You make a great point with your last paragraph. So much so that I have to admit that I DO NOT direct people to this site, and I've never thought about why, but your point is the exact reason. To stay here requires an insane amount of sifting through dirt to find the gold. More than half of that gold then turns out to be iron pyrite.
The difference between the NYT and here, however, is that the readers of the NYT are consumers and the readers of this board are producers. To finish the metaphor, perhaps what you are desiring is a board that also decomposes the lies--like snopes, but honest.
You know, I think you hit the nail on the head. All of this is kind of overwhelming to me, sometimes. It's a massive amount of information to try to take in. And it's like for every post that turns out to be credible, I go through 10 others that turned out to be bogus.
I wish I could find an honest version of snopes, like you said. And people in hell wish for ice water.
But I am most likely too critical. Just getting information out is an ongoing battle. I just get frustrated with everything sometimes because I don't have the time to dig as much as I need to in order to understand much of this.
But on the other hand, I think people who post here have the responsibility of doing at least the minimum amount of work to verify the info they spread.
I'm working on a history paper and just came across a quote that reminded me of you.
"...so that some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity," -- Tacitus (AD 56-120).
You make a great point with your last paragraph. So much so that I have to admit that I DO NOT direct people to this site, and I've never thought about why, but your point is the exact reason. To stay here requires an insane amount of sifting through dirt to find the gold. More than half of that gold then turns out to be iron pyrite.
The difference between the NYT and here, however, is that the readers of the NYT are consumers and the readers of this board are producers. To finish the metaphor, perhaps what you are desiring is a board that also decomposes the lies--like snopes, but honest.
You know, I think you hit the nail on the head. All of this is kind of overwhelming to me, sometimes. It's a massive amount of information to try to take in. And it's like for every post that turns out to be credible, I go through 10 others that turned out to be bogus.
I wish I could find an honest version of snopes, like you said. And people in hell wish for ice water.
But I am most likely too critical. Just getting information out is an ongoing battle. I just get frustrated with everything sometimes because I don't have the time to dig as much as I need to in order to understand much of this.
But on the other hand, I think people who post here have the responsibility of doing at least the minimum amount of work to verify the info they spread.
I'm working on a history paper and just came across a quote that reminded me of you.
"...so that some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity," -- Tacitus (AD 56-120).
There is nothing new under the sun, my friend.
Cool quote.