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In Defense of Lurking
New York Times Magazine ^
| 25 November 2007
| Virginia Heffernan
Posted on 11/24/2007 6:31:16 PM PST by shrinkermd
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To: shrinkermd
I’ve not heard of lurkers getting the troll treatment.
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posted on
11/24/2007 6:37:32 PM PST
by
umgud
(the profound is only so to those that it is)
To: shrinkermd
From the article...
What name did it used to go by — this practice of anonymously sitting back and taking in long sequences of words without producing any yourself? Hey, wasn’t it once called, perhaps, “reading”? I think the term she is looking for is "Peeping Tom"
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posted on
11/24/2007 6:41:19 PM PST
by
tubebender
(The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act.)
To: shrinkermd
"?"
It's a sign of the death of the dinosaur media. The NYT Magazine author/blogger wishes that there were more comments that agreed with hers.
Cheers
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posted on
11/24/2007 6:41:21 PM PST
by
theymakemesick
(End welfare and the crops will be picked)
To: LurkerNoMore!
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posted on
11/24/2007 6:42:59 PM PST
by
GraniteStateConservative
(...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
To: shrinkermd
I’m lurking on this thread.
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posted on
11/24/2007 6:44:27 PM PST
by
usmcobra
(I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese)
To: shrinkermd
...
trolls (who promote controversy) Trolls are people of the lie... dems who pretend they're conservatives... etc. Controversy is part of a fair game - lying's not.
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posted on
11/24/2007 6:44:33 PM PST
by
GOPJ
(Hillary "tricky Dick" Nixon/Clinton. - Stiff a waitress - lie about it. Plant questions - lie more)
To: shrinkermd
Virginia, the money your parents spent on your education was wasted.
I’m truly sorry.
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posted on
11/24/2007 6:52:31 PM PST
by
Eddie01
To: shrinkermd
Sheesh!! The libs can make UP stuff to whine about! LOL
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posted on
11/24/2007 6:59:42 PM PST
by
StarCMC
(http://cannoneerno4.wordpress.com; http://starcmc.wordpress.com/ - The Enemedia is inside the gates.)
To: usmcobra
"I’m lurking on this thread.
How do we know it's really you?
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posted on
11/24/2007 7:04:36 PM PST
by
BlueDragon
(4 Dallas Cowboys ridin' in a car, which one of 'em is drivin'? None. The Poh-leece is drivin'...)
To: usmcobra
I’m lurking on this thread. You dummy! Yer supposed to lurk without anyone knowing you are there!!
Like me !
Nam Vet
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posted on
11/24/2007 7:06:38 PM PST
by
Nam Vet
(Timely reporting from Attila's right flank)
To: Nam Vet
I refuse to post anything on this thread.
L
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posted on
11/24/2007 7:16:59 PM PST
by
Lurker
( Comparing moderate islam to extremist islam is like comparing smallpox to ebola.)
To: shrinkermd
Sorry Virginia, but you’ve been a bad, bad girl.
You will definitely need to be spanked yet again.
You know lurking is bad, bad, bad!
Making excuses is, as you learned last time, not acceptable. Grab your ankles Virginia!
(Sheesh Virginia, I’m beginning to think you write articles like these on purpose, just to get punished!)
(Seriously, I really wonder how much money Virginia gets for writing such irrelevant, nonsensical stuff?)
To: GOPJ
I once questioned something about Fred Thompson and was accused of being a troll.
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posted on
11/24/2007 7:28:40 PM PST
by
tips up
To: shrinkermd
I was lurking, but then I felt so guilty I posted this.
To: Col Freeper
GALAHAD: It’s not the real Grail?
DINGO: Oh, wicked, bad, naughty, evil Zoot! Oh, she is a naughty
person, and she must pay the penalty — and here in Castle Anthrax, we
have but one punishment for setting alight the grail-shaped beacon. You
must tie her down on a bed and spank her!
GIRLS: A spanking! A spanking!
DINGO: You must spank her well. And after you have spanked her, you
may deal with her as you like. And then, spank me.
VARIOUS GIRLS: And spank me.
And me.
And me.
DINGO: Yes, yes, you must give us all a good spanking!
GIRLS: A spanking! A spanking!
DINGO: And after the spanking, the oral sex.
GIRLS: Oral sex! Oral sex!
GALAHAD: Well, I could stay a BIT longer.
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posted on
11/24/2007 7:47:44 PM PST
by
DigitalVideoDude
(It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit. -Ronald Reagan)
To: tips up
You’ve only been here a month. It doesn’t count until you’ve been posting for a few years and get called a troll for disagreeing somewhat on policy x, subsection c.
To: shrinkermd
“I lurk, therefore I am.”
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posted on
11/24/2007 8:12:08 PM PST
by
dynachrome
(Immigration without assimilation means the death of this nation~Captainpaintball)
To: tips up
It happens - - more often to newbies than old timers. Still stings...
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posted on
11/24/2007 8:13:43 PM PST
by
GOPJ
(Hillary "tricky Dick" Nixon/Clinton. - Stiff a waitress - lie about it. Plant questions - lie more)
To: tips up
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