Snopes.com?
By clrumfelt
@clrumfelt (5597)
Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee
July 26, 2008 11:35am CST
So many people look to snopes.com to identify whether or not internet content is factual. In my experience, some people quote snopes for truth as if it was the I Bible. It started me wondering how well we can trust snopes.com to actually tell us the truth about things. I ran a search and found a website that has investigated things about snopes. Take a look and see what you think.
http://www.johnon.com/526/free-411.html
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3 responses
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
26 Jul 08
I guess you have to keep an open mind. If the couple owns spam messengers then is it not shooting itself on the foot? And since Snopes contact form does not work, and some are not bloggers, then it seems that a lot of spam is going unreported. But Snopes is good at most but there should be more done and those couple have to get our of the spam business or it looks as if they have all their work cut out for them.
@clrumfelt (5597)
• Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee
27 Jul 08
I agree snopes needs to protect its reputation of being a trustworthy site or people will lose trust in them and start going to other sites for information.
@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
26 Jul 08
I've long considered snopes.com to be gray propaganda. I've found many of their answers to be misleading or incomplete. Gray propaganda is a mixture of lies and truth. The truth is there to gain creditability for the lies they slip in.
I particularily liked the cartoon at the link. A point can be made from it that can not be hammered home often enough. Besides the law of supply and demand there is only one other basic law of economics and it is demonstrated by that cartoon.
"Anything you can imagine which would make money is being done or soon will be by someone. That is as in ANYTHING no matter how replusive, byzantine, unethical, devious, underhanded, or whatever. ANYTHING."
So, even if scopes is not doing something as illustrated in the cartoon, someone else is.
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@clrumfelt (5597)
• Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee
26 Jul 08
I think skepticism is a good habit when viewing any site online that claims to be giving out the truth. It is best to check out their claims by using a couple other sites that perform the same service. Here are two where you can also find comments on urban legends. Thanks for your input.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/
http://urbanlegends.about.com/
@tessah (6617)
• United States
26 Jul 08
i think it can be trusted just about as much as any other resource site you might find on the internet. there are people who will beleive anything. i remember one of those email warning things that got sent out a while ago in regards to those gel candles being explosive.. and the story told along with the "proof" of the claims was that they grew so hot this persons toilet exploded and burst into flames burning their entire home down nearly killing everyone while they slept. 1) shouldnt leave ANY candle burning while you sleep and umm.. B) ceramic and water wouldnt combust and burst into flames..o.O but people were in a frenzy just the same. lack of common sense can be dangerous ..;nod;..
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@clrumfelt (5597)
• Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee
26 Jul 08
I have started using a few different sources to check out urban legands. Here are a couple of other good sites I use.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/reference/a/top_25_uls.htm
http://www.truthorfiction.com/




