# Am I a lurker? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 19, 2005, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-lurker/295285 "2005-03-19T06:18:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-lurker/295285/21 "2005-03-19T19:42:29Z")
I still consider myself a lurker. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-lurker/295285/22 "2005-03-20T03:51:21Z")
> [@Teelo](#): > > No, it’s just that some people feel the need to post any random thought that pops into their mind. I think I’ll have chicken for dinner tomorrow night. Or maybe pot roast. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Dr.Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Love)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-lurker/295285/23 "2005-03-20T03:57:36Z")
I’m at 0.17 right now, a little over one post every six days. I consider myself a lurker. ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-lurker/295285/24 "2005-03-20T04:19:35Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > BTW…is it true that lurkers wear trench coats when reading SDMB? Yep, and sometimes they open their coats to reveal their privates. Hell, I used to be a lurker, so I should know. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-lurker/295285/25 "2005-03-20T04:36:10Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > Assuming this isn’t a “whoosh”…lurking is only reading, and not posting, on these threads. \*\*Quixotic \*\* was pointing out that he was far more a lurker than the OP. (No need to thank me, Q; don’t mess up your low post count. I note that [**generica**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php?searchid=766152) is a paid-up member with 22 posts in five years. But let me share the legend of [**Steve Schonwald**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=458) He joined in April of 1999. He posted once, two years later. They say that on a cool night when the wind is still … well, I’m an old man. You don’t want to hear my crazy stories. ---
**Author:** ![Teelo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@Teelo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teelo)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-lurker/295285/26 "2005-03-21T07:48:43Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > You talkin’ to me? You talking to ME? 😉 > [@Hal Briston](#): > > I think I’ll have chicken for dinner tomorrow night. Or maybe pot roast. You guys are such asshats. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![cantara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@cantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantara)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-lurker/295285/27 "2005-03-21T15:42:07Z")
Huh, a post party for lurkers. I guess I’ll play…but only once… Despite the low post percentage (.015), I read these damn things daily. [sub]I’m watching you…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![cantara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@cantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantara)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-lurker/295285/28 "2005-03-21T15:45:04Z")
Okay, so that’s why I don’t post often. Not only did I preview and still get the percentage wrong (0.15), but that just looks creepy…er, don’t mind me… ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-lurker/295285/29 "2005-03-21T18:18:54Z")
> [@Teelo](#): > > You guys are such asshats. 😛 Coincidentally enough, my brother-in-law called me the next day and invited the wife and me over for dinner. He made pot roast. Spooky. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![nesta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a4c791/32.png) [@nesta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nesta)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-lurker/295285/30 "2005-03-21T19:27:31Z")
I’m such a lurker that I almost didn’t post because **constantpeace** has posted less than I have. ---
**Author:** ![Noelq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noelq/32/16438_2.png) [@Noelq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noelq)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-lurker/295285/31 "2005-03-21T19:34:03Z")
Jeez. What a bunch of chatterboxes in here! SOME of us are seriously trying to obfusticate ourselves around here. Hmph. ---
**Author:** ![mailman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@mailman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mailman)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-lurker/295285/32 "2005-03-21T19:51:40Z")
I joined on 9.22.02, and my ppd is 0.13. In my defense, I have a job where I actually have to…you know…work. So, I occaisonally have the time, inclination, and interest to post, but mostly I just log on, look for something to make me laugh–and that has never failed yet–and then head back to work. I have to admit wondering how some of my fellow dopers find time to make a living… ---
**Author:** ![BelZarak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BelZarak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BelZarak)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-lurker/295285/33 "2005-03-21T20:30:02Z")
I started lurking back in '99. I joined up on the day that the great WallyM7 passed away. I’m another one that reads almost every day but posts very rarely. -Belz ---
**Author:** ![lexi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lexi/32/6806_2.png) [@lexi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lexi)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-lurker/295285/34 "2005-03-21T20:42:23Z")
Bah - humbug (to most of you anyhow) - I am coasting at 251 posts after 4 years of membership, albeit I did lurk for another year or so before posting. Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 251 ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Gutgore\_Blooddrink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Captain\_Gutgore\_Blooddrink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Gutgore_Blooddrink)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-lurker/295285/35 "2005-03-21T23:26:55Z")
Well, I lurked for a year and a half before signing up, and now that I have, I really haven’t posted all that much in the last few years. My posying habits usually consist of about 15-20 posts on a day of binge drinking and the occasional epiphany that I find witty and hilarious, but nobody else does. I used to get recognized all the time for my user name, but then I changed it…ummmmm…where the hell was I going with this? Oh, yeah…I needed another beer. -The Cap’n ---
**Author:** ![BytopianDream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9de0a6/32.png) [@BytopianDream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BytopianDream)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-lurker/295285/36 "2005-03-22T01:32:58Z")
Pfff, I would post on this thread, but I’m too busy lurking. L@@K!!! Ninjas!!! [poof!] [whooshing sound] I’m sitting at .041 or so. ---
**Author:** ![Shabadu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@Shabadu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shabadu)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-lurker/295285/37 "2005-03-22T02:07:43Z")
I thought that I mostly lurked, but I like to see that others are less posty than I. I joined 08/21/05 and only have 123 (0.13). I mostly read and enjoy what others have to say and do not feel like putting in my own imput. ---
**Author:** ![gfloyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d2c977/32.png) [@gfloyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gfloyd)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-lurker/295285/38 "2005-03-22T16:52:34Z")
I’m don’t consider myself a lurker, even though I only have a .25 ppd count. I joined back in the day in 2001 and never really did much with it. I posted in a GD thread about child abuse when I signed up and then really nothing for a long time. Then I read that it was going to become a paid thing and I sat there thinking about it for a long time. Then, at the 11th hour, or so, on the last day you could sign up at the discounted rates, I signed up. Then I figured that since I pay, I might as well enjoy it. So I never really was a lurker, just I wandered off and have only in the past year come back. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_the_turtle/32/2926_2.png) [@Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_the_Turtle)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-lurker/295285/39 "2005-03-22T21:48:24Z")
I’m at .04 and that doesn’t take into account 2-3 years of lurking before registering (I wanted to do a search!). I’m trying to be more active but I find usually someone will say what I wanted to say before I get there (and almost always says it better anyway). Of course the true lurkers would never respond to this thread… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-a-lurker/295285.md?page=1)