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Very few people have a problem with so-called dumb questions, especially from someone who genuinely wants to learn. They take issue with low-effort, unresearche
by listenallyall 7y ago
Very few people have a problem with so-called dumb questions, especially from someone who genuinely wants to learn. They take issue with low-effort, unresearched questions, and those from people with no interest in the subject, who just want someone else to do their research (or homework) for them.
- maxerickson 7y agoThere's no need to know where you should start before asking a question. Continuing to expect spoon feeding quickly gets tiresome, but deciding just based on a sentence or two that a question is low effort or not is usually not the way to go.
- showdeadplease 7y ago> deciding just based on a sentence or two that a question is low effort or not is usually not the way to go. No one said that except you. Your responses are based on your hidden assumptions about the meanings of ambiguous, loaded terms, aka "arguing past each other."
- tempguy9999 7y agoTrue. If they can discern a newbie question from a idle do-my-homework for me question, people tend to be very good. I grant there are some exceptions, but few (though irritating).
- raxxorrax 7y agoI would expect them to ignore the question in that case. That isn't too much to ask in my opinion.