https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=21007800

In addition, note that an onslaught of fact-checking is already occurring publicly in the thread, which is very useful for anyone who stumbles upon the misinformation. My general feeling about this is that seeing those responses helps people to learn that they should not necessarily take everything at face value that they see published on the Internet, and will also help people to correct the record if they see this particular piece of misinformation posted elsewhere. Finally, the recs are irrelevant because the thread has been excluded from the Greatest page and the home page.

idea. Something like:

Once one of these pinned threads starts to get too long, it could be locked and unpinned so it sinks, with a new thread posted and pinned.

This would let EarlG and forum hosts know of new problem posts very quickly.

And then they.could lock that problem thread before it gets a lot of recs.