[Fedora]

Out of curiosity, how long did you lurk on FR before jumping in? For me it was at least a year...and then I was afraid to post for awhile after that.

I've been lurking since the 2000 election campaign. I've avoided posting 'til now 'cause I was afraid if I did I'd get addicted--think that's already happened :) I finally broke down and gave in 'cause I found some info on Kerry I felt obligated to post. Since then I've found hanging around the Hobbit Hole is more fun, though :)

[RosieCotton]

I've avoided posting 'til now 'cause I was afraid if I did I'd get addicted

Hoo boy...yeah, that's a problem with this place. And the Hobbit Hole is far more addicting than even FR as a whole.

I mostly lurk when it comes to the "outside world" of FR...but I guess I post enough here to make up for it. Oops...

[RosieCotton]

I started lurking around the time of the election, too. Took me a year to jump in, which I did partly because of LOTR movie talk. Most of the regulars on those threads ended up here! It's amazing how it's evolved.

[Ramius]

That's interesting... I lurked for a couple of years purely because I found that FR had about the best up-to-the-minute news on just about everything. I think I started reading it soon after it started up.

But for me it was the hideous gonzo Y2K panic posts that finally pushed me over the edge. I had to register in order to post replies to the nutballs that thought the whole world was gonna come crashing in on Y2K. My FR birthday was 12-30-99. By then it was so off the charts I just couldn't take any more.

Had to jump in and yell about how *nothing* was going to happen.