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Google vs. Boilerplate Activism

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ready-made-indignation dept.

ArmorFiend writes with this NYTimes article which "details the efforts of journalists to discern real reader-written letters from boilerplate form letters. Seems like there should be a centralized searchable DB of letters to the editor."

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  1. Yes. by Sheetrock · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's the result of a terrible incident involving a strange polynomial and an unusual quantity of alcohol. Best just to not bring it up in the future.

    --

    Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
    -- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3.




  2. Re:Google by Forgotten · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because the template-filling routines read from a queue. The complete template looks like this:
    from the $deadpan dept.
    $subject vs. $object
    $submitter writes with this $scalpee article which "$quotemademeaninglessbylackofcontext". Seems like $pithyorunarguablyobviousobservation.

    I wish people would use shorter variable names.