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Pillaging. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/dict.aspx?word=pillaging http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/dict.aspx?word=pillaging

corin_ 15y ago
I'm not seeing the relevance of your having looked up a word in a dictionary...
- Semiapies 15y ago
  Because piracy doesn't start with "Pil".
  - corin_ 15y ago
    See http://candychang.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/before-i-die-angled-wall.jpg http://candychang.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/before... - it clearly reads "PIRACEY"...
    - Semiapies 15y ago
      Sorry, I misread and only looked at the first picture you indicated, where he'd written something that looked like "Pil". I did not realize he was writing "PiRACEY" and thought you were just inferring from his outfit...
blhack 15y ago
If it makes you feel better, that's what I thought it said too. Also: Shame on you HN. This person not only answered the question (in a way that they thought was truthful, oops, they were wrong), but linked to a definition of the word. Now they're at -9 karma overall (their user). Anybody who downvoted this or the comment below it: you probably shouldn't ever complain about HN turning into reddit.
- corin_ 15y ago
  Not that I was a downvoter (can't downvote direct replies to your own comments, after all), but I would assume that the main reason for the downvotes is not that their answer was wrong, but that it shouldn't have been wrong. My comment already stated which image "PIRACEY" is written in, so there was pretty much no need to make an (incorrect) guess.
- chc 15y ago
  He's being downvoted for either not reading or willfully ignoring the comment he replied to. There wasn't even a question in the first place. I'm not sure why you think expecting people to at least read before replying is a Redditism, and I don't see how linking to the definition of a word is supposed to excuse it. It was a pretty objectively poor answer.

corin_ 15y ago

I'm not seeing the relevance of your having looked up a word in a dictionary...

Semiapies 15y ago
Because piracy doesn't start with "Pil".
- corin_ 15y ago
  See http://candychang.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/before-i-die-angled-wall.jpg http://candychang.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/before... - it clearly reads "PIRACEY"...
  - Semiapies 15y ago
    Sorry, I misread and only looked at the first picture you indicated, where he'd written something that looked like "Pil". I did not realize he was writing "PiRACEY" and thought you were just inferring from his outfit...

blhack 15y ago

If it makes you feel better, that's what I thought it said too. Also: Shame on you HN. This person not only answered the question (in a way that they thought was truthful, oops, they were wrong), but linked to a definition of the word. Now they're at -9 karma overall (their user). Anybody who downvoted this or the comment below it: you probably shouldn't ever complain about HN turning into reddit.

corin_ 15y ago
Not that I was a downvoter (can't downvote direct replies to your own comments, after all), but I would assume that the main reason for the downvotes is not that their answer was wrong, but that it shouldn't have been wrong. My comment already stated which image "PIRACEY" is written in, so there was pretty much no need to make an (incorrect) guess.
chc 15y ago
He's being downvoted for either not reading or willfully ignoring the comment he replied to. There wasn't even a question in the first place. I'm not sure why you think expecting people to at least read before replying is a Redditism, and I don't see how linking to the definition of a word is supposed to excuse it. It was a pretty objectively poor answer.