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  • I’ve also usually done OK when i come across these types of answers. I mean when I see it as answer to other people’s questions. I have never needed to actually ask my own question in about 15 years of using it - which is testament to how many answers are already on there somewhere. It’s very much not evidence that I know stuff.

    I think sometimes it takes lateral thinking or jargon translation to interpret the old answer in context of the new question - which could make the old answer inaccessible to the new person - however technically applicable it might be.


  • What perplexes me about the rtfm and google it answers is why would someone waste their time to type it out?

    They must think there’s something in it for them. I guess they place some value in being seen as a twat. Granted at work I work hard to cultivate that image for productivity reasons. But why do I care about random internet strangers on a pseudo anonymous webshite?