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You do realize he copied your comment, don't you?
by toxik 10y ago
You do realize he copied your comment, don't you?
- DanBC 10y agoThat'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 agoBoth usernames end in 2
- passthefist 10y agoYeah, 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 agoI'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.