"New Posts" addiction

[SavageSteve]

How many times per minute do you click on the "New Posts" link?

I'm afraid to count. :cross:

It's like some sadistic Skinner box.

-Steve

 

[JoeMama]

Shut up... I dont like the fact that you called out one of my habits when I visit this place.

Christ... Its bad enough to know that I did this (continuously) but now I have others who suffer from this same affliction.
-Me

 

[FireNightFly]

lololol .. agreed!

 

[homebrewer_99]

Guilty...:rockin:

When I get to the end I start all over again......then log off...

 

[Brooklyn-Brewtality]

i think i click it ~3 times per minute. less if i have been away for a bit and have 8 pages come up when i click though.

 

[Yuri_Rage]

My browser's bookmark for HBT is the "New Posts" link. Makes it easy.

 

[dontman]

I never close the window for it to come up.

That is actually kind of scary in itself.

Even when I reboot once a month (you can tell I'm a Vista user - we HATE to reboot) I just leave the browser window open and it automatically loads when the system eventually gets around to loading.

And I swap between "My Replies" and "New Posts" Each once every two minutes or so.

This brings up something I was thinking about today when I saw a couple people who joined the month before I did with like 2500 - 3500 MORE posts than I have. I feel like I post all the fricking time and there are people posting 3 - 4 times as much as me! Wow!

 

[SavageSteve]

And I swap between "My Replies" and "New Posts" Each once every two minutes or so.

I used to do that, until I realized today that "My Replies" only updates every 90 minutes or so, as far as I can tell.

-Steve

 

[dontman]

Okay, this thread is only halfway down the first page. People need to get posting.

 

[Ceedubya]

Okay, this thread is only halfway down the first page. People need to get posting.

Sorry, I've been too busy checking out the new posts.

 

[dontman]

Bump.

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[ISLAGI]

Set

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[SavageSteve]

Won't posting too often to this thread open a hole in the space-time continuum?

But I suppose that's nothing a phased tachyon burst couldn't fix now, could it?

-Steve

 

[Brooklyn-Brewtality]

i was about to go to bed, but needed to click it just one last time.

 

[SavageSteve]

i was about to go to bed, but needed to click it just one last time.

When I go to bed after a session of "New Posts"-ing on the sofa, I start again on the iPhone until I finally convince myself that I really need to get to sleep.

-Steve

 

[SavageSteve]

Wait, this thread only has 15 views?

WTF?

-Steve

 

[chefmike]

is there anything other than new posts to push?

I don't understand.

 

[chefmike]

sad that we all post in the thread that talks about our addiction... no one else even notices us back here...

 

[SavageSteve]

I think we're experiencing a self-selection phenomenon. Only those who habitually click "New Posts" see this thread and reply to it. For everyone else, it's not even on their radar.

Damn I'm a geek. But proud.

-Steve

 

[Yuri_Rage]

I just took it further off the radar.

Those of you who only click "New Posts" didn't even notice.

 

[dontman]

LOL! I did notice actually. And then I saw you post and thought you might be moving to the Drunken forum. So I clicked to see.

 

[ChshreCat]

I look at the time that the most recent post is, then click new posts. When it reloads, I scroll down to the what was the top post before and start reading up. When I hit the top, I repeat the process.

 

[stevea1210]

I just took it further off the radar.

Those of you who only click "New Posts" didn't even notice.

I was wondering why this was in the testing goum. Damn, by finding this thread I think I just admitted to having the same addiction..

 

[arturo7]

I think it affects the same part of your brain as StumbleUpon.

 

[FireNightFly]

Still addicted!!

 

[SavageSteve]

Still addicted!!

Yeah, though I'm a little slow this morning from so much "New Posting" last night. I think I overindulged. But then again, nothing like a little hair of the dog...

-Steve

 

[dontman]

How sad that you are still here clicking 'new posts.'

 

[FireNightFly]

The weirdest part is Ill sit down in front of the comp to see whats going on before i eat or get ready for the day. I wake and let HBT bake me. Sounds like an addiction to me. I guess if Im found in the corner rocking back and forth when I loose ISP service temporarly we will know for sure if Im truly addicted.

 

[stevea1210]

Wait, this isn't in testing anymore. Non-addicts can see it again.

 

[FireNightFly]

Wait, this isn't in testing anymore. Non-addicts can see it again.

Says the guy who had to click new posts to see it

 

[stevea1210]

Says the guy who had to click new posts to see it

guilty ....

actually it was a new click on new posts that had me see your new post Damn, I never felt bad about this before this thread. I all of a sudden feel like I'm wasting my... who the hell am I kidding, I LOVE the button. There I admitted it!!!

 

[SavageSteve]

guilty ....

actually it was a new click on new posts that had me see your new post Damn, I never felt bad about this before this thread. I all of a sudden feel like I'm wasting my... who the hell am I kidding, I LOVE the button. There I admitted it!!!

Embrace the dark side, young Skywalker...

-Steve

 

[FireNightFly]

There needs to be a link at the bottom of a thread for "New Posts". Im not only addicted, but Im too damn lazy to scroll up to the top of the page every time.

 

[dontman]

Oh HECK YEAH!!! +1000

 

[Notnice]

i had to return this to the top, because too suffer front his affliction. and that is why i found it

this feels like some kind of new post AA

Hi I'm Notnice and i always click new posts

 

[FireNightFly]

Im still waiting for my botton "new posts" at the end of the thread. *coughs*
Its less of an addiction now and more of an obbsesion.

 

[SavageSteve]

Any new posts yet?

-Steve

 

[SavageSteve]

How about now?

-Steve

 

[SavageSteve]

Now?

-Steve

 

[Brooklyn-Brewtality]

Now?

-Steve

NOW!





GO GIANTS!