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Leaf Rumours

Social experiment to go with my latest article about believing everything you hear. This thread is a part of it. Thanks guys.
 
I get why he did it, but if anything, this proves that there are pockets of the internet that are more sophisticated than others.
 
Jeffler's good people. I'm confident that there was no malicious intent or ill will with his social experiment and, like Volc said, he was right too. Many of us took it at face value without questioning the source.
 
JaysCyYoung said:
Jeffler's good people. I'm confident that there was no malicious intent or ill will with his social experiment and, like Volc said, he was right too. Many of us took it at face value without questioning the source.
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Actually, I don't think I see a single person here who took it at face value.
 
Jeffler's good people. I'm confident that there was no malicious intent or ill will with his social experiment and, like Volc said, he was right too. Many of us took it at face value without questioning the source.
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Hm? Not really. I was wondering why someone who'd posted on this board claimed to have inside information. Someone pointed out his article almost immediately.
 
hockeylover said:
Hm? Not really. I was wondering why someone who'd posted on this board claimed to have inside information. Someone pointed out his article almost immediately.
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Dude, you're the one who posted it on here as a rumour. My only involvement on was my post explaining what I was doing.

Truthfully, I never expected it to be posted here.
 
Dude, you're the one who posted it on here as a rumour. My only involvement on was my post explaining what I was doing.

Truthfully, I never expected it to be posted here.
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You've posted on these boards before. Hence my comment "uhhhh, no idea why Jeffler is posting this but I'll ask him".
 
Isn't Jeffler the same guy who did, if I remember correctly, a spectacular analysis of the Kulemin RFA situation a few months ago?

Dude, you're above tricks like this, even if there was a point behind it. Besides that, it would have been a more meaningful experiment if it had been a completely anonymous twitter account. This doesn't determine how many people are willing to run with a bogus rumour, it determines how many people used to trust you.
 
Jeffler said:
Dude, you're the one who posted it on here as a rumour. My only involvement on was my post explaining what I was doing.

Truthfully, I never expected it to be posted here.
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you're talking about a website that regularly posts eklund rumors on it.. do you really think we believe anything eklund says? what else is there to talk about in the summer.. any rumor, speculation, or even baseless proposals are fair game this time of year. you're giving yourself too much credit if you think people actually believed it.
 
and...as I noted, it was notable enough to get posted here because Jeffler posted it and HL is familiar with him.

The only valid experiment here was in the perception of Jeffler's credibility.
 
Yeah, I'm a little blown away here. He's using a thread where the 1st post is a little incredulous and is just passing it on because she "knows" the guy.

The 2nd post is me questioning who the source is

The 3rd is Volcan calling bullshit

the 4th is Montana filling me in on who the hell he is

5th - HL clarifying who he is

6th - Montana pointing out that it's likely bullshit

7th - HL questioning whether it's a social experiment

etc, etc, etc


And this is somehow proof that internet rumours are dangerous and we shouldn't trust anyone who isn't part of the established media? What the **** kind of flawed thought process is that? Reading the rest of the links he posted as proof, there doesn't seem to be a lot of people diving in believing it either.

Even the HFboarders weren't buying it.

Huge fail Jeffler, huge fail
 
*shrug* If you guys see it this way, I apologize. Didn't mean to hurt feelings. I figured the fact that me reporting a rumour an hour after saying I was going to make one up, 6 hours after bashing people for believing every tweet they see, and after many times of saying I'm not an insider, it wouldn't be taken seriously by anyone other than those I was trying to make an example of.

And it was called forumicefail because the others were under fail, it was just an easy way to organize them at the time.
 
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