deconstruct the psyches of lurkers who only post on What Do You Look Like threads

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A curious phenomenon.

― Aaron A., Saturday, 16 April 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Ir is, yes. Curious that their own input is by means of a picture, and not the written word, on a message board. Perhaps it's a means of having some sort of presence on the board, yet also maintain a distant aloofness at the same time?

― AdrianB (AdrianB), Saturday, 16 April 2005 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't think ive ever noticed a lurker posting on a WDYLL?

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 16 April 2005 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I know the problem is more complex than having more confidence in one's looks than one's mind, or just trolling for a 'YER CUTE!!', but I can't get a handle on it

― Aaron A., Saturday, 16 April 2005 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I have this weird to-post-a-pic-or-not-to-post-a-pic inner dialogue whenever a new WDYYLL thread goes up. There's a feeling of conflict over what degree of visibility I want to have here. God knows I already post like a mofo here, and I've been coming here less than a year.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 16 April 2005 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm kind of with Jed - are there really many such people?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 16 April 2005 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Scores. Trust me!

― Aaron A., Saturday, 16 April 2005 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't believe in trust i believe in proof, goddammit.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 16 April 2005 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

are you referring to people who only post onto those threads at all, or people who dont have time to make 68465148 posts a day?

― Actor Sizemore fails drug test with fake penis (jingleberries), Saturday, 16 April 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

well, like, who the hell is this for instance

http://kuci.org/~nraggett/nedwedding.jpg

― Aaron A., Saturday, 16 April 2005 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

anyway I'm having trouble furnishing proof all of a sudden. weird.

― Aaron A., Saturday, 16 April 2005 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

That's Ian Gillan's brother, isn't it?

― Failin Huxley (noodle vague), Saturday, 16 April 2005 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

whoever it is, he should post more!

― Aaron A., Saturday, 16 April 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I read a post of his once.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 16 April 2005 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw him in Wayne's World, I think.

― Frogman Henry, Saturday, 16 April 2005 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

His hair's all different now anyway.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 16 April 2005 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2004-07-01/movie_repfeature-1.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 16 April 2005 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I've heard of that dude with the purple tie.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 April 2005 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Purple? That's BLUE!

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 16 April 2005 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Ahem. As the owner of the tie in question, I tell you it is purple.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 April 2005 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Either you're colour-blind, or that photo isn't right somehow then. Blue, I tell you, Blue!

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 16 April 2005 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

QUESTION NOT THE TRUTH

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 April 2005 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i agree with caitlin!

― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 16 April 2005 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

If that's not blue. I'll ~~run naked through the streets of LA~~be very shocked

― Dave B (daveb), Saturday, 16 April 2005 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

You people, I swear. The photo may well give a different impression but I am typing with the tie right next to my keyboard and it is a gorgeous purple silk tie, definitely NOT blue. So hush.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 April 2005 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

IT'S BLUE WHEN LACK OF COLOR CORRECTION SAYS IT'S BLUE, PROFESSOR LONGHAIR.

Before:

After:

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 16 April 2005 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Eh... it's still blue.

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 16 April 2005 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Time to find out who's sneaking into your place and switching your ties around, eh?

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 16 April 2005 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Whatever the color, he sure is happy!

― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Saturday, 16 April 2005 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i would be happy if i were wearing a purple tie!

― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 16 April 2005 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

deconstruct the psyches of lurkers who only post on What Do You Look Like threads

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 16 April 2005 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

already!

― Aaron A., Sunday, 17 April 2005 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Forget that, it's about me and my ties now. Which since I'm such a lurker makes sense.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 17 April 2005 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

furnish us with some evidence A.A. and we shall get on it!

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 17 April 2005 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

real answer here - they aren't lurkers at all. we usually just aren't paying attention before we know what they look like.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 17 April 2005 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Kim got it in one. I'm imagining Aaron has gone "who the hells that?" to more than one regular, by the sounds of it...

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 17 April 2005 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pretty sure I'm guilty of this, but I can explain! I started posting semi-regularly on ILX (after lurking for a good year) right before I came to University, when I posted some what-do-you-look-like pictures to get my name and face out there. Then school busied me up and I went back to simple non-committal lurking.

