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lurker
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n. One of the silent majority in an electronic forum; one who posts
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occasionally or not at all but is known to read the group's postings
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regularly. This term is not pejorative and indeed is casually used
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reflexively: Oh, I'm just lurking. Often used in the lurkers , the
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hypothetical audience for the group's flamage -emitting regulars. When a
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lurker speaks up for the first time, this is called delurking. The creator
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of the popular science-fiction TV series Babylon 5 has ties to SF fandom and
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the hacker 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 term.
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