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Vlam 03-26-2016 08:33 AM

Lurkers of OWF.
 
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In Internet culture, a lurker is typically a member of an online community or PLN who observes, but does not actively participate. The exact definition depends on context. Lurkers make up a large proportion of all users in online communities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurker

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In Internet culture, the 1% rule is a rule of thumb pertaining to participation in an internet community, stating that only 1% of the users of a website actively create new content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_r...net_culture%29



Lurkers of OWF: why do you lurk? Register and tell me.

Varrok 03-26-2016 08:43 AM

The only lurkers I know of are:

DarkHoodness

Kapteeni13

Alf Shall Rise 03-26-2016 08:49 AM

I've done more lurking than posting throughout my entire time being a member here. Usually because I feel like there's nothing I can really add.

Vlam 03-26-2016 10:29 AM

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The only lurkers I know of are:

DarkHoodness

Kapteeni13

Mr. Bungle, OddMan360, Wil...
Let's not forget those who are using invisible mode.

Alf Shall Rise, lurking = low self-esteem?

RoryF 03-26-2016 10:30 AM

My shit talking doesn't work so well on forums, I lurk less on IRC channels when I'm not busy.

Xorlidyr 03-26-2016 10:31 AM

I lurk more these days.

Vyrien 03-26-2016 10:35 AM

I lurk because you're all boring cunts.

Vlam 03-26-2016 10:36 AM

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I lurk because you're all boring cunts.

Try to make it less boring. Lurkers are in dire need of soul...

Xorlidyr 03-26-2016 10:36 AM

I love you as a Vyrien.

Nepsotic 03-26-2016 10:48 AM

A single Vyrien. He doesn't love you as multiple Vyriens.

Vyrien 03-26-2016 10:50 AM

But I am a multiple system. To love one is to love all.

Varrok 03-26-2016 10:59 AM

I love you all like only a Wyvern can.

Nepsotic 03-26-2016 11:00 AM

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But I am a multiple system. To love one is to love all.

You have disassociative identity disorder.

AvengingGibbons 03-26-2016 11:28 AM

Why haven't I been named? I'm always here

Varrok 03-26-2016 11:47 AM

You are? I thought you were just absent most of the time

STM 03-26-2016 11:59 AM

I don't lurk because I'm obviously a fucking masochist.

Vlam 03-26-2016 12:06 PM

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Why haven't I been named? I'm always here

Who are you?

RoryF 03-26-2016 12:14 PM

Wow, savage.

Vlam 03-26-2016 12:19 PM

I genuinely don't know who he is.

Varrok 03-26-2016 12:21 PM

I know him, that's AvengingGibbons. He makes cool A Fan Art pics

Xorlidyr 03-26-2016 12:22 PM

I loved those pictures.

Slog Bait 03-26-2016 12:36 PM

I lurk because I don't have the energy to engage people 95% of the time

Also gibbons where's that picture of Abe sucking on Munch's foot I need the finished product in my life

Varrok 03-26-2016 12:42 PM

For the new forum theme?

Vlam 03-26-2016 12:42 PM

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I lurk because I don't have the energy to engage people 95% of the time

You aren't a lurker.

MA 03-26-2016 12:51 PM

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I lurk because I don't have the energy to engage people 95% of the time

this is actually the exact reason why i don't often contribute to discussions and the like. i just can't find the energy to keep responding in a debate anymore. answering post after post with long replies to defend my point of view feels pretty tedious after all these years. i don't have the patience anymore, and i don't have anything to prove, so i usually only ever post when we're joking around or when i see something i think is out of line and feel compelled to respond with some home truths.

Vlam 03-26-2016 12:58 PM

(lurking)

abe619 03-26-2016 04:03 PM

I usually either spend long times without checking the forums, or as of recently, don't really find much I can contribute...then again that's exactly how I felt way back when I first joined except then I was more vocal about too much stuff and wasting everyone's time.

And all the old members have either left or are quiet and it feels so wrong. Q~Q -cowers in corner-

But yeah, I miss when we were all less about serious debates and more about sarcasm and just having some sort of hazing-like fun, kind of like a roast.

What pisses me off the most is that I missed most of them leaving, I don't remember seeing WoF leave, or StrikeWitch/Ghost (Even though she probably hated my guts, or used to, which I don't really blame her for), or T-Nex, or Hobo....GOD, do I miss Hobo, strangely enough, I've been using the word hobo in my vocabulary alot the past couple of years.

Nepsotic 03-26-2016 04:52 PM

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this is actually the exact reason why i don't often contribute to discussions and the like. i just can't find the energy to keep responding in a debate anymore. answering post after post with long replies to defend my point of view feels pretty tedious after all these years. i don't have the patience anymore, and i don't have anything to prove, so i usually only ever post when we're joking around or when i see something i think is out of line and feel compelled to respond with some home truths.

We all miss you, MA ;_;

JayDee 03-26-2016 06:49 PM

I've been quickly coming up on a decade of activity here at OWF and my post count is atrocious given the time I spend here. OWF mostly comes back into my life in waves and then leaves again for a few months, the announcement of Soulstorm and progression in my own projects being what lead me back this time.

6/8 years I've been here have been spent lurking. probably.

Moot 03-26-2016 08:27 PM

It's really weird when Youtubers directly call out lurkers (usually in a positive fashion). I personally tend to lurk on almost everything. I'm not sure if that's me being shy, or if I just don't care enough to get involved.

Nate 03-26-2016 09:35 PM

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What pisses me off the most is that I missed most of them leaving, I don't remember seeing WoF leave, or StrikeWitch/Ghost (Even though she probably hated my guts, or used to, which I don't really blame her for), or T-Nex, or Hobo....GOD, do I miss Hobo, strangely enough, I've been using the word hobo in my vocabulary alot the past couple of years.

Most of those people didn't officially leave. They just gradually drifted away, like leaves in a summer breeze.

Nepsotic 03-26-2016 09:51 PM

That was a beautifully emotional way of putting it, Nate.

abe619 03-27-2016 03:17 AM

I wasn't sure about the rest, but I thought T-Nex officially left.

Crashpunk 03-27-2016 05:06 AM

T-Nex made a goodbye thread.

I lurk a lot of the Off-Topic threads which are debates more than anything. I genuinely have nothing to say and I just like to see where it goes.

Even though sometimes I regret even reading it.

Vlam 03-27-2016 05:33 AM

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Even though sometimes I regret even reading it.

Why?

Nepsotic 03-27-2016 05:34 AM

Because he's a little bitch and a lier with poopy poop on his hands.

Crashpunk 03-27-2016 11:43 AM

It's actually on my head. Get it right.

Jordan 03-27-2016 03:32 PM

stop lurking and speak to us you little poos

RoryF 03-27-2016 03:39 PM

Never

Alf Shall Rise 03-28-2016 12:50 PM

When will germichlgboulg and ravkarorgeforg stop lurking and speak to us.