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I'm entertained enough by you guys, don't need to bring my own input/ego into the mix.
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Kharohz posted:I'm entertained enough by you guys, don't need to bring my own input/ego into the mix. Are you kidding me? The more ego the merrier.
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Kharohz posted:I'm entertained enough by you guys, don't need to bring my own input/ego into the mix. Leggo my ego
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Jun 26, 2020 16:15
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I joined forever ago because I liked the front page. I'm so used to just reading the threads that I almost forgot that I could post.
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Jun 26, 2020 16:31
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I've been burned so many times by so many internet communities that turned out to be full of garbage people that these days I'm only willing to participate in online stuff at arm's length. Just occasional casual posts, no emotional investment, and the expectation of being let down when the place inevitably turns out to be absolute poo poo. If my expectations are low, it's hard to be disappointed, right?  On top of that, I have a hard time trusting anyone who would moderate an online community willingly and without pay. It's like being a babysitter and a caretaker for the mentally disabled at the same time, without any compensation for the work or the emotional labour, and you get to be the villain whenever you have to enforce a community's rules.
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White Noise Marine posted:Felt like lurking, might post later 
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Jun 26, 2020 17:01
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the most powerful poster of all is probably sitting here hemming and hawing about posting, unaware of their own potential
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Jun 26, 2020 17:06
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Every now and then I feel the urge to post, I write one, look at it, feel bad, and close the tab before clicking submit. Just for you I ignored the impulse this time and look how that turned out!
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Jun 26, 2020 17:29
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Do not, my friends, become addicted to posting. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence
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Jun 26, 2020 17:38
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Schurik posted:Every now and then I feel the urge to post, I write one, look at it, feel bad, and close the tab before clicking submit. Just for you I ignored the impulse this time and look how that turned out! It's wonderful!!!
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Jun 26, 2020 17:38
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I've read the site for years and the word filter got annoying enough, then I used this account a few times to talk about WoW and whine in E/N but still mostly just lurk and read stuff. Also gently caress lowtax
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Jun 26, 2020 17:47
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What si the posts per day limit to stay a lurker? I had a strong lurk streak but posted a bit lately to tell Burt he was a poo poo tier mod
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Jun 26, 2020 17:48
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Dad gay so what were the lurking glory days
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Jun 26, 2020 18:19
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Bought this account to read Elentor's FF7 LP years ago, the word filter was too annoying. A few years later I decided to check out the other sub-forums and ended up with about a half-dozen daily read threads. I guess I never posted because it seemed like a lot of work? Too lazy to shitpost, not sure it gets much goonier than that.
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Jun 26, 2020 18:25
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Dipping a toe into this ocean called posting
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Jun 26, 2020 18:26
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I post in games where I have something to say occasionally and now, here, in GBS, I realize that I can post without having anything to say. The man who has lost everything is finally free (to post)
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Jun 26, 2020 18:36
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I just want all you lurkers to know We'll all counting on you!
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Jun 26, 2020 18:37
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Are we accidently reviving this dead gay forum
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Jun 26, 2020 18:43
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to be honest, I always felt i'd post something stupid that would get me probated or banned. That happened a lot, so I mostly lurk.
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DrOnline posted:Are we accidently reviving this dead gay forum I think we are. It's exciting!
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parakeith posted:Dad gay so what were the lurking glory days This guy gets it
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i never post but ive decided to run for mayor of this place. vote Killed a Girl in 96.
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Jun 26, 2020 19:24
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WilWheaton posted:I've got a long time lurker question, how late is too late to quote something to reply to it in a thread? 1 page later? quotin' a post from page 1 cause gently caress it. In my case i'm a west coast lurker and I mostly follow the forums for hot takes on the day's events, and cat pictures. By the time I read the forums in the evenings, all the hot takes have already been made and there's not much I can say that would add to the discussion. i've been posting more during covid because i've been working from home, and also I posted the last couple days because gently caress lowtax. Still, I'm pretty much a power lurker, I can spend hours reading the forums and not say a word.
