Maybe DU needs a 'hear-say' forum?

[Attilatheblond]

General discussion is one thing, but stuff that has no evidence being posted more and more is getting pretty weird. It'd be nice if it was all in one place and then could be moved to General Discussion if some actually information comes up.

Just spit balling here.

[WarGamer]

1. agree... or make sure that stuff goes into creative speculation.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Why?

What is speculative about reporting what a family member said?

[WarGamer]

10. I'm speaking in broad generalities... not to one case

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Well, That's Sure Convenient

[Fiendish Thingy]

19. That forum was closed a few years ago with the last update. Nt

[anciano]

2. Agree👍

[canetoad]

3. As WarGamer says above

It should go into Creative Speculation. So should absolutely everything generated by AI IMHO.

[Fiendish Thingy]

20. The Creative Speculation forum was closed years ago with the last update. Nt

[Chasstev365]

4. Not disagreeing, but can you give an you give an example?

[Attilatheblond]

15. Two just recently in General Discussion

Not in a mood to give speculative/hear-say somebody said without any supporting info stuff a plug

[Sewa]

5. Maybe some people should lighten up

😎💀

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Really Determined To Pound On That Nail?

Gee Mr. Quixote, why do you hate those windmills?

[Attilatheblond]

9. That's Ms Quixote LOL. Nah, it's about the show-me thing

I love windmills, but not the morass of fretting over things that have no supporting evidence. And, yes, I am well aware that there are people scrubbing things on the internets, but maybe that's just hearsay and not really information that has gone missing.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. It Was A Metaphor

Quixote was a man.

[Attilatheblond]

14. WOW! I never knew

Some of us HAVE read

[walkingman]

7. Of course the issue is who defines "hear-say". The media has silos of information with extreme perspectives.

[BigmanPigman]

11. Perhaps providing links would help.

[Attilatheblond]

16. Yep One has asked

and met with just excuses

[gab13by13]

17. Who police's the links?

There are links to places here a lot that I refuse to click on.
People abuse using a link to say something without giving his/her opinion.

I give my opinions without hiding behind links, although at times they are necessary.

I get a lot of my news from freespeechtv.org.

[Fiendish Thingy]

18. It used to be called "Creative Speculation" forum

For the life of me, I don’t know why it was closed.

I really miss it, and not because I was a frequent reader/poster there.

[TomSlick]

21. Rejection of hearsay (no apostrophe) is a rule of evidence for what is allowed in court proceedings.

There are twenty-three exceptions to the hearsay rule in the Federal Rules of Evidence plus a "residual exception" for hearsay that "is supported by sufficient guarantees of trustworthiness" and "and it is more probative on the point for which it is offered than any other evidence that the proponent can obtain through reasonable efforts."

Sometimes hearsay is the best (or only) evidence of the truth - whether or not admissible in court. We all heed hearsay in our daily lives. Documentation or eye witnesses are better but often hearsay is all that is available. The trick is to recognize hearsay and give it the weight it merits.