Though the "YER CUTE"s were a huge ego boost, which was nice. They said I had pretty eyes.

― chrisco (chrisco), Sunday, 17 April 2005 05:10 (twenty-one years ago)

they say that to everyone, kid.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 17 April 2005 05:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Ego destruction!

― chrisco (chrisco), Sunday, 17 April 2005 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

We really like eyes!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 17 April 2005 05:41 (twenty-one years ago)

This one time, this guy posted his pic, and his eyes were totally missing, and we've been haunted ever since.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 17 April 2005 05:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I just wonder about those people who posted to the "Introduce Yourselves!" threads and have never posted here again.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 17 April 2005 05:46 (twenty-one years ago)

chrisco, you ARE cute! i was just looking at some old WDYLL threads, and i saw your photo again, and i was like whatever happened to that guy! he was cute!

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 17 April 2005 06:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I just wonder about those people who posted to the "Introduce Yourselves!" threads and have never posted here again.

yes yes yes a far more common subset. i've said it before, but if your first post on ilx ever is on an introduce yourself thread, then the chances are very slim that you'll last. my theory being that regulars just start posting whenever and wherever they feel like, and don't *need* an introduce yourself thread to break the ice.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 17 April 2005 06:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Crisco you're the Donnie Darkoesque guy, yes? You are cute =)

If I have that wrong, please beat me about the noggin.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 17 April 2005 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's because there are a lot of people who have been here a long time, and who are friends with ilxors offline. I don't have time to post very much, but I know friends read the board and will see my pix.

Actually, I haven't seen anyone on the picture threads whose name I don't recognize, but I've been around here a lonnng time.

― Shatterproof Glass (dymaxia), Sunday, 17 April 2005 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

What about posters who only lurk on What Do You Look Like threads? Even if I had a digital camera I'd probably continue my vicarious enjoyment of the regulars' pix. Maybe I still feel like a newbie, because I started posting here before I began to understand ILX.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 17 April 2005 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe lurkers are lurkers in real life too and are comfortable being *seen* and *not heard* - and are posting on "What do you look like?" threads to keep their on & off line personas in accord.

― miele kitty (miele), Sunday, 17 April 2005 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe I still feel like a newbie, because I started posting here before I began to understand ILX.

Man, does *anyone* understand ILX? I just beat it into submission (with love).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 17 April 2005 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

The tie is blue.

― miele kitty (miele), Sunday, 17 April 2005 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

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Funnily enough, I *am* wearing a Windy and Carl t-shirt and jeans shorts today. No tie, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

You could wear the tie as a belt.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 April 2005 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

wear it tied around your head!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 18 April 2005 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

tie + coat hanger = BUNNY EARS!!!!!!!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 April 2005 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

You turning me into Donnie Darko or something? ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 18 April 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Cut the tie into little pieces and mail each piece to everyone on this thread. Then, everybody will be happy (perhaps except for you, because you'll need to buy a new tie).

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 18 April 2005 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 18 April 2005 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

10. Martin proceeds to flirt shamelessly with all of the above, as well as any of the other Women of the Thread.

Damn, I thought I'd cut that back hugely after some aggressively negative comments about my attitudes (which I don't take that quote as). I even try to limit the simple compliments now, because although the only nasty comments I've received have always been 'I think you're bothering other people' rather than anything like 'you're bothering me', it did concern me. Actually I can't recall ever deliberately flirting with anyone on any of those threads.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Martin, like half of the things that have been put on this numbered list of top ten things that always occur on those threads don't actually occur on 50% of them so I wouldn't sweat it too much.

― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Yup. Last night I checked the latest WDYLL thread and none of what I said appeared there. Except maybe a Nick with a coffee cup.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi hi!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not inaccuracy that concerns me, it's that I got a couple of very aggressively nasty comments about my attitudes to women on this board. I'm slightly encouraged that they have only come from men, but they still worried me. It's why I completely stopped posting on the underwear version of the threads under discussion.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

this is happening again

― wanko ergo sum, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

And my tie is still purple.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

@#*($&)@# BOXCAR BOXCAR BLUE!

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

hi katharine! who's your husband?

