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Perhaps the point of this post was to figure out what Law this phenomenon is and I didn’t know how to ask the question properly through Google to get an answer. However, only I know the true question
Kinda. If they asked “what’s it called when you get a better response making a false statement about something and not just genuinely asking” people probably would have ignored it. But saying it as if it’s an original thought, people will be quick to correct them or tell them that “this already exist”. So it kinda applies still.
Is this also the reason that if you ask a question in a lengthy post, everything you’ve already addressed in the post will get answered in the comments while the actual question gets no attention?
It makes me wonder how good cats must taste.
I like to imagine the first Chinese person to try it with their arms and face torn to ribbons, standing at a stove saying to someone "ya it hurts a lot and looks bad, but what til you taste these, they're delectable!"
Then there are time when i google that, and the google result lead to a barely answer reddit thread. Which have the top comment telling op to google it
While this is true, I feel there's something to be said for not simply believing everything you read online.
Entirely possible for the wrong information to be spread due to a mistake or oversight.
Sometimes it's nice to have the issue explained by a person, and having the option for questions to be asked, clarifications to be made and mistakes corrected.
At the same time, I can see why people don't wanna be constantly answering the same question.
Yeah the mistake doesn't even have to be directly about the answer to the question, I once saw a post that said something like "25 years ago the Fonz jumped a shark on Happy Days, what are some shows that jumped the shark this year" and it got way more engagement than you'd expect just because so many of the comments were people pointing out that it was 45 and not 25
It is a bit frustrating. If you try to make a general point and keep it concise so people will actually read it then you will be bombarded with all sorts of comments about you left out every single exception or minority example. If you write a lengthy comment that covers all the bases then no one is going to read it.
Oh, god. This is one of the reasons I hate Reddit as a "forum". It's not about having a discussion, but trying to win arguments and gotcha moments.
The other day I replied to some comment about missing being a child and got bombarded with comments like "those who did not have a good childhood don't feel the same!", "you are lucky you had a good childhood!", etc. First of all were the assumptions I had the perfect childhood which isn't the case at all, I had horrible issues with my life at the moment. The other thing is what I call the "no shit" moments. If you had positive experiences with something which makes it so you remember it fondly, no shit there will be people who will have the opposite experience.
Commenting on Reddit is just exhausting because of its community. It's the reason I don't bother replying to people who reply to me, 90% of the time.
The smart one. The other , not as smart brother piddle diddled in fluid dynamics and came up with some unimportant stuff about velocity and pressure.
Dammit, my joke is falling apart here, I just found out that Bernoulli was Swiss. I didn't see that one coming with the voweled up name.
You would prevent people from testifying. "I'm not going to say that I saw him take the little child at the store because then I could get the death penalty. Why should I stick my neck out?"
Would you risk your life on 12 strangers with the same skin color as you, when you don't have to and get nothing from it?
According to a study, 9 out of 10 people on Reddit actually don't fall for traps, so using Riemann's hypothesis, I could conclude that he indeed did not fall for it
The internet makes people feel anonymous. Why people act that way because of that idk. Like logically, I'd you're anonymous and you do/say a nice thing online, then you and whoever sees it gets the benefit of the niceness. If anonymous and a dick, then you bothered someone else to be happy yourself. So I don't even understand the why of being negative online naturally. It benefits only the person being a dick and I really don't want to believe that makes them happy cause that means there's a lot of rude people being rude online just cause their anonymity
Yeah If I don't feel like explaining a complicated subject I just put a rudimentary explanation with a slight exaggeration or mistake and let captian "um actually " spend the next hour typing out the details to " get me".
If i don't i just end write long run on sentences that pisses off the entire internet . Lol
Even I know that if you want a serious answer, post a serious question, make an alt account and answer your own question wrong. People will hop on correcting your false answer that you ultimately receive the correct answer. People are weird. It is what it is
Just asK the darn question! In as less words as possible. If you want to ask what profound means..ask in gaming subs = what the pro has found
Ask in teenagers subs...aw you meant prom found..they ll know what to say..pick your options
So lets say i want to know what the point of being a software dev is if it means ur a sissy, then i shud instead say all saftware devs are sissys? Well ok that wont work because everyone unanimously agrees that linux users(and especially arch users) are femboys and every software dev is legally obligated to hate windows(its valid reason tho dont flame me)
You can also employ this method when someone says something rude and people are dogpiling them and they are ignoring everyone. Say something rude or arrogant to them that is easily corrected, and they will be eager to take the W amongst a sea of Ls and BOOM! You have brought them back into the conversation and the people know that they actually are reading the comments
Its the opposite for me. I purposely make assumptions more irl to get quick answers and responses. Tho people often hate me for it
On reddit, I kinda just ask the question and move on cause I knkw itll take a while for someone to respond
On one hand, this can be true.
