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Originally Posted by passingbat
How can a person (administrator/moderator) who has not received the rumour "make a judgement on it's provenance, trustworthiness etc."?
Only the person who has received the rumour and therefore knows it's source, can do that.
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They will have received the rumour, it will have been posted here by Me, you, Media Boy, theone2k or someone else. Over time (they already are) the arbitrator will learn to judge who is worth listening to and those that aren't. They'll also be able to judge which rumours are just 'vanity posts' by those that wish to self publicise.
I'm not suggesting that rumour posts shouldn't be posted on the rumour thread. Just that it could be improved by a more useful summary rather than these continual garbage dumps. Perhaps there are other ways. Mine is only a suggestion that I've seen working well on other forums.