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An argument that it's plausible that almost all remarkable or interesting anecdotes that you read on Reddit are fake: https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/12/12/might-people-on-the-in...

I'm not sure if I believe this, and I certainly don't think it has much to do with the existence of r/thathappened (which does indeed seem much more rooted in people's fear of having been a sucker). But it's interesting to think that the basic intuition of "true stories are more common than fake ones" might be misleading with respect to Reddit in particular, because of the specifics of how Reddit works.

(The point about it being harmless is unpersuasive to me; I want to believe that a given story is true if and only if it is actually true.)