• Is it an error on the part of the person making that post?
  
• Is there some meaning to it that I, on the side of the line closer to dotage than the rest here, am no longer hip enough to 'get'?
  
• Is it an attempt to just raise the number of posts?
  
• Something I haven't thought of?
  

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Originally posted by Metaphysicist:
I came across something in a thread just now, that I see quite often.

While reading down the thread, I sometimes come across one that merely quotes a previous reply and there is nothing added to it. It is not commented on - for good or bad.

What's the point of this?

• Is it an error on the part of the person making that post?
  
• Is there some meaning to it that I, on the side of the line closer to dotage than the rest here, am no longer hip enough to 'get'?
  
• Is it an attempt to just raise the number of posts?
  
• Something I haven't thought of?
  

This time, though, I feel an urge to finally ask about it - I truely am curious: am I missing something, or what?

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