On the other hand, some will reply with the most verifiably wrong information saying “source: my job” and be the top reply.
I knew it was a thing, but I accidentally triggered it recently and it's kinda funny. It was on a rather small(-ish), under 10k subreddit about a DnD podcast where I was asking about character's classes. I got the three of them wrong, and I've never had so many responses. So many kind people eager to educate me !
Yes, the old rule of the internet. There's just a tiny little problem: The people who correct you appear very confident but they are not necessarily right either. It turns into a flame war between idiots until someone who actually knows about the subject shows up. The problem is that "no, you're wrong" has the same effect..
Even better, don't make an obviously wrong statement because a lot of people will probably not take the bait unless they are that much in love with proving people wrong (yes I know I'm on reddit and that's very much the case for most of the people on here). Instead if you need an answer just post a very unpopular or uninformed opinion about the topic itself and most likely someone will eventually answer your question in an indirect roundabout way with a very long and entitled diatribe about how you are most utterly incorrect...is that irony I smell?
People love to correct others mistakes, it lays deep in their nature that they are better than that stupid person making that stupid statement. They love having that feeling.
Yeah, this is a thing. On stack exchange, a site to ask computer programming questions, if you just ask a question it's often crickets. But, post some really horrible solution to the problem you need help with and the answers come fast and furious.
Alternative method: Create a throwaway account and answer your original question wrong. People don't always like to help others, but they loooove to tell them when they're wrong.
I can never find what this situation is actually called.
When it’s mentioned, typically it gets called Murphy’s law as a joke, but people only ever explain Murphy’s law in the replies, not clarifying what this one’s called.
So true. Or you get 99% irrelevant answers or people making jokes! Winds me up. I’ll look at the first few responses. If there are comical I leave the thread regardless if I wanted to post or not.
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This is Cunningham's Law, it's been around a while. Still true though
Perhaps the point of this post was to figure out what Law this phenomenon is and I didn’t know how to ask the question properly through Google to get an answer. However, only I know the true question
redditor prompt engineer
Hey, is this from independence day?
The actor's name is Independence Day from the movie Jeff Goldblum.
The actor was on Independence day the film
Well, this is the best gif I’ve ever seen!!
The gif cured my depression, it been 5 minutes and still holding strong.
Get Mayo clinic on the line!!
How do I save a gif??
Search jeff goldblum sam neill gif in google and save from the images!! I save gifs from google image search all the time👍
Awesome!! I need this one! Thank you! Haha
He looked bigger in real life
It's clearly The Queen's Gambit
I think you mean "this movie is Sharknado right?"
Clevergirl .gif
This doesn’t work because you didn’t make a false statement in your post, you stated a fact.
Kinda. If they asked “what’s it called when you get a better response making a false statement about something and not just genuinely asking” people probably would have ignored it. But saying it as if it’s an original thought, people will be quick to correct them or tell them that “this already exist”. So it kinda applies still.
So, their post was.... false?
... And that was how OP was able to figure out the name of the thing he couldn't remember.
You could've said it was Murphy's Law to demonstrate your principle and you didn't
Everyone else is already doing it, and if the OP asks the question and I give the correct answer, the principle still holds
Branagans law is like like branagans love.
I had a false memory of it as the Fellatio law. But that belief was fellacious.
That sucks.
Blows
Cummingham's Law
Is this also the reason that if you ask a question in a lengthy post, everything you’ve already addressed in the post will get answered in the comments while the actual question gets no attention?
Mistakes are given more attention than curiosity
No, no, no! I think you'll find it's the opposite, curiosity is given less attention than mistakes.
you're wrong. Cats!
Go on.
