# Lurker Record? An ironic challenge **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 5, 2001, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurker-record-an-ironic-challenge/74947 "2001-08-05T02:51:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dead\_Flowers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@Dead\_Flowers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Flowers)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurker-record-an-ironic-challenge/74947/1 "2001-08-05T02:51:53Z")
Who has the earliest “registered” with the least “posts”? I offer this in strange harmony with the relative recent lack of “post parties”. I offer my own record as per the thread title. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurker-record-an-ironic-challenge/74947/2 "2001-08-05T02:59:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dead Flowers \* > \*\*I offer this in strange harmony with the relative recent lack of “post parties”. > \*\* Just hang on for a little while. If I keep posting at my current rate, I should be having my 1000th post party sometime around the end of November. Of course, since I’m still underage, someone else will need to bring the alcohol. ---
**Author:** ![BarnStormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f8ce5/32.png) [@BarnStormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnStormer)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurker-record-an-ironic-challenge/74947/3 "2001-08-05T03:06:42Z")
Lots of people have no posts, going back to 1999 ---
**Author:** ![BarnStormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f8ce5/32.png) [@BarnStormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnStormer)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurker-record-an-ironic-challenge/74947/4 "2001-08-05T03:10:32Z")
The specific answer is the user # 10 **[Profile For jimboy 2/18/1999 Posts=0](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=10)** ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Flowers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@Dead\_Flowers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Flowers)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurker-record-an-ironic-challenge/74947/5 "2001-08-05T03:44:41Z")
Yeah, I guess that jimboy from the Chicago Reader(!) is the answer. Good search, BarnStormer. Somehow I’d imagined that in order to claim the “record” that the lurker would actually have still be lurking and post independently. Hence the irony. Nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurker-record-an-ironic-challenge/74947/6 "2001-08-05T12:43:12Z")
good morning frinds, i don’t know where i fall in the stats, but i have lurked here a long time, and i very rarely post. ---
**Author:** ![Gundhilde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@Gundhilde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundhilde)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurker-record-an-ironic-challenge/74947/7 "2001-08-05T13:56:37Z")
Yeah, me too. I read nearly every day, though. Huh. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurker-record-an-ironic-challenge/74947/8 "2001-08-05T21:18:29Z")
Maybe only those who do post should be considered as they are still “active”. ---
**Author:** ![Kubla\_Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@Kubla\_Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kubla_Khan)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurker-record-an-ironic-challenge/74947/9 "2001-08-06T00:32:41Z")
I’ve read nearly everyday since I registered. Don’t post much though. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Spydergirl\_87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Spydergirl\_87](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spydergirl_87)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurker-record-an-ironic-challenge/74947/10 "2001-08-06T02:47:06Z")
I’m on here almost every day, reading, too…this place is addictive. ---
**Author:** ![JimOfAllTrades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@JimOfAllTrades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimOfAllTrades)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurker-record-an-ironic-challenge/74947/11 "2001-08-06T03:17:37Z")
I’m another 99% lurker. I read the boards almost every day, but only post a few times a month. Ugly ---
**Author:** ![AmbushBug](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ambushbug/32/4600_2.png) [@AmbushBug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmbushBug)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurker-record-an-ironic-challenge/74947/12 "2001-08-06T05:32:07Z")
I too, lurk. Guess I don’t have much to say 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurker-record-an-ironic-challenge/74947/13 "2001-08-06T07:12:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AmbushBug \* > \*\*I too, lurk. Guess I don’t have much to say 🙂 \*\* I have more to say than you - but not much more 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JadedNaive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@JadedNaive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JadedNaive)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurker-record-an-ironic-challenge/74947/14 "2001-08-06T07:15:59Z")
I’m starting to make up for it a bit now, but I didn’t post at all the first two months I was registered. It meant no welcoming posts when I finally did start posting ☹ Now, I’m a binge poster. Sometimes I’ll go a while not posting anything, not really seeing anything I want to reply to, and then I’ll post half a dozen times in one evening. About as unbalanced as my life in general 😛