@mttaggart And thus we close it.

@mttaggart I got the comments though.

@hackillu Nice!

@mttaggart of course they did, but now they'll need to explain how they managed to let that get published

@mttaggart I suppose one thing you can say about old newspapers - no one can pretend an article was never printed

@mttaggart So it was a double slop article? -_-

@mttaggart https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/journalistic-standards.1511650/

@drsbaitso Was just about to post this, thank you.

@mttaggart Also, this is not a good situation. Ars has some serious explaining to do.

@mttaggart I happened to be reading in the comment section before the article got pulled.
Here is Aurich's last post saying the article was pulled and they're going to be investigating, but there probably won't be any answers until Monday and they'll update readers then.

@catsalad Slop on slop on slop. Literally.

@mttaggart Oh, I wish you'd gotten the comments too. I can only imagine what some familiar handles would have had to say in them.

@theotherbrook Someone else in these replies did!

@mttaggart wow they pulled the article down

@hackillu @mttaggart You got the comments online anywhere? I am dying to see them.

@jalefkowit @mttaggart Big same. Decades now.

They need to respond fast or I'm out.

@j_s_j @mttaggart Aurich said in the comments that they are investigating, but probably won't have a response until Monday.

It had better be a good one

@theotherbrook @mttaggart I just have a text file.

@theotherbrook @mttaggart the site wouldn't download, so i did copy paste

@hackillu @mttaggart There's now a thread on the open forum.

EDIT: Oh, but it's been locked. I've bumped heads with Aurich about some stuff but I do trust him to be pretty open when they are ready to talk about it.

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