RavenSnow

I totally get you. I am actually a pretty social person overall, yet I still catch myself just lurking a lot of the time. When I started up on ZB a few years ago, that was the first forum I ever became really active on, and that took me like a solid year of lurking first. I found that at a certain point, if you wanna start joining the conversation more just dive in! I almost had to force myself to post a few times a day, at least to start out.

That's pretty much where I find myself now, forcing myself to post.... then I spend an hour worrying over how useless the content probably was hahaha I'm terrible! >.<

I don't wanna sound like a creep but your profile picture looks super familiar. 

Your Signature says you were previously Aria..... I THINK we've spoken previously, but my memory's not the greatest so I didn't want to assume

I feel you. It took me so long to reach 100 posts needed to get access to the hidden FR chat. Are you looking to get access to it as well? What I did was try and be active in the public FR subforum since I don't play Neopets, as well as post in the general chat from time to time.

You. Read. My. Mind. Yes, primarily my post count concern if for the FR chat. If it counted my PM's I'd probably be more than there by now, but nope. Still in the 60's >.<

 

I feel the same way. I prefer to lurk over post. Also, anything I feel like contributing is usually posted by someone else before me, so me posting is kind of pointless.

 

I don't really care too much about my post count.

Exactly! I think of something and.... oh, ok it's already been done. lol.... I don't normally worry about post counts either to be fair, but there's a FR subform/hidden chat that has intrigued me ever since I heard about it, and I want in damn it! lol

Plus, besides that, Neocodex community always seems to bloody friendly, I almost feel like I'm missing out by not joining in on threads. All the PM conversations I've had on here, one on one with people have been fantastic, trading has been a joy... a small, tiny, whispering part of me keeps pushing the back of my brain to dig into the community a bit more, but I'm not so good at that

I definitely enjoy lurking over posting. If you don't feel as though you have anything to contribute in your own post, you can always just quote and reply to people's posts. 'Good post chap'. 'Solid post buddy'. Or is that spamming? I'm not sure.

I don't know if that would be considered spamming to be honest, the term seems to vary depending on which forum you're on. Maybe it would depend on the type of thread or how often you do it? 

At least I'm not the only person who prefer's lurking though

asocial*

OOOOooooo! Thank you! I went and googled Antisocial vs Asocial. I love learning new words, and you're absolutely right, asocial fts me much better. <3

It wouldn't surprise me if Jumpstart just didn't care, they've not got the best reputation in regards to maintaining online games they run, but still, it's nice to check that the threat of banning hasn't exponentially increased since I last used Abrosia

*rubs hands together* Looks like I'll be rebuying advanced membership come payday!