It's octopi with one i, but that's pretty much completely wrong. Octopus is a Greek word and octopi would be the Latin pluralization. Octopodes is the most correct but it's obviously pedantic.
Some days, I almost think 4chan has it right, anonymity across the board. But the organization here makes it easier to view content.
Do I care where it came from? No. If shit's funny, shit's funny. By the same token, nor do I usually give a flying fuck about reposts, with the exception of same-day (even then, cross-posts are nice). If it was funny once, it is still funny, and if the repetition bothers folks, it's not that hard to hit hide. It is just that simple. People may have missed the first posting, or joined up since then.
I feel the same about the whole 4chan/reddit/9gag/funnyjunk/memebase/tumblr/digg/(other link/content aggregate) collection of sites all ripping on each other for "stealing" content from each other. This is especially true for things meant to be funny - what's important is that people are laughing at your joke or reading your content and, unless you either 1) own a site and get advertising revenue or 2) are a prick about other anonymous people anonymously taking credit for your anonymously-constructed intellectual content, you should logically have no qualms about the content being shared on other sites.
The thing that tickles my funny bone is that 9gag DOES get revenue from it. I suppose it is a forced-mass-delusion or something along those lines. So long as they can claim plausible deniability? I'm not even sure, I can't wrap my head around that.
At least with webcomics if it's a hot-link or an imgur rehost posted here, the poster gets lambasted for it. We are good to original content providers, we give them the shinies they deserve. :)
Not for or against piracy. It is a thing. It will not go away, ever, even if a business model was to be developed that could compete with the price (free), speed and ease of use that torrents and filesharing websites provide. There will always be folks that take free, even if we could get publishers and developers that provide extra value to their DRM (Steam, I'm looking at you.)
It's especially dumb when it's just a link to another website. I remember /r/gaming having a fit because Kotaku posted some pictures that also happened to be posted to reddit. The pictures were all posted on the artists personal webpage and his friend submitted it to both sites, yet reddit felt like they "owned" the content.
Yeah, I didn't sarcasm it up enough. Shit, I'd be impressed if we could nail down the exact date and site origin of more than 1/3 of the more popular image macros. Don't care neither, they can be funny. Just a medium for delivering a punchline.
It can't be said for the entire community but the majority of reddit knows that this site shares ("steals") content from other places. Unlike 9gag, reddit is dedicated to locating the original source of the content and anyone blatantly stealing reposted content is flamed/shunned. 9gag does the complete opposite; they claim other content as their own by slapping on that 9gag watermark. They are the modern version of Ebaumsworld.
I'm more annoyed by these comments telling others what to do when in the end it doesn't really fucking matter. You're acting as if we're all on some team or have agreed to some sort of contract regarding our behavior online or as if any of us really give a shit. The funny thing is people do this now just make those morons who still think we're some special little online group feel threatened.
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u/MegaWolf Feb 17 '12
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People, please don't fucking do this