# Thread shitting? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 23, 2018, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-shitting/818401 "2018-07-23T02:24:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2018, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-shitting/818401/14 "2018-07-23T19:11:04Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > ‘In your understanding’? Based on what? > > I hope you’re not discerning a poster’s intent from vague understandings about practices that are done in different ways and for different motivations at different places around the Web. No, it’s solely based on observation of on board activity. [Here’s a fairly recent example](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21062685) that begins at post #40. Rick Kitchen’s contribution is post #59. An older [example is here](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20188634), starting at post #2, with Rick Kitchen’s contribution at post #32. The trend started before that. [Here is an ATMB topic discussing it.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=823085) I believe this is the first reference I can remember: > [@This Blinky and Pinky numnuts is still around?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685/37): > > Back in the old usenet days on alt.folklore.urban people would sometimes respond to blatent trollery with recipes. It actually increased the signal to noise ratio more than argument, plus, who isn’t interested in a chocolate chip cookie variant? A few days later,[it was executed here](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20019329&highlight=recipe#post20019329) with a specific reference to it in post #7. Rick Kitchen’s participation begins in post #75. Is your understanding different? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-shitting/818401)._