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So, I'm tired of deleting account after account of spammers and linkbot types. In 24 hours, all users with 0 posts are going to get nuked. We will be doing this periodically. As we have no advertisements, I don't feel for users that made an account and didn't post as we gain nothing from having more viewers - and really, if I wanted more viewers I'd just write an article about *insert stupid executive's name here.* Nothing personal, blame the eastern bloc or something.

You have been warned. If you want to remain a lurker, just post in this thread. I won't judge you, but others might.

Please don't delete me! But feel free to judge  :heart:

Is one day enough?

Is one day enough what? Or is this now a philosophical question thread?

If a lurker is banned in a forest, does he make a sound?

Probably not, but the bear who ate him might!

Nooo, all my parachute accounts!

Welcome!

Phew, I'm at 3 posts, so I can stay? Don't cut me off, I mean, I remember Waterthread. Long-time lurker and this place is a lifeline.

Damn, more than half the user list has zero posts. Never knew it was that ridiculous.

WTS: 15 gimmick accounts with 1+ post each.

WTS! Account with 798 799 posts.

Not feeling up to that first post? Work around it - buy this used account, only slightly worn! Price starting at $997.99!

So, since they are being deleted, can't someone who lurks just re-make their account if it gets deleted?

So a day is more than enough time.

Guess I'll post, since I don't feel like getting nuked today.

4612 accounts....just how many of those are lurkers?

2391 have zero posts but I wouldn't really classify them as lurkers. Most probably don't visit.

That link in the top right should be made bigger.

Indeed, it's almost as if it was made as small as possible on purpose.  :grin:

Greetings, btw.

At the risk of getting nuked from orbit, I was thinking just yesterday I wouldn't mind a couple ads if it keeps the site going.

I honestly expected someone to goldspam this thread.

Oh yes, those intelligent Google adds that work with keywords.

Would be fun to see an "Buy M16s online!" add after every angry.bob post...

I'm probably missing something obvious, but how does this reduce spam? Don't they just create new accounts to link to their online casinos with?

I'd click that link.

Oh, right.  Better post.

(I only picked up an account so I can read the House of Joy Insightful Commentary that is Politics.  It's easier than thinking.  :awesome_for_real: )

That's why I read it too.

I am a shameful lurker.  :oops:

You should be warned. Since I started reading in Politics, my CT scans are showing dark lesions in my brain.

I too would like to remain a lurker.  I'm sure I'll work up the nerve to post regularly at some point. :heart:

Don't do it, it's one of the bigger mistakes I ever made.  Schild never calls, and he definitely didn't respect me in the morning  :cry2:

If you all don't mind one more lurker on here, I would like to remain.  Best place I like to look for information regarding the status of Ships in Space.

Ah, he didn't respect before either.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/85916/patrick_brain_sparks.png)

He also promises to give you nothing for something.

Herpes is something.   :awesome_for_real:

I love this thread and the lurkers.

Pfft, once you start actually posting your faith in humanity withers down then eventually falls off.

If you like reading politics, why not contribute? The worst thing that going to happen is that we expose you as a fraud and laugh off the board.

Because unlike local (Australian) politics, which is basically a collection of generic political machines grinding away regardless of a apathetic voting public, American politics seems to be a constantly accelerating clusterf##k of  nigh extinction-level events.

It's numbly amusing to watch the reactions, if you try to stay a distant observer.

..besides, I have the debating skills/wit of a baby seal, and I'm not sure giving the board fresh meat is a good idea.  :oh_i_see:

Updated my journal.

Oh shit...

I am also a creepy lurker and I want to live! Got hooked on this place since the Mark Jacobs/Warhammer Online drama but haven't got anything worthwhile to say...

You mispelt "Stig".

 :oh_i_see:

They say he is a man who can't spell his own name... We just call him the Stig.

Judge me too!

Date Registered:    July 20, 2007

Lurking with intent, that's against the law in some places you know!

I was lured, of all things, by Schild's review of Vanguard. Would you believe that?

No.

I really have been lurking for years, but only recently got a log in. CorpNews stopped being lurkworthy, I blame them for my increasing visits here.

Only reason i registered an account was to win a copy of EQ2.  :why_so_serious:

I like your name

I was saving myself for when I could tell Ironwood that Dr. Who had gotten good again.

Oh, well.

So, are you a timelord or just another run-of-the-mill immortal?

Now wait just a minute. Wasn't my review of Vanguard just a picture that said "its only a model?" I couldn't even muster up a real opinion of that...  thing.

