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Groups like this are very important to have around for the rest of us to periodically recalibrate our bull@#$% detectors against. That people whose professional reputation and livelihood it is to keep well-calibrated fell for this, is leagues more dangerous than these jokesters themselves. Sad!
Oh hi HN It's interesting to see that a lot of people still believed it, even when evidence that it was a Drama troll op was provided. The Texas bounty hunters sub wasn't the first foray of the dramanauts, but it definitely attracted the most attention out of all of them. The C.S. Lewis quote is basically my thoughts on the matter of people's reactions to these sorts of subs.
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But this cuts both ways — you are exposing your own biases in believing it’s obvious satire. I hold the prior that most people writing on the internet are not doing it merely to get a rise out of liberals. I have also known men who became violent and angry when a women they had sex with decided to get an abortion. What’s different about this Reddit post? What’s supposed to indicate to me that it’s obviously in jest?…
ok but I wrote some of it and it was explicitly intended to be satire for the purpose of ridiculing people dumb enough to believe it
It didn’t end up in any news source I would classify as having a good reputation.
Oh hey, cool to see my article here. If anyone has questions or wants further details on anything, I'm happy to stick around this thread for a bit. I've paid altogether too much attention to this saga; glad it's going to some use.
I haven't encountered this specific group before, but I've definitely run into the "we want to believe the worst of our enemies" mindset, when I got into an argument with an earnest, well-meaning Bernie Sanders supporter who came across an obviously tongue-in-cheek Joe Biden pinup coloring book during the 2020 primaries (I mean, how can you read "Joe Biden pinup coloring book" and immediately go "oh, this is a joke") and was angrily denouncing it on Twitter as "this is what Biden supporters really believe." I pointed out that there is, in fact, a 2016 Bernie Sanders pinup coloring book, and was met with, more or less, "Yes, but that's obviously a joke." Yes. Yes, it is. Sigh.
Oh hi HN It's interesting to see that a lot of people still believed it, even when evidence that it was a Drama troll op was provided. The Texas bounty hunters sub wasn't the first foray of the dramanauts, but it definitely attracted the most attention out of all of them. The C.S. Lewis quote is basically my thoughts on the matter of people's reactions to these sorts of subs.
TPTK got about as much attention as the bounty sub. And loveforlandlords way outstripped both
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TPTK got about as much attention as the bounty sub. And loveforlandlords way outstripped both
LoveForLandlords, BanVideoGames, etcgot a lot of attention on reddit, but not really... worldwide.
Groups like this are very important to have around for the rest of us to periodically recalibrate our bull@#$% detectors against. That people whose professional reputation and livelihood it is to keep well-calibrated fell for this, is leagues more dangerous than these jokesters themselves. Sad!
They should amp it up into an automated gullibility meter for news outlets and journalists.
I mean honestly, MSM: what are the odds an actual group of bona fide Texans takes the time to create a forum to help each other collect their $10,000 abortion bounties over the next few months? Seriously, what are the goddamned odds? I'm completely illiterate when it comes to statistics. Irregardless, I do know I'd bet anything the odds are infinitesimally low given the poor track record of the MSM.
Iirc there was an actual tip line, so nonzero. The content was very obvious satire though
Someone taken in by the ruse, on being told it was a ruse... > “It may be a lie, but the fact I believed it speaks volumes about my enemies, and not me” ... that's pretty much the zeitgeist of our times. (By which I mean, people who are on Twitter and Facebook) facepalm
I believe that tweet was intended as comedy.
Ask any politically independent or moderate person, and they can tell you everyone else only sees caricatures of the other side
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ok but I wrote some of it and it was explicitly intended to be satire for the purpose of ridiculing people dumb enough to believe it
I understand it was intended as satire. What I don’t understand is why anyone would be surprised that you fooled people. People are notoriously easy to fool! Smart people, dumb people, brilliant scientists. Happens all the time. I would go so far as to say that being fooled, and being a gigantic dumbass, is the state of nature of human beings. It didn’t end up in any news source I would classify as having a good repu…