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You are generalising too much from one online community that has significantly different incentives because it is competitive and ranked and probably full of el

• zehaeva 4y ago
  Maybe, but it's something that I've observed while teaching, and learning, anything that requires another human's time and effort. People don't want to bother someone else when their problem seems "elementary" or too low on the "beginner level". I've observed the same when tutoring others in math, programming, or physics. Even though we have an existing relationship where I will help them work through school work people tend to be very anxious about asking for that help. I've seen it with new coworkers who spend waaaay too much time trying to figure something out by themselves when they could have just walked over and just asked for the answer. "I didn't want to bother you" is a refrain I've heard a lot from others in a large number of situations, teaching Go is one where it's more directly analogous to learning a language through speaking, because it requires another human's time, and the resources are extremely easy to access.