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Jun 26, 2020 19:32
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I got an account to read some of the threads in The Firing Range, but never posted there because those guys are way more hardcore than I'll ever be. I hung around ADTRW for a while and posted a bit in there, but let's just say I don't fit into that crowd. I visit it once in a while as they occasionally reference new manga that I haven't heard of before. Mostly I'm only still here to occasionally catch up with the OSHA and Schadenfreude threads here in GBS. I don't post because all my posts are just as boring as this one.
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Also, back in the old days, they really enforced the "don't post unless you have something interesting, informative, funny to say," and would probate for 1-word posts and empty quotes and not using punctuation and "aol-speak", etc. Actually, that helped make the forums good, to some extent -- most of the posts were actually pertinent to the topic -- and I think was the reason SA was considered the only "good" forums (for a while, at least). Time change, the standards have shifted, but I think some of that old culture still lingers here and there in the forums. Maybe Jeffery will bring back the good ol' banhammer and start wailing away on the whitenoise shitposters like they used to.
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Jun 26, 2020 19:41
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I just never got into the habit of posting.
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i once made a post in helldump back when my username was mr. punch and someone replied “ok mr. punch.” on that day i swore i would never post again until i had torpedoed my entire life and descended into full blown alcoholism. once i did that i was always too drunk to post so I decided to stop being an alcoholic. i’m 500 days sober thanks in part to lurking the “how much drinking is too much” thread. hope you liked this story
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Jun 26, 2020 19:49
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Any thread with a million posts per minute is great for a quick single post that no one will notice, giving a nice sense of self vindication.
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the yellow dog posted:i once made a post in helldump back when my username was mr. punch and someone replied “ok mr. punch.” on that day i swore i would never post again until i had torpedoed my entire life and descended into full blown alcoholism. once i did that i was always too drunk to post so I decided to stop being an alcoholic. i’m 500 days sober thanks in part to lurking the “how much drinking is too much” thread. hope you liked this story I did like it thank you for sharing and congrats on being sober.
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Jun 26, 2020 19:56
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All my posts are bad so I try my best not to do it very often
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Jun 26, 2020 20:00
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A long time ago someone called SA something along the lines of "reading a book that is constantly writing itself" and I took it to heart but in retrospect that's just like, how websites work
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Jun 26, 2020 20:01
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We can post?!?
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asimplenation posted:We can post?!? Twice, if you want.
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I got an account because I spent a lot of time reading these forums and as I enjoyed them I felt bad for lowtax and paid 10 bucks. Don't I look a right tit now, feeling bad for the guy hah Anyway, apart from giving some advise for travellers coming on holiday to South Africa, I am content hanging out in the Cyrano4747 sphere of influence and reading about the cold war, general history etc.
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Jun 26, 2020 20:48
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If all you do is read through old mega threads, it can be tough to find the right time to jump ahead 100 pages
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raspurtin posted:Still, I'm pretty much a power lurker, I can spend hours reading the forums and not say a word. Power lurker, I like that. Also I thought about deleting this after I typed it - I'm gonna post anyways!
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Strange but true: I'm married to a lurker out there.
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I used to post a fair bit, which is how I got my avatar, from a CYOA thread years ago. Now a lurker. Lurking is a noble art  Edit- raspurtin posted:Also, back in the old days, they really enforced the "don't post unless you have something interesting, informative, funny to say," and would probate for 1-word posts and empty quotes and not using punctuation and "aol-speak", etc. Actually, that helped make the forums good, to some extent -- most of the posts were actually pertinent to the topic -- and I think was the reason SA was considered the only "good" forums (for a while, at least). This is accurate; I held off on registering for a good 2 years because I was sure I'd gently caress it up and get banned Aquatic Daredevil fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Jun 27, 2020 |
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I used to post now and then a few years back, then eventually just lurked due to shyness and anxiety and also not being very interesting or funny. The forums seemed more intimidating back then, I guess. Now that they’re not gonna die, I want to post more. Still not interesting or funny though. Oh well!
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Literally A Person posted:Strange but true: I'm married to a lurker out there. Woah, who??? is it someone in this thread??? is it me????
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