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The problem with Reddit is this... not sure how to fix it. I like to play a game where I make up sort of believable 'true stories' about minor celebrities. I
by ghostbrainalpha 9y ago
The problem with Reddit is this... not sure how to fix it.
I like to play a game where I make up sort of believable 'true stories' about minor celebrities. I always make sure they are VERIFIABLE FALSE to someone who did the tiniest bit of fact checking.
Sometimes they only receive a few up votes... but a lot of times they get thousands. Eventually someone will call bullshit, but that person is just crushed by the avalanche of up votes. Lying about minor things isn't something most MODS will ban you for, or even delete your comment, so most of them still stand.
There has to be some mechanism where one person who can prove they know the truth, has more voting power than the general visitor who does not. It's just like something Sheryl Sandberg said to me at a women's leadership conference. "It takes a lot of people working together to build something great, but it only takes one asshole to fuck it up."
- intended 9y agoThere's no way to do that because it relies on a naive understanding of truth. Sometimes the celebrity themselves may have selective recall of an event - so even a statement from the subject of the rumor could be false. Two video cameras catching the same event from different angles can imply vastly different stories. Basically the plot of rashomon unfolds everyday and at scale.