It takes different people different amounts of time to 'open up' on forums like this.

Some just dive right in while others lurk for long amounts of time.

Some use their real names while others use 'handles.'

During one meeting with Lusk, we were saying to him that he was not leveraging the forum to his greatest advantage. Now most all of you know that Lusk would give the shirt off his back to someone in need, and then you know that Lusk sees the forum as his exteneded family.

Some of us suggested to Lusk that at least requiring forum members to list the state they lived in would be important demographic information that would be desired by advertisers and other business interests. Others at the meeting suggested that the same requirements would have prevented certain valuable forum members from ever having registerd thus being an unrealized loss to the rest of the forum.

Long story short, there's a trade-off for everything.

Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:"
"She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."