Do You Ever Wonder What The Lurkers Think Of Us?

[puff_not_snuff]

Don't make any mistake about it, if you are posting in this thread you aren't a lurker, and that means you are in the minority here like on any forum. I have nothing against lurkers and certainly wouldn't say anything that might enrage them but I do wonder sometimes what they think of us. I sometimes feel like we are like fish in an aquarium for them, waiting and watching to see if one of us gets stuck in the treasure chest or if so and so bites so and so's dorsal fin off. I'm not worried per se, but I am concerned at times and I do wonder what they think about us as we pace these pages like suckermouths stuck on the glass of our cages.

 

[sablebrush52]

The short answer? Nope.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

The short answer? Nope.

You've been assimilated. Posting is futile.

 

[mikethompson]

 

[georged]

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Just looked at the numbers and it's 51 members with 114 guests.

Damn lurkers! They're basically the internet forum version of peeping Toms or "pie hawkers", as one guy called them in Dirty Harry.

BTW I am joking. I really couldn't care less what they think of us.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

Just looked at the numbers and it's 51 members with 114 guests.

Damn lurkers! They're basically the internet forum version of peeping Toms or "pie hawkers", as one guy called them in Dirty Harry.

BTW I am joking. I really couldn't care less what they think of us.

Ok but you must wonder, why do they like to watch us word wrestle? I hope one chimes in so we can welcome him or her into the heard.

 

[sablebrush52]

You've been assimilated. Posting is futile.

What would be the good of worrying about forum lurkers? We know they're there. We know there's a large Chinese contingent. So?
Personally I would love for more of them to join in.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

Personally I would love for more of them to join in.

Precisely and I wasn't giving any thought to a large Chinese contingency to be honest. I bet most of them are actually on the Swedish women's national volleyball team.

 

[mikethompson]

Personally I would love for more of them to join in.

Me as well.

I remember @mso489 did a thread about welcoming lurkers and quite a few joined after that. A fresh perspective is always welcome.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Ok but you must wonder, why do they like to watch us word wrestle? I hope one chimes in so we can welcome him or her into the heard.

Yeah, the more the merrier. I remember before the forum got updated and it could be pretty quiet on here, sometimes. Since the update this place has exploded with new members. New members means more threads and more interaction/banter which is great.

Saying that, if I see one new member start a thread titled "I just bought a Peterson and I don't think it's drilled correctly" I'm gonna move to the US, purchase a firearm and blow my brains out .

 

[olkofri]

Just looked at the numbers and it's 51 members with 114 guests.

Yeah, but how many of those "guests" are just search engine spiders?

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

I bet most of them are actually on the Swedish women's national volleyball team.

If that were the case I would definitely post more often.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Yeah, but how many of those "guests" are just search engine spiders?

I don't know what that is.

 

[olkofri]

I don't know what that is.

Not real people, but "crawlers"—bots, algorithms the search engines get into sites to gather data.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

Saying that, if I see one new member start a thread titled "I just bought a Peterson and I don't think it's drilled correctly" I'm gonna move to the US, purchase a firearm and blow my brains out .

Every forum I've ever been on is like that. After a year or so all the sane / interesting / always been crazy posters migrate to the off-topic section and just take occasional forays into the on topic discussions. It's the cycle of life... like how the female mantis eats the male after mating or how old growth forests need fires in order to survive and flourish.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Not real people, but "crawlers"—bots, algorithms the search engines get into sites to gather data.

Is that the same thing as 'bots'? I've heard about bots because Musk mentioned them when he was in the process of buying Twitter.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

Is that the same thing as 'bots'? I've heard about bots because Musk mentioned them when he was in the process of buying Twitter.

WTF y'all saying. The BORG is actually on here?!

 

[condorlover1]

Lurkers on the forum are not dissimilar to the 'Humphrey' pest that engaged in wholesale milk theft in 1970s England..

 

[olkofri]

Is that the same thing as 'bots'? I've heard about bots because Musk mentioned them when he was in the process of buying Twitter.

Kinda. A bot can be a number of things, but yes, it's basically a program running on a network doing something.