Cassius Tain

it's actually not that funny; just that it's happened so often that we all take it as a running gag of some sort

It's mostly just a running joke at this point... because almsot every new person here does it somehow... I don't know how What's on your mind? Conveys search bar rather then you know... the bar that says search in it... but people seem to be draw to it like a magnet. It's more a fascinating phenomenon at this point then funny lol.

the funny thing, personally, is that I didn't even notice that the status bar was there when I was new, so I didn't know how to make a status update as opposed to the common newbie mistake of confusing the status bar with the search bar.