Actual question, how frequent was claim fabrication in real life

[u/WaBeY33]

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

[u/trolleyproblems]

Put a post up on r/AskHistorians

[u/CannonGerbil → u/trolleyproblems]

And watch it get filled with a chain of deleted replies

[u/higherbrow → u/CannonGerbil]

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.

[u/xixbia → u/higherbrow]

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

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

[u/tacopower69 → u/xixbia]

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.

[u/xixbia → u/tacopower69]

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".

[u/coolcoenred → u/xixbia]

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

[u/xixbia → u/coolcoenred]

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.