I'm not leaping to defend HRC in any way, but it's really frustrating how so many of these symbols cover standard designs that just about anyone could use by accident.
I feel like you do. So I say, is the individual or group that is using the symbol reasonably well educated? Should they know the meanings of the symbols? If the answer is yes, then they know what they are choosing, when they choose that symbol.
It's still useful as an indicator of suspicion, but I worry that the weaponized autism will end up chasing down all kinds of useless dead ends, making the symbols act exactly like the smokescreen these (((monsters))) intended it to be.
Totally legitimate concern, since wasteful tail-chasing happens all the time.
However, if this is an investigation, like a proper police investigation, all reasonable leads must be checked out. The real problem with "autists" is that the same tenacity that makes them incomparable for crowdsourced data mining, also makes it hard for them to see a dead end when one occurs.
I have noticed something though, through pizzagate and Q. Since the communities in these are so much larger, and can communicate so easily, compared to "conspiracy theorists" from pre-internet/pre-social media, who were relatively isolated, I think that there are enough eyes and evaluation to keep things from going off the deep end.
So far pizzagate and Q appear to be staying properly focused and cohesive. Yes individuals dart around here and there bringing every tidbit, but that has proven very useful in the past. Not frequently mind you, but when it matters it matters a lot. The trash is getting filtered through everyone else, regardless of what a more "excitable" individual says.
I think we are doing well tbqo. Nothing to worry about. It's part of the process of data mining.
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DeliciousOnions ago
I'm not leaping to defend HRC in any way, but it's really frustrating how so many of these symbols cover standard designs that just about anyone could use by accident.
abattoirdaydream ago
I feel like you do. So I say, is the individual or group that is using the symbol reasonably well educated? Should they know the meanings of the symbols? If the answer is yes, then they know what they are choosing, when they choose that symbol.
DeliciousOnions ago
It's still useful as an indicator of suspicion, but I worry that the weaponized autism will end up chasing down all kinds of useless dead ends, making the symbols act exactly like the smokescreen these (((monsters))) intended it to be.
abattoirdaydream ago
Totally legitimate concern, since wasteful tail-chasing happens all the time.
However, if this is an investigation, like a proper police investigation, all reasonable leads must be checked out. The real problem with "autists" is that the same tenacity that makes them incomparable for crowdsourced data mining, also makes it hard for them to see a dead end when one occurs.
I have noticed something though, through pizzagate and Q. Since the communities in these are so much larger, and can communicate so easily, compared to "conspiracy theorists" from pre-internet/pre-social media, who were relatively isolated, I think that there are enough eyes and evaluation to keep things from going off the deep end.
So far pizzagate and Q appear to be staying properly focused and cohesive. Yes individuals dart around here and there bringing every tidbit, but that has proven very useful in the past. Not frequently mind you, but when it matters it matters a lot. The trash is getting filtered through everyone else, regardless of what a more "excitable" individual says.
I think we are doing well tbqo. Nothing to worry about. It's part of the process of data mining.