More Common Than Thought

Commenters assert that the phenomenon or issue discussed in the thread is surprisingly frequent or commonplace, often countering assumptions of rarity.

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Sample Comments

rgbrgb Oct 3, 2011 View on HN

I think this happens fairly often.

cdavid Jul 7, 2013 View on HN

it is surprisingly common in my experience.

jb1991 Oct 26, 2024 View on HN

Something tells me this comes up a lot.

fatbird Nov 22, 2023 View on HN

It's quite common, actually.

gisenberg Sep 13, 2013 View on HN

This isn't as uncommon as you might think.

mv4 Aug 29, 2023 View on HN

This appears to be quite common.

OafTobark Jan 15, 2014 View on HN

This happens quite often, not really news.

davidw Jun 12, 2023 View on HN

I see stuff like that all the time. It feels pretty common to me.

crop_rotation Jul 16, 2023 View on HN

You might be surprised at how common this is.

abstractbeliefs Mar 17, 2018 View on HN

It's more common than you think.