Essentially, if a thread is started by either Howie, gh15, donkeykong, mars, 240 or myself, people instantly look to see its content, as they instinctively know that we know what we are talking about. The same goes for the case if the last post on any particular thread was by one of the aforementioned. That is just the way that it is.
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