I commented on an article, pointing out that according to the source the writer was citing, he was off by an order of magnitude on a specific statistic, completely undercutting his argument, something like "digging this tunnel will only accommodate 500 trips a day", when the cited source said it was 5,000 trips. A day later I checked and found that my comment had been deleted. I followed up with the moderators to see what I had done wrong, and I was told that correcting the writer would "hurt his feelings", so he didn't want the correction to stand. It was a real eye-opener about how you really can't trust what's on the internet, that it isn't self-correcting, and man, some millennials really are snowflakes.
I used to love GGW until...
I commented on an article, pointing out that according to the source the writer was citing, he was off by an order of magnitude on a specific statistic, completely undercutting his argument, something like "digging this tunnel will only accommodate 500 trips a day", when the cited source said it was 5,000 trips. A day later I checked and found that my comment had been deleted. I followed up with the moderators to see what I had done wrong, and I was told that correcting the writer would "hurt his feelings", so he didn't want the correction to stand. It was a real eye-opener about how you really can't trust what's on the internet, that it isn't self-correcting, and man, some millennials really are snowflakes.