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by jameshart
1232 days ago
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But getting this stuff wrong takes more effort than just copying the actual facts from the article you are providing a link to! And just referring to a person who is named and credentialed in the article as 'a guy' just seems like throwing a layer of extra carelessness on top. I just can't fathom how someone accomplishes this. If there's one thing I try to encourage people to do in online discourse in general, it's to recognize that you don't have to guess. You have time to go look up the facts. Things are knowable, you don't have to vaguely gesture in the direction of the truth. And in this case the op had the source right there! They must have googled up the link and opened the page and copied the URL! The facts were right there, in the next tab! |
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Person wakes up and browses interesting stories, remembers semi-relevant story, decides to comment about the similarity and forgets specifics. Realizes right before posting "oh shit I have to cite my sources or else pedants will ratio me into being unable to participate in other conversations" and quickly searches for a recent link that mostly backs up their commentary. Does not think to fact check every detail. Backfires.