Another thought is that even if the original post had a weak epistemic status, if the original post becomes popular and gets the chance to receive widespread scrutiny, which it survives, it could be reasonable to believe its “de facto” epistemic status is higher than what’s posted at the top. But yes, I guess in that case there’s the risk that none of the people who scrutinized it had familiarity with relevant literature that contradicted the post.
Maybe the solution is to hire someone to do lit reviews to carefully examine posts with epistemic status disclaimers that nonetheless became popular and seem decision relevant.
Another thought is that even if the original post had a weak epistemic status, if the original post becomes popular and gets the chance to receive widespread scrutiny, which it survives, it could be reasonable to believe its “de facto” epistemic status is higher than what’s posted at the top. But yes, I guess in that case there’s the risk that none of the people who scrutinized it had familiarity with relevant literature that contradicted the post.
Maybe the solution is to hire someone to do lit reviews to carefully examine posts with epistemic status disclaimers that nonetheless became popular and seem decision relevant.