Wrr posted:

Woah, who??? is it someone in this thread??? is it me????

housefullofgarbage posted:

I never post because someone has usually already posted what I was going to say.

Same as in this thread, actually.

housefullofgarbage posted:

I never post because someone has usually already posted what I was going to say.

Same as in this thread, actually.

Spinz posted:

I didn't post the first 3 years or so, when I finally started in despair and lonliness I still remember how nervous I was. I still remember the first yellow quote with a lol I got-

No poo poo I remember the exact post.
Then when you make a thread- the excitement, every post in by other goons was like a bump of good coke. I'm not exaggerating, it was like that for me. Feels good to entertain. So I started making effortthreads.

Anyway, I'm terribly afraid SA really going to die now. If not, (oc no lowtax) let's post ok? Crossing my fingers

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).

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.

mudskipp posted:

It perturbs me seeing mods post 'lol'/etc. I'd send all the chat threads into discords too. I used to wonder if high frequency chat posting made the forums expensive to run.

As you can tell from the above, I lurk because I'm not fun.

DrOnline posted:

Also same. If the alternative is reddit I would rather jam a lifetime of posting in here as fast as possible

The Fat Swordsman posted:

I'm a useless white noise poster every where I go, but I hate those and scroll past them in every thread! So I just don't post anything instead. Seems to work out.

And I joined on an ugly day, the day that the paywall came up on Let's Play because of the Dangan Ronpa thread. I wish I hadn't done that, but I wanted to keep reading the forums!!!

Hic Sunt Dracones posted:

I joined in 2004, but I very rarely post anything, and most of my small number of posts were in the first couple years after I joined. Despite my lack of posts, I do read the forums quite regularly and have done so consistently since a couple years before I registered.

There’s no complex or interesting reason why I prefer to lurk and read than to post. It doesn’t make me anxious or self-conscious, and I don’t care about how others might react to my posts. I just don’t usually have a desire to contribute. In any given discussion, there’s a good chance someone else has already taken the position I would, but I don’t see any value in empty-quoting them just to say, “I agree.”

Also I find my username to be stupid; I will acknowledge that’s probably a factor in my remaining mostly a lurker (not that a name change is too expensive). It was actually a product of a GBS thread circa 2008 (?) by former admin Livestock called something like, “If you post ITT I will change your username to something you will not like.” I can’t complain about getting exactly the result that was promised.

Team Beagle posted:

Even now while this forum is in chaos I've started writing half a dozen replies and deleted them without submitting because I wasn't happy with them, nothing of value was lost

Kharohz posted:

I'm entertained enough by you guys, don't need to bring my own input/ego into the mix.

Zeromus posted:

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.

Buckets posted:

All my posts are bad so I try my best not to do it very often

Aquatic Daredevil posted:

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-

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

Melvitty posted:

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!

housefullofgarbage posted:

I never post because someone has usually already posted what I was going to say.

Same as in this thread, actually.

Jadus posted:

I joined nearly 20 years ago, because nothing on the internet made me laugh like SA. I lurk because I rarely feel like I have anything to contribute - consumer culture runs deep.

Android Lust posted:

I average 0.03 posts per day because I'm scared of what people will think of me.

aqu posted:

I don’t have anything interesting to say!

Metrilenkki posted:

I joined in 2007 and had lurked for some years prior. I mostly didn't post b/c I felt that I had nothing of note to contribute. Now I am too busy with kids, work, hobbies and a side business to bother with effortposts, or really posting at all.

2-bits posted:

Social anxiety. Honestly though, seeing the forums about to go up in smoke made me feel pretty stupid about it.

Zeromus posted:

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.

Xaris posted:

I just wanted to earnestly say I read n appreciated every lurkers posts itt and its good to see so many people and i hope you post more. The first post is always the hardest and i understand the initial anxiety, the hesitation-- well what if someone hates it or i get made fun of or whatever and i do understand, but gently caress it even if you have nothing to say, just quote someone and go "lol" or : agreed :, we don't have upvotes (thank god, upvotes are loving terrible) so it's the goon form of it. i think the only reason i stopped lurking in like 2006 was because I was a very reserved and shy writer and I had to write a college-admissions and used the forums as a way to just open up and get past that to write things, as terrible as they would be. jokes on me tho bc i went to community college+transfer route and so all that was wasted and now ive obliterated 15 years making bad post.

Every thread is actually very welcoming despite appearance of cliques here and there and i understand that anxiety there too of feeling like barging in or whatever: you don't need to introduce yourself, just spew some letters onto the screen and click that button, nobody will care and before long you'll be making too many posts a day. even if you think you have nothing to add, and god(dead) knows I know all my posts are white noise trash, just go for it

Also its loving 2020, like, holy poo poo. Nothing is going to be the same in our lifetimes and in 2025 we'll probably be looking back thinking "man, 2020 was a loving good year holy poo poo" so make

micpp posted:

I think it's kinda like a habit thing for me - like SA is just somewhere I read, not somewhere I post. Probably originally elements of anxiety too though.

Literally A Person posted:

Posting?

Yeah right!!!

other people posted:

future ghost posted:

I remember my first post. Wandering through threads trying to find the best place to make my mark. Spent like an hour trying to make it perfect and kept hemming and hawing worrying about how it would be perceived. Eventually I just said gently caress it and decided to and it felt great. I did it!

then I immediately got probated because I posted it as a thread

future ghost posted:

I remember my first post. Wandering through threads trying to find the best place to make my mark. Spent like an hour trying to make it perfect and kept hemming and hawing worrying about how it would be perceived. Eventually I just said gently caress it and decided to and it felt great. I did it!

then I immediately got probated because I posted it as a thread

Full Metal Jackass posted:

Were gonna need lurkers to start posting for the new age of SA.