Lurkers

[Kwanjang]

There are pleny of them. I Don't know about the rest of you, but I can't stand folks who critsize people who lurk, on "what ever site" And their lurking is just as bad.:lurk: pretty hypocritical if you ask me!

 

[tshadowchaser]

Lurking is a way of staying informed when you have nothing new or insightful to add to the subject. Lurking is a means of gaining knowledge

 

[Drac]

There are pleny of them. I Don't know about the rest of you, but I can't stand folks who critsize people who lurk, on "what ever site" And their lurking is just as bad.:lurk: pretty hypocritical if you ask me!

I agree...

 

[Kwanjang]

Lurking is a way of staying informed when you have nothing new or insightful to add to the subject. Lurking is a means of gaining knowledge

Agreed! I admitt, I lurked for ahwile on MT. Should they be criticle of you for doing it?

 

[Brian King]

"Lurking is a way of staying informed when you have nothing new or insightful to add to the subject."

In my case I would also add time to the possibly nothing new or insightful, having a full time job, and three small successful businesses, with the duties to employees and the tax paperwork, often the only time I have is to read the threads and leave thanks now and then to the posters that I think have given good well thought out replies or replies that continues the conversation by offering helpful suggestions or opinions.
In my opinion when you offer a reply to a thread or start a thread you commit yourself to further conversation on the subject and sometimes this takes a time commitment as well, a commitment that many may not have the ability or want to make.

Regards
Brian King

 

[tshadowchaser]

Personaly I could care less what they say when I lurk on sites. If sites do not want lurkers they need to keep membership open to only those that post.
I think most sites are made up of lurkers not posters

 

[Kreth]

Lurking is a good way to get a feel for the rules and atmosphere on a forum. I often lurk for at least a few days on any forum I'm considering joining.

 

[Bob Hubbard]

We tried turning off forum viewing to lurkers.
We got about a hundred complaints from casual members who often read without logging in.
I don't have a problem with lurkers. They add to our traffic numbers and make advertising here worth more. It helps keep the site running.
Not that I'd ever complain about more members, and more supporting members.

 

[MBuzzy]

I kind of agree with everyone....but I really see no reason to critisize lurkers. In fact, how do you even know that they are there, aside from showing that guests are logged on? They don't say anything, so they don't annoy anyone...and they have no way to critisize others.

So I guess I don't see why anyone would dislike them in the first place!

 

[Kwanjang]

Fair enough. Let them lurk!

 

[arnisador]

Agreed! It's advertising for new members.

 

[Xue Sheng]

I lurk from time to time and I don't quite understand why that would be a problem.

 

[Sukerkin]

Being a chatty soul, it's not often that I log in that I don't say something but I have nothing against those that just read. On other forums where I'm a member I not infrequently do the same thing as I have nothing substantive to add to the dialogue - of course, I do log in so maybe that's not quite the same 'definition' of lurking?

 

[Kwanjang]

OK, I lurk, I lurk and I will lurk some more. I will get my lurking fill. Seriously, I really don't see anything wrong with "Lurking" except when people that do (and I think we all do, to some degree) make it seem like you are spying on them. It was a take off on the "my space" thing. I guess I should have mentioned that.

 

[Bob Hubbard]

One thing to keep in mind is, lurkers only see half the site. The other half requires logging in...with 10% requiring a supporting membership.

 

[Kwanjang]

One thing to keep in mind is, lurkers only see half the site. The other half requires logging in...with 10% requiring a supporting membership.

Thanks Bob! I truly enjoy this site.

 

[tko4u]

i think everybody lurks in the beginning just to see what its all about. if it even interests them. if someone says they have never lurked then they need to get over it and admit it already