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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>lurker</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="lunatic-fringe.html" title="lunatic fringe"/><link rel="next" href="luser.html" title="luser"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">lurker</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lunatic-fringe.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="luser.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="lurker"/><dt xmlns="" id="lurker"><b>lurker</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> One of the ‘silent majority’ in an electronic forum; one
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who posts occasionally or not at all but is known to read the group's
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postings regularly. This term is not pejorative and indeed is casually
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used reflexively: “<span class="quote">Oh, I'm just lurking.</span>” Often used in
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<span class="firstterm">the lurkers</span>, the hypothetical
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audience for the group's <a href="../F/flamage.html"><i class="glossterm">flamage</i></a>-emitting regulars.
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When a lurker speaks up for the first time, this is called <span class="firstterm">delurking</span>.</p><p>The creator of the popular science-fiction TV series
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<i class="citetitle">Babylon 5</i> has ties to SF fandom and the hacker
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culture. In that series, the use of the term ‘lurker’ for a
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homeless or displaced person is a conscious reference to the jargon
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