:fa_eye: The Official Lurkers' Thread™
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I am amused by the number of TDWTF forum lurkers/infrequent posters who have come after Discourse with guns blazing. If nothing else, it's bringing us together as a community.
A few people have mentioned the increase in lurker activity since the move to Discourse. I've certainly been posting more. So this thread is calling all lurkers.
We're all familiar with the usual suspects on this site like Blakey, Morbs, El Heffe, Boomzilla, PJH, mikeTheLiar, dhromed,
bstorerPestomoderator, and others.Now let's get a bit more familiar with the lurkers.
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I'm Doctor Jones, I've been
a memberlurking since 2010. I'm from Nottingham in the UK (Robin Hood country), I'm a Software dev, primarily working with C#, ASP MVC and Webforms.
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I lurk between posts.
Hi.
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Good idea for a thread. I'm Dan, my wholly unoriginal screen name can be traced back to my real-world identity with ease, as perilous as that might be. I'm from the Gold Coast, Australia, but at the moment I'm in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. I'm doing the whole remote worker/digital nomad thing and I mainly work with JavaScript (node, angularjs) and PHP with the odd bit of C#. All cloud (there's a buzzword to rival "digital nomad") stuff.
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I'm a Southern New Jersey, USA transplant to the horrible enclave of Washington, DC, USA. If you've ever played Fallout 3, it's pretty much just like that here. Currently mostly a C# / ASP.NET MVC programmer, but it's hard to stay with just one language when you're the company's only software guy so you get to do fun things like support WordPress, modify DAQ hardware code, perform acts on Excel that would probably be illegal if they were done to a human being, and write scripts to automate tasks for IT.
I've gotten sick of it so I've started my own software company.
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Sorry man, I didn't mean to miss you off the list, I wasn't aiming for something exhaustive. Maybe there should be a matching TDWTF All-Stars thread too ;-)
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Mike the Liar
I'll have you know that my username is camelCase, thank you very much.
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I'll have you know that my username is camelCase, thank you very much.
Edited to match
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Been here since 2007, and was active in the starting years. I was most active around back when Spectateswamp visited us and the dark reign of MasterPlanSoftware was still in effect. It was a relief to finally see him get banned.
Now I usually have better things to do with my time.
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Don't know what you're talking about, Swampy still posts a few times a month. Most users are finally bored of him though.
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Oh, I meant "Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?" introducing SSDS to us in all its glory (Thread has a whopping 2512 post, literally 1% of the posts of the old forum is in that thread).
Didn't know he kept posting after that.
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Oh wow I didn't realize he had previous threads!
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Oooo, it's interesting learning a bit about the history of the forum. I've heard a bit about SpectateSwamp but not heard of MasterPlanSoftware before.
It might be cool to see a wiki thread dedicated to the history of the site and forum.
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It might be cool to see a wiki thread dedicated to the history of the site and forum.
That gives me cold shudders just at the thought of it. I've dealt with some very persistent and annoying Wikitrolls in my time. I remember one “nice” Canadian chap who insisted on renaming every page in a big Wiki to start with its Dewey Decimal Classification number. Absolutely barking mad, and totally determined to let nothing stop him on his quest for
world dominationfully categorising the entire internet.
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Oooo, it's interesting learning a bit about the history of the forum. I've heard a bit about SpectateSwamp but not heard of MasterPlanSoftware before.
@morbiuswilters can probably tell it best, he was the most active person from them and sorta-supported MPS (but I remember him later stating that he was wrong and the forums actually improved after he was banned)
Basically he lived on the forum. It started out innocently enough, but after a while 50% of the posts were from him. He also always flamed and derailed threads. Then Alex tried to step in by introducing a new mod (who hadn't even been on the forums before that) and the whole thing escalated a bit. It was ugly, as far as internet-only escalations go of course. Then he was banned and everything went back to normal.
I believe he was the first (and only?) non-spambot ban on the forum. The threads are probably still there but I can't easily find them.
He was also banned from StackOverflow, but I'm too lazy to look for the thread about that.
edit: Changed wasn't ugly into was ugly
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Oooo, it's interesting learning a bit about the history of the forum. I've heard a bit about SpectateSwamp but not heard of MasterPlanSoftware before.
I'll just leave this here then: Tunnelrat.
MPS was a real PITA though.
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Basically he lived on the forum. It started out innocently enough, but after a while 50% of the posts were from him. He also always flamed and derailed threads. Then Alex tried to step in by introducing a new mod (who hadn't even been on the forums before that) and the whole thing escalated a bit. It wasn't ugly, as far as internet-only escalations go ofcourse. Then he was banned and everything went back to normal.
I believe he was the first (and only?) non-spambot ban on the forum. The threads are probably still there but I can't easily find them.
I don't remember it like this.
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Vell, I'm just zis guy, you know?
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Been lurking on these forums since 2008
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I don't remember it like this.
ISTR he was the only person who got their entire posting history perma-deleted (more than once after they came back) from the database from the backend, as opposed to, say, what happens to general spam (they get moved to a hidden board.)
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Been lurking since about 2006, and I had a grand total of less than 50 posts to my name on CS.
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I don't remember it like this.
