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MIKERAPHONE
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Current members ...202.
Yet i have just scrolled down the members list and i make it..68 so called members who have not posted a single reply.
Why join a message board and not join in.
Any ideas? 
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Cherskiy
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You find that all over the Internet - on forums like this one and on the Usenet newsgroups. There's usually three categories (although not always) - 1) the regulars who effectively keep the forums going, 2) the occasional posters and 3) the lurkers (who rarely de-lurk unless something really catches their eye).
The lurkers may not post for a variety of reasons. In my experience of Usenet newsgroups, it's because of any or all of the following:
They're too shy;
They're too intimidated by the rapport that the existing posters have got going;
They see new posters being slapped down for no good reason (that doesn't happen here of course!);
They think they've got nothing constructive to say;
They find the forum's not for them and never return, but they're still on the membership list;
They just prefer to lurk.
Please prove me wrong and de-lurk for a bit! 
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Toggy tea slurper
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| Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:22 am Post subject: |
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| It's not obligitary to post. |
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006
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Location: Warwickshire, UK
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| Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 10:30 am Post subject: |
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| Toggy tea slurper wrote: | | It's not obligitary to post. |
True, but it's also not obligatory to JOIN!!
This forum can be read by anyone (whose IP address hasn't been banned) |
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Barkingbiker
Joined: 11 Dec 2006
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Location: Lincolnshire
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| Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Cherskiy wrote: |
Please prove me wrong and de-lurk for a bit! |
I was out on me bike this weekend, that was de-lurking brilliant Cherskiy 
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Toggy tea slurper
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:30 am Post subject: |
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| John W wrote: | True, but it's also not obligatory to JOIN!!
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I know  but there could be many reasons why people join and don't post most of which have been covered in Cherskiy's post.
I hardly think that calling someone a 'so called member' as in the first post in this thread is going to encourage anyone to contribute though. |
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iwarburton
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Location: Northumberland
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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This reminds me of those who register on Friends Reunited but don't supply any info about themselves and don't answer emails from others--why be a member on that basis?
Ian. |
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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006
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Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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| iwarburton wrote: | This reminds me of those who register on Friends Reunited but don't supply any info about themselves and don't answer emails from others--why be a member on that basis?
Ian. |
Stalkers?
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