First of all, in this situation semi-lurkers are the people who sign in to their VGChartz account frequently, but choose not to post anything for months, sometimes even years... I am not including people like Machina and DMeisterJ who sign in to their account at the most random times and leave again for a long periods of time.... A good example of this is OkeyDokey... He signs into his account pretty frequently, yet his last post was in February of last year.. There are many other users just like OkeyDokey.. I would say Squilliam, but he was on hiatus from February up until late December if I am not mistaken..
My question to those semi-lurkers is why do you act like a semi-lurker? I don't say that you should post 20 threads daily and post 40 times daily, but why aren't you more active?
1. You don't have time to post? You seem to have time to be online weekly if not monthly, so I think you could have time for at least a post every day or every week. You don't have to be part of the console war between PS4 and Xbox One.. You can start a thread about anything you want or you can post in a thread that caught your interest that is not regarding doom and stuff like that.
2. The last thing I said in point 1 will lead me to point 2 which is the following.. You can't find a good thread? Sure, the majority are threads regarding PS4 VS Xbox One or Wii U doom ( both should be expected), but there are also tons of good threads that don't start flame wars between users such as The Game of the Generation thread by bugrimmar, game reviews done by users like Rol, news threads that are not about doom or dominance, joke threads by Galaki, RPG threads by Soriku and many others..
Point is that for every PS4 dominance thread or every toastboy thread there is also a thread that is free from this kind of console war/ doom stuff that you may want to avoid like AIDS.
3. This is the last point. Are you feeling like the community is losing the charm? Well, the community would certainly be much better if every semi-lurker would post more often.. That is a fact.. Specially when we are talking about good users like OkeyDokey and MontanaHatchet.... Complaining about how VGChartz is getting worse is a huge waste of time, because you are simply not doing anything to improve it..
Try being more active and if you really want old users back you can always use Google and beg them to come back for a while, if not forever.... Want Carmina back? Search her on her Twitter. Want makingmusic476 back? Search for his MyAnimelist or Steam account. Want Twesterm back? Search for his Steam account. Don't just stay there and complain.. That is not going to do a damn thing..
That was my thread regarding semi-lurkers.. Feel free to leave your reponses..
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