User blog comment:Fairingrey/Thoughts 7-29-14: Partially Comprehensive List of Tips to Ranking, Sending and Slapping/@comment-25067771-20140730073906/@comment-25185532-20140730092303

Can you intentioanlly become one? Yes you can, I know a fair number of people who does it too (won't be naming anyone).

In cases like yours, it's understandable since you didn't know. It's best to actually to wait a little (like 10 seconds?) if you think you're going to snipe it, so you allow others to join in.