YO, LURKERS

[Mirai Gen]

Get your asses in here and post!

I mean, shit.

[Premmy]

No, fuck you.

[Bells]

Fresh ideas and new faces? You will doom us all!

[Premmy]

I swear to Almighty GOD if any of you lurkers post I will slowly devour you soul first.

[Amake]

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images/b/b8/Lurker.png

[Premmy]

Don't do it... Dooooont do it....

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

Ehhhh, I tend to get dissuaded from posting because it seems that just about any and every topic now ends up being some banal argument consisting who can twist who's words more for the sake of some reason. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good debate. Buuuuuut when it just devolves into a logic dick waving competition it makes me wonder why I keep coming back here :| (other than the amusing pictures/links and the occasional posting in arts sub-thread)

But don't mind me! I'm just cranky because I have to wake up for work in four hours and haven't been able to get so much as a wink in.

[akaSM]

*post*

I used to lurk but, posting is fun too :p

[Mirai Gen]

I just figure we sometimes get pretty hostile/sarcastic in here (not "you" or "NPF," but "we," cause fuck I do it too) and I'd like to break that up a bit by making an open invitation to anyone who's not already in here.

[Osterbaum]

I think we're past the phase of any 'lurkers' actually wanting to post.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images/b/b8/Lurker.png

Then again, maybe it's actually another unit lurking to regenerate some health quicker. We won't know until they show themselves.

[The Wandering God]

You need to offer some sort of incentive.

Tell them there will be punch and pie.

[Osterbaum]

Free hat!

[Mirai Gen]

"I VISITED NPF AND I BOUGHT THIS HAT AT A LATER TIME FOR A COMPLETELY UNRELATED REASON"

[Osterbaum]

"I VISITED NPF AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS STUPID FREE HAT THAT SAYS 'ALL I GOT IS THIS STUPID HAT'! LIKE TOTALLY, THAT PLACE IS FULL OF UNORIGINAL JOKES!"

[Living Bobbeh]

But I like posting in threads where, ultimately, my post has no effect on the outcome of the thread. That's why the majority of my posts end up in "post your X" threads.

[Green Spanner]

I ALREADY DID! GEEZ!

And I bet you're all regretting it now.

[Si Civa]

If there only was threads where people could actually post without fearing that they will become spamfests then yes people may start posting on here.

I still <3* you guys though, no hard feelings.

*Not really though! You are smaller than 1 in reality.

[G.I.R.]

Some of us try to actively post! And sometimes get responses! What exactly makes one a... lurker? Isn't it someone who doesn't post at all yet registers to be an active member of the community?

[32bit-RedMage]

The lurkers are here!!!!
We were fine, we were safe but.. NOOOOO!
YOU had to lure them back here !! It's your fault!!
We are all dead now and it's YOUR FAULT Ric-- i mean MIRAI GEN !!!
AAAAAHHHHH!!!!!

HELP !!! They are everywhere !!!

[Sir Pinkleton]

Some of us try to actively post! And sometimes get responses! What exactly makes one a... lurker? Isn't it someone who doesn't post at all yet registers to be an active member of the community?
I figure a lurker is someone who don't posts often. Some people regularly post every day. some people post once a week. a lurker is the latter half, and of course that time frame can extend further.
Basically, if one's post count per day is pretty low, they're a lurker. I don't actually know what could be considered "low" though. Also,

Free hat!

Fedora for me? :D?

[Grimpond]

The lurkers are here!!!!
We were fine, we were safe but.. NOOOOO!
YOU had to lure them back here !! It's your fault!!
We are all dead now and it's YOUR FAULT Ric-- i mean MIRAI GEN !!!
AAAAAHHHHH!!!!!

HELP !!! They are everywhere !!!

Mang, I am disappoint. Those are totally zombies.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

According to my statistics I make 1.19 posts per day.

That would mean I make at least one post every day, statistically that is. Because in truth I sometimes don't post one week and then post a decent amount all in one day.
Is that lurking, or just not posting for various reasons for an unspecified amount of time.

[Squall Leonhart]

I figure a lurker is someone who don't posts often. Some people regularly post every day. some people post once a week. a lurker is the latter half, and of course that time frame can extend further.
Basically, if one's post count per day is pretty low, they're a lurker. I don't actually know what could be considered "low" though.[...]I post less than a third a day. :(

I always thought a lurker was a guy who was just there, doing nothing. At least I post and some people do kind of recognize me so, there's that too.

[Grinshanks]

But if I post I cease to be a lurker... :(

[Azisien]

This whole thread is a waste because I already managed to de-lurk the lurkiest lurker of them all: Fifthfiend. Lurkfiend. Fifthlurk?

[lazy man]

This whole thread is a waste because I already managed to de-lurk the lurkiest lurker of them all: Fifthfiend. Lurkfiend. Fifthlurk?

Well at least he posted stuff before. Me? I haven't consistently posted in... years? I dunno.

Also, yes, this thread called out to me almost specifically. Don't even know why I don't post anymore...

