Reply #36: Really? Well then, I guess you came directly to this thread and bypassed ... [View All]

[Fly by night]

... the three (at least) OPs on this topic that are on the Greatest page now (or the last time I looked.)

Maybe for people who only visit DU once a week, my comment would seem "sad". I don't spend all day here, but I do check the site once or twice a day. For the last week or more, there have been multiple OPs on the Greatest page on this topic, none of them adding anything new to the discussion and all of them operating to dilute any discussion of the issue.

As I said in the OP, I do believe this is an important story and perhaps the first ten OPs that made it to the Greatest page were useful. After that, it begins to look like there's nothing else on our minds. Don't know about you, but there are other issues of interest to me.

This morning, when I posted this OP, there were five OPs on the Greatest page on the topic, all of them written as if they were bringing news. None of them were. The point of my OP is to emphasize the value (and the courtesy) of taking a few minutes to check to see if what you're about to post has been posted before (at least that day), much less posted multiple times already that day and every day for the past week.

If this "Beck-shoot-head" story is truly news to you, let me be the first to wish you a Happy New Year. Thanks for commenting. I do appreciate it ;^)