Maybe he means my E3 preview of it?

</lurk>

Anti-nuke post.

<lurk>

The only review I saw that did it justice.

My post, let me show you it.

Edit:  Woot, double digits!  Who knew?

Kiss ass.

Thats what it takes to get ahead around here.

This thread is like some kinda Freshman mixer or AA meeting or some odd mixture of the two! Maybe a debutante ball also!

I'll get the Duct Tape and kerosene...

I'm pretty sure this is some sort of trick.

I made an account after lurking for a year or so because it makes it a lot easier to track what I've read.

Carry on.

Not a trick but let's just say "24 hours" is only a rough approximation :awesome_for_real:

Leeches! Parasites feeding on our knowledge and pain, never giving anything back! Until now. Your single posts are like 10,000 to me. Yes, reach over from the mouse and use the keyboard. You have to!

I thought it was more like chumming the water.

Actually it's us meeting our fans. F13 Faire. The furries are all yours.

Allowing a last few unwashed souls to ascend into the ranks of the anointed before purging the unworthy in apocalypse.

Unwashed, eh?
I resemble that remark...

You should all start practicing for Blood Bowl Season 6. I want to see 64 teams!

That got me chuckling.  :awesome_for_real:

I remember making an account after a few years lurking and suddenly the "View the most recent posts on the forum" link was full of fucking Politics posts.

If you're going to lurk I'd just do it anon-style.

F13: The only politics forum with an active MMORPG board!

Wow, and I thought I was a shameless lurker.

Explosions are imminent. Thank you, shameless lurkers, for revealing yourselves.

4615 members right now....I'll wager the number drops to approx. 2500

Me too... but now even that has been taken away from us!

Still lurking along, with the very occasional post.  Usually alcohol is involved.

Well, drat. There went my lurking streak. :sad_panda:

I go 2499 then!

1.

Don't delete me pls!

I'm pretty sure all of you are just figments of my imagination anyway.  So you might as well post, because I already know what you're thinking, obviously.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8rYotiiFP8

/unlurk

Hello. Better late than never.

/relurk

And so he posts...

The number keeps growing!  :ye_gods:

Wow almost missed this...so yeah, kinda nice being able to jump to last post read and all...

Do I count as a lurker if I delete 90% of my posts immediately after posting them?

Most of the time I don't even hit post, I just go 'aaah....fuckit'

When you guys pass 300 days logged in, then you can start talking to me about lurking.

Actually you did miss it but you are special :awesome_for_real:

There's a handful of users I exempted from the deletion cause they are "active" lukers with old accounts. You happened to be one of them.

/sulk.  I only have 41 days logged in (well, technically 40 days 23 hours, 23 minutes).

Looks like you exempted the ton of spam accounts that registered in September. They really went nuts.

There's a grace period before a newly created account with no posts gets deleted.

More of a disgrace period.

Only 117d, 23 hrs logged in. Almost a newb!

1.

you lock the target...

129d+

 :oh_i_see:

144d. I blame slow days at the office.

Well, fuck. I picked a shitty name to lurk with and now I have to reveal it to all of f13.

My head a-splode?

If this nabs me another Hyu kill, it's all worth it.

Nice punctuation.

Delurking to prevent nukage.

Now back to lurking :awesome_for_real:

It always amazes me we have lurkers.

Not anymore!

I'm just waiting for the lurkers who get nuked who remake a new account to jump in here to proclaim injustice at being nuked.

Lurkers suffer in silence.

Like Cub fans.

When were Cubs fans ever silent about their misery?

No shit.

Browns fans then...  :cry:

Cubs fans actually deserve their misery though.

You shut your dirty mouth, you Southsider.

Oh damn...looks like the nuke finally went off...2188 at this time.

Hey!  I resemble that remark!

EVEN WORSE! SHUN HER! SHUN HER!!!

Don't you work in the Chicago area? You must keep your allegiance in your shame closet.

LOL!  Yeah, I live in the Chicago area now and have since '89 or so, but I grew up next to St. Louis, so they were my first sports teams.  I've finally told myself that since I've lived up here longer than I lived down by StL, it's all right for me to support Chicago teams.  So yeah, I'm a southsider even if I'm way out in the NW suburbs.

Nothing witty/useful to post, hence lurking. I love your hate.

Most people here have nothing witty/useful to post. Doesn't stop them. Or me.

Some of the lurkers make it an extreme sport. 7 years lurking, 50+ days spent online in their stats and 1 post. I considered myself a lurker before with <50 posts/year but I don't even compare.

