before I was a poster). It was a kind of map, then—you could find a multiplicity of perspectives on 1,000 separate topics. Feels less like that now.

It’s still way better than twitter. People aren’t constantly preening for attention on here really—they talk about topics.

An observation: the more of a point my life seems to have, the less I am likely to post.

this is a betrayal

it sounds paradoxical i know but lurkers are posters, perhaps the greatest, most monstrous posters, think of the possibility, the potential to post, as soon as the first one is published the utter nakedness of it puts all the lurked posts in a whole other light, the perverse knowledge of the lurker, knowing that they've been watching all along, listening in, recording their resentments and their objections and their little quips, waiting, waiting, waiting

I dunno, didn't seem to be anywhere else to gush about Life Without Buildings?

It can be comforting to assume a lurker fanbase

To draw lurkers out of their self-imposed abstinence.

Low level trolling and making jokes only I find funny usually seem like adequate reasons

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, November 28, 2019 9:01 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

being selectively social with people across cultures with whom i'd never otherwise interact and reflecting on the follies of myself and others

ceci n'est pas un post

― fetter, Thursday, November 28, 2019 2:27 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

underrated post

Scott Seward to thread

I'm sure the point for me used to be to share and obtain information, but now it's pretty much just to try to stop feeling entirely alone in the world.

^ Ding

Otm-ish, yeah. Fwiw I miss the days you posted more regularly on here emil.y

it sounds paradoxical i know but lurkers are posters, perhaps the greatest, most monstrous posters, think of the possibility, the potential to post, as soon as the first one is published the utter nakedness of it puts all the lurked posts in a whole other light, the perverse knowledge of the lurker, knowing that they've been watching all along, listening in, recording their resentments and their objections and their little quips, waiting, waiting, waiting

― j., Thursday, 28 November 2019 17:47 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

rejected lurker posts are the dark matter of ilx

I'm still around LBI, I just don't feel like I have much to contribute at the moment.