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Title: Lurkers
Post by: Faster Master St. Pastor on March 07, 2006, 07:31:29 PM
Once again I thought of a fairly random question to ask. How long (aside from people who never did) did you guys lurk around the site before you joined? I myself lurked for about two weeks.
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Entsuropi on March 07, 2006, 08:16:28 PM
0 days. I came, I read reviews, I wrote a review, I was told to go to the forum to read the response. I wrote a review about 2 days after finding the site.

This is why I've never bothered to tell people to lurk before posting. It's not like I did. I was annoying as hell, probably, but that's not my problem.
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Archon on March 07, 2006, 09:45:57 PM
A while. I don't remember exactly how long it was, but it was probably somewhere around a month. Then again, that wasn't because I was hesitant to post, it was more because, at the time, I didn't have an email address to call my very own.
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: The Jade Knight on March 08, 2006, 02:26:20 AM
I want to say several months to a year.  I don't really remember.  I hate registering with forums, though.
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 08, 2006, 09:20:01 AM
depends on what you mean my lurk. I wrote the second review ever given the TWG label, but that was before the site was built. I wrote several articles early on, but I didn't hang about the forum much. I hung around for about 2 weeks reading forums about 3 years ago, then started posting... to the most controversial thread running at the time, thus ensuring that everyone would love me.
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Nessa on March 08, 2006, 10:58:42 AM
Tsk tsk, SE.

As for me, I don't lurk as a general rule. I either join and participate or I don't come at all.
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Tage on March 08, 2006, 01:51:26 PM
Yeah, I didn't really lurk much, either. :)
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Shrain on March 08, 2006, 05:46:00 PM
Hmm, interesting question. I probably lurked for a week or so and then joined--but not as Shrain, actually. Signed up under a different screenname and posted here and there, testing the waters so to speak. I thought it'd be fun to have a secret identity, you know. 8) So I didn't introduce myself as "Sarah" on the intro thread but used my middle name. lol. Later, I got really busy and didn't visit TWG much.

When I returned to the TWG fold, I felt pretty comfortable with just being myself. So I created my current profile, dutifully introduced myself, and then promptly made a fool of myself with one of my first posts. :P Yeah, I managed to say something stupid and insensitively oblivious almost right off the bat. Ugh. Not the TWG debut I'd wish on anybody. Anyway, luckily for me, I got a chance to make amends for being an idiot. ;)

Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Fellfrosch on March 08, 2006, 07:17:45 PM
What was your prior identity?
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Parker on March 08, 2006, 07:35:37 PM
DARTH_SMILO?   ;)
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Faster Master St. Pastor on March 08, 2006, 08:19:35 PM
Except that DARTH_SMILO just started banning (posting) himself less than three weeks ago. So much for your theory.
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Shrain on March 09, 2006, 12:25:54 AM
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DARTH_SMILO?   ;)

eeek. Nope. Not even close.

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What was your prior identity?

I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you. Besides, as a mod, don't you have ways of discovering these things? ;)
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Entsuropi on March 09, 2006, 12:42:51 AM
Fells too lazy though. He barely read sthe forum as it is!
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Shrain on March 09, 2006, 01:30:06 AM
Aw, a pity. (All according to plan, of course.) I guess my defunct secret identity shall remain a mystery. Ex-cellent. 8)
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 09, 2006, 09:15:40 AM
/me gets a crack team of ninja monkeys to investigate this situation.
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Ruthie on March 09, 2006, 04:36:08 PM
I posted right away, but I've mostly lurked since then. Does that count?
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Shrain on March 09, 2006, 06:24:59 PM
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/me gets a crack team of ninja monkeys to investigate this situation.

