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[Meta] Ban unsubstantiated rumours? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Can we please ban posts that are little more than unsubstantiated rumours?

Keep seeing posts that are fully just "I heard from a guy that heard from a friend who heard from a co-worker that HL3 comes out with the Steam Machine" as the full post

Sometimes links to whole "news" (used very fucking loosely) articles that are the exact same thing

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[–] halloween_spookster@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I agree with this in principle. I think a tag like "rumor" might be useful as a first step? Escalate if it becomes more of a problem.

It may also be worth differentiating between a rumor and a rumor. A rumor of AMD coming out with XYZ at CES is different from "some random website is claiming that HL3 is days away from being announced"

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah fair, maybe "rumour" and "hearsay"