Post #156427 by Tiki-bot on Tue, May 3, 2005 9:31 AM

On 2005-05-02 18:44, Tiki Matt wrote:
There seems to be a lot of concern over 'unwanted' lurkers and newbes going for the free booze....

I wouldn't call my smack-talk "a lot of concern". :wink: I just think the whole practice of lurking here (not joining or participating prior to this thread) and then chiming in to say they'll be there to drink your booze is very rude.

SoCal TCers have some kind of social function just about every week where these new members could hook up and meet other TC folk if that's what they want to do. Granted, some new posters may be from places where tiki and/or TCers are non-existant, but that doesn't stop them from participating here on the forum before this thread.

I'm all for new people coming out and seeing what Oasis is all about, and I honestly don't think the room crawl should be some TC-only elitist event. (I want to clarify I'm talking about recently new members who have posted only to this thread, not ocassional visitors who have 10 or 20 posts who joined months or years ago.) All I'm saying is I think their behavior is rude. I only hope everyone has a bouncer in their room because people who only join TC so they can post they will be coming to your room for free drinks....well, we'll see how that goes.