Why am I having a really strong déjà vu right now.
The users who read, but rarely post
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I miss Dragon Warrior. Where the fuck did he go off to?
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Why am I having a really strong déjà vu right now.
I'm not so bothered about my own because I don't see it mattering so much as the effect of what I post.
Basically, I'm post-postcount.
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apparently I'm one of the 23 users to have over 10000 posts.
….....what.
Makes you the ruler of the lurkers then!
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I'm not so bothered about my own because I don't see it mattering so much as the effect of what I post.
Basically, I'm post-postcount.
…well done. It took me a good couple of minutes to see what you did there.
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I'm not so bothered about my own because I don't see it mattering so much as the effect of what I post.
Basically, I'm post-postcount.
Why am I having a really strong déjà vu right now.
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I calculated that i've made about a hundred posts a month for the last nine years.
I think that disqualifies me from the much coveted lurker trophy
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Speaking of prolific users that're gone now: Why'd No Maam get banned?
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Reasons best not gotten into. Ban's a ban and that's as much as anyone needs to know at this stage. Staff handles these issues well enough.
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This forum has a One Piece manga section?
whaaaaaaaaaaat?
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I would like to be a lurker in Real Life, it sounds so cool. Print Error teach me your ways!
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Why am I having a really strong déjà vu right now.
Have you tried ripping the date off the calendar?
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I'm probably 65% lurker, 35% poster. I post most days throughout the month, but I only make around 5 or 6 posts a day at most usually. I don't regularly get involved in conversations, and most of my posts are me pointing out trivial things that no one really cares about.
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I used to post, but never do anymore since I don't recognize anyone really. :/ Or anyone that I used to talk to at least.
I just throw in random one-liners now and then.
EDIT: Just realize how old my avatar and sig may make me seem… Especially since Tales of the Abyss has since came out in the US on PS2... and later on the 3DS as well.
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Want one? I can make an avatar if you want. -3-)/
Thank you for the sentiment, but I wouldn't know what to use even if I wanted one.
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I've not been posting much these past few months actually. Not that I imagine that counts as lurking exactly.
I can lurk in real life though. Have this odd ability to move without being noticed and then people jump when they realise I'm next to them, and I just assumed they saw me coming.
I would like to be a lurker in Real Life, it sounds so cool. Print Error teach me your ways!
Guys guys I think I might be able to win.
I was eating dinner at this long table right. And someone left. So I moved to fill the gap … by a kinda longwinded route (I put my tray back first).
The guy opposite me where I was now sitting literally looked right at me briefly, turning back to the person he was talking to. I come up in this conversation within like 10 seconds. And he goes "Wait did [Supernova] actually leave?" Then sees me let out a little scream/shout of surprise.
People don't notice me even when they do see me coming ;)
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Speaking of prolific users that're gone now: Why'd No Maam get banned?
Is this going to turn into a really awkward AP meme?
Because every popular thread seems to get this question asked sooner or later.
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People don't notice me even when they do see me coming ;)
There are pills for that man.
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Post count wise, I'm still up there. But honestly I haven't been around too much, even in my favorite threads. Been mostly avoiding interacting with users as much as possible ever since "post count" was topic last time. That, and I'd probably move on from this board eventually.
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Post count wise, I'm still up there. But honestly I haven't been around too much, even in my favorite threads. Been mostly avoiding interacting with users as much as possible ever since "post count" was topic last time. That, and I'd probably move on from this board eventually.
You have to reach 20,000 posts before you can leave, Hiroy! :ninja:
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I'm the least lurky lurker.
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I'm starting to become more of a lurker for a few reasons, but hope to start posting more often once the Character Tournament begins again. It's good fun. :)
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Makes you the ruler of the lurkers then!
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Tempting. But in all seriousness, I barely lurked prior to joining lol -
You have to reach 20,000 posts before you can leave, Hiroy! :ninja:
Fine.
I'll give you 2 million.
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Tempting. But in all seriousness, I barely lurked prior to joining lolThen you've probably got the best advice for people who are (or at least consider themselves) lurkers. How were you so able to post once you joined? I remember being very shy when I first joined.
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I lurked for about a year before really starting to post, and look where that got me. :P
And the tournament is a really good place to start your forum career, honestly. It's relatively easygoing, pretty fun, and usually no one takes it absolutely seriously so you can say pretty much anything you want without getting called out for it. Unless you spam the same silly campaign image for about twenty times like I did at the start. XD
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I got Banned like twice or thrice at the tournament. They couldn't handle my Buggy Fundamentalism :(
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Yeah I lurked for some months. I think before joining.
