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Exactly. People and society having to deal with certain individuals "making repeated false claims" has resulted in this having a name: "bad reputation".
by thwarted 3y ago
Exactly. People and society having to deal with certain individuals "making repeated false claims" has resulted in this having a name: "bad reputation".
- dcow 3y agoMy point is not that reputation is a useless metric. It is that it’s only part of the equation and in this case probably misleading.
- lend000 3y agoThe difference is that this guy has a history of unpalatable opinions, not refutable claims. For someone who makes consistent, provable errors, I completely agree not to waste the effort. But I don't agree in the first case, especially because this is a more or less a provable article, not an opinion piece.
- mcguire 3y agoOut of curiosity, are the Protocols of the Elders of Zion an "unpalatable opinion" or a "refutable claim"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of... https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2020/september/whitfield-conversation.html https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2020/september/whitfield-conver...