XPost: talk.politics.guns, alt.checkmate   
   From: hastings@yahoo.com   
      
   On 13 Aug 2021, Mark Shaw  posted some   
   news:sf7eql$5gr$1@reader1.panix.com:   
      
   > Jay Furr  wrote:   
   >   
   > [reformatted for linefeeds]   
   >   
   >> I know that alt.folklore.urban is essentially dead, but that said,   
   >> is anyone out there?   
   >   
   > Yep, a few of us.   
   >   
   >> I got emails today from the staff at snopes.com informing me that   
   >> snopes himself has gotten in major hot water for plagiarizing lots   
   >> and lots of news stories and not giving credit, and that he's been   
   >> suspended from all creative access to the site.   
   >   
   >> I'm surprised and disappointed.  I was wondering if others had any   
   >> more profound or interesting reactions.   
   >   
   > It's been in the news. I'm also a bit surprised, but it is what it   
   > is.   
   >   
   > The downside is that, despite the (somewhat deserved) popular   
   > perception of bias on the part of snopes.com, they've been pretty   
   > well consistently a gold-plated source for details one can cite to   
   > combat {d|m}isinformation.  This event will damage their credibility   
   > in the eyes of many. This is a pretty bad thing, in that it will   
   > introduce even more friction in the machinery of internet discourse.   
      
   Indeed it has.   
      
   From: Nadegda    
   Message-ID:    
   Injection-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 01:37:08 -0000 (UTC)   
      
   "I searched Snopes high and low for any reference to this and found   
   nothing."   
      
   That isn't proof, kook.   
      
   From: Nadegda    
   Message-ID:    
   Injection-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 20:01:22 -0000 (UTC)   
      
   >> SMH...  snopes is run by former usenet trolls.   
   >   
   > Proof, kook?   
      
   Rookie troll Nadegda's lack of Usenet historical knowledge and inability   
   to use Bing or google noted and recorded.   
      
   In 1994 David and Barbara Mikkelson created Urban Legends Reference Pages,   
   an urban folklore website that was later renamed Snopes.com.   
      
   David Mikkelson had originally adopted the username "Snopes" (the name of   
   a family of often unpleasant people in the works of William Faulkner) as a   
   username in the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban.   
      
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