To be honest I was surprised I had been a member here so long and I dont recall the exact circumstances, but.................... if my memory serves me right when I joined here there was some outlandish control measure in place for new members. I think I may have made a couple of posts and gave up, considering it totally boring.
I seem to recall at some stage later I received an email which made me look in and start to contribute, I suspect a rule change had taken place. During this time I certainly wasnt lurking, I had just decided not to bother with a forum that made it so difficult to contribute and wasnt even looking in.
Now that I think of it, is that why this place has so many redundant members?