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Re:Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' ... by buckbova on Friday March 24, 2017 @02:26PM (#13951050)
Someone just copy/pasted your comment to reddit. Congrats.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/6163gu/7000_unde...

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Re:Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' ... by dwaltrip on Sunday March 26, 2017 @12:59AM (#13959251)
Hmm... the Reddit user has a 4 year old account, and the HN user has a 23 day old account. Are we sure about who copied who?
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Re:Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' ... by ZephyrP on Friday March 24, 2017 @02:36PM (#13951125)
This keeps happening to me! I wrote a fairly obscure remark about SICP on HN and 2 days later I was on reddit with one of the top comments as my exact comment.

Some kind of spamming operation? I have no idea.

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Re:Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' ... by ABCLAW on Friday March 24, 2017 @04:21PM (#13951950)
It's an automated system for farming 'legit' looking accounts through comment arbitrage between platforms.
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Re:Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' ... by yummybear on Friday March 24, 2017 @03:54PM (#13951761)
The user in question has also copied a comment about chili from HN, so it's not the first time. Maybe some attempt at providing reputation for his account, but as you say, what's the point?

Or maybe just some guy harvesting imaginary internet points.

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