Meaning of copypasta | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A block of text which has been copied and pasted from somewhere else, serving as a story or meme.
   Internet, countable, uncountable
2. Code or documentation that has been copied and pasted, often erroneously.
   countable, slang, uncountable

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Examples

“Gikope is a really useful program for keeping up with AA and copypasta. I've rapidshared my own achieve, which includes 1000s of AAs and a large collection of copypasta.”

“Our Father, who art in 4chan, Anonymous be thy name. Thy sage come, thy will be done on Gaia as it is in 4chan. Give us this day our copypasta, And forgive us our COMBO BREAKERs, as we forgive those who COMBO BREAK against us And lead us not into CP, but deliver us from Piro. For thine is the sandwich, and the win, and the awesome forever and ever. I guarantee it.”

“On the other paw, his further responses are generally rehashings (though not copypastas) of his original screed.”

“Almost everything posted on ARS [alt.religion.scientology] is copypasta from the original posted sources, i.e., web forums.”

“It's essentially a (sort of) copypasta of *only the first page* of an article published in the St. Petersburg Times […]”

“Mike Rugnetta […] explained that creepypasta derives from a term called "copypasta," which described any piece of text that was endlessly "copy-pasted" across the Internet.”

“This ambivalence is reflected in the countless warnings, rumors, and life tips that are posted on the board. Some of them tried-and-true copypasta, these narratives often include images, annotated instructions, or other ostensibly helpful information.”

“Fix copypasta error in previous patch.”

“There are a number of file systems that have copypasta of ufs_ihash; adapting these too to vcache should be a piece of cake.”

“Perl's pod docs are a disorganized mess on the relation of hashes, packages, objects, references and globs. The tutorials never make it clear, and instead encourage copypasta.”

“This [bug documentation] is copypasta from the initramfs-tools bug.”

“Something like 30% of large codebases on "big name" software projects by Google, Adobe, etc. have "copypasta errors" in code of the form like this, a shit-headed way to compare two arrays for reverse equality: if (array_1[9] == array_2[0] && array_1[8] == array_2[1] && […]”

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