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Why do people do this, btw? Can it just stop? If you know someone is posting something that is actually wrong, please refute them with the facts and links, or challenge them to substantiate their false claims with supporting evidence. This is fine. But if you are ignorant of the facts, don't ask someone who is equipped with the facts to educate you. Do the research yourself. Googling "Samsung antitrust patents" takes 2 seconds. "

People do this because, uhm, that's how arguing works. Maybe not in, say, politics, but in the real world, people want proof. You're the one making the claim, you're the one who has to back it up.

Of course, this was a widely known fact, but even then, the request is valid.

It's lazy. This may be how arguing works for you, but for me, it's a way to lose an argument. You don't know the facts, want me to help you learn the facts, and are questioning the validity of my facts based on ZERO evidence? You lose.

For myself, if someone raises a point that I'm ignorant of, I don't think doubting the point is a rebuttal. I think: heh, I should learn about that so I can properly respond.

The end result of asking for factual support of a well-publicized fact is demonstration that you are ignorant and unwilling or unequipped to educate yourself.

This sticks in my craw. I'm not making a "claim." If someone wants to engage me in an "argument," they better not be unaware of significant, well-established facts key to the argument. Moreover, if they do intend to question my "claims" they should do so based on some evidence of their own, not ignorance. It's just as easy (in fact, far easier) to say that it was darknexus questioning my "claim" without any evidence for or against this "claim;" therefore, it is his responsible to demonstrate the smallest iota of evidence to raise a question in the first place. The notion that any and all facts must be proven with x number of links if questioned by someone who is ignorant is pure silliness — every discussion would be a regression to complete idiocy, burdened by citation after citation. Certainly, you wouldn't like responding to every question asked of your unlinked "claims," particularly those which are factual.

Edited 2012-11-11 17:22 UTC

This took two seconds to find.........

http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/31/samsung-faces-eu-antitrust-inves...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57507511-94/korea-investigating-sa...