Posting without SOURCES

wriglucy
wriglucy Posts: 1,064 Member
edited September 2024 in Chit-Chat
I am SOOO sick of people posting things without legit sources! It drives me nuts!!! Ehow...not legit. Some opinion page in a newspaper...not legit. PLEASE, check the sources and make sure LEGIT people are saying this information before you pass it on to others, and....then still, please cite your source! Just copy and paste the website!

If something is posted from an opinion page, or some non-legit site, people read it, and believe it! Why spread the incorrect information!!!

Please...just do your research before posting something.

Thank you!

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  • calibri
    calibri Posts: 439 Member
    Cannot agree with you more. Also, anecdotal references are not sources.
  • kao708
    kao708 Posts: 813 Member
    On the flip side, most adults should know not to believe everything that is posted on an online message board and we must do our own homework and research before we take anything as truth!
  • Mrs_McFadden
    Mrs_McFadden Posts: 1,139
    Yes, Professor :P
  • wriglucy
    wriglucy Posts: 1,064 Member
    Yes, Professor :P

    Haha...I know. But it just annoys me when people cite and follow what people say who have no credentials. Probably just a pet peeve, but when people believe that stuff, it could be dangerous too. :)
  • Mrs_McFadden
    Mrs_McFadden Posts: 1,139
    I constantly read articles about the latest science and health information so I have a bazillion random studies stuffed in my brain. I have pretty good recall, but I am too lazy to do google searches to find original articles etc. Any advice taken from any website, and particularly a forum, should get taken cautiously obviously. There was a post from a man who happened to be a scientist, a few weeks ago, with a similar type of complaint. Personally- I find it best to just relax, put my 2 cents in and move on. Perhaps my 2 cents is precisely the kind of commentary that you are upset LOL.
    I usually write a disclaimer for anything I say.
  • wriglucy
    wriglucy Posts: 1,064 Member
    Nah...if you say stuff, no biggie, because you are not claiming anything particular from a source. It's the ones that bother me from like ehow.com, or some blog site, or an opinion page in a newspaper, that people use. Those annoy me :)
  • Mrs_McFadden
    Mrs_McFadden Posts: 1,139
    Nah...if you say stuff, no biggie, because you are not claiming anything particular from a source. It's the ones that bother me from like ehow.com, or some blog site, or an opinion page in a newspaper, that people use. Those annoy me :)

    Who tf uses ehow? I feel like anything I've seen on ehow could have been written by my 10 year old LOL.
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