What purpose does lurking serve? Why be sitting in a chat room and idling for hours with no intention of participating in the conversation? Quietly sitting on the side just watching conversation is one thing, but just sitting there so your name appears on the room list is another.

The away thing helps, but I propose it would only be good for short periods of time.

I would volounteer to be a mod as well, but what the room really needs to keep it up to date is a bot with mod status, that auto cleans the lurkers say after a given amount of time. I mean, if you are sitting there for 90 mins saying nothing, what good are you really doing?

bent


ps.. still love the chat room though