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comment by oyster

Sounds like a self righteous OP. I can't stand the weird superiority complex people get over the whole question everything dribble. Question things that matter and you'll do just fine. It really doesn't matter at all if somebody is actually screwing their brother, like not even remotely. People aren't going to start questioning the important things just because somebody lied about screwing their brother.





someguyfromcanada  ·  2658 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's happened so many times that unfortunately it is a non-story that they think they were "exposing". No reasonable person with experience on reddit or any other social media site would take these throwaway posts seriously.

/u/LucidEnding was the worst.... a Gawker writer who pretended he was going to be euthanized in the next few hours. But had basic facts wrong about how it worked in Oregon (even though the writer's undergrad thesis was about that specifically). So many people fell for it and I got downvoted to hell for posting about how fake the post was.

People can not even trust non-throwaway posts. Anyone remember elderly reddit celebrity mayonnaise king /u/grandpawiggly who faked his existence and experience for years? I am sure there are dozens of those "creative writing" experiments going on at any one time on reddit.

The real problem is that I suspect many "journalists" who report on these accounts know that it is suspect or fake but simply do not care. They just want the clicks from the inexperienced who are not web savvy.

oyster  ·  2658 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    They just want the clicks

user-inactivated  ·  2658 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you were to talk to a child about it, what things you'd tell them are definitely important, what are definitely not, and how wide the grey area is?

oyster  ·  2658 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Things that affect your life = important, things that affect the lives of people you care about = important, things that have the ability to affect the way the world works = important. Who somebody is screwing = unimportant, whether or not somebody is actually sleeping with the person they say they are = unimportant because as we learnt before who somebody is screwing = unimportant.

That's basically it.

user-inactivated  ·  2658 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm going beyond the scope of the article.

What about incest (both in terms of "who sleeps with whom" and "what about the potential offspring")?