Just an idea... [View all]

[Think. Again.]

I hope this is the correct forum to share a possibly dumb idea I just had for DU to add a "Fact-Checking" forum.

With an all-important Presidential debate coming up between a good man (who I don't believe is even capable of intentional deception) and a person who has spent his entire adult life working as a con-man, there is going to be a lot of B.S. being spewed that could make this debate a big waste of time and turn our sincere discussions here on DU into frustating arguments that can have no true conclusions.

Basically, this would be a forum for those of us who enjoy doing research to be presented with random bits of info, or claims, that appear in DU posts, but may not necessarily be factual.

I have noticed many discussions devolving into puddles of nonsense and even caught some outright gaslighting at times, but unless a DU poster has a lot of time and skill at researching questionable statements, these sometimes-benign and sometimes-important mis-statements run the risk of melting into the overall noise and derailing an earnest discussion into the realm of speculative fiction.

I myself have simply dropped out of discussions only because I have no way to continue defending a point when faced with the diversions presented by mis- and dis-information.

I'll leave this here because I have no suggestions on how to structure such a forum, but I did want to bring the concept to the table and hope someone sees some kernel of sense in it.

Thanks.