# Lurkers: Say something **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 15, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-say-something/585561 "2011-06-15T14:18:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Cornish\_Magpie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cornish\_Magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornish_Magpie)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-say-something/585561/61 "2011-06-16T20:10:56Z")
I have lurked for 5 years or so. Signed up just to reply to this. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-say-something/585561/62 "2011-06-16T21:09:17Z")
Just wanted to say that quite a few of you have some pretty cool handles-shame to keep them hidden. ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-say-something/585561/63 "2011-06-16T21:20:15Z")
I lurk mostly on a daily basis. Sometimes I chime in on a thread which seems to instantly kill it. Go figure… Sometimes I started a thread which really went nowhere. No big deal. The best example of my efforts was the [“Inventor of the Six Pack Plastic Thingy”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-390917.html), which I typed up while silly on beer one night sometime in 2006. Incredulously, four years later, **fisherjoe2003** and **Musicat** came back with a definitive answer. I had forgotten I even asked the question. 😛 So hello to all you fellow lurkers. I love this place! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-say-something/585561/64 "2011-06-17T00:54:21Z")
> [@Cornish\_Magpie](#): > > I have lurked for 5 years or so. > Signed up just to reply to this. Amazing! Good show! ---
**Author:** ![AndLuna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dbc845/32.png) [@AndLuna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndLuna)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-say-something/585561/65 "2011-06-17T01:17:03Z")
I’ve been mostly-lurking for about a decade now. Sometimes I sort of want to make a comment, but usually either someone’s already said it better, or… nobody’s said it and I don’t like to be the first, heh. I just like reading, mostly, and there’s always something new to read here. I do occasionally vote in polls though. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-say-something/585561/66 "2011-06-17T01:26:04Z")
> [@AndLuna](#): > > I do occasionally vote in polls though. One cool thing about that, unless you choose to post in the thread, too, is that just voting in polls doesn’t affect your post count! You could vote in every poll and still be an official card-carrying Lurker. ---
**Author:** ![branjon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@branjon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/branjon)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-say-something/585561/67 "2011-06-17T01:43:35Z")
Lurker since 2005. Figured I should finally bite the bullet and post something. If only to leave some evidence of my countless hours on this website. Sort of like carving my name into a really awesome tree. And then going back to my chair to sit and stare at the tree some more. And laugh. And cry. ---
**Author:** ![Misha77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Misha77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misha77)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-say-something/585561/68 "2011-06-17T02:47:57Z")
I’m so used to lurking that it never occurred to me to vote in a poll. I don’t know if I could handle the interaction. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-say-something/585561/69 "2011-06-17T03:06:13Z")
I have such a thing for lurkers. That steely silent demeanor. So cool and mysterious. I always wonder how they can resist just yap yap yapping all the damn time. When someone delurks to say anything at all, I’m always riveted. ---
**Author:** ![RollOutTheBarrel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rolloutthebarrel/32/1649_2.png) [@RollOutTheBarrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RollOutTheBarrel)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-say-something/585561/70 "2011-06-17T03:42:59Z")
Greetings, fellow lurkers! I think I’ve voted in polls more times than I’ve posted. ---
**Author:** ![Daedelus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Daedelus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daedelus)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-say-something/585561/71 "2011-06-17T03:51:00Z")
Hi. ---
**Author:** ![BaconAndEggs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@BaconAndEggs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaconAndEggs)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-say-something/585561/72 "2011-06-17T10:43:08Z")
hi. i like cats, and tmi stories. ---
**Author:** ![Layla01](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/layla01/32/15552_2.png) [@Layla01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Layla01)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-say-something/585561/73 "2011-06-17T11:28:53Z")
I’ve been lurking since 2003…I’m on these boards pretty much every day. I can and do spend hours here - always something funny or interesting or both going on… Hi everyone 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cornish\_Magpie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cornish\_Magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornish_Magpie)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-say-something/585561/74 "2011-06-17T18:18:52Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Amazing! Good show! Probably about time I contributed. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-say-something/585561/75 "2011-06-17T18:35:12Z")
> [@Cornish\_Magpie](#): > > Probably about time I contributed. I’d say! But you’ve blown all your posts in this thread. Where next? ---
**Author:** ![CrimeThink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90db22/32.png) [@CrimeThink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrimeThink)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-say-something/585561/76 "2011-06-17T19:26:10Z")
Poop ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-say-something/585561/77 "2011-06-17T20:44:44Z")
This is really cool to see all these folks I didn’t know were here. And by the way, your posts pretty much all seem perfectly fine to me. This thread also got me to check my statistics. 1392 posts since 2007, and 1.04 posts a day. So I’m not a very prolific poster, but not a lurker either (and I don’t think of myself as a lurker). Sometimes I wonder how “visible” I am here – if I post enough so that people recognize me. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-say-something/585561/78 "2011-06-17T20:58:14Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > This is really cool to see all these folks I didn’t know were here. And by the way, your posts pretty much all seem perfectly fine to me. > > This thread also got me to check my statistics. 1392 posts since 2007, and 1.04 posts a day. So I’m not a very prolific poster, but not a lurker either (and I don’t think of myself as a lurker). Sometimes I wonder how “visible” I am here – if I post enough so that people recognize me. Maybe it’s only that we have crossed paths a bit recently on some fun threads, but I recognize you. I’ve related to what you’ve had to say, too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![zombiebacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/76d3ee/32.png) [@zombiebacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zombiebacon)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-say-something/585561/79 "2011-06-17T21:38:35Z")
Hello! I read almost everyday but haven’t had anything to say yet. ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Marlin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/34f0e0/32.png) [@Big\_Marlin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Marlin)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-say-something/585561/80 "2011-06-17T22:38:02Z")
I too confess my sin of Lurking for many years, I do read the board daily though. Ya’ll are great to read, maybe it will soon be time to get my footies wet and try to offer up some old guy replys. If I do, don’t flogg me too badly, I have feelings you know! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-say-something/585561.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-say-something/585561.md?page=5)