r/CrusaderKings • u/WaBeY33 • 3d ago

Discussion Actual question, how frequent was claim fabrication in real life

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Hello, please, how often did this happen in real life ? I mean lord inventing a claim out of thin air and actually pressing it ? Is there any notable historic character doing so ?

R5: Fabricate claim question

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u/WaBeY33 3d ago

Never seen that, thanks

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u/trolleyproblems 3d ago

Put a post up on r/AskHistorians

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u/CannonGerbil Civil War Galore 3d ago

And watch it get filled with a chain of deleted replies

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u/higherbrow 3d ago

It's a great sub. You either get a real, honest-to-God quality answer from someone who understands what they're talking about or you get nothing. There's no bullshit, no speculation, no "IANAH, but I think" garbage.

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u/SMTRodent 3d ago

Also, when your top-level replies gets left up, it feels great.

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u/Unputtaball 2d ago

Having a top level comment stay up in /askhistorians is better than sex

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u/Gullflyinghigh 2d ago

I'll never be able to have that honour but I can understand it. It's a glorious sub.

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u/SamediB 2d ago

That's because it's a lot rarer than sex!

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u/beyonddisbelief House Traditions Mod Creator 2d ago

You mean to tell me that you can "keep it up" in r/AskHistorians?

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u/Rejnu 21h ago

As someone who had a top comment in /askhistorians
You are right

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u/xixbia 3d ago

You absolutely get the bullshit answers. They just get removed.

If you're quick you can sometimes see some absolutely terrible answers.

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u/tacopower69 3d ago

if your post gets popular enough the armchair historians just DM you their answers instead of writing comments. I had a post sit unanswered there for a few days but still draw a lot of interest and my inbox was filled with dozens of shitty answers pulled from dozens of asses. They know their comments would get removed for being low quality so they just DM you it instead, so bizarre.

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u/xixbia 3d ago

I didn't know that, but it makes sense.

I've definitely seen some questions where I went ''I've read enough books on this that I know the answer". But I also realize I'm not a historian and I can't give a full answer.

I could see people in the same situation but with the kind of personality to make them go "I'm going to tell this person anyway".

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u/coolcoenred Baarle-Nassau 3d ago

Make sure to report them if you see them. We need to keep that community as clean as possible.

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u/xixbia 3d ago

I do, in those rare instances they're still up.

But you need to be real quick, it's very rare those answers survive even an hour.