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I had an idea similar to this in my mind for years. My working title for it is BullshitTracker. Feel free to do it. It will basically track every famous person
by cool-RR 16y ago
I had an idea similar to this in my mind for years. My working title for it is BullshitTracker. Feel free to do it.
It will basically track every famous person's promise or prediction. So for example Steve Ballmer will have a page where this prediction will be tracked:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ballmer-Google-might-dissapear-in-the-next-five-years-1948.shtml http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ballmer-Google-might-dissapea...
And it will be recorded that he was wrong.
You could see each person's predictions\promises, and see how many of them came true and how many didn't.
I think this will help bring attention to which people are big bullshitters, and which people aren't. There will be a leaderboard for the people who made many truthful and substantial predictions, so you could easily find people whose word is worth gold.
- hugh3 16y agoI don't think it's fair to go around mixing predictions and promises though. If I break a promise, I've done something bad. If I make a prediction and I'm wrong... well, that's pretty much the nature of predictions. If I could be wrong only 49% of the time I'd be much richer than I am.
- cool-RR 16y agoI agree. It might be good to have some distinction between promises and predictions on this hypothetical site.