A Motion for Etiquette: Reference the Post You're Clearly Referencing

It drives me nuts that some folks around here see a popular thread, and either want upvotes or don't want their response on Page 3 so they make a whole new thread as if the previous one didn't exist.

If they only said "Saw this thread: LINK and wanted to take the discussion in a different path" (assuming they do), but right now there's this gross trend of taking a thoughtful OP with reasonable feedback and giving someone the cliffnotes in another thread, badly plagiarized.

For one thing, I think it ruins the OP's point and momentum by clogging up the drains with some garbage argument - If the Gettysburg address wasn't printed in papers, but reenacted nationwide by would-be office-seekers then Lincoln wouldn't have a monument.

To this end: I motion that all posts with honorable intent reference the post they started with. And all those deadbeats who attempt to go under the radar get called out.