whatwhasmystupidpass

How the fuck would cleaning blood fall into your job desc? Let them hire a fucking forensic cleaning company. Fucks sake man.

Anonymous tip line. Blow it up with names addresses and phone numbers where the victim(s) live

Yes because just like in the movies they get the right bad guy at the perfect time and already know exactly what they need to ask for in order to stop the evil plot in spectacular fashion.

Sorry, this is just not how intelligence works.

Did you know in Iraq they offered 5 grand for tips on AQ guys? Do you know how many innocent neighbors, business competitors, bad blood family members or unpleasant coworkers ended up tortured in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo because of it?

Those are two separate problems: first how to change someone’s mind from believing in a false statement and second how to point out to others that the statement is false.

The replies focus on how to effectively get that person to stop propagating false information, not so much on the audience for that one post.

In the social media environment (not reddit though), remember that the moment you reply to one of those posts, your entire network will see the original post. Now your thousands of contacts will be faced with the choice between the suggestive false info and your correction.

Even if you have a good network of smart people, chances are a few will comment as well regardless of if they are pro or against. Now all of their contacts will get the notification and a bunch of them will see the original post.

So even by putting out good info you are exponentially multiplying the number of eyeballs that the problematic info gets.

That’s why it makes sense to not comment and take it up privately (but like you said it won’t happen fast enough so it’s a catch 22 which is why these tactics have worked so well here).

Reddit is a bit different in that sense