How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit

[DrLeftover]

The moral of the story is tell the BIG LIE... people will believe it.

A woman opens an old steamer trunk and discovers tantalizing clues that a long-dead relative may actually have been a serial killer, stalking the streets of New York in the closing years of the nineteenth century. A beer enthusiast is presented by his neighbor with the original recipe for Brown's Ale, salvaged decades before from the wreckage of the old brewery--the very building where the Star-Spangled Banner was sewn in 1813. A student buys a sandwich called the Last American Pirate and unearths the long-forgotten tale of Edward Owens, who terrorized the Chesapeake Bay in the 1870s.



These stories have two things in common. They are all tailor-made for viral success on the internet. And they are all lies.

http://www.theatlant...-reddit/257134/

 

[Katatonia]

The awesomeness of reddit never stops. Except in the circlejerky subreddits; those bring out the worst in reddit.

 

[Evil Eye]

The moral of the story is tell the BIG LIE... people will believe it.

The great masses of people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.?[sup][EE][/sup]

 

[Temerit]

I like the Jimmy Wales quote, that they are essentially dumping trash in the streets and testing the goodwill of others to go an pick it up.