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I have noticed that a lot of you have been coming out from under your rocks lately. Perhaps it is because you have more time now to post since its the holidays, or maybe its because the apocalypse is nigh. Either way, you are posting more than normal, and it has me scared. Why? Because I know nothing about you! So please, lurkers of NSG come forward, and tell us about yourselves. Perhaps tell us about your job, or family. Maybe even give us your bank account and social security number. :p Anyways, this is a thread for all the NSGers to get to know all you creepy lurky people out there :)

I have noticed that a lot of you have been coming out from under your rocks lately. Perhaps it is because you have more time now to post since its the holidays, or maybe its because the apocalypse is night. Either way, you are posting more than normal, and it has me scared. Why? Because I know nothing about you! So please, lurkers of NSG come forward, and tell us about yourselves. Perhaps tell us about your job, or family. Maybe even give us your bank account and social security number. :p Anyways, this is a thread for all the NSGers to get to know all you creepy lurky people out there :)

Only in about half of the world. In the other half it'll happen during the day.

Only in about half of the world. In the other half it'll happen during the day.

Good catch :p

I have noticed that a lot of you have been coming out from under your rocks lately. Perhaps it is because you have more time now to post since its the holidays, or maybe its because the apocalypse is nigh. Either way, you are posting more than normal, and it has me scared. Why? Because I know nothing about you! So please, lurkers of NSG come forward, and tell us about yourselves. Perhaps tell us about your job, or family. Maybe even give us your bank account and social security number. :p Anyways, this is a thread for all the NSGers to get to know all you creepy lurky people out there :)

What if they're not actually lurkers, but an act of Mod made things as they are this season?
;)

What if they're not actually lurkers, but an act of Mod made things as they are this season?
;)



Mods work in a mysterious way :p

Is this some kind of "Lurkers come forth and face the wrath of Chaos!" kind of thread? Because that's what it looks like! :eek:

I wouldn't call myself a lurker though. First, I just have several nations and I post rather randomly with one (here in General that is). Second, I don't read this part of the forum enough to constitute "lurking". Third, when I do, I usually post something stupid, which completely nullifies the lurker status on meh.

So there!

Lurkers are lurkers for a reason. We don`t want people to know anything about us because we are a paranoid bunch.:upyours::sniper:

Hello. My name is Lord Grey II, and I'm a lurker.

Now that that's over with, I've lurked around NSG for years. I post only every once in a while (with the glaring exception of when FreedomAndGlory got me into a heated troll-roast). I've acted as LG's prodigal son from the future, and was the subject of a sig for a fairly notable person who has since stopped posting in NSG with any frequency. (Czart-something. Never could get his name right. Funny guy though)

As to non-NSG things about myself, I'm working towards a masters in physics, I'm straight, I don't currently have a girlfriend, I'm not listening to any music right now (nor am I usually), I'm currently re-reading: the Blue Adept series by Piers Anthony, my Magic: the Gathering novel collection, and Snow Crash by Neil Stevenson (at the same time, basically), I'm spending Christmas with the extended family (and when I mean extended, I really mean it. No, really. Don't be surprised when I show up at your doorstep.), and I'm an atheist, as may be evidenced by my sig. Oh, and I don't have any political affiliations, and I'm considered by many a misthantropist and a bad speller.

I think that covers a lot of the threads that get repeated a lot. Now what?

Mods work in a mysterious way :p

Mods? You foolish polymodist! There is only one Mod, you shall have no other mods before him.

Hello. My name is Lord Grey II, and I'm a lurker.

