Talk:Cracked.com

Conspiracy
A while back cracked had an article explaining that Conspiracy theorists are ruining the world. However they have many articles proving them RIGHT!

Makes you wonder why they posted it... &mdash; Unsigned, by: 174.25.15.186 / talk /


 * Cracked is written by a team of comedy journalists - not a journal of History professors. Their arguments against conspiracy theorists include them driving fear (as in an article on Anti-Vaxxers) to the point that people do things illogical. There are REAL conspiracies, yes (1920s motor companies buying out and destroying the Tram industry; Shell having agents in Nigeria's government; conservatives paying people to make anti-global warming documentaries) but the difference is that no one cares about real ones since the people at large know how they are affected ("I don't live in Nigeria, so why should I give a shit about proof of oil companies taking over governments?").-- Forerunner (talk) 09:05, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

More Article Recommendations
Obviously, it's not wise to fill the page with article recommendations, but this is the talk page, where logic and reason weep in fear of editors. So, more article recommendations! This one, on moral panics, is perfect for reminding people that the Satanic Panic wasn't nearly the dumbest one. --PosthumanHeresy (talk) 09:05, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

SRT
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-signs-your-life-in-danger-no-one-knows-to-watch-for/

Cracked sometimes gets info from the Daily Mail. For example, the Sitting-Rising Test. Basically, the easier it is for you to stand up, the logner you'll live". What?--174.25.11.56 (talk) 07:57, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Why does this study list cracked as a conspiratorial website?
According to this study, which rates Rationalwiki at the top of debunking websites, Cracked is at the bottom of the table for conspiracy websites, which makes me wonder which of the 15 conspiracy theories this study quantifies search engine results for is supported on cracked? X-Factor (talk) 22:12, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
 * It's not the only weird thing in that study. They have Daily Mail listed as a neutral source. They have Time Magazine (content.time.com) Slate, and The Onion (!) listed as debunking sites. The study seems like a case of letting the "new methodology" dictate the outcome without having any reality checks about what is actually getting measured. Bongolian (talk) 00:52, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

And they killed it
So Cracked now requires a monthly subscription in order to vote in the comments section. I've quit as a result, quite sure more will too. The site has been going downhill for years now. At first, the comments were a secondary source of humor, then the site went all preachy and the comments became the main draw. Then they broke the comments system itself, most of us assumed it was just technical difficulties, but it never got fixed. Now this. No more. CorruptUser (talk) 22:23, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Cracked.com writer John Cheese and sexual harassment
Accuser's article, John's apology. Does this belong on this article?--1.136.110.85 (talk) 08:45, 26 September 2018 (UTC)