# Why is your opinion on all these new user doing this?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-your-opinion-on-all-these-new-user-doing-this/681446>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 15, 2014, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-your-opinion-on-all-these-new-user-doing-this/681446 "2014-02-15T22:48:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![compositejoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/compositejoe/32/7232_2.png) [@compositejoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/compositejoe)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-your-opinion-on-all-these-new-user-doing-this/681446/1 "2014-02-15T22:48:24Z")

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I’ve noticed that every so often, a new user joins and posts a thread or even two or three threads that go something like “Can I sue \<someone or something\> if \<something completely unrelated\>?” Why do they do this? 😕 It has got to be exactly the same person constantly re-registering new accounts. I mean, what is their motive behind all of this? 😕

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**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-your-opinion-on-all-these-new-user-doing-this/681446/2 "2014-02-15T22:54:08Z")

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Probably the same motivation as starting a bunch of threads to post a link to a picture of a building and asking vague questions about them.

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**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-your-opinion-on-all-these-new-user-doing-this/681446/3 "2014-02-16T01:34:15Z")

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Someone googled a question and we came up on the first page of hits? They probably cross post to all the hits and sometimes check back for an answer.

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**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-your-opinion-on-all-these-new-user-doing-this/681446/4 "2014-02-16T04:29:05Z")

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I’m more puzzled by people who firstpost long, hairy relationship questions, with a sad plaint of ‘what should I do?’ Especially the ones who sound like they’ve not only never lurked, they haven’t browsed, either.