If I have questions about an issue I will read everything I can find online about the issue. I can make up my own mind on if it is valid or not. Do you have money invested in snopes or something?
No, I just think there has been a lot of stupid whining about it in this thread. You guys are smarter than this (I hope). If you want to debunk the debunkers, show where they're actually wrong. Y'all seriously don't see how stupid it sounds when you
CAN'T do that?! It's not just the pot calling the kettle black, it's more like the pot calling the somewhat-soiled dishrag black.
OK, so the alternative to Wiki is to go to an encyclopedia, a much-applauded analogy there, except that none of the critics seem to be able to name an alternative debunking resource equivalent to the 'Encyclopedia' part of that analogy, maiking it an Epic Fail as analogies go (Though I suspect that resource would be Lew Rockwell or similar nutters in one or two cases, not meaning you in particular but not naming names either).
It's pretty obvious Snopes kicked someone's sacred cow somewhere on their site, though nobody has really chosen to come right out and say which sacred cow it was, so it's kind of hard to put a finger on what the drop-dead issue is over a site that doesn't pretend to be the final word on anything. Aside from his indecipherable post about proving a negative, Undies for instance posted links that don't seem to debunk Snopes at all, just criticise their taste (I guess that was his point, if not it was too cryptic for me) for posting the accident pics that were indeed part of the email story they were addressing (and that story with those pics was certainly emailed around), without any comment to explain why he thought it was not truthful. Still, cryptic and irrelevant to the accuracy issue as it seemed to be, Undies at least managed to put links in about what presumably is one of his problems with the site, more than I can say for the rest of the critics.
It is what it is, just a couple of people trying to address whether various internet folklore and urban legends are true or not. Why is that so hard to deal with?