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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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Bear Hall
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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. :)

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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.

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

Native bee populations have been on the rise for a minute. Those of us who took action are really proud of that. This would be wholly unnecessary if the industrialists didn't plan on doing things that they know are catastrophic. Plan B isn't in case Plan A fails. Plan B is because They have no intention of supporting Plan A. Control food production and you control the masses. This is the scariest lil drone you have ever seen.

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

Y’all are misunderstanding. The government is the people who need to be solving this problem, and when they weren’t scientists with various expertises stepped in. It would be like blaming Thomas Edison for poor health care.

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

Just come out and say you don't understand what "Plan B" means.

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

Black Mirror did it. Of course it went sideways as hell.

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

🤦‍♀️ some scientists can’t see the forest for the trees

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

Those scientists are like me when I donate to hungry kids in my community - they know that the people in power are refusing to solve the problem and will continue refusing, so they’re giving a solution within the parameters they have. (Also, you owe all of your own knowledge about environmental problems to those scientists’ colleagues.)

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

It's the Rusty Patch Bumblebee that is in the most danger of extinction in the US, not honey bees, but overall decline of 23% in pollinators is HUGE. My city sprays for mosquitos every summer and I hate it for this reason.

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

The tame honey bee is also at risk because of insecticides, but many wild bees are on the brink og extinction. That scares me because honey bees don't pollinate all the plants.

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

You know I'm not an engineer but I feel like a pollinator with propellors is just a flower shredder. What am I missing here?

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

thats the plan isn't it? break the system and then make us pay to fix it.

Rustyn Birch
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Plan A slightly interfered with corporate greed so we’re all SOL. Same as it ever was/ will be. :(

Huddo's sister
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We were having a conversation about this on Christmas. We are willing to support billionaires so they can try and make other planets liveable instead of trying to save the one we have.

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

Plan A would work if only pesticides and harmful chemicals were not used - by anyone....farmers, big agri companies, you, me......ALL of us

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

Yet still, people wonder why the world is in the state it’s in. The earth is overpopulated and something is going to give. What a colossal mess!

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

Back when we had an indoor tomato farm I would take an electric toothbrush and shake the flowering "hands" to polinate. The sound of thousand satisfied sighs was amazing.

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

these robots were originally planned for moon bases and mars colonies, to help them grow their own food

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

Actually this could be really useful in greenhouse culture. Bees don't do well inside structures making it problematic to grow many crops this way. While some places can open the doors during the summer to let them in they often get confused and cant get out again. It would also allow crops to be grown during winter months when native insects are not available to for greenhouses.

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

They really should watch "Hated in the nation" (Black Mirror) on Netflix 😨 and get a clue ...

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

Isn’t there a product already out called Plan B that eliminates life? smh

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

Pretty sure I saw this episode of Black Mirror already and it didn't end well lol

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

For just half a second there I mistook the flower behind it for sideways googly eyes 👀

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

Who cares at this point. It's too late. We're all gonna die. Should be interesting

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

its never too late to try to undo the damage we have caused, its literally the least we can do after being such selfish species

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Honey bee stings are not only a major cause of death worldwide. They also drive native bees to extinction. AND not one species of plant in the whole world relies on the honey bee for survival. As for spending billions on robots, you are out of your frikkin' mind, funding for non-military robots is a dead flat zero.

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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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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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Haley Hansen
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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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