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Originally Posted by osborne
Really?! That is weak. I don't deserve a point for time served and neither do some others. There are people who have been here for more than one year and have contributed zilch to this place.
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While the contributions may seem minimal, lurkers give a valuable service in reading and very occassionally responding to posts. The guys who post an average of 75 times a day probably won't remember a post from a year ago, you might get lucky and have a lurker pipe up with the perfect reference from an old post that many others have forgotten. Also, many lurkers don't post because most of thier input has already been stated by another (more frequent) poster. I like the "time served" rep point. Besides, the guy who has been on these forums reading quietly for a year deserves more rep than the newb that just popped in and started the 5,674th "I love my Fit because..." thread. The old lurker probably knows alot more about the forum and the subject anyways.
