How often do you post in the BBQPit?

[Treppenwitz]

A distant sixth. I’m an occasional poster in Trolls Are Us, and that’s pretty much it. Plus from time to time there’s a thread that catches my eye. Oh, and it was the location of one of my favourite threads of all time:

Read the OP, people!

I see this constantly–someone out of necessity gives a thread a breif title, then elaborates in the original post. Then follow dozens or hundreds of replies that do not fit the criteria for the OP, showing that responders didn’t bother to read the actual post before replying to the title. The latest example is from CS, where someone asks about a fictional character meeting a real-life person who isn’t being played by an actor. What follows is–predictably–list after list of characters meeting a r…

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