When a cold case is solved, why can't internet sleuths move on?
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#2Mobs of internet people with too much time on their hands will never be a force for good, ever.
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#3“I’m a huge Internet user”, that’s when you know someone’s dead serious. Are you sure she’s a reddit user? Sounds more like a SA goon to me.
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#4I don't know if there's a word for it, but this is a common problem with any group, institution, or organization: it is very difficult for them to voluntarily shut down once they have achieved their purpose, even if the mission ended in total success.
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#5I don't know if there's a word for it, but this is a common problem with any group, institution, or organization: it is very difficult for them to voluntarily shut down once they have achieved their purpose, even if the mission ended in total success.
I don't know if there's a single word, but a closely related concept is Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy.
"Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people:
First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.
Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.
The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization."
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#6For all the legal scholars:
1. Aren't death records public?
2. Would anyone else have a claim to knowledge of the deceased's real name? (ex: if "Lyle Stevik" didn't pay his hotel bill)
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#7Anyone watched the recent cluster-fuck that was internet sleuths solving the murder of XXXTentacion?
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#8pored over
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#9Mobs of internet people with too much time on their hands will never be a force for good, ever.
Agreed, this reads like something from Tales of the Macabre.
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#10I don't know if there's a word for it, but this is a common problem with any group, institution, or organization: it is very difficult for them to voluntarily shut down once they have achieved their purpose, even if the mission ended in total success.
In this case they did not really achieve their purpose.
Their purpose was also to find out who he was and why he ended up like this.