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[digamma]

Anyone else noticed this annoying/immature practice of people either racing to be the first response to a message board post or a news article that allows comments by only writing the word "first"?

[digamma]

first

to avoid the inevitable

[Noop]

I wonder where that stupid thing started.

[MJ4H]

I have. Bizarre practice.


3th

[flounder]

I first noticed it on Slashdot, but I'm not sure it started there.

[Karlifornia]

Duh. If you're first, you win.

[Ronnie Dobbs2]

I have never noticed that before.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Seems most prevalent on newspaper blogs & websites, although certainly not limited to there either.

[Passacaglia]

I wonder where that stupid thing started.

Yes. I too find it important to figure out who was the first to do that stupid thing.

[spleen1015]

I think I noticed it first on the WoW boards.

[JAG]

Anyone else noticed this annoying/immature practice of people either racing to be the first response to a message board post or a news article that allows comments by only writing the word "first"?

Agreed. This is a net peeve of mine. (not sure if that's a real term, but it just sprung to mind as I was writing it)

[digamma]

Agreed. This is a net peeve of mine. (not sure if that's a real term, but it just sprung to mind as I was writing it)

I like it.

[Dutch]

I have no idea what kind of person finds the enjoyment of doing that greater than the annoyance of having to remember to do it if the opportunity presents itself.

[Crim]

I think it started in this thread, actually. It seems to be so prevalent in this particular thread, in fact, that the OP did it himself. Bizarre indeed.

[Cringer]

This does not effect 70-80% of the threads I have started at FOFC, which usually go 24 hours before anyone posts anything in them. :)

[Mustang]

It was probably funny somewhere at sometime for some reason, but now... *shrug*