The funny thing to me is that I'm normally a lurker on other fora, and take a lot of time to get comfortable enough to make extremely rare posts. This even applied to the Survivor and Big Brother TT threads at Salon if I recall correctly. The only instances where I've made the plunge to posting almost as soon as I discovered a site were the Buffistas and the original Ultimate TV Bronze back in '97. So apparently Buffy is my gateway drug to overcoming shyness.
Don't worry, we're sure to spot Faith first. She's like this cleavagy slut-bomb walking around 'Ooh, check me out, I'm wicked-cool, I'm five-by-five.'
Willow ,'Get It Done'
Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
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Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 06, 2003 11:07:43 am PDT #2937 of 10005
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
tina f. - Jul 06, 2003 11:20:35 am PDT #2938 of 10005
Buffy is my gateway drug to overcoming shyness
I just love this. Buffy was my gateway drug to SO MUCH STUFF. I can't even begin to list it all. (But - yup, you guessed it - I'm gonna try.)
Using the Internet for anything other than CNN, Salon, shopping and e-mail
The concept of spoilers
The concept of shippers
Comics
Fan-fic
Buying videos/DVDs (rather than renting them)
Buying books about TV shows
Buying books about TV stars (unauthorized ones at that)
Reading scripts for fun
Reading and obsessing about TV show writers and lighting directors and make-up specialists and set decorators
Watching ONLY the credits of non-Buffy shows for familiar names of directors, writers, and producers
Taping something while I'm watching it
Watching a show because of who writes it not who stars in it
Listening to talk shows on the Internet (succubus club)
Watching show vids
Buying soundtracks to musicals I've never seen
Action figures
Farscape
Whew! There is more - but I have fear that this will get cut off. Boy - I was really fricking boring before I started watching Buffy.
Connie Neil - Jul 06, 2003 2:30:30 pm PDT #2939 of 10005
brillig
I've always perceived the lurkers as the audience to those of us who jump up on stage to state our cases, trot out our stories, and generally just make ourselves known. If I put something up on the board and get no response, I console myself with thinking, "well, someone in the several hundred people out there saw that and appreciated it."
Elena - Jul 06, 2003 3:30:45 pm PDT #2940 of 10005
Thanks for all the fish.
Emergency whitefont in Angel, please.
Kiba Rika "Angel 3: Big Damn Evil, Sir." Jul 6, 2003 5:22:52 pm PDT
jengod - Jul 07, 2003 9:04:28 am PDT #2941 of 10005
Okay, so I don't really live here anymore, but I come by almost every day to read Sunnydale & Beep & COMM, and I'd like to request that every famous person who dies not get mentioned in Sunnydale Press. Unless a Buffista was close-personal-friends with Kate Hepburn/Barry White/Buddy Ebsen, it doesn't seem quite appropriate for the forum.
Sorry to be a whiner, just thought it warranted a comment.
Steph L. - Jul 07, 2003 9:11:17 am PDT #2942 of 10005
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I was thinking the same thing. That kind of stuff can go in Natter.
Jessica - Jul 07, 2003 9:21:23 am PDT #2943 of 10005
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Me three.
DCJensen - Jul 07, 2003 10:30:45 am PDT #2944 of 10005
All is well that ends in pizza.
Okay. Just thought it was a place to put general news of interest to the community, which Natter is daunting for some.
Moving my last post.
Lyra Jane - Jul 07, 2003 11:39:29 am PDT #2945 of 10005
Up with the sun
Thanks, Daniel. I wouldn't mind a link to the AP/New York Times/Yahoo News article, but I don't need the full obituary reposted here.
Sassy - Jul 07, 2003 9:57:44 pm PDT #2946 of 10005
'Til we dance away...
Maybe I'm a little late to the lurking discussion here, but I figured I'd weigh in anyway. I've been reading almost daily since Buffy 2 on TT; about 3.5 years, but never posted (or even registered) until very recently. I guess there are a few reasons for that, one of them being my own realization that there is "lurker fear." Also, I think if I had started posting early on it would have been easier, but after a few months and then years, I felt that I knew all of you so well that being the new kid would be really weird. Strangely enough, I found Buffy through the Buffistas; I had only seen a few eps and then happened upon the Quotable thread. I read the whole thing in one afternoon and was so enchanted that I never missed an episode after that- "Doomed" was my first first-run episode, so it's lucky I stayed.
When I discovered that I could vote without posting, I was actually really happy. It made me feel like more of a member of the group. Even if I had never said a thing, I still think I was an "active member" since I read the board every day, and therefore, decisions about the board did affect me.
I wish that there was some other term for those of us who read but do not post. "Lurking" sounds so sinister, as though we are skulking around in the bushes while the rest of you have a party. Of course you have lurker fear!