The resetera post I posted earlier wasnt real and it was actually fake. The poster in the post never actually posted it. I feel bad because he actually seems like a cool dude so I dont want to frame him as some prick bitching about sexism. I aplogize to u/golconda and hes actually a cool dude and not some insane person so please dont attack him. It was fake. I got it off /v/ so I didnt know. Mods hopefully you see this too
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I push for this, mainly so bad actors can't delete evidence. The community here is pretty trustworthy though, so I understand why people are taken at their word when there's no obvious reason not to. Even in this case the OP wasn't deliberately dishonest, he just needs to vet his information better.
Folks here tend not to fabricate stuff, but unfortunately, it's not just about being trustworthy. Sometimes they do fall for fakes. People tend to believe stuff that confirms their priors, which is why I always try to double-check, especially when something looks too good to be true.
There is a reason why I browbeat you faggots to provide archive links.
Anyone can make a photoshop.
It's cool dude. Things are so shady and jacked up these days that it's perfectly understandable to make mistakes every now and then, especially with verifying stories.
What matters is owning up to it and doing what you can to correct the mistake. Something that regressives, journalists, politicians, Hollywood, etc. don't even bother doing.
It's very good that you not just removed the post, but alerted people to the fact that they may have believed something that turned out to be incorrect.
You done GOOFED!
u/golconda didnt post this I apologize to him. Mods try to tell everyone its fake too.
Did you remove your original post?
Yes
u/golconda sorry for pinging you so much but you got the source where i got it from right?
Yeah, I've checked the 4ch link you sent me. It's apparently a picture that was posted a couple of days before and reposted a bunch of times (their board tools tracked it 9 times).
Also,by any chance, is this image real as well? https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/643861534/#643862236 https://arch-img.b4k.co/v/1689164343847.jpg
I deleted my reply since I thought I was answering you in private and I shared A BIT TOO MUCH personal information for my taste.
The short answer anyway is "I have no idea, but I didn't see that reply in the BG3 thread so probably not".
I'll send you the extend one in private.
I'm not actually sure you did fuck up. Within a scant few hours a resetera weirdo managed to track you cross posting a screenshot from a different website, here to a totally different third website?
I don't think I buy that. Nevermind the rest of it, the idea that a user of an expressly, even grossly leftist website spotted your post here of all places isn't really credible.
My first thought as well. I'd trust a 4chan screenshot, knowing exactly how fake they tend to be, over a handshake even claiming to be from retardera.
I'm not sure what the fuck you are "not buying" but the reason I discovered that a doctored screenshot of my account existed is merely that someone else on another forum linked it to me.
And this is putting aside that just because I have an account on a "grossly leftist" gaming forum, it doesn't mean I necessarily embrace the majority opinion on every argument.
Then I'll explain it to you. I think you're lying about at least one thing here. I think the overlap between anyone who uses this forum and yours is pretty much zero. Certainly not enough for you to have found the first post in about three hours.
Assuming your statement is true, and someone else told you about a doctored screenshot of your account on 4chan... That still doesn't explain how you found it here. Or is it that someone else again?
Resetera is a site well known for doxxing, astroturfing, review bombing and among other things advocacy for pedophilia. I don't believe a damn word that comes out of your mouth, let alone your "I read it for the articles" defense.
Premising that I genuinely don't give a shit of "what you think" in your attempts to be the new Sherlock, here's your answers:
And yet here we are. If you didn't give a shit you certainly wouldn't have bothered making an account here for it.
To be fair, that could be a singular you, not a plural you for the whole sub/community/board
I think you misunderstood a point.
I CERTAINLY give a shit about being slandered with a blatant fake targeting me around the internet.
It's your approval that is worth less than used toilet paper to me.
P.S. You are not even the person who made the initial mistake (and a mistake that was openly admitted, too), so it's not really clear why you are bending yourself in the shape of a Pretzel to defend it.
Whatever your opinions, I think it's an unalloyed good if something that was fake was removed from this place.
I wouldn't take Kaarous too seriously, he's a bit... loco.
I'm defending nothing. I'm pointing out how hilariously suspicious your version of events is.
Ok, I'll take the bait. What's exactly "suspicious" about it? Are you actually questioning if the screenshot is a fake or not?
Otherwise, it's not clear what you are rambling about.
it does, actually, or you would have been banned by now.
OR that I turn around and walk away every time one of these whiners start to cry about being incredibly oppressed by cleavage and similar shit.
I mean, i never said I was a big fan of the place to begin with.
then delete your account. post a video of you doing it.
People have networks of contacts who browse different parts of the internet, if they have friends who frequent here often enough to notice their name being taken in vain within a day then they may not be all that bad.
The real cultists cut all contact with anyone who browses this place long ago.