[acqq]

It really looks like wasted money, if it was really financed and is not an elaborate trolling.

[rhaps0dy]

I think the money was totally worth it, just for the fun we all had. It's a lot of people having fun.

Although maybe the people who don't know about this (thus couldn't have fun) shouldn't have paid for it :\

[acqq]

So was it really financed from the tax money of Europeans? If it was, I am really sad. Then the authors shouldn't be proud of such an "achievement."

If it was generated by the 4chan regulars with their own money, then at least it's not worth discussing it more here...

[rconti]

It makes me sad that every time any kind of research is done, someone has to denigrate it as a waste of money.

While I don't care about "chan" culture (never visited one of the sites, don't need that in my life), I fully support research into things I may or may not like. Let the Universities decide where to spend their research budgets. You never know what will come out of it.

[acqq]

This wasn't a real research (to really discover something) though (read some other comments here like typon's) except to "prove" how successful trolling is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12708090

[totony]

Or Europe should stop giving away their taxpayers money :)