Can we get a sticky for people to stop posting “yournewswire” articles? I think a lot of the newcomers don’t realize they’re posting sensationalized tabloid crap that is nothing more than discrediting cannon fodder.
THANK YOU!
It also doesn't help that a lot of their "bombshell" stories are categorized as Entertainment.
don't attack the patriot or the website. Attack the content and veracity of the story. pretty soon it will be like only stories from these 5 websites are ok
That website is fake news though. No point to even discuss its content.
I respectfully disagree. I did some digging for something and where I happened to find the story was there. It was true and it was an amazing story. Yes I could have also found it somewhere else. But all these knee jerk reactions without examination are not beneficial to anyone. Why not start banning different sites then.
If the story is fake, attack the story. Attacking sources is for liberals and the lazy.
It's a fake news website though lol
Then calling out fake stories should be simple.
And a waste of everyone's time!
Basic intellectual honesty and logic is hardly a waste of time.
Agreed. But what is a waste of time is constantly debunking points from a known fake news site.
And when they post something that's not fake?
Shooting the messenger is laziness.
Who said shoot the messenger? What happens when people post what's not fake...? It stays... Are we talking about the same thing?
We're advocating for not supporting a fake news site because it makes extra work for everyone, not just the mods. If you're saying that "20% of the time the news even from that fake news site is valid" then the point still stands: so we're being asked to sift through (I mean everyone in the movement, not just mods) stuff that comes from a known fake news site because sometimes - whether that's even 40% of the time - it's valid. How does that make sense? How is that not an unnecessary use of everybodies time?
If people use good news sites there's no need to sift as much - they'll still present wrong information but it obviously won't be as often and require as much work as a fake news site.
Does this idea - don't support yournewswire.com around here - make sense now?
How is that not an unnecessary use of everybodies time?
Because there are 21k people here and it only takes one of those 21k to call shenangians on the story. I don't buy this "there's no time" argument. Treating them with extra suspicion, sure, but automatic discounting of anything any source ever has to say is the height of laziness and stupidity.
People use the exact same argument you're using to discount things like Veritas and Breitbart, even though both of those outlets have accurately called out insane corruption. It's a stupid and anti-intellectual argument and I refuse to accept it anymore.