That’s not true at all. Regularly misinformation is posted here and often corrections aren’t offered either by OP or by the comment section, meaning people either don’t read the article at all or don’t look deeper for citation. Voat has low standards for accuracy on the whole, the only real strong suit is the lack of or at least very limited censorship relative to other platforms.
As early as a year ago, this wasn't so much the case. Now, however, it does seem to be true. The smart goats don't seem to be as active lately. I wonder why?
Maybe you're not one of the smart goats he's referring to.
There are definitely some users who's level of understanding of all of the small pieces the rest of the community finds/discovers/focuses on goes above and beyond - the users who put all the pieces together in various combinations in their mind and find high level connections.
The problem is, when these higher thinkers combine the pieces and find real terrifying stuff, a lot of the less capable users aren't able to understand the result, fear the result enough to mentally reject it, or just let the paid Tel Aviv and Langley joint task force staff manipulate the votes and character assassinate the heavy thinker enough that the rest become unwitting (see: ignorant) weapons against the heavy thinker.
It's probably contributed to why so many of the heavy lifters of high level concepts and ideas have given up and left over the years.
This doesn't have anything to do with what we're talking about. The topic is misinformation.
You may very well be correct in your assumptions. For sure I'm not the sort of poweruser that makes all these wild lateral connections to piece together incredibly informative posts about current affairs. The bulk of the best and brightest may have left to never return. I don't know. I've always thought the influx of younger users was the main contributor to the lowered quality. But then the quality isn't really all that worse from when I first came here. Maybe the PAO migration changed it, I wasn't here before that.
But it's not what we're discussing. We're just talking about misinformation.
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Womb_Raider ago
That’s not true at all. Regularly misinformation is posted here and often corrections aren’t offered either by OP or by the comment section, meaning people either don’t read the article at all or don’t look deeper for citation. Voat has low standards for accuracy on the whole, the only real strong suit is the lack of or at least very limited censorship relative to other platforms.
zxcvzxcv ago
As early as a year ago, this wasn't so much the case. Now, however, it does seem to be true. The smart goats don't seem to be as active lately. I wonder why?
HuginnOgMuninn ago
wrong, I've been here for 4 years (I have had a few accounts compromised). There's always been unreliable info here.
Which is fine, most of the posts are a goldmine if you just vet it.
Nosfewratsjews ago
Maybe you're not one of the smart goats he's referring to.
There are definitely some users who's level of understanding of all of the small pieces the rest of the community finds/discovers/focuses on goes above and beyond - the users who put all the pieces together in various combinations in their mind and find high level connections.
The problem is, when these higher thinkers combine the pieces and find real terrifying stuff, a lot of the less capable users aren't able to understand the result, fear the result enough to mentally reject it, or just let the paid Tel Aviv and Langley joint task force staff manipulate the votes and character assassinate the heavy thinker enough that the rest become unwitting (see: ignorant) weapons against the heavy thinker.
It's probably contributed to why so many of the heavy lifters of high level concepts and ideas have given up and left over the years.
@zxcvzxcv @womb_raider You know I speak truth here.
HuginnOgMuninn ago
This doesn't have anything to do with what we're talking about. The topic is misinformation.
You may very well be correct in your assumptions. For sure I'm not the sort of poweruser that makes all these wild lateral connections to piece together incredibly informative posts about current affairs. The bulk of the best and brightest may have left to never return. I don't know. I've always thought the influx of younger users was the main contributor to the lowered quality. But then the quality isn't really all that worse from when I first came here. Maybe the PAO migration changed it, I wasn't here before that.
But it's not what we're discussing. We're just talking about misinformation.