Well although I do hate people posting things that arr wrong, it should not matter. We shouldn't get or knowledge and information for memes, just our jokes and roasts.
I think the popular page is too generous. I think if it:
• Can be demonstrated to be false by the community members,
• Is already commonly known to be false,
• A repost that has already been falsified,
• OP is unable or unwilling to provide proper citation,
It needs to be removed from the Fresh page before it goes anywhere.
Who would do the job tho
Like checking facts in all of those posts
Gods already got tons of works
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Maybe the gods should hire a demigod? Instead of a blue star, they get a gold one and their job is to do the research and post/comment their findings
I volunteer as a demigod
And their screen name will be Apollo, the Greco-Roman god of light, knowledge, intellect, and the sun.
I'd do it... being between jobs, I find that I have free time on my hands.
"examine (a book, movie, etc.) officially and suppress unacceptable parts of it."
WAIT, could it be...does censor actually mean what I think it means?
Why yes, holy smokes. I used a basic verb, and correctly. Gold sticker for me. Stormy cloud for you guys. Get off the internet if you aren't going to use it to back your snubs
oh my it seems that the guests have become self aware. Oh and whats this? An order, well I must always obey a command from my superiors and leave the internet because i have not misinterpreted the meaning of a word. Come on guys we now have to leave.
I fully agree, but the post is quite specific in that respect, saying that this should only include posts that reach the front page. There's plenty of time and space for discussion between when something is posted and when it reaches the front page, which means the poster can learn from their mistakes but also their misguided post is prevented from making more people wrong. But as I already wrote in another comment, I think the report system works just fine and I wouldn't add anything to it.
Some people seem to confuse political correctness and factual correctness. If someone wants something taken down because it's not PC, then they're a whiny crybaby and they should grow up. If someone posts something that is just factually WRONG because they're either misguided or spread lies on purpose, then they should face consequences. Those consequences usually come in the form of another user calling the poster out on it, however sometimes the post gets so many likes because people don't read the comments and don't realize it's wrong. Personally, I support free speech, but I also support critical thinking and checking whether something that's been said is true or not. Unfortunately, not many people have the time or even care enough to really check, in which case some countermeasures should be implemented. I think the report system works fine in that respect, and I don't really see why we should add on to that. I'd like to ask OP if he/she has any specific recent posts in mind?
Don't think we'd get anything from OP seeing as it's guest.
Personally, I agree with the post (not only on funsubstance) when people post things that have incorrect information and a lot of people believe it just cos it's a post and some don't even bother checking if it's correct and this false information spreads, if you get what I mean?
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But who's going to go through everything and make sure it's factually correct? Are we going to start having moderators now?
You old people sure love lies that support your opinions.
See? I can also say crap without providing proper supportive arguments. Doesn't make it true though.
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My supportive argument would be a list of the postings rosebud made the last couple days, "busting myths" that apparently don't fit his agenda.
I've scrolled through rosebud's posts and it seems like they're a reasonable person, debunking tumblr bullshit and all that. I'd like to refer to a comment I just wrote, political correctness ≠ factual correctness. If you expose someone's bullshit for being factually wrong, good. If you scream at someone for not being PC, then fuck you.
@ewqua, I appreciate the compliment saying that I'm reasonable. Debunking Tumblr shit has proven to be popular. Plus, i love every post i make, else I wouldn't post them at all.
@halfdeadhammerhead, you seem to have made a very specific opinion on me based on a few posts. It just so happens that people saying things like "rape does not need to be proved" juxtaposed with a famous picture that shows how that very thing can be false entertains a ton of people. I don't post my posts to be opinionated to "forward my agenda". I post my posts because it makes people laugh in the comments. I'm pretty sure you're a victim of your own hypocrisy; you seem to only dislike my posts because I don't agree with whatever beliefs you have. We don't all have to agree, and that's normal, but no one ever said that i was worth listening to until I actually began the series to begin with
To prove my point about your hypocrisy: this post: http://m.funsubstance.com/fun/400337/trump-care/
In it, you say that Trump care would be as efficient as Trump University. Admittedly it's hilarious, but did you post it because you wanted to be funny or because you wanted to push your agenda?
In my case, when I post that rape needs proof, I aim to entertain by showing the tumblr user (we'll use this as a blanket term) making a ridiculous comment, and then getting proven wrong. That's all it is. I'm not pushing my agenda. If I post that someone who identifies as a dog should tell the paramedics in the ambulance their biological blood type and gender/sex (I'm not getting into that argument right now), it's usually because the person who says that they should not have to do that is speaking something that everyone can agree is ridiculous.
