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.