Now that that's over with, I've lurked around NSG for years. I post only every once in a while (with the glaring exception of when FreedomAndGlory got me into a heated troll-roast). I've acted as LG's prodigal son from the future, and was the subject of a sig for a fairly notable person who has since stopped posting in NSG with any frequency. (Czart-something. Never could get his name right. Funny guy though)

As to non-NSG things about myself, I'm working towards a masters in physics, I'm straight, I don't currently have a girlfriend, I'm not listening to any music right now (nor am I usually), I'm currently re-reading: the Blue Adept series by Piers Anthony, my Magic: the Gathering novel collection, and Snow Crash by Neil Stevenson (at the same time, basically), I'm spending Christmas with the extended family (and when I mean extended, I really mean it. No, really. Don't be surprised when I show up at your doorstep.), and I'm an atheist, as may be evidenced by my sig. Oh, and I don't have any political affiliations, and I'm considered by many a misthantropist and a bad speller.

I think that covers a lot of the threads that get repeated a lot. Now what?

You get a cookie :D

Mods? You foolish polymodist! There is only one Mod, you shall have no other mods before him.

Well, my Mods are better than your one Mod! I mean, seriously, who has only one Mod? Maybe small time forums or something.

-persecutes-

Yay! Cookie! *munch munch munch*

... That tasted suspiciously of dried toothpaste. O_o

Mods work in a mysterious way :p

I think you have a fan. *nods emphatically*

I always have to post, and then check my join date, to remember how long I've been here. It's been years, though, I know that. :p

Night?

It's morning here..

i lurk just not on NationStates. This could be somthing like lurkers annonoumus things. So Hi my name is rotten bacon and i am a lurker.

i lurk just not on NationStates. This could be somthing like lurkers annonoumus things. So Hi my name is rotten bacon and i am a lurker.

I'm so sorry, but I have to laugh at your spelling of "anonymous". :p

You're right, though, lurking tends to be a habitual thing. Maybe it's a disorder. Lurkeritis?

Well, my Mods are better than your one Mod! I mean, seriously, who has only one Mod? Maybe small time forums or something.

-persecutes-

You better repent soon, or our all-merciful Mod will ban you, and you shall be cast into Hell where you are tormented with an eternity of YouTube comments!

i lurk just not on NationStates. This could be somthing like lurkers annonoumus things. So Hi my name is rotten bacon and i am a lurker.

Rotten Bacon....great name :p

I'm so sorry, but I have to laugh at your spelling of "anonymous". :p Shame on you for picking on those too lazy to spell check :p


You're right, though, lurking tends to be a habitual thing. Maybe it's a disorder. Lurkeritis?
Sounds like something you go to the doctor and regret hearing.

"Son, you have a case of the lurkeritis."

"Damn, I knew I should have paid that much for her"

:p

You better repent soon, or our all-merciful Mod will ban you, and you shall be cast into the Hell where you are tormented with an eternity of YouTube comments!

Anything but that! :eek:

Anything but that! :eek:
Indeed!

Haven't you heard of the sermon "Spammers in the Hands of an Angry Mod" before? That just about covers what will happen to you polymodistic heretics!

Indeed!

Haven't you heard of the sermon "Spammers in the Hands of an Angry Mod" before? That just about covers what will happen to you polymodistic heretics!

I think you win, as I can't come up with a clever response, because of that I will now worship the one Mod. The question is, which mod is the Almighty Mod?

Haven't you heard of the sermon "Spammers in the Hands of an Angry Mod" before? That just about covers what will happen to you polymodistic heretics!
Oh, he knows ALL ABOUT that kinda thing.
*sigcheck*

I think you win, as I can't come up with a clever response, because of that I will now worship the one Mod. The question is, which mod is the Almighty Mod?

The one Mod who sent His only puppet unto us to be banned, that we may not perish in the comments of YouTube but have eternal posting!

You know, it's kinda telling of how the site works when even a thread where someone tells lurkers to identify themselves turns into a regulars'... Regular night. ;p

You know, it's kinda telling of how the site works when even a thread where someone tells lurkers to identify themselves turns into a regulars'... Regular night. ;p

We are just trying to make people feel comfortable with the level of spam :p. If we can get them hooked on that, then they will stay, and lurk no more!

