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ah! i've just noticed I'm the only one online (apart from 26 lurkers - yeah YOU!), i feel like I'm walking through an empty shop...quite relaxing in some respects...

i've been annoyingly ill recently with a virus and chest infection - it's been a right pain, im only now feeling a little more lively, apart from now going a bit mutton in my right ear due to being bunged up still...two weeks being ill!

by now, you've noticed, there's not much point to this post...and you'll be right...

what do you do on here when there's no one else around? not *that* you dirty beast...

i too in the past used to walk the lonly dusty crypts in the basement, polishing the tombstones of the dearly departed but not realy missed banned people.
back then our members were fewer than the mods and we had to use our imaginations to fill the void, being the fact that pretty much all the members were regular people with jobs i spent a fair bit of time on my own being that my job was mostly night work.
maybey its time to resurect the garden and pond we had in the doves head and if your realy bored you can always call me.
calls cost 5 bucks a minuet for the first three minuets and then 50 bucks a minuet thereafter.

I lurk a lot because I don't know what to say, being new to magic a don't feel confident to give advice but love your posts:-)

abraxus wrote:ah! i've just noticed I'm the only one online (apart from 26 lurkers - yeah YOU!), i feel like I'm walking through an empty shop...quite relaxing in some respects...

what do you do on here when there's no one else around? not *that* you dirty beast...

In my timezone, there are usually very few people around in the afternoon (roughly speaking, between midday and six pm). But so long as there have been people around since the last time I was online, there is always something new to read. In fact, it's more efficient to wait until the quiet time of day before catching up with whatever's been written overnight.

During a session, I usually catch up with each forum one at a time, either starting from the bottom (dove's head) and working up, or starting from the top and working down. I only log in when I want to reply, and when I do that I am Hidden. Forums I read avidly include the dove's head, hall of fame, file sharing, support & tips and miscellaneous. I also read whatever catches my eye in reviews, the occasional thread in introductions, anything new in forum requests when I notice it, etc. I hardly ever read events at all, because it's next to useless for people outside of Britain. Not telling how avidly I read the sinbin.

Talkmagic is rather unusual in one respect, in that it's mostly on-topic, which is contrary to the spirit of the Internet. Most forums I know are more like, well, imagine if the dove's head was ten times bigger than any other forum. I know one board where there are two off-topic forums, one for off-topic threads that might be of lasting interest, and another (called "ephemera") for off-topic threads of short-term interest only. The difference is that a thread in Ephemera is automatically deleted if there are no replies within a fortnight. (When you get right down to it I actually prefer Usenet over boards, because the subject of a thread can change more dynamically. But Usenet would be intolerable for talkmagic, because there are no possibilities for moderation other than all-or-nothing.)

I like to lurk late at night too, to catch up on what's been said at my leisure. It's also a great time to do some pruning of the crud on the forum!

I don't post too much these days, but I still like to lurk and have a quick read.

Oooh, 2am and I'm all alone in the hallways of TM. I could swear I just saw the ghost of Lord Freddie lurking in the corner by the suit of armour. He was arguing with the ghost of someone called KARL. Spooky stuff.