How Many Actually Check Their Facts Before Posting?

I don't usually check my "facts" before entering into a discussion because I usually avoid discussions that require "facts". I usually stick to the discussions that are more about opinions. That being said. I've never followed politics much. Not sure why. I know I should, but I can never keep up, I guess. It isn't that I don't think these things are important, but I am the type of person that always sees that there is always more than one side to a story and I see the grey areas in life. What you said about this persons commetns in your other discussion and the conversation about unjustified police shootings. YOu can't be suggestion that there have been NO unjustivied police shootings can you? You can't be suggesting that police never lie can you? You can't be thinking that a police officers WORD is FACT can you? Yes, sometimes, maybe even usually, police shootings are justified. But, I believe very strongly that there ARE bad cops. That there are cops who let their power go to their heads and use it to bully people. It doesn't take researching FACTS to know that this is true. You just have to open your eyes and observe human behavior once in a while.

Facts? Nope, I just give them my two cents worth, which, due to current inflation is worth maybe a quarter of a cent LOL Seriously...if I were trying to get a point across that were factual I would certainly do my homework first and verify the facts :) You are right, this election has turned into a three ring circus. I'd say send in the clowns, but they are already here, running for office LOL

When it comes to politics , it isn't about which article states what it is the person's point of view.There is some truth to every statement because of the person's pint of view.But I can see where trying to tell a person their "facts" are inaccurate would start a huge argument. I always check to see if I got the spelling and my facts straight before I post. But I have no desire to talk about politics. I usually stick to subjects I know like movies. But even then I have to check what year a movie came out or am I remembering the correct actor, etc.

There is a reason I stay away from those kind of topics. One of I think the saddest things that has become the "Norm" in this country is that people for the most part have become sheeple. They hear one side of the news (which ever way their preferred news channel chooses to slant it.) and decide that it is fact and don't take the time to see for themselves. they then take this information as "fact" and spout it off to anyone who will listen. A great example of this is global warming. Kat had to do a research paper on the topic of global warming. She looked at all the information she could find and took facts and cited her work to the information she found. She was the only one in her class to state that global warming was not what it was being made out to be. During her research she found that as much as they are talking about global warming today they were talking about global cooling 20 (or so)years ago. The teacher gave her an F on the paper saying that it went against the information he had. I went up to the school to meet with the teacher. I asked him if shehad all her facts cited correctly, he said yes. I asked if the paper was written well and he said yes. So I asked him how can you fail her on a project simply because her views do not line up with your own? All he could say was well umm, they were supposed to write it based off the movie we watched in class. that movie happened to be the Al Gore movie about global warming. I told him that she did write it based off the movie she just did more research and presented a different point of view. Needless to say her final project grade was an A. I was on the debate team in school. I never go into a battle of wits unarmed!

If a person is raised to believe the worst of others, then they will carry that belief into adult hood and spread it around until it affects others. Every race and religion has had their fair share of mistreatments, dating back before the time when the Christians were fed to the lions. Shall we digress even further back to examine injustices? To the person that offended you with their comments, I would say, check your facts. Every woman on the planet can tell you that she still (to this modern day) has been prejudiced against. And we live in modern times! That kind of thing shouldn't be going on. But it is. As far as getting wrapped up in a political or race debate? No thanks! I don't like to argue. No, really, I don't! It's not worth it.

Well, I would do research if it was for my final year project in college but for mylot? I do not think that you need to be 100% accurate because if we are wrong, i believe it's other users' courtesy to correct it and that is the point of a discussion which is to hear what people say and correct it of they are wrong and vice versa.

I generally stay away from these discussion.i also find it very bad, i think many actually post those as they think catchy headings will bring lots of responses.

You are SO right. I used to post in controversial topics but I don't anymore. The man reasons were that many people just kept going on and on about the same point. And then they gave you negative ratings because they didn't agree with you. It's really terrible. In fact I'm not sure why people even bother answering when they know that other people are going to start a fight. You are right, there are lots of people like that who will just start quoting things even though they didn't happen. Have a wonderful day Pablo

Well I have learened on thing here, never discuss Politics nor Religion. I try to stick to easier topics.That way I don't get into trouble, not that I don't have an opinion on them, I do..

I do my best to check my facts before posting, especially on a controversial subject like politics. I try to avoid those subjects whenever possible, though. One time I corrected a bit of misinformation someone posted about one of the presidential candidates. I was then accused of being one of his "fanatic" supporters. Sometimes people can't be swayed by the facts.

Sometimes I think that when people start a discussion they do not realise what they are doing and sometimes the discussion can get out of hand real fast. Not only is it important to check out facts before posting anything a bit sensitive it is also important to get the wording of the discussion/debate right. Sometimes people can read it in a totally different way to what the person intends them to read it as. This is one reason that I would never go along that road of discussions, sometimes even with my normal everyday discussions I have found that the way I have written things has come across to others very different from what I intended!

Actually I have researched some of the stuff I wrote on here. I won't write something unless I'm sure about it. I hate when people write things they don't have a clue about. I mean I know this is the internet so you can't believe a thing you see, but it still irritates me.

Hi rantingqueen If I stumble on a discussion where I beleive the information is open for debate and I have a differing opinion on the subject matter, I will research the facts before replying to the person. I enjoy a good discussion and resepctable debates are great too but I would want to check my facts before jumping into the frying pan.

I think you have said it right, Politics is a sore subject right now! And you should check the facts before you post, But, I am the same way I'd rather not talk about politics today the way things are... too many people want to critisize everyone if you know what I mean.