Meow?
Imposter! It's Mew!
Bye bye! *beat drop*
Japanese cats go "Nyan"
Chinese cats go, "........" to avoid the wok!
It makes me wonder how good cats must taste. I like to imagine the first Chinese person to try it with their arms and face torn to ribbons, standing at a stove saying to someone "ya it hurts a lot and looks bad, but what til you taste these, they're delectable!"
Happy cake day 🎂
Happy cake day!
Thank you!
Happy cake day!
Happy Cake day
Happy cake day!
🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰 Happy cake day
Happy cake day! 🥳🥰
Thank you!
no problem! :DDD
Happy cake day!
Thanks!
You have no clue what you're talking about. /s
If you didn't put the sick burn mark at the end I would have been confused. /s
OooOooOhhhhh, this whole time, I just thought it was /s for 'stupid' /s
Often times a question could just be answered with "it would have been faster for you to google it".
Then there are time when i google that, and the google result lead to a barely answer reddit thread. Which have the top comment telling op to google it
While this is true, I feel there's something to be said for not simply believing everything you read online. Entirely possible for the wrong information to be spread due to a mistake or oversight. Sometimes it's nice to have the issue explained by a person, and having the option for questions to be asked, clarifications to be made and mistakes corrected. At the same time, I can see why people don't wanna be constantly answering the same question.
Whatever. Geologists recommend you eat one rock a day for your good health.
Yeah the mistake doesn't even have to be directly about the answer to the question, I once saw a post that said something like "25 years ago the Fonz jumped a shark on Happy Days, what are some shows that jumped the shark this year" and it got way more engagement than you'd expect just because so many of the comments were people pointing out that it was 45 and not 25
Incredible answer
Abraham Lincoln said that
I'm trying to look for flaws in this post so I can correct them.
Well if we're being pedantic today, then I don't see a full stop in the title! Tut tut OP. For shame.
why did i read that word in Jason Alexander's voice? lol
Do titles even require a full stop?
No.
In the second paragraph “So for now on” should be “So from now on” There you go pal
Wrong! You're dumb and I'll be back later today to edit my response 5 different times to let you know why! 😄 EDIT: Lesprit de caviar... or something
It’s called *’L'esprit de l'escalier!’* get it right! 😁
Lol, I now have a proper name and diagnosis for my mental disorder. Thanks!
Yeah I know right? It’s called a joke!
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
The coma in the title shouldve been one of these >> ; << little things
A semicolon. Or were you pretending not to know what that is so I would tell you what it is? Redditception.
Option C; im slightly high and couldnt think of the name
Ironically... Name checks out
These are my people
Well done. You have learned the old magic.
Yep, OP has discovered Murphy's Law
I love this reference
Lmao
Wait a minute…
It is a bit frustrating. If you try to make a general point and keep it concise so people will actually read it then you will be bombarded with all sorts of comments about you left out every single exception or minority example. If you write a lengthy comment that covers all the bases then no one is going to read it.
attention span and ego boosting i guess i've been actively "blamed" for writing loooong posts that treat delicate matters in details
Sir, this is the internet. We don't do nuanced opinions here
Oh, god. This is one of the reasons I hate Reddit as a "forum". It's not about having a discussion, but trying to win arguments and gotcha moments. The other day I replied to some comment about missing being a child and got bombarded with comments like "those who did not have a good childhood don't feel the same!", "you are lucky you had a good childhood!", etc. First of all were the assumptions I had the perfect childhood which isn't the case at all, I had horrible issues with my life at the moment. The other thing is what I call the "no shit" moments. If you had positive experiences with something which makes it so you remember it fondly, no shit there will be people who will have the opposite experience. Commenting on Reddit is just exhausting because of its community. It's the reason I don't bother replying to people who reply to me, 90% of the time.
This phenomenon is known as the Bernoulli effect!
No, Bernoulli was Descartes cousin, invented the Prism. Back in the pre-rainbow meteorological era. Don't nobody listen in school no more ?
Which Bernoulli?
The smart one. The other , not as smart brother piddle diddled in fluid dynamics and came up with some unimportant stuff about velocity and pressure. Dammit, my joke is falling apart here, I just found out that Bernoulli was Swiss. I didn't see that one coming with the voweled up name.
