Voyeurs on Autism

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I don't follow the rules myself. I almost got arrested for protesting in the streets. Cops suck. I used to be a law abiding citizen, but then I realized how ridiculous the laws are lol

There's always lurkers; some people are new, and don't know the ropes yet. Some people feel that even posting is like conversation, and are uncomfortable with it. Some people don't take it that seriously.

I didn't post for almost a couple of days after I joined up here...

I've heard that the govt and law enforcement do regular lurking on WP as supposedly AS people are dangerous after the VA Tech massacre by an Aspie guy. I would suspect a fair number of family members, classmates and employers also use this site to learn the signs of ASD or else to see if someone they know might be on the list.

I think the lurking is bad and site should be made entirely unviewable without membership and there should be a small fee to get the password so that the moderators would have more knowledge just who exactly is on here.

I think the policy here after that Will Freund incident is to report people who make such threats here to the police, and I think that's appropriate. Sometimes it's just attention seeking trolls anyway. So they don't need to lurk here, the staff let them know.

People lurk on all kinds of forums, no matter what they are about... I admit it, I do it too. This place is not unique when it comes to that kind of thing.

cannot say i am a lurker. i am either on or i am off. wp is the only forum i have ever been involved in.

there's a chicken enchilada lurking...in my belly!

oh, sorry. got a bit silly there.

I'm rather sympathetic to the lurkers, as I have pretty bad social anxiety issues. The only reason that I became active at Wrong Planet is that I was so shocked and amazed at how many of the comments people made resonated with me. They still do. My anxiety still makes me not post as much though--if I posted all the comments I started but never submitted, my count would probably be double.

Sometimes I'll click on a thread to post a comment, then find someone else
has already posted something similar to what I was going to say, so I don't
post. It's already been said. Or it turns out the discussion is different than
what I expected it to be from the title, or the discussion has already moved
on to an adjunct topic and sounds more like a personal chat among friends,
and I would feel like an intruder to post. I think you need to take that type of
"lurking" into account in the total numbers. But yeah, I also think there are
probably many voyeurs lurking. Some people have such empty inner lives
that they need to fill themselves up by gawking, lurking, spying.

Also, we need to take into account the fact that many people might post to a thread once,
then revisit the thread several times to see what other people are saying.