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Why does that happen? I've seen it a few times and once it brought down exchange. Psychology study needed.

dmingod666 6y ago
My hypothesis is, the level of peoples education and intelligence are not correlated (ofcourse with exception of the technical and STEM fields).
- z77dj3kl 6y ago
  I'm not sure I agree. But why would that exception be "of course" anyway?
- hardlianotion 6y ago
  “of course with exception of the technical and STEM fields” of course
  - dmingod666 6y ago
    Thank you, TIL :)
    - hardlianotion 6y ago
      I wasn't correcting you, I was agreeing enthusiastically. And now I am ashamed for explaining myself.
- kube-system 6y ago
  People making mistakes when trying to do something outside their area of expertise is definitely not something that STEM professionals are immune to.
- chapium 6y ago
  I think people are trained to respond to everything, even if its a quick note to say thank you. This is especially the case if its a personal sounding email from someone important. After that its just a matter of forgetting to pay attention to the address bar before hitting reply, possibly with a shortcut but more likely just going on autopilot and clicking things.
bluGill 6y ago
Race conditions start it. The first 100 people get the message when it is sent, realize it is a mistake and decide they need to warn everyone, so they hit send almost exactly at the same time so none knew about the other. The next 1000 don't look for previous replies, but otherwise do the same thing. Then the next 1000 are annoyed by all the duplicate messages and it doesn't occur to them that they are making it worse.
goatinaboat 6y ago
Psychology study needed. My favourite is when people reply-all with “please remove me from this list”
- aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 6y ago
  Bonus points when those people hold technical positions in the organization.
tgsovlerkhgsel 6y ago
The more technically literate users know exactly how reply-all and reply-all storms work... which makes it funny, so they do it.

My hypothesis is, the level of peoples education and intelligence are not correlated (ofcourse with exception of the technical and STEM fields).

z77dj3kl 6y ago
I'm not sure I agree. But why would that exception be "of course" anyway?
hardlianotion 6y ago
“of course with exception of the technical and STEM fields” of course
- dmingod666 6y ago
  Thank you, TIL :)
  - hardlianotion 6y ago
    I wasn't correcting you, I was agreeing enthusiastically. And now I am ashamed for explaining myself.
kube-system 6y ago
People making mistakes when trying to do something outside their area of expertise is definitely not something that STEM professionals are immune to.
chapium 6y ago
I think people are trained to respond to everything, even if its a quick note to say thank you. This is especially the case if its a personal sounding email from someone important. After that its just a matter of forgetting to pay attention to the address bar before hitting reply, possibly with a shortcut but more likely just going on autopilot and clicking things.

bluGill 6y ago

Race conditions start it. The first 100 people get the message when it is sent, realize it is a mistake and decide they need to warn everyone, so they hit send almost exactly at the same time so none knew about the other. The next 1000 don't look for previous replies, but otherwise do the same thing. Then the next 1000 are annoyed by all the duplicate messages and it doesn't occur to them that they are making it worse.

goatinaboat 6y ago

Psychology study needed. My favourite is when people reply-all with “please remove me from this list”

aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 6y ago
Bonus points when those people hold technical positions in the organization.

tgsovlerkhgsel 6y ago

The more technically literate users know exactly how reply-all and reply-all storms work... which makes it funny, so they do it.