I can't decide whether I count as a lurker. I have a post count of a touch under 900, and in the given time frame of my existence it's not TOO few. Then again, I tend to be on here for at least half an hour, often more, 6 days a week. That's an awful lot, for only 800 posts in 2 years or so. I wonder if there is some foolproof formula for detecting Lurkitis?

Anyhoo, I is 17, about to start my final year at high school, heavily into politics of every kind, a moderate leftist, I phase between philosophical Christian and unconvinced atheist on a regular basis, I'm straight, at this stage in a relationship, and I miss Czardas.

Oh, and in Mod we Trust.

Regular night. ;p

More like "Irregular night" :p

We are just trying to make people feel comfortable with the level of spam :p. If we can get them hooked on that, then they will stay, and lurk no more!

You're looking at it the wrong way! Lurkers are lurkers because they are scared of the amount of spam in the area, so they don't dare to post because they'd get all spammed and stuff. The more spam you generate, the more scared they are and thus the less likely they are to post anything!

So if folks were all quiet-like at first and jumped on the lurkers when they finally dare to post...!

You're looking at it the wrong way! Lurkers are lurkers because they are scared of the amount of spam in the area, so they don't dare to post because they'd get all spammed and stuff. The more spam you generate, the more scared they are and thus the less likely they are to post anything!

So if folks were all quiet-like at first and jumped on the lurkers when they finally dare to post...!


Oh, spam it to hell :(

Oh, spam it to hell :(

Ebil. EBIL!
*scolds*

Lurkers! where..?
Quickly now, use the science vessel.

Lurkers! where..?
Quickly now, use the science vessel.

Oberth class?

Well, I guess you could count me as a lurker...

So, I'm 15 years old...addicted to chocolate...but still pretty slim:)
I am in highschool, sing in a choir, and take singing lessons.
There's no boyfriend at the moment.

I guess that's everything of importance...If you call that important:)

Oberth class?

Not so much trek as craft..;)

Not so much trek as craft..;)

Ah, gotcha. *nods*

Well greetings to all regulars. Yes, I am a lurker. This is my second nation, but I didn't really post much with my first since I've started NS a year ago. I guess It's true what they say: you can't quite leave NS - it is the true Hotel California.

As for myself, I am 18, currently on a gap year, will most likely be studying Philosophy and Politics at Bristol next year (I have an unconditional but I am admitting I might take the fancy of Exeter instead), I live in England and have been for a few years, though I'm originally eastern European.

I'm straight (at least as far as experience goes), currently single and not exactly looking, blissfully unemployed, and I fill my time with NS (thus the recent surge in posts) and learning French (my 4th language - if my flimsy knowledge of German actually qualifies).

What else? (damn this feels like filling in a date services form:headbang:):
Nihilist (ergo weak Atheist), did I mention male?, politically a misfortunate combination of liberal (in the minarchist and social freedom sense) and socialist (in the progressive taxation and reducing the rich poor divide / economic sense) with strongest concerns being the equality of opportunity and education (which I believe should be completely free even at multiple postgrad level, but a lot more competitive).

Welcome, lurkers! Enjoy your stay! *Passes out coupons*

Not enough Vespene Gas!

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/images/4/48/Lurk.jpg

Not enough Vespene Gas!

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/images/4/48/Lurk.jpg

Or korfaise gas.

Or korfaise gas.

Lurkers don't need antiquated crystal powered beam swords.

Lurkers don't need antiquated crystal powered beam swords.

Perhaps "need" isn't the right word, so much.

... would you suggest "leech"?

... would you suggest "leech"?

Yeah, that's a little bit better, i suspect. *nods*

Perhaps I should post here.

Then again, this could be considered cheating.

*waves*

I am totally a lurker........never post.

But if I post, I am lurker no more which means I shouldn't post here.

Ok.... Im a lurker. This i hope will help me on my way to rehabilitation

Im probably the youngest person here, as im still in middle school. I want to become a nanotechnologist or a physicist when i grow up. I am not single (ha ha) and have been going out with him for..... Two weeks the second time round, because I was previously forced to break up with them..... I like reading all kinds of books, with my favs as sci fi and fantasy, and I like acting, playing the violin, and making explosives.

