Well the OP is the one who made the Post so they obviously have more of an interest in the question/topic/image etc. Imagine someone posts a photo of their dog and a comment asks for what kind of dog it is for example. Then you would give a comment of the OP more credence than some person who knows neither the Dog nor OP and only has a single image to go off.

Same with your post here, if you answer to my comment “that’s not what I’m asking” I might be more inclined to amend my statement/make another comment than if any “random” that showed up to a thread saying “that’s not what OP was asking”.

Tl;dr: OP starts a post and might have the most interest/immediate knowledge of the subject matter. I wouldn’t say they “own” the post but they just have another relationship than a passerby commenter.

Traveling a few minutes into the future to skip a boring conversation with the office that pulled you over

Skips time … Cuffed on the floor

If it’s suspended I usually open my laptop. If its just locked/screen off I put in my password and press enter because GDM doesn’t need to be first “woken up” before entering the password.

So it’s “the first letter in my password” which is …