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Re:More content by people, for people in Search by nkrisc on Friday August 19, 2022 @08:05AM (#32519967)
> I also don't see why the content should be copy-pasted instead of just a link.

Quite possibly an easy way to preserve the content in case the original goes offline and to share it with colleagues. Perhaps they wanted to link to it from some long-lived or even printed material. Not saying it’s the best way to do so, but it’s plausible and not malicious.

Re:More content by people, for people in Search by jraph on Friday August 19, 2022 @08:09AM (#32520001)
It’s plausible and not malicious, understandable too, but it's not hard to say it in a sentence at the beginning of the post.

This is a public blog, not some internal website.

Anyway, my previous comment probably sounds harsh because it is the way I wrote it (because I previously worked in a research lab, so I kinda feel disappointed), but I still consider this a minor fuck up and it happens to everyone, for sure.

Re:More content by people, for people in Search by pyb on Friday August 19, 2022 @10:38AM (#32521547)
That's utterly illegal though