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>Not an archeologist. The best way to get good input is to post bad input and wait to be corrected! This is so true. If you ask for help, people will ignore yo
by diogenescynic 4y ago
>Not an archeologist. The best way to get good input is to post bad input and wait to be corrected!
This is so true. If you ask for help, people will ignore you. But... if you post the wrong answer--people will fall over themselves to correct you. It's like a hack for human behavior.
- ketralnis 4y agoAnd actively harmful in implementation. It spreads bad information, confidently posted for others to trust and duplicate. Bad information labelled with an appropriate confidence rating can be useful as a starting point to others. ("I'm not sure but this looks sort of like a rail spike nail, maybe start there?") But labelled as good, to others that can't label it themselves, it just degrades the average value of the other information and also the confidence in it too. HN loves this "hack" and often tells others to use it but then unironically complains about the quality of answers on Stack Overflow and the overconfidence of Dunning Kruger
- diogenescynic 4y agoI feel like your comment only further proves the point I was making.
- ggm 4y agoWell.. no archaeologist took the bait. The scots Roman ironfoundry mystery continues