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I dispute this.
Post a similar Tweet, like this, but label it as "hypothetical" right in the title. Not as a comment or mention, but smack where people see it before they read the Tweet.
It might get some upvotes, but I'm positive it wouldn't make it to #1 on the front page.
I think this is disingenuous too.
...Do you really think, when most people are reading this post, their initial thought is. "Huh, a tweet. I dunno if this Jeremy guy is real, let me consider that... Eh, I like the sentiment anyway. Upvote."
That's nonsense.
No one even checked and posted about it until now, apparently.
It's not a choice. Most never knew to choose! The Tweet is worded as if a real person describing their situation, so that's what the initial assumption will be.
And this does nothing.
It removes attribution. But it does nothing to suggest the Tweet isn't authentic.
...And you didn't answer my question, I don't think.
To be clear, if you were OP of this post, what would you do now? Just remove the author, that's it?
I didn't even read the account's name until your comment (I also didn't upvote because I don't upvote a post unless it's small and/or I really like it).
I try to not extend my experience as "normative" to other people but I don't believe people are giving names much credence unless they're famous.
Idk if you can hotswap the content of a post. If I learned after posting, I'd probably just delete the post because I don't feel strongly enough to put the work into editing and reposting. I wouldn't have even posted this in the first place because I don't think this is novel enough to be posting. That's almost besides the pount but you asked for personal opinions.
If I knew beforehand (and was possessed of a desire to share this), yeah, I'd just cut out the account name.
I agree the tweet form factor drives engagement for some reason, but if the username were "fake-anti-capitalist-tweets" with a blue thumbs up icon, I'm certain it would have moved in much the same ways.
If it was actually impossible to miss, I disagree.
Well this is admirable, but:
I think this is where you and I have a fundamental difference of viewpoints, that's not going to be resolved.
To me, this would be the same as filing the author off an article I knew was fake, and reposting it with no context. It's disingenous. I'd interpet it as presenting something to the internet as authentic, and hiding that its not. And if it needed the "hypothetical" label, I just wouldn't post it at all, because what's the point of that? Just post the thought directly.
The source comes before the message, for me.