We've even adapted the rules for this, but lurking is viewed as both anti-town and anti-game, and rightly so. If people don't post, the game may as well be decided by coin flip. It's anti-town because not only do scummers tend to benefit by lurking, but a townie who doesn't participate in the game is literally hurting his own team, a single townie lurker is nearly as harmful as an actual scummer. Mostly its just bad game habit, makes the game boring, makes it risk dying off. The very first rule listed in our rules page is to keep one's posting rate to or above roughly daily, posts in game divided by days of gameplay should always exceed 1.

We've developed a number of ways, from inactive modkills to sliding VNTL to substitution to deal with low-posting, but none disagree it is anti-game, and the consensus is that it is anti-town, if not necessarily an indication of scummer alignment. I can appreciate that to a new player, all the comments surrounding role-fishing and and early RC's might lead one to think lurking is a better policy, but that's not the case, active posting in the game is both pro-town and pro-game, it forces scummers to post more and risk mistakes, but mostly, the game is simply pointless if people aren't actively involved.