Most lurkers are more intelligent than you: discuss

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And, by defintion, more intelligent then I (since I've been making posts).

Furthermore, when we log off our computers, all the lurkers, like teddy bears left in a child's bedroom, come alive and have a picnic ... If you go down to the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise: For every lurker that ever there was will gather there for certain because today's the day the lurkers have their picnic.

So, are you forum or against 'em?

― Bubba, Sunday, 18 April 2004 09:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Are they those women in the Dove advert? If so, forum.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 18 April 2004 09:26 (twenty-two years ago)

what's that quote about nobody knowing that you're an idiot til you open your mouth and confirm it? perhaps this is why lurkers are in a stronger position..

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 18 April 2004 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Interesting question. I lurk on some boards but am extremely loquacious on this one. It has to do with knowledge and confidence perhaps.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 18 April 2004 09:30 (twenty-two years ago)

actually most *people* are more intelligent than i am.

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Sunday, 18 April 2004 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I never lurk on any board. I'm a bigmouth.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Sunday, 18 April 2004 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

90% of the population consider themselves of above average intelligence.*fact*

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Sunday, 18 April 2004 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm of the opinion 99% are below average intelligence.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Sunday, 18 April 2004 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Lurkers are all wasting their time.

― Plunging Hen, Sunday, 18 April 2004 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

well that's to take a VERY liberal interpretation of average. or that 1% are much, much cleverer than the others.

XPost

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Sunday, 18 April 2004 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Lurkers are curious and hungry for interesting writing. They are like readers.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 18 April 2004 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)

hey, i'm drunk and i'm talking shit. Give me a break.

x-post

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Sunday, 18 April 2004 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry, ipso. When I was at school in social ed you had to rate your own attractiveness. The best was "very attractive", the second was "quite attractive" and the bottom was "average". there's something wrong there...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Sunday, 18 April 2004 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe there were trying to stop all the negative-type kids choosing "fucking ugly".

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Sunday, 18 April 2004 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Distant lurkers (those who have access to the intenet, but are not even aware of the ilx board's existence) and super distant lurkers (those who are unaware of this board and do not even have a computer) are also wasting their time.

To ipsofacto: Being drunk at 11.45 in the morning (English time) is extremely unkempt, and sozzled loose cannons have been known to shash up the internet with unsafeness. Log off now and make yourself a mug of coffee, and pull your socks up.

― Plunging Hen, Sunday, 18 April 2004 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

it happens to be 8.47pm where I am right now, not to mention that I will get hopelessly drunk at whatever time of the day I see fit :)

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Sunday, 18 April 2004 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Bottoms up, then. But don't say I didn't warn you when the liver hits the fan. I happen to be a fan of Nico.

― Plunging Hen, Sunday, 18 April 2004 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Plunging Hen, are you aware of the ILX board Ask A Drunk?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 18 April 2004 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I was just saying to ipsofacto that painting the town red and then blaming time zones is anti-civilisational.

To the music mole: Ask A Drunk is insania gone wrong. In fact, that whole board can speak to the hand, because my ears ain't listening.

― Plunging Hen, Sunday, 18 April 2004 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Since starting this thread, I have been busy behind the scenes, trading my posting post with a (known) lurker: consequently, this will be my very last post, and no doubt said lurker will make his debut post in due course, using a yet-to-be-announced handle (bubba wasn't part of the deal and so this name will come with me).

Well, the deal has been brokered, the exchange has been done - guiding me steadfastly unto reticence. My replacement will never be an authentic poster. He's like Tom Hanks at the end of the movie, "Splash", forever leaving behind his life on dry land to swim in the ocean with a mermaid: Tom's character knew he could only survive under water if he was physically touching the mermaid at all times. Intuitively, I know the only way this ex-lurker, my exchange-mate, will survive is if his posts are never ignored and he is constantly shown that he's cherished by the other members of the posting community.

I am now a lurker - to you, I am dead; a halo is lurking over my head; the tip of my praying hands is sharp ... When a broadband or a dialup connection leads a newbie in this direction, to post their comments on this forum, I hope a fellow poster will pour 'em a drink, on me; treat them affectionately. My own dialup's generic ring - once so shrill - is softening; each time a ping scanner pings, another lurker gets his wings!

― Bubba, Sunday, 18 April 2004 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Rest assured, we will pour the newbie a drink on you, but it will not be an alcoholic one, if I have anything to do with it.

― Plunging Hen, Sunday, 18 April 2004 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Why'd you write so much? It looks stupid.

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 18 April 2004 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Most people are more intelligent than me, ergo most lurkers are more intelligent than me. Besides, I like being thick. It gives you a sense of purpose.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Sunday, 18 April 2004 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr Mime - a poster of brevity - knows the secret of how to look stupid without breaking sweat.

