# What kind of poster are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 5, 2000, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-poster-are-you/44195 "2000-12-05T22:45:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-poster-are-you/44195/1 "2000-12-05T22:45:07Z")
This type of thread has probably been covered already (what hasn’t, really?) but that’s never stopped me before, so… Reading Carina42’s [How often do you visit the boards](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=49085) thread got me thinking about the type of poster I am, which got me to wondering how the other dopers approach their posting on the board. I consider myself fairly low key and inauspicious 'round these here parts. I post regularly, but nowhere near the rate of many other dopers. I pop around from forum to forum with no real preference for any certain one. I have asked and answered questions in GQ and ATMB and posted a lot of inanities in MPSIMS and IMHO (with the occassional hopefully witty one liner thrown in). I’ve been to the Pit only once or twice, although I read a lot of the threads there so I can keep up on all the dirt and the rants. I’ve posted a grand total of once in GD. I just don’t have the patience or eloquence to offer much there, although it is one of my favorite forums to read. I don’t really flirt. I made a couple lame attempts when I first registered and I realized it just isn’t me. I don’t really do post parties or long-running back-and-forth exchanges, mainly because I’m not on the boards consistently enough to follow up. So what does this make me? I don’t know – a semi-regular, scattershot drive-by poster? Best description I can come up with right now. So anyway, how do you see yourselves? ---
**Author:** ![Spritle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Spritle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spritle)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-poster-are-you/44195/2 "2000-12-05T23:20:58Z")
verbose ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-poster-are-you/44195/3 "2000-12-05T23:37:00Z")
lol ---
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-poster-are-you/44195/4 "2000-12-06T01:50:29Z")
I’m a Led Zeppelin poster. The one with the angel on fire. What? ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-poster-are-you/44195/5 "2000-12-06T01:55:57Z")
😃 😛 😉 :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-poster-are-you/44195/6 "2000-12-06T02:34:21Z")
I do a lot. I like to flirt ocasionally, and say boorish, outlandish things. My fave places tend to be Mundane Pointless and IMHO. And I post all the freaking time. ---
**Author:** ![AETBOND417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@AETBOND417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AETBOND417)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-poster-are-you/44195/7 "2000-12-06T02:40:40Z")
I don’t post much at all. I tend to stay in IMHO, GQ, and MPSIMS. I haven’t started a thread in months and I mostly save my posts for answering GQ OPs. I also nitpick. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-poster-are-you/44195/8 "2000-12-06T02:43:10Z")
As you can see \< ~~~~~~ by my join date and low post count I am a semi-regular, scatterbrained drive-by type poster. I don’t flirt much on the boards, but IRL - look out! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-poster-are-you/44195/9 "2000-12-06T02:51:01Z")
I prefer not to be defined. But if I must … I do alot of drive-by’s I suppose. I like to add little quips here and there. If something really grabs me (for example [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=49533) I’ll keep up regularly. I don’t debate too often, I find it difficult to keep up. I ususally only participate in Great Debates if I’ve been in the thread from the get-go. I can’t jump in after 40 or so posts in a thread. I lurk the Pit alot. I find it hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![LifeWillFall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@LifeWillFall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeWillFall)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-poster-are-you/44195/10 "2000-12-06T03:09:12Z")
except maybe for this thread I’m a almost-never-have-anything-interesting-to-say-so-I-won’t-post type of poster ---
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-poster-are-you/44195/11 "2000-12-06T03:56:23Z")
What we need here is one of Matt Groening’s “The [insert number] Types of [insert type of person]” cartoons that we can all relate to. I guess I’m a little bit of the scatter shooting drive-by poster type that BoS mentioned, mostly in GQ and IMHO. I occasionally foray into GD like Jack Batty, and most of my MIPSIMS posts are flops. I’ve posted in the Pit a grand total of once. ---
**Author:** ![Anti\_Pro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Anti\_Pro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anti_Pro)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-poster-are-you/44195/12 "2000-12-06T04:20:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bottle of Smoke \* > \*\*So what does this make me? I don’t know – a semi-regular, scattershot drive-by poster? Best description I can come up with right now. > > So anyway, how do you see yourselves? \*\* We should work on some REAL names for this…and it would probably fit a number of us too. I visit almost every day, but may not write something each time. I too, read more than anything else, and especially in the Pit, which is a scary dark place!! ALWAYS carry your own flashlight, boys and girls, candles tend to get burnt out or drip wax on your more delicate areas! ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-poster-are-you/44195/13 "2000-12-06T04:34:11Z")
I’m the most mundane, pointless person alive so, obviously, I hang out mostly in MPSIMS. I’ve had a few instances where I actually fought ignorance, but I don’t think that I bring much value to this message board. I join post parties, flirt fests, and sympathy threads as often as they come up. Yeah, that’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![Welfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-poster-are-you/44195/14 "2000-12-06T04:41:00Z")
Like Silver Fire feels, I also feel like I’m not a valuable poster. Being young and living a mostly sheltered life up until a few years ago, I don’t have much experience in anything, so I feel like I have nothing important and exciting to say. I don’t flirt too much, but I do like to give my opinion. I used to be a flame war queen in the old boards, but I’ve mellowed down a lot; I don’t like to fight. I’m mostly drive-by nowadays. I get jealous of the posters with high post counts who joined much later than I did, and then it makes me want to race to get my posts to be as high, but I realized that that’s silly, so I’ve slowed down a bit. I’m going to crawl back into my cave now. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-poster-are-you/44195/15 "2000-12-06T04:44:34Z")
I tend to hijack threads (sorry to all those whose posts I have subverted) I don’t start topics too much, as I’d rather just chime in with my 1/250 of cents worth. I read almost all the threads with the exception of politics/anything by **Stoidela** (sorry **Stoid** , but I just get a headache listening to all your pent up rage over an ineffective system and ultimately inconsequential decision over what rich/// ::Jeez, can’t I post ONE goddamn message w/o a hijack:):: I also have mostly given up on the flirting because it’s just not me and I’m not too good at it when I do… ---
**Author:** ![Lexicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ac8455/32.png) [@Lexicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lexicon)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-poster-are-you/44195/16 "2000-12-06T04:46:25Z")
I don’t know what kind of poster I am. I have an idea… Why don’t you tell me what kind of poster you think I am? That would be cool. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-poster-are-you/44195/17 "2000-12-06T05:04:58Z")
I’m the poster most likely to suggest Napalm as a solution to a problem (especially infestations of fire ants, gophers, head lice…) ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-poster-are-you/44195/18 "2000-12-06T05:08:17Z")
Drive by. Ok, got 'em, burn rubber, dude! ::screeching tires:: ---
**Author:** ![deb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@deb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-poster-are-you/44195/19 "2000-12-06T13:30:42Z")
I _define_ the term **lurker**. ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-poster-are-you/44195/20 "2000-12-06T13:32:30Z")
I’m me. I think a lot of people know me by my constant horniness and penchant for getting naked. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-poster-are-you/44195.md?page=2)