Can we please ban posts that are little more than unsubstantiated rumours?

Keep seeing posts that are fully just “I heard from a guy that heard from a friend who heard from a co-worker that HL3 comes out with the Steam Machine” as the full post

Sometimes links to whole “news” (used very fucking loosely) articles that are the exact same thing

  • halloween_spookster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I agree with this in principle. I think a tag like “rumor” might be useful as a first step? Escalate if it becomes more of a problem.

    It may also be worth differentiating between a rumor and a rumor. A rumor of AMD coming out with XYZ at CES is different from “some random website is claiming that HL3 is days away from being announced”