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The number of 'debunked' tags on old forum posts doubled overnight
I was looking up an old thread about a specific event from 2012, and every single post from that era now has a bright red 'debunked' banner. It wasn't there when I checked six months ago. Did a single moderator just go on a massive retroactive fact-checking spree?
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anna_henderson6mo ago
Wait, doubled overnight? That's a huge jump. I mean, who has that kind of time to go back over a decade of posts. Maybe it's just me but that feels like a bot got loose or something. Kinda spooky to see history getting rewritten like that.
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dakotawood6mo ago
Honestly it might not be that deep. Sites run background updates all the time, fixing old links or counting things differently. A bot probably did it, but that's just automated maintenance, not someone rewriting history. Feels like we're reading way too much into a glitch in the numbers.
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jordanhill6mo ago
But what kind of maintenance needs to double a count from ten years ago? If it's just a bot fixing links, why would the total number of replies change at all? That seems like it's editing the record, not just updating a broken image. Makes you wonder what the actual trigger was.
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