And just think. Some of these lurkers know us better than we know ourselves.  :grin: :oh_i_see: :ye_gods:

No! I need this to keep me sane at work.

Maybe, but they don't put much thought into the names...

 :awesome_for_real:

:sad:

Yeah, some idiot probably named himself after one of his random UO characters at Lum's pad in the late 90s and can't ever use it because it's always taken by a 13yr old girl everywhere on the Internets.

Somehow I survived the nuke. Maybe since I have finally unlurked, I'll be brave enough to keep posting.

A lot of people enjoy usefully cynical commentary, not everyone is all that adept at providing it.. Hence, the lurking.

umm...what he said, only doubly so.

That applies to a large chunk of the normal posters as well though, and it doesn't stop them.  Go take a look at the MMO subs are dead thread.

We should all get buttons so the lurkers can agree/disagree with our posts like some sort of internet gladiatorial match.

On second thought, that would end poorly.

Yes, it would. I, for one, agree with every post.

Why just the lurkers?  Anyone who doesn't post in a thread, should be able to vote on it.  Instead of agree/disagree for each post, it'd simpler it just vote on who is winning the thread.

Pretty sure Im not a spam bot, but that wont stop me from selling penis pills and dick creams

Until then its the waiting game

Um, let's never ever do the vote thing.

 :ye_gods:

No one wins a thread on F13.

And society as a whole always loses.

I think voting should be allowed in Politics.  I would go there more often just for that.

:drill: :why_so_serious:

I would vote for that.

 :rimshot:

We should definitely look into virtual finger wiggling to indicate the general level of approval of an idea.

That sounds dirty.

How will I read the politics forum if I get nuked?!  :heartbreak:

We have a politics forum?  :awesome_for_real:

And we have politics lurkers???  :ye_gods:

Shit, I'm practically a politics lurker as well at this point.

one post

This thread is adorable, I don't know why I didn't read it sooner!

The best part is the lurkers are all the same person. All DV, Geldon or Broughden sockpuppets! :why_so_serious:

Well, I know for sure of one Broughden sock puppet...

Please do not delete, I'm not like the others!

Hyu is that?

So did we nuke them yet?

Yep, back on page 3 I think. I reckon we'll be getting "Don't delete me" posts for another five weeks though.

All lurkers with exactly 1 post will be deleted.  :why_so_serious:

Avatars are bonus points and show initiative!

It's obvious we can't have nuked them yet. Mac was created in 2005 and posted his first post yesterday above.

Trippy said he made exceptions for some. Namely extremely old accounts I believe.

Old accounts where the user was regular lurker (had logged in within the last month).

This got me looking at the [More Stats] page.What the hell was going on that day? Was that the Mark Jacobs / Warhammer starfuck?

Probably.. it's too late to be the Aradune interview which was 07, wasn't it?

Except it wasn't, that was in october of 2008, around my regdate.   :facepalm:

And why couldn't it have been two fewer?

Or 1,339 fewer.

(I held off on making that joke so I could make this one instead)

I still get nervous about clicking the "Lurkers Click this link" link, thinking you're going to rick roll us.. or worse..

The closest things I can figure is that it was right after the 1.1 patch update for Warhammer.

I want to say it was the whole Recruiters don't hire WoW players thing.  F13 got linked on multiple news sites around that time frame.

Pretty sure the Jacobs starfucking ended sometime in November.

For fuck's sake why?   :ye_gods: :ye_gods:

You underestimate the power of the Dark Side.

Thanks for not deleting me, too. I'm still a little bit here!

I got f13 slashdotted (recruiters don't hire WoW players) and I got corpnews slashdotted (Vader visits the RP troops in SWG). You should all want to subscribe to my newsletter.


Good! A voodoolily snack in the thread.

A snack is nice, but I miss when there was pig shoved in the ground.

I have nothing worthwhile to say.  I just want to track what I've read.

I found the above comment to be very worthwhile.

I've worked too hard... too hard... I'm keeping my lurker status. I'm a Chinese too.

Don't tase me bro :ye_gods:!

I don't post lately because there is no open-world MMOs of the caliber of DAoC upcoming, so I just keep updated on existing games but don't have much to say about any of them that others haven't already said.

Best gaming news site around, so I'll always look here for info. and the general pulse of what's happening. Plus where else can you get input from such a wide spectrum, including dev insiders like all the reds posting.

:awesome_for_real:

++ Would read again.

Don't delete me!  I'll post something else, maybe in the cat thread...

You should make a really shitty web comic that you can become a mod.

