I’m curious as to how many ‘lurkers’ there are out there, and maybe some of you are too?
Here’s what I’d like (humor me if you will): if you’ve come to this site and are reading this, I’d like you to please post a comment. It doesn’t have to be “War and Peace”, a simple “here” will do as if we were taking attendance (not asking on behalf of the site by the way, just my own personal request here). Its easy to do, make up a username, hell make up an e-mail address if you’d like I’m just curious about numbers, not who you are. If you’d like to though, feel free to tell us a little about yourself or what you’d like to see more of here (this may be a good future poll topic, Thor, if you’re reading this) more restaurant and other reviews? more gossip? non-local items that are interesting or funny grabbed from cyberspace? more UVA related stuff? Like to come here to read, but don’t want to post, thats fine and a simple “here” will do. Heard a good joke and want to share it? Make that your comment.
Thor, Lilith (or D/R), obviously you should feel free to take this down if its none of my business, but I was just wondering… and maybe you were too?
I’ll get the ball rolling with the first comment, unless someone beats me to it. I think the record for comments to a post here is 50something, and I think we can beat that easily…
Should it be 1 comment per person? I don’t know. Lets just see what happens.
Popularity: 3% [?]
Tagged as: Polls, Questions
I’m still trying to figure out exactly what this site is.
*here*
Frrrunkus.
As of yesterday I’m not a lurker anymore, but I was for a few months. Not really into the bar scene I obviously, what got me here was the town gossip and such. I’d love to see more local music related posts (show reviews, links to new bands). There is so much local talent here that often gets overlooked by the big two weekly papers, this site could really fill a void (along with nailgun, which does a really good job by the way).
Maybe members of Beetnix who are also members of the board could post some studio updates, or news on the as of yet unreleased live acoustic DVD? This Means You was just on their first national tour, a recap of that could be cool. i know myspace already has the blogs for this but they seem slow and clunky compared to this site.
Thats all for me…
Are you with the “competition?”
It seems as though we’ve had a lot of “who reads this site” requests recently, which is odd considering no one has asked before. Anyway, we try to ask everyone what they want to see, but usually no one responds to those posts! Maybe they are happy?
We are working on the music stuff. Give us a few weeks.
Hi, I am Reginald Dillwinkle (of the Westbrook Dillwinkles). I am an independantly wealthy gadabout with a drinking problem and I am deeply disturbed the fact that I am getting older. I enjoy long walks on the beach, group sex in vats of Purell, and making satanic necklaces from the teeth of kittens. On this site I would like to have the ability to edit my posts once I have submitted them (esp. this one), the ability to post pictures inline, and more tips and tricks on how to extract GBH from children’s toys. I beg your forgiveness for my lechery, inanity, and dystopically motivated written aphasia in advance.Thank you.
does anyone have a good idea for an advanced comment plugin? I can’t seem to find anything decent.
Hair
How embarrassing to be the 8th to respond to my own post. Oh well. My cloak of anonymity is becoming more and more transparent, three or four of you learned who I am on Sat. night. Just don’t be complete a-holes (like me) and go telling anyone (I’m kidding of course… except about being an a-hole myself, and about the not telling anyone part)
Yo. My identity is clearly very unsecret. Me real good at English.
I’m moving to C’ville from DC in 2 weeks and was on the prowl for something like dcist.com. This seems to be the closest thing out there. I am mostly interested in the music scene, as I have played out a lot in DC and would like to be performing at some point in C’ville as well. Looks like there are plenty of venues out there (in my day it was basically Trax, the Outback Lodge, and the Tokyo Rose) which is cool.
Happily sitting on the sidelines for this one and watching the posts roll in for a change… way to rally the bench warmers, hipster-doofus.
present!
i just found out about this site recently, and it’s now one of my favorite ways to procrastinate. and i second the music suggestion…
pk: be prepared to be treated with scorn, disdain, and dirty looks when people find out where you moved from. c-ville is very .. i don’t know if isolationist is the right word, but the anti-growth/anti-people-moving-here contingent is very strong and vocal.
it’s also apparently very anti-Michael Fitzgerald.
fnord
lurking here
Yeah, I’m here, whaddaya want?
Top o’ the morning.
here.
id definitely be up for trying my hand at some musicy stuff. i think the local focus should be top priority.
Hello and here! I don’t post much in the comments because my life is work, and no one likes to gossip much about politics.
