[philiphodgen]

The Hitler trick might make you feel superior, but do this a couple of more times and you'll have destroyed a potentially valuable asset just because you want to feel smug.

If you want to do A/B testing, do A/B testing. Don't pee in your own swimming pool.

[fsokhansanj]

I genuinely wasn't doing it to feel superior. The goal is to collect enough data to conclusively verify that the hard right values rhetoric and propaganda over facts and that they are more susceptible to propaganda than the left is. In the process I've also learned that the hard right is more likely to make something viral than the left is.

Regardless, it is an ongoing experiment so I will update it accordingly and probably publish something once I have enough data.

Also, I can probably make some money off the Republican website (more than the Democrat website) but I don't view it as a valuable asset. No matter how big it gets at the end I will dismantle it because it is a net-negative to our society.

[runjake]

I genuinely wasn't doing it to feel superior.

Yes you were. The whole tone of your post is "lol, look at those right-winger idiots!". Remember, you thought it'd be "hilarious".

For what it's worth, I've seen left-wingers also brainlessly forward untruths and non-quotes the same as the right. It's not a political spectrum issue, it's a general issue with people in an information-dense environment.

[Mz]

I think what was intended is that posting this announcement on hn corrupts your data.