Yes i am. And i'm proud of it!!!!! :D

Sorry about that, but I don't think my comment was appropriate. m(-_-)m

*waves*

I am totally a lurker........never post.

Yes, and reading your posts are such a rare treat.:D

Yes, and reading your posts are such a rare treat.:D

*kicks*

Merry Smunkee week!

Ouch! Be careful: you are starting the great traditions of Smunkee week that will last for generations, and kicking Jim just isn't what I had in mind.:p

I like to think of myself as a semi-lurker. I do post, occasionally, and then drift back into obscurity. I used to be more active, but since heading to University I've found it more enjoyable to just read General rather than try to say anything.

*goes back to lurking*

Please don't install a kid filter! I hate it when adults do that!

Please don't install a kid filter! I hate it when adults do that!

That's not a kid filter, that's a "cover my ass" filter.

That's not a kid filter, that's a "cover my ass" filter.

okay, then:)

*wonders if he is considered a lurker*

I read General regularly and do one or two posts every year or so...but thats about it.

I'm a lurker.




What?

Well, I lurked for two years before I created this account. Does that count?

I post too often to be a lurker, but am too far off mainstream to be a regular. So I'm sort of a semi-lurker.

If you want me to provide biographical details, I'll likely give a lot of random, conflicting information and then flee before anyone notices. At any rate, anything you need to know you can find out by reading my posts.

I find actually posting requires too much effort, so I tend not to bother. And that's all I can be bothered to tell you.

Well, I guess you could count me as a lurker...

So, I'm 15 years old...addicted to chocolate...but still pretty slim:)
I am in highschool, sing in a choir, and take singing lessons.
There's no boyfriend at the moment.

I guess that's everything of importance...If you call that important:)

*glances over post*
Yeah, standard lurker...

*notices sig*
HOLY COW! A fellow Nightwish devotee!

I hereby congratulate you on your supremely good taste. :D

It seems we have a lurker infestation. Someone get my gun...

Not quite a lurker (look at post count), but spend a lot of time in the other part of NS :D

Not quite a lurker (look at post count), but spend a lot of time in the other part of NS :D

Traitor. :p

I hope I don't count as a lurker these days. I spend way more time on our offshoot forum now. (Miss me?) :cool:

I hope I don't count as a lurker these days. I spend way more time on our offshoot forum now. (Miss me?) :cool:

We have an offshoot forum?

We have an offshoot forum?

More than one! I stick to Generalite Mafia, but there are others...they scare me.

More than one! I stick to Generalite Mafia, but there are others...they scare me.

GM loves Ilie the mostest. :fluffle:

More than one! I stick to Generalite Mafia, but there are others...they scare me.

The less-than-unique facility of the Internet for constructing exclusionist subcultures from tiny populations scares me. Especially when you can take a population as diverse and mutually-at-odds as NS General, and turn it into a single unit placed in radical opposition to the International Incidents and United Nations forums on the same website to say nothing of Randall Munroe's entire map of the internet.

The less-than-unique facility of the Internet for constructing exclusionist subcultures from tiny populations scares me. Especially when you can take a population as diverse and mutually-at-odds as NS General, and turn it into a single unit placed in radical opposition to the International Incidents and United Nations forums on the same website to say nothing of Randall Munroe's entire map of the internet.

Wow, I just use it for talking about sex more openly without getting banned.

GM loves Ilie the mostest. :fluffle:

*gah!* awwww <3

Wow, I just use it for talking about sex more openly without getting banned.

I don't think I'm making any sense here.

For the record I've never seen the attraction in talking about sex on the internet. I've never felt any particular desire to discuss exactly why I prefer this position to that one, or how long a typical "evening" at "my place" lasts, or even flirt shamelessly with people I've never met. Then again, I am uncharacteristically weird and shunned equally here as in real life so you can pretend I didn't say anything.