I’m here. Where’s my toilet bowl brush?
I just found this site not long ago. I like to be up-to-date on the local scene.
I’d like to see more C’ville related stuff (restaurant reviews, concert reviews, C’ville gossip, etc.) Maybe a tad less personal chatter?
Can I edit/delete earlier comments I’ve made? Apparently I can be a little funny on Mon. mornings (and all other times) just not “ha ha” funny.
Are you asking ME if I’m part of the competition, Thor? Clearly my identity is more secure than I’d thought. I wasn’t aware that this site has any competition, but if it does, I’m not a part of it. There seems to be a great rapport here often, but then other times not, maybe there isn’t a ‘critical mass’ just yet? but it feels like its close, and I just wanted to see if there are enough lurkers who might be converted to posters/commenters to keep things flowing more smoothly, thats it.
Maybe I should have called this ‘Lurkers Anonymous’ because I too just stopped by to read and see what people were up to for a long while, and though I put my foot in my mouth all the time, it feels better to contribute than sit back and watch.
love the mandrama. keep it up boys.
oh and my friend Charles totally reads this blog but never posts.
called you out!
I know quite a few people who lurk, come to think of it. Don’t make me name names (no need to worry). Are you officially noo noo now ’stead of nay nay? I can’t keep up. Bizarro nay nay?
thanks shannon. i’m here, now. let me know if you want to help me find my car; i lost it during a jagerbomb thing.
Took my degree in ‘86, just cruising by every now and then to see what’s happening in cville.
Guilty as charged. Regular lurker, never a poster. Looking to understand the cvillain world view. I think the beer post will out pull the lurker confessional. I now return to my modern troll like existence.
**hear, hear**
Here - I am a semi-professional lurker - I get the feeling I am much older than everyone on this site and I am 39, but I could be wrong. I am vicariously enjoying the crazy nightlife
So, I type words and they appear on the website. How cool! What a world we live in where my randomest thoughts can be preserved in public for anyone to see. I promise to abuse that privelege profusely and without a trace of honor. Honestly, I’m more a drive-by kind of lurker, than a drop-by.
Present and accounted for.
Thor, regarding comments plug-in, I did a little research for ya awhile back and forgot to post it. Wordpress seems to have terrible plug-ins for comments while Moveable Type has fantastic ones. I think any Wordpress users have to take existing plug-ins and then customize them. I’m sure you’ve seen this list:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Comments
There are some plug-ins that allow live previews, but they don’t get high marks. Maybe post the question about comments preview/edit on the Wordpress forums?
http://wordpress.org/tags/comments
Sorry I can’t be more help, I tried!
present and accounted for
I agree with a few of the earlier posts that something focused on the music scene here in the ‘Ville would be great….and I agree with Tidalbomb saying a lot of great things are overlooked by the 2 weekly circulars….It would be cool if there was a way Thor or Lillith could do interviews through email or something as to not give away their identity…I think thats it for now
DJ XSV
lurkee, I can assure you that you are not the oldest on the list (without giving too much away…).
Not a lurker, just not a prolific poster.
Present. I read for the restaurant reviews and local gossip. We’re too old to party with you, but we do remember what it was like.
Well I’ve been on tour the past few days, so I haven’t been able to comment as much as I’d like. HERE!
Lots of request for local music related stuff… well here’s one lil tid bit:
A local band is opening up for Man Man on the 19th at the Satellite Ballroom! Holy Shit! I would add one of those smiley faces here if I knew how to do that.
Also: At our SoHo gig I saw a wine bar a block away called “Inoteca”…; and right next to the club we played at, Paul Curreri and Devon Sproule were performing. KOSMIC!
I was led here by XSV. I can’t say anything about him that hasn’t already been said about Barry Manilow.
I lurked for a few months, but couldn’t resist joining in the commenting and posting. I’ve lived in C’ville for almost 10 years–moved here from Buffalo, NY. Currently a nursing student.
Here…
lurking…
Rarely post, LOVE to lurk. so “here”:)
i’m fried from schoolwork
[insert funny joke here]
I’m fried from work, and I wanna get baked…
Here, occassionally.
A little worried lately about the same 5 kool kids using the comments as a message board for in-jokes, but here for the news and gossip of Cville.
