[DoubleGlazing]

Happened to a friend of mine. He'd posted an article on a website devoted to a specific form of fluid dynamics discussion. This was a site with less than 50 active users.

Someone submitted the article (edited to sound more academic) to a journal - and with extra authors added. The journal almost published it, but they didn't because at the last minute one of their reviewers felt they recognized the content as having been published before.

I think the moral of the story is that some people are up to no good and we'll never understand why.

[whatshisface]

Reminds me of something I experienced on HN and Reddit, though my case was a far less significant level. There was a Reddit bot a few years ago (aptly named 'trappedinreddit') that would automatically post the previous top comment on reposts. I bet it was Reddit internal bots. That process is an order of magnitude faster on Reddit than control-v.

[niels_bom]

Is this a meta-joke? 4h ago somebody posted your exact first sentence. :-/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26604648

[boogies]

(and second, third, and almost exact fourth)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26605151

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26606165

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26605093

[u801e]

Are you making an attempt at humor or are you just copying and pasting parts of comments to make your own comment?

[AussieWog93]

Given the context, it's clearly a joke. Pretty clever and funny too, IMO.

[tinus_hn]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26605151

Is this some bizarre coincidence?

[Kpourdeilami]

OP is just trying to be funny but it seems like it confused a lot of people

[sjfidsfkds]

> I bet it was Reddit internal bots.

This is a compelling idea, but I think they wouldn’t be so obvious about it.

[aero-glide2]

>specific form of fluid dynamics discussion I've been searching for niche forums such as this, if you don't mind, which forum was that?

[b112]

Could be for a US H1-B VISA. Skilled category counts things like published works...