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He mentioned that the metrics advertisers were sold on (subscribers, CTRs, bounce rate, etc) were largely embellished and misrepresented.

The person who told me this might have embellished the story, but sadly it sounds all too plausible to me.

I was hoping to have my NYT reading embellished by cat gifs on every page.

Hopefully that sell-story will be embellished upon in the real kickstarter!

It was perhaps embellished a bit for the book.

You're right to feel disturbed, but I think his post is pretty embellished.

I cannot believe that things like this still happen in today's world, although I'd be surprised if it wasn't a little bit embellished.

Isn't that story slightly embellished by the founder?

Team accomplishments can be embellished, stronger team members can cover for the weaknesses of weaker team members, but admitting that a decision you made was incorrect gets punished.

I'm a cynical sort with a lot of experience in the industry consulting, and I can't help but view a lot of these pieces as heavily...embellished.

That said, the story said he did it the length of the table, which implies a more natural specificity which could either confirm a confederate, or else was retrospectively embellished.

His son was Commodus, and was (by the account of contemporaneous, biased sources) a bad emperor -- although there is thought that many of his evils were embellished by detractor historians.

Despite the fact that "one of our volunteers was the plane's crew chief" do you think that it's at all possible that the story was somewhat embellished for effect?

Who cares if it's "slightly embellished"?

Like if it's someone we like, then that person "embellished" their record, but if it's someone we don't then, they "lied".

(They would also sometimes start with a large effect and then slowly return the temperature to normal.) > "do you think that it's at all possible that the story was somewhat embellished" We had multiple sources for this particular story.