Please, not so. To be truly pitiful, you have to not even lurk. For all the others, there is hope.
Think, if FR had existed in the early '50s, what chance is there that Ronald Reagan would not have lurked--and, having lurked for awhile, generously contributed? You don't only want to pay for your own bandwidth. You want to pay for the bandwidth of the lurker who sees your insightful comments and may in future start paying his and other's way also.
For a paltry dollar, you can be a leader. Don't stop there, of course . . .
Think of what it means in terms of the First Amendment . . . on the Internet $4 per year buys "the poor man's soap box" that Bill Bradley was prattling about--but one which can be read nationwide and even worldwide! The contrast between FR and broadcast advertising is stark. All politics should be on the net and in print--delete all of it from the broadcasting especially journalism!
Elvis is currently a lurker.