# How to measure "good" lurkers?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-measure-good-lurkers/70811>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [26.Сентябрь.2017 14:26:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-measure-good-lurkers/70811 "2017-09-26T14:26:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [26.Сентябрь.2017 22:29:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-measure-good-lurkers/70811/7 "2017-09-26T22:29:50Z")

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> [@Daniel\_Santos](#):
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> Does anyone here measure the lurkers that are having the questions answered? I assume that is a pretty easy calculation:

Just use the read times that Discourse already measures. See `/users` for example. Reading = participating. Discourse measures every millisecond a post is on screen for every logged in user.

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