Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Ben on July 25, 2017, 09:55:05 AM
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Snopes has put out a plea for "community funding" to keep them from shutting down. They've received appropriate negative response.
I agree with the majority of the responses. I really liked Snopes when they stuck to practical "mythbusters" type stuff. Once they threw (biased) politics into the mix, they lost me. I can't remember the last time I recommended or posted a link to Snopes to check the truth of something. I trust even Wikipedia more.
http://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2017/07/25/nopes-to-snopes-snopes-plea-for-funding-goes-embarrassingly-hilariously-bad/
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Drat! They've already gone $31k over their goal of $500k. I don't think they're going away anytime soon.
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Thats not a very complex site they can't be using that much bandwidth.
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Thats not a very complex site they can't be using that much bandwidth.
Funneling money to the Clinton Foundation must suck up a bunch of their income.
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I didn't know Snopes had gone so political, so I had to read up on them a bit. Apparently it was a husband and wife team, and according to one article, it was regularly used by journalists, who let them do their fact-checking. But the couple is (or was?) in the midst of a divorce, and hubby is now consorting with some escort/porn actress. Oh, and there's some left-wing blogger doing their fact-checking now, plus somebody who ran for office as a Democrat. Yeah, I'm beginning to see why they have a problem.
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^^^Wow. I had not realized Snopes had changed so much.
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They're about as reliable and impartial today as the "Politifact" people.
:rofl:
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I used them a lot 10 or 15 years ago. The only good thing that really sticks in my memory is they had a really good debunking page about one of the first 911 Truther emails that made the rounds soon after 911.
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Funneling money to the Clinton Foundation must suck up a bunch of their income.
Hookers aren't cheap either.
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Amounts to the same thing...
A short lived temporary pleasure with high risk of long term suffering or death.
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Checked some Billary report a few years ago: "Not true according to a Clinton spokesperson." Snopes flushed down the tube!