I don't visit the One Piece section as much (simply because I haven't kept up since around late 2012, after I finished Ennies Lobby). I might go back after I get back into it (when I have time)
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I lurked for about a year before really starting to post, and look where that got me. :P
And the tournament is a really good place to start your forum career, honestly. It's relatively easygoing, pretty fun, and usually no one takes it absolutely seriously so you can say pretty much anything you want without getting called out for it. Unless you spam the same silly campaign image for about twenty times like I did at the start. XD
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Actually, it was two years before that one image was even drawn by Oda, so we were doing it like this.
Dryish wasn't, he was on the Bennwagon.
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That picture is going to make me quit AP one day, I swear.
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I lurked for about 6 months before I joined. The fact that I wanted to join at all was pretty surprising to me at the time, as I'd never had the desire to join any other forums I've looked at. I haven't had that desire since either.
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Cool thread! I'm super whimsical when I post sometimes I just post for the sake of posting(like with this post). Sometimes I don't know what else to say on a topic and I'm just content reading. Sometimes I have actually something smart to say(hopefully), those moments have been getting rare lately with real life sapping away all of my energy. If had a hyperbolic time chamber I'd spend more time in the op manga section. The most colorful people make their debut there but it's just too time consuming and not always rewarding.
Ok that's all back to:
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I've got 224 posts, which is surprising. I haven't been posting as frequently because of a weird glitch with my tablet's on-screen keyboard that makes it ridiculously difficult to type messages on this site, but I'm always lurking in the manga section, and I do try to post every once in a while.
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I didn't lurk at all before I joined/started posting. But I was kind of inactive for a long time, maybe. I think when I first really started posting often, it was only to get smushed in an argument by someone and I got … put in my place pretty thoroughly :p That must have been a while after I actually joined.
But those kinds of things shouldn't be discouraging. You can always learn and move on~
The manga section is sadly a very crowded and angry place for starting out in, even if it's the most natural starting point. It's such a chaotic swirl of fast-paced threads with shit arguments and great arguments and nice little jewel posts hidden in the mundane. It's so much effort even to keep up with it all, not to mention really making an impression or impact in that atmosphere.
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I've never had much, or really any, interest in actually talking about One Piece. Looking it up, I only have 72 posts across all of Anime, Manga, and General One Piece. And 49 of those were when I played that rollin' game.
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Then you've probably got the best advice for people who are (or at least consider themselves) lurkers. How were you so able to post once you joined? I remember being very shy when I first joined.
Ah, well….
[hide]the truth was I started off in an old game thread, known as Hurt and Heal. The game had its relative popularity in the general section, with multiple games and a small niche of users….then it spread...to other sections, but other members were getting sick of it, and it got closed. In hindsight, it made sense...game was very repetitive.So basicially it pushed all of us "out" to other sections. Slowly but surely I began to post in other threads, only really posting when I could answer a question or something; I was very nervous to go in a manga argument or something, considering I was afraid a newbie like me would be outed for ignorance real quick.
Time has a funny thing of changing things, though. I think posting in the video game sections and the yearly tournaments flowed into me posting in the manga thread, general discussion, and media, three areas of the forum where you'd better know what's being discussed. (mainly the latter two)[/hide]
I'm still wary of posting at certain points, either worrying that it contributes nothing of substance, I miss a thread joke, or I know nothing of the topic. But looking back, there's a HUGE difference between May of 2010 and May of this year.
tl;dr: it helped to see that many users are very friendly and have no problem with kindly corrections. I myself try not to be abrasive or super rude. ^^;;
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In the beginning there was nothing. This is where wolfwood was no one, said little and just kinda was.
Then came the powerlevel years. Where Phenom, WHITEBEARD, oneinchpunch and the rest of the powerlevel alts made every thread into a Croc and Mihawk wanks fest. I spent most of these years being obnoxious, loud and being really really into threads about who would win betwenn Kenshin's master and Mihawk.
After that i settled into the nice, friendly groove of the Paulie or Fuhranky threads and turn into the wolfwood you see today.
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I actually lurked around as a non member for a long time before joining. I was content to just see what other people thought of One Piece and the like, and once I discovered the Character Tourney is when I decided to hop in on the fun.
Now that I think about it, I believe I actually discovered Arlong Park in the first place by searching for "Favorite One Piece Arc?" and this site was one of the top hits. Then on a separate search for "Next Straw Hat Crew Mate?" I found another link to this site and that is when I actually started browsing these forums. I was really into the One Piece manga section when I first joined, but as time went on I slowly moved towards the Other Stuff area with a focus on manga and video games. Mainly because no one makes no threads like the Mera Mera no mi in those sections.
On a side note I remember thinking this forum hated Naruto and Bleach so much that it didn't allow a thread on such topics, only to discover it was named "Nargh and Bleh" at the time.
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The manga section is sadly a very crowded and angry place for starting out in, even if it's the most natural starting point. It's such a chaotic swirl of fast-paced threads with shit arguments and great arguments and nice little jewel posts hidden in the mundane. It's so much effort even to keep up with it all, not to mention really making an impression or impact in that atmosphere.
