Hi,
I've posted a few comments to LW, but maybe I still qualify as a lurker because I post comments so rarely.
Some recent experiments with Alicorn's Luminosity techniques revealed that my reasons for not posting comments more often were mostly silly, so I'll probably start commenting more often.
This post got kinda long as I was writing it, so I'll post each of the things I wanted to say as a separate reply, so that they can be upvoted or downvoted separately.
vote down this comment if there is anything at all you don't like about anything I've written here:
Using lots of words to say something that should be simple
wasting words talking about things that I was about to say, but already realized were silly
general whinyness or needyness
parenthetical comments
run-on sentences
incompletely thought-out ideas
not bothering to use the special syntax for making clickable links
poor spelling and/or grammar
minor or not-so-minor typos
posting too much off-topic stuff in what's supposed to be a thread for people to just say "...
Some research says that lurkers make up over 90% of online groups. I suspect that Less Wrong has an even higher percentage of lurkers than other online communities.
Please post a comment in this thread saying "Hi." You can say more if you want, but just posting "Hi" is good for a guaranteed free point of karma.
Also see the introduction thread.