― Owen, Sunday, 18 April 2004 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Sunday, 18 April 2004 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a lurker because you're all funnier than me.

― syntaxfree (syntaxfree), Sunday, 18 April 2004 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

that's not true.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

This entire thread is a taradiddle of presumptuousness and ironic self-deprecation - it's a bit unpleasant, vastly uncool, and certainly won't make any so called lurkers want to up their involvement.

― Yerma Campion, Sunday, 18 April 2004 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

this place is like the overlook hotel

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 18 April 2004 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

lurkers are those who have been wished into the cornfield.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 18 April 2004 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

When you have FAP's, do lurkers lurk in the vicinity, looking on, but never coming over to the table where the posters are sitting?

― navig star, Sunday, 18 April 2004 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

More importantly, do they send rounds of drinks over?

― penelope_11, Sunday, 18 April 2004 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

we take turns, pretending to be lurkers.

if we're not feeling tired, we say weird things, to one another.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 18 April 2004 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

lurking is nonexisting. when i lurked i did not exist. delurking means being attacked for disrupting the "community"--where you know more about posters than they know about you. just a theory. oh yeah, and i think they hide under the table at FAPs with tape recorders.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 18 April 2004 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr. Mime, if presented with a choice of tactiturnity to general admiration or verbosity to general dismay, I shall always choose verbosity.

In that I resemble the polygamist, who staunchly believes the more his seed is propagated, the better, regardless of law, religion or common sense. No one asks the polygamist to populate the world with miniatures of himself. Indeed they shrink with horror at the very sight of dozens of lop-eared progeny swarming in the foreyard, like so many piglets in an alarmingly large litter.

Needless to say, I persist in writing a multitude of words, despite your sullen insistence on the contrary, and I cast defiance in your teeth; or your lips, if your mouth happens to be closed.

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 18 April 2004 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you think we might be surprised about how many famous people lurk on this board - obsessively totting up the amount of "classic or dud's", "search and destroys", "poo's", they have received; how much attention they're getting in general? Maddonna might know quite a bit about Ned Ragget, for instance, unbeknownst to Ned. Needy for Ned. Celebrities may be stalking the fans (not just theirs) - disempowered by the people taking an interest.

― navig star, Sunday, 18 April 2004 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Like John Cena, you mean?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 18 April 2004 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

marissa marchant.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Sunday, 18 April 2004 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

she's crossed the fourth wall

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 18 April 2004 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

*splat*

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 18 April 2004 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

No, I just meant the ponderous lurker dork.

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Monday, 19 April 2004 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Lurkers had a hit called "I don't need to tell her" in 1979

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 19 April 2004 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

four weeks pass...

But "Aint got a clue" was better. Especially with the "Chaos Bros" flexi...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess I kinda quit lurking, didnt I?

― Spinktor, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

I've lurked for as long as this board's been running (2000?). Never posted before now. Couldn't resist it any longer.

― Chris grass, Monday, 20 June 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

Hey, Chris, why did you change your mind? A sudden drop in IQ? (JOKE!)

― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Monday, 20 June 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

hmm ... Nope, I don't feel any less intelligenter now, I must say.

I think I just think the board needs my input at this stage.

― Chris grass, Monday, 20 June 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

So how do you feel about the evolution of ILX? Has it gotten better, worse or the same? We need an *outsider's* view. ;-)))

― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Monday, 20 June 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

how have you managed to resist posting for 5 years?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 20 June 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

ilx has hardly changed at all over they years. I moved house recently, and now I can hear church bells ringing on the hours as I scroll down the threads.

I've been able to resist posting because I wanted to hear what you all had to say first.

― Chris grass, Monday, 20 June 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

Most LARPers are more intelligent than you: discuss.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 20 June 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

There's not very much that I haven't agreed with on the ilx boards over the years. You seem to have most of the answers, and even when you don't, you're lucid and responsible.

― Chris grass, Monday, 20 June 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

OK. I'm going again, now. You know where I am if you need me. I'll be reading your posts.

― Chris grass, Monday, 20 June 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

You are wasting your time.

― Plunging Hen, Monday, 20 June 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

I've been able to resist posting because I wanted to hear what you all had to say first

me too mostly

― jones (actual), Monday, 20 June 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

All lurkers out there reading this thread, I appreciate you might feel intimidated by our postmodernist wit and perspicacity, but, just this once, if there are any lurkers out there, could you just post us a sign of your presence?

― D, Monday, 20 June 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

*Sun explodes*

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 20 June 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Any sign at all ...

