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We're offering this $$$ opp, sell vi@gr@ from home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, why is this on the front page? I hate down arrows, but this post makes me desperately wish I had the option.

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What is your problem?

I was attempting to point out that this post has all the qualities of spam. It's vague, it uses symbol repitition ($$$), non-standard abbreviations (opp), and seems like a scam.

Perhaps, but donna's been around here for a while, I give her the benefit of the doubt.

Thanks, but you'll understand if I choose not to take my advice from someone who misappropriates Richard Stallman's initials as his user id. Looks like Linus is available. Any takers?

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=linus

With linus, you could even claim you were naming it after the cartoon character or chemist and not the uber-hacker. ;-)

It stands for "rupert murdoch sucks." It is an intentional coincidence that it is the same initials as the real rms.

I always meant to ask you what it meant. You don't like his comedy "news" channel? It's great if you're into propaganda parodies.

It's kind of a love/hate relationship with the idea that "sucks" is the highest honorific that can be bestowed on someone on the internet.

It's an unintentional parody, which makes it all the more entertaining!

It's confusing, at best, to view yourself in opposition to another human being. You've had an account on here for 369 days and still are comfortable viewing yourself in terms of what you're not. I'm NOT Rupert Murdoch --- 'cause he SUCKS!

It just seems a little... silly.

Yes, it is a joke.

"Oh, I get it! I get jokes." -Homer Simpson

Reads more like a troll than spam, I think.

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