Whats the purpose of "In before the lock"?

[Krk3561]

What is the purpose of people saying "In before the lock" in a thread thats inappropriate ?

It's one of the ways to get yourself booted from here.

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[Spamela]

in before the lock

 

[Alphathree33]

It's to show how (supposedly) well you can predict what the moderators will do without actually saying "I know everything because I'm a geek and I spend my life on ATOT".

 

[Linflas]

I think it is just folks that care about postcounts way of doing a postcount++.

 

[cmdavid]

same purpose as this post...

 

[Hammer]

people also did it to :Q increase their post count!

 

[Stark]

it's the hightest form of neffery

 

[bmd]

Originally posted by: Stark
it's the hightest form of neffery

I'm not so sure about that...

 

[shiner]

Buh