User blog comment:Jay ten/Should we correct people when they say a story is real? Opinions wanted./@comment-25634501-20141109052337/@comment-25226524-20141109060127

Well the issue with not correcting people is the slender man stabbing incident. If it wasn't for that, then I wouldn't have even asked this question. Perhaps I should've stated that, but I just thought it was a given that everyone knew about it. Just because there's a disclaimer, doesn't mean everyone will read it. It takes the responsibility away from the site, if something should happen, but it doesn't stop that thing from happening. I highly doubt that another incident like that will happen, but I prefer being safe over sorry. I don't know if those girls really believed that by attempting to kill the girl that they could go live with slender man or not (it's possible they just wanted attention), but if they did think that, I can't help but wonder if it may have been avoided if someone would have convincingly told them it was fake. That's really the point of all of this.