True or not, it means that between two strangers on the Internet, there's no reason to believe you.
"Why do you think that?"
"Someone in an Internet forum said so."
Nobody does that.
Telling stories from personal experience sometimes works. (Take Susan Fowler's essay for example.) Linking to articles from credible sources can work (for example, the NYT article). Asserting scientific statements without backing it up doesn't.
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True or not, it means that between two strangers on the Internet, there's no reason to believe you.
"Why do you think that?" "Someone in an Internet forum said so."
Nobody does that.
Telling stories from personal experience sometimes works. (Take Susan Fowler's essay for example.) Linking to articles from credible sources can work (for example, the NYT article). Asserting scientific statements without backing it up doesn't.