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I see the mechanism you're talking about, but as I said, this doesn't seem to happen with technical information. For example, if some one writes an intro to Asy

I see the mechanism you're talking about, but as I said, this doesn't seem to happen with technical information. For example, if some one writes an intro to AsyncIO, there are basically never comments like "this should be obvious to anyone who read the PEP," or "there's nothing here that you couldn't infer from the source." It seems to be something about privacy/security stories. I think that it stems more from a nihilist-chic then a borderline autistic inability to understand that other minds contain other information.

seiji 11y ago
nihilist-chic Yeah, as this comment node pointed out, the whole "I knew about it first" force is in full effect here. The other root cause here: when people have self-pride over the information they are sharing as if it were new, but you knew the new information a long time ago, and you just want to knock them down a few prideful rungs. Or, just https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/