# Lurkers Anonymous: Roll Call **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 2, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-anonymous-roll-call/315368 "2005-08-02T22:23:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![HillKat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/838e76/32.png) [@HillKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HillKat)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-anonymous-roll-call/315368/81 "2005-08-05T19:52:38Z")
…with the usual problem… What I would say has already been said, several times over, and very well. This is a great place to spend WAY too much time. It may be SDBB that finally pushes me into a speed reading course. HillKat ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-anonymous-roll-call/315368/82 "2005-08-05T20:43:01Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Well, I lurked for several months after taking about a year off from even checking in. I finally paid to be a member (actually, my membership was paid by another) back in April or May this year, but had been lurking (in the sense of just reading) for the fun of it with no malice aforethought. > > What’s your motive in Lurking, **Nic2004**? Sorry for the delay in replying. I think there is a great deal of information to be found and interesting conversations, both serious and fun, and I have always felt the words > [@](#): > > No One ever learned anything while speaking. is a very wise insight and one to which I ascribe. It is nice to be able to ease-drop and determin the content and tone of a thread and deceide then to leave, listen or go once more into the breech. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![zeldarae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/f14d63/32.png) [@zeldarae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zeldarae)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-anonymous-roll-call/315368/83 "2005-08-05T22:12:12Z")
Lurker and avid reader checking in. This board feeds into my need to people-watch. By the way, _ **Zeldar** _, is your name in anyway related to mine (my mother’s first and middle name mashed together)? ---
**Author:** ![Promethea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Promethea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Promethea)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-anonymous-roll-call/315368/84 "2005-08-05T22:16:15Z")
Hi, I’m Promethea and I’m a lurker - mostly because I’m a little intimidated by the sheer size of the board membership - I’m still trying to get a feel of who everyone is. Plus, I find that sooner or later someone says what I would have said in any given thread anyway. On the rare occasions I post, I generally post in Cafe Society, but am also working my way up to IMHO and MPSIMS. I don’t believe I will ever brave it in The Pit but hope to reach Great Debates one day 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-anonymous-roll-call/315368/85 "2005-08-05T22:26:27Z")
> [@zeldarae](#): > > Lurker and avid reader checking in. This board feeds into my need to people-watch. > > By the way, _ **Zeldar** _, is your name in anyway related to mine (my mother’s first and middle name mashed together)? Sorry, **zeldarae** , mine is just a name I made up for a goofy story I wrote back in the 80’s for a Commodore BBS I was messing around with. I do have a cousin whose name is a hybrid of two aunts’ names, so I do know the sort of thing you’re describing. (Something about this feels like deja vu. Have we had this conversation before? If not, somebody else’s handle is similar to ours.) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-anonymous-roll-call/315368/86 "2005-08-05T22:28:11Z")
> [@Promethea](#): > > Hi, > > I’m Promethea and I’m a lurker - mostly because I’m a little intimidated by the sheer size of the board membership - I’m still trying to get a feel of who everyone is. Plus, I find that sooner or later someone says what I would have said in any given thread anyway. > > On the rare occasions I post, I generally post in Cafe Society, but am also working my way up to IMHO and MPSIMS. I don’t believe I will ever brave it in The Pit but hope to reach Great Debates one day 🙂 I know just what you mean about the Pit. I don’t let myself get that pissed off! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-anonymous-roll-call/315368/87 "2005-08-05T22:35:03Z")
**zeldarae** , check out [this post/thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=4136601&postcount=91)😉 ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-anonymous-roll-call/315368/88 "2005-08-06T09:04:54Z")
Hello, young lurkers, whoever you are! I used to wonder why almost no one replied to my posts. Then I realized they were expecting me to reply to theirs, if anything. After that, I didn’t worry too much about getting feedback. Now it comes at the most unexpected times and from people that I have no idea have noticed me. Sometimes they curse. 😉 One of the best things about posting is that I keep refining what I believe. One warning though. When I delurked for the first time ever in a chat room, the first person to respond ended up married to me! We have grandchildren! Danger! Danger! ---
**Author:** ![Yogurt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/f0a364/32.png) [@Yogurt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yogurt)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-anonymous-roll-call/315368/89 "2005-08-06T09:10:39Z")
I started lurking in the fall of 2003. When the board switched to paid subscriptions I thought about joining and even created an account, but alas I failed to join and put it off for another year. This year I couldn’t pass up the $9.95 offer and finally stepped out of the shadows… slowly attempting to force my lurking into remission. ---
