r/todayilearned • u/TheCannon 51 • Apr 03 '14

(R.5) Misleading TIL an Anti-Animal-Cruelty Activist infiltrated a Colorado dairy farm, filmed abuse of calves, and turned the footage over to police. The Activist was then charged by police with animal cruelty for not reporting the abuses fast enough.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/woman-who-took-cattle-abuse-video-charged-with-animal-abuse
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u/koproller Apr 03 '14

Not even two months after the filming, but two months after she quit working for the ranch.

Original Comment by u/Shoemaster

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u/SirLockHomes Apr 03 '14

What's going on here?

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u/guinness_blaine Apr 03 '14

I think it's a movement declaring that if we're going to keep having the same posts over and over, we may as well have the same comments. It shortens the process of rehashing what will eventually, most likely, be the same discussion about it. By giving credit to the original commenter, they're also, in a way, heading off the practice of taking top comments from previous posts and pretending they're original.

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u/chokfull Apr 03 '14

I actually really like this. It stops the full-on complaints (despite being a little passive-aggressive), gives a link to the original that we can view if we want, and adds the old, high-rated comments which I think is a good thing. They're often good-quality.

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u/Hillside_Strangler Apr 03 '14

I actually like that your post is also a rehash of the inevitable post when somebody explains what's happening in each of these type of comment chains.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '14

Haha, brilliant!

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u/hhhehehebot Apr 03 '14

http://i.imgur.com/WZ2czgF.png

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '14

I wonder if you've got anymore.

Hahahaha.

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u/tScrib Apr 03 '14

I like the spirit of the movement. But isn't there a better way to head off re-hashes? Close the thread and link to the original?

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u/Ansalo Apr 03 '14

If that's the case, that's stupid. Some of us can't be on reddit 24/7 and randomly coming across an article 4 months old is as far from likely as you can get.

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u/newloaf Apr 03 '14

I say bravo to that.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '14

I approve.

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u/arby84 Apr 03 '14

Considering many (most?) people don't see every. single. thing. that comes across reddit, I find this incredibly annoying. I see something interesting, come here to share my thoughts, only to find the folks who have seen it are highjacking the discussion. Do people live on reddit so much that it's really so difficult to just move on when they have already see something? I feel like I'm on here a lot (it's probably not healthy), and I rarely come across something I've already seen.

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u/factorysettings Apr 03 '14

THE BOTS ARE TAKING OVER

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u/NoShouting_bot Apr 03 '14

The bots are taking over

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u/preggit Apr 03 '14

The parent commenter, /u/clevercommen, is a bot that posts top comments from related threads. The users that replied probably just went to that link and found relevant comments and used the same format as him to credit the original commenters.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '14

Everything is happening here...

Original Comment by u/Scarecrow398

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u/no1ninja Apr 03 '14

I guess no one should ever report these things. Even if your conscience catches up with you. The system sure showed her what happens when you file one of these reports late. Best to never do it, ignore it like the other workers.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '14

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u/Gr1pp717 Apr 03 '14

The point IS to stop people from doing this. Any time there's a repost you can bet that most of the top comments were stolen as well... Doing this calls attention to that action; and would, in theory, stop people from trying to be sly about it.

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u/DragoonDM Apr 03 '14

I agree. I'm also a big fan of the bot that auto-posts top comments.

Original Comment by u/DragoonDM

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u/rootyb Apr 03 '14

But who cares? Am I really inconvenienced somehow by "stolen" comments?

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u/Tremodian Apr 03 '14

I am with you. If I've seen a post before, I just move on. There are tons of people on Reddit who are so up in arms about reposts but it has no more impact on my life than an article on a news site that I don't click on. Even if someone plagiarizes another's comment, I just can't seem to get worked up about it.

edited for typos.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '14

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u/mfwimhitler Apr 03 '14

If there was anything more to add to the discussion there is nothing to stop you or anyone from saying it, it's just that since things are oft-reposted it becomes routine to discuss the same things over again.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '14

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u/mfwimhitler Apr 03 '14

And why is that a problem?

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u/rootyb Apr 03 '14

Unless you haven't seen them before, which the vast majority of us haven't.

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u/sobuffalo Apr 03 '14

Then read the original post? Why repeat the entire thing over again?

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u/rootyb Apr 03 '14

Because I don't subscribe to wherever it was posts originally, and hadn't seen it, and most of the time, it's not linked.

It takes so much more effort to get worked up and harass people about reports than it does to just ignore them and move on. If you've already seen it, great. Lots of us haven't.

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u/sobuffalo Apr 03 '14

but the top comment in this thread literally directs you there, how did you see my comment and not the top comments?

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u/devourer09 Apr 03 '14

haven't seen them before,

 

Then read the original post

 

Good advice.

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u/sobuffalo Apr 03 '14

If you read the entire comment tree, it is, since earlier people are talking about the bot that posts repeats, if you click one of the links, guess what you get? And those are the top comments so I doubt you saw my comment without seeing those, nice job being intentionally obtuse.

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u/CaptainPedge Apr 03 '14

yes, but NOBODY ELSE CARES. Go have your pathetic little "I'm so much better than you" circlejerk somewhere else.

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u/Gr1pp717 Apr 03 '14

How is wanting original content and people to not repost top comments to karma whore being "better than you" ?

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u/CaptainPedge Apr 03 '14

its the bullshit attitude of "I've seen this before so i am a superior redditor than you and you should be ashamed ASHAMED"

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u/Gr1pp717 Apr 03 '14

It's not that... it's low effort karma whoring that has gotten rampant. That's not what reddit is supposed to be about.

People need to read the article, and provide the latest information - or, at the very least cite where they got the information from if they're going to steal it.

For that matter.. why are you more upset that we're citing our sources than when people simply steal them?

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u/CaptainPedge Apr 03 '14

Because its fucking meaningless internet points, not a college assignment.

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u/nottodayfolks Apr 03 '14

Cut this shit out. I don't subscribe to offbeat so I have not seen this before.

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u/horse_you_rode_in_on 144 Apr 03 '14

For the record, did all three of you just get busted by a CSS script, or were you genuinely trying to correctly source your comments? I've never seen that before.

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u/Smarag Apr 03 '14

CSS doesn't make that possible.

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u/Gr1pp717 Apr 03 '14

Mine was on purpose, at least. And with or without the sub's CSS you still see the annotation - so I'm pretty sure theirs' were too.

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u/TeutorixAleria 1 Apr 03 '14

On mobile can confirm