No, you have to write a shitty game review for that.

Aw, shucks.  :heart:  I'd be here more, it's just that spitting a kid out the vadge changes a person. But I miss you guys, especially since it turns out that I really am a crazy bitch in real life and all the Portland moms are afraid of me.   :oh_i_see:

Those moms are crazy too, I'd bet cash on it.  Likely they are jealous of your amazing mothering.

You have such a unique way of describing the magic of birth and parenting.  :why_so_serious:

This.  The "normal" moms are some of the craziest people in the world, and are doing more than their fair share to ruin the country.

I just don't think they drink enough. Plus in Portland no one wants to commit to anything that even closely resembles structure lest they destroy their little angel's spirit. We, on the other hand, gave Zephyr a 7:00-7:30 bedtime at 5 months old (which we still stick to!) and have routines for every minute of his day (including "free play") so he is basically the easiest toddler in the world. Which is to say he's only exhausting instead of exhausting and a total asshole.

Holy shit, Bela! TELL ME ABOUT YOUR CATS.

For real ?  :awesome_for_real:

Greek god of the West Wind.  Like a boss.

I just thought he farted a lot.

Heh.  :grin:

Yep. To wit: "Uh-oh, toot!"  :awesome_for_real:

I'm not necessarily lurking, I just don't have anything of worth to say.

I'm not sure any of us do.

Fixed for accuracy.

Why you gotta hate, man?

Posting before I am vilipended.

Speaking of which, we have to do another one of these.

Sure.

Hear that lurkers? MARK YOUR DOORS WITH LAMBS BLOOD!

Gotta post more  :awesome_for_real:

Waste of perfectly good lamb's blood in my opinion.

Posting since I finally decided to register. I can read spoilers now.  :grin:

They're generally not worth it.

Play Bloodbowl. 

One of us, one of us. Booble gobble, gooble gobble.

ANOTHER GREAT PURGE WILL BE COMING SOON

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Purged.

TMI

We're starting off the new year with another purge.

If you are a lurker with zero posts and want to keep your account you'll want to post something in the next few days (it can be in this thread).

If the first post is in sports or politics you get shamed.  :grin:

I do not wish to be purged, but am not yet ready for [even a small] binge just yet.

Spoiler: if you needed to register to post in this thread, you were not at risk of deletion since you didn't have an account until you registered.

Just joined, I'm future-proofing myself!

I think we made an introduction thread on accident.

:(

I'm feeling like another purge is due.

But why?  Everyone seems okay.  Having said that, I rarely peek at the politics area so I might be missing assholes or sommat.

Do it. It feels good man.

Purges are for people who have 0 posts. Nothing of value will be lost.

Some people just like to watch.

Purged 907 members.

WHOOOOOOOOOO, DIE SCUM

SANCTIFY THE F13 THRONE WITH THE BLOOD OF VIRGINS

Gonna have to do another one of these soon. I don't want any form of captcha, but we might have to implement it.

For registration, or posting? Let us donate or something to opt out please, if it's for posting.

For registration, obviously. lol

Though, charging for posting seems better than banning. Lemme think on that. Maybe 25 cents/post in the politics forum.

We just did one :p

Yea i know, and there's like 2,000 more fake accounts or something.

Well I just made this account so let me post something real fast like before I get deleted.  :ye_gods:

+1 so I dont get nuked, I guess a first post without any meaningful content is a fitting introduction!

Yeah, don't nuke me bro.

The idea that people lurk around this site and just watch us post still makes me scratch my head.

Ha.  He finally decided on your title.

Haha nice, 20k+ and I broke Schild.

EDIT: I should just be happy he didn't ban me after reading all that crap.

I was so fucking close to banning you until I figured out your title so you couldn't post anymore.

SO CLOSE. Now I can move on.

Spring cleanup coming soon. Make a post somewhere if you are a lurker and don't want to be purged.

We're gonna do another one of these. We have to. We must. I'm on the verge of nuking 1 post users also, just to see what happens. Maybe. Probably not.

Do it. Do it. Do it. :grin:

Yeah, do it.

For every person, role a die the size of their post count and delete all the ones.

NO!  You might delete someone I like!

So mean.

Might be nice to make a new thread for a new purge.  This ones been up for a long time, so I don't think very many people are actually paying attention to it.

OUR YOUNG SHALL BE TOSSED INTO AN OPEN FIRE AND SURROUNDED BY CRATES FOR WHICH THEY HAVE NO PATHING SCRIPT TO USE FOR ESCAPE.

In short, no.