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I see exactly what you're doing and I know I absolutely cannot argue effectively* against it. You're giving things like overly political correctness and tumblr idiots a relevance they just don't have. By this you're discrediting valid ideas and movements which for a terrifyingly huge amount of people sound pretty much the same. An example (not that you've done that yet) is the classic rant on feminazis. They are a small fraction within the feminist movement but soo many people see all feminists as morbidly obese lesbians who get public meltdowns shouting crazy stuff. A few people are smart enough to differ, but you can ignore them, especially as a lot of them (like ewqua here) just see that you're doing a seemingly right thing, making sure that the crazy people don't conquer or even dominate the public debate. It took you rightists nearly a century to invent the atomic debate bomb: learn to lie in a way that not even the opposite of what you say is true. Chapeau.
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I answered your question by the way. 'twas for the lulz. And there is not a lot of sane Trump behind the crazy Trump. So my agenda is plain and obvious and I carry it openly. That is totally not the same as what you do.
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* effecively in a way to convince a majority of readers. Just too many words.
Okay so I haven't seen all rosebud's posts, but where exactly did he/she say that an entire group is responsible for something? He/she's just exposing idiots, aka INDIVIDUALS. I might've missed something but the posts I've seen never insulted an entire group, just stupid people, whatever their affiliation may be.
Also, you absolute fucking McNugget, did you just assume that everyone who disagrees with your tumblr bullshit is a rightist? LOL! I'm personally centrist/left leaning and to be perfectly honest, both ends of the spectrum are behaving like total nutjobs right now – when you disagree with them, the far left SJWs call you a Nazi fascist racist etc., the far right Neonazis call you a feminist SJW triggered bitch. So don't try to categorize based on the very scarce info you have about someone, cause you're just WRONG. And you even dare write that "few people are smart enough to differ". Well maybe they are, but you're not one of them, lil' snowflake.
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I did _way_ overestimate you. My mistake. Now try and calm down before you get a stroke.
Rightists? I'm also a far-leaning liberal. I simply hate feminazis like any other casual internet-goer. The same feminazis that say that all men should be castrated, that women are superior, etc., etc. Those are the extremist feminists. Or the people that say that people who are straight and white deserve to die and don't need any respect.
These are the people that I actively go out to expose and show their faults, because their movements are not helpful to any party involved. You can't solve a problem, such as gender equality, if you still see your own gender as better than the other. That is the problem, that's what i try to solve.
I've been here for a year. You've been here for a few months as far as I can tell. I'm sure you just looked at my posts and immediately saw me as some conservative right-wing Trump supporter simply because I hate extremist feminists. No, I hate them because they help no people.
@ewqua I'm a guy.
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Funny how nearly everyone on the net is a far leaning liberal these days. Back then no far leaning liberal would have had to explicitly say s/he was, it would have been pretty much obvious from his/her statements.
When you disagree with an extremist statement, there is no way to tell your political affiliation other than that you're not as extremist as the person you disagreed with. To an SJW, everyone else appears to be a rightist. To a Neonazi, everyone else appears to be a leftist.
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Great how you don't judge anyone from a statement he made. Wish I was smart and just like you.
So let's recap:
You assumed, on zero solid evidence provided, that I was a rightist anti-feminist alt-right Trump supporter.
I explained that you were wrong, that your assumptions were false, and basically called you a hypocrite and tossed the ball back into your court.
You then said that you "know what I'm doing" as if I have some secret underground plot to convert the entire user base to my "ideals."
I then explain to you that I'm a liberal and that I only hate extremists.
Your response was to basically say that "everyone says that they are left-leaning liberals." And that every liberal wouldn't have to explain that they were a liberal because of their speech patterns.
Not everyone includes their political affiliation in every comment. I do not have to prove to you that I'm a liberal. Your logic is that my posts prove that I'm the opposite, when really my posts are neutral. I do not target Muslims or blacks or Jews. I target extremists who have gone too far out of line, past...
...the lines that everyone has drawn. Get that through your thick skull.
Your "conservative if they disagree, liberal if they agree with me" mentality has gotten old, rotted, and smells like a dumpster left in the hot summer sun.
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No need to go all Milo on me, you hot little liberal. I'm not accusing you of anything you defend yourself against, you guys like that, don't you? I - as every sane person - totally agree with you on extreme tumblrism, I'm just saying you're giving this way too much relevance, and no matter if you intend it or not, that's helping to create a public impression of social activists being insane morons in general. My growing personal, subjective opinion is that you do intend it, and anyone can judge me for that as s/he pleases. I speak my mind and couldn't care less if that offended anyone, or anyone cared at all.
"extremists who have gone too far out of line, past the lines that everyone has drawn." wow, that really sounds like a far leaning liberal.