Well how do you remember it? It was all a long time ago and a lot of stuff is deleted so its hard to look up.
Also I meant it was ugly instead of it wasn't ugly, that changes the tone a lot.
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Lurking for a couple of years on the old forum.
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Finally, a topic to which I can relate! Lurked since 2009ish, and the move to Discourse has been the best/worst thing that could have possibly happened. (Particuarly since one of my laptops is still on IE9 and will be until it gives up the ghost because I don't care/don't use it often enough to upgrade Windows, so you can take your percieved WTF level and crank it up to 11 when things like the back button stop working.) Is the new forum entertaining enough to finally subject myself to scorn, ridicule and blakeyrants? Time will tell.
My username is an (oblique) clue to what I've worked with every day for most of the last decade. I'm certain you've heard of it and many of you are actually affected by it, but saying things in a straightforward manner just isn't TDWTF way...
Edit: I just pushed backspace to try to delete a word, and even though focus was in the edit control my browser navigated backwards. To a totally different website since the back button doesn't work in IE9. Glorious!
Filed under: fucking hell why does it navigate two pages when i hit backspace once
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I'll just leave this here then: Tunnelrat.
MPS was a real PITA though.
I'd totally forgotten about them... Been lurking since 2006, registered since 2007. Had 14 posts on CS.Filed under: FUCKING HELL WHY DOES IT DELETE ONE CHARACTER WHEN I HIT BACKSPACE ONCE?!
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I am a regular TDWTF reader since around 2008, and I registered on CS in 2009.
I didn’t post much all these years (some Side Bar WTFs, some article comments).I’m a French software programmer, mainly working on embedded systems.
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My account on the other forums says that I registered in 2006 (it has a grand total of 45 posts). I tend to read stuff (mostly Side Bar WTF) every now and then.
I do real-time computer graphics / GPU algorithms.
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To a totally different website since the back button doesn't work in IE9. Glorious!
Yeah, IE9 is our absolute minimum browser. It works, sort of, but you are not gonna have a good time. I'm sorry
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Feeling sympathy for someone?
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Basically he lived on the forum. It started out innocently enough, but after a while 50% of the posts were from him. He also always flamed and derailed threads.
No offense but that sounds exactly like morbiuswilters.
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No offense but that sounds exactly like morbiuswilters.
Not even close by a large margin
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I've been a lurker on DWTF for 3, 4? years. Actually signed up in 2012, no posts. My bio on this new forum site lists my sins, and now I may become a "chatty Cathy" :)
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I've been lurking for several years. I've only created an account now because it was getting too difficult to keep track of where I was in topics from multiple devices.
I'm a web developer and live in the UK. I'm not going to mention the fact that I primarily work with PHP...
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Am I too much of an attention whore to be a lurker?
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It's subjective, so I'd say embrace your lurker-ey-ness.
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I've also been around since '07, though I don't think I registered (darkmattar) on the other forum for a while after I started reading. I definitely remember MasterPlanSoftware & SpectateSwamp.
Spectate Swamp was/is just genuinely insane.
MasterPlanSoftware... I had always just assumed he was trolling everyone all the time and that none of his content was meant to ever be taken seriously....
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MasterPlanSoftware... I had always just assumed he was trolling everyone all the time and that none of his content was meant to ever be taken seriously....
So, just like most of the regulars here?
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So, just like most of the regulars here?
Exactly.
And it is kind of annoying to just have to assume that the button for expanding the original quoted text will be in the post, since it doesn't show up in the preview and all. So maybe you should fix the preview. Or let us nest block quotes goddamnit.
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What's the cutoff between lurker and infrequent poster? I've got 500-some posts since 2005, and about half of those were from when main article comments contributed towards your post count.
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So, just like most of the
FTFYregularsusers here?Filed under: and the front page commenters are even worse
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As I said earlier, it's subjective. If you feel like a lurker, let us know a bit about yourself.
I'm pretty sure that most people seem like lurkers when compared to the usual suspects.
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Been a lurker for around fiveish years, I think, but only registered last year when I finally felt some deep-rooted desire to comment on something. Not sure what it was, now!
My greatest TDWTF achievement was starting the "Oracle has no service installer" thread in the "I hate Oracle" sub-forum.From Edinburgh, Scottishland, work for an ISV and I hate Oracle.
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fact that I primarily work with PHP...
So in your personal opinion, is PHP the TRWTF or is it Java?
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So in your personal opinion, is PHP the TRWTF or is it Java?
Would you prefer AIDS or ebola?
Filed under: Yes, please!
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I wouldn't dare insult Java in front of you, Nagesh, lest you banish me to the fiery depths of Nakara (or some such).
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You are shown three doors. Behind one is AIDS, behind another is Ebola, and behind the third is a PHP/Java developer position. You get to pick a door...
Filed under: Monty Hall'd that for you
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No fair, that's three zonks!
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Narak is "hell". I am also getting confused on why western people like to add the letter "a" to the end of each Hindu noun.
Example:
Arjun - Great Archer in Mahabharat become Arjuna.
Ram - Central character of Ramayan become Rama.
Mahabharat become Mahabharata.
Ramayan become Ramayana