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To be fair, the article is ALSO not talking about the case anigbrowl is talking about. I've seen "[citation needed]" abused more often as I've seen it used whe
by Ensorceled 13y ago
To be fair, the article is ALSO not talking about the case anigbrowl is talking about.
I've seen "[citation needed]" abused more often as I've seen it used when somebody is "[making] an extraordinary or absolutist claim absent any evidence"
And the main claim still holds: provide a link that disproves, descredits or calls into question the extraordinary claim. Or at least explain why you think it's extraordinary.
- lake99 13y agoI guess you and the author are sensitive to different kinds of abuse than I am. What annoys me more are wild claims, and I often go away feeling it's not easy to counter this much reliance on misinformation. I am not very active on HN, and read only about 1% of the threads that make it to the front page. Whenever I saw [citation needed], I felt it was apt. Also, I did not get the impression that it was passive-aggressive behaviour.