**Author:** ![Nymphadora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/aeb1de/32.png) [@Nymphadora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nymphadora)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-anonymous-roll-call/315368/90 "2005-08-06T11:41:00Z")
I can’t believe I’m actually posting 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-anonymous-roll-call/315368/91 "2005-08-06T12:09:49Z")
> [@Nymphadora](#): > > I can’t believe I’m actually posting 😃 So glad you chose here to do so. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-anonymous-roll-call/315368/92 "2005-08-06T13:58:24Z")
Hey, Lurkers Anonymous, let me ask if you think this would be ethical or not, and whether you would want to participate or not. Let’s say you’re lurking along and you spot a post by somebody who’s obviously Lurker’s Anonymous material, but (as far as you can recall) hasn’t posted to this thread. What would be wrong with using your mouse to highlight the portion of the post where it shows the Username, Post Count and Join Date, doing a “copy” of that data, and coming here to “paste” that data into a new post here? As you may have seen, I’ve been doing that to all the posts from this thread and making a Notepad file with that data sorted by Join Date so I can post updates here from time to time. One neat thing about the updates is that some time in the future if your posting frequency picks up to the point that you lose your Lurker status, you could check back on this thread to see what your post count was in August 2005. I won’t do this sort of thing unless there’s a strong sentiment that it’s okay to do it, but if you would express an opinion it can help me decide the value of it. Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![LucyInDisguise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucyindisguise/32/18064_2.png) [@LucyInDisguise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LucyInDisguise)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-anonymous-roll-call/315368/93 "2005-08-06T16:03:03Z")
Just had to toss my name into the ring. (By the way, she’s a he, not a she … [It’s a long story …)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5725208&postcount=13) Would probably post more if I didn’t have to work for a living. [Professional Driver - people keep running over the extension cords - besides, would you feel comfortable knowing that the driver of the 105,000 pound tanker behind you was posting to the SDMB???] :eek: Good to see y’all here. ---
**Author:** ![Honesty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f04885/32.png) [@Honesty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honesty)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-anonymous-roll-call/315368/94 "2005-08-06T16:20:29Z")
Habitual lurker for sometime now. 😉 Though I’ve been trying to post more. ---
**Author:** ![Sine\_Nomine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sine_nomine/32/513_2.png) [@Sine\_Nomine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sine_Nomine)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-anonymous-roll-call/315368/95 "2005-08-06T16:58:50Z")
Hey, how’s it going there! Like others in this thread, I have been reading these boards for a long time, but rarely come up with anything useful to contribute. So now that I’ve _almost_ introduced myself, I’ll go back to blending in with the wallpaper. _slips surreptitiously into the shadows_ ---
**Author:** ![Magdalena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@Magdalena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magdalena)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2005, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-anonymous-roll-call/315368/96 "2005-08-07T00:53:55Z")
I lurked, then I registered, then I lurked some more, then I subscribed so I could search. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-anonymous-roll-call/315368/97 "2005-08-07T02:04:03Z")
_bursts in here screaming_ Do I count? I always miss the parties. I brought cake. ---
**Author:** ![Crescent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@Crescent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crescent)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2005, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-anonymous-roll-call/315368/98 "2005-08-07T04:37:03Z")
I almost feel like a downright chatty person after seeing some of the lurkers here. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pachabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f19dbf/32.png) [@pachabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pachabel)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2005, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-anonymous-roll-call/315368/99 "2005-08-07T05:42:04Z")
I read the board everyday. In fact, I spend way too much time here. I actually lurked for at least a year (probably more) before I first registered. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2005, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-anonymous-roll-call/315368/100 "2005-08-07T05:47:46Z")
I’m posting this so as to flip the page and post an updated list of Lurkers Anonymous. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-anonymous-roll-call/315368.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-anonymous-roll-call/315368.md?page=6)