Lurking: A Study

I have been lurking since about 2006, joined this year and decided to post a couple of times. I mostly come on here just to read about things like skinny jeans and so on.

I lurk therefore I am

I also work part time on weekends as a peeping tom and door to door shoe salesman

Yep, Lurker here, i realized right after my first week that i need to take a nice big cup of STFU, lurk moar and hit the Gym as well as the Kitchen with my best efforts, talk is cheap. I think if more people (also in “real life”) would adopt that mindset the world would be a better place. But to each his own i guess…

[quote]Big_Dave wrote:
DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Fuck you! I don’t have a lurking problem! I can stop lurking anytime I want to!

I just don’t want to.

How does one amass a 1000 posts in 5 months and still consider themselve a lurker?[/quote]

Chronic Relapser.

Hi. I’m Postholedigger…and I’m a lurkaholic. I’ve been lurk-free for 3 months now. Sometimes I’ll post something that I’ll regret and it’ll make me want to lapse back into binge lurking. But I know I have to fight it and stay lurk-free for my family and for myself. I started dabbling in lurking in my mid 20’s and it slowly started taking over my life.

After a lurk session was over I’d anxiously await my next lurk and it was all I could think about and it became what I lived for. One day another lurkaholic and I made a pact that we would seek help and quit lurking and do something constructive and give back to the community. It’s a fight but it’s getting easier with each day and I hope to be a better role model to my children so they don’t have to go down the same road.

[quote]countingbeans wrote:
LankyMofo wrote:
countingbeans wrote:
Brasidas wrote:
Am lurker - mainly just concentrate on the basics and dont have enough time in my job to really contribute to the offtopic stuff but enjoy reading posts and articles.

Wow, you are pretty good too. You don’t beat 1 post in 4 years, but you are close second to most amazing lurker for sure.

A few months ago I saw someone with an October 2002 join date have their first post. I think I called him the lurker of all lurkers or something along those lines and the fucker didn’t respond. He’s a true master of his trade.

If this guy is reading, please GOD post…

That shit is awesome.
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Alright, I’ll own up (hate getting called out, lol). BTW, I echo everything Sephysto said. Back to lurking…

[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
countingbeans wrote:
Brasidas wrote:
Am lurker - mainly just concentrate on the basics and dont have enough time in my job to really contribute to the offtopic stuff but enjoy reading posts and articles.

Wow, you are pretty good too. You don’t beat 1 post in 4 years, but you are close second to most amazing lurker for sure.

A few months ago I saw someone with an October 2002 join date have their first post. I think I called him the lurker of all lurkers or something along those lines and the fucker didn’t respond. He’s a true master of his trade.[/quote]

I think I remember seeing that. I couldn’t quite wrap my mind around the fact that they made an account and kept quiet for so long and then broke the silence with a single post, then went silent again.

[quote]postholedigger wrote:
LankyMofo wrote:
countingbeans wrote:
Brasidas wrote:
Am lurker - mainly just concentrate on the basics and dont have enough time in my job to really contribute to the offtopic stuff but enjoy reading posts and articles.

Wow, you are pretty good too. You don’t beat 1 post in 4 years, but you are close second to most amazing lurker for sure.

A few months ago I saw someone with an October 2002 join date have their first post. I think I called him the lurker of all lurkers or something along those lines and the fucker didn’t respond. He’s a true master of his trade.

I think I remember seeing that. I couldn’t quite wrap my mind around the fact that they made an account and kept quiet for so long and then broke the silence with a single post, then went silent again.

[/quote]

He’s probably reading this right now and laughing.

[quote]BJBanker wrote:
countingbeans wrote:
LankyMofo wrote:
countingbeans wrote:
Brasidas wrote:
Am lurker - mainly just concentrate on the basics and dont have enough time in my job to really contribute to the offtopic stuff but enjoy reading posts and articles.

Wow, you are pretty good too. You don’t beat 1 post in 4 years, but you are close second to most amazing lurker for sure.

A few months ago I saw someone with an October 2002 join date have their first post. I think I called him the lurker of all lurkers or something along those lines and the fucker didn’t respond. He’s a true master of his trade.

If this guy is reading, please GOD post…

That shit is awesome.

Alright, I’ll own up (hate getting called out, lol). BTW, I echo everything Sephysto said. Back to lurking…
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Holy fucking shit. Amazing.

You are like the anti-X. If you two post in the same thread the internet would explode.

I started reading the articles back in 02 or 03. Got a lot of good information from the forums (lurking of course). I have another screen name from ‘05, but I have pics with my face and personal stuff (like my name) in my thread history from back in the day. I mainly hung out on the BB and Steroid forums. I applied the information intelligently and got pretty big and strong. I had some serious injuries (ten surgeries total) and stopped lifting for a few years. Now that I don’t weigh 245 anymore, I was afraid to post because Prof X will start yelling that I’m not big enough to give advice. LOL (I got nothin’ but luv for you, X - you’ve taught me a lot over the years) I started posting in the over 35 section last year during my rehab and a bit after that, but it got a little old (no pun intended). So I stopped.