Wow, I just use it for talking about sex more openly without getting banned.
You're only using us for sex :eek:


Awesome!
I don't think I'm making any sense here.

For the record I've never seen the attraction in talking about sex on the internet. I've never felt any particular desire to discuss exactly why I prefer this position to that one, or how long a typical "evening" at "my place" lasts, or even flirt shamelessly with people I've never met. Then again, I am uncharacteristically weird and shunned equally here as in real life so you can pretend I didn't say anything.

We only talk about it cos we're not having any :)


Well, most of us aren't. Smunk and Sinner are. Probably Grav too. And LaDame.

Not quite a lurker (look at post count), but spend a lot of time in the other part of NS :D

Other part of NS? Lies!

I'm not a lurker! I just post when I have something relevant to say. Something that contributes to the discussion. And the discussion must be interesting to me. And I have to be in right mood. And have enough time, because posting on a forum is serious commitment.
So, that's why I post... wait wait... about once in three days, on average.
And since I'm not a paranoid insecure lurker, I won't say anything about myself, you stalking spammers, you!

Long time lurker here.

I don't post much because my opinions are usually a tad extremist, and this tends to get me banned. So I just watch people debate instead.

I think I may be making some progress, but oh well.

Long time lurker here.

I don't post much because my opinions are usually a tad extremist, and this tends to get me banned. So I just watch people debate instead.

I think I may be making some progress, but oh well.

Extremist?
I wonder whether I could ask you to tg me about them?

I've always been fascinated by extremist points of view, especially their justification.

Telegram'd.

I have noticed that a lot of you have been coming out from under your rocks lately. Perhaps it is because you have more time now to post since its the holidays, or maybe its because the apocalypse is nigh. Either way, you are posting more than normal, and it has me scared. Why? Because I know nothing about you! So please, lurkers of NSG come forward, and tell us about yourselves. Perhaps tell us about your job, or family. Maybe even give us your bank account and social security number. :p Anyways, this is a thread for all the NSGers to get to know all you creepy lurky people out there :)

You know if you hold ctrl and shift while typing it, your social security number will come out as a bunch of XXs......

Telegram'd.

Thanks. :)

You know if you hold ctrl and shift while typing it, your social security number will come out as a bunch of XXs......

XXX-XX-XXXX


WOAH IT WORKS!

The less-than-unique facility of the Internet for constructing exclusionist subcultures from tiny populations scares me. Especially when you can take a population as diverse and mutually-at-odds as NS General, and turn it into a single unit placed in radical opposition to the International Incidents and United Nations forums on the same website to say nothing of Randall Munroe's entire map of the internet.

What?

Edit: adding why I "lurk" here.

On the rare occasions I post something, by the time I remember to come back, the thread has 10 more pages of replies, most of which is just spam or insults. That's provided I can even find the thread at all. I'm just too lazy to read it all.

I don't think I'm making any sense here.

For the record I've never seen the attraction in talking about sex on the internet. I've never felt any particular desire to discuss exactly why I prefer this position to that one, or how long a typical "evening" at "my place" lasts, or even flirt shamelessly with people I've never met. Then again, I am uncharacteristically weird and shunned equally here as in real life so you can pretend I didn't say anything.

Wow, my feelings are hurt. Flirting shamelessly with perfect strangers is practically my only reason to wake up in the morning! Well, that and my job...and my family and friends...and making the world a better place...but yeah, that is the MOST important thing. Yes. ;)

On the rare occasions I post something, by the time I remember to come back, the thread has 10 more pages of replies, most of which is just spam or insults. That's provided I can even find the thread at all. I'm just too lazy to read it all.

Yeah.

And most of the time I can't be arsed to write stuff others have said before.

Well...one may consider me a lurker now. I've been pretty much away from this site, and only swing by every so often to make a little quip and then escape back to my bunker.

So...Hi there! :D

I've been lurking for...well guess I'll find out after I post, it's been awhile since I last posted. I'll generally read the first page or two of a thread and decide if I'm interested enough to read the whole thing. As for my personality, I'm moderate left I guess, a very fast reader, 16, a student, and enjoy computers, video games, and books.

