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False Cause

What is it?

Presuming that a real or perceived relationship between things means that one is the cause of the other.

Why is it bad?

Many users confuse correlation (things happening together or in sequence in a server) for causation (that one thing actually causes the other to happen). Sometimes correlation is coincidental, like server activity dropping when a new game drops.

Example in Chat

@stat_nerdToday at 4:15 PM

Every time @Nitro_Boost boosts the server, the voice chats crash 5 minutes later. They are definitely DDOSing us with their boosts.