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jimwise

4068 days ago

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(Thank you)

kazriko

4069 days ago

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I tend to do this as well...

Colorado Plateau

Michdevilish

4069 days ago

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the highlight of my day

Canada

mrak

4068 days ago

I see what you did there

ashtonbt1

4069 days ago

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Holy carp, I thought I was the only one!

elzapp

4069 days ago

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The best is still when you highlight text, and the application automatically jumps into edit-mode, loosing the highlight. Yes, JIRA, I'm looking at you!

smadin

4069 days ago

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I know several people with this habit. I've always assumed they do it specifically to drive me bonkers. HOW can you read like that?!?

Boston

RedSonja

4069 days ago

YES. My husband does that, and I refuse to try to read anything over his shoulder because of it.

denismm

4069 days ago

It gives you a visual mark of where you were last, so your eye doesn't get lost as you scroll.

smadin

4069 days ago

I guess I just do that by...knowing where I am in the text? I wonder if there's a correlation between this behavior and moving a finger down the page of a physical book as you read.

denismm

4069 days ago

For me it depends on the site design. If it's small text in big blocks I'm more likely to do it, etc.

tdarby

4069 days ago

Well, I do it because it helps me read. That it drives other people bonkers is simply an added bonus.

RedSonja

4069 days ago

For my husband, it seems to be more of a fidgety thing. I've seen him select different bits of text 3,4,5 times without doing any scrolling. It seems like the mouse user's equivalent of running their thumbnail over the pages of the book you're reading.

Lilyheart

4069 days ago

I do it to keep my place depending on how the block of text is set up. I am a fidgety person, but I've never used my finger to keep my place on phsyical media.

rtreborb

4069 days ago

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Ugh, I hate how Chrome handles this. It does the last one, not #2

San Antonio, TX

jepler

4069 days ago

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(this habit is the real reason gnome wants to remove middle-click quick paste)

Earth, Sol system, Western spiral arm

JayM

4069 days ago

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Guilty. Though others reading over my shoulder HATE it!

Atlanta, GA

maxdibe

4069 days ago

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I know that feel, bro.

on a bike

shrodes

4069 days ago

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Title text:

"And if clicking on any word pops up a site-search for articles about that word, I will close all windows in a panic and never come back."

Melbourne, Australia

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