Was I the Only One Who Lurked?

I think it'd be better that people start lurking after a few months rather than stopped.

You first Blaze

Me too..........lurking, listening and learning

I'm *still* lurking for the most part, although I do occasionally chime in, this being a prime example . I suppose i do have over 140 posts, but considering I've been a member for going on 22 months, that is a little more than 5 posts a month

--BL

I don't think I lurked at all as I was so eager to show off my supreme wisdom to others even though I was a noob and still am.

Are you trying to insinuate that I lurked to fall in lock step with others? *raises eyebrows* I'm not getting that comment. The way you post things sometimes are not very clear. However, I am making the assumption, that yes, you are directing that at me, because otherwise, why put it in direct response to my post? So, I'll answer it as such. I have not fallen lock step in with anyone. In fact, I agree and disagree with people all the time. As I mentioned directly in this thread, I've gotten into it before with Ingrid. I agreed and disagreed with you on numerous occasions. I defended Prok once or twice and even ARed a couple of responses to him that I felt went over the line. I also disagreed with him. So I'm confused as to who's line I'm supposed to be following? I agree with Enabran a lot, I agree with Nolan a lot, I disagree with them. Am I following their line? Gee, nice to be branded a follower. And hypocritical to boot. Just because you couch the insult and the derogatory comment within some nice language and don't directly refer to anyone doesn't make it any less insulting than the ones that you've had that you cry foul on all the damn time.

And it's nice to get a further explanation of what you meant by your original post. However, I'm going to point out that the original post made it seem as if you just marched right in with the most miniscule of information and posted on it. And questions and opinions? They're not the same. If you could be more clear in your original posts instead of trying to explain later, it would be helpful ty.

Heh. I tell friends of mine who don't go to forums, ooh, you need to go to general, it's sometimes like a car accident.

Too bad there wasn't a Drew as last name when I joined. I could have been Nancy Drew. lol

No, Katja. I was responding to the O.P. If I said that in a post to you, then yes, it is just my general lack of clarity when saying something to an individual then going on to talk more generally without indicating a clear deliniation.

Questions, opinions, whatever - yes, I think new players should feel perfectly free to jump right in with all of them. Or to lurk, should that be their personal preference.

And my opinion is no one should be expected to hang around long enough to determine the appropriate pecking order or things of that nature. Or even what is a "no-no" to say.

coco

Too bad the only "pecking order" is established by those who imagine it...

Ho'd up.

So if I imagine myself to be the Czar of the Metaverse and thus at the top of the pecking order, it magically becomes so?

I am so getting down on that action.

Start imagining me with a crown, whiners. Enabran's moving on up!

Nolan, Enabran - I'm really not interested in this with you anymore. I guess you can consider that a victory.

coco

I can't help but think of "Your world, your imagination" when you say that. On a sidenote and meant very generally (not addressed to anyone in specific but drawing from my own experiences), I never related much to social hierarchies, which is why I got on poorly in school until I learned to better manage things and take instructions+orders. I'm still pretty freewheelin' tho.

I cant believe I jsut went threw 6 pages of this crap! lurk, dont lurk, who cares! It is in no way anybodies right here to tell someone when and if they should post ona forum. Please reply, I am sooOOoooo interested to hear what anyone has to say abuot this post, but then again, I will probably never come back here agins so....

Y'all, I'm not the one who came up with the pecking order concept. That was Cienna, I believe. I'm the one who said I don't give a damn about your damned pecking order. I'm not the one who came up with the concept of waiting to find out what the prevailing thinking or culture was, either. That was Jauani, I believe. And I believe I said to hell with that, too.

coco

I thought you were done.

I wanted to believe you.

*bows to the great czar of the metaverse* *hopes this doesn't mean i've lurked long enough to follow the power*

(Joke)

It is possible that your first thread was lost. When they did the major forum upgrade, a ton of posts were lost. Some lost over a thousand posts they had made. So, just saying it is possible.

I did a search just in the forum archives Jon (using my full name). I had remembered that being my first post. Many posts of mine were deleted with the forum upgrade (see my reply to Osprey above), but I remember linking to that post as my first even before the forum upgrades. It isn't a fail-safe search for everyone, but as long as you have been here, there is a good chance your first post survived.

Like, yeah and stuff, because like, understanding how sociology works and why you are constantly either choking on your own foot or stepping in shit is like, so pointless and stuff.

What an inept you are, Cocoa. Only someone as self-absorbed as you could come up with a way to say sociological tenets and their related dynamics are pointless and learning about how they reinforce environments like this is not a worthwhile endeavor.

It is with a general sense of delight that I shove a gag into your dysfunctional mouth and hear you no more. Buh-bye and good luck. Honestly, you need it.

*hug* Thanks for noticing me MWaaah!



I think lurking is valid and valuable. Up until recently however (when basic accounts became free), a seven day trial didn't really give you much lurkish opportunities. You either got in and mixed it up (and yourself up) and made the occasional ass of yourself, or you sat on the sidelines and wondered what you were missing.

That said, everyone's been really gentle with me making a fool of myself. And I appreciate that. We all do it now and again. I probably do it a little more often than many because of my arcane and interlocutorious manner of speech, steeped in internal geekiness and left to simmer for at least 20 minutes. Then garnish with...No...wait. Thinking about something else there.

I'm actually surprised at how tolerant most (not all; not 100%; most == Consisting of the greatest number or quantity; greater in number or quantity than all the rest; nearly all) of our residents are of occasional moments of ... sheer foolishness, misstatement, misinterpretation and whatnot. I'm glad that I can accidentally be an ass, and be forgiven on the grid, in most places and circumstances, and without prejudice. Even for accidentally spilling my bag of commas.

It is a happy circumstance which does not appear to extend as well to the forums as it perhaps otherwise might.