My post count is pathetic. I have been lurking here for 2 1/2 years and barely have over 50 posts. Compare that to such prolific dopers such as **Q.E.D. ** . I am terribly ashamed and wish to explain myself.
I read the SPMB at work. I read them every day, all day long. I feel like some of you are my family. I read with my finger on my task bar , ready to switch back to my work in a milisecond. Until recently…
I share an office with the office manager. My office manager is now BitterBetty.
I have introduced her to the SD. I can now feel free to post because at any given moment she is probably on the SDMB as well, and therefore cannot yell at me to get back to work. Well, she CAN, but justice dictates that she SHOULDNT.
Let 's hear from some other lurkers . What’s your story?
Well Kristi thanks for decloaking! Please post more so we can get to know you! I have a fairly low post count for being around so long. I do more reading than posting, too, but I think the main reason is that I went missing for a long period after registering (like a year) and never really caught up.
Hello also to BitterBetty! You’re a good, good boss!
I know the feeling! I’ve been registered for 3 years, and lurked a loooooong while before then (I remember Wally if that says anything.) and I have only 140 posts!
Alot of it is that I usually read/post from work, and just don’t have the time to post what I would normally babble on about.
But then there’s days like today, whenm i’m off and home and just ready to pester people.
I’ll second good bosses. Mine does not mind in the least that I post here whilst working - provided I am not talking to a client at the time. Which I enjoy as do the ‘graveyard’ shift.
So, big waves of hello to Kristi and to BitterBetty
I’m another lurker myself. I’ve been posting a lot more often now, but still, my post count is quite low considering how long I’ve been here.
I figured I would start posting more myself, because I felt like a bit of a voyeur. I knew all of the other posters on the board through what they have posted, but I myself was completely unknown by virtue of my lack of posting.
I was feeling a bit like the world’s worst eavesdropper.
I registered way back and then kinda forgot about the place for awhile. Mostly just read the daily column from Unca Cec’ and didn’t really visit very often. In the last few months though, I’ve been a regular and have started contributing a bit more. I even started my first thread about a month ago. Anyway, if you notice I’m up over 100 posts now, but I think I only reached that benchmark a couple of months ago, so I guess I could be classified as a long time lurker/absentee recently returned.
I tend to lurk more than post anyway, especially since I do this while I’m at work most of the time. Welcome to the boards y’all!
My excuse? I’m a people-watcher IRL and on the boards. Rather quiet myself, as the two Dopers that have met me could testify (sorry 'bout that, guys). I enjoy being around others, but I don’t have much to say unless I know them very well or have something closely in common with them.
My name is Grim_Beaker, and I have a low post count.
All: Hi Grim_Beaker!
Yes, my post count is pathetically low (though obviously not quite as low as some here) considering the amount of time I’ve been registered but I make no excuses. I’m not chatty in RL and tend to keep my opinions to myself. That being said I must encourage the other lurkers to participate more. I find I gain more knowledge when I participate then when I watch. So I’ve been posting more recently (though that isn’t saying much… a tablespoon is more than a teaspoon but it’s still damn little!).
I just noticed that I registered the same month and year as yojimbo so you can see for yourself the difference between a prolific poster and the nearly-nonexistant (me).
Ahem, the lowest posts-per-day count in your profile is the best definition of lurkiness.
I stated in an earlier thread celebrating a doper’s 100th post that the addicted, er, regular posters will cover every imaginable point to be made on a topic. Since I check the boards two or three times a week, by the time I get here all 360 degrees of the opinion/factual compass are usually covered. Not wanting to add to the background noise or get involved in senseless pile-ons, I usually just read and do one of the following:
Smile
Laugh
Shake my head and roll my eyes
Collect my brains after my head explodes
Occasionally post
Cards, getting to my 100th post, two weeks at a time.
I think I briefly touched on this the other day for some reason…
I registered a couple of years ago, but never posted much unless I had something I absolutely had to share. I belong to a couple of other interest-specific boards where I post a lot more often, but with so many people here and so many topics going on, I probably felt somewhat overwhelmed. Hey, I’m a big geek, and while I’m really comfortable in my own circle it sometimes takes me a while to get going around strangers. Plus I was at a job where I was pretty much the only person who did anything, so I was busy all the time and was happy to squeeze in a few minutes here and there to see what folks were up to.
Even when I was unemployed for a few weeks this year, I found things to do - job hunting, walking around the neighborhood I’d just moved to, etc. Then I got this temp job. I’m working for a state agency, covering vacation for one of the admin assistants. The admin himself has been on business trips half the time I’ve been here. I go around to everyone a few times a day to see if there’s anything to do. I plead to copy. I beg to file. I don’t get much. I was told that if I didn’t have anything I should just go online. (Your tax dollars at work, MA residents. Just don’t say anything till my contract’s up.) The other day I sent my friends an e-mail: “I’ve been busier than usual today. I haven’t been just surfing the internet. I’ve been surfing the internet and eating candy.” Consequently, my post count has quadrupled. I’m here until June 30 or until I get a real job, whichever comes first. Enjoy it while you can. Actually I’ll probably make more of an effort to hang around, but I come and go in cycles on my other boards too, depending on what’s going on in my life. Since right now my life means moving back to my parents’ house to escape a difficult roommate situation, I’ll still want to spend a lot of time locked in my room…
