![]() On November 15th, 2006, Amazon Askville user UltraNurd submitted the question "Why do people try to get the 'first post' on Internet forums?", to which user Morbus replied that the practice began on Slashdot due to the difficulty of being the first to comment on a post. On June 24th, the tech news blog Engadget announced that their commenting system had been switched off due to excessive trolling and "first post!" comments. On January 2nd, 2005, Livejournal user Khrisnege published a post titled “First comment, suckers!”, which questioned why the commenting practice was becoming prevalent on Livejournal posts. On June 21st, 2000, the Wayback Machine archived a snapshot of the online retailer Geek Culture, which featured a t-shirt with the words "First Post!" screen printed on the front. ![]() On the site, the first comment would be displayed above the rest in chronological order, often resulting in users replying with “First post!” or “FP!” SpreadĪfter the community news site Fark was launched in 1999, a word filter was enabled that would change the words "first post" to "boobies" and time-warp the comment to be 12 hours in the future, preventing it from appearing at the top. According to the Wikipedia entry for “First Post”, the first English-language website where the commenting practice became a noticeable issue was the technology news site Slashdot, which launched in September 1997.
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