LURK

Hide in ambush

• Browse in on-line groups without posting

• Contribute nothing in a chat room

• Emulate a newsgroup newbie

• Hang about

• Hang around

• Hang around in the shadows

• Hang around unobserved

• Hang around unseen

• Hang around, perhaps suspiciously

• Hide and sneak

• Hide furtively

• Hide in the chatrooms

• Hide in the shadows

• Just read the post and comments, say

• Lie in the weeds

• Lie in wait

• Lie low

• Lie unobserved

• Listen in, online

• Loiter

• Move furtively

• Prepare for an ambush

• Prowl

• Read a blog but don't post anything

• Read a blog without commenting

• Read but never post

• Read but not post, in a chat room

• Read but not post, in an online newsgroup

• Read chat room chat without joining in

• Read from the sidelines

• Read without contributing, in chat room lingo

• Read without posting

• Remain in the shadows

• Sit silently in chat rooms

• Skulk

• Skulk about

• Slink

• Slink just out of sight

• Sneak

• Sneak around

• Stay just out of sight

• Stay out of sight

• Steal (h)

• Visit a forum without posting

• Wait in ambush

• Wait in concealment

• Wait in hiding

• Wait in the shadows

• Wait like an ambusher

• Wait secretly

• Wait while hidden

• Watch and wait

• Watch from a hidden position

• Watch from the sidelines