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Ha, that's my exact comment from the related reddit thread. Kinda cool, I wonder how often that happens? https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4msf41/e

Ha, that's my exact comment from the related reddit thread. Kinda cool, I wonder how often that happens? https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4msf41/elevated_the_winning_4k_from_breakpoint_2009_is/d3y5g9x https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4msf41/elevate...

toxik 10y ago
You do realize he copied your comment, don't you?
- DanBC 10y ago
  That's been happening a bit recently. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11837687 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11837687 (I think there are others, but I can't find them now.)
  - relaytheurgency 10y ago
    Both usernames end in 2
- passthefist 10y ago
  Yeah, but I still wonder how often people copy comments around like that. It's not like that was some great writing or anything, but it was copied word for word. Maybe it was some bot, but that's an odd bot.
  - nitrogen 10y ago
    I've seen it happen on YouTube (not to me); highly upvoted comments get copy/pasted a month or two later to "steal" upvotes for someone else. It could be a bot tactic to build accounts with karma that can later be used for astroturfing, using proven comments from elsewhere. Maybe governments and organized astroturfers have automated that sort of thing more than we think.
    - quakeguy 10y ago
      Nail, meet hammer.
      - nitrogen 10y ago
        Hopefully in this case the nail is comment plagiarism and the hammer is more careful pattern matching in moderation systems.
j1vms 10y ago
And that indeed is what we have to look forward to in online forums over the next 5+ years, as machine learning cuts its teeth on places like reddit, HN & disqus, and spammers try to find new irritating ways of getting eyeballs.
- corysama 10y ago
  I'm not a fan of quoting XKCD, but... https://xkcd.com/810/ https://xkcd.com/810/
  - __s 10y ago
    With how many XKCD responses their are, it seems a straight forward ML experiment to auto-relevant-xkcd
    - kevinwang 10y ago
      Someone made something like that! https://www.reddit.com/user/relevantxkcd-bot https://www.reddit.com/user/relevantxkcd-bot
  - digi_owl 10y ago
    One of his better ones.
wingerlang 10y ago
Do you know if there is a video for these slides?
acemarke 10y ago
Yep, happened to me in the Inferno thread yesterday.
dang 10y ago
Spammers, presumably trying to build up karma on HN. Needless to say we've banned them and will continue to. Watchful users can help out with this a lot. If you or anyone notice comments being cross-posted in the future, please alert us at hn@ycombinator.com.

toxik 10y ago

You do realize he copied your comment, don't you?

DanBC 10y ago
That's been happening a bit recently. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11837687 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11837687 (I think there are others, but I can't find them now.)
- relaytheurgency 10y ago
  Both usernames end in 2
passthefist 10y ago
Yeah, but I still wonder how often people copy comments around like that. It's not like that was some great writing or anything, but it was copied word for word. Maybe it was some bot, but that's an odd bot.
- nitrogen 10y ago
  I've seen it happen on YouTube (not to me); highly upvoted comments get copy/pasted a month or two later to "steal" upvotes for someone else. It could be a bot tactic to build accounts with karma that can later be used for astroturfing, using proven comments from elsewhere. Maybe governments and organized astroturfers have automated that sort of thing more than we think.
  - quakeguy 10y ago
    Nail, meet hammer.
    - nitrogen 10y ago
      Hopefully in this case the nail is comment plagiarism and the hammer is more careful pattern matching in moderation systems.

j1vms 10y ago

And that indeed is what we have to look forward to in online forums over the next 5+ years, as machine learning cuts its teeth on places like reddit, HN & disqus, and spammers try to find new irritating ways of getting eyeballs.

corysama 10y ago
I'm not a fan of quoting XKCD, but... https://xkcd.com/810/ https://xkcd.com/810/
- __s 10y ago
  With how many XKCD responses their are, it seems a straight forward ML experiment to auto-relevant-xkcd
  - kevinwang 10y ago
    Someone made something like that! https://www.reddit.com/user/relevantxkcd-bot https://www.reddit.com/user/relevantxkcd-bot
- digi_owl 10y ago
  One of his better ones.

wingerlang 10y ago

Do you know if there is a video for these slides?

acemarke 10y ago

Yep, happened to me in the Inferno thread yesterday.

dang 10y ago

Spammers, presumably trying to build up karma on HN. Needless to say we've banned them and will continue to. Watchful users can help out with this a lot. If you or anyone notice comments being cross-posted in the future, please alert us at hn@ycombinator.com.