DeDanaan

Filed by Aine MacDermot

Lurker : In Earth’s ancient Internet slang, a lurker was a person who stayed in the shadows in forums, mailing lists, chatrooms, IRC channels, in Usenet, and other communities online. Lurkers seldom even say “Hello” or “How do you do?,” preferring to stay behind the scenes like sponges in the seabed absorbing all their brainfood. Lurkers can sometimes be very creepy because one never knows if a lurker is truly a lurker, or merely a stalker in disguise… or perhaps an ex-girlfriend, or boyfriend… or someone trying to harvest email addresses to send out SPAM designed to send the recipient into paroxyms of rage trying to keep their mailboxes and web sites clean of such shite.

In the Great Game of Life, all lurkers automagically get 26 minutes cancelled from their lifespan for each forum they lurk in. We think. Our informants in the Elven Cabal (which doesn’t actually exist, or so we’re told), told us that maxim, so one can never be quite sure.

*smirk*