Counted! I posted a few times, but I found the same thing that KCB remarked about the in-jokes. But, I keep the headlines coming to my email inbox and I scan them for nuggets. I am not much into the bar scene and I am mildy concerned by the sexual overtones, but I like hearing about music and local restaurants (and I don’t have to let my kid read the rest).
Okay, I came to you only recently. After cvillenews.com you are my number one local news source. Keep it up.
Jeez KCB, CrowdedMill… I might resemble those remarks. But really, my jokes are not “in”, they are just dumb. I am about as far from a cville insider as you can get, am definitely not a kid, and if I can’t be dumb on the intarweb, then where, really? And dig, assume for a moment mine and others comments *were* inside jokes. You say you come for the “gossip” which is kinda defined as the “inside” story… but you don’t wanna be in on the inside ‘joke’ part of that? Like what, just the ‘real estate’ part? The ‘entree’ part? The ‘did sting sing message in a bottle’ part? I dunno. To each his own I suppose.
You know, I don’t who you have in mind as the kool kid five, so i don’t know if this response is out of line or what… but regardless, there is one way to dilute those sorts of things - by posting more *yourself*. Bring *your* questions, ideas and whatnot in on it and you relegate those dastardly kool kids to at least a much lower saturation level on these boards. Its simple math, really. I’ll even stay out of your threads so you grownups can discuss the Paramount presents Sissy Spacek: What I Had for Breakfast - A Retrospective dryly over chardonnay, blissfully insulated from even the most ill concieved attempts at lame humor, inside or otherwise. I promise. I’ll be in the bus station with oy getting hammered and singing sea shanties anyway.
In closing, I am very sorry if I personally had anything to do with making your villain experience even slightly less than adequate. And I am terribly sorry to hear about your sense of humor cancer. Damn. See? I can’t ever quit while Im ahead. Sigh. Seriously. My bad.
/is it can be hugs time now?
’sup yo, I don’t know how I feel about those comments myself… we here do jump into and out of threads that have nothing to do with the ongoing dialogue, but I think it keeps things moving and facilitates an ongoing ‘conversation’ among anyone who wants in. It doesn’t take long when reading these comments to figure out if they’re pertinent to the original topic or not, and though ‘threadjacking’ does happen, its usually for a few comments and thats it. I don’t think I’d be here if things were rigid and humorless (I know I wouldn’t). I don’t know if there’s a solution but I say let ‘yo be ‘yo and keep it comin’
Those poll numbers speak for themselves, and you’re still ahead of ‘none of the above’ by slightly more than the margin for error. You may find me hangin’ round the cafeteria just to bask in your popularity, so you’re definitely one of the kool-kids, and its not for you esophagus.
As for me.. I’ve got two votes for and two votes against?!? Does that add up to four, or none? Can I get a ruling on that…?
sadly,
-doof
Oh boo hoo hoo I want gossip but I don’t want those of you who ran into each other the other night to make jokes about it ‘cuz then I feel left out because I don’t go anywhere cool. And don’t talk about sex, because I was hoping my kids could hang out on here and post too. Boo hoo hoooooo….
Sea shanties? Sweet - spin me some Pogues, Yo.
Sea shanties… you know…
“Well I love to go swimmin with bowlegged wimmin and…
**Bzzzzt!***
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Yeah, ok, I’m here. Don’t you have web stats or something? Who is the competition, by the way?
I don’t know why.
lurking since y’all hit the net
Gosh, Belmont Yo, you just apologized for something I don’t think you should be sorry for. You are 100% correct that this type of communication forum is flavored by the posters, not the lurkers. I wasn’t complaining about it, just commenting on it. I just relocated to the area from PA, so this is a good source of ’stay away from restaurant ‘X’, and you should really try ‘Y’. As for getting involved and posting more, I am more of a http://www.boardgamegeek.com kind of guy, personally.
I checked out dcist dawt com last night just to compare, since its mentioned by a commenter, and I have to say its a much more polished and sophisticated product and no fun at all. Very slick, very colorful and lots of professionally written (paid writers?)posts, but hardly any comments (about half had 0). The post about someone at the Washington Post calling ex-Mayor Barry a crack-addict and subsequently being suspended by the paper for it had 30 comments, and thats the most I saw, with the next highest total being about 10. And each comment addressed the story directly “it’s not right! he shouldn’t have been fired.” No back and forth between dcists, and nothing that would even bring a smile to your face (I was going to post “crack-addict, that’s nuthin. I heard he takes it up the ass for $$$” just to see if it would even make it on, but I think they live in fear of offending advertisers) and thats a site in a city the size of DC! Its the kind of site I’d visit for 5 minutes every day or two to keep up with stuff that flies under the radar of the newspapers, but thats it. Please don’t turn this into that.
