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You can - share a fact or question, maybe a random number or statistic, or some statement, that you can not find sources for (maybe you want to cite it in a research article, or for a very important debate with someone online), and other lemmings will verify - post a question that you can not answer - share someone else’s work, which serves as example for future fact checkers, you may call them as case studies. This community also serves as a “Do the Maths” community or “ explainer” Original idea @kibiz0r@midwest.social [https://midwest.social/u/kibiz0r] Rules I really don’t want to police anyone. - Standard Internet Rules - Be civil and polite, and avoid strong language - Cite your sources - If you use a fact or some number, please cite your sources. As a general rule of thumb, please post citations for all things you believe that an average person does not know, and over citation never not helps. Please try to avoid secondary (or tertiary) sources, that is cite the primary source for your information. Please avoid citing some mediahouse or editorial coverage. - Please try to keep this community non-political. Please don’t post statements of some political figure and ask if they really said it or not, that is an investigator’s job. But feasibility, and impact of their (proposed) projects is fair game.

Original idea for this community came from @kibiz0r@midwest.social who in comments of this post gave ideas for many new communities.

This community also serves as a “Do the Maths” community or “<Insert specialist> explainer”

Currently the community is very small so the fact finding may be slow, perhaps as it grows it can be fast fact finding ninja

      • PhilipTheBucketAEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        There should be a bot.

        Actually, do you want me to make a bot? It wouldn’t be hard.

        • Andrew@piefed.social
          2·
          2 months ago

          There used to be one - https://lemmings.world/u/communitylinkfixer

          It looks like it was de-activated 3 months ago.

          If you make a new one, please consider limiting it to just this community (and maybe communitypromo), and to not translating a link if the OP has also already provided a ! one, and to not translating links inside code blocks.

          Drive-by bots can seem easy to make, but the problem is that they can be a bit too easy, and then end up as yet another annoying one.

          • PhilipTheBucketAEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            If they link directly to {instance}/c/{community} but not to !{community}@{instance} it can chime in with that second thing.

            Most people link to something, but they don’t always link to the thing that works everywhere.

            • Maggoty@lemmy.worldMEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              Well sure, I can’t compensate you but if you wanted to do that I’d let it do it’s thing.