Eccentric Flower talk:200912/Lurkers and Luddites

ProfRobert:

Re. the lurkers item: Isn't the tip-off in the relationship the term employed to describe the readers: "user"?

-- 23:30, 1 December 2009 (GMT)

Columbina:

Well, that was my choice of term - but it was a choice I made deliberately for exactly that reason.

-- 23:42, 1 December 2009 (GMT)

DanLyke:

Might look to one "Nick Scipio" for a model of someone who's managed to create a substantial user community around his smut. Of course the fact that he's turned out more words in a single story-line than Tolkien helps, but the Yahoo Group that he founded to goad his readers into more speculation has now got several other writers participating and getting lots of ego strokes there.

-- 06:25, 2 December 2009 (GMT)

ProfRobert:

Oh, I thought the term had come from "usenet" from the old days.

-- 17:06, 2 December 2009 (GMT)