Just my humble opinion.
oh, and ‘yo, I heard if you fill Bea Arthur with nitrogen you can still bounce a quarter off her ass, something not done since the twenties. (how’s that for a time machine, thor?)(now that I’ve seen the alternative, I appreciate the culture bashing and mindless stuff a little more)
fill Bea Arthur with nitrogen
I’ve never filled her with nitrogen, but I did fill her with nitrous oxide once… man, we all laughed that day.
stay away from restaurant ‘X’
Be careful what you say, they are an advertiser.
you should really try ‘Y’
Isn’t “eating at the Y” a euphamism for cunnilingus? Sexual content. Again. Better watch it.
Sea shanties?
Yeah, you know, like ” I love to go swimmin with bowlegged wimmin and swim between their////%%%
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Yo here. Just testing the posty thingy. Haven’t be able to post since last night…
Did I get banninated?
Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: “Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed.”
“OH NO!” the President exclaims. “That’s terrible!”
His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.
Finally, the President looks up and asks, “How many is a brazillion?”
Chad: Thanks for the heads up. Yeah, there’s an anti-growth thing going on, but I’m sure I can survive it. It’s funny that people think C’ville is sprawly, if you ask me. We’re moving to C’ville precisely BECAUSE our other options in DC were a) go broke paying our mortgage or b) live in f’ing Warrenton or Leesburg and spend our lives stuck in traffic. Now THAT’S sprawl.
Hipster: Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying this site SHOULD be more like dcist. I’m just saying that dcist is useful for what it is - a kinda bloggish news site that is way less stodgy than the newspapers and better-written than the City Paper - and I thought it would be useful to find something in C’ville that was similar. That’s not what this is, and that’s cool. You asked how people found this site, and I’m just explaining how I got here.
Hey guys, just “a little worried”. Not so much where the conversation is now, just where it might go if it gets too “insidery”. No biggie, didn’t mean to get all dean wormer on you (how’s that for a dated pop culture reference). Just stay within driving distance of the topic every now and then and it’s all good. Have a good time , just leave enough space under the big tent for those of us who have a hard time staying up past midnight (who am I kidding, 10 p.m.)
Dean Wormer will never be a dated reference. And if it ever does become one, well, I’m not sure I want to live in a world where that is true.
“Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life son.”
pk: same boat, I came here from fairfax, so I certainly know the situation there.
Hey KCB… The Flotentots were skrelming down at the old basket basin last night, and Uncle Deke got a little “bloviated” on Hardcut, so the toasty posty scene was a totally in the red drawer again, if you know what I mean, and I know you do. *wink* So its all good.
Lurking….and trying to insert under the radar bad jokes every now and again.
Right ….. um, (flailing desperately), so, did you go to UVA? Boy, traffic around here really stinks. Ah, I do so enjoy “getting down” verbally with the young people.
Nope, wasn’t a Cavalier, I was a Gaucho, although they are both somewhat well dressed horsemen of ambiguous purpose. UCSB, baby. Class of (ready for it?) 1990. Young people, indeed.
But all of this is waaaayyy of topic. So. Have you eaten at restaurant Y? You oughtta try it. Hee hee…
*here* Lurking a few weeks, posted twice about beer (yum)
decided to change my name from “Jenee” to “Nee Nee” when I saw you might have a Shuh-naynay lol! (and I bet I’m the oldest). Considering a move from PGH……..considering it more and more, so there you anti-growth mongers!
lurkin’ and learnin’ more about my town with each visit
i’m impressed with the record comments.. maybe people didn’tt know they can use fake emails…
Here! Can’t resist the weekend party posts, even though they make me feel old and hopelessly uncool at 31.
I read this site because I visit Charlottesville often although I don’t live here.
Checkin’ in, late as usual. Belmont yo- glad you moved over, c-list is beat as hell. *although bony motel took me a sec to get- touche`*
here
here. I’m with Kt, too old to party with you. Been there, old school C&O, trax, zippers, etc….too crowded now with newbies, just curious to see what will happen with our little town.
I too was led here by the super sexy XSV. No posting or commenting though… up until now that is.
batesville ho = hottest variant evar!
here