― D, Monday, 20 June 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

I am a living sign

― lurkering, Monday, 20 June 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

There's actually a lot of ILM threads that I never post on because, after long posts by Ned or Tim F. or djdee or whomever, I can't think of anything clever to add. I don't feel this way about any of the other boards, though, and gleefully sprinkle my thoughts everywhere.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 June 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure there's a contingent of lurkers who look in on us like we're the chattering proles -- you know, they find it valuable to look in on what we're saying, but they're above actually stooping to get involved. This is more of an ILM thing, I'd guess. I suppose I do have some firsthand evidence that a few famous/successful writers and/or academics look over the boards now and then, but they could well have other reasons for not actually talking.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

And there's no doubt that loads and loads of media people check in to see what we're talking about, particularly on the ILM side.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

I suppose I do have some firsthand evidence that a few famous/successful writers and/or academics look over the boards now and then, but they could well have other reasons for not actually talking.

They come for the lively debate, they stay for the C-Man.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

I'm not going to post on this thread.

― plebian plebs (plebian), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

Maddonna might know quite a bit about Ned Ragget, for instance, unbeknownst to Ned. Needy for Ned.

Wait, what?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)

Goodness, I was slightly agressive at the start of this thread.

― Making off like a lucky bandit / Kate (papa november), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 05:17 (twenty years ago)

fifteen years pass...

Probably true.

― sock solipsist (pomenitul), Thursday, 24 September 2020 20:31 (five years ago)

yes

― get a mop and a bucket for this Well Argued Prose (Simon H.), Thursday, 24 September 2020 20:43 (five years ago)

the ilx brain drain

― brimstead, Friday, 25 September 2020 00:50 (five years ago)

I'm an instagram lurker... living vicariously through the phony adventures of people I barely know. I can almost taste the pulled pork tacos that one girl had that I don't really know.

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 25 September 2020 01:00 (five years ago)

It's easy to make posts that appeal to the heart, but what about the miiiiinnnnnd?

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 25 September 2020 01:19 (five years ago)

it feels more like my intelligence is dropping fast enough that it may well have dived below the level of the average lurker, but I can't tell for sure

― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Friday, 25 September 2020 02:54 (five years ago)

Whats to discuss

― The Wealth Dad $ |_/ (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 25 September 2020 07:29 (five years ago)

lurking is cowardice, come out you cowards

― O tempura! O scampes! (Noodle Vague), Friday, 25 September 2020 10:50 (five years ago)

come out you lurking fans

― seumas milm (gyac), Friday, 25 September 2020 11:22 (five years ago)

https://sd.keepcalms.com/i/ooh-ah-up-the-ra.png

― O tempura! O scampes! (Noodle Vague), Friday, 25 September 2020 11:25 (five years ago)

What's that old saw about fools flapping their gums all the time and the wisdom of keeping your yap shut fer chrissakes? Probably applies here.

― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Friday, 25 September 2020 11:59 (five years ago)

Besides, pretty much everyone who posts here is smarter than me, so the odds are in the lurkers' favor.

― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Friday, 25 September 2020 12:00 (five years ago)

My child arrived just the other day
He came to the world in the usual way
But there were planes to catch, and bills to pay
He logged into ILX while I was away
And he was posting 'fore I knew it, and as he grew
He'd say "I'm gonna be like you, dad"
"You know I'm gonna be like you"

― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Friday, 25 September 2020 13:17 (five years ago)

-Rufus Marley

― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 September 2020 13:25 (five years ago)

They may be more intelligent, but are they wiser? More charismatic? Stronger? More dexterous? Endowed with a sturdier constitution?

― sock solipsist (pomenitul), Friday, 25 September 2020 13:31 (five years ago)

-L Ron Hubbard

― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Friday, 25 September 2020 13:31 (five years ago)

― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Friday, 25 September 2020 13:33 (five years ago)

Lol

― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 September 2020 13:35 (five years ago)

I bring grave news, fellow posters:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b4/ef/e3/b4efe3e327aa3d9395154f9eb11db63d.jpg

― sock solipsist (pomenitul), Friday, 25 September 2020 14:21 (five years ago)

Mods pls remove that picture of me from pomenitul's post, cheers

― Vinnie, Saturday, 26 September 2020 14:06 (five years ago)

Ngl, it's cool how you subterraneously bridge the gap between D&D and StarCraft.

― sock solipsist (pomenitul), Saturday, 26 September 2020 14:11 (five years ago)

Vicariously enjoying the thrill of people shouting at each other on the internet without being shouted at on the internet is a sign of cowardice - yes; intelligence yes/no

― mediumrarexxl, Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:36 (five years ago)

want to big up the whole lurker massive

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:38 (five years ago)

I was only playing with ya

― Mille scampeaux (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:39 (five years ago)

Not a coward anymore, still in the Ra tho

― mediumrarexxl, Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:43 (five years ago)

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