-- jaymc (webmail), April 17th, 2005 3:04 PM.

ha

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

This i still vexing. As I am not seraphim, I cannot name all the stars in the heavens of ILX. So out these folx making their 1k-word posts in .jpg form! I don't believe this phenomenon is entirely true.

http://a6.vox.com/6a00c2251c69bcf21900c2252026f68e1d-200pi

― Abbott, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 05:52 (nineteen years ago)

ma na ma na

― kenan, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 06:09 (nineteen years ago)

no, it's prolly not as common as any one person may notice, because like you said, none of us know everyone else. But I swear there are people who arrive from nowhere, look good, and slink back into the seedy lurker underbelly of ILX.

― kenan, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 06:11 (nineteen years ago)

I do this! It's mostly because of the fact that my English (the phrases-constructing/grammar part, reading's not that much of a problem) is not good enough to post anything other than pictures.

― Gaia1981, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 06:29 (nineteen years ago)

well, for everyone's sake, i hope you're pretty. :)

― kenan, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 06:31 (nineteen years ago)

That tie is very blue.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 06:32 (nineteen years ago)

Here's a random question: are people aware of my existence? I've been posting occasionally for like 5 years now, and I get the feeling that only about 2 people have any impression of me (maybe Grady and J-Rock - both because of past and present geographical proximity). Although I did get Momus to befriend me on the Japanese equivalent of my space.

― Super Cub, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 06:37 (nineteen years ago)

to mine eyes, there *is* a bit of red in it. Just to be fair. But yeah, I would never call it purple.

― kenan, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 06:37 (nineteen years ago)

Here's a random question: are people aware of my existence?

Yeah, totally -- you're going to be the guy getting hammered with Grady and my sis and myself and whoever else in October. Simple!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 06:43 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, the tie is purple, everyone else is color-blind and I'm going to bed.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 06:43 (nineteen years ago)

Yep, I've seen you posting Super Cub

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 06:45 (nineteen years ago)

x-post

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 06:45 (nineteen years ago)

Yay! I feel affirmed now.

― Super Cub, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 06:49 (nineteen years ago)

ned, color blind does not explain it. that's a red-green issue, not a red-blue issue. trouble is, you actually own the tie, and we have only seen a crappy picture of it.

― kenan, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 06:51 (nineteen years ago)

If Ned needs to call it purple when it is clearly blue, well ...eggplant? is that a colour truce? Aubergine?

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

heh. There can be no truce when Ned is the dissenter, and he also owns the tie.

(Though I hope maybe not anymore... that's an awful tie, no matter what color you name it with.)

― kenan, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 06:57 (nineteen years ago)

Hehe I only ever really post on LOST and Heroes threads... and occasionally chime in on a couple of ILM ones. I have yet to post anything on the WDYLL threads although I'm always thinking I should.

(that tie looks blue to me)

― Roz, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 07:13 (nineteen years ago)

(it also looks like it was purchased in 1985.)

― kenan, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 07:17 (nineteen years ago)

Here's a random question: are people aware of my existence?

I definitely do! I love your handle (what a dreadful word)!

― nathalie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 07:22 (nineteen years ago)

I like Ned's blue tie, it goes with his eyes.

― C J, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 07:30 (nineteen years ago)

super cub i know you. i mean, not "know" you, but i've seen your name around. i love the question though because i wonder the same thing about myself.

― jergincito, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

deconstruct the psyches of lurkers who only post on What Do You Look Like threads

Maybe "What do you look like?" is the only question they can answer.

― onimo, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

wear it tied around your head!

haha I did this on wdyll thread

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

So... about this "jessie"

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

stop being obsessed with me.

― jessie monster, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

i love you both but cut it out

― ghost rider, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

8080

― jessie monster, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

maybe next month you can take a picture outside your dorm room with a real camera and real friends?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

dude what the fuck is your problem.

― jessie monster, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

;_;

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

This is just how he flirts Jessie. Pay him no mind.

― kv_nol, Thursday, 5 April 2007 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

Next he'll start pulling your hair and calling you names. Finally you'll get a badly made Valentine's Card and an awkward lunge. Try not to judge him too badly.

― kv_nol, Thursday, 5 April 2007 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

like Ned's blue tie

I misread this as blue tits. WTF is wrong with me?

― nathalie, Thursday, 5 April 2007 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing, I mean, at least you didn't think they were purple tits.

― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

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