Huh... My Paranoia is Fed...

[redneckgaijin]

The past few posts I've made, I've had responses from people who not only aren't on my Friend or Friend-of lists, but aren't on much of any mutual friends lists. The -last- post I made drew responses from Scott Kurtz (PvP) and Aaron Williams (Nodwick, among other things)- people I really never expected to even notice my existence, much less take an active role in discussion. Now, since the last post was about Kurtz, I can see his finding it via a self-Google... but Williams?

I'm beginning to wonder two things.

(1) Is this LJ getting reposted somewhere, on some REALLY popular website, that I don't know about? (If it is, most of the time it's boring hell out of a lot of people...)

(2) Just how many lurkers are out there reading but not friending, anyhow?

(And, of course, (2) begs (2a,) why?!?)

Comments

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

Then Kurtz has a better referral tracker than I do- the stats I get don't reveal referrers until at -least- the day after. He responded within a couple hours of the post, countering a WLP regular's statement.

Also, as I mentioned, this isn't the first time- not by a long shot- that I've got responses coming absolutely out of nowhere.

[jinwicked.livejournal.com]

Most likely is probably someone who is a friend-of-friend passing the word along, or browsing your posts on other peoples' friends list. Webcomics seems to have this weird kind of hive mind, where everyone knows when anyone else is being talked about, if you allow yourself to pay attention to it.