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Deep down, many people feel like they could actually make it as a comedian. While this is a widely misguided concept for the majority of the population, a simple scroll through the comments section on a random post will show that there is a lot of untapped talent out there. 

The “Murdered By Words” Instagram page gathers the hilarious and sometimes savage comments people have left under other people’s posts. So get comfortable as you read through, upvote your favorites and maybe try your own hand in the comments section below. 

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While we do think of comment sections as an innovation of the Internet age, in one form or another, they have existed since at least the 1500s. In what now we would call Germany, it was common practice (at least among the literate) to “post” one’s ideas in public places, often to literal posts.

The most famous example of this is probably Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses, nailed to the door of the All Saints' Church in Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany in 1517. Of course, this would only be the practice of people who could read and write and had the time and resources to buy parchment and ink. The internet is ultimately the tool that brought mass commenting to the majority of the population.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Good thing he has a bottle of water sitting right there on the table, he'll need it for that burn

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gah! This one annoys me sooo much. The purpose of masks is not to protect the wearer, but the people around the wearer. I suppose that explains why selfish people mostly don't wear them...

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While internet forums are generally older, the first “comments section,” as we might call it these days was created in 1998, for the digital edition of The Rocky Mountain News. This publication was a real trailblazer, as it also featured one of the first “advice” columns, where readers could ask questions. 

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This, perhaps, is what inspired them to open up the publication to reader comments, as a means of creating engagement and loyalty. This practice would soon become the norm, as newspapers, magazines, fan pages, and the first attempts at social media all began allowing people to share their thoughts on a post, article, or page.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not the first time something like that happened, and often the victim thinks the undamaged bible is proof of god.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She might wanna jump in the ocean to get some water on that burn (sorry I promise I'll stop now)

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Now, comment sections are so common that there are entire genres of content based on asking for interactions. From posts that are just questions, to people “selecting” things from “what house you prefer” to favorite brunch items, people do love to share their two cents. This has spawned an entire cottage industry, like the list here, of finding and sharing the best comments.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sad, very sad when a culture, a whole nation just disappears, dissolves, and all is left a sappy story with a grain of truth in the middle. And the genes of the people unrecognizable for the eye.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Knew it had to happen eventually. Gun control? No f*****g way! More taxes? Hell yeah!

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Indeed, if something has the option to add comments explicitly turned off, most people immediately wonder what exactly happened here. From trolling, and cyberbullying to intensely heated discussions, the anonymity of the internet often doesn’t exactly make for the most civil posts on controversial topics. 

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Memo to US restaurants: Apologies for not being clearer when I said you need to “fücking communicate”. If you’re not willing to say what that commenter said, at least say “in the USA we pay our servers $2.something per hour and the tip is to cover the rest of their pay.” If tourists call you barbaric for that, remember that locals also call you barbaric for it. :)

wendy schutze
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m Australian, I can’t believe that servers have to rely on TIPS , what crappy Employers

Astro
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Drives me nuts. I still tip at least 25% but drives me nuts.

Sue User
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11 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every is ignoring the worst part of the tipping culture. The Federal minimun for a tipped employee is 2.13 cents an hour. That is . 22 less than 40 years ago. However, the price aof gas is 3.5 times what it was, rent is 3x.Even the cost of food you are buying is up by 3x ( or more ). So the amount of money that goes to the waitress is one third of what it used to be. So the average used to be 30% labor, so now labor is only 10%. What are the restsraunts doing with the other 20%? This is why tipping has gone fron 10-25% yo 20-25%. Demand govt raise the minimum wage (for non tipped too ).

Tiny Orca
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11 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The restaurants are paying for their increased costs like more expensive food due to everything else going up eg: petrol. It is a horrible idea working for someone who doesn’t actually pay you. They should just put up their prices, no tips and pay their employees.

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PhaseWitFact
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same. I've been watching YouTube chefs and figured out how to make all the yummy restaurant meals myself for cheaper.

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MontanaMariner
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Remember that wealthy elected officials wrote the bill that became law that makes $2/hr pay legal. F. U. C. K. them!!!

Josefa Izar
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Surviving on kindness in this world is scary. Server deserve living wages like all workers.

Kathy
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tips were designed to be an ADDITIONAL monetary show of appreciation for service ABOVE AND BEYOND what you should be able to expect from the waiters and restaurant staff, to be paid directly to the individuals who actually merited such a special show of appreciation, and NOT as a way of letting employers get away with paying their staff a wage so scandalously low that they are not able to survive without handouts from charitable customers!

Sven Horlemann
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It does not get more antisocial, inhuman as this. Then again, at least in the US you can go buying guns because you are "free".

