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It's good that you scroll down the replies, at least when something seems iffy, so you'll notice any corrections of the OP there.

But a lot of DUers apparently DON'T ever look beyond the OP before replying or reccing, so we can end up with OPs that are very high on the Greatest Threads list long, long after multiple people have corrected them and pleaded with them to correct or delete the OP.

And every single mistaken rec increases the odds that there will be more recs and that the.OP, with its incorrect information, will get copied elsewhere.

LBN automatically asks people posting to check for duplicates.

Twitter has a system where you're sometimes asked, when you want to like a tweet linking to an article, if you want to read the article first. (I can't recall if that's only for tweets from a magazine's account. I know there have been times I've run into that after reading the article when an individual, maybe the author, had linked to it, but I still wanted to like the magazine's tweet about it if I saw it later.)

If there is no way to quickly deal with misinformation here, a reminder to DUers to check for any corrections in the replies before responding/reccing could be very useful - whether that reminder is automated or pinned to the top of GD (where this problem occurs most often).