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.
My personal opinion: I hate to see the flow of information reduced here (even if for a good reason) but it does make sense that we want to be far more selective what we share outside of our trusted circle of frogs.
So instead of labeling and singling out shit posts, my preference is that all posts be assumed to be disinformation unless and until the author tags it in some way as verified.
So maybe, post something, do some vetting and even ask for our help if needed, but once verified, edit the post with some “[Normie Safe]” tag at the end and any notes regarding your verification process before.
And we agree not to share info with normies unless we see the “[Normie Safe]” tag at the end.
We shouldn’t become Twitter where everything needs a fact check to be shared. Just doing a better job of communicating WHAT level of fact checking we’ve done or haven’t done should be enough.
Edit: and yes my post history is tiny, I’m mostly a lurker / commentator who benefits from everyone else’s work. This is inspiration for me to step my game up here too.