The OP did not theorize. OP posted an assertion made by some rando on the net, without any questioning in the Post Title, but rather, pushing the assertion made by the x poster as a fact.
That's the problem here. The first impulse and posting angle was NOT theorizing or questioning or hey, even let's check this!!!!
It was "Hey. This thing is a fact! We see you! This is actual NEWS!"
Frankly, I find it disgusting and ridiculous. It's a serious problem at GAW now. The quantity of clickbait/fake and non-questioning approach has outweighed what should be the priority for a Q board and or a research board: namely, taking information, questioning it, sourcing it, verifying it and THEN analysis it.
Yet, analysis (and conclusions) come before the questioning and the verifying.
Looking at the upvoted comments in this thread PROVES this.
u/gobby is quite right to point out how unhealthy it is to post things in this way and then for mods to sticky it (which the post itself is zero effort/low effort).
The OP did not theorize. OP posted an assertion made by some rando on the net, without any questioning in the Post Title, but rather, pushing the assertion made by the x poster as a fact.
That's the problem here. The first impulse and posting angle was NOT theorizing or questioning or hey, even let's check this!!!!
It was "Hey. This thing is a fact! We see you! This is actual NEWS!"
Frankly, I find it disgusting and ridiculous. It's a serious problem at GAW now. The quantity of clickbait/fake and non-questioning approach has outweighed what should be the priority for a Q board and or a research board: namely, taking information, questioning it, sourcing it, verifying it and THEN analysis it.
Yet, analysis (and conclusions) come before the questioning and the verifying.
Looking at the upvoted comments in this thread PROVES this.
u/gobby is quite right to point out how unhealthy it is to post things in this way and then for mods to sticky it (which the post itself is zero effort/low effort).