Straggler writes:
Lot's of newbies say this and it always intrigues me. I remember when I first came across this site. I started reading, was impressed with the level of debate as compared to anywhere else I had seen and sort of vaguely thought I should absorb some of the ideas before embarking myself. Then somebody said something in the thread I was reading that I felt compelled to respond to and that was that. My lurking period must have lasted all of 3 minutes.
What have you lurked? Who are your fave posters as a lurker? Just curious.
Well, I lurked here for quite some time (from before "the purge" even. My favourite posters from those months were Jar and Rahvin, I think, and RAZD as well.
Anyway, to add something to the topic, the 6 stages I see mostly happening are:
- Topic gets proposed
- Topic gets promoted, people come in telling the creationist is wrong, and point out his mistakes
- Creationist fails to respond to the posts that were made to him, simply rambling on. Sometimes accusing the other party of not being honest/lying.
- More refutations come in, people ask why he is reacting the way he is.
- Creationists either losses it completely and gets banned, or he leaves, never to be heard of again.
In rare occasions, the creationist actually is a decent enough person to get a nice conversation going. and in that case, your list is more accurate than mine.
As to this:
Nij writes:
edit: is there coding to make a bulleted list? It would tidy up the '6 stages are' part much.
Use the "peek" button on the bottom right of this post to see how I did that list, alternatively you can read
this page where all the dBCodes are listed. Alos, when you reply, this page is accesible to the left of the relpy box, click the "help" links next to "HTML On" and "dBCodes On".