Lurkers!!!!
 

Was it yesterday evening that I noticed there were 40 registered users viewing and 395 lurkers. Come on people, regsister and introduce yourselves. This site is a lot more fulfilling once you actually start interacting.

...and I'm gettnig tired of the regulars and want some new friends to play with

Humph!!

How rude!!


:)

Well ok then,

Hi, I am a registered lurker, hoping to travel next year. Currently our flat is on the market to provide the capital...

Dan

Stepping forward
 

I Like it!
Waving Hello and advertising your flat in one line :)

Welcome Dan :welcome:

Happy travel prep

Not necessarily lurking
 

On the road (currently La Paz, Bolivia), when I bring up the HU website from an internet cafe just to check postings in the past 24 hours, it would appear I would be amongst your lurkers. Well, I am lurking, so if there isn't anything new, anything we have to say, I don't log in.

So, perhaps instead of only 40 registered users and 395 lurkers (unregistered), there's like 100 of us regular, registerd users on the road popping into an internet cafe, too tired to log on, too busy checking our other email accounts and such.

(probably not!)

Quite right.......
 

........Quastdog, I've also just logged on to let you know that I do that as well; probably go back to Lurking now!!

Dave

Vbulletin has lots of configurations...

Doh!!
 

Just tried to reply on another computer and realized that I am not logged on!
But what I wanted to say is that I think you are going "Bossies" with so little time before you go!!!
You dont need more people to talk to......you need to be on the road heading south.
Must be soon now?
2.5 months for meeeee!!
orrin

How rude indeed! :)

It's nice and handy for those of us who are logged in at home and work (cookies get stored on the pc on login), so we don't have log in each time (so we appear as logged in), but it ain't that simple when you're on the road, using a strange pc.. if you don't explicitly log in (and the last guy didn't stay logged in), you appear as a lurker by default.

It springs to mind that some people might use the lurking thing in between sustaining multiple identities on the HUBB.. and then springs right out of mind again for legal reasons.. :wink3:

Your mind can still spring?

Those days are gone!

Regards, Mick

Since I often check for new posts whilst at work :innocent: (and my work PC is configured not to allow cookies), it means that every time I switch to the HUBB, I'm lurking, since I'm no longer logged in. In addition, when not logger in, there's this nice link "Today's Posts", which isn't present when logged in (Yes, I know you can retrieve posts by 8 hours, 24 hours etc.)

Crickey...this has caused a reaction...not the kind I expected. Glad to see soo may old timers resurfacing. Yes I appreciate that I too will not log in every time I find a computer once we hit the road.

I have though noticed a recent marked increase in newcomers. Very refeshing!!!

If you were able to check the IP addresses you would probably find that most of the 395 luckers were Google or Yahoo webbots indexing the site.

Tim

Ah...that's a lot of work. Just check the UserAgent field in the logs - the bots should be identified if they are "good bots".

I came out of "lurk" mode - found a spot with wi-fi for my laptop.

Now...back into the lurk!

Im knew, but no one wants to talk to me!

(must be coz im a beemer rider, and not an XT660 rider)

:oops2: