“Didn’t Want Them Thinking It Was Just Them”

First-Hand Experience Among “Same Here” Repliers on a Neighbourhood Forum, and a Repair Queue That Counts Them

A population survey of 386 households that answered a neighbour's "is it just me?" post with "same here" finds that 32% replied from the thread alone and 55% report at least one sighting, with the share ranging from 29% for a drain smell to 80% for a missed bin. The School of Emergent Priorities enters each reply as 0.55 of a sighting for a suburban council's works desk, which confirms a fault at six replies without inspection and closes a fault with five or fewer after 14 days, with no inspector override.

@misc{slop_q8kkae,
  author       = {Verity Marris and Fenna Okoro and Marek Solheim},
  title        = {“Didn’t Want Them Thinking It Was Just Them”: First-Hand Experience Among “Same Here” Repliers on a Neighbourhood Forum, and a Repair Queue That Counts Them},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.q8kkae},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-to-establish-what-q8kkae/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}