IBTZ What does that mean?
you’ve been here 8 years and don’t know what IBTZ means?
In Before The Zot.
Many threads get pulled for being, well, pointlessly vain/vapid/stupid/inflammatory/etc.; when such a thread gets pulled, it’s a “Zot” (as in: lightning bolt from on high vaporizes it). When such a thread appears, lots of people like to get a post in before it gets “zotted”.
A short, vain, poorly worded, trolling, otherwise unpublished, thread blaming FReepers for not sufficiently supporting Mitt because they don’t think he’s a conservative is an ideal candidate for being deleted (zotted) outright.