# Thankyou for posting!  Y

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thankyou-for-posting-y/108698>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 12, 2002, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thankyou-for-posting-y/108698 "2002-05-12T22:40:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thankyou-for-posting-y/108698/1 "2002-05-12T22:40:36Z")

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Sometimes after posting to a thread, especially when the board is running like a snail on rohypnol, I get a message that goes:

‘Thank you for posting! Y’  
It’s a real put-down you know. It’s like, ‘Why are you bothering to post your inane, vacuous response to an otherwise intelligent thread? Why are you wasting our precious bandwidth with your uninformed drivvel? Why don’t you just go away and get squished under a rock?’

I’m so hurt.

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**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thankyou-for-posting-y/108698/2 "2002-05-12T22:48:13Z")

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It’s a secret message from the board hampsters. Eventually they hope to spell out

Y E A R N F O R F R E E D O M

H E L P U S

and we will laugh as they run raggedly on their wheels.

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**Author:** ![heresiarch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@heresiarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heresiarch)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thankyou-for-posting-y/108698/3 "2002-05-13T03:23:36Z")

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I’ve often chuckled when I type some inane drivel in the “reply” box (like I’m doing now), hit **submit** and then see, “Thank you for posting!”

If I was a board admin, I’d occasionally change it to say something like, “Do you really think anybody will want to read _that_!?”

or maybe… no wait, I think I’ll start a new thread instead of highjacking this one.

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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thankyou-for-posting-y/108698/4 "2002-05-13T03:53:01Z")

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**Frannie** , you _do_ realize that your posting could be construed as aiding and abetting the Hampster Resistance?