lurk moar

• lurkmoar, lurk more, lurkmore

A deliberate misspelling of lurk more.

lurk moar (third-person singular simple present lurks moar, present participle lurking moar, simple past and past participle lurked moar)

1. (Internet slang) Used to reprimand a newcomer (often called a "newfag" in forums like 4chan) for posting something that reveals their ignorance of the community's rules, culture, or established in-jokes.^[1][2]
   • 2013, Olsen, Parmy, We are Anonymous‎^[1], Back Bay Books, page 37:

     […] and information about people, including suspected pedophiles and women he’d met online. Soon he was encouraging other newfags to “lurk moar,” or learn more on 4chan.

   • 2021, Stijn Peeters, Marc Tuters, Tom Willaert, Daniël de Zeeuw, “On the Vernacular Language Games of an Antagonistic Online Subculture”, in National Library of Medicine‎^[2]:

     new users unfamiliar with any community’s social world are typically invited to “lurk moar” — meaning they are to first familiarize themselves with the local cultural habits, dialects, and rules before trying to actively engage with and individually appropriate them.

It serves as a blunt instruction for the user to read existing content and observe interactions quietly (to "lurk") before actively contributing.