[teebs]

Although I think that sharing quotes is not bad, and few people share quotes to show that they're better than someone else, I think there is one basic message worth remembering from this article. If I may quote it:

"This epidemic, if you allow me to be hyperbolic, is getting so bad that we don't even seem to care if quotes are real anymore."

Or, quotes are sometimes fake. This is because of two issues. First, people don't fact check. Mostly, this is because the cost isn't worth the reward. If you find out the truth and you tell people, your reward is often looking like a know-it-all. There is a gap here for someone to make a better fact checking platform that reduces this cost through the magic of natural language processing.

Second, people pay too much attention to arguments by appeal to authority. Just because someone was respected does not mean that everything they said was correct. In fact, for many particularly talkative people, you can probably find arguments they've made on both sides of many issues.

[Dylan16807]

I would have thought that not checking the source of a quote means you care LESS about who said it, anti-appeal-to-authority.