• Sheridan@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I once posted a Wikipedia article to r/TodayILearned, and my post went really popular. Someone a few hours later then edited the Wikipedia page to contradict my Reddit post title, reported my post to the subreddit mods, and my post got taken down.

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      12 hours ago

      Imagine being the level of asshole that would spend the time to do this. I’m not surprised, just…disappointed.

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        9 hours ago

        Why be disappointed. That’s more effort than most people go through on the internet. I’m actually impressed.

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        9 hours ago

        Yeah unless the fact that the original Wikipedia article was grossly inaccurate in person that edited actually did edit it correctly then this sounds like a bullshit made up sorry. I mean not that it didn’t actually happen because that shit happens all the time. But if we compete I would have been edited and then had somebody report it within usually a few hours or so it would be removed and returned it back to the original state once it was verified false.