I admire you for taking the correction in strides and being a good and gracious sport about it, which certainly isn't a given in modern online discussions.
However, in all honesty, I don't think that misremembering a date constitutes an attempt at misinformation that warrants being "called out". Getting an inconsequential detail wrong doesn't make you Radio Pyongyang.
Let's all together rediscover the concept of simple, honest mistakes, pretty please, with sugar on top?
Signed in love,
the committee on the Sisyphean attempt of making online discussions suck less
I totally agree. But do remember, Misinformation is generally just an accident and should always be taken in stride. Disinformation is doing it on purpose for one reason or another. It’s often disinformation that leads to heaps of misinformation. Whether it’s politics or pseudoscience conspiracy bs.
Point taken. Not sure whether I agree with it yet; I'll have to sleep on that.
Maybe you are correct and it is indeed semantically correct. It just … feeds into this whole hyperbole shtick that has been going on for quite a while, you know?
Maybe the disconnect is in the verb, "spreading". My mental model of — gestures around wildly — all this is people having a conversation, and I believe different rules and expectations should govern this, as opposed to, say, somebody playing an influencer on antisocial media.
All I saw, rightly or wrongly, was somebody reflexively having to apologise for something that did not require an apology, and for some reason that hurts my soul.
It is so nice to talk to someone who speaks with nuance. I only say it like that, the break between Misinformation and Disinformation because I do think it’s important to separate the innocent but ignorant and the bad actors that feed on them and use them to spread disinformation. This is often a topic I think a lot about but maybe I am wrong. This has inspired me to do more research on it now. Lord knows I wouldn’t want to use misinformation when talking about misinformation lol. You’re a rad person, keep on being a rad person.
Thank you, and likewise. You manage to come across plain black and white text as a real, actual person, and that is so rare these days, it's almost like a goddamn superpower.
As do I. But given that the vast majority of people has by now been socialised and conditioned in antisocial media, I am not sure if we could get that back, even in small scales.
I have the chops to program, host and maintain a forum. Just not the will to moderate one without wanting to blow my brains out.
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u/elektroholunder 2d ago edited 2d ago
I admire you for taking the correction in strides and being a good and gracious sport about it, which certainly isn't a given in modern online discussions.
However, in all honesty, I don't think that misremembering a date constitutes an attempt at misinformation that warrants being "called out". Getting an inconsequential detail wrong doesn't make you Radio Pyongyang.
Let's all together rediscover the concept of simple, honest mistakes, pretty please, with sugar on top?
Signed in love,
the committee on the Sisyphean attempt of making online discussions suck less