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A term for what a person is doing when they read the top post of a thread, then jump to the bottom and makes a reply likely to have been nearly duplicated above or that is on a topic that has actually been left behind by the thread.
A term for what a person is doing when they read the top post of a thread, then jump to the bottom and makes a reply likely to have been nearly duplicated above or that is on a topic that has actually been left behind by the thread.


The cool thing about threadhopping is that if you spot a compulsive threadhopper, you can insert commentary about them into a thread which they will never read.
The [[YMMV|cool]] thing about threadhopping is that if you spot a compulsive threadhopper, you can insert commentary about them into a thread which they will never read.


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Revision as of 22:31, 19 April 2015

A term for what a person is doing when they read the top post of a thread, then jump to the bottom and makes a reply likely to have been nearly duplicated above or that is on a topic that has actually been left behind by the thread.

The cool thing about threadhopping is that if you spot a compulsive threadhopper, you can insert commentary about them into a thread which they will never read.