• Victor@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    I’ll wait until someone who knows just replies the answer to me, kthx. [sinks bait back down]

    And people will, too. People love sharing knowledge. Whether it be altruistic or self-affirming. Heck, I’ve necro-bumped stuff just to add some tid-bits, myself.

    • teft@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      You have to post a wrong answer on an alt so that someone will post the correct answer to look smart. It’s called Poe’s Law.

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        10 days ago

        to look smart

        That’s the self-affirming part that I mentioned. But some do it out of the kindness of their own heart, too.

        I am “guilty” of both, for sure.

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    A few months ago a Lemmy user stridently demanded sources for a comment I posted. Since he literally could have found the information with less effort by a Google search, I refused to do it for him. Other Lemmy users argued that I should be this dope’s reference librarian, and another guy actually did the Google search for him and posted the results.

    People are astoundingly lazy and even many Lemmy users want to be spoon-fed.

  • njm1314@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    How would you know you can find the answer there if you hadn’t already read it and therefore know the answer?

    • CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 days ago

      Maybe they once read the thing and got an answer, but now they forget what the specific answer was.

      This happens to me often with technical documentation or history books.

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        10 days ago

        This is it exactly. I know it is there, but I’m hazy on what it was exactly and it needs to be 100% right.