• Kichae
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    8 months ago

    I think, too, people have interpreted “citations” as “smoking gun proof”, and not, literally, just the thing that was said, and the name of the person who said it/location where you can find the thing that was said. As if the point of citing sources is to win arguments, not to let information be traced and independently verified.

    There’s an infamous Twitter exchange among the online Toronto Blue Jays fandom, where the team’s official Twitter account announced that a player was injured, and someone replied with “Source?”

    The team’s account replied in turn with “Literally us, the Blue Jays”.

    • mozz@mbin.grits.devOP
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      8 months ago

      I think quite a lot of people on the internet view the entire point of the operation to be winning arguments, as opposed to getting at the truth. I can understand the drive but it’s not a real productive tradition.