I'd recommend doing cursory research before confidently claiming something as fact on the world wide web.
I learned about the dangers of spreading rumors from Veggie Tales when I was five. We all make mistakes, but there's really no excuse for peddling secondhand information when established facts are an internet search away at all times.
The Hacker News platform actually goes to great lengths to avoiding the reception of upvotes as a motivation for posting, and I'd recommend also de-prioritizing the importance of internet points and to instead rely on intrinsic motivation.
And yet, there are upvotes and they’re displayed to the poster. Also, I used the word ostensibly to imply I may personally have some other motivation. But in either cases, the broader point still stands: there are diminishing marginal returns to being more correct.
Such a point of view is depressingly self-centered, and I don't see any merit in discussing anything with someone who is more interested in the attention of everyone other than the person they're actually conversing with, especially when they value imaginary internet points above truth.
It’s not self centered at all. People act because there is some benefit to them in their action. You suggested I take an action without providing a convincing benefit. I was actually hoping to help you, by explaining why the types of suggestions you’re providing to people are likely to fall upon deaf ears.
I learned about the dangers of spreading rumors from Veggie Tales when I was five. We all make mistakes, but there's really no excuse for peddling secondhand information when established facts are an internet search away at all times.