G Holler
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All's the while, having a heavy pocketbook to take home. Poor guy.....we gatta help him.

I am Egg!!!
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did you know that apperently you all are responsible for their pay because we are to greedy to care that their life sucks?

Heather Menard
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I looked at that sign and thought it said swaddles. It does look like it promoting babies

Bobby Edler
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was a licenced auto mechanic for 45 years. I can count on one hand the number of "tips" I recieved.

Josefa Izar
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I honestly didn't know anyone tips mechanics? I thought they get paid relatively high hourly wages.

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Cerridwn d'Wyse
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every time I read this I just cringe for the other 49 states well it's not quite 49. California is never allowed that well at least not in my adult memory. For a long time minimum wage for tipping was less than minimum wage for non tipped jobs but not to this degree. And it's all going up again in just a few days

Adrian
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's an expected aspect of the business model in the U.S. I tip at least 20% because the bill is way lower than in Europe.

wHiTeOuT!
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The place pays employees, but the employee gets to keep the tips they make.....usually

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Waaay more to this comment. It has been this way in the US since time immemorial. Servers do NOT ALL get $2 an hour . The issue now is that by raising the minimum wage, the price of everything goes sky high. I am seeing this firsthand in CO where I live and now that our minimum wage (for everything) will go up to $15.69 and it is killing small business owners who have already been to hell and back with Covid. No idea what the answer is, but this is NOT it.

liam newton-harding
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And yet every developed Nation…apart from good ol’murica has figured out how to pay service staff a living wage, without causing businesses to close. Every single one. Your “argument” is flat out wrong.

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Best tip for their servers is to find a better paid job

Becky Samuel
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Best tip for you is to go find out what empathy is and then develop some before trying to go out in society with human beings. Even animals have a sense of empathy.

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A number of media outlets have actually closed down their comment sections over the last few years for these reasons. Vice Media closed theirs in 2016, as did NPR. IMDB closed their discussion boards (but not user reviews) a year later. In all of these cases, difficulty with moderation was the number one issue. 

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Plan A is to save the bees. However, Plan A isn't going very well. Plan B (or Bee) is what you come up with as a crappy alternative in case the main one completely fails. Someone has to make the survival nutrition bars in case a hurricane shows up before a hurricane shows up. Someone needs to figure out a work around in case all the bees die before all the bees die.

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Moderation is a tricky subject because the entire point of a comments section is to share a diverse set of opinions. After all, if literally everyone believed the same thing, there would be no need for anything but the initial post. However, as it so often happens, a small group of people can ruin things for the rest of us. 

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

9th century Saxons have pathetic heat endurance skills compared to 7th century Bedouins

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Research suggests that people who feel that their opinion is already widely supported tend to stay silent and often don’t even look at comments. This is perhaps why comment sections on any debatable topic can look so extreme, it’s only the folks with marginal views that take the time to write out what they think. 

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If I would have to wear such a thing I would stop posting selfies where it is visible.

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As is quite easy to imagine, once you get a forum full of folks with the most extreme opinions, conflict is almost inevitable without strict moderation. Since that requires hiring dedicated staff and developing a constantly evolving policy around what is and isn’t allowed, it’s not surprising that so many pages have slowly decided to forgo comments entirely. 

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Google has been working on AI tools to help moderate, as it would appear there is a (sadly) growing market. However, a more human-centric approach has existed for a while, that is, the user-flagged comment option that you can even find here. In other words, comments that break the rules are simply reported and/or downvoted by other readers. 

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought sunglasses were part of the uniform? Did I get my information wrong?

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11 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This coming from the same morons who tried to cut my farms’ electric predator fence and set my livestock free into the middle of the damn desert in July.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Having a robust public transit system so I don't need to drive everywhere?

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

to be honest, he is right, the kind of look parents give when they talk about their perfect child

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The fact that he will type "boomer" in its entirety and refer to the other word as the "n-word" speaks volumes about which is worse. They're not comparable in any way, shape, or form.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As someone who hates dodgeball because I broke my glasses once and thus always got picked last in high school gym class: I agree! Cancel dodgeball! Inhumane! Torture!

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Definitely not true, if this was the case then he wouldn’t have a beard either

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LauraDragonWench
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, at least you already have something cooling for that burn, even if it's not the right size. 😄

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He's not wrong tho. And with the way cost-of-living expenses go, that's actually some smart personal economizing.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, when I fall in the shower I try to grab anything and everything.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

not to sound like a loser, but a gender studies course can be taken by anyone for a humanities credit, they don't have to be majoring in it. that said, i took one and it was actually a very informative class! it wasn't what i expected

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm sorry, but Chick-fil-A renounced any right to be funny by being run by pieces of s**t

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