Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26871067-20161115051001/@comment-26871067-20161115080822

The articles are 100% clickbait and anyone who actually looks at the site would know it, which, you know... it sucks. People are desperate for the views because they need the money, but seriously, that doesn't make them legitimate journalism and we shouldn't be lending them credibility by posting them to the front page.

None of these articles have sources to anything but other clickbait gaming sites, because none of these articles have anything but really flimsy speculation. "Togashi's wife is going to take over", "Ishida is going to take over", "Togashi is canceling the series because he's dying", "HxH will come back on the air on [x]", they use fanart on their titles... There's no legitimacy at all, they're literally coming up with a rumor and publishing it.

My thought, honestly, is this: if there's no way to filter it, the RSS feed should be taken down entirely. RSS feeds are convenient because they go automatically and no one has time to constantly monitor the internet for HxH news.

But this RSS feed is posting unsupervised garbage to the front page of the wiki, and in doing so implicitly approves of their information. There are legitimately people falling for it, which... Part of me says "look if you didn't spend any time actually reading the article and are freaking out excited that's your own fault for being a guillible idiot", but at the same time the wiki has a certain level of credibility that leads people to not click through and read the article. Because they have faith that a wiki won't post fake info.

And, uh, we're not really living up to that faith right now.