I think they made up/redefined that term. The rest of the world calls lurking someone that mostly reads a forum/thread but doesn't say anything. I've seen the

I think they made up/redefined that term. The rest of the world calls lurking someone that mostly reads a forum/thread but doesn't say anything. I've seen the opposite by senior management called the "swoop and poop". They haven't followed the thread at all, but they will swoop into a meeting without any context and poop all over the ideas because they are missing the context around the complexity of the problems. I'd sooner have a lurker that read all of the conversation speak up than the opposite.