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I wonder how many undetected hoaxes are still up. The median uptime seems to be half a decade.
by mike_hock 7y ago
I wonder how many undetected hoaxes are still up. The median uptime seems to be half a decade.
- hn_dead_app 7y agoI wonder if the Lindy effect applies to undetected hoaxes, and what the longest uptime might be.
- nemo1618 7y agoIndeed, the article mentions this explicitly: >While most hoaxes on Wikipedia are short-lived (90% of discovered hoaxes are flagged within one hour of creation and only 1% of hoaxes persist for more than a year), those that make it past this initial screening have an increased probability of continuing to "survive" and remain a part of Wikipedia for much longer (if a hoax survives past its first day, it has an 18% probability of lasting for a year or more).