Everything has changed since the V-Cube topic! Before, most speedsolving users were random people giving random opinions on various cubing topics. But now, nearly everyone is a seasoned expert in international patent law, and every post is now a well-thought-out prediction of future events. (Wait, maybe not.)
Be realistic, Arnaud. The vast majority of people here are random people giving uninformed opinions, and this is implicit in what most people say. There's no need for a Super Moderator to personally call out random users for not being something nobody else expects them to be.
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The V-Cube/Guhong topic was one of the reasons I spent more time here lately compared to the first 8 months of my travelling. Another reason is that I am getting more serious about cubing and practice more and am looking for good algs to replace my sucky ones. And I have a portable internet connection now so I CAN be online almost every day.
Before I started travelling, there were plenty of stupid threads and stupid comments but most of that was by accident. I was quite shocked when I came back and found out that there were sooooo many useless comments like 20 people just saying "no", "that happened to me in my other pants", etc etc etc. There is plenty of high quality new stuff on this forum as well, but the level of pure "posting stupid because it is what everyone does" has increased to unacceptible levels. I never moderated people before, but I have started to do so lately because it is needed.
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Giving an opinion is fine, especially if it is supported by facts and written like an opinion. If I have a different opinion and am (still) interested in the topic I will give my opinion, discuss provided facts and give new information. BUT when someone is spreading complete unsubstantiated information and makes it sound like a fact (No, but it will be soon) instead of an opinion (I think it will be soon) they are actually causing harm and I will correct them. In this case I did it in a VERY correct way (I have been rude lately and have publicly and privately apologised for that).
I have seen a lot of evidence lately that people spread misinformation that is later used by others as a fact (here, on facebook and in general discussions). I consider it as one of my most important tasks as a super moderator to prevent this, especially on a topic that I DO know a lot about. I am not going to
correct every person that is wrong on the internet (or even on this forum). I hope that by doing this several times the users that I correct will change their behavior. I also hope that others will see that low quality posts will make you look bad, so they will raise the quality of their posting. So far this is working with 1 exception (that I will not mention by name)
