Humph. Sez you. 
Well, I did say sometimes, didn’t I? Maybe this is just not one of those times?
Or, more likely, that (my earlier post) was The Prime Example.
Your OP has hit on the main reason it took me more than a year of lurking to cough up my 15 bucks. Everything worth saying had already been said.
Now I’m just here to ramble.
I’ve spent the whold day just trying to find a thread I could contribute to, and here is the perfect one!
I’ve been following in Colibri’s wake everytime there is a bird question; most folks answering gay/lesbian questions are wittier than I am; and I get too incensed by any dog-related question that brings up a certain famous “trainer.”
I tried to start my own GQ question - I believe ONE person read and answered it.
Sheesh.
You left out “d) Your answer was so perfect and complete that no one dared to elaborate on it, leaving it to stand alone in its magnificence.”
Oh, who am I kidding? There’s nothing Dopers won’t dare to comment on.
Didn’t stop you though, did it?
I’m just here to be the snarky smart-ass.
How’m I doing?
Dang Mr Bus Guy, you beat me to it!
How right you are – on both counts.
There’s probably no more suspense than having been the first to reply to some OP that requires either a decent memory, excellent Googling abilities, or some solid reasoning skills, to see how long it will be before somebody else comes in to shred your comments. The longer that delay extends in time, the more apprehensive you become until several days have passed and your lonely little reply still sits there uncommented on and unchallenged. Even then you can’t really know which of the a-d (and maybe even an e or more) choices really applies.
It can be a great risk. And once you get shat upon from a great height, it becomes more difficult to muster the courage to speak out again.
Having a decent track record can help, though. And until you take the risk you can’t really build one of those things up.
Nope, same thing happens to me. I try hard not to add a “me too”, type of post, but occassionally I slip up.
Me, too.
Er…yes, well, being in a wonky time zone doesn’t help.
Cheers,
G
It’s a lot like the kids game slapjack. You keep turning over cards (reading posts) and when a jack (interesting post) appears you’ve got to be the first to slap (reply to) it.
Well, that explains it then. I also sucked at slapjack.
Sometimes I fantasize about making a witty, timely post, but it hasn’t happened yet. I still dare to dream.
I think this may become my new catchphrase.
“That guy? He’s so dumb he doesn’t even know his constiporter from his cheerbleeder!”
Hmm. Has a nice ring to it, but ripe opportunity for tongue-twisting.
Now that my nebulous anxieties have been put into words, I’m even less likely to post, but so much better equipped to explain why!
Just so you know, this was meant as a sardonic version of what I suspect holds some people back from posting. Pouring gasoline on the fire, so to speak.
But I do love your reaction to it. 
My question is who will get to be post number 48 in this thread?
I can sympathize with those late to Heroes threads. I record them on DVR and don’t get around to watching them until I’ve annoyed my co-workers and have nothing to add to threads.
It’s even better when you can be #51. That’s normally the breakpoint for a thread that’s running out of steam as the bottom of the page is approaching. If you add the one that forces the page break, odds are it won’t even be seen. Others will just say to themselves “do I need to see something that’s going to force me to go back a whole page to see what they’re talking about?” I’d guess the odds are pretty low on this.
Well, would it interest you to know that here is a case of your answering a question that has not (I think) been asked? What I mean is, on reading that about “slapjack”, I suddenly thought "aha, that must be U.S.A-speak for the game called (in Britain) “Snap”. You see, I have seen threads discussing what people mean if they say “Oh, snap!” and none of them made sense to me, because I have only ever heard of saying “snap!” as part of that game. I often meant to ask for elucidation, but never did.
And I didn’t even need to, because SpectBrain has just explained - without there even being a question. Gold star to you!
And, yes, I also never arrive in time to answer anything. But that’s all right really, as I usually don’t know anything.
Not me, at least not yet…
Grim
Me either. Not yet, at least. Soon, my pretty, soon you will be mine…