Nope. I used lurk on other forums but I've gotten out of that since I've came here. I pretty much signed up after the first or second topic I read.
Did you lurk before joining The Escapist?
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1 month watching every video on the site
Then I joined, learned about badges and watched them again.
Then I joined, learned about badges and watched them again.
For over a year, yes; I discovered this place in late 2007, observed more in 2008, and finally joined on my join date. This helped me never get mod-wrath.
Oh definitely...at LEAST a year of lurkdom.
I just watched the videos and read the articles I didn't feel compelled to input on them, and then I think I remember a topic like this before where I purposefully went to look at my first post and man was it retarded. I made an account to input on something really dumb. I must have been bored.
I just watched the videos and read the articles I didn't feel compelled to input on them, and then I think I remember a topic like this before where I purposefully went to look at my first post and man was it retarded. I made an account to input on something really dumb. I must have been bored.
I lurked for more than a year in fact. I typically don't make profiles on websites since I'm pretty cynical about actually getting heard in most forums.
This website has a very low lurking average, if I may make up a term for that sort of thing. I've been looking at this site since Yahtzee was reviewing Lego Indiana Jones, back when he was still funny and relevant. I don't remember when I joined, but I lurked for a long while. I don't really like the articles, and some of the videos are played out and tired now, but this website keeps you current on what's going on with your favorite games, so I stuck around and occasionally badger someone on the forums.
Lurked for about a year.
I heard about it through Turbine's March Madness news post in 2008, and liked ZP/Unskippible. Next year, I joined in February and participated in March Madness.
Yes, I'm a Turbinite
I liked the quirkiness that was the forums, and hung around.
One of my friends is STILL lurking.
I heard about it through Turbine's March Madness news post in 2008, and liked ZP/Unskippible. Next year, I joined in February and participated in March Madness.
Yes, I'm a Turbinite
I liked the quirkiness that was the forums, and hung around.
One of my friends is STILL lurking.
I registered after about a week of videolurking, then I found the forums, posted a little, forgot about the Escapist until January because of school. Then I started posting again, now I'm at almost 3000. 
I don't know why, but I lurk most forums. And then after a while I sometimes decide to join, or never.
I lurked for about a week before joining.
Seeing as how this community was different then what I was used to, I didn't want to pass up the opportunity.
Seeing as how this community was different then what I was used to, I didn't want to pass up the opportunity.
Lurk, lurk, lurk. I would come every week to wach yahtzee's videos. After like a month of that I started watching other escapist videos. Read some forum posts, several I felt I needed to post in but was too lazy. Then I just registered recently.
I came for Zero Punctuation, and then the forum update sidebar drew me into lurking.
Every time someone mentioned that this was "the most elitist forum on the 'net" I was more motivated to post. Hopefully there are people more intelligent than I am, and maybe I can learn something here.
If not, it's something to do. >.>
Every time someone mentioned that this was "the most elitist forum on the 'net" I was more motivated to post. Hopefully there are people more intelligent than I am, and maybe I can learn something here.
If not, it's something to do. >.>