User blog comment:Jay ten/Should we correct people when they say a story is real? Opinions wanted./@comment-24359178-20141105225146

People should always assume a story is made up. Some may hold bits of truth, some may even be entirely true, but 99% of the time the whole thing is just a story. To attempt to claim a story is true is to risk what happened in Wisconsin, mentally ill individuals attempting to act upon something they learned about, believing it's true. So while it's certainly possible for some stories to be true, most are not, and you should always assume they aren't and tell others that as well.