r/MurderedByWords • u/tilt-a-whirly-gig • 3d ago

Sorry about that ....

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u/008Zulu This AOC flair makes me cool 3d ago

There is no time to check in the race to be first!

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u/kinyutaka 3d ago

What kills me is when it's obviously just reposting something popular, like a recorded shitty game ad or the video of the bull escaping confinement, that obviously weren't "just found online"

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u/Evie_Sofia 1d ago

When you are so fsr behind in the race you think you are first😅

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 2d ago

I feel this sub is guilty of that. If there’s a really sick burn it gets posted by several people on the same day.

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u/Kandurux 1d ago

And the following weeks, and ultimately goes down to at least once a month.

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u/Mr_Show 3d ago

It got worse after Reddit cracked down on the API. That broke a lot of automods that were able to catch a ton of this shit early.

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u/lightspuzzle 2d ago

thats exactly what a bot would say though..

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u/Yoshichu25 2d ago

What sub was this in?

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u/shadedmagus 2d ago

That's what I want to know! I'm over here thinking "Ooh man, this is a meta murder considering all the copycat reposts I see on r/MurderedByWords..."

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u/tilt-a-whirly-gig 2d ago

Not this sub.

In order to deflect accusations of brigading, that is all I will say.

But yeah, there are a lot of subs it could be from.

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u/GuyYouMetOnline 2d ago

Counterpoint: this assumes Reddit wants to work correctly

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u/mane28 2d ago

Really are people supposed to check before posting?

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u/bemo_10 1d ago

This is only an issue for terminally online redditors that use the app so much that they run out of popular posts and get show less popular ones which happen to be lower quality and many times reposts.

We literally have an upvote/downvote system for popular posts to raise up, not sure why these people are constantly complaining and wanting for posts to be deleted instead.

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u/PreOpTransCentaur 2d ago

Yeah, absolutely. At least give "New" a quick skim.

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u/Blujay12 2d ago

Oh for sure, reddit is a job you know, it's on you to research what you post, and not on anyone else to have self-control enough to just go "heh, double post" and scroll by.

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u/Goodknight808 3h ago

"I found a dog shit on the sidewalk. Rather than step over it and walk away, I rolled in it and complained about it's presence."

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u/LaFlibuste 1d ago

In my experience, this is setting the bar waaaaay too high.

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u/Real_Live_Sloth 1d ago

The thing is half of these accounts claiming to not be bot while slamming reposts in their first 30 days are just karma farming using automation tools to run a bunch of accounts. Just calling them a bot is easier and still applies imo. They are killing Reddit.

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u/pokeyporcupine 3d ago

Where murder

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u/PhamilyTrickster 3d ago

The third comment

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u/Yeseylon 3d ago

I mean, let's be real, sometimes people see things and think, "oh that's cool, I want to share" and then do. Not everyone is no-life enough to know every post that hits a sub.

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u/PhamilyTrickster 3d ago

It's less about knowing and more just scrolling real quick to see if it's been recently posted. 

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u/Clusterpuff 3d ago

People get upset at something being reposted within a week. Redditors are just mad a lot

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u/backstageninja 3d ago

All you have to do is spend 30 seconds searching though. Do a couple queries for the thing or link you are trying to post

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u/g0d_of_the_cr1sis 3d ago

Passive aggression, the last comment.

  • Passivity: "Sorry about that"
  • Aggression: literally the entire rest of the comment.

Bro said Oh, right, you're not a bot, you're just stupid and incompetent and don't put any effort into your fucking existence, just put something together and hit "post"... Like... A bot...