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If it's posted on HN and getting upvoted to the front page, I think people tend to assume a certain level of credibility based on that alone. If you assume tha
by chjohasbrouck 10y ago
If it's posted on HN and getting upvoted to the front page, I think people tend to assume a certain level of credibility based on that alone.
If you assume that about this story, it's pretty shocking and worthy of some discussion, so you might upvote it. I thought it was real for the first few paragraphs and my jaw was on the floor. It's a pretty obvious fake though.
- rubber_duck 10y ago>If it's posted on HN and getting upvoted to the front page, I think people tend to assume a certain level of credibility based on that alone. Yea that's my problem - this used to be true - but not recently - now it's like reddit without the memes.
- Jaruzel 10y agoThen do something about it. Submit some quality stories. That said, I do struggle to understand how some stuff whooshes to the front page, and other equally interesting stuff just gets ignored...