I lurk, therefore I am...

Mods? You foolish polymodist! There is only one Mod, you shall have no other mods before him.

Pfff, we all know there is no such thing as a Mod. They were a fiction made to explain various forum functions. We need no 'Mod' or 'Mods' for our forum etiquette either!

I like being an Amodist.

Anyhoo, I tend to lurk here a day or two, then not look at anything for a fortnight.

I'm not so much a lurker as I am new to this site. So before I become a lurker please allow me to introduce myself.

My name is Joe. I live in po-dunk, boring, peaceful, rural Oklahoma. I'm currently trying to obtain my associates in Criminal Justice Admin. and will be going for my bachelor's degree starting in June. I'm single, never married, no kids (that I know of) and (though I hesitate to say this) work in law enforcement. So let the frenzy of "I hate po-po" now begin!:upyours:

I'm not so much a lurker as I am new to this site. So before I become a lurker please allow me to introduce myself.

My name is Joe. I live in po-dunk, boring, peaceful, rural Oklahoma. I'm currently trying to obtain my associates in Criminal Justice Admin. and will be going for my bachelor's degree starting in June. I'm single, never married, no kids (that I know of) and (though I hesitate to say this) work in law enforcement. So let the frenzy of "I hate po-po" now begin!:upyours:Oklahoma!

Smunkee might be happy to have another Oklahoman here.

Oh, and ewwww policemen! :p

I am a lurker by situation, not choice. By the time I manage to get to any thread I can actually add my input on, its 15+ pages and I don't know if what I have to sad has already been mentioned. Its a cruel world sometimes.

It's okay though, I can always read stuff, yeah!

Pfff, we all know there is no such thing as a Mod. They were a fiction made to explain various forum functions. We need no 'Mod' or 'Mods' for our forum etiquette either!

I like being an Amodist.

Anyhoo, I tend to lurk here a day or two, then not look at anything for a fortnight.

But what if you're wrong? If I'm wrong, I just leave the forum someday. If you are wrong, you will suffer YouTube comments for all eternity! You should believe in Mod, because the consequences for not believing and being wrong just aren't worth the risk.

I guess I'm a lurker. Not really by choice, I just generally don't have much to add to the conversation that's worth the effort of typing up. Mostly because I don't stumble on these threads until they're approximately fourteen years old.

I'm female (I know, I checked). Twenty five (years, four months, eleven days, fourteen hours, forty one minutes). Married (to a man who is one year and eleven days older than me). I have a daughter (who is one year, six months, two days, two hours, two minutes). I bet you think I'm an accountant. Oh, if only. I do advertising for an estate agent. I stay home a lot. I read (or at least I know how to). I write. I daydream about getting rich. I have tattoos. When I'm home and it's just the baby and I, I'll cook up an artichoke, or steam some asparagus, or slice up an avocado, or in general eat foods that start with the letter "a", with the noted exception of apples.

Oklahoma!

Smunkee might be happy to have another Oklahoman here.

Oh, and ewwww policemen! :p


Who's Smunkee and why does that sound like an activity one does alone in private and is ashamed to have anyone know that they do? :D

I have noticed that a lot of you have been coming out from under your rocks lately. Perhaps it is because you have more time now to post since its the holidays, or maybe its because the apocalypse is nigh. Either way, you are posting more than normal, and it has me scared. Why? Because I know nothing about you! So please, lurkers of NSG come forward, and tell us about yourselves. Perhaps tell us about your job, or family. Maybe even give us your bank account and social security number. :p Anyways, this is a thread for all the NSGers to get to know all you creepy lurky people out there :)

Hi. My name is Grave, and I am a lurker.

Who's Smunkee and why does that sound like an activity one does alone in private and is ashamed to have anyone know that they do? :DIf you stick around long enough, you'll find out. :)

If I were, or am, a lurker would I know or would someone need to tell me...?