> In my experience, mobs like 4chan tend to descend on people who have high and mighty ideas of their actions. In my experience, people who defend 4chan's acti

> In my experience, mobs like 4chan tend to descend on people who have high and mighty ideas of their actions. In my experience, people who defend 4chan's actions like to victim-blame. > The authors inability to empathise with "... and personally feel that crowdsourcing is basically cheating (and I’m not the only one that feels this way)." is something that makes me leery as well. That's an understandable viewpoint, how is this going to work with actually classified documents? Actually this line (from the attacker) garnered the most attention from me. So the attacker felt that crowd-sourcing the solution was cheating - but maliciously attacking and sabotaging an opponent in a competition was just fine? This sense of entitlement is very typical of anti-social b-tard behaviour, and it shouldn't be encouraged. Personally I find the tension between clever algorithms and crowd-sourcing very interesting. Applications like Foldit for protein folding produce some amazing results. Sabotaging valid solutions does nobody any favours, except in an extremely selfish and short-term way.