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Merc
10-03-2008, 08:39 AM
236 guests right now
20 members...

that makes me uncomfortable and like im a perfoming animal
"oh mommy look at the bear dancing"
ccrreeepppyyy
if youre intersted enough to look pls REALLY thihk of becoming a member..it opens MANY more forums you cant access right now and makes us estblished members feel les like side-show freaks....
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random.swirls
10-03-2008, 08:54 AM
I hate seeing guests reading the same threads as me but I also realise that 99% of the guests are spiders currently they are mostly Yahoo Slurp Spiders. If you check here (http://www.recoveryourlife.com/forum/online.php?sort=username&order=asc&pp=35) you can see for yourself and now I am okies with it.

Any genuine guest out there come joinnnyyyy
RandomIdiot
10-03-2008, 09:01 AM
what's a yahoo slurp spider?
random.swirls
10-03-2008, 09:15 AM
Umm this thread (http://www.recoveryourlife.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1995) explains it I do believe!
Bacchus
10-03-2008, 07:03 PM
We have had lurkers in here since before my first days. It is just the nature of the beast. I think that being more open and letting them know how we work, may help them realize they are not as strange, and alone as they thought before. It may take months before they have the courage to speak, and if that is what it takes to help somebody, seems like a pretty small cost to me.
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Kangaroo
10-03-2008, 09:23 PM
i'm always amazed at the number of guests online at any one time. how came they dont join up as then they could post?
chocostashchick
11-03-2008, 01:56 AM
it took me a little bit of lurking on ruin and then on ryl before i joined
i kinda felt like if i joined, it meant that i partly admitted i was crazy and i didnt want to

anyway, also a lot of the guests are probably members who arent logged in or who are lurking for some reason
i always delete my temp internet files and cookies and forget to log back in and spend part of the evening as a guest lol
blondiebear
11-03-2008, 02:19 AM
I had to lurk for a bit before I decided to join. Then it took me a while to learn to participate, to feel comfortable instead of intrusive about it.

I'll be the first person to admit I'm crazy. I think that the only difference between insane and innovative is the level of success.