# Lurkers Arise! (Lowest post count contest) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 11, 2004, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-arise-lowest-post-count-contest/244582 "2004-05-11T05:11:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jlsmith57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@jlsmith57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jlsmith57)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-arise-lowest-post-count-contest/244582/21 "2004-05-11T18:41:54Z")
Like MaggietheCat, I remember the AOL days and didn’t register until fairly recently. I’m too lazy to figure out my rate. I guess I’m usually too lazy to post, come to think of it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cblackhand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@cblackhand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cblackhand)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-arise-lowest-post-count-contest/244582/22 "2004-05-11T19:50:07Z")
I can’t compare with some of your numbers, but I think my numbers are respectably low for a lurker. COunting this post I have 2.3 ppm, and .07 ppd. I guess I just don’t have much to say. ---
**Author:** ![Of\_Cabbages\_and\_Kings](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/49beb7/32.png) [@Of\_Cabbages\_and\_Kings](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Of_Cabbages_and_Kings)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-arise-lowest-post-count-contest/244582/23 "2004-05-11T20:26:59Z")
I just want to break into the double-digit category (um, three more posts to go!) ---
**Author:** ![kenensky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@kenensky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenensky)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-arise-lowest-post-count-contest/244582/24 "2004-05-11T22:00:20Z")
Another Colorado lurker here – what’s that, four of us in this thread? Are we just quieter at altitude? Anyway, .01 ppd, .38/month if I’m doing my math right (which does happen occasionally). And, um… yeah, not much to say, just like to read… ---
**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:** [May 12, 2004, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-arise-lowest-post-count-contest/244582/25 "2004-05-12T00:12:33Z")
Ummm… 0.03 post per day here. I know, I know, I’ve blown my lurker status … again… by reply to this post! Grrr… ---
**Author:** ![Hirundo82](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/919ad9/32.png) [@Hirundo82](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hirundo82)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-arise-lowest-post-count-contest/244582/26 "2004-05-12T02:28:45Z")
0.01 ppd–this post will make 7 total. But I do lurk here daily. ---
**Author:** ![Marjorie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5ac83/32.png) [@Marjorie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marjorie)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-arise-lowest-post-count-contest/244582/27 "2004-05-12T03:50:17Z")
.01 per day, .26 a month. I read the boards everyday, but I guess I don’t get the urge to comment very often, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-arise-lowest-post-count-contest/244582/28 "2004-05-12T04:19:59Z")
> [@Rhubarb](#): > > I read a lot, but post very little. I know the origins of Og Smash!; Hi, Opal; 1920’s style death rays, I was here during the Great Message Board Outage. Ditto. ---
**Author:** ![htns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@htns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/htns)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-arise-lowest-post-count-contest/244582/29 "2004-05-12T04:46:52Z")
I have 200 some, and I’ve been here for a few months. I own you all. Now stop lurking, and start posting! ---
**Author:** ![Einmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Einmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Einmon)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-arise-lowest-post-count-contest/244582/30 "2004-05-12T09:47:06Z")
Well, the funny thing is that I know almost all of the posters in this thread (apart maybe from **BMU** who really has an amazingly low post-count, dayamn!) So rest assured, no matter how little you post _I_ at least will read your post and then go around all day singing _doodeedoo **PookahMacPhellimey** doodeedoo_ under my breath (it has such a nice ring to it :D) Or something. It suddenly doesn’t sound as appealing as it did when I composed the post in my head. It never does - which is probably why my post-count’s also on the low-ish side. ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-arise-lowest-post-count-contest/244582/31 "2004-05-12T12:59:40Z")
> [@Einmon](#): > > So rest assured, no matter how little you post _I_ at least will read your post and then go around all day singing _doodeedoo **PookahMacPhellimey** doodeedoo_ under my breath (it has such a nice ring to it :D) Or something. It suddenly doesn’t sound as appealing as it did when I composed the post in my head. It never does - which is probably why my post-count’s also on the low-ish side. Sounds good to me. I feel so noticed now! 😃 Guess there’s no place for me in the lurker thread anymore, though… ---
**Author:** ![Vevila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@Vevila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vevila)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-arise-lowest-post-count-contest/244582/32 "2004-05-12T16:58:48Z")
It must be the altitude. Another Colorado lurker checking in. ---
**Author:** ![bauble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@bauble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bauble)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-arise-lowest-post-count-contest/244582/33 "2004-05-12T18:04:26Z")
And here I thought I was at least a contender for fewest posts per month, but it looks like I’ve already lost out on that. ---
**Author:** ![GlendaWitch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3e96dc/32.png) [@GlendaWitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GlendaWitch)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-arise-lowest-post-count-contest/244582/34 "2004-05-12T18:57:40Z")
I also thought I was a contender, but with my .05 PPD, some of you guys have me beat. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Aragowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/da6949/32.png) [@Aragowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aragowyn)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-arise-lowest-post-count-contest/244582/35 "2004-05-13T00:58:24Z")
Lessee, what am I averaging now? Oh, .03 posts/day, that’s more than I thought it’d be. I registered years ago (though sadly, I cannot say I was an active spectator to any of the Greatest SD Moments in History). The day I paid up (the day before the deadline, I think) I finally felt compelled to start posting (hey, gotta get my 5 clams worth), and with that first post, I averaged 0.00105 posts per day. 😃 I was posting every day for the next week after that first post, then every few days, but now I think I’m sinking back to my lurker depths. Blub…blub…blub…blub…blub… ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecc23a/32.png) [@Uncle\_Dragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Dragon)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-arise-lowest-post-count-contest/244582/36 "2004-05-13T03:07:44Z")
Okay, I weigh in at 0.13ppd, but the first (and only) thread I’ve started has a total of two replies in the week it’s been on the board. That factors into a 0.285rpd (reply per day). I guess I should have had put something about 1920s style death rays, or buttered boobies or testicle waxing in th OP. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ponderer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@ponderer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ponderer)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-arise-lowest-post-count-contest/244582/37 "2004-05-13T14:59:12Z")
Wish I’d known you were going to do this thread… I would have been more reserved in my posting! Alas, I am at .13… ---
**Author:** ![SylverOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SylverOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SylverOne)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-arise-lowest-post-count-contest/244582/38 "2004-05-13T15:25:57Z")
Not in the running by a long shot, but I’m at .23 ppd. ---
**Author:** ![Sassafras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@Sassafras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassafras)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-arise-lowest-post-count-contest/244582/39 "2004-05-13T15:35:02Z")
0.15 myself but it was a lot lower before subscribing… ---
**Author:** ![Skaill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@Skaill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skaill)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-arise-lowest-post-count-contest/244582/40 "2004-05-13T22:18:53Z")
Lurking a good while before signing up, read the dope at least a few times a week for an hour or two. It’s great ! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-arise-lowest-post-count-contest/244582.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-arise-lowest-post-count-contest/244582.md?page=3)