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Reddit has a fake story problem unlike anywhere else on the internet. It's one of the reasons I stopped using the site. Please don't bring these to hackernews.
by rybosworld 3y ago
Reddit has a fake story problem unlike anywhere else on the internet. It's one of the reasons I stopped using the site.
Please don't bring these to hackernews.
- derelicta 3y agoHow can you tell it's fake?
- pknopf 3y agoIt's as real as any other fake story. If a story is bombastic, it's safer to assume it's fake. Reddit incentivizes OPs to get engagement.
- squigz 3y agoAs opposed to HN, of course.
- jihadjihad 3y agoif [[ "$URL" == *"reddit.com"* ]];
- rybosworld 3y agoI don't feel like picking it apart to be honest. There's an assembly line of stories just like this coming out of reddit, and it's not worth engaging beyond "that's obviously fake". They all have peculiarities that point to creative writing exercises. The fact that so many people in this thread immediately suspected this to be fake is pretty telling.
- sevenf0ur 3y agoNew account. Rage inducing story. Aggressor left the country which leaves no solution. Another motive for these posts is to solicit sympathy donations over DMs.
- namaria 3y ago" I've spoken with HR and they issued an apology, allowed me to work from home again, and removed my PIP." This is a dead giveaway. HR took a report of a decade long conspiracy in stride and simply reversed all negative consequences quickly and painlessly, with a formal apology cherry on top? Yeah right.
- red-iron-pine 3y agoI worked in IT, with people that played dirty. Used to have to record my Teams calls with Amarok, since they wouldn't hang on calls that were recorded via Teams, and "off the record" would promises us stuff that they then would re-neg on like their bonus depended on it. A different person, also a dirty-player, accused my boss of trying to sandbag her, and threatened to play the race card and get him buried for it. my boss said something to the effect of "you know that's not true, as does everyone on this call" and her reply was "lol who cares, we know who HR will side with". There was an HR complaint, and I eventually dragged out the recording to cover my boss. Boss got a light talking to but they let him off, and the shady PM eventually got rotated, two months later, to another project before "deciding to spend time with her family". I got reprimanded heavily, transferred off a juicy project, and made to sign another round of NDAs. Even though I just saved them from one, maybe two lawsuits. Point is: HR doesn't do happy endings most of the time.
- namaria 3y agoI don't know why there's a belief some people have that HR is some sort of arbitrator or champion of the workers. Probably correlates with no corporate experience. HR is corporate liability management.
- WithinReason 3y agoWhat kinds of records would there be of the IT guy doing this? Why would there be records? It doesn't make sense.
- seoulmetro 3y agoYou can't tell, that's the point. Not to mention the stories are usually wildly dramatised as if the persons involved are TV characters. 10 years and you didn't once think something was wrong with the computer? LOL
- antisthenes 3y agoI'm guessing rage inducing engagement stories are how Reddit is ramping up just before the IPO?