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Title: Snopes May Fold
Post by: Ben on July 25, 2017, 09:55:05 AM: 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/
Title: Re: Snopes May Fold
Post by: RocketMan on July 25, 2017, 12:40:33 PM: Drat! They've already gone $31k over their goal of $500k. I don't think they're going away anytime soon.
Title: Re: Snopes May Fold
Post by: never_retreat on July 25, 2017, 10:30:18 PM: Thats not a very complex site they can't be using that much bandwidth.
Title: Re: Snopes May Fold
Post by: lee n. field on July 25, 2017, 10:54:33 PM: Quote from: never_retreat on July 25, 2017, 10:30:18 PM
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.
Title: Re: Snopes May Fold
Post by: Perd Hapley on July 27, 2017, 10:02:43 AM: 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.
Title: Re: Snopes May Fold
Post by: MillCreek on July 27, 2017, 10:56:17 AM: ^^^Wow. I had not realized Snopes had changed so much.
Title: Re: Snopes May Fold
Post by: HankB on July 27, 2017, 12:54:33 PM: They're about as reliable and impartial today as the "Politifact" people.

:rofl:
Title: Re: Snopes May Fold
Post by: MechAg94 on July 27, 2017, 01:36:07 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Snopes May Fold
Post by: Sideways_8 on July 27, 2017, 02:00:25 PM: Quote from: lee n. field on July 25, 2017, 10:54:33 PM
Funneling money to the Clinton Foundation must suck up a bunch of their income.

Hookers aren't cheap either.
Title: Re: Snopes May Fold
Post by: RoadKingLarry on July 27, 2017, 03:03:37 PM: Amounts to the same thing...
A short lived temporary pleasure with high risk of long term suffering or death.
Title: Re: Snopes May Fold
Post by: Bob F. on July 29, 2017, 09:27:15 PM: Checked some Billary report a few years ago: "Not true according to a Clinton spokesperson." Snopes flushed down the tube!