i mean its a courtesy though, and not providing a direct link to something so easily verifiable doesn't count as making a sauceless post. whose time is being saved when one anon spends ten seconds retrieving a link instead of another anon?
One anon retrieving a link saves time for every other anon reading it (those who care about such things, anyway). So possibly hundreds of people are saved that time.
But I think the biggest benefit would be the reduction of fake posts. Sometimes it's embarrassing what some people have posted here that ended up being fake. Every fake post that gets posted here damages the integrity of GAW. This is supposed to be an elite research board, after all. If we can't do the most basic of things like include a url with info we provide, what does that say to the nature of the research provided?
Also, once fake info gets out there, it's impossible to erase it from the minds of people who see it and then believe it. And it doesn't even have to be 100% fake or wrong to cause problems. Just think if the person who first posted that Q said "The First Arrest Will Shock The World!!!" had bothered to look up the URL to those Q drops and double-checked their info and we wouldn't have to constantly correct people and tell them Q never said that. Think of all the aggravation that could have been saved there.
I really don't see a valid reason to NOT provide a URL.
lol i don't need the value of links explained to me... just questioning the culture of entitlement surrounding links. there are all kinds of reasons that OP may not be able to provide one, but there's no reason that anons collectively shouldn't be able to find the source, especially a screenshot of a twitter account.
no need to trash or censor something just because every detail hasn't been delivered to you on a platter. just be grateful for what has been given, and add whatever you feel is missing.
I don't think it's so much a culture of entitlement as it is an indicator that a large number of people have been negatively affected by these types of posts and are now wary of them.
I stopped sharing posts from here with my normie friends because I've been embarrassed when some of them fact-checked something I shared and it turned out to be fake. And I doubt I'm the only person that has happened to.
So even after I started fact-checking posts here and digging up sources, my credibility with my friends was already ruined and anytime I mentioned GAW I was ridiculed.
If our goal is to wake up the normies as to what is going on, then we really need to make it as easy as possible to convince them of the truth of what we say. And including URLs would definitely help with that.
i mean its a courtesy though, and not providing a direct link to something so easily verifiable doesn't count as making a sauceless post. whose time is being saved when one anon spends ten seconds retrieving a link instead of another anon?
One anon retrieving a link saves time for every other anon reading it (those who care about such things, anyway). So possibly hundreds of people are saved that time.
But I think the biggest benefit would be the reduction of fake posts. Sometimes it's embarrassing what some people have posted here that ended up being fake. Every fake post that gets posted here damages the integrity of GAW. This is supposed to be an elite research board, after all. If we can't do the most basic of things like include a url with info we provide, what does that say to the nature of the research provided?
Also, once fake info gets out there, it's impossible to erase it from the minds of people who see it and then believe it. And it doesn't even have to be 100% fake or wrong to cause problems. Just think if the person who first posted that Q said "The First Arrest Will Shock The World!!!" had bothered to look up the URL to those Q drops and double-checked their info and we wouldn't have to constantly correct people and tell them Q never said that. Think of all the aggravation that could have been saved there.
I really don't see a valid reason to NOT provide a URL.
lol i don't need the value of links explained to me... just questioning the culture of entitlement surrounding links. there are all kinds of reasons that OP may not be able to provide one, but there's no reason that anons collectively shouldn't be able to find the source, especially a screenshot of a twitter account.
no need to trash or censor something just because every detail hasn't been delivered to you on a platter. just be grateful for what has been given, and add whatever you feel is missing.
I don't think it's so much a culture of entitlement as it is an indicator that a large number of people have been negatively affected by these types of posts and are now wary of them.
I stopped sharing posts from here with my normie friends because I've been embarrassed when some of them fact-checked something I shared and it turned out to be fake. And I doubt I'm the only person that has happened to.
So even after I started fact-checking posts here and digging up sources, my credibility with my friends was already ruined and anytime I mentioned GAW I was ridiculed.
If our goal is to wake up the normies as to what is going on, then we really need to make it as easy as possible to convince them of the truth of what we say. And including URLs would definitely help with that.
peace fren, well said