This pretty much sums up my beginning as well.
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I used to lurk in 2009 (I even didn't had a account at the time), in 2010 I made a account to see the spoilers and because of the character tournament, I started to post in a horrible way (shish..I still have a little bit of shame when I see my old posts).
After that, I started college, that time I kinda stoped to post, now that I have graduated, I began to post again, and now, I don´t feel so ashamed of my posts.
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Old posts, what's there to be ashamed of?
http://www.arlongpark.net/showthread.php?t=28862&page=3&p=1765101&viewfull=1
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Old posts, what's there to be ashamed of?
http://www.arlongpark.net/showthread.php?t=28862&page=3&p=1765101&viewfull=1
smacks forehead and groans
There, there. I've made some groan-worthy posts too. ^^;;
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There, there. I've made some groan-worthy posts too. ^^;;
I'm not too hung up on it. If we don't make mistakes we never learn. Besides, I don't even remember most of my old posts. Had to do a bit of searching for that one, lol. Trying to find one as close to my join date as possible.
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I lurked for about a year before really starting to post, and look where that got me. :P
And the tournament is a really good place to start your forum career, honestly. It's relatively easygoing, pretty fun, and usually no one takes it absolutely seriously so you can say pretty much anything you want without getting called out for it. Unless you spam the same silly campaign image for about twenty times like I did at the start. XD
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What's the tournament?
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What's the tournament?
Feast your eyes. We'll have this year's event started soon, granted that we can get the preparations done.
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Ah, well….
[hide]the truth was I started off in an old game thread, known as Hurt and Heal. The game had its relative popularity in the general section, with multiple games and a small niche of users….then it spread...to other sections, but other members were getting sick of it, and it got closed. In hindsight, it made sense...game was very repetitive.So basicially it pushed all of us "out" to other sections. Slowly but surely I began to post in other threads, only really posting when I could answer a question or something; I was very nervous to go in a manga argument or something, considering I was afraid a newbie like me would be outed for ignorance real quick.
Time has a funny thing of changing things, though. I think posting in the video game sections and the yearly tournaments flowed into me posting in the manga thread, general discussion, and media, three areas of the forum where you'd better know what's being discussed. (mainly the latter two)[/hide]
I'm still wary of posting at certain points, either worrying that it contributes nothing of substance, I miss a thread joke, or I know nothing of the topic. But looking back, there's a HUGE difference between May of 2010 and May of this year.
tl;dr: it helped to see that many users are very friendly and have no problem with kindly corrections. I myself try not to be abrasive or super rude. ^^;;
I remember starting off in the Tournament myself… had no idea what was going on, but I got the hang of that pretty quickly. Earned my poll rights quickly too! After that ended though, that was exactly the reason why I was hesitant to talk anywhere else. It was like everyone else knew what was going on and I didn't. I only started following OP after Brook had almost joined (tails end of Thriller Bark). Kind of felt intimidated more after learning that most users (at least who were posting at that time) were male when I wasn't.
The Tournaments just don't have that kind of pressure in my mind, it's just a bunch of cheer-leading and fun! Maybe I'm just scared to accidentally offend someone in a thread of knowledge as opposed to campaigning for my favorite character? Even when posting in the other threads like Video Games I get lost amidst the very knowledgeable other users.
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I remember starting off in the Tournament myself… had no idea what was going on, but I got the hang of that pretty quickly. Earned my poll rights quickly too! After that ended though, that was exactly the reason why I was hesitant to talk anywhere else. It was like everyone else knew what was going on and I didn't. I only started following OP after Brook had almost joined (tails end of Thriller Bark). Kind of felt intimidated more after learning that most users (at least who were posting at that time) were male when I wasn't.
The Tournaments just don't have that kind of pressure in my mind, it's just a bunch of cheer-leading and fun! Maybe I'm just scared to accidentally offend someone in a thread of knowledge as opposed to campaigning for my favorite character? Even when posting in the other threads like Video Games I get lost amidst the very knowledgeable other users.
You really get into the spirit of campaigning when it's your favorite. Not so much this year for me, but last year….especially with the famous Nami vs. Hattori, whoo hoo, I felt like I was posting every 2 minutes.
But I think it works as a segue, in the sense that you and others are all rooting for the same character. You campaign together....then boom, you congratulate each other and then you go...."hey, I think I'll send this guy a friend request". I've done that with a few users from the Nami camp.
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Oh man, i still remember the final between Crocodile and Bon Clay. Good times man, good times.
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Feast your eyes. We'll have this year's event started soon, granted that we can get the preparations done.
Oh god, already? I don't know how to feel about that.
Is it to early to start campaiging?
! Yes.