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Then you should do it. My point is that if you think you're going to change someone's mind who just wants to argue, your energy is better directed elsewhere.

What are you saying to be regularly called a Nazi?

Arguing with someone on an online forum is very rarely going to set that individual on the right path, but I like to believe others who read the back and forth may be more persuaded. I often take initiative to explore a topic I knew little about beforehand because someone asserted something I found surprising or simply suspicious. If people go as far as to post references, it's even less of a burden on me to learn something new.

There are definitely times when requesting a source is healthy. I had posted what I believed to be a true fact (about cities only planting male trees. You can look in my profile and see it). Someone replied that it wasn't true. I went about looking for the original source from where I read it (admittedly almost 10-15 years ago) and learned that the original source was refuted.

Skepticism is healthy. But we're at a point where healthy skepticism and sealioning is getting difficult to tell apart.

The people who saw the post before the "correction" are not likely to ever see it

There's at least two people in the comments who testify having seen the post I'm talking about. If people who upvoted these comments are people who also saw it, then that makes 16 people.

I think people who saw a post on a specific community have a decent likelyhood to see a post made a few minutes later in the same community. This is Lemmy, feeds tend to be relatively slow moving.

As I said, the frustration comes from putting work into a comment you can't post (with the intention of posting it under the post they didn't know it was deleted) and after already putting the work into the research, why not post it somewhere else instead.