I just saw a comment on Hexbear alleging that there are very few Lurkers. I'm a lurker! I exist! I lurk because I forgot the password to my day 1 account and now am ashamed. We exist!

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Lurkers are a pretty good unit, the defensive power they give you to get up your third (on maps with a ramp) is second to none and setting up the soft contain is probably my favorite way to play the matchup.

  • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Nothing wrong with being a lurker; on any social media site, most users are lurkers. And that's fine!

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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    2 years ago

    You shouldn't be ashamed for being a lurker, of anything the people who should feel a shame that flenses the soul are the power posters that have been here since the beginning.

    :kubrick-stare:

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    1% are posters. 9% are commenters. 90% are lurkers. This is true of every single online community that has ever existed and will remain true forever. It is just some weird thing about the way humans engage with communities on the internet. The conditions produce this ratio over and over and over again.

    This is as true on Hexbear as it is everywhere else.

    • ElmLion [any]
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      2 years ago

      The real numbers would be fun to see.

    • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      At the end of the day, the 1 percent may have enormousposting power. But they are just the 1 percent. When the 99 percent stand together, we can transform Hexbear.

      —:bernie:

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I lurked for over a year before finally making an account because I was afraid all the cool communist kids were gonna laugh at me and expropriate my lunch money :scared:

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    we love our lurkers, don't we folks? they're the best, we have the best lurkers of any site on the internet, you know. they don't go around here stinking up the place with their bad takes. they just read, can you believe that? read our nuclear takes, and then they just sit on it. outstanding. really. :trump-moist:

  • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I always like to think that when there’s two people currently looking at a post I literally just posted that I’m sharing an intimate yet profound moment with the friendly FBI bot that captures everything on this and other similar websites

  • replaceable [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    You should instead be ashamed of being a lurker, not fulfilling your posting quota like that smh :soviet-huff:

    • HauntedBySpectacle [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      been here since day one and this is my first account lol

      the constant struggle sessions of the first year were discouraging from joining the discourse tbh but I couldn't stop myself reading through this site most days