[DarkDrgon]

I was told there would be punch?

[Token]

But if I post I cease to be a lurker... :(

Dude. If you don't post, we don't get to see your bitchin' avatar.

[Green Spanner]

I was told there would be punch?
http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/4662424/punch-main_Full.jpg

[synkr0nized]

Lurkers can be troublesome, but as long as you make proper use of your detectors and are aware of their range they will pose a minimal threat to your forces.

[Osterbaum]

I really have no idea what you're trying to say.

[DFM]

Detectors are for wusses, Marine spam for life.

[Bells]

Argh.. those damn Lurkers... coming in here and taking the job of honest hard-working posters...

[42PETUNIAS]

What's with all the active people in here?

[Whomper]

Nuclear launch detected.

[Viridis]

I never have anything to say.

[Amake]

No one is going to post in the thread for posters, huh?

[Kyanbu The Legend]

I don't count as a Lurker right?

Yeah I'm defiantly a regular.

[Dracorion]

No one is going to post in the thread for posters, huh?

:(

You know what though, the other thread was fun but let's quit the joke while it's not yet run into the ground.

What the hell is this, somewhere not NPF?

We're providing a public goddamn service here. We don't just run these jokes to the ground, we beat them with a dead horse and then set them on fire to make sure no one else has to deal with them. We're doing this for the children.

Your children.

[32bit-RedMage]

Why are you guys afraid of lurkers ? They pose no real threat....
now.. ROAMERS ... that's a different story!

I bet only 0.06 persons get this joke. :D

[The Argent Lord]

I'm a lurker, I've just been lurking for a really long time. Also, I'm at .65? That's actually surprisingly high.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Why are you guys afraid of lurkers ? They pose no real threat....
now.. ROAMERS ... that's a different story!

I bet only 0.06 persons get this joke. :D

Guess I'm apart one those 0.06 people.

[Doc ock rokc]

Thats from that one zombie Story right....The Walking Dead? The Dead Walking? something like that.

[Viridis]

Does it still count even if I only know because I googled it?

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Does it still count even if I only know because I googled it?

Probably, though I could see why it wouldn't count if it doesn't.

[Lost in Time]

Lurkers lurk because they have nothing good to say, it's how they were raised, and it's how their children will be raised. They can't do anything about it, it's a vicious cycle, but it has to be that way for the world to continue.

The caste system totally works.

[Green Spanner]

Lurkers lurk because they have nothing good to say

Since when does anybody here have anything good to say?

[Lyaer]

Oh they do, but then if they said it they'd be in the same boat as the rest of us, so they save up.

[Wigmund]

Oh they do, but then if they said it they'd be in the same boat as the rest of us, so they save up.

They're already on the same boat, but they've hidden themselves down in the lower-class decks.

Discussion used to be pretty good at dredging up lurkers.

[Lyaer]

Discussion was the main reason I was even lurking here. Lurking discussion boards is the best thing. They're like the perfect combination of virulence and brain spooge.

[Bells]

Discussion was the main reason I was even lurking here. Lurking discussion boards is the best thing. They're like the perfect combination of virulence and brain spooge.

We don't need Discussion for that! People here Spooge all the time. We're down with all the Spooging. No, really. There are some major Spoogers around here... spooging with their spooginess.

[Oron]

What if we simply wish not to post? Bide our time, till the day comes when the dread forces of the lurkers shall rise up.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2730/4348482163_85a12e8de8.jpg

We're always watching.

[Madcow9000]

Can't post. Too busy Spooging.

[Lyaer]

Oh. Did I start something? ._.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Oh. Did I start something? ._.

No, you merely sped things along my friend.

[Premmy]

Spoogespoogespooogespooge
Now Ive lost my appetite.You Should thank your dark and foul gods.

[Geminex]

Can't post. Too busy Spooging.

Give it up, you will never become as horrible as Token.

[Lyaer]

Now Ive lost my appetite.You Should thank your dark and foul gods.

Would do, but our dark and foul gods are also too busy spooging.

They can get away with it, 'cause when gods do it it's rife with metaphor.

[Grimpond]

What's a spooge?

[Lyaer]

An instance of ejaculation. Also the substance thereby generated.

[Token]

Give it up, you will never become as horrible as Token.

:(

[Lyaer]

If it makes you feel any better, I was impressed.

[Eldezar]

You can't fool me.

[Loki, The Fallen]

But how will we know they are lurkers? For all we know, the spots on the map could be zerglings...

oh my god...

[Amake]

Spooging is also the act of cramming software with more features than the design/timescale of production realistically allows. Urbandictionary chips in: "When something is oozing or overflowing out of somewhere". Though that definition has probably fallen out of use thanks to the unassailable dominion of porn. . .

[Madcow9000]

I defend my right to spooge. Token or no Token.

Also, still too busy spooging to post.

[Lyaer]

Spooging is also the act of cramming software with more features than the design/timescale of production realistically allows. .

