Quote Originally Posted by zaphodeist View Post
There are quite a few members who don't contribute and many lurkers willing to get info without acknowledgement and joining in. There was talk of somehow restricting access to the FAQs and How-To's because of this, but obviously this would have been difficult and go against the XU ethos of being a friendly, helpful environment.
I am a XU member but didn't contribute so I must count as a lurker. I think I visited a dozen times as I felt my niche was with TG.
TG rarely gets 5% signed in and so 95% could be viewed as lurkers but I see no fault in that; a forum is scary to jump into and if you have nothing to contribute why not benefit from the corpus of knowledge available?

I'm sure its members' contributions have been innovative and first on the block and we have all benefited.

Acorn

P.S. just had a look and XU doesn't mention TG. Ah well.