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Many if not all of us were lurkers before we signed in and posted! We Members here would like the CR Lurkers to come out & post in this wonderful CR! In order to do so, we want all Lurkers to feel comfortable to post! This CR is really a very warm, friendly, fun place that we discuss serious topics in!(ok some very serious & other fun topics to brighten this place up a bit!)
I will go first in sharing my story of the days of when i was a lurker too! (shocking i know, feels like i’ve been here forever!)
Hi i’m Jax Chairman of the CR Board and i was a lurker!
As weird as it is to admit, i was a lurker most of last summer! When the CR was just starting out! I found Joseph fascinating with his posts! I read lots of posts yet never had the desire to log in & post-i did already have a YWN screen name! The after the summer i got busy, & forgot about the CR till Thanksgiving when i was at home on a day off! On Thanksgiving i started posting and have been hooked since! The end of my story!
Lurkers Anonymous-is a fellowship of Yidden who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from lurkerism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop Lurking and start posting. There are no dues or fees for LA membership.
Our primary purpose is to stay posting and help other Lurkaholics to achieve poster status.
Our 2 step program, 1) admit that you are a lurker 2) post and keep posting
Good Luck!
-Jax
We encourage other former lurkers to post their lurker stories so as to encourage others to overcome their non-poster status. YW Moderator
Well, I before I had a screen name, I was lurking and getting ulcers over the ‘funny shidduch stories’ page. Got me hooked.
Aw, thanks! I was on vacation in New Hampshire and had a great time. Wooooooo yeshivishe-ville!!
Jax, are you still fascinated?
I am still a lurker. ( maybe not anymore as you see…) I dont usually like to post i just like to listen in on all the conversations but it seems like at the late i started getting hooked. Nuch a mazal I only work four hours and not more cause i would be posting a whole day like some other people over here for example jax mepal noitall….
Jax! lol! You’re really funny!
Now for my lurking experience: That stage in my life actually did not last too long. I was perusing through the CR, and as soon as I caught on, I couldn’t keep my comments to myself! I had to add in my two cents so I quickly signed up (under another SN) and posted. But then my good pal LGBG figured me out so I quickly stopped with that name and went to mepal. (Like I said in the past, each letter of my SN stands for something else. Its NOT me claiming to be my friend! I only realized how bad it sounded after I had signed in already and I didnt want to change it again.) Then I realized that its not the end of the world for other peeps to know who mepal is so when I was figured out again, I didn’t care anymore and I kept posting anyways!
ames, go see your therapist. 😉
Sorry to burst your bubble there.
This thread is a riot- I’m really chapping hano’ah
Jax- I have to congratulate your first post here… you overcame your ADD 😉
I don’t have much to share on lurkerism as my decision to join the CR was instantaneous. One minute I discovered the CR while surfing all of YWN’s features, and before I knew it something got me all opinionated and I had to comment (Not quite sure if I’ve made it clear, but I’m not one to hold my counsel ;))
~ The Management
HidingUnderCover: see here- congrats 🙂
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/marketing-the-cr/page/2#post-91435
Congrats to you, jax! That deserves a party!!
Jax, are you in a rush? Cuz what your saying kind of….I dont wanna embarrass you, of course. Perhaps it should’ve been want instead of walk there? (and that was just one ;-))
mepal- your an English teacher? Cool i never knew! (that is REALLY “cool)!!!
uhhh, no. Not at all. Reread what Jax wrote and let me know if you still confused!
NOT GRAMMAR! you wrote walk instead of want but thats ok, we’ll excuse you!
mepal- Do you send sms’s a lot? Coz if you do you’ll get used to figuring out what people are saying from context rather than spelling…
sure do! just struck me how he wrote the wrong word. Nothing to write home about, just a comment!
Here is one lurker who doesn’t have much to add to the conversation. 🙂
yahoooooooooooooo!
a GRAND WELCOME goes to Helpful! Please continue to post- that is your only remedy. The more you post the more you’ll have to say :):)
ames, that is what I was afraid of. 🙂
ames- that was quite Helpful to help undo a lurkers status! (er- sorry- not quite squeakish)
BS”D
I have converted from active to lurker status. No complaints or hard feelings, just no time or inclination left to do much more than read a few posts here once every couple of weeks.
kilobear- noooooooooooooooooo
Didn’t you see my post in “I remember when…” I asked where you’ve been
You must return to active duty immediately! The CR IS NOT THE SAME WITHOUT YOU!
You must cure yourself ASAP- post post post
and… we miss Carlebach!
Thanks all!
kilobear- see here please
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/marketing-the-cr/page/2#post-91541
Helpful- where else but a Jewish Heimisher forum would you find such love & affection from strangers???
Welcome pal- stick around!!!
yeah, Helpful! Stick around!!
noitallmr – its especially tender when it comes from across the pond. 🙂
Helpful has been a very diligent lurker
How else does he know already that noitall is across the pond??
areivim, he just mentioned it in the other thread. 🙂
Someone fill me in about this 5 point 6 point thing….
we get a point with every new member that signs up or every old memba that returns!
Ooh, I am guilty of being a lurker/poster/lurker. I think I mentioned in another thread, that though I wouldn’t be posting as often, I would be lurking in the background, reading all my fellow CR posters comments. I prefer to post something that would sound smart rather then stupid, but trust me, if I have anything to add to the conversation, you can be sure, I will post, for example, like I posted on this thread.
So who gets the point… Hey, I should get the point! I recruited myself, didn’t I?
you gotta ask areivim the details. i’m not in charge 😉
I was never really a lurker at the beginning. I started on the newspage posting there. When the CR opened, I naturally stepped inside and started posting here.
I don’t know exactly when or how but sometime after that I fell off the wagon from being an active participant in conversations and even starting threads to becoming a lurker. now and then, I overcome the temptation of lurking and actually post, but then I usually fall back into a lurkaholic state.
so I guess that I am halfway there, maybe a little more than half based on the 2 step program outlined by jax: 1) admit that you are a lurker (I am) 2) post (I just did) and keep posting (can’t promise)
great mdlevine- you’re on your way to recovery!
HidingUnder- the point goes to the dedicated CR posters. If you consider yourself one, and have proven it, then by all means- take the point! 😉
mazal, nice seeing you around!
I have my moments.
I used to post a lot, then stopped posting, then started again, then stopped again, then started again, but I haven’t been here in a while…I’ve semi-lurked in my non-posting state–meaning, sometimes lurked and sometimes forgot about the CR.
Good to get this out of my system. I feel more normal already!
I guess you can call me a lurker. I only post like once a week (or so it seems…), but I read up on interesting stuff once in a while.
abx & Jewess: lurkers no more (please). Click here and congrats 🙂
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/marketing-the-cr/page/2#post-91706
Former anonymous lurker confessing.
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