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Originally Posted by Royle9
I get that people like to post tidbits of "inside information" and ask Mod's to PM them and the sort. I imagine the CP Mod team does to some extent follow up on that but unfortunately the rest of us never know if said rumor does appear to have some validity to it.
Is there any way moving forward we can at least get confirmation that the source is at least somewhat reputable? I know the easiest solution is to just discredit everything said on the forum and wait until official news comes out but its nice to think as die hard fans we have some ability to see potential rumblings before the general public.
The last thing we want however is a bunch of people posting Eklund style E4 rumors and having this thread turn into a bunch of BS.
Is that a reasonable ask?
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It isn't realistic.
What we do is typically ask the person for some sense of who they know and how. But we don't have any ability to
- Confirm they actually do know the person
- Confirm if the person said that to them
- Confirm if that information is accurate
And there is no way for us to do any of that.
In journalism typically you need two sources at least to go with something. That's also not realistic here.
I don't think this is a site with a ton of rumors, and in the past, stuff has broken here. But if folks want this stuff to be held to a high standard, it likely means we simply don't have any of it. That doesn't feel right either.
So I would say you should largely decide for yourselves what is legit and what isn't. If someone is posting something that is clearly misleading or false we will remove it, but if we don't remove it - it certainly isn't some sort of explicit verification that its true.