Getting along in the Arabian night

The "Morton's Law" was in general use when I played World of Warcraft. If you wanted the "general chat" to answer a question that you didn't know the answer to, you would get an accomplice. You would pose the question to general chat, and then your accomplice would reply with an authoritative and obviously wrong answer.

This would result in a lot of people putting in significant effort to explain just how wrong your accomplice was, with all the supporting evidence and specific detail. These same people, without the accomplice, would mock the question and feed you wrong information.

Motivation manipulation sure feels dirty, but it totally works.