Since some DUers are occasionally resistant to correcting or deleting

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highplainsdem (59,592 posts)

Since some DUers are occasionally resistant to correcting or deleting OPs that are fake even.when

shown that it's fake, it would help to have TOS making it against DU rules to leave the OPs unedited as they continue to trick other DUers.

The TOS does have this, under Content:

No kooky, extremist, or hate content

Do not promote ridiculous, bigoted, or extreme-fringe conspiracy theories. Do not promote extreme fringe views. Do not reference hate sites or other extremist/fringe sources.
Why we have this rule: Democrats are supposed to be part of the "reality-based community." Some amount of skepticism toward powerful institutions is healthy and appropriate, but that doesn't mean every paranoid fantasy is true. Posts about mass shootings being "false flag" operations, 9/11 being a controlled demolition, no airplane at the Pentagon, chemtrails, black helicopters, the Illuminati, or other nonsense make us all look like fools. This website may have the word "underground" in our name, but we are not extreme fringe.

Lots of people get fooled by deepfakes, fake quotes, and fake news stories on the internet. So simply making a mistake and posting an OP with that misinformation/disinformation shouldn't automatically be considered a violation of the TOS.

But leaving an OP with fake content on DU - after it's been shown to be fake and the DUer who posted the OP knows it's fake - is a more serious problem.

Especially if DUers are copying it elsewhere, and maybe saying the source is DU.

OPs like that move DU out of the reality-base community. They're nonsense that makes us all look like fools.

Can we please have a change in the TOS to make it clear it isn't OK to be deliberately misleading by leaving OPs whose content is revealed to be fake?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/125629491

Such as burning chicken wire to show what happened to the twin towers? That kind of fake?

[67 Rover]

Such as burning chicken wire to show what happened to the twin towers? That kind of fake?

MIHOP denier!

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MIHOP denier!

  

[Ralph Wiggum]

The TOS does have this, under Content:

No kooky, extremist, or hate content

Hell, that's 95% of the posts on the entire site! Democrat Underground wouldn't generate oxygen without kooky, extremist hate content.

[SVPete]

highplainsdem (59,592 posts)

Since some DUers are occasionally resistant to correcting or deleting OPs that are fake even.when

shown that it's fake, it would help to have TOS making it against DU rules to leave the OPs unedited as they continue to trick other DUers.

Does this quasi-demand refer to news sites publishing facts DUpipo don't want to know or be known? Or a humorless demand to ban satire sites like The Onion and The Babylon Bee? The complaint can't possibly refer to kpete-grade-stupid memes, as DUpipo generally lap up lies they want to be true.

Do not promote ridiculous, bigoted, or extreme-fringe conspiracy theories. Do not promote extreme fringe views. Do not reference hate sites or other extremist/fringe sources.

No ridiculous CTs? CTs DU-folk want to be true are a DU staple, e.g. the Trump-Russia Collusion Delusion or the Trump-is-a-pedophile CT.

Posts about mass shootings being "false flag" operations, 9/11 being a controlled demolition, no airplane at the Pentagon

What?! Has highplainsdem forgotten or failed to realize that this is the Plan B fallback after a mass shooter is proven not to be the White MAGAgelical gun-nut DU-folk reflexively blame without facts?

Wasn't the chicken-wire-and-cinder-block "proof" that jet fuel couldn't have caused the WTC collapses a venerated post on DU?

Did any DU-folk get into the no-plane-at-the-Pentagon CT?

his website may have the word "underground" in our name, but we are not extreme fringe.

The lack of self-awareness is strong in this one.

[Carl]

Take away all that and you might as well shut the DUmp down.