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I've notice that posts in this community tend to get deleted, even ones with multiple comments and/or useful information. Even worse is when they get posted again by some other user a few days later.

What's going on? What's the policy around here?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

re: Gnome and professional shaman – that one was pointed out pretty quickly as being misinformation (known troll with an archive.org post dated an hour before their “prank”)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can you explain how exactly the evidence was created? Did some people create fake pages months in advance?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

from the post debunking it, it was that it wasn’t “months in advance” that was the giveaway – for a website that she was supposed to have been using for several years for her business, the only snapshot archive.org had was dated an hour before the accusations started getting posted

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Ah, I was thinking about the claimed social media pages though. I'm currently at "work" so I can't verify yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Could you link to information on this -specifically on any work debunking it. I can’t seem to find any in the usual places, in fact googling shows stuff like https://youtu.be/NrzseZQotu4?si=1rQtbo9mwfAEt4sL which seems to corroborate the weirder claims. I suppose the channel might be part of it.

Having said that, this sure feels like a troll and it would be pretty funny if it were. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/NrzseZQotu4?si=1rQtbo9mwfAEt4sL

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