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Vanities is one thing, but what is really killing us are all the postings using sources that have no credibility and turn out making us look like a laughing stock.

I think the bogus articles should be posted, and immediately debunked.

But, I differ from the usual moderator action: rather than deleting them, I think the article title should be changed to add [HOAX] or something similar to the beginning.

That way, a search will find it, and the same hoax or click-bait article won't be posted over and over again, and deleted each time. And, we don't have people citing them for months afterward, because they read it while it was briefly posted, and didn't see it was debunked.

I've lost count of the number of times people have posted that Yoko Ono admitted to having an affair with Hillary Clinton, even long after that article was consigned to the dustbin.

And when I ask them to stop posting it, because the original article was from a hoax website (the masthead even said "any resemblance to the actual truth is coincidental"), they get indignant -- like it's MY fault they fell for it.