Copy/Pasta, or copypasta is a common tactic on message boards. Every so often when someone starts a topic they will find some random, obscure article, or other message board post about an amazing story and paste it as their own story. Someone may have had an amazing experience at drug treatment centers while they were going through heroin treatment and they may write about it. True, or not the story is completely amazing and people tend to post it a lot on message boards to get a reaction out of people by acting as if they just wrote it. With the abilities most have with finding things in search engines now it is almost impossible to get one of these stories past a group of forum readers.
Those that spend their lives on the internet pretty much identify these stories immediately as ones that are internet lore as it is. Most of these outrageous stories have already been posted on /b/ so if anyone that read that site happen to be around they will recognize them immediately and just post the standard reply:
copy/pasta or copypasta
Here’s some copy/pasta about copy/pasta that I am not going to give credit for as you will understand after you read it:
The thing is, people don’t realize the work that goes into properly doing copypasta. They think copypasta is something that slackers can do, or faggots, or assholes. It’s not true. Copypasta is a dying artform and if you don’t see that, I don’t know what’s wrong with you.
First of all, you sacrifice spending real time on /b/. You can’t participate as much as you’d like to because you’re so busy doing copypasta that you can’t. As a result, you miss a lot of really great threads. Still, it’s a sacrifice, so you do it.
There’s also the problem of “Flood detected”. This message can really hurt your progress. You should try to get your copypasta into every active thread and if you have to sit there waiting before the flood period is over, you lose valuable time. This is also very difficult.
Also, picking which threads should get a copypasta first are sort of difficult. There are threads that don’t stay on the first page for very long, so you may be missing some of the more prominent threads. Of course, you should try to hit them all, but for the desire effect, you need to get into bigger threads quickly.
Finally, there’s the moral problem. One thing about copypasta is that sometimes it feels good, but sometimes it feels bad.
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Posted November 14, 2007 
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