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Re:Please read the paper before you comment by patates on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @03:26AM (#24268892)
I actually skimmed the comments but missed the one from the author among the massive number of others. Therefore, seeing the surge of bananas a few pages in, I thought once discovered, people kept looking for what those "bananas" were about and then discovered the sentence above themselves.

The real explanation is also interesting.

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Re:Please read the paper before you comment by jolmg on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @05:08PM (#24276129)
> I thought once discovered, people kept looking for what those "bananas" were about and then discovered the sentence above themselves.

I suspect that's what really happened. Would have been better if they included that note since publication time. The first comment with "Banana" then would have been the real indicator. Most others would have simply noted the keyword from the comments before reading the article, like you said.

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