Lurkers

[GodWillsIt]

A recent survey by a computer consulting firm in Chicago found that 98 per cent of the visitors to large sites with open forums - from AOL and MSN to sites like Slashdot - never submit ideas or articles and never post opinions or participate in arguments.

interesting...

[Roderic the Emptyhanded]

what isn't about pie, in life?

Errhm... Spaghetti?

[Moros]

Errhm... Spaghetti?

But spaghetti is all about pie! Jeez, you're not to bright are you? I mean the first thing you think about when someone says "spaghetti" is pie, right?

[Raz]

*Gasp* You almost have 2.6 posts! OMG!!!1!11!!!!eleventy!!


Also, Spaghetti is not pronounced how you think it is. It's actually pronounced spe - jet - ee.

[Andres]

Also, Spaghetti is not pronounced how you think it is. It's actually pronounced spe - jet - ee.

No no, it's pronounced s-Pie-jet-ee.

Like s-Pie-nache.

Not like ananas.

[Keba]

No no, it's pronounced s-Pie-jet-ee.

Quite to the contrary ... spaghetti is pronounced as it is read, Italian doesn't have your weird english habit of writng things one way and reading them another.

It's spaghe-tti (the two t indicate a longer letter, you have to make it sound longer, thus, the pause in front).


Oh, and I've been a lurker for awhile, then someone asked a question I actually knew how to answer and joined. Afterward, I returned to lurkin, but recently decided to have a go at actually posting.

[Raz]

But what about the dancing lock?

.... Arrgh! I can't find it again.

[Mithrandir]

Let me help you .

[Roderic the Emptyhanded]

But spaghetti is all about pie! Jeez, you're not to bright are you? I mean the first thing you think about when someone says "spaghetti" is pie, right?

Well, now I will think about it. Just because of you... *sigh*

[Lurker on the Threshold]

As the name suggests.......
Lurking is practically my profession. On this and several other boards.
This is the only one I've ever felt strongly enough to want to post a response. BUT I wasn't able to since I didn't have the r"rights" needed. SO...lurker no more am I. I will eventually make junior member status and be able to post a reply on MTW soon enough.

[danfda]

The not being able to post right away thing angered me...grr.

I too, lurked here for quite some time. Then I decided to ask about modding MTW, discovered I had to spam post to be able to ask my question, and decided to dive in head first. So now this is the second forum I post in at any prodigous rate (the other being a counter strike forum...).

And I know, spamming is bad...

[CountArach]

Well I am a member of several forums (OVer 1600 posts on one) so being called a lurker is something I would resent. That said I used to just read the Europa Barbarorum area for a while there, before I could be bothered to join up. So I was a lurker, now I have joined the ranks of you guys.

[sbroadbent]

The not being able to post right away thing angered me...grr.

I'm a lurker when I'm not playing the game ;)

It annoyed me because I was really into the game, and must have been posting for about a week and a half, waiting for the day I'd become a regular member (there were a couple threads I created in the Entrance hall, to respond to something that had been posted in the MTW Main Hall, just because I was unable to post there), that by the time I had attained that status, I had moved on from MTW, and lost interest in responding to many of the threads I had intended to reply to.

My problem is that I'll play a game obsessively 12 hours a day (if I'm able to) for a period of about 2 weeks, and then I'll get to a point where I'll lose interest, switch to something different, and not return to the game for 6 months.

Since getting the Eras collection, I'll be trying to see how much gaming time I'll get out of it before I inevitably move on. Having just upgraded my computer, I'm looking forward to seeing how RTW runs now. Never did get a chance to play it.