Question: You may find me fast:  

My answer is transparent  

to those restive few who went off  

Their egregious oversight  

Left to scan and screen

Hear my refrain  

bound to draw the story out

Hint #1

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> Please stop trying to edit the title. It's one of the clues.
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Hint #2

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>  As @Mea Culpa Nay pointed out, there is a contradiction. So many contradictions, in fact, that it's almost moronic.
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Hint #3

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>  My last clue is a Herring. Does that make me two-faced?
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Hint #4

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>  I am what I am, and I am what I am not.
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Answer: 
A bit of a long shot but I guess the answer is:

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>  Words
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You find me fast:

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>  When you read a word it quickly disappears from your sight as you read another word, just as someone who says a word, you will only hear it briefly then it disappears.
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My answer is transparent

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> The answer is right in front of you, the riddle is made up of words, but at first you cant see it (transparent) until you solve the it.
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to those restive few who went off  

Their egregious oversight

*Not sure with this one:*

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> For someone who does not have the patience to peruse the riddle and gives up will be really bad at solving the riddle. - Not sure how this fits in with the answer
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Left to scan and screen

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>  if you look at the computer screen you can see it contains lots of words.
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Hear my refrain

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>  As a noun refrain means a repeated line or sentences in a poem, sentences are made up from words.
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bound to draw the story out

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>  Words can be written, meaning they are bound to paper or any other medium on which they are written including a computer screen, they are used to tell stories.
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First thing that came to mind was

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>  fata morgana 
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You may find me fast:

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>  in the desert (or just very hot days) you see them a lot
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My answer is transparent

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>  Fata morgana's are not real or transparent
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to those restive few who went off
Their egregious oversight

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>  When people see a fata morgana they think they are saved and found water and will try to get to it as fast as possible although they will never reach
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Left to scan and screen

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>  Referring to having to search for real water
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Hear my refrain
bound to draw the story out

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>  In the end if you keep going after fata morgana's your end will come fast
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Hints:

Original Riddle

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>  I think hint 1 & 2 might go together as in a fata morgana is not the original thing that you are looking for it's a fake version of it that is not real which is a contradiction of the title.
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My last clue is a Herring. Does that make me two-faced?

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>  I was thinking again of two-faced as in it is not real but it looks real.
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