Scoot and the Labels

One of the sample labels provided by this website when writing a post—you know, those little "labels for this post" things that are intended to signify what a given post is about—is scooters. Which, really, I mean, how is that not supposed to influence what people write about? I can only imagine that there is some ungodly high percentage of posts on this site that include discussion of scooters in some form or another. Way higher than the actual per capita percentage of people who either (1) legitimately have scooters as a part of their daily lives or (2) legitimately have such a connection to non-part-of-their-daily-lives scooters that they are willing to write about them. A collection of scooter-label-suggested sheep, if you will, just following whichever next sample label that comes along.

It's just a theory. I don't actually know of any scientific way to test it, other than visiting a significantly high percentage of these blogs, of course, looking for scooter talk. But let's get real: that would be far less interesting than just blindly throwing out a theory and watching it take great flight.

Maybe I'm wrong about all this. Maybe most people aren't actually impacted by such suggestive wording. Maybe people hit the "new post" button and then merely commence writing a new post, rather than stare at the bottom of the screen and read the sample labels over and over and over.

Which, while we're on the subject, in case there's any doubt, I obviously have nothing to write about. And I am, I suppose, nothing but one more in a worldwide herd of scooter-led sheep.