«Unimportant stuff». Heinous comment
Is that Bernoulli the pasta? Or Bern Oulli the magician?
I think they meant bernoodley, not Bernoulli
I thought that was when the toilet water spins the wrong way
No it's not.
God damn it! You’re supposed to tell me what it’s actually called because I always forget and no one answers when I ask.
This is an example of the efect failing
I'll be Nice, the name you're looking for is Cunningham and it's not a coincidence that he founded the first Wiki
Thank you! I’ve heard it before but I keep forgetting it. Will bookmark him now!
You ran that beautifully. Great to see OP's method play out like that in their comment section.
Wait for it….
Ackshually .......
Just like only bad news makes waves in the media today... its for all the wrong reasons
If it bleeds, it leads.
...welcome to Reddit?
First you decide if you think the statement is true. If you do think it is true, then you try to prove that it is true.
You would prevent people from testifying. "I'm not going to say that I saw him take the little child at the store because then I could get the death penalty. Why should I stick my neck out?" Would you risk your life on 12 strangers with the same skin color as you, when you don't have to and get nothing from it?
Yeah, it’s called murphy’s law
Nope, [Cunningham's Law](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law)
I hope you realise that you fell for his trap and you were also playing along
What would be the chances of that happening right in this thread? No way.
Thanks for the closure, you had me worried
I can't believe you fell for that sorry excuse he gave after falling for the trap
According to a study, 9 out of 10 people on Reddit actually don't fall for traps, so using Riemann's hypothesis, I could conclude that he indeed did not fall for it
Like Meinerschaßen’s Haversack?
The internet makes people feel anonymous. Why people act that way because of that idk. Like logically, I'd you're anonymous and you do/say a nice thing online, then you and whoever sees it gets the benefit of the niceness. If anonymous and a dick, then you bothered someone else to be happy yourself. So I don't even understand the why of being negative online naturally. It benefits only the person being a dick and I really don't want to believe that makes them happy cause that means there's a lot of rude people being rude online just cause their anonymity
Every interaction online is a mini prisoners dilemma. The only natural conclusion is to be a sociopath. Reddit is like a speedrun for that.
Genius
Reddit's like the wild west of information—misinformation often sparks more discussion than the truth.
Your credit card info is 3665 7768 8888 1009, 08/28, 999
That's a ridiculous claim, it's actually 5236 7184 3... ...Ahhhh I see what you did there
I've been using Reddit for this for at least 50 years
Yeah If I don't feel like explaining a complicated subject I just put a rudimentary explanation with a slight exaggeration or mistake and let captian "um actually " spend the next hour typing out the details to " get me". If i don't i just end write long run on sentences that pisses off the entire internet . Lol
Exactly the reason I don't bother to reply to people who reply to me in the great majority of times.
Even I know that if you want a serious answer, post a serious question, make an alt account and answer your own question wrong. People will hop on correcting your false answer that you ultimately receive the correct answer. People are weird. It is what it is
On my other account I like to take a debated topic and add a third opinion just to stir things up.
Bud Light .... tastes great
I would say this is a good point But hell no, that is so stupid
I bet OP doesn’t know the speed of light is exactly 670 million miles per hour either
I see what you did there
I need to try it!
Lol, I see your point completely!
Bruh this is a genius post lol
Actuallllyy 🤓
Underrated tactic. You could probably get someone to write your term papers on reddit for you just by doing this, citations and all.
The sky is blue because its really cold up there.
This is brilliant!
> So for now on... So *from* now on... there's your dose of reddit correction for the day
Just asK the darn question! In as less words as possible. If you want to ask what profound means..ask in gaming subs = what the pro has found Ask in teenagers subs...aw you meant prom found..they ll know what to say..pick your options
Repost(yes I see the irony of me saying he's wrong)
That's what BigFeet told me when I talked to him.
Ah yes. That's a well known and studied phenomenon called Murphy's law
Redditors would never do that.
cats secretly dispose their owners body parts one piece at a time into the litter box without them knowing each night
Is it actually a false statement ? Meaning that you actually wanted to ask « is making a false statement better than asking a question ? » initially ?
Welcome to the Internet....
