[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