I contend that once we know their perspective they are no longer lurking.
But I'm just repeating myself.
If they are still lurkers we can't know anything about their POV, and therefore it's silly to try and accomodate them.
I-I'm just taking things without paying for th... In what twisted dictionary is that stealing?
Willow ,'Showtime'
Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job
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§ ita § - Aug 16, 2007 9:31:33 am PDT #1113 of 6786
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 16, 2007 9:32:58 am PDT #1114 of 6786
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
And if I know who you are, I don't consider you a lurker.
So if they support you in email, they are no longer lurkers.
victor infante - Aug 16, 2007 9:37:46 am PDT #1115 of 6786
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
If they are still lurkers we can't know anything about their POV, and therefore it's silly to try and accomodate them.
As always, ita says it better than I ever possibly could.
So if they support you in email, they are no longer lurkers.
No one supports me in e-mail, except, evidently, the people who try to sell me knock-off Viagra.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 16, 2007 9:38:12 am PDT #1116 of 6786
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I think the confusion, as ita has pointed out, is that we are using different definitions of lurker.
victor infante - Aug 16, 2007 9:39:47 am PDT #1117 of 6786
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
I think the confusion, as ita has pointed out, is that we are using different definitions of lurker.
Yep. I stop considering you a lurker once you post.
§ ita § - Aug 16, 2007 9:51:06 am PDT #1118 of 6786
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And I consider them non-lurkers once they've expressed themselves. So voting and polls and money count.
And what I feel across the board: if you don't express your feelings on the matter you could be posting up a storm, but I'm not going to lose sleep about your unexpressed feelings being catered to.
It's not, for me, about having posted or not. It's about having opined.
So if you vote and never post, you're doing your bit to shape the board, perhaps more than if you post and never vote.
Sean K - Aug 16, 2007 9:52:56 am PDT #1119 of 6786
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Although there is one type of person who meets ita's definition of NOT-a-lurker, but not victor's -- the person who has donated money to the board but never posts.
Okay, this is probably one, maybe two people.
Still, what do we call the almost-lurkers? Lurkeresque?
Ginger - Aug 16, 2007 9:54:01 am PDT #1120 of 6786
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
If a lurker falls in the forest...
Allyson - Aug 16, 2007 9:55:22 am PDT #1121 of 6786
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
...and it's whitefonted, do we highlight the text?
Steph L. - Aug 16, 2007 9:55:41 am PDT #1122 of 6786
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Still, what do we call the almost-lurkers? Lurkeresque?
Hangers-about?