Just try think of these threads as a really elaborate dance, with all the moves and formalities familiar to all the players. Actually, that analogy works pretty well for a lot of threads around here - the drug threads, the evolution threads, the "moderators suck" threads, the fundraising threads...
Hmmmm - there's a thesis in there somewhere ;)
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