Ask HN: How to promote the truth?

Re:Ask HN: How to promote the truth? by pclark on Sunday April 12, 2009 @01:57PM (#558694)

i think the closest thing you can do is show all sides of a story and let the community make a collective decision.

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Re:Ask HN: How to promote the truth? by ScottWhigham on Sunday April 12, 2009 @05:11PM (#558885)

Exactly what one would expect from the person who brings us http://www.simplyhappynews.com/ :)

Sorry - I'm not taking the piss - really, I'm not. When I read your comment, my first thought was, "How Mary Poppins!" I then clicked on your profile and saw "simplyhappynews.com" and laughed out loud at the coincidence.

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Re:Ask HN: How to promote the truth? by zcrar70 on Sunday April 12, 2009 @07:01PM (#559040)

I don't actually think that's an invalid comment, or particularly Mary Poppins for that matter - that's the premise behind 'crowdsourcing'.

The idea that truth will prevail in the end seems to be likely overall but, in the same way that markets can remain irrational longer than an investor remains solvent, we may not live to see the day a particular truth is accepted for what it is.

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Re:Ask HN: How to promote the truth? by pclark on Sunday April 12, 2009 @07:50PM (#559105)

Heh. Observant :)

Simplyhappynews is actually an experiment for my full scale startup, Broadersheet. I'll write a blog post discussing news misinformation and how we can overcome it.

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