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« 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.
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« Reply #1 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.
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« Reply #2 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.
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Re: Lurkers
« Reply #3 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.
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Re: Lurkers
« Reply #4 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.
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« Reply #5 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.
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Re: Lurkers
« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2006, 01:51:26 PM »
Yeah, I didn't really lurk much, either. :)
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« Reply #7 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. ;)

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Re: Lurkers
« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2006, 07:17:45 PM »
What was your prior identity?
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Re: Lurkers
« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2006, 07:35:37 PM »
DARTH_SMILO?   ;)
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Re: Lurkers
« Reply #10 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.
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« Reply #11 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? ;)
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Re: Lurkers
« Reply #12 on: March 09, 2006, 12:42:51 AM »
Fells too lazy though. He barely read sthe forum as it is!
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« Reply #13 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)
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Re: Lurkers
« Reply #14 on: March 09, 2006, 09:15:40 AM »
/me gets a crack team of ninja monkeys to investigate this situation.
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