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		smitelli 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot Some call this phenomenon the Goomba fallacy.

waterhouse 5 months ago | [–]

After about 5 minutes of reading, I'm proclaiming that its proper name shall be the "hivemind fallacy".

frollogaston 5 months ago | [–]

I'm just glad it has a funny name instead of something arrogant-sounding like "Dunning-Kruger effect." That was ok in a research setting but got turned into an insult.

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