A lot of reddit subs push the shit too. Look at any text-based story subreddit. They all inevitably get a "don't question the facts of the story" rule, which then invites charlatans to start lying.

TalesFromTechSupport and IDontWorkHereLady are probably the two best examples. They went from "I was asked to fix a guy's computer and he was using the CD tray as a cup holder" or "A woman came up to me at target and asked where the corn was and I said I dont work here and she got embarassed" to just utter made up farces and bullshit

[–] Cranksta@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I always thought the "Take everything as truth or in good faith" was more about the fact that it's really difficult to truly figure out if something is fake or not and if you start enabling people to declare stories fake, then you risk ostracizing the OP and people that are thinking of posting similar stories.

As well as it helps prevent needless discussion over the text. It just seemed more sensible to make the decision to wash your hands of it and not think too deeply about it than let the comments go wild arguing with each other over the story.

[–] Paradox@lemdro.id 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah but then you wind up with stories where the antagonist is comically evil; a mustache twirling bad guy right out of vaudeville. And don't forget, "everybody clapped"

[–] Cranksta@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

Well yeah, but I've never been bothered by that. I just tab away.