SDMB-LOT
(Onymous is right, right? I didn’t find it too anonymous, what can I say .) )
I have no idea to what end I made this thread, but I really do love this message board, infact (With the occasional exception made for Red Vs Blue’s, come on, this is my generation’s humor) this is the only one that I make it a habit to visit. But, as I know you can tell by my post count, I don’t speak up nearly as often as I should(or, as often as I can, maybe I shouldn’t be), and as many times as I almost do something about it I can’t really bring myself to post much.
So, heres a thread for you Lurkers to step out of the darkness and say something .)
Anybody else hiding out there like me wanna speak up?
I am also here, lurking like a maniac…I’ve thought of several threads I’d love to start but I have the thinnest Internet “skin” you’ve ever seen…and if you can’t take the heat, better stay outta the kitchen, right?
All you thin-skins can go get stuffed – if you people are too chickenshit to pipe up with an opinion, then this place will be better off without your sniveling…um…
[sub]Wait a minute. Let’s try that again, from the top:[/sub]
Welcome.
I’ve been here a long time and although I’ve responded to a few threads, I spend most of my time lurking.
I joined while in the midst of (and later recovering from) an illness that kept me home and bed-bound. Gotta love laptops!
I initiated a few drug-hazed threads (legal drugs, I might add) that were shot down, ridiculed and now that I think about them, were totally me-centered and pointless. I sucked. My responses within established threads were equally mindless.
Now I feel that I have a bad rep and simply continue to lurk, enjoying the efforts of others.
I lurked a couple months before my first post. I’m fairly shy so I’m sticking to Cafe and MPSIMS. I considered myself brave for taking the (first) contrary position to an OP in this thread, but since it was about the latest Harry Potter book, and I stooped to begging not to be attacked, I guess I qualify for the shallow end of the pool.
straycat, I checked out some of your posts. I didn’t see any where you were ridiculed. The ones I saw were thoughtful, helpful, interesting (to me, anyway), and kind. Not pointless. Not sucky. So there!! Pit me! I dare you!
Hello, hello! I think that I may also qualify as a lurker. My skin isn’t that thin, but by the time I read a thread, someone has already posted the same thing that I would have said.
Someone’s got to think of the poor hamsters.Someone’s
I go through fazes of posting like mad, and then lurking for ages.
For me it’s because most beat me to what I want to say, (there are some very smart and witty people here) or if I do post something there is no reply.
The largness of this site can lack intimacy sometimes, and there are so many people I can’t remember everyone and form any bonds with anyone. Though I’m wondering if that is the point. Then again I love posting something personal and then knowing that no one may remember it and hold it against me. It’s like my own personal free therapist!
I was part of another site for a while but got bored with the lack of action. I get that here… so I have to choose between the two concepts, I choose therapy and anonimity.
Confirmed lurker here. This is without a doubt the most interesting and entertaining site I’ve come across. The collection of members here cover the whole spectrum.
I’m sure that like a lot of other lurkers, every time I have a question, I find a thread containing the answer by searching - so there is no need to post it. And almost every time I see a thread where I can add to the discussion, I find out that someone else has posted basically what I was going to. And more eloquently too.
I’ll confess, I’m a lurker. Not because I don’t have anything to say, but I usually find that at least someone has the same opinion as me, and says what i would have wanted to say anyways…
I’m lurking, mostly because a) others beat me to what I want to say or b) saying what I want requires too much elaboration. Guess I’m not much for short ‘I second that’ posts or mindless puns, so sometimes I just don’t want to bother. Or I read a thread that’s so interesting that there’s already several pages of replies - and then I’d have to check every post to make sure noone’s said what I have in mind.
Sometimes, though, I try to get my act together and contribute something helpful.
I lurked for a long time as well. I’ll have to agree that this is one of the most interesting boards I’ve seen. The combination of humor and intelligence is wonderful. When I read my first few threads, I said, man, I would like to sit down and drink a beer with some of these folks. Lo and behold, they have Dope Fests!
Posted my first reply Saturday and started my very own thread this morning.
I guess I go with the “My point was already taken” crowd here, as opposed to those of you with a thin internet skin, that does seem to pretty much be the only two groups out here so far though, but glad its turned up as many as it has. Keep it going!
