The Lurkers Support Me in Email
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| See also: | lurker, flamewar, sockpuppet | |
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An argument sometimes made in online debates or flamewars, in which one person claims that lurkers in the community support his or her position and have expressed that support in private email. As it is socially unacceptable in most fan communities to repost private emails without permission, this claim is unverifiable, and therefore generally irrelevant, and liable to subject the one who advances it to ridicule.
Jo Walton immortalized this argument in a filksong, "The Lurkers Support Me in E-mail."[1]
References
- ↑ How To Participate In An Internet Flame War, August 1999, accessed 17 October 2008.
