"Any other 'lurkers' out there"???
Sure are! ..... I am still one most days .... I am somewhat a newbie to the art of quilting, so I have little to contribute to the general conversation ..... most of my comments are to the "WOW" pictures of finished items ....
My hesitancy to join in the conversation has to do as much with computer illiteracy as anything else .... I do not have scanning and camera capabilities .... I get computer time where ever and when ever I can, so it limits things ...
It took me a long time to figure out that even though I was "registered" on the quiltingboard, I could not comment on specific posts unless I actually "logged in" ..... and that when I did "log in" it gave me a nice little option of "reply" and "quote reply" under the poster's post ..... voila!
and if I clicked on one of these I got a big box to reply into .... and to the left of this box I got these cute little "smilies" and "tags" to choose from to incorporate into my reply ..... which I am STILL trying to figure out ....
I also learned that I have to remember to hit the "send" button at the end of this message or it is all wasted motion
.... and that my own message will pop up on my screen again and I have to remember NOT to click send again, as it has already been sent ..... whew! .... but once done it is not intimidating to try to figure it all out again later....
So Lurkers.....try it ... you'll like it ...
Lurking is a good thing ..... like silent babies trying to find voices, lurkers still have ears/eyes to gather in a lot of good stuff and form better questions for the other board members to respond to in the long-run ....
I say lurk as long as you want .... feel comfortable ....you are still a board member ... and you will get braver with your first post .....
Now, how do I start a new topic? ....hmmmmm..... let's go to the top menu ..... :)