the_dengle said:
As long as the source is included in the OP, at the worst I would call it baiting. And if you believe everything you read on the internet without question and never think, "This sounds really wrong, I should check the source," you deserve to be baited. That said, I'm not a mod, so if a mod doth decree this to be trolling and a bannable offense, I wouldn't argue the matter. |
Not everyone is familiar with the source tho. I agree that it is usualy pretty obvious that these stories are fictional most of the time (hell you can usually tell from the title, I mostly came into this thread to complain about people posting articles from that site), which just makes them more annoying if anything. I more just think that in principle posting parody articles to bait people that don't know it is a parody is just bad form, and doen't really belong in the forum. I could also argue that the use of delibertly missleading titles is also against the rules.
That is just me tho, mods don't seem to have a problem with it. So i guess people can carry on and don't mind me.
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