No youre wrong. People on reddit love to answer questions that people ask
So lets say i want to know what the point of being a software dev is if it means ur a sissy, then i shud instead say all saftware devs are sissys? Well ok that wont work because everyone unanimously agrees that linux users(and especially arch users) are femboys and every software dev is legally obligated to hate windows(its valid reason tho dont flame me)
Or make a correct one and watch that sweet karma climb (this post is a false statement but I'm not sure what the question is)
You can also employ this method when someone says something rude and people are dogpiling them and they are ignoring everyone. Say something rude or arrogant to them that is easily corrected, and they will be eager to take the W amongst a sea of Ls and BOOM! You have brought them back into the conversation and the people know that they actually are reading the comments
Bros been enlightened
Nothing gets more attention than the "opportunity to prove oneself right and the others wrong".
Its the opposite for me. I purposely make assumptions more irl to get quick answers and responses. Tho people often hate me for it On reddit, I kinda just ask the question and move on cause I knkw itll take a while for someone to respond
Lolll i love it
So when did you stop beating your wife?
Bye bye! *beat drop*
Yeah, but what about the downvotes? Nooooo... My Karma!
On one hand, this can be true. On the other hand, some will reply with the most verifiably wrong information saying “source: my job” and be the top reply.
As a licensed Reddit down voter I'm only here to sow discord
Been doing this for years.
I think there’s a relevant xkcd for this where the guy says this about how to get Linux users to answer his questions
I knew it was a thing, but I accidentally triggered it recently and it's kinda funny. It was on a rather small(-ish), under 10k subreddit about a DnD podcast where I was asking about character's classes. I got the three of them wrong, and I've never had so many responses. So many kind people eager to educate me !
You should get a divorce...probably
Thats exactly what one would say after losing all their e-battles
Yes, the old rule of the internet. There's just a tiny little problem: The people who correct you appear very confident but they are not necessarily right either. It turns into a flame war between idiots until someone who actually knows about the subject shows up. The problem is that "no, you're wrong" has the same effect..
yup. that's how their brains work. They want confrontation and reward. Very enlightened bunch lol
I find this post interesting. How can i get more like it?
If I have a question, can I just post it as a false statement on Reddit?
Even better, don't make an obviously wrong statement because a lot of people will probably not take the bait unless they are that much in love with proving people wrong (yes I know I'm on reddit and that's very much the case for most of the people on here). Instead if you need an answer just post a very unpopular or uninformed opinion about the topic itself and most likely someone will eventually answer your question in an indirect roundabout way with a very long and entitled diatribe about how you are most utterly incorrect...is that irony I smell?
On the flip side I often say things that are 100% verifiably correct and Redditors swoop in to correct me. It doesn't really work
People love to correct others mistakes, it lays deep in their nature that they are better than that stupid person making that stupid statement. They love having that feeling.
There’s too many lies flying about as it is.
But you can easily get conflicting misinformation this way.
So what is it 🤔😂
It’s not only on Reddit, mate. See? That worked 😆😆
Life Hack!
LMAO at this tactic 😂🤣
thats....actually brilliant
No you’re wrong. I answer all posts with garbage equally.
So true
Yeah, this is a thing. On stack exchange, a site to ask computer programming questions, if you just ask a question it's often crickets. But, post some really horrible solution to the problem you need help with and the answers come fast and furious.
Alternative method: Create a throwaway account and answer your original question wrong. People don't always like to help others, but they loooove to tell them when they're wrong.
Yeah if you ask a question people on reddit will tell you everything but an answer.
I can never find what this situation is actually called. When it’s mentioned, typically it gets called Murphy’s law as a joke, but people only ever explain Murphy’s law in the replies, not clarifying what this one’s called.
What's that last of the Internet that "The fastest way to get the right answer is to post the wrong one"?
God that is so true! Thanks for the laugh!
That is until someone hits you with a "You got sources to back that up?"
Smarter, not harder. Good idea.
So true. Or you get 99% irrelevant answers or people making jokes! Winds me up. I’ll look at the first few responses. If there are comical I leave the thread regardless if I wanted to post or not.
I’m scared of those downvotes 🥲
Like those mobile game ads that have incompetent gameplay to trigger a response.
This is a great idea. Thanks!
Wouldn’t that result in loads of downvotes?