14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently.

7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs.

7 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs.

5 to flame the spell checkers.

3 to correct spelling/grammar flames.

6 to argue over whether it’s “lightbulb” or “light bulb” … another 6 to condemn those 6 as stupid.

2 industry professionals to chime in and inform the group that the proper term is “lamp”.

15 know-it-alls who claim they were in the industry, and that “light bulb” is perfectly correct.

19 to post that this blog post is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a lightbulb forum.

11 to defend the comments to this blog saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant to this blog post.

36 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique and what brands are faulty.

7 to post URL’s where one can see examples of different light bulbs.

4 to post that the URL’s were posted incorrectly and then post the corrected URL’s.

3 to post about links they found from the URL’s that are relevant to this group which makes light bulbs relevant to this group.

13 to read all comments to date, quote them in their entirety including
all headers, images and signatures, and add “I agree”.

5 to comment that they will no longer comment on this blog because they
cannot handle the light bulb controversy.

4 to say “didn’t we go through this already a short time ago?”.

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Of those that do have an online presence, only 18% actively sell things online according to the FSB.

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OK, that’s just one month, what about July?
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