Talk:Snopes
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Just curious, but for a website called RationaleWiki, this Snopes article here isn't rationale at all. Perhaps a little elbow grease and dropping the allying political slant, and actually presenting a neutral, rationale article on Snopes would work better. Adios. 70.180.188.238 (talk) 15:25, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
- If you have any specific issues with the current text, please point them out. Otherwise, please stick to that "adios".--ZooGuard (talk) 15:29, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
- Neutral doesn't fly around here. We try to be as biased as possible (for science, against bullshit). Personally, I like neutral more, but hey, rules of the site: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:What_is_a_RationalWiki_article%3F Nullahnung (talk) 15:31, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
- What can anyone possibly find wrong with the article. Could possibly be expanded a bit but … Scream!! (talk) 17:36, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
- The sentence "Woo-pushers, the fringe on either end of the political spectrum, and those who benefit from these stories tend to dismiss Snopes as wrong or biased, despite research showing it isn't" could do with a cite and one or two hmorous examples. Apart from that, it's fine. SophieWilder
07:52, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
- Searching for "Snopes bias" unveils a lot of stuff, including a case where a particular accusation went viral... and then was rebutted by the very site to which Snopes was compared unfavorably. They also post a lot of their incoming mail on their message board: http://message.snopes.com/forumdisplay.php?f=38 --ZooGuard (talk) 09:50, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
- The sentence "Woo-pushers, the fringe on either end of the political spectrum, and those who benefit from these stories tend to dismiss Snopes as wrong or biased, despite research showing it isn't" could do with a cite and one or two hmorous examples. Apart from that, it's fine. SophieWilder
- What can anyone possibly find wrong with the article. Could possibly be expanded a bit but … Scream!! (talk) 17:36, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
- Neutral doesn't fly around here. We try to be as biased as possible (for science, against bullshit). Personally, I like neutral more, but hey, rules of the site: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:What_is_a_RationalWiki_article%3F Nullahnung (talk) 15:31, 5 September 2013 (UTC)