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robtherobber

10,059karma·1,000submissions·July 1, 2019
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About Rob, the robber who robs other Robs. Drob it, Rob!
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When publishers complain it's never to protect the authors or journalists, but a specific (extractive) business model. Not that I side with Common Crawl on this one.
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Dystopian stuff.
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Appreciate the reply. And I wish you good luck with your business, and everything else.
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Only if it's done in a specific timespan, like 10 minutes or less. After that, it can't be edited any longer.
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Good point. HN automatically strips certain words from the titles and I wasn't snappy enough to catch it on time.
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Indeed; sorry for leaving that out, it was a judgement call triggered by HN limits. However, whilst very relevant, it doesn't in fact change the point that much.
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Thanks for replying, Felix. That's a fair-ish point, I concur, and apologies for the dismissive tone. On point, the article is too long for what it attempts to say, in my view, and the reliance o…
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