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.
― treeship., Thursday, 28 November 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
It’s still way better than twitter. People aren’t constantly preening for attention on here really—they talk about topics.
― treeship., Thursday, 28 November 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
An observation: the more of a point my life seems to have, the less I am likely to post.
this is a betrayal
― j., Thursday, 28 November 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
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 years ago) link
I dunno, didn't seem to be anywhere else to gush about Life Without Buildings?
― maffew12, Thursday, 28 November 2019 17:54 (four years ago) link
It can be comforting to assume a lurker fanbase
― imago, Thursday, 28 November 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
To draw lurkers out of their self-imposed abstinence.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 28 November 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
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
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 28 November 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
being selectively social with people across cultures with whom i'd never otherwise interact and reflecting on the follies of myself and others
― ingredience (map), Thursday, 28 November 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
ceci n'est pas un post
― fetter, Thursday, November 28, 2019 2:27 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
underrated post
― Yelploaf, Thursday, 28 November 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
Scott Seward to thread
― Yelploaf, Thursday, 28 November 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
^ Ding
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
Otm-ish, yeah. Fwiw I miss the days you posted more regularly on here emil.y
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
― j., Thursday, 28 November 2019 17:47 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
rejected lurker posts are the dark matter of ilx
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 November 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
I'm still around LBI, I just don't feel like I have much to contribute at the moment.
― emil.y, Thursday, 28 November 2019 22:29 (four years ago) link