The top three reasons...

[ECM]

...lurkers have given me for not registering are:

1. I'm not clever/snarky/witty enough to post here, so I'm not going to do it!¹ (2 people, so you're not alone guys!)

2. I want to register, but I fear retaliation from my employer/friends/cat if they find out I'm posting on a board w/ a conservative slant/bias/cheering section (but mainly my employer...in the game biz²). (3 people).

3. "I didn't know you were a rightwing nutjob, there's no fucking way I'll sign up now!" (OK, they didn't quite phrase it like that, but they just don't want to deal w/ me since they already have to deal w/ me in other mediums...like real life.) (4 people.)

Now that I've outed and shamed you all, you better register or I'll...I'll...uh...I got nothing. Just register you sorry bastards!

(And yeah, sorry to those I sucked into reading this post w/ a leading topic title like this that already *do* comment--no apologies to the lurkers in question!)

¹ I think, then, that this is a compliment to the people posting here. Maybe.
² I'm sure you'll all be shocked, shocked I say, to learn that, like Hollywood, the gaming biz is not exactly righty-friendly. (I won't say they're hostile (like HWood), but most of the people in it have political beliefs in line w/ Berkeley/Ann Arbor/Madison (and a lot of, alleged, libertarians³), even though the smart ones never talk about it at all.)
³ They're not libertarians, most of them are libertine. Big, big difference.

[elchevalier]

To the lurkers: If you check the politics forum you will see that barely anyone pays attention to Eric's right-wing rants. I am more of what he will probably call a DAMN DIRTY LIBURAL! So i'll try to troll his politics topics from time to time.

[ECM]

No, you're just a filthy Mexican--now get me a burrito (steak, please) and, while you're at it, my lawn ain't gonna mow itself.

[elchevalier]

That would be a vegan burrito for you, Tim Rogers approved.

So, as the others can see, the friendly enviroment of this msg board knows no limits. Come one in now!

[feilong80]

Yeah man, believe me, I worry about point #2 a lot. A LOT.

[ECM]

Yeah, see, you're not helping, fei!

[feilong80]

Yeah but I sacked up and joined!

[ECM]

This is true and fei if is anything he's a sack of shi--, no, wait...that's not right...uh, something something fei is an alpha male and isn't afraid of anything! Even those damnable ligers! YEAH!

*This post (TM) and (C) Delirious From Lack of Sleep, Inc.

[CHI]

I don't even play video games and I joined.

Well, I do play video games but not in the way that most people here play video games. It's the difference between the guy who changes the oil in his car and the guy who overhauls the transmission.

Also, I have nothing witty to add. Most of my posts are exclamations or non-sequiturs that only ECM gets.

[ECM]

Oh come on CHI: everybody enjoys non sequiturs. And, thus, unicorns are real.