# Pssst, lurkers...over here.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 27, 2000, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pssst-lurkers-over-here/14138 "2000-02-27T16:13:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2000, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pssst-lurkers-over-here/14138/1 "2000-02-27T16:13:00Z")
Okay, so we’re lurkers, and we missed the board badly when it was down. And we’re all happy it’s back. But it made me think. We all probably lurk for the same reasons; your response has been covered by someone else faster, nothing clever to say, still thinking about it, etc. ## Really though, isn’t it much sicker to go through so much withdrawal when we’re only lurkers? I mean, I can understand all the people who missed being able to post but that’s not really us is it? “Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.” Bob Dylan ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2000, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pssst-lurkers-over-here/14138/2 "2000-02-28T06:28:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by elbows3: > \*\*Really though, isn’t it much sicker to go through so much withdrawal when we’re only lurkers? I mean, I can understand all the people who missed being able to post but that’s not really us is it? \*\* I dunno Elbows, 54 posts since January isn’t really lurking. (Unless all your posts were to test your sig line or something.) I enjoy reading more than posting, and I did have some withdrawal pangs, until I realized that I wasn’t really missing anything. Would have been different if I couldn’t get on-line and it was just happening to me. Have you ever thought it would be fun to try to post something in every thread? Theoretically, it’d be possible in MPSIMS at least. I tried it once, couldn’t do it, even annoyed myself, trying to think of something to say. I guess the operative word would be “bore.” So, my answer is No, you’re not “sick” if you missed the Board even though you don’t post often. Sometimes watching is as much fun as participating. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2000, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pssst-lurkers-over-here/14138/3 "2000-02-28T06:44:00Z")
I’m chiming in. You probably don’t recognise me because I rarely post… since March I’ve only posted like 1650 times. But I’m here!!! * * * – “it’s all real” “I KNEW IT!!!” O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![Lil\_Lurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/838e76/32.png) [@Lil\_Lurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lil_Lurker)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2000, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pssst-lurkers-over-here/14138/4 "2000-02-27T19:19:00Z")
Well, I have made lurking into an art form, I think, and I went absolutely nuts when the boards were down! These boards make for the best reading around. * * * I plan to live forever. So far so good… ---
**Author:** ![tenspeedjohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tenspeedjohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tenspeedjohn)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2000, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pssst-lurkers-over-here/14138/5 "2000-02-27T23:54:00Z")
I lurk much more than I post. Almost all of my posts are sarcastic nonsense anyway. But that’s just me. * * * If chickens could pee, they would be wet on the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![KCB615](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@KCB615](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KCB615)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2000, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pssst-lurkers-over-here/14138/6 "2000-02-28T01:18:00Z")
I think I would consider myself a lurker. Things were getting rough for a while this past week. Then the email from SD management. And then, Saturday night, I clicked on my bookmarks to find the board was back! Such joy! Such enthusiasm! ## What can I say, it was a boring weekend. Except for the wedding I got to usher. Other than that, boring. Jeremy… Nobody ever calls me after they’ve done something smart. ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2000, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pssst-lurkers-over-here/14138/7 "2000-02-28T02:35:00Z")
I’m been lurking on and off this board since it was still AOL-based. Just lately I’ve started posting. ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2000, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pssst-lurkers-over-here/14138/8 "2000-02-28T03:25:00Z")
I used to post all the time. now I’m more of a lurker. I just seem to be at a loss for what to say lately. * * * You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2000, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pssst-lurkers-over-here/14138/9 "2000-02-28T05:08:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Sometimes watching is as much fun as participating. Isn’t that what got Rob Lowe in trouble a few years back? * * * and the stars o’erhead were dancing heel to toe ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pssst-lurkers-over-here/14138/10 "2000-02-29T00:02:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Sealemon88: > \*\*I used to post all the time. > > now I’m more of a lurker. I just seem to be at a loss for what to say lately. > > \*\* Awwwww, no way! Say it ain’t so, my fellow pillow thwacker of oiled babes! * * * VB Changing my Sigline again 'cause Vebs’tummy is all better now! ---
**Author:** ![Surgoshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Surgoshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surgoshan)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pssst-lurkers-over-here/14138/11 "2000-02-29T03:53:00Z")
I have fewer posts than Satan. That makes me a lurker. As a matter of fact, it makes everyone but Satan and David B a lurker. * * * I sold my soul to Satan for a dollar. I got it in the mail.