It's a good project. I find the way Snopes disables highlighting and copying very irritating though. I always have to disable javascript when I'm there.
I agree. The value of Snopes is debunking mass emails. What I want to do is email a short citation, but it's a royal pain-in-the-ass and, as is always the case, it doesn't really stop sites that want to scrape Snopes content.
Yeah but their content probably gets more links. Clearly it is one component of an incidentally winning strategy.
The fact that they are net-successful doesn't mean that every aspect of their approach is a good idea.