Higher Quality Posts Wanted
Garbage IN, Garbage OUT!
- I have seen several posts which end up being false stories or disinformation, many of which end up being shared with others (such as family members) only to have to walk back their posts once they realize the posts were based on fake stories. This makes it harder to wake normies up.
- To help reduce the proliferation of disinformation, if you are creating a post please verify that what you are posting is accurate in its entirety.
- For example, if you want to post an image of a Twitter message instead of the Twitter link, verify that the post actually exists. It may be worth adding the link into a comment or an archived link in case people would like to also verify.
- Here is an actual example: https://greatawakening.win/p/15JUCeprCJ/got-your-coffee-walk-up-to-the-l/ While the image is real, the example thumbnails are not real. Either mark it a shitpost or perhaps we could post this with a new flair of "Disinformation Alert" or something.
- Let's work to make this community better, by being more accurate with what is and what is not for entertainment, and what is actually accurate enough to share with normies.
Good comment, I think that it's a double-sided blade. We should assume we have been lied to since childhood and be open to controversial ideas, We should also be careful not to then assume wild ideas without very good evidence that is objective, verifiable, and stands up to scrutiny.
Open to controversial ideas? Certainly. But it comes with the caveat that those alternative theories have to be supported by evidence. Claims without evidence should get rejected. Claims based on poor quality evidence should be viewed with extreme skepticism. We see a lot of inference, hearsay, and other circumstantial or completely unverifiable "evidence" being put forward and treated as dogma.
Examples: "The moon landing was fake" posted with a link to a shady blog that doesn't offer anything other than links, ads, and a wall of text under a 4hr YouTube video by some Paytriot who spends half his time hawking product and reminding me to "smash that like button, share, subscribe, and donate to my Patreon" vs "The moon landing was fake" posted with the famous Neil Armstrong video footage and a detailed physics-based discussion about how what we see (like the flag waving in zero gravity with zero atmosphere) is not possible.
"[Insert home remedy here] cures [disease] with link to known BS sites like naturalnews.com that tells us about how some guy tried it and got better or this is what his great grandmother in the old country did vs. "Ivermectin cures COVID" with a link to a 70-study strong meticulously sourced and documented meta-analysis showing the evidence for the claim along with the quality of those studies, with each one cited to publication or pre-publication link.
And the last example is a rabbit-hole one because it's so much harder to verify:
"Adam Schiff is a pedo" posted with a "See Standard Hotel. Do your own research" vs "Adam Schiff is a pedo posted with links to images of the guy dressed as a female doll or as a baby with his arm around a little black boy and a reasonably detailed description of the allegation that he was seen at the Standard Hotel with 2 black boys, abused them, killed them, and disposed of the bodies. Here, we can't verify all of either claim. But the second has some evidence that can be put into a larger context, and instead of trying to create mystery and send people on a wild goose chase, actually points people to the answers to the question rather than wasting people's time. With some of this Q stuff, you don't have to provide everything, but you do need to provide enough to convince me that there's something there other than an FBI entrapment scheme.
I completely agree. Quality comment.
There are a lot of pure speculation and assumption that somehow becomes gospel on here and elsewhere.
"China will shut down biolabs in Taiwan." OK maybe, but they didn't even shut down their own in Wuhan. All I know is that China is assho'.
"That dance Trump did in Saudi Arabia with King Salman signified that the King relinquished his sovereignty to Trump." This is complete BULLSHIT. I have a good friend in KSA and he said it's a traditional Saudi folk dance for welcoming guests, dignitaries, etc.
"Suicide weekend means that butthundred godzillion people will all commit suicide at once on a weekend." BULLSHIT. Can't it mean just the suicide of one significant person? Maybe Hunter?
People just run with stuff without thinking, and people get caught up in this crap.