Speaking for myself only.
This community has always prided itself on being reality-based. The record hasn’t been perfect, but it’s always been a goal. Before fake news became a thing, before it was deliberately promoted on the internet to manipulate people, this site had as a goal debunking it wherever it appeared, including in the traditional media. This community prided itself in revealing fake news in the traditional media. Now it is openly hyping what it openly acknowledges is but Twitter rumors.
There are a lot of rumors on Twitter. Some we would love to be proven true. But unless they are proven true, they are but Twitter rumors among so many other Twitter rumors. And hyping them on this site makes this community but rumor-mongers. We should be better than that.
A lot of people look to this site for credible news that doesn’t get enough attention in the traditional media. A lot of people look to this site for leadership in the current toxic political environment. Hyping Twitter rumors undermines that. It’s not a game. It doesn’t help the cause, it undermines it. It undermines this community’s credibility. And even when it doesn’t come from the official staff on the Front Page, it still makes this site look bad.