I'll let you figure your own opinions out, and I'm not offended. I'm simply telling you that your points makes no sense.
And I love telling people how wrong they are.
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The feeling of being right is boosting the serotonine and dopamine level, and conveniently enough, this is independent from whether you actually are right or not.So it'd appear you're basically a junkie on placebos. Well, at least you won't have to sell your rosebud in a backyard.
Lol, stop building your arguments on words you've just googled, hun. You're fooling no-one.
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If you were half as smart as I thought, you'd know this wasn't about building an argument. And just because you had to google this, doesn't mean I had to. I'm actually making a living on knowing that sort of things.
• Can be demonstrated to be false by the community members,
• Is already commonly known to be false,
• A repost that has already been falsified,
• OP is unable or unwilling to provide proper citation,
It needs to be removed from the Fresh page before it goes anywhere.
Like checking facts in all of those posts
Gods already got tons of works
I volunteer as a demigod
I'd do it... being between jobs, I find that I have free time on my hands.
WAIT, could it be...does censor actually mean what I think it means?
Why yes, holy smokes. I used a basic verb, and correctly. Gold sticker for me. Stormy cloud for you guys. Get off the internet if you aren't going to use it to back your snubs
Personally, I agree with the post (not only on funsubstance) when people post things that have incorrect information and a lot of people believe it just cos it's a post and some don't even bother checking if it's correct and this false information spreads, if you get what I mean?
See? I can also say crap without providing proper supportive arguments. Doesn't make it true though.
@halfdeadhammerhead, you seem to have made a very specific opinion on me based on a few posts. It just so happens that people saying things like "rape does not need to be proved" juxtaposed with a famous picture that shows how that very thing can be false entertains a ton of people. I don't post my posts to be opinionated to "forward my agenda". I post my posts because it makes people laugh in the comments. I'm pretty sure you're a victim of your own hypocrisy; you seem to only dislike my posts because I don't agree with whatever beliefs you have. We don't all have to agree, and that's normal, but no one ever said that i was worth listening to until I actually began the series to begin with
In it, you say that Trump care would be as efficient as Trump University. Admittedly it's hilarious, but did you post it because you wanted to be funny or because you wanted to push your agenda?
In my case, when I post that rape needs proof, I aim to entertain by showing the tumblr user (we'll use this as a blanket term) making a ridiculous comment, and then getting proven wrong. That's all it is. I'm not pushing my agenda. If I post that someone who identifies as a dog should tell the paramedics in the ambulance their biological blood type and gender/sex (I'm not getting into that argument right now), it's usually because the person who says that they should not have to do that is speaking something that everyone can agree is ridiculous.
Also, you absolute fucking McNugget, did you just assume that everyone who disagrees with your tumblr bullshit is a rightist? LOL! I'm personally centrist/left leaning and to be perfectly honest, both ends of the spectrum are behaving like total nutjobs right now – when you disagree with them, the far left SJWs call you a Nazi fascist racist etc., the far right Neonazis call you a feminist SJW triggered bitch. So don't try to categorize based on the very scarce info you have about someone, cause you're just WRONG. And you even dare write that "few people are smart enough to differ". Well maybe they are, but you're not one of them, lil' snowflake.
These are the people that I actively go out to expose and show their faults, because their movements are not helpful to any party involved. You can't solve a problem, such as gender equality, if you still see your own gender as better than the other. That is the problem, that's what i try to solve.
I've been here for a year. You've been here for a few months as far as I can tell. I'm sure you just looked at my posts and immediately saw me as some conservative right-wing Trump supporter simply because I hate extremist feminists. No, I hate them because they help no people.
@ewqua I'm a guy.
You assumed, on zero solid evidence provided, that I was a rightist anti-feminist alt-right Trump supporter.
I explained that you were wrong, that your assumptions were false, and basically called you a hypocrite and tossed the ball back into your court.
You then said that you "know what I'm doing" as if I have some secret underground plot to convert the entire user base to my "ideals."
I then explain to you that I'm a liberal and that I only hate extremists.
Your response was to basically say that "everyone says that they are left-leaning liberals." And that every liberal wouldn't have to explain that they were a liberal because of their speech patterns.
Not everyone includes their political affiliation in every comment. I do not have to prove to you that I'm a liberal. Your logic is that my posts prove that I'm the opposite, when really my posts are neutral. I do not target Muslims or blacks or Jews. I target extremists who have gone too far out of line, past...
Your "conservative if they disagree, liberal if they agree with me" mentality has gotten old, rotted, and smells like a dumpster left in the hot summer sun.
"extremists who have gone too far out of line, past the lines that everyone has drawn." wow, that really sounds like a far leaning liberal.
And I love telling people how wrong they are.