Estarlio comments on Privileging the Question - Less Wrong

102 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 29 April 2013 06:30PM

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Comment author: elharo 05 May 2013 11:09:34AM -2 points [-]

Downvoted because it's improperly sourced, second hand information, and in a comment about journalism no less. That is, "I knew a person who worked as a journalist for a newspaper". Who did you know? What newspaper did they work at? Can you quote them directly rather than simply recalling and rephrasing what they said?

Comment author: Estarlio 05 May 2013 12:18:26PM 2 points [-]

If you're going to assume they're lying, then they could make up whatever they liked for who they knew and what newspaper they worked at. And, frankly, being able to quote someone word for word often makes me more suspicious of someone lying.

I don't see what more info you'd get out of their citing it really - at least in checkable terms.