When I'm going to join a new forum, I lurk for a couple days/weeks. Then, if I decide I want to comment, I join. I don't think I have ever just joined a forum not even reading any threads at all from the site.
If this forum was private when I first saw it, I probably would have just moved along and never joined. Of course, I'm sure there are some people that would like to have seen me move on.
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