"You pop up in a few convo threads that TobyTheDog is in." So do you. So do I. It's not a coincidence, and it's not the implied other explanation. It's beca

"You pop up in a few convo threads that TobyTheDog is in." So do you. So do I. It's not a coincidence, and it's not the implied other explanation. It's because the structure of vote-sorted top-N list sites like HN, Reddit, and so on, focuses most people on the same short list of topics. We will all bump into each other again, whether or not we have any intention of doing so. We're all chatting on the first two pages of stories. We will all collide frequently with people holding similar hours.