One might think this was not the definition we were using. One would be entirely wrong.

[Revising Ocelot]

I posted a few times. Not very good stuff, and I was kinda an asshole. So I stopped posting to stop becoming more of an asshole.

[synkr0nized]

Information from the beta indicates that the lurker was present in the sequel but has been removed due to under-use. Perhaps it was too costly or ineffective given the new units and balancing. It's possible that lurkers will still support the zerg forces, though -- all it takes is a little tweaking by the devs or a patch later on down the line.

[32bit-RedMage]

My opinion on the lurker subject:
"WHAT IS A LURKER ?! A MISERABLE LITTLE PILE OF SECRETS !!"

Thats from that one zombie Story right....The Walking Dead? The Dead Walking? something like that.

That's right!:D

[A Zarkin' Frood]

My opinion on the lurker subject:
"WHAT IS A LURKER ?! A MISERABLE LITTLE PILE OF SECRETS !!"

Now you did it.
Arguably it's the people who hide their online-status, though.

[Ravashak]

hm, does Plague work on Lurkers that are already burrowed?
Guess I should post considering I'm lurking most of the time.

[Meister]

This is like the new Godwin's law.
I was thinking of Portal and the cake line, myself.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

That's obviously GLaDOS' law or however you spell it and is totally different because I never played the game it appears in.

[Mirai Gen]

I liked the SOTN line before it got all popular.

EDIT: I think I am a trend setter now.

[Premmy]

You're still a nerd, though.

[Magic_Marker]

*Reads Thread*

You guys are nerds.

[krogothwolf]

*Reads Thread*

You guys are nerds.

It takes a nerd to know a nerd!

[Magic_Marker]

Yeah well, I'm rubber, you're glue. Whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you.

[Green Spanner]

Yeah well, I'm rubber, you're glue. Whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you.

I'm rubber, you're poo. Whatever you say bounces off me and you smell.

[Si Civa]

I'm a rubber duckie and every single one of you are just ordinary rubbers or ducks.

Edit:// And none of you should have babies, ever. Except Krogo because he already has.

[Ravashak]

You fight like a dairy farmer?

[Token]

How appropriate. You fight like a cow.

[Ecks]

You fight like an angry tsundere japanese schoolgirl

[krogothwolf]

you fight like a one armed hobo!

[Premmy]

You fight like your mother fucks, which is to say not very well.

[Dracorion]

You fight like Premonitions, which is to say not very well.

[Osterbaum]

You fight just like she said.

[Buddha Fett]

Guys, guys; senseless violence never solved anything!

Well, except for arguments.

EDIT: In response to the original topic, I generally don't post much because you guys generally end up beating me to the punch whenever I feel like I could contribute to a given discussion.

[Green Spanner]

you guys generally end up beating me to the punch whenever I feel like I could contribute to a given discussion.

Indeed.

http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/4662424/punch-main_Full.jpg

[BitVyper]

You all fight like posters on a DBZ forum.

[Magic_Marker]

Come on, man. That's low.

[Amake]

When you think about it, the Internet and anime are similar in that it's much more important to put forth a substantial, lengthy argument about how much ass you could kick than actually doing anything.

[Donomni]

Oh, so we're still on Namek then.

[Amake]

http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv324/immortalpictures/namek.jpg
At first I thought of saying "We're never going to get off Namek." But this was funnier.

[Donomni]

....we need DBZ postcards.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

I almost didn't notice how sloppy it was made. Well done. It takes quite something to pull that off.

[Amake]

Thanks. I thought about carefully choosing and pasting shots that could directly reference Casablanca and make a believable montage, but it was hard to find a comprehensive set of shots from the movie that'd let me avoid watching it in five seconds or less and it went downhill from there. Maybe someone who's highly familiar with both Casablanca and DBZ could do it better. . .

[A Zarkin' Frood]

No, I really mean it. It's great. If I hadn't taken a closer second look I would've thought it were some sort of promotional wallpaper scaled down a bit.

[Muere Enano]

Thanks. I thought about carefully choosing and pasting shots that could directly reference Casablanca and make a believable montage, but it was hard to find a comprehensive set of shots from the movie that'd let me avoid watching it in five seconds or less and it went downhill from there. Maybe someone who's highly familiar with both Casablanca and DBZ could do it better. . .

Collapsing Namek backdrop. Cutouts of a grunting Humphrey Bogart and Major Strasser menacing each other in the sky, interposed onto a golden and white aura respectively, in the process of launching energy-has at each other. Optional: Major Strasser missing lower body, one arm. Put in a plane too, it must be waiting.

Background: Copy paste a Vegeta-hairdo onto a screaming Claude Rains' head. Antennae and green shading for Victor Laszlo.

Do it.

[ska_ness42]

... I may just watch DBZ with that reference in my head now, thank you.

[Codemonkey85]

Mirai Gen: I'm just enough not a lurker to know that you knew better than to expect this topic not to derail into non-lurker territory.

That being said... hi.