a geek affliction whereby a poster on a forum disregards the last post and continues with his or her own; this is also called crossposting, and is a horrible disease.
People exhibiting this type of behavior show no regard for the edit button, and usually have no idea the cure is quite simple: refresh, edit, and re-submit. While in
the throws of a Linkitis-fit, afflicted posters will generally never delete their infected post, forcing other posters to take up the slack, delete THEIR own post, and make some sort of a cheeky reference.
This affliction occurs quite often on the Lostpedia forums, and was first
discovered in late August of 2007. Named after Link McCloud, Linkitis is only getting worse lately;
scientists are currently unable to figure out why this continues. Remember: refresh, edit, resubmit.
(example taken from THE
QUESTION GAME thread):
AlaskaDave: Whats your favorite fruit
fredcar: Bananas. Do you like Baseball?
CurbFan: Yes, but Rugby is better. Do
you LOST DVDs?
LINKITIS-INFLICTED POSTER 3:
Pineapples.
