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So you copied his content and were mad that he included text which noted you copied his content?

rvkennedy 13y ago
Ctrl+C means copy the text, with optional formatting. It doesn't mean "run a script", and this little trick implies two things: first, that the author is going to assume that anyone who copies text is trying to steal the content without attribution; secondly, that having been corrected in your naughty ways, you'll blithely accept the link he's pasted in there. It's a web faux-pas, the equivalent of having your whole site in Flash, or trying to disable right-click for fear that someone might steal your precious, precious content.
- thekevan 13y ago
  "his content" It's not yours. He can do what he wants with it.
arbitrage 13y ago
It appears that that is indeed what Mithaldu said. Well done, A+ for reading comprehension.
PhasmaFelis 13y ago
Designing your website to hijack basic system functions is bullshit, there are plenty of legitimate reasons to copy text from an article (quoting it for discussion on a Hacker News thread is the first one that comes to mind). Unfortunately, cramming spam into copied text seems to be getting more popular, and rudeness aside it's a potential security risk (i.e. if an unsuspecting help-seeker copy-pastes a command line and it turns into a completely different command line in the buffer). Is there a plugin yet to disable copy-buffer spam specifically, or would I need to disable JavaScript completely?
- thekevan 13y ago
  It's his content. He can make as easy or difficult to copy as he wants. It isn't spam, it's attribution. Your self entitled comment really worries me.
Mithaldu 13y ago
To be fair: I am less concerned about the adding of text, but the fact that it also adds a newline. I copied it with the intent of putting quotes around it and adding the link to the end of it. However as is, i had to copy it into an editor and mangle it there, before posting it in chat.
- thekevan 13y ago
  "his content" It's not yours. He can do what he wants with it. The newline was there in the code. His code.
  - Mithaldu 13y ago
    Sure, he can do what he wants to do with it. That doesn't mean that it isn't very disrespectful behavior to his audience. :) Only because one can do something doesn't mean one should.

Ctrl+C means copy the text, with optional formatting. It doesn't mean "run a script", and this little trick implies two things: first, that the author is going to assume that anyone who copies text is trying to steal the content without attribution; secondly, that having been corrected in your naughty ways, you'll blithely accept the link he's pasted in there. It's a web faux-pas, the equivalent of having your whole site in Flash, or trying to disable right-click for fear that someone might steal your precious, precious content.

thekevan 13y ago
"his content" It's not yours. He can do what he wants with it.

arbitrage 13y ago

It appears that that is indeed what Mithaldu said. Well done, A+ for reading comprehension.

PhasmaFelis 13y ago

Designing your website to hijack basic system functions is bullshit, there are plenty of legitimate reasons to copy text from an article (quoting it for discussion on a Hacker News thread is the first one that comes to mind). Unfortunately, cramming spam into copied text seems to be getting more popular, and rudeness aside it's a potential security risk (i.e. if an unsuspecting help-seeker copy-pastes a command line and it turns into a completely different command line in the buffer). Is there a plugin yet to disable copy-buffer spam specifically, or would I need to disable JavaScript completely?

thekevan 13y ago
It's his content. He can make as easy or difficult to copy as he wants. It isn't spam, it's attribution. Your self entitled comment really worries me.

Mithaldu 13y ago

To be fair: I am less concerned about the adding of text, but the fact that it also adds a newline. I copied it with the intent of putting quotes around it and adding the link to the end of it. However as is, i had to copy it into an editor and mangle it there, before posting it in chat.

thekevan 13y ago
"his content" It's not yours. He can do what he wants with it. The newline was there in the code. His code.
- Mithaldu 13y ago
  Sure, he can do what he wants to do with it. That doesn't mean that it isn't very disrespectful behavior to his audience. :) Only because one can do something doesn't mean one should.