I went on some local BBSes, but they were all crazy users.

我去了许多当地的BBS，但那儿全是些发烧级的用户。

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Note to visitors. All posts in this thread, other than specified otherwise, are reprinted from other BBSes.

访客注意。此线上贴子是转载贴子。特别声明除外。

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The post was repasted in numerous BBSes and attention is drawn to the status of the seller---is he a football fan or a performance artist?

帖子发出后，立即被转发到国内其他多个论坛，卖红薯者的身份也成为网友热议的一个焦点——他是球迷还是行为艺术家？

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The beta test was dubbed "Samuel" and for Schober, a teenage fan of BBSes (bulletin board systems), it was an intriguing opportunity.

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Chinese BBSes and social networks such as Renren are filled with egao, Internet parodies, that slam Qihoo and Tencent but generally hit Tencent harder. (Check out a few good ones in this ChinaHush post.) The Chinese press has chastised both companies, but, for its part, Qihoo (and 360) may come out of the melee relatively unscathed so long as Tencent continues to overreact.

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