Hmm, and I thought they were extra busy making pizza! Curses. Now it's only a matter of time...
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Harbinger on March 10, 2006, 01:37:38 AM
2-3 weeks.
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 10, 2006, 08:57:02 AM
wait 4-6 weeks for delivery.
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on March 13, 2006, 11:29:54 AM
no COD
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Shrain on March 13, 2006, 02:45:53 PM
Eh, you know what, I'm not really in the mood for pizza anymore. They'll have to find another way to bribe me into talking... ;)
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Archon on March 13, 2006, 04:29:09 PM
Perhaps a sandwich? A ninja-monkey knuckle sandwich?
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Shrain on March 13, 2006, 04:41:26 PM
yipes. Oh, I'd pay good money to avoid eating that particular delicasy. Or at least give a *hint* about my former alias...
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Faster Master St. Pastor on March 13, 2006, 08:46:37 PM
Last I heard ninja monkeys hated hints, and would only settle for the whole story. Infact I heard that the last person who only gave them a hint found several body parts in rather uncomfortable positions. I hear tell it's because they have trouble with problem solving riddle type things.
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 14, 2006, 09:48:36 AM
Ninja monkeys are like men. They don't understand hints.
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Shrain on March 14, 2006, 12:20:57 PM
Auch, what a pity! Yet there's such a thing as an impossibly vague hint and an especially obvious hint. One would hope that your ninja monkey crew could handle the latter. ;)
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Faster Master St. Pastor on March 14, 2006, 07:33:57 PM
As Supreme Dictator of the Universe Elliott <----(for life) I......


......let e handle the situation.
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 15, 2006, 08:50:41 AM
I will handle it in my usual, efficient, serious manner.

Which means all the evidence will be destroyed, as will the witnesses.
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 15, 2006, 03:33:43 PM
I don't have an IP corellation, but you might have moved or changed ISPs, but I think I know who you were, Shrain. The monkeys have cracked your code.
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Nessa on March 15, 2006, 04:18:59 PM
Do we get links? To see for ourselves?
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 15, 2006, 04:29:32 PM
I'm going to verify it first.
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Shrain on March 15, 2006, 04:32:09 PM
*nods approvingly* Yes, because this is serious business! Lives are at stake, the whole kingdom might fall, and the dead might walk again...
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on March 15, 2006, 04:40:47 PM
you live in a kingdom?

your just full of deceptive delusional clues today.
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Shrain on March 15, 2006, 04:44:19 PM
Hey, at least I'm not into worshipping jelly doughnuts, buster. ;D
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 15, 2006, 04:45:28 PM
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the whole kingdom might fall, and the dead might walk again...

Only if we're very lucky.

When we talk about the aforementioned food, I'm on track, correct?
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on March 15, 2006, 04:47:23 PM
mmmm walking Krispy Kremes.... that does sound like heaven.
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Shrain on March 15, 2006, 04:47:45 PM
Now you've got me confused. lol. My alter ego never had a jelly doughnut obsession. Honest. Can't remember ever posting about doughnuts, come to think of it...
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on March 15, 2006, 04:51:18 PM
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Can't remember ever posting about doughnuts, come to think of it...


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Hey, at least I'm not into worshipping jelly doughnuts, buster


You just did... Twice!
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Shrain on March 15, 2006, 04:52:22 PM
pfft. Not as my alter ego, though! Those don't count. ;)
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 15, 2006, 04:52:41 PM
not the donut part. The other part. along with the food referenced in your post 15 above this one
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on March 15, 2006, 04:53:02 PM
they do if your alter ego is your real ego.
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Shrain on March 15, 2006, 05:04:33 PM
Ah, pizza, eh? Well, I do love pizza. But I actually wasn't dangling a hint. I was still in the debate-if-ninja-monkeys-can-understand-hints phase of posting.

(Wait, wait *cough* don't kill me yet, please! Here's a real one. *cough* Okay, okay, here's two.)

1. Archon was the first to direct me to the FAQs page.

2. As the author of a musical number called the "Elantrian Blues," I--er, my alter ego--managed to both impress and disturb EUOL. hehe

Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Tink on March 15, 2006, 05:16:54 PM
And the alter ego is . . .  CinderEllie
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Shrain on March 15, 2006, 05:46:27 PM
Bingo. :D Tink scores--and beats the ninja monkeys to it! lol. How in the world will they deal with this shattering defeat?
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on March 15, 2006, 07:12:32 PM
they already knew
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Shrain on March 15, 2006, 11:28:36 PM
Or so they'd like us to think. Their master was off on a goose chase involving pizza, nowhere that close to my secret identity.  
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Faster Master St. Pastor on March 16, 2006, 12:54:23 AM
What you don't realize is that Tink was, shall we say, 'convinced' to post the information by a team of ninja monkeys, thus adding to their shroud of darkness, secrecy, and lies.
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 16, 2006, 08:44:53 AM
the ninja monkeys *want* you to think they can be bested.
Title: Re: Lurkers
Post by: Shrain on March 16, 2006, 12:25:38 PM
/me trembles. Looks around fearfully, wishing she had a pizza to distract the ninja monkeys when they come for her.