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    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Bohemia staff arrested for espionage on island game recreates.

    Greece has arrested two members of Arma 3 developer Bohemia Interactive, accusing them of committing espionage as they took photos and videos of military facilities on Lemnos. The Greek island, you see, is one of several in the Aegean Sea which Iran invades in the near-future military simulator. Their highly likely-sounding defence is that they were gathering reference material.
    Sep 11, 2012 8:15am PDT
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    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Bohemia staff arrested for espionage on island game recreates.

    Greece has arrested two members of Arma 3 developer Bohemia Interactive, accusing them of committing espionage as they took photos and videos of military facilities on Lemnos. The Greek island, you see, is one of several in the Aegean Sea which Iran invades in the near-future military simulator. Their highly likely-sounding defence is that they were gathering reference material. : ShacknewsThis person is cool!

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    • "Our military secrets!" : Wisp!
    • good marketing for Arma3 :D : mallocThis person is cool!
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      These Shacknews posts are redundant. They splinter conversation about a topic. : romulanThis person is cool!
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        No they aren't. Chatty content doesn't get posted to front page as articles. : ryuusekiThis person is cool!
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          Its redundant for the chatty, which is where everyone is anyway. : JohnnyRey
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            I think you significantly overestimate the amount of traffic that the chatty has. We probably have 2000 a... : ryuusekiThis person is cool!
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              lol : JohnnyRey
              • No, he's right. : thetangentThis person is cool!
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      Yeah, this needs to stop. Merge the threads, or something. : JohnnyRey
      • Also this has nothing to do with you Alice. You are the best. : JohnnyRey
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        Why? What's so awful about it? How does this hurt you so greatly that we need to remove a useful feature ... : Alice O'Connor
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          The two bits I wrote before, this, for example, were stories not posted at all in latestchatty.x. Should ... : Alice O'Connor
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            The news posts are fine, but I think if there is already a thread, they should be merged. That's all. : JohnnyRey
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              Not technically possible with the current back end. : at0micgardenThis person is cool!
              • Speaking slightly out of my ass here but I do believe this statement is a truth. : at0micgardenThis person is cool!
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                It wouldn't need to be automatic, if a mod sees threads that are the same, merge them. : JohnnyRey
                • Not currently possible. : EbuThis person is cool!
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                  I hate to break it to you, but we have very few actual powers. Tag posts, and ban people, 420 erryday. : Rauol DukeThis person is cool!
                  • hey hey hey johnnyrey smokes weed erry day : MercFox1
                  • Well you guys used to log in to the communal dognose account. : The Grolar Bear
                  • i wish i had the power to 420 erryday : Fenring42
                  • tag the new post and ban people who posted in the old one : ZekThis person is cool!
                  • Fou Fucking Twenny : [7]kamiThis person is cool!
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                  When in the history of this site have you seen a mod merge 2 threads together? Where does automation come... : EntityThis person is cool!
                  • My mistake then, I could have sworn that when nushack came out, that was one of the things that happened.... : JohnnyRey
                • As atomicgarden said, not possible with the current backend : geedeckThis person is cool!
                • i have conclusive evidence that the mods do in fact have the ability to merge threads but they hate you : [fry]This person is cool!
                • While this isn't currently possible, I do think that it would be one of the more useful things they could... : BlackCat9This person is cool!
              • You know, plenty of companies (even reddit) have their source on github. If gamefly were to do the same,... : kaddar0
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                what if you go deep in that back end? : FunkytownPThis person is cool!
                • poop source code : at0micgardenThis person is cool!
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              Alice O Connor: worst at shacknews!! : UnleashedThis person is cool!
              • No! She is the best! I love her! This isn't her fault! : JohnnyRey
              • Incoming grief unleashed : Keefinator
      • No. : MercFox1
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        You cannot cross the streams. : OutlawSundown
        • Unless there is a giant marshmallow man. BUT ONLY THEN! : Warbird12345
      • Just don't post in the news thread and like most they will just slip into the ether that is page 2 and be... : thejay247
      • Sometimes news stories catch on in the chatty before someone else posts the story. There's not really a c... : nwillard
    • Because of the merging subthread, this was very nearly the one time the frontpage news thread overtook th... : EntityThis person is cool!