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This thread is weird. Are the comments made by bots unaware of each other? https://i.imgur.com/t6ilhR7.png https://i.imgur.com/t6ilhR7.png

by est 4y ago

Blackthorn 4y ago
All but one of those accounts in the replies are > 5 years old though.
saurik 4y ago
It is a question where people think they can get easy karma if they know the answer, and many people know the answer. That said, I also don't think even most people would know the answer. I further think it is a fair question as they provided the most common expansion and that's what you naively find on Google (so it isn't like the people who ask a question they could have already answered asking Google). The next problem is that the Hacker News user interface doesn't encourage people to not cause duplicate answers within a short window: you load the full thread and spend 10-15 minutes reading it. At the time you loaded the page there aren't all of these other replies, so you may as well leave the first one. You then click the reply button and start typing a reply--FWIW, for longer replies this step can matter even more than the previous one--and you are staring at the single now and are given just the empty box for your reply. When you are done you submit, and maybe you then notice it is a duplicate? You might not, based on where the page loads and how much you are paying attention. Even if you do, do you bother to delete it? I would, but I hate the duplication and also know how to delete my comments.
- dcow 4y ago
  I happened to catch the 4 (four! I've seen 2 dupes before but four in less than 2 minutes have never I seen afore), original comments all at once posted 0 and 1 minutes ago, and because I am in some @"mood" tonight, and for all the reasons you've said, found it to be rather funny a HN tragedy. I thought it would be harmless to slip in a 5th, capitalizing only the M to show the careful reader that I am clearly out of my mind. I promise I wasn't karma farming I only got 1 upvote. Alas, HN isn't outfitted with the latest in web push socket hot page reload sex, yet.
AussieWog93 4y ago
I'd hazard a guess that they're all (helpful, thanks!) people, but just didn't refresh the page before replying.
whoopdeepoo 4y ago
Subject matter expert
mdrzn 4y ago
Also your comment is "hidden" for a few minutes after you post it, to allow you to edit it, which is why they most probably didn't even see each other.

This thread is weird. Are the comments made by bots unaware of each other? https://i.imgur.com/t6ilhR7.png https://i.imgur.com/t6ilhR7.png

by est 4y ago

This thread is weird. Are the comments made by bots unaware of each other? https://i.imgur.com/t6ilhR7.png https://i.imgur.com/t6ilhR7.png

Blackthorn 4y ago

All but one of those accounts in the replies are > 5 years old though.

saurik 4y ago

It is a question where people think they can get easy karma if they know the answer, and many people know the answer. That said, I also don't think even most people would know the answer. I further think it is a fair question as they provided the most common expansion and that's what you naively find on Google (so it isn't like the people who ask a question they could have already answered asking Google). The next problem is that the Hacker News user interface doesn't encourage people to not cause duplicate answers within a short window: you load the full thread and spend 10-15 minutes reading it. At the time you loaded the page there aren't all of these other replies, so you may as well leave the first one. You then click the reply button and start typing a reply--FWIW, for longer replies this step can matter even more than the previous one--and you are staring at the single now and are given just the empty box for your reply. When you are done you submit, and maybe you then notice it is a duplicate? You might not, based on where the page loads and how much you are paying attention. Even if you do, do you bother to delete it? I would, but I hate the duplication and also know how to delete my comments.

dcow 4y ago
I happened to catch the 4 (four! I've seen 2 dupes before but four in less than 2 minutes have never I seen afore), original comments all at once posted 0 and 1 minutes ago, and because I am in some @"mood" tonight, and for all the reasons you've said, found it to be rather funny a HN tragedy. I thought it would be harmless to slip in a 5th, capitalizing only the M to show the careful reader that I am clearly out of my mind. I promise I wasn't karma farming I only got 1 upvote. Alas, HN isn't outfitted with the latest in web push socket hot page reload sex, yet.

AussieWog93 4y ago

I'd hazard a guess that they're all (helpful, thanks!) people, but just didn't refresh the page before replying.

whoopdeepoo 4y ago

Subject matter expert

mdrzn 4y ago

Also your comment is "hidden" for a few minutes after you post it, to allow you to edit it, which is why they most probably didn't even see each other.