Are you a lurker?

[Torsten]

Hi Tamara, I agree with you, this thread is drifting off providing ideas for topics that should be discussed separately. You have raised a number of interesting questions such as how to distinguish between professional and unprofessional forums, the validity and value of university degrees that were obtained several years ago and the connection between 'special feelings' and statistics to mention but a few.
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[Butterfly]

In the beginning many of the users of a given forum can be called `lurkers`. They have just found the forum, they register and read some topics. Supposing that they become interested enough in the certain forum, they begin to write ...Then the lurker comes to see what the other have answered, he posts a reply again - and he is no more a lurker.

What I described usually happens to me when I register in a new forum