At most message boards, anything I would post would get a lot of responses containing emoticons such as:
O_o
o_O
:wally @_@
Or reactions such as:
“WTF?”
“Ooooooookay then! Whatever!”
“… uh, yeah.”
“rinni, explain that one…”
“rinni, was that supposed to be a joke?”
“… Huh?”
Therefore I’m not used to posting at boards where I get little to no evidence of being completely misunderstood! And I lurk and lurk and lurk, and when I post my posts are all safe and boring because I keep subconsciously expecting the WTF crowd to come around the corner and lynch me.
So yes! Maybe I will attempt coming out of my shell a little more and being more myself. Bathing in masking tape and cabbage, dancing in the fields of candy under the apple-pie moon!
I tried lurking for a while. First, it was just to grasp the style of this board, then it became a habit. I hardly posted at all in my first month or so. But I can’t even lurk so well anymore. Except for GD and the Pit. I just don’t feel like getting into a heavy debate. Must keep it light.
Well, I’ve been lurking here since February 2003, and this post brings me up to a grand total of…two. The reason why I lurk is because I have the feeling everybody here is much smarter than me. The other message boards I have been to are much more casual and I tend to be the only one that spells words correctly. Here, a poster says what I was going to say.
Maybe I should shut up now, and reflect on the fact that whenever I put too much thought into a post, it winds up looking like I was on drugs.
I usually read the boards on a daily basis… but I don’t post much.
You people are just so damn brilliant, eloquent, humorous and just darn nifty that I’m just… so in awe that I can’t bring myself to ruin your threads with my inane banter. (I have tried a few times, recently, but I just felt… useless). The amount of intelligence shown, as well as the depth of understanding of so many deeply, deeply involved topics is just… flabbergasting! I’ve actually printed out posts in order to study them, and figure out what they mean.
I’d hate to face any of you on Jeapardy!
I love so many of you longtime and prodigious posters that I do look for your names, and read your fantastic missives.
Thank you for starting this thread. It gives me a chance to thank the posters without having to de-lurk in someone elses’ thread and derail the topic.
I’d submit a reply, but everyone else has already covered it.
I also try to avoid repeating thoughts that have already been added, which is a large part of my lurking habit. I also do this mostly on my lunch hour, so I have limited time.
I guess this is the part where I repeat what everyone else before said, and write less eloquently
I’m glad someone posted a thread so all the lurkers can post something (in our own time, and written less better)
I don’t understand how people reply so quickly. I enjoy this board because I can check back in an hour, when I get bored again, and find a bunch more to read.
Hurrrrrray! I am not alone, there are others like me! Sometimes I feel like such a voyeur, but this place is so entertaining, and I seem to have so little to say. How can I compete with Horrible Toilet Volcanoes and Attacking Waterbeds?
I personally lurked for several weeks, then joined so I could post in a specific thread… then I walked away for a few minutes and forgot which thread it was.
I lurk to see other opinions on the various topics discussed here.
Just in case anyone wants to know my thoughts just a little background info:
Agnostic, Libertarian, Male, 40ish, Divorced, No children
Brief views on usual topics:
The bible is a mediocre book, nothing more
2)The ends do not justify the means
3)Yes, carbohydrates probably do make me overweight but I can live with it
Always tip service staff at least 20 %
5)Teachers are overpaid based on results of their labor
I was going to lurk, yea even to the point of lurking a lurking thread (how lurky!), then I saw the other lurkers from MN and WI. Hi everyone! Maybe we should have a lurking MNDopefest where we all go to the same bar, but don’t say hello to each other?
Yes I am approaching the big 1000 - but I believe my posts per day (PPD) ratio still qualifies me as a lurker. And one of the older lurkers at that.
I enjoy reading the board everyday and only rarely find that I can contribute something that someone else hasn’t already. Great minds thinking alike and all that.
“This place is as addictive as caramel covered crack.” - the late SmickD
I lurked for a week or so before registering (I joined so I could post in the hysterical-laughter thread,) and I’m still mostly a lurker. waves to all the other shady types