When I came back and saw that they made some changes to the site, so I started poking around. When I discovered SAMA and GAL (Back then I just never clicked those other forums for some reason…) I decided to just make a new screen name when I discovered I had something to contribute to protect my privacy.

Google is getting better and better every year. When I google myself, I have PAGES of stuff come up. I don’t want someone googleing me and find my name and pictures of my face on a sex forum giving someone advice on a threesome, or something! It would be relatively easy for someone to fuck with my business if they knew my name, because I have several websites for real estate and mortgage.

So now I’m a fucking '09er…

Howdy,

I’m a fan of the lurking life. . .

I enjoy lurking as well…shit, now I’ve had 3 posts in one day…that might be a record for me.

I even explain my lurking in my about me.

[quote]angry chicken wrote:
I started reading the articles back in 02 or 03. Got a lot of good information from the forums (lurking of course). I have another screen name from ‘05, but I have pics with my face and personal stuff (like my name) in my thread history from back in the day. I mainly hung out on the BB and Steroid forums. I applied the information intelligently and got pretty big and strong. I had some serious injuries (ten surgeries total) and stopped lifting for a few years. Now that I don’t weigh 245 anymore, I was afraid to post because Prof X will start yelling that I’m not big enough to give advice. LOL (I got nothin’ but luv for you, X - you’ve taught me a lot over the years) I started posting in the over 35 section last year during my rehab and a bit after that, but it got a little old (no pun intended). So I stopped.

When I came back and saw that they made some changes to the site, so I started poking around. When I discovered SAMA and GAL (Back then I just never clicked those other forums for some reason…) I decided to just make a new screen name when I discovered I had something to contribute to protect my privacy.

Google is getting better and better every year. When I google myself, I have PAGES of stuff come up. I don’t want someone googleing me and find my name and pictures of my face on a sex forum giving someone advice on a threesome, or something! It would be relatively easy for someone to fuck with my business if they knew my name, because I have several websites for real estate and mortgage.

So now I’m a fucking '09er…[/quote]

LOL! That shit is hilarious

[quote]angry chicken wrote:
I started reading the articles back in 02 or 03. Got a lot of good information from the forums (lurking of course). I have another screen name from ‘05, but I have pics with my face and personal stuff (like my name) in my thread history from back in the day. I mainly hung out on the BB and Steroid forums. I applied the information intelligently and got pretty big and strong. I had some serious injuries (ten surgeries total) and stopped lifting for a few years. Now that I don’t weigh 245 anymore, I was afraid to post because Prof X will start yelling that I’m not big enough to give advice. LOL (I got nothin’ but luv for you, X - you’ve taught me a lot over the years) I started posting in the over 35 section last year during my rehab and a bit after that, but it got a little old (no pun intended). So I stopped.

When I came back and saw that they made some changes to the site, so I started poking around. When I discovered SAMA and GAL (Back then I just never clicked those other forums for some reason…) I decided to just make a new screen name when I discovered I had something to contribute to protect my privacy.

Google is getting better and better every year. When I google myself, I have PAGES of stuff come up. I don’t want someone googleing me and find my name and pictures of my face on a sex forum giving someone advice on a threesome, or something! It would be relatively easy for someone to fuck with my business if they knew my name, because I have several websites for real estate and mortgage.

So now I’m a fucking '09er…[/quote]

Seriously? You’re over 35? I figured you would be at most 35.

[quote]angry chicken wrote:

So now I’m a fucking '09er…[/quote]

Fucking '09er… :stuck_out_tongue: Good stuff bro. For some reason, like grneyes, I never took you for an over 35er…

Hi. My name is _______________ and I am a lurker.

[quote]Synima wrote:
Hi. My name is _______________ and I am a lurker.[/quote]

Wow…

There is more of you than I thought.

I wonder if this thread will turn any of you out… We need some new post whoring.

[quote]countingbeans wrote:
BJBanker wrote:
countingbeans wrote:
LankyMofo wrote:
countingbeans wrote:
Brasidas wrote:
Am lurker - mainly just concentrate on the basics and dont have enough time in my job to really contribute to the offtopic stuff but enjoy reading posts and articles.

Wow, you are pretty good too. You don’t beat 1 post in 4 years, but you are close second to most amazing lurker for sure.

A few months ago I saw someone with an October 2002 join date have their first post. I think I called him the lurker of all lurkers or something along those lines and the fucker didn’t respond. He’s a true master of his trade.

If this guy is reading, please GOD post…

That shit is awesome.

Alright, I’ll own up (hate getting called out, lol). BTW, I echo everything Sephysto said. Back to lurking…

Holy fucking shit. Amazing.

You are like the anti-X. If you two post in the same thread the internet would explode.[/quote]

Apparently you haven’t checked his rather robust post history. Now, if he posted 3 times in the same thread…all bets are off.

I lurk because I know if I posted I’d be constantly checking the thread to see if someone replied to my post & I’d drive myself crazy.