Lurkers Only Open Thread
ByHi lurkers. Â You’re the folks who read Scrutiny Hooligans every day but never comment. Â You may do the same with this post, but I’d like to invite you to creep out from behind your monitors and say hello. Since it’s your first time commenting there will be a bit of lag while your comment gets moved out of the moderation queue. It’s there to keep the bad things from happening.
For the purposes of this thread, no one who’s ever left a comment here should comment in this thread. Â It’s lurkers only. Â Though everyone could take the opportunity to read the comments policy and think about how to make this blog a constructive, inviting place with good grammar.
We’re the voyeurs now, lurkers. Peek your head into this virtual living room and introduce yourselves.
5 Comments
February 6th, 2010 at 9:26 pm
Hello
Just for your Gordon…
February 7th, 2010 at 12:53 am
I have commented here before but not in 18 months and I”ll use my real name now.
Things got boring over here after the last election, and that last redesign was giving me computer fits, so I stopped reading. It’s been good to see Michael and Tom come aboard now that Gordon is busy and… what happened to Arratic?
Anyway, I’m reading again. Quality is way up, but I only use vowels before noon and you wouldn’t understand me anyway.
February 7th, 2010 at 11:27 am
I’m a pretty regular reader (lurker?)but do not comment as the general level of conversation among the regulars seems very well informed and often technical. Guess I’m reluctant to ask my un-informed questions. Maybe I’ll brace up and ask for explanations when I need them.
February 7th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
Hello, my name is Brian . . . and I am a lurker. I check Huff Po, Scru Hoo, and twitter two or three times a day, at a minimum. Does that make me an addict? I quit FML cold turkey over Thanksgiving, but am starting to pick it back up in small manageable amounts
I have thought about posting, but haven’t come up with a catchy enough screen name (I hate to be anonymous, but would rather keep my opinions separate from my day job). I was thinking of ‘brace’ or ‘brash’, playing off of ‘Brian’. Then I thought it would be interesting to use them depending upon the tone of the post, ie “to make stronger†vs. “lacking restraint and discernmentâ€, respectively.
Examples would be:
brace – I really appreciate Gordon working so hard to communicate the decisions facing the City and City Council, and his desire/ability to get input from many different constituencies
brash – How come The Biltmore Estate has a private police force aka ‘company police agency’ that has no oversight from any local elected official or board. I saw them ‘take down’ a guest at a concert a few years ago for no good reason.
Anywho, hope to post again soon.
February 8th, 2010 at 9:57 am
To answer Jim’s question re: what happened to Arratik – I’m not sure. I think it was mostly burnout and disillusionment with local politics. He’s still on Twitter, though.
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