Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious
by duxup on Monday July 20, 2020 @11:38AM
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Agreed.
What the article actually means / we should think about it is a big part of it.
For a while there were some accounts on reddit (and even HN) posting the same collection of links with regards to a particular topic. The links even came in the same order each time ;) It always came up with regard to a particular nation and a specific topic. (for the record they're long since gone, at least with those links)
Anyway one of the articles was a US university professor who said something about some other countries actions and so forth.
To the astroturfers that was supposed to mean something, X.
What it really meant was a university professor said that if the data supplied by that country is true that it means that they maybe did Y.
The article was was miles and miles away from X.
Granted those were astroturfers, but I see the same issues with folks who honestly believe a rando quote means something significant.
I often find myself asking people about their links "What do you feel that article means?"
What the article actually means / we should think about it is a big part of it.
For a while there were some accounts on reddit (and even HN) posting the same collection of links with regards to a particular topic. The links even came in the same order each time ;) It always came up with regard to a particular nation and a specific topic. (for the record they're long since gone, at least with those links)
Anyway one of the articles was a US university professor who said something about some other countries actions and so forth.
To the astroturfers that was supposed to mean something, X.
What it really meant was a university professor said that if the data supplied by that country is true that it means that they maybe did Y.
The article was was miles and miles away from X.
Granted those were astroturfers, but I see the same issues with folks who honestly believe a rando quote means something significant.
I often find myself asking people about their links "What do you feel that article means?"