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I thought this post looked familiar, and sure enough it's a straight copy-and-paste from an identical piece on a different site last year: http://www.boredpand
by dewitt 12y ago
I thought this post looked familiar, and sure enough it's a straight copy-and-paste from an identical piece on a different site last year:
http://www.boredpanda.com/extinct-jobs/ http://www.boredpanda.com/extinct-jobs/
Not sure if it's licensed copying or blatant plagerism, since they technically give "credit" at the bottom, but if it's the latter, it would nice to see links to vintag.es banned from HN, since this is the sort of thing that just sucks the air out of the web.
- jbhatab 12y ago100% agree. Tasteless. I want to believe that there will be some sort of traffic consequence from this but I'm not sure. For instance, will Huffington Post have issues later for starting to not care about the quality of their posts? Maybe.
- corobo 12y agoCopied right down to the "bight" Edit: Good lord Googling for "bights" rat catcher these sites have no shame - Going by other clickbaits I'm assuming the reddit thread is the original for now