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And yet you haven't corrected your original post, I have read it, believed it, and told everyone I know that the nice green leaf is propaganda.

na85 5y ago
Isn't that on you, for trusting some random on HN and failing to fact-check? Modern life demands critical thinking skills.
- TheSwordsman 5y ago
  Why not both? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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- class4behavior 5y ago
  That's like saying, if you believe someone's defamatory statements, that's on you, but the speaker is innocent.
  - the_other 5y ago
    That’s free speech, no?
  - na85 5y ago
    > That's like saying, if you believe someone's defamatory statements, that's on you, but the speaker is innocent. Not really. Being mistaken is not the same thing as being defamatory. If someone is honestly just incorrect, and you go parroting what they said without independently verifying (especially if the person is a pseudo-anonymous internet commenter and not a subject-matter expert) then frankly that is entirely your fault. Being intentionally deceived is another matter.
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Spare_account 5y ago
Hackernews comments can't be edited or deleted after a few minutes. There's nothing he can do about it
bryanrasmussen 5y ago
there was an hour between the (probably wrong) information, and the evidence suggesting it might be wrong (I say probably wrong because April 1 and tongue in cheek doesn't automatically prove the anecdote is untrue) There was 4 hours between the original probably wrong post and yours. Did you really manage to spread to everyone you know in that 4 hours that the nice green leaf is propaganda? Why? It sounds at most like something I might drop in passing conversation, not something I would attempt to broadcast when first told of it. on edit: having read further down I see that the probably wrong is actually wrong, it was definitely a joke issue.
Pxtl 5y ago
Blame HN for locking the edit button after a relatively brief time, not me.

na85 5y ago

Isn't that on you, for trusting some random on HN and failing to fact-check? Modern life demands critical thinking skills.

TheSwordsman 5y ago
Why not both? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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class4behavior 5y ago
That's like saying, if you believe someone's defamatory statements, that's on you, but the speaker is innocent.
- the_other 5y ago
  That’s free speech, no?
- na85 5y ago
  > That's like saying, if you believe someone's defamatory statements, that's on you, but the speaker is innocent. Not really. Being mistaken is not the same thing as being defamatory. If someone is honestly just incorrect, and you go parroting what they said without independently verifying (especially if the person is a pseudo-anonymous internet commenter and not a subject-matter expert) then frankly that is entirely your fault. Being intentionally deceived is another matter.

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Spare_account 5y ago

Hackernews comments can't be edited or deleted after a few minutes. There's nothing he can do about it

bryanrasmussen 5y ago

there was an hour between the (probably wrong) information, and the evidence suggesting it might be wrong (I say probably wrong because April 1 and tongue in cheek doesn't automatically prove the anecdote is untrue) There was 4 hours between the original probably wrong post and yours. Did you really manage to spread to everyone you know in that 4 hours that the nice green leaf is propaganda? Why? It sounds at most like something I might drop in passing conversation, not something I would attempt to broadcast when first told of it. on edit: having read further down I see that the probably wrong is actually wrong, it was definitely a joke issue.

Pxtl 5y ago

Blame HN for locking the edit button after a relatively brief time, not me.