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Re:Bad Habits Creeping into Your Writing? by Steve44 on Thursday April 25, 2019 @04:04AM (#19746017)
Something I read a couple of weeks ago discussed this. From what I remember it’s to increase the time a user spends on a page, this increases the page ranking in Google; ISTR it was called dwell time.
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Re:Bad Habits Creeping into Your Writing? by EForEndeavour on Thursday April 25, 2019 @08:37AM (#19747393)
ISTR = I Seem To Recall(?)

Acronym expanded for the benefit of anyone else who's browsing HN before coffee and would have taken a similarly embarrassing length of time to infer the likely meaning of this one, which I'd never seen before.

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Re:Bad Habits Creeping into Your Writing? by Steve44 on Friday April 26, 2019 @02:55AM (#19755350)
I've always known is as "I Seem To Remember" and I thought it was in common use. It's been around for as long as I can remember, apologies for assuming.
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