as posted in the Lurker thread

Quote :

"CassTheSass project whore 12030 Posts user info edit post i think what jake/joe should when a person registers and doesnt post within a certain time period is change their status name to "lurker" hahahahahahha that would be too funny"

-I can smell your brains

12/14/2001 11:33:25 PM

I don't think the number of posts would be grounds for a "lurker" label. I think it would be more along the lines of: a person registers, and constantly logs on without posting. But then again, there's no rule that says you have to post. They could just be checking out the Classifieds from time to time to see if anything is for sale.

Funny concept, but I doubt Jake/Joe would ever start it.

[Edited on December 14, 2001 at 11:39 PM. Reason : foo]

12/14/2001 11:37:09 PM

i'd say assuming you log in often enough after 1 month, if you have under 50 posts, your status name becomes "lurker" and after that, as long as your post rate is under i'd say 50 posts/month you retain that label...

-I can smell your brains

12/14/2001 11:44:02 PM

^^^^ no i dont like that idea b/c i know plenty of people that have been here for well over a yr and have about 200 posts.....it is possible to have that low of a post count and be here that long....its called a life

12/15/2001 12:15:34 AM

Wait Ms. 12000 posts, how do you know what a life is???

12/15/2001 12:33:49 AM

holy crap I didnt realize she had THAT MANY posts!!

12/15/2001 2:04:24 AM

i have a life......strange as it might sound......i actually obtained most of those posts during the summer when i wasnt working and had nothing else to do all day

12/15/2001 2:36:01 AM

She's still posting more rapidly than a lot of us. I mean, you hit 10,000 this school year and now you're at 12,000. It took me almost a year to hit 2,000 posts.

12/15/2001 10:21:48 AM

By that definition, though, these people would be lurkers, based on the number of posts they've made recently, and the amount of time they spend (at least, as it appears to me) on the board: Jake, Joe, Jennifer, Craig. I don't doubt that they help this board in other ways, though...

12/15/2001 11:51:40 AM

12/15/2001 1:59:19 PM

Good idea except that nobody will ever see their label except in the users and photo pages. If they post less than 10 times in the last 2 months, they should be lurkers. And automatically a lurker if they dont post any the first 3 days they register. Label taken off when they break the 10 posts.


Kev4Pack

Quote :

"a person registers, and constantly logs on without posting. But then again, there's no rule that says you have to post."

they dont HAVE TO post, but the definition of a lurker is somebody that reads but doesnt post, and that would make them a lurker.

CassTheSass

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"^^^^ no i dont like that idea b/c i know plenty of people that have been here for well over a yr and have about 200 posts.....it is possible to have that low of a post count and be here that long....its called a life"

I would call those people lurkers.

[Edited on December 15, 2001 at 5:02 PM. Reason : ]

12/15/2001 4:58:36 PM

well there could be like a section called: lurkers...and if you get a weird IM, you can search the lurker directory and find out who it is

12/16/2001 2:26:27 AM

the lurker section would be bigger than the normal section. An AIM name search would be better.

12/16/2001 3:36:31 AM

true

12/16/2001 11:00:54 PM