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In response to ""the Redditors faced a simple, but insuperable, obstacle when it came to identifying the Tsarnaevs, namely" by charlie

But that's a large part of the stupidity of their effort. They didn't have access to significant information (which any idiot would know is the case)

Posted by pmb (aka pmb) Apr 26 '13, 15:19

and tried to draw conclusions anyway. That's the massive fail that they deserve mocking and derision for. The hubris to think that the power of their collective minds could overcome anything (including lack of information.

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the public was asked to post their photos, but they didn't have access to the store videos, and .. - zeitgeist Apr 26, 15:29
i don't think that's necessarily a reason not to try. but it is a reason to take any potential theories or IDs as potentially unreliable - charlie Apr 26, 15:25 9
- I think there is value (ex.: a lot of the photographic identification was crowdsourced), but no one should look to anyone but authorities for real - b. Apr 26, 15:37 1
  - agreeance -- nm - charlie Apr 26, 15:38
- From an interview I saw, it did seem like someone who set up a subreddit put some caveats in its opening post, urging people to avoid profiling - Max Apr 26, 15:29 6
  - Right. I'm sure there could be value in it, but the ability to control so that it's productive is virtually non-existent. -- nm - pmb Apr 26, 15:32 4
    - Well, if all they did was look for people who had a backpack in one shot and didn't in another, that might have been helpful. But singling out - mara Apr 26, 15:40 3
      - except when you know that the bomb was in a backpack - charlie Apr 26, 15:43 2
        
        Sure, but the vast majority of people with backpacks were innocent. Looking for a guy with a dark backpack wasn't enough; they needed to also find - mara Apr 26, 15:48 1
        
        to my recollection, they did find photos with and without, including the one from the guy from FL whose friend saw his photos on fb. -- nm - b. Apr 26, 15:51
  - the pictures with all the arrows and circles are the ones that crossed the line into Carrie from Homeland crazytown -- nm - charlie Apr 26, 15:32

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But that's a large part of the stupidity of their